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hello everyone and thanks so much for being with us today
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were praying that 2013 is going to be an amazing year
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in your life I learned this from the time I was a little boy
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when you honor God God will always honor you that's what you're doing today
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you wouldn't be join in são be encouraged
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know that God hedges in the palm of his hand your greatest victories are still
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out in front
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keep being your best each day and God will get you to where you're supposed to
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be
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no person can keep it from your destiny no obstacle
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no challenge god knows how to get you to where you're supposed to be you stay in
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faith know that we're praying for you as well
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that's right you know God is a good job he's a gracious guy
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and when you put him cars like joe said he will make your dreams come true
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you know what I love about God when you click the word of God
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your here you can base any challenge you can base any obstacle
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because God how was she with his work know today that God is working on
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from the inside out a lot of times we see situations change
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and we think I'll got your work but the truth is not working right now
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as soon as you turn your attention to God as soon as you make a decision
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to look to God for your answers he begins to work to bob up that the tide
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of the battle begins to turn
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when you look to God to know today got already working on your behalf
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keep putting the word of God in you continue to grow
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and get stronger and you overcome every obstacle
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you will birth every train and got to be the victorious life
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it she decide
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god bless you
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it said you like to come into your homes and if you're ever in our area
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please stop by and be a part of one of our services we'd love to have to be a
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part of promise you will make you feel right at home
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thank you so much for tuning in thank you again for coming out today in
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I like to start with something funny in heard about these three pastors
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they were in a boat together one day fishing wanted the pastor said
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we never get to let our hair down less each tale the area that we struggle
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in the most our greatest scene so we can pray for each other
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the first pastor said I hate it met this but I have a problem with gambling
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sometimes I sneak out at night in gamble the second pastor said I'm ashamed to
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admit this
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but I have a problem with cheating hardly ever pay my taxes
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the third pastor sat there silently they waited
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and waited and what he wouldn't budge they say we're not leaving
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and to you tell us your greatest sin he said alright my greatest sin
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is with Gaza and I can't wait to get off this boat hold up the Bible
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say it like you mean it this is my bible
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I am what it says I am I have what it says I hate I can do what it says I can
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do
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today I will be taught the Word of God a boldly can best
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my mind is a lower my heart is receptive
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I will never be the same in Jesus name
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god bless you i wanna talk to you today about
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how you have what you need it's easy to think
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if I had more money I could accomplish my dreams
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if I had a bigger house then and be happy I had more talent
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better personality if I knew the right people then I could do something great
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but as long as you feel like you're lacking
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you don't have enough you were shortchanged
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then you make excuses to be less than your best
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you gotta have a new perspective God is giving you
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exactly what you need for this season that you're in
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you have the talent the Flynns
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the connections the resources the experience you need for right now does
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it mean that all you're ever going to help you may need more
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next month our next year when that time comes
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God will make sure that you have more than Psalm 34 says
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those who trust in the Lord will never lack
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any good thing because your trust in the Lord
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you'll have to worry whatever you need
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God will make sure your habit win you need
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you won't like any good thing this means
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if you don't have it right now don't find it
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don't be discouraged you don't need it right now
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our attitude should be I'm equipped
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empowered an anointed for this month
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I am not lacking short-changed
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inadequate missing out less than
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I have what I need for today this approach
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is so much better than thinking if I just had the finances
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if the loan would have gone through if they would have been my friend
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if I had a better personality listen if you needed
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a better personality God would have given you a better personality
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guard wasn't havin a bad day when he created G
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if you needed more talent God would have given you more tap
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if you need more friends you would have more friends
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take what you have and make the most of it
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it's what you need for right now years ago I used to think
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if we had a bigger building if we had more members
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if I could Minister better if the head more experience
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there was always something I didn't have or I couldn't do
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some reason I couldn't feel good about myself one day I realize what I'm
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telling you
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I have what I need for the season that I mean right now
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I have the strength that I need
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for today it may not be enough strength for tomorrow
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but that's okay when that day comes God will give me strength for tomorrow
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I have the talent the qualifications the experience
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and need for right now it may not be as much
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is somebody else has but that's okay I'm not competing with diem
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I'm competing with myself to become the best me
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that I can possibly be someone
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wrote an article want and it talked about how I haven't been to seminary
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how wasn't qualified to lead a large ministry
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first that kinda bothered me then our red in Galatians one
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where the Apostle Paul who wrote over half for the New Testament said
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how was not appointed by any group or by human authority
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my call is from God who raised Jesus from the dead
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listen people may not approve you don't worry about it
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gotta prove she people didn't call you
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people don't determine your destiny people can't stop God's plan for your
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life
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God called you God equipped to not anointed to you
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when you come to the into your life you don't have to answer to people
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you answer to Almighty God don't let what some persons says or does
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make you feel less than unqualified
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you been hand-picked by the creator of the universe
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you are lacking nothing for the season the jury in right now
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a quick thinking about all the things that you don't have
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all the things that you wish were different Joel all I have is is all car
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I'm depressed now have a new attitude this all car
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he is all I need right now God is on the throne
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directed must step when I need more you give the more
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all I have is is one friend no turn it around
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this one for and is all I need for this season
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I'm not gonna sit around in self-pity when I need more friends God will give
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me more friends
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all I have is is low-level job know that's all I need right now
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when it's my time to be promoted nothing can stand against my god I will be
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promoted
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but in the meantime I'm keepin my best right where I E
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this is an impound ring way to lear not making excuses
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feeling short-changed if I just had more money
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this if you needed more money to fulfill your destiny right now
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n God withholds it he wouldn't be a just got
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the truth is God has already lined up the right people
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the right opportunities the finances the wisdom the good breaks the protection
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you need
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it's in your future is long as you keep honoring God
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he will give you what you need win you need
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that means if you don't have it right now
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you don't need it right now my question
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is we you trust him we keep a good attitude
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and be your best even though it's taken longer than you thought
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even though the problem has it turned around even though a dream hasn't come
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to pass
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if you will be faithful right where you are
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knowing that you had exactly what you need for the season that you're in
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God will get you to where you're supposed to be
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second Samuel chapter 12 David had gotten of course
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the prophet Nathan was correcting him in doing so
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he reminded David what God had brought him through
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David had seen God's goodness favor protection finances healing down through
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the years
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inverse a Nathan made an interesting state
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he said David if it had not been enough
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God would have given you much much more
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in other words David looking back over your life
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if you were ever lackey if you ever needed
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more wisdom more favor more protection more finances
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God would have given it to you that tells me
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what I hair right now is what I need
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to fulfill my destiny the moment it becomes not in now
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is the moment God will give you more the moment something starts to keep you from
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your destiny
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the moment it begins to stop God's plan for your life
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is the moment God will show up the moment God
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intervene so if it hasn't happened yet
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don't be discouraged thinking that is never going to work out
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if it hasn't happened you haven't needed win you need it
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it won't be one secondly the moment you need
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a new foreign the moment you need a good break
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the moment you need an idea it will show up
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friends God is closely watching your life
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you are his most prized possession he saying to you
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what he said to David if it's ever not enough
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you can count on me how wall always be there to give you more
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in 1959 my father was the pastor of the largest denominational church
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they had nearly a thousand members back then that was a big deal
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they just built a beautiful new sanctuary in my father's future looks
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very bright
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one day through a series evidence he knew he was supposed to leave their
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church
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in start Lakewood in the natural
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he did have a building didn't have any organization backing him up
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most of his friends thought he was making a mistake in didn't support him
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he could have made a list of all the things that he didn't hang
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if he'd stayed focused on their he woulda never moved on to dead center
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but my father took this step if a me started Lakewood
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with ninety people in an all rundown feed store
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but instead a thinking all I have are these ninety people
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his attitude was these nanny people are all I need
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instead of thinking all I have is this old the store his attitude was
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this old feed store is all I need
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see when you realise the creator of the universe
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is directing your steps giving you what you need
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and the moment it becomes not enough God promises to show up in give you more
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then you will go around discouraged thing and I was not fair
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why don't I get any good bright when is this ever going to change
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know you just keep being your best honoring God
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that's what my father did here we are today fifty four years later Lakewood
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still going strong
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but some love you today or maybe a little this story
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the calls and what has not happened you wondering when the problems going to
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turn around
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win you going to get there good break no quit being stressed over
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gonna head you in the palm of his hand he is written
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everyday up your life in his book god knows what you need
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win you needed and he knows how to get it to you
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if you don't have something right now you didn't miss it
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you didn't get shortchanged got didn't forget about you
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as long as you're honoring him at the right time
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win you need the right people will show up
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win you needed the finances will come when you need it
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healing the restoration the vindication will find you
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if it hasn't happened yet don't sit around sour
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have the attitude I don't need when I needed
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God promises it will be one second like
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in John chapter 4 Jesus myth a Samaritan woman
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at a whale he ask her for something to drink
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she was a little surprised because in those days the jews didn't have anything
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to do with the Samaritans
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she said how can you ask me person thing to drink
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jesus said if you knew who i am.
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you ask me and I would give you living water
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she immediately begin to look in the natural she said but server
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you don't have anything to draw water with you don't have any kind a bucket
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any kind a pale how can you give me living water
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I wonder how many times we do the same thing
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God tells us he's going to do something great in our lives
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down D people to dream on the inside
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that we're going to rise high we're going to see our marriage restore we're
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going to get healthy again
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we feel it's so strongly but like her
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we start looking at what we don't have the way we were raised
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the obstacles in our path before long we talk ourselves out on
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July can't do anything right I don't have the talent
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my marriage is too far gone the medical report is too bad
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know you're just looking in the natural but we serve a supernatural gar
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he can take something that's ordinary read on it
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in turn it into something that's extraordinaire
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you can have average talent but when God buoys on your life
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you will go further than people that have great town
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don't talk yourself how to all David head was a slingshot
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in pads loose stones it looked
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insignificant ordinary nothing special
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but God we donated and he defeated ally
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became the king of Israel Sampson was surrounded by huge
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army everywhere he looked at work horses chariot
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weapons all he had was the jawbone
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up a donkey no weapon no warmer
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nobody backing him up but he picked up that job long
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God we don't and he defeated a thousand million
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the whole arm all Moses head
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wasn't ordinary stick something he found on the ground
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yet when he picked it up held that what in the air
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the Red Sea supernaturally part all my father had 190 people
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in an abandoned rundown feed store yet God breed on them
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and did something extraordinary
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dole underestimate what your hair
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it may look small insignificant
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compared to what you're facing it seems impossible all the odds are against you
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but when God believes on your life the arch dramatically change
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you en garde or a majority God can open doors that should have never opened
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God can take you beyond where your talent you education said you should go
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God can make away even when you don't see a way
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and it's not enough to just have faith in God
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that's important but you gotta have faith
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in what God has given you you are not lacking
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you were not shortchanged you are not at a disadvantage
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the creator of the universe is breathing on your life
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he's breathing on your hell reading on your finances
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reading on your marriage if you will be competent
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in what God has given you he can take what looks like a little
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in turn it into much the scripture even says
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don't despise the day up small beginnings
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in other words don't look at what you have is a large or I can't do anything
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right
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I don't have a lot in town a feed store
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gonna need a big building a low-level job gone I wanted to be in management
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what God has given you right now may seem small
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but don't let that fool you when you use what your hand
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God will multiply you see an explosion
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his goodness one time Jesus had been teaching
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thousands of people was getting late in the day
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everyone was hungry Jesus turned to his disciples and said
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I want you to feed all the people didn't have any food out there in the
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wilderness
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there were no grocery stores on the surface
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it seem like what Jesus ask was impossible
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but here's a key God will never ask you to do something
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and did not give you the ability to do it
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July can't raise this child he's too difficult
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know God wouldn't have given you the child if you were able to racy
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with these people that work there driving me crazy know when God gave you
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that job
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he gave you the ability to be there with a good attitude
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I couldn't accomplish my dreams I don't know the white people
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know the moment God put the dream in your heart he lined up
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everything you need to bring it to pass
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the disciple said to Jesus can't beat all these people
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some possible we don't have any food Jesus heard all the excuses
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he finally said to them you've told me all about what you don't have
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all I wanna know is what do you have
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he said we just have five loaves of bread to small fish
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but what is this among so many they looked at it
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in dismissed it it's not enough July believe I could do something great
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if I had more going for me had more talent
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more friends more money know you're just lookin at the natural
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get reared up that I don't have enough mentality
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God controls the whole universe
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he saying to you today what Jesus said to the disciples
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give me what's ahead don't make excuses
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don't sit on the sidelines and life feeling intimidated
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short-changed put your life your goals
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your dreams into my hands Jesus took the FOB LAUSD to pH
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prayed over it and its supernaturally multiply
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it ended up eating probably fifteen thousand people
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plus there were baskets for leftover that's what happens when you give god
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what your hand he will not apply
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let me ask you are you talking yourself out up something God has put in your
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heart
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I read a story about a young lady named Mary the Ian
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she was the youngest have seventeen children born in South Carolina in the
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early eighteen hundreds
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her parents were slaves inspired and the odds be in against her
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she was able to get a good education even go to college
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from the time she was a little girl her dream was always to teach
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young people she was a straight-a student
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you could meet a finer young woman she graduated from college she turned her
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application and the teacher to school
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several months later she got word back that she was turned down
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for some reason she was an accepted but instead a sitting around thinking about
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how bad life was treating her
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she had the added to I didn't get that position
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I must not have needed if it was going to keep me from my destiny
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God would have never allowed she decided to start her own school
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she didn't have any money no building
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no supply has no equipment she found some all
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cardboard boxes in use them for this
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she would get red berries each day drain the juice
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out at the gym so her students could use that for each in their opinions
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few years later a local college notice what was happening
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and ask her to join forces with them it became known as the but the moon
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Cookman college 1932
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President Franklin Roosevelt appointed her as an adviser to his cabinet
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making her the first african-american woman ever to become
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a presidential adviser
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what am I saying what you have
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may seem small but don't dismiss if you use what God has given you
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you multiply he'll not only bring your dreams the past
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but I'll do more then you can ask or think in the scripture there were four
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lepers
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marching toward the enemies came these four million
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had nothing nope supply has no food
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no protection not even their health
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in the natural they didn't have a chance they could have been sitting around the
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press
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focused on what they didn't have know these men
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must've been coming to Lakewood they were using what God had given the AM
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as they were marching toward the enemy's camp
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garden multiplied this sound up their footsteps
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sounded like a huge army was attacking those
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enemies took off running for their lives when you're not own have a lot of talent
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maybe not but do you have any footsteps
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I don't have much money maybe not but they have any red babe ruth's
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I don't have a big building for my new business
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maybe not but do you have and all run down feed store
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if you use what God is giving you Hill multiply
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you multiply your town multiply your resources
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multiplied influence this in God is not
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into addition he's into multiplication
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what you have today
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may seem small but if you keep honoring God
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is not going to stay small you going to come into supernatural
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increase good breaks divine connections
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opportunities that you've never seen before
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friends you have exactly what you need
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to fulfill your destiny now here's a key
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it may not be as much as a family member
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a coworker a friend but that's okay
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you're not running their race you running your rights
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if God gave you what they have it wouldn't help you
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it would hinder you you're not anointed to be the in
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you and wanted to be you when David went out to face Goliath
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King Saul tried to get David to wear his armor
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David didn't have any protection just that slingshot
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saw had good intentions he said David at least where my armor
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you going to get out there and get killed the problem was
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david was much smaller then King Saul
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when he put that armor own it swallowed him
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it didn't help him it weighed him down
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that's because what God has given other people
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is not going to work for you don't try to be like somebody else
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I wish I had their talent their looks their personality
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know if you put that armor own just like with David
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you would be uncomfortable it would slow you down
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why it wasn't designed for you
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you are unique you are one of a kind
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God custom-made your armor you are wearing
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designer armor nobody has which you had
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when you go out today you need to walk with some swag
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is usually
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I don't know what swag is but it sounds good
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I'm to Whitehaven is wired
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David took their normal often said no thanks
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this is not for me I can't be who God created me to be
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wearing somebody else's armor I have what I need
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it may not be as much as somebody else but if you walk in you own anointing
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if you use what God given you you can have less
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talent less resources less friends but because God's breathing on your life
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you will go further than people that have more time more resources
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as what happen with David he defeated goliath
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with less equipment the lie it was wearing a full set of armor
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all David head was the slingshot the difference was
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that slingshot was a part update its divine destiny
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if he would have looked at it and thought its nothin is small it's
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insignificant
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if he would have dismissed it he would have missed his destiny
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don't dismiss what God has given you
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it may not be as impressive as somebody else Hess
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you may not have the talent the looks the personality the income the influence
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is they do
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but when you realise what God has given you
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has been custom made he specifically gave you
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you gives your talents you look your personality wasn't a random happening
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godding closes eyes and say here just take this know God match you
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for your world he put in you exactly what you need
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24 feel his plan for your life few years ago
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I was speaking to several hundred pastors in afterwards we had a time for
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questions
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this one pastor stood up he must've been six-foot-five
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300-pound a very large me I'm 5 foot 9 inches tall
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television makes you look bigger than you really are they were surprised at
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how small iowa's
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he said very dramatically Joe I just wanna know
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how much do you weigh I smiled and said
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I'm a 150 pounds a pure steel
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you gotta be competent
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in who God made you to be you're not too short
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you not too tall you the right size
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you have the right personality you the right nationality
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you been custom made by the creator of the universe
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put your shoulders back hold your head up high
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you are not lacking you haven't been shortchanged you're not at a
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disadvantage
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you have exactly what you need to where you are
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get up every morning and remind yourself I have the strength
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the Talon the Flynns the resources the qualifications on the
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for today if you do that because your trust is in the Lord
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I believe in the clear you will never lack any good thing
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God is going to take small turn it into much he's going to multiply what your
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hand you will become
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everything he created you to be and you will have
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everything he intended for you to head in Jesus name
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if you receive it can use a min today we never like to close our broadcast
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without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord your life would you
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play with me
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just say Lord Jesus out a pin at last season's
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come into my heart and make your mom or dad and say
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print if you prayed that simple prayer
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we believe you got born-again getting a good bible-based church
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keep God first place he's gonna take you places
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