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Joel Osteen Podcast - Never Doubt Mindset | Joel Osteen · Top Churches

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  Speaker 1: Hi, it's Joel and Victoria. What a joy to be
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to start with something funny.
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  Speaker 1: I heard about this young man.
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  Speaker 2: One day he was talking to God and he said, God,
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  Speaker 2: what's a million years like to you? God said, a
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  Speaker 2: million years to me is like one second to you.
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  Speaker 2: He said, well, God, what's a million.
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  Speaker 1: Dollars like to you?
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  Speaker 2: God said, son, a million dollars to me is like.
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  Speaker 1: One penny to you.
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  Speaker 2: He thought about it, said, God, will you give me
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  Speaker 2: a penny? God said, yeah, just a second. All right, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
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  Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what
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  Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says
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  Speaker 2: I can do. Today, I will be taught the word
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  Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My
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  Speaker 2: heart is receptive.
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  Speaker 1: I will never be the same in Jesus' name. God
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  Speaker 1: bless you.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about a never
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  Speaker 2: doubt mindset. We all face situations where we don't see
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  Speaker 2: a way out, how we can get well, how we
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  Speaker 2: can accomplish a dream, or how our family can be restored.
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  Speaker 2: All the facts say it's not going to happen. That's
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  Speaker 2: when these thoughts of doubt and discouragement come. If we're
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  Speaker 2: not careful, we'll live worried and give up on what
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  Speaker 2: we're believing for. But Paul said in Ephesians 3, never
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  Speaker 2: doubt God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish
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  Speaker 2: infinitely more than your greatest request. God didn't say never
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  Speaker 2: doubt how you feel, never doubt because of medical report,
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  Speaker 2: never doubt the financial struggle.
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  Speaker 1: We're human. Doubt comes to us all.
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  Speaker 2: These times we think this doesn't seem possible. We're looking
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  Speaker 2: at it in our own ability, but God said, never
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  Speaker 2: doubt what I can do.
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  Speaker 1: Never doubt my mighty power.
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  Speaker 2: Never doubt God can open doors you can't open. Never
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  Speaker 2: doubt God can heal you despite the diagnosis. Never doubt
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  Speaker 2: God can bring the right people, divine connections, or maybe
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  Speaker 2: your child is off course and running with the wrong
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  Speaker 2: crowd and you could live stressed, not able to sleep,
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, never doubt I can turn him around.
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  Speaker 2: Never doubt I can bring him into his purpose. But
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  Speaker 2: what causes us to get discouraged is when we look
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  Speaker 2: at circumstances only in our ability.
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  Speaker 1: Seems too big, too much, too late. That's okay.
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  Speaker 2: You're not doing life by yourself. There is a force
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  Speaker 2: for you greater.
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  Speaker 1: Than any force trying to stop you.
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  Speaker 2: At times you'll feel at a disadvantage and what you're
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  Speaker 2: up against is bigger and stronger and You don't have
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  Speaker 2: the connections, the.
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  Speaker 1: Funds, the courage.
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  Speaker 2: On your own, you're stuck, but never doubt God's mighty power.
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  Speaker 2: He stopped the sun for Joshua. He parted the Red
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  Speaker 2: Sea for Moses. He brought three teenagers out of a
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  Speaker 2: fiery furnace without.
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  Speaker 1: The smell of smoke.
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  Speaker 2: He opened prison doors for Paul and Silas. He raised
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  Speaker 2: Lazarus back to life. He took Gideon from afraid and
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  Speaker 2: insecure to a mighty hero that delivered the Israelites. He
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  Speaker 2: healed my mother of terminal cancer. He gave us a
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  Speaker 2: basketball arena to have church in. The scripture says, is
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  Speaker 2: there anything too hard for the Lord? You may have
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  Speaker 2: some situations that seem over your head, impossible. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying you're not gonna feel doubt. I'm saying never doubt
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  Speaker 2: God's mighty power. Never doubt what the creator of the
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  Speaker 2: universe can do. That setback, that impossibility, it's a setup
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  Speaker 2: for him to show out in your life. The way
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  Speaker 2: you conquer doubt is switch over from what you.
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  Speaker 1: Can do to what God can do.
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  Speaker 2: When my father passed and I stepped up to pastor,
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  Speaker 2: I felt inadequate.
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  Speaker 1: Over my head.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have the training, the experience. My dad had
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  Speaker 2: this big personality, strong and powerful. but I was more
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  Speaker 2: quiet and reserved. All these thoughts bombarded my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Joy, you're not enough. You don't have what it takes.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get up there and look like a fool.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is I had doubts in my ability, doubts
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  Speaker 2: whether I was strong enough, doubts whether the church would
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  Speaker 2: make it. But what kept me going, the reason I
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  Speaker 2: didn't give in to my doubts was because I never
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  Speaker 2: doubted what.
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  Speaker 1: God can do.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that He is all powerful, that nothing can
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  Speaker 2: stand against Him, that when we are weak, His power shows.
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  Speaker 1: Up the greatest. I kept reminding myself, you're the God
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  Speaker 1: who chose me before I could choose you.
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  Speaker 2: You're the God who knew me before I was formed
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  Speaker 2: in my mother's womb.
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  Speaker 1: The God who goes before me and makes crooked places straight.
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  Speaker 2: The God who fights my battles. The God who has
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  Speaker 2: crowned me with your favor. You're not doing life on
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  Speaker 2: your own. Quit focusing on just your ability, your talent,
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  Speaker 2: your resources.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna cause you to doubt.
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  Speaker 2: To reach your destiny, you're going to face things that
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  Speaker 2: are over your head, where you're outnumbered.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have the.
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  Speaker 2: Experience, the funds, and that legal situation should sink you.
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  Speaker 2: This is when many people quit believing, lived worried. Try
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  Speaker 2: a different approach. God, I may have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good reasons to doubt in my life, but I am
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  Speaker 2: never going to doubt your mighty power. I know you're
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  Speaker 2: still on the throne. You still bring dead things back
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  Speaker 2: to life.
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  Speaker 1: You still heal the sick.
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  Speaker 2: You still multiply the loaves and fish. You still take
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  Speaker 2: those who are afraid and make them into mighty heroes.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone can get discouraged. Anyone can talk themselves out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to be a never doubt person. Never
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  Speaker 2: doubt what our God can do. Never doubt his mighty
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  Speaker 2: power to turn things around. Never doubt his favor to
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  Speaker 2: open doors you couldn't open. Never doubt his restoration to
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  Speaker 2: give you beauty for the ashes, to pay you back
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  Speaker 2: for the wrongs, to turn your mourning into dancing. See,
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  Speaker 2: when we go through difficulties and things that are not fair,
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  Speaker 2: the never lies start playing.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never be happy again. You'll never meet someone new.
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  Speaker 2: This loss, this breakup, how you were raised, that puts
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  Speaker 2: you at a disadvantage. Don't believe those lies. God knows
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  Speaker 2: everything you've been through every hurt, every injustice, every lonely night.
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  Speaker 2: He said in Isaiah, he will pay you back double
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  Speaker 2: for the unfair things that have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of dwelling.
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  Speaker 2: On the never lies, come over to the never doubt mindset. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I've had some bad breaks, but I know this is
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  Speaker 2: not how my story ends. God, I believe your mighty
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  Speaker 2: power is at work in my life.
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  Speaker 1: That you're a God of.
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  Speaker 2: Justice, that you won't just bring me out, but you'll
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  Speaker 2: bring me out better than I was before.
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  Speaker 1: This is what David did.
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  Speaker 2: He was a teenager out in the shepherd's fields taking
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  Speaker 2: care of his father's sheep.
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  Speaker 1: He was the youngest of eight sons. His brothers were
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  Speaker 1: all in the.
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  Speaker 2: Army and prestigious positions, but he was stuck in the fields,
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  Speaker 2: lonely and at a disadvantage. One day his father asked
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  Speaker 2: him to take lunch to the brothers and they were
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  Speaker 2: in another city. That's when he heard Goliath taunting the Israelites,
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  Speaker 2: making fun of God's people. All the Israeli soldiers ran
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  Speaker 2: and hid. They were so afraid. I mean, Goliath was
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  Speaker 2: a giant. He stood over nine feet tall. Something rose
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  Speaker 2: up in David, a fire on the inside. He said,
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  Speaker 2: who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the
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  Speaker 2: armies of the living God? He went to King Saul
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  Speaker 2: and told him he wanted to fight Goliath. Saul said, David,
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  Speaker 2: you're just a boy. You're too small, too young.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have the training, the experience.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let people talk you out of what God put
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  Speaker 2: in your heart.
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  Speaker 1: There will always be.
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  Speaker 2: A Saul in life. Someone telling you what you can't do.
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  Speaker 2: You're not good enough. That business won't make it. You're
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  Speaker 2: not going to get well. Do yourself a favor. Tune
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  Speaker 2: all that out. They don't control your destiny. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: breathe life into you. They didn't call you, equip you,
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  Speaker 2: anoint you.
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  Speaker 1: God did.
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  Speaker 2: David went out to face this giant.
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  Speaker 1: He was almost twice David's size.
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  Speaker 2: And Goliath had a full set of armor, a shield
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  Speaker 2: that weighed 125 pounds. He was their most skilled warrior,
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  Speaker 2: the champion of the Philistine army. And here David had
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  Speaker 2: no formal training, no armor, no shield. All he had
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  Speaker 2: was a slingshot and a few stones. How could he
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  Speaker 2: have this boldness, this faith.
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  Speaker 1: When all the circumstances were against him?
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  Speaker 2: Opposition much bigger and people telling him not to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He gives us his secret.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Goliath, you come against me with a sword
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  Speaker 2: and a shield, but I come against you in the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord God of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: He was saying in.
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  Speaker 2: Effect, yes, I doubt my size. Yes, I doubt my equipment. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I doubt my training, but I will never doubt the
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  Speaker 2: mighty power of my God. I may be half your size, Goliath,
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  Speaker 2: but I know the God in me is more powerful
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  Speaker 2: than anything you can do. I may only have a slingshot,
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  Speaker 2: but I know this slingshot with the favor of.
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  Speaker 1: God is more powerful than your weapons.
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  Speaker 2: David wasn't discouraged because of his lack of size, lack
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  Speaker 2: of resources, because he knew God was fighting for him,
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  Speaker 2: that he had a secret weapon, something that King Saul
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  Speaker 2: couldn't seize. David's father that left him out in the fields,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't recognize it.
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  Speaker 1: Goliath couldn't see it.
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  Speaker 2: When he first saw David, he laughed and said, am
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  Speaker 2: I a dog that you'd come at me with a stint?
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  Speaker 2: David put a stone in that sling and slung that rock,
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  Speaker 2: hit Goliath in the forehead and knocked him unconscious. David
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  Speaker 2: had less equipment, less training, but never doubt God's mighty
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  Speaker 2: power working in you to accomplish not just what you're
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  Speaker 2: hoping for, but infinitely beyond your wildest dreams. On the
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  Speaker 2: way to your destiny, there will be giants. You can't
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  Speaker 2: become all you were created to be without oppositions.
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  Speaker 1: Then the thoughts will come.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, the sickness is too big and your business is
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  Speaker 2: not going to make it. This family issue will never resolve.
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  Speaker 2: You're right where David was, looking at a giant twice
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  Speaker 2: your size. You can do what the other men in
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  Speaker 2: the army did, run, hide, get talked out of your dream.
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  Speaker 2: Or you can deal with doubt a different way, like David.
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  Speaker 2: Not denying the giant, not psyching yourself up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel fear. I don't really have this problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to be honest. God, I have doubts in
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  Speaker 1: what I can do. This giant looks way over my head.
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  Speaker 2: I know in the natural, I don't have a chance,
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  Speaker 2: but God, I will never doubt your mighty power.
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  Speaker 1: I know you are fighting my battles. You are breathing
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  Speaker 1: on my slingshot. You will show yourself strong in my life.
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  Speaker 2: When I say never doubt, I don't mean you're not
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  Speaker 2: going to have doubts about your ability.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts telling you it's not going to work out.
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  Speaker 2: Those thoughts come to us all, but you have to
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  Speaker 2: have this knowing, this trust that even though I may
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  Speaker 2: doubt my ability, God, I will never doubt what you
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  Speaker 2: can do.
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  Speaker 1: I received an email from a young woman.
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  Speaker 2: She was born with spina bifida at two years old.
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  Speaker 2: She had to have surgery to untether her spinal cord.
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  Speaker 2: Her parents were told she'd never be able to walk, run,
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  Speaker 2: any kind of physical activity. And They had all these
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  Speaker 2: good reasons to doubt and doubt that she would live
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  Speaker 2: a normal life, doubt that she could go to school, doubt.
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  Speaker 1: That she'd ever be married. They were facing a giant.
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  Speaker 2: Medically speaking, she would be in a wheelchair and limited.
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  Speaker 2: These parents had been coming to Lakewood for many years
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  Speaker 2: and they understood what is impossible.
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  Speaker 1: With men is possible with God.
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  Speaker 2: And they never tried to deny the facts, deny the
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  Speaker 2: medical reports, but they didn't let the doubt stay. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't dwell on their lack of ability and what the
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  Speaker 2: report said. Their attitude was, even though we don't see
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  Speaker 2: a way, God, we know you have a way. We
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  Speaker 2: may doubt what we can do, but we will never
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  Speaker 2: doubt your mighty power. God, you can do what medicine
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  Speaker 2: cannot do. You can heal our daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we're not seeing breakthroughs.
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  Speaker 2: And our giant is not falling because we're only looking
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  Speaker 2: at our ability.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have the resources. Medically speaking, we can't get well.
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  Speaker 2: This relative looks like they'll always be off course. We're
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  Speaker 2: looking at it in the natural, but God is supernatural.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to do things that go beyond reasoning, beyond logic,
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  Speaker 2: things that are out of the ordinary. You couldn't plan it.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't put it on paper. It's going to defy
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  Speaker 2: the odds. Every day her mother would exercise her little legs.
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  Speaker 2: The whole time speaking faith over her and declaring and
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  Speaker 2: thanking God for her healing. At 11 months old, much
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  Speaker 2: to the doctor's surprise, she started walking.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't explain it. She joined the children's choir here
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  Speaker 1: at Lakewood. She loved to sing and dance.
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  Speaker 2: But at the age of 10, there was a problem
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  Speaker 2: with her spinal cord and she had to have an
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  Speaker 2: emergency surgery. When she woke up, she was paralyzed from
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  Speaker 2: the neck down. The doctor told her, unfortunately, she would
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  Speaker 2: never be able to walk again. They did everything they could,
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  Speaker 2: medically speaking, but they came to the end of their ability.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, doubts flooded her mind. The doctors can't do
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  Speaker 1: anything and I can't even move. She could have stayed
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  Speaker 1: there defeated, bitter, angry, but she.
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  Speaker 2: Said, God, you did it for me once. I know
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  Speaker 2: you can do it for me again. She told the doctor,
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  Speaker 2: I walked in here on my own and I will
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  Speaker 2: walk out of here on my own. Every circumstance said
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  Speaker 2: she was paralyzed. Her life was limited, just accepted. But
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  Speaker 2: on the inside, she could hear God whispering, you will
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  Speaker 2: walk again. There will always be two voices competing for
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  Speaker 2: your attention, the voice of doubt and the voice of faith.
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  Speaker 2: Often the doubting voices are the loudest. They'll bombard your mind.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get well. You can't break this addiction. Your
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  Speaker 1: business won't make it. You wake up in the night
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  Speaker 1: and the thoughts are still coming.
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  Speaker 2: But if you'll get quiet, there's another voice, a still
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  Speaker 2: small voice. It's God speaking to you, saying, I'm fighting
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  Speaker 2: this battle. This too shall pass.
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  Speaker 1: You will recover. Healing is coming. Freedom is coming. Abundance
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  Speaker 1: is coming. Now you get to choose.
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  Speaker 2: Will you let the voice of doubt play and worry
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  Speaker 2: and dwell.
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  Speaker 1: On the negative, not going to happen thoughts? Or will
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  Speaker 1: you do what Paul said and say, no, thanks. I
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  Speaker 1: will never.
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  Speaker 2: Doubt what God can do in my life. God, I
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  Speaker 2: know your mighty power is greater than anything trying.
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  Speaker 1: To stop me.
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  Speaker 2: That's what allows God to do more than you can
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  Speaker 2: ask or think.
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  Speaker 1: But the tension is we may doubt our own ability.
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  Speaker 2: We may have thoughts because of the medical report, the
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  Speaker 2: financial situation.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay. The key is to never doubt what God
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  Speaker 1: can do.
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  Speaker 2: If you'll take the emphasis off of your ability, what
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  Speaker 2: you have, what you can control and put that emphasis
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  Speaker 2: on what God can do.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you stay in faith. That's what causes God
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  Speaker 1: to show out in your life. When she told the
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  Speaker 1: doctor that she was.
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  Speaker 2: Going to walk out of that room, despite being told
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  Speaker 2: she was permanently paralyzed, she said she felt her toes
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  Speaker 2: begin to move. That was the start of the miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Little by little, she got better.
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  Speaker 2: Her therapist told her out of all of her patients
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  Speaker 2: with spina bifida, she was the only one that could
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  Speaker 2: walk without a brace. My friend Elena went on to
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  Speaker 2: graduate from college. She got her master's degree. Last weekend,
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  Speaker 2: I dedicated her beautiful baby girl with her husband and family.
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  Speaker 2: That's what happens when you never doubt God's mighty power. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: we may doubt what we can do, but you're not
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  Speaker 2: on your own. The Most High God is working in
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  Speaker 2: your life. He's all-powerful. He created the universe. He has
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  Speaker 2: you in the palm of His hand. You may be
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  Speaker 2: in a situation like Elena. You don't see a way out.
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  Speaker 2: The odds are against you. You could easily let all
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  Speaker 2: this doubt fill your mind and talk you out.
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  Speaker 1: Of your healing, convince you that you're limited. you have
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  Speaker 1: to remember who's on your side.
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  Speaker 2: The God who caused Elena to walk when she was
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be paralyzed.
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  Speaker 1: The God who changed.
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  Speaker 2: The city council member's mind and gave us the compact center.
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  Speaker 2: The God who turned a shepherd boy, David, into a king.
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  Speaker 2: The God who brought water out of a rock the
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  Speaker 2: God who gave Sarah a baby at 90 years old,
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  Speaker 2: the God who took Joseph from the pit to the palace,
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  Speaker 2: the God who made Elisha invisible to the enemy, the
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  Speaker 2: God who gave Isaac a hundred times more than he
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  Speaker 2: planted in a famine, the God who multiplied the five
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  Speaker 2: loaves and two fish to feed thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Who are we talking about? That's our King. That's our God.
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  Speaker 1: Never doubt His mighty power.
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  Speaker 2: Because when you live from this place of faith, that's
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  Speaker 2: when giants fall. That's when supernatural healing comes. That's when
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  Speaker 2: doors open that we can't open. That's when God will
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  Speaker 2: do infinitely more than you can imagine.
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  Speaker 1: A few years ago, we were headed.
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  Speaker 2: To one of our Nights of Hope in another city
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  Speaker 2: and we left the hotel and driving to the venue.
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  Speaker 2: It started at 7.30, but traffic was really bad on
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  Speaker 2: the freeways. All backed up and supposed to take us
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  Speaker 2: 30 minutes, but We'd already been driving an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't look like we would make it on time.
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  Speaker 2: And our assistant called the venue and told them what
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  Speaker 2: was happening. They said, don't worry, we'll send the police
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  Speaker 2: to come get you. These two police officers met us
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  Speaker 2: on the freeway. One of the officers got in our
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  Speaker 2: car to drive. He pulled onto the shoulder and started
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  Speaker 2: passing everyone out. People are looking at us honking like
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Get back in line. He didn't pay any attention.
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  Speaker 2: He just kept going Once the traffic cleared he didn't
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  Speaker 2: drive the speed limit. He drove 65 70 and We
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  Speaker 2: passed by other police officers. They didn't stop us. When
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  Speaker 2: they saw the officer driving our car, they just waved.
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  Speaker 2: When we got downtown, he didn't wait for the light
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  Speaker 2: to turn green. If it was clear, he ran the
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  Speaker 2: red light. Other officers on the corner, they just waved,
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  Speaker 2: no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the point. The reason we could break.
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  Speaker 2: The law was because the law was riding with us.
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  Speaker 2: Without that officer, we'd have got pulled over, probably got
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  Speaker 2: a ticket.
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  Speaker 1: But because the law was in our car, we could
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  Speaker 1: supersede the speed limit.
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  Speaker 2: We weren't bound by normal limitations. In the natural, it
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  Speaker 2: may be impossible for you to get well. The laws
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  Speaker 2: of medical science, like with Elena, like with my mother,
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  Speaker 2: say there's no way. The good news is someone is
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  Speaker 2: riding with you that supersedes those laws. God can do
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  Speaker 2: what medicine cannot do. He made your body. He can
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  Speaker 2: bring healing. And there's no explanation where it doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: But if you just focus on the natural, logical, your ability,
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  Speaker 2: what the experts say, you're going to live limited because
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  Speaker 2: there will be giants you can't overcome and dreams you
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  Speaker 2: can't accomplish. Doubt will come, cause you to shrink back.
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  Speaker 2: You have to remind yourself who's riding with you. You're
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  Speaker 2: not in that car, so to speak, by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus took the wheel. The most high God is ordering
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  Speaker 1: your steps. The reason you can break the law is
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  Speaker 1: the law is riding with you. The God who controls
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  Speaker 1: the universe.
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  Speaker 2: He's not limited to the laws of nature, the laws
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  Speaker 2: of science, the laws of finance.
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  Speaker 1: He makes streams in the deserts.
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  Speaker 2: He caused oil to never run out for three and
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  Speaker 2: a half years for a widow in the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Supernatural provision.
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  Speaker 2: He sent ravens to feed Elijah by the brook during
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  Speaker 2: a famine.
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  Speaker 1: We look at our finances, what we make, we run
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  Speaker 1: the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: If I get this increase and save this much and
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  Speaker 2: maybe get a bonus, that's all good. But what God
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  Speaker 2: is going to do is not natural, not ordinary, something
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  Speaker 2: you can't calculate. He's not limited to your job, your boss,
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  Speaker 2: the economy, the family you come from. He supersedes those things.
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  Speaker 2: One touch of his favor will put you into overflow,
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  Speaker 2: into abundance, into more than enough. When you're tempted to doubt,
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  Speaker 2: remember who's in your car. This is where Moses missed it.
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  Speaker 2: He was in the desert leading the Israelites and God
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  Speaker 2: had brought them out of slavery. They were headed toward
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  Speaker 2: the promised land. But the people got tired of eating
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  Speaker 2: the manna each day, something like bread that formed on
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  Speaker 2: the ground. They came to Moses complaining, we don't want
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  Speaker 2: this food anymore.
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  Speaker 1: We want meat.
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  Speaker 2: Like we used to have in Egypt. Moses was frustrated,
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  Speaker 2: went to God and told them what they were saying.
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  Speaker 2: God said, all right, Moses, I'm gonna give you meat,
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  Speaker 2: not for a day, not for a week, but for
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  Speaker 2: a month.
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  Speaker 1: You will have all the meat they could ever want.
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  Speaker 2: Moses said, God, there are 600,000 men out.
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  Speaker 1: Here, plus the women and children.
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  Speaker 2: If we butchered all of our flocks, all of our cattle,
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  Speaker 2: we wouldn't have that much meat. Moses was looking at
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  Speaker 2: it only in his ability, only in what they had.
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  Speaker 2: He told God all the reasons he couldn't do it,
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  Speaker 2: How there were too many people, that's just not possible.
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  Speaker 2: When he finally finished, God asked him a simple question.
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  Speaker 2: He said, Moses, when did I become weak? He was saying,
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  Speaker 2: did you forget I spoke worlds into existence? I created
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  Speaker 2: the universe. Do you think somehow that I lost my power?
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  Speaker 2: God shifted the wind and millions of quail flew in
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  Speaker 2: from the oceans. There were so many quail that they
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  Speaker 2: gathered them up all day, all night, and the next
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  Speaker 2: day too. The scripture said every family gathered no less
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  Speaker 2: than 50 bushels of quail. It was Costco size, not
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  Speaker 2: one dinner. They got quail in bulk.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Quail don't normally fly that far from the water, way
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  Speaker 2: out there in the desert, but God shifted the wind
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  Speaker 2: and out of the ordinary, the quail came into the camp.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know what God's about to shift in your life.
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  Speaker 2: We look in the natural, Joel, not me, man. I'm
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  Speaker 2: stuck in my career. This sickness is permanent. I'll never
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  Speaker 2: meet someone. We're saying there can't be quail out here
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  Speaker 2: in the desert. That's not possible.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you tune out all that doubt and get
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  Speaker 1: in agreement with God?
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  Speaker 2: God, I believe you have some shifts coming my way.
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  Speaker 2: Sudden turnarounds, healing, good breaks, abundance, things I can't explain.
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  Speaker 1: Never doubt God's mighty power. Sure, you may doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Your ability, your strength, your resources, but never doubt what
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  Speaker 2: God can do. You may be in a situation like Moses.
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  Speaker 2: You don't see how it can work out. All the
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  Speaker 2: facts tell you it's not gonna happen. It's too late,
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  Speaker 2: too hard. God is asking you what he asked Moses.
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  Speaker 2: When did I become weak? You will never face a
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  Speaker 2: giant that God can't bring down. Never an obstacle that
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  Speaker 2: you can't overcome. Never a dream that he can't bring
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  Speaker 2: to pass. Instead of telling him all the reasons it
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  Speaker 2: can't happen, why don't you do like David? Look at
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  Speaker 2: that obstacle and say, I come against you, not just
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  Speaker 2: in my might, not just in my ability. I come
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  Speaker 2: in the name of the Lord God of Israel. I
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  Speaker 2: know who's driving my car. A God who supersedes natural laws.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't be hearing.
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  Speaker 2: This if God wasn't up to something. This is an
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  Speaker 2: important time.
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  Speaker 1: You have to let faith rise up.
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  Speaker 2: You're on the verge of seeing something you've never seen.
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  Speaker 2: The enemy will work overtime trying to talk you out
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  Speaker 2: of it. No, no, no, the giant's too big. You
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  Speaker 2: can't feed people in the desert. God is saying, never
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  Speaker 2: doubt my mighty power to accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: Infinitely more than you could ever imagine.
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  Speaker 2: If you'll have this never doubt mindset, I believe and
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  Speaker 2: declare you're about to see giants come down. Like Elena,
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  Speaker 2: supernatural healing. Like Moses, a shift, supernatural provision, breakthroughs, the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of your destiny in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 1: And if you receive it, can you say amen today?
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus
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  Speaker 2: the Lord of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I
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  Speaker 1: repent of my sins. Come into my heart.
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  Speaker 2: I make you my Lord and Savior. If you prayed
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  Speaker 2: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd
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  Speaker 2: As you keep your faith in front of you day
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