Andrew Wommack - Don't Limit God

January 13, 2025 | S25:E9

God told Andrew he was limiting Him by his small thinking & the results of taking the limits off of God.

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Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth | Andrew Wommack - Don't Limit God | January 13, 2025

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>> welcome to gospel truth with
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Andrew wommack. celebrating 25
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Years of sharing god's
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Unconditional love and
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Grace on television.
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And now here's andrew.
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>> welcome to our monday's
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>> welcome to our monday's broadcast of the gospel truth.
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Broadcast of the gospel truth. you know, last week we
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You know, last week we celebrated 25 years of daily
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Celebrated 25 years of daily television programs. man, that's
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Television programs. man, that's quite a milestone for us. and i
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Quite a milestone for us. and i brought on the man who helped me
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Brought on the man who helped me get started on television,
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Get started on television, stephen bransford. and we spent
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Stephen bransford. and we spent three days just kind of
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Three days just kind of reminiscing about things. and
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Reminiscing about things. and then on last thursday, i started
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Then on last thursday, i started teaching on one of the most
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Teaching on one of the most important things that the lord
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Important things that the lord ever showed me, and that
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Ever showed me, and that was out of psalms,
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Was out of psalms, chapter 78. and in verse 41,
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It says, yea, they turned
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It says, yea, they turned back and tempted god,
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Back and tempted god, and limited the
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And limited the holy one of israel. and
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So, i kind of gave a brief
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So, i kind of gave a brief introduction about this last
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Introduction about this last week. and then today, i'm
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Week. and then today, i'm starting to teach in earnest
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Starting to teach in earnest about what god spoke to me,
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About what god spoke to me, about how i had limited him by
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About how i had limited him by my small thinking. and i tell
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My small thinking. and i tell you, we, we gave some background
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You, we, we gave some background last week, i won't go back
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Last week, i won't go back through all of this. but since
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Through all of this. but since then, that was on january the
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Then, that was on january the 31st, 2002 when the lord spoke
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31st, 2002 when the lord spoke that to me. so it's 22 years
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That to me. so it's 22 years ago. actually, it's 23 years
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Ago. actually, it's 23 years ago, i guess this month. and,
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Ago, i guess this month. and, when that happened, i tell you
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When that happened, i tell you what, my whole world changed. my
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What, my whole world changed. my whole way of thinking changed,
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Whole way of thinking changed, and it has produced a huge
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And it has produced a huge response. we have increased 60
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Response. we have increased 60 times in the number of people
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That we reach, the income that
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We have. it's between 60 and a
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Hundredfold return in the last
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22 years. and the good news is,
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22 years. and the good news is, and the reason i'm teaching on
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And the reason i'm teaching on this is not just for my sake in
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This is not just for my sake in talking about what's happened to
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Talking about what's happened to me, but i believe that what god
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Me, but i believe that what god spoke to me is something that he
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Spoke to me is something that he wants to speak to every single
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Wants to speak to every single one of us. the vast majority of
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One of us. the vast majority of people are not really stretching
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People are not really stretching themselves and believing god.
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You know, jesse duplantis is a
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Friend of mine, and jesse
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Duplantis was telling me one
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Time that he was praying about
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The new year and what god wanted
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Him to do, and god spoke to him,
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Him to do, and god spoke to him, and he says, i need you to give
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And he says, i need you to give me a job. and he says... you
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Me a job. and he says... you know, he was asking, well, what
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Know, he was asking, well, what does that mean? he says, you're,
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Does that mean? he says, you're, you're just doing things that
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You're just doing things that you could do in your own
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You could do in your own strength. you don't get me
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Strength. you don't get me involved. i want to get
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Involved. i want to get involved. i want to do
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Involved. i want to do something. and i believe that
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Something. and i believe that every one of us, in a sense,
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Every one of us, in a sense, needs to do this, that we are
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Needs to do this, that we are just going through life doing
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Just going through life doing basically what we can do in our
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Basically what we can do in our own strength and power, and we
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Own strength and power, and we limit what god can do. but we've
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Limit what god can do. but we've got a supernatural, miracle
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Got a supernatural, miracle working god that lives inside of
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Working god that lives inside of each one of us if you've been
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Each one of us if you've been born again, and god's plans
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For you are awesome.
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For you are awesome. jeremiah, chapter 29,
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Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 11 says, i know the
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Verse 11 says, i know the thoughts that i think
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Thoughts that i think towards you, says the lord,
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Towards you, says the lord, thoughts of peace, and
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Thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an
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Not of evil, to give you an expected end, is what the king
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Expected end, is what the king james says. the niv says,
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James says. the niv says, a hope and a future.
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A hope and a future. however you say that,
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God's got good plans for you.
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God's got good plans for you. and one of the things i say
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And one of the things i say often is that if your life isn't
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Often is that if your life isn't supernatural, it's superficial.
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Supernatural, it's superficial. god wants us to live in a way
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God wants us to live in a way that nobody can look at us
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That nobody can look at us and just write it off, that
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And just write it off, that everything that's happened in
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Everything that's happened in our life was by our own ability.
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Our life was by our own ability. he wants to get involved. i
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He wants to get involved. i really believe that. and again,
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Really believe that. and again, i've made this point last week,
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I've made this point last week, but i just need to say this
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But i just need to say this because sometimes people when
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Because sometimes people when you get to talking about
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You get to talking about dreaming big, what they think of
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Dreaming big, what they think of is being world-wide, you've got
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Is being world-wide, you've got to be known, you've got to be a
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To be known, you've got to be a multi-millionaire. you've got to
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Multi-millionaire. you've got to do something that is just, you
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Do something that is just, you know, it dwarfs everybody else.
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Know, it dwarfs everybody else. that's not necessarily so. i've
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That's not necessarily so. i've got friends that, you know,
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Got friends that, you know, they're a housewife. that's,
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They're a housewife. that's, that's... they're called to be a
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That's... they're called to be a wife and a mother and they're
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Wife and a mother and they're raising kids. but at the same
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Raising kids. but at the same time, they have prayed and seen
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Time, they have prayed and seen people raised from the dead.
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People raised from the dead. i've got one friend that was
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I've got one friend that was poor at one time, and god just
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Poor at one time, and god just spoke to her and showed her
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Spoke to her and showed her some things. and now she's a
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Some things. and now she's a multi-millionaire, just doing
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Multi-millionaire, just doing some things. you don't have to
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Some things. you don't have to necessarily be on television and
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Necessarily be on television and everybody know you, but your
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Everybody know you, but your life needs to be supernatural so
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Life needs to be supernatural so that when people look at you,
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That when people look at you, they just can't understand how
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They just can't understand how you're walking in such peace and
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You're walking in such peace and joy and provision and health.
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Joy and provision and health. and so again, i... i'm going to
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And so again, i... i'm going to get into more detail on things,
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Get into more detail on things, but i just wanted to start with
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But i just wanted to start with saying that god wants us to
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Saying that god wants us to believe big. god is a big god,
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Believe big. god is a big god, and i don't think there's a
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And i don't think there's a single one of us that has tapped
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Single one of us that has tapped him out. and just as the lord
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Him out. and just as the lord spoke to me that i had limited
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Spoke to me that i had limited him by my small thinking, i
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Him by my small thinking, i think the vast majority of us
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Think the vast majority of us limit god. and so, i've got a
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Lot of material on this. i've
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Got this little sticker that
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Says, don't limit god, and this
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Is a static cling sticker that
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You can peel off of here, and
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It'll stick to a windshield,
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It'll stick to a mirror, it'll
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Stick to nearly anything, and
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It's just a reminder. it's got
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Psalm 78:41 on it. i've got two
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Little booklets that we're
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Giving away free. and then
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We've also got a lot of
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Material on this. we'll
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Be giving out all that
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Information at the end of the
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Program. you know, let me start
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By saying that when the lord
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By saying that when the lord showed me that i was limiting
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Showed me that i was limiting him by my small thinking, there
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Him by my small thinking, there was a lot of things that he
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Was a lot of things that he showed me. but one of the things
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Showed me. but one of the things that was holding me back and
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That was holding me back and keeping me from stretching and
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Keeping me from stretching and just, you know, sticking my neck
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Just, you know, sticking my neck out and taking a chance and,
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Out and taking a chance and, and going. i... let me say this,
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And going. i... let me say this, that the lord had shown me what
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That the lord had shown me what he wanted me to do, and i was
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He wanted me to do, and i was heading in that direction. he
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Heading in that direction. he showed me 56 years ago... 57
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Showed me 56 years ago... 57 years ago that i was supposed to
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Years ago that i was supposed to be ministering his word, and it
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Be ministering his word, and it was supposed to go all over the
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Was supposed to go all over the world. and i knew that, and i
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World. and i knew that, and i was headed in that direction. so
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Was headed in that direction. so if you would have asked me what
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If you would have asked me what was god's will for my life, i
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Was god's will for my life, i could have given you a vague
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Could have given you a vague representation of what he wanted
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Representation of what he wanted me to do. but i was moving at a
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Me to do. but i was moving at a snail's pace. and the reason for
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Snail's pace. and the reason for it is because he revealed his
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It is because he revealed his will to me in 1968. i spent
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Will to me in 1968. i spent about a year being a youth
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About a year being a youth director of a church. then i
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Director of a church. then i went to vietnam. when i got
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Went to vietnam. when i got back, after about three years,
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Back, after about three years, i got into ministry, and i
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I got into ministry, and i pastored three little churches.
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Pastored three little churches. and anyway, for about, i
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And anyway, for about, i think it was 32 years i was
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Think it was 32 years i was ministering. i was doing what
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Ministering. i was doing what god told me to do, but it was
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God told me to do, but it was just a struggle. i mean, for the
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Just a struggle. i mean, for the first ten years, jamie and i
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First ten years, jamie and i were on the verge of just, i
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Were on the verge of just, i mean, total poverty. we wou...
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Mean, total poverty. we wou... we would have qualified for food
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We would have qualified for food stamps and government aid. we
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Stamps and government aid. we never went that route. but i
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Never went that route. but i mean, we struggled for the first
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Mean, we struggled for the first ten years of our marriage, and
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Ten years of our marriage, and then i started on radio, and we
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Then i started on radio, and we struggled with that. it seemed
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Struggled with that. it seemed like we were always behind. when
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Like we were always behind. when i started on television january
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I started on television january the 3rd, 2000, the lord began to
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The 3rd, 2000, the lord began to just prosper us, and we were
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Just prosper us, and we were having... we had a little bit of
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Having... we had a little bit of money left over. we didn't have
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Money left over. we didn't have much, but we were paying all of
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Our bills. we were increasing.
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We were reaching people. we had
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3% of the u.s. population
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Was covered by my television
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Was covered by my television program in january of 2002. so
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Program in january of 2002. so in two years we had jumped up to
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In two years we had jumped up to where we were covering 3% of the
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Where we were covering 3% of the u.s. population, and we were
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U.s. population, and we were moving in the direction that god
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Moving in the direction that god wanted me to go. but one of the
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Wanted me to go. but one of the reasons that i was limiting god
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Reasons that i was limiting god was because for the first 32
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Was because for the first 32 years of my ministry, we had
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Years of my ministry, we had struggled, struggled, struggled,
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Struggled, struggled, struggled, and for the last two years
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And for the last two years before the lord spoke to me, we
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Before the lord spoke to me, we had gotten to where things were
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Had gotten to where things were working, and it was going
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Working, and it was going relatively smooth. so what i'm
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Relatively smooth. so what i'm trying to communicate is one of
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Trying to communicate is one of the reasons that i was limiting
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The reasons that i was limiting god and not stretching myself
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God and not stretching myself and pressing towards what god
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And pressing towards what god told me to do was because i was
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Told me to do was because i was comfortable. i guess you could
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Comfortable. i guess you could say i was lazy. for the first
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Say i was lazy. for the first time in 32 years things were
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Time in 32 years things were working. we had light at the end
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Working. we had light at the end of the tunnel, and it wasn't
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Of the tunnel, and it wasn't another train. it looked like we
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Another train. it looked like we were going to live and not die.
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Were going to live and not die. things were working. and i tell
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Things were working. and i tell you what, i think that this is
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You what, i think that this is one thing that hinders a lot of
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One thing that hinders a lot of people from just dreaming big is
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People from just dreaming big is because they can be comfortable.
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Because they can be comfortable. they get to where things are
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They get to where things are working, and they may not have
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Working, and they may not have all their dreams fulfilled, but
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All their dreams fulfilled, but they're surviving. it looks like
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They're surviving. it looks like they're going to make it. things
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They're going to make it. things are going good. they have... you
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Are going good. they have... you know, the lord loves them. they
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Know, the lord loves them. they love the lord. they've got a
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Love the lord. they've got a good family, good church or
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Good family, good church or whatever, and people just get
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Whatever, and people just get comfortable, and they just enjoy
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Comfortable, and they just enjoy basically having all of the
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Basically having all of the pressure removed from them. that
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Pressure removed from them. that was one of the things that was
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Was one of the things that was hindering me, that i was just
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Hindering me, that i was just enjoying ministry more than i
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Enjoying ministry more than i ever had. things were working,
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Ever had. things were working, and because of it, i wasn't
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And because of it, i wasn't excited about pushing the
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Excited about pushing the envelope, stretching out, taking
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Envelope, stretching out, taking a chance and running a risk of
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A chance and running a risk of failure. so that was one thing.
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Failure. so that was one thing. this other thing was that when
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This other thing was that when you do start stretching forth
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You do start stretching forth and start believing god for
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And start believing god for more, there always is a fear of
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More, there always is a fear of failure. and you know what? i
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Failure. and you know what? i think that this is something
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Think that this is something that everybody has, that we
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That everybody has, that we don't want to do something, we
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Don't want to do something, we don't want to get out beyond our
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Don't want to get out beyond our skis. we don't want to reach
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Skis. we don't want to reach too far. i believe that there's
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Too far. i believe that there's wisdom to use, and so i'm not
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Wisdom to use, and so i'm not encouraging us to just do stupid
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Encouraging us to just do stupid stuff and, and, and not use
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Stuff and, and, and not use wisdom. but at the same time,
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Wisdom. but at the same time, you can't just get your life to
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You can't just get your life to where it's comfortable and where
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Where it's comfortable and where everything's working. you need
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Everything's working. you need to recognize, that man, the
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To recognize, that man, the lord's vision is to reach the
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Lord's vision is to reach the world. the lord is out to touch
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World. the lord is out to touch people all over the world, and
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People all over the world, and you have a part to play in that.
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You have a part to play in that. you know, i spend about
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$2 million a month in just
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Television airtime. that's
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Just the airtime that we buy.
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And then i've got 1100 plus
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Employees and the materials that
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We send out and the maintenance
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On all of the building and
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Stuff. we've got a lot of
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Expense, and i'm spending... i'm
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Expense, and i'm spending... i'm doing all of these things. and
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Doing all of these things. and yet, did you know that every one
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Yet, did you know that every one of you watching this program,
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Of you watching this program, wherever you are in the world,
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Wherever you are in the world, this program is seen all around
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The world. we've got a potential
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Of 6.5 billion people under the
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Signal of this program. now
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Certainly, you know, there's not
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Anywhere near all of those that
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Anywhere near all of those that watch this program, but i'm
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Watch this program, but i'm saying that's our potential. but
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Saying that's our potential. but regardless of how much money i
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Regardless of how much money i spend, regardless of how many
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Spend, regardless of how many materials we put out, or
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Materials we put out, or whatever we do, every person
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Whatever we do, every person watching this program reaches
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Watching this program reaches people that will never hear of
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People that will never hear of me. i don't care if i spent $10
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Me. i don't care if i spent $10 million a month on television,
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Million a month on television, radio, whatever. you have a
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Radio, whatever. you have a realm of influence over people
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Realm of influence over people that will never hear me. they
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That will never hear me. they will never... they will never
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Will never... they will never tune into a christian broadcast.
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Tune into a christian broadcast. they may never go to church, but
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They may never go to church, but they know you. they could be a
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They know you. they could be a neighbor. it could be somebody
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Neighbor. it could be somebody that your kids go to school
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That your kids go to school with. it could be, you know,
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With. it could be, you know, people that you do business
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People that you do business with, where you get your
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With, where you get your groceries and do things like
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Groceries and do things like this. my point is that it's easy
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This. my point is that it's easy for you to just kind of, you
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For you to just kind of, you know, get to where you are
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Know, get to where you are enjoying life, but you need to
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Enjoying life, but you need to recognize that god wants to
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Recognize that god wants to reach people, and there's people
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Reach people, and there's people like me who are putting great
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Like me who are putting great effort and money into it, but
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Effort and money into it, but we can't do it. we cannot
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We can't do it. we cannot evangelize this world. there are
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Evangelize this world. there are people that will never hear of
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People that will never hear of me, they will never hear of
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Me, they will never hear of these other people, but they
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These other people, but they know you. you need to begin to
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Know you. you need to begin to believe god for more. and it may
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Believe god for more. and it may not be that you have a ministry
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Not be that you have a ministry behind a pulpit, but man, you
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Behind a pulpit, but man, you need to start stretching
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Need to start stretching yourself and saying, god, who in
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Yourself and saying, god, who in my life can i reach out? how can
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My life can i reach out? how can i touch people? and you can make
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I touch people? and you can make a difference. every... man, i
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A difference. every... man, i just right now feel like the
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Just right now feel like the lord is speaking to me, that
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Lord is speaking to me, that some of you, if you would open
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Some of you, if you would open up your heart right now, god is
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Up your heart right now, god is speaking to you and god is
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Speaking to you and god is giving you ideas of how you
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Giving you ideas of how you could do something for your
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Could do something for your neighbor, your neighborhood,
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Neighbor, your neighborhood, maybe some people that you've
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Maybe some people that you've met that you know that don't
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Met that you know that don't know the lord, and how you could
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Know the lord, and how you could reach out to them, how you could
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Reach out to them, how you could do something. you can identify a
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Do something. you can identify a need. maybe there's kids around
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Need. maybe there's kids around you that, you know, they just
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You that, you know, they just don't have the support of a
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Don't have the support of a family or something, and you
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Family or something, and you could do something in your
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Could do something in your neighborhood. there's a million
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Neighborhood. there's a million things, but we just get
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Things, but we just get comfortable. we get lazy, and
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Comfortable. we get lazy, and we... there's a fear of us
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We... there's a fear of us reaching out. there's a fear of
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Reaching out. there's a fear of stepping out and talking to a
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Stepping out and talking to a person that you don't know.
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Person that you don't know. there's a fear that they might
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There's a fear that they might reject you, that they might call
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Reject you, that they might call you a fanatic, and other things.
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You a fanatic, and other things. but you've got to go beyond
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But you've got to go beyond that. you need to recognize that
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That. you need to recognize that god is wanting to not only use
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God is wanting to not only use me, but he's wanting to use
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Me, but he's wanting to use every one of you to reach people
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Every one of you to reach people around you. one of the things
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Around you. one of the things that's tragic in the body of
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That's tragic in the body of christ today is that somehow,
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Christ today is that somehow, we've gotten to where we have
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We've gotten to where we have professional christians who
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Professional christians who make their living, pastors,
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Make their living, pastors, evangelists, tv ministers,
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Evangelists, tv ministers, people like this, that we expect
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People like this, that we expect them to do all of our
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Them to do all of our witnessing, that we expect them
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Witnessing, that we expect them to win the world. we expect them
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To win the world. we expect them to stand up against all of the
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To stand up against all of the ungodliness. but i can guarantee
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You there are millions of
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People watching this
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Program right now, that i can
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Guarantee you god has a purpose
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For your life, and he's wanting
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For your life, and he's wanting to use you to reach out, and
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To use you to reach out, and you've got to get beyond
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You've got to get beyond yourself, you've got to get out
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Yourself, you've got to get out of your comfort zone, and you've
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Of your comfort zone, and you've got to start reaching people
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Got to start reaching people that are around you. and again,
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That are around you. and again, there's a million ways that you
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There's a million ways that you could do this. you could take
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Could do this. you could take food to people. you could
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Food to people. you could volunteer in some of these
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Volunteer in some of these organizations that are in your
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Organizations that are in your community. there's just a
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Community. there's just a million ways. but see, you've
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Million ways. but see, you've got to start believing bigger.
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Got to start believing bigger. god made you for more than just
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God made you for more than just getting up, going to work,
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Getting up, going to work, coming home, watching tv, going
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Coming home, watching tv, going to bed, and then repeat the next
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To bed, and then repeat the next day. there's more to life than
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Day. there's more to life than that. again, i'm not saying that
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That. again, i'm not saying that you shouldn't enjoy your family.
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You shouldn't enjoy your family. i'm not saying that you
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I'm not saying that you shouldn't enjoy the blessings
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Shouldn't enjoy the blessings and the prosperity that god has
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And the prosperity that god has given you, but there's not a
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Given you, but there's not a person watching this program
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Person watching this program that you have maxed out what god
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That you have maxed out what god wants to do. if you are born
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Wants to do. if you are born again, if you have god living on
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Again, if you have god living on the inside of you, there are
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The inside of you, there are hundreds and hundreds of people
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Hundreds and hundreds of people around you every single day and
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Around you every single day and week that don't have this joy,
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Week that don't have this joy, that don't have this, and
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That don't have this, and there's people that are
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There's people that are struggling, and you could be a
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Struggling, and you could be a blessing. every one of us needs
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Blessing. every one of us needs to start believing bigger. so
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To start believing bigger. so you need to... you need to get
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You need to... you need to get beyond your comfort zone. this
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Beyond your comfort zone. this is one thing with me. i was in a
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Is one thing with me. i was in a position where things were
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Position where things were working so well, i was just
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Working so well, i was just enjoying for the first time
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Enjoying for the first time really being in a position where
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Really being in a position where i could kind of coast. you know,
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I could kind of coast. you know, i had a vision. it wasn't an
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I had a vision. it wasn't an open vision, but i was in south
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Open vision, but i was in south africa, and i was staying on an
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Africa, and i was staying on an ostrich form... farm. i was
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Ostrich form... farm. i was preaching in heidelberg, south
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Preaching in heidelberg, south africa, and a local person there
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Africa, and a local person there had an ostrich farm and some
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Had an ostrich farm and some cabins there, and it was just a
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Cabins there, and it was just a beautiful surrounding. you could
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Beautiful surrounding. you could see the mountains out in the
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See the mountains out in the distance. and i remember
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Distance. and i remember just sitting there and i was
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Just sitting there and i was worshipping the lord, and i just
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Worshipping the lord, and i just got to thinking about things in
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Got to thinking about things in my life. and i didn't see this
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My life. and i didn't see this with my eyes, but it was a real
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With my eyes, but it was a real vivid thing that god showed me.
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Vivid thing that god showed me. and he showed me that the first
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And he showed me that the first 32 years of our ministry was
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32 years of our ministry was like jamie and me pushing
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Like jamie and me pushing this huge boulder, this round
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This huge boulder, this round boulder, and we were like,
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Boulder, and we were like, pushing it up a hill. and it was
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Pushing it up a hill. and it was so hard that we were just
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So hard that we were just stressed out and, and straining,
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Stressed out and, and straining, and if we would have stopped for
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And if we would have stopped for one second, we'd have lost our
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One second, we'd have lost our momentum. that thing would have
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Momentum. that thing would have rolled back and have just
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Rolled back and have just crushed us. and that was kind of
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Crushed us. and that was kind of a picture of the way the first
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A picture of the way the first 32 years of my ministry were.
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32 years of my ministry were. and then i saw us reaching the
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And then i saw us reaching the top of like a plateau, and we
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Top of like a plateau, and we were still pushing this boulder,
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Were still pushing this boulder, but it was on level ground now,
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But it was on level ground now, and it was relatively easy. and
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And it was relatively easy. and that's where i was during this
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That's where i was during this time. but, you know, when we
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Time. but, you know, when we started on television, for two
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Started on television, for two years, we were just comfortable
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Years, we were just comfortable and we were seeing people
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And we were seeing people touched, but we were moving at a
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Touched, but we were moving at a snail's pace, and i was just
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Snail's pace, and i was just taking it easy. and then the
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Taking it easy. and then the lord showed me that after this
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Lord showed me that after this experience on january the 31st,
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Experience on january the 31st, 2002, where he told me that i
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2002, where he told me that i was limiting him by my small
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Was limiting him by my small thinking, and i started thinking
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Thinking, and i started thinking bigger, i mean, the ministry
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Bigger, i mean, the ministry just took off and it was like
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Just took off and it was like we, we were on top of that
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We, we were on top of that plateau pushing that round
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Plateau pushing that round boulder. and then we started
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Boulder. and then we started down the other side and that
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Down the other side and that thing started rolling and
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Thing started rolling and gravity took it, and jamie and i
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Gravity took it, and jamie and i were running as fast as we could
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Were running as fast as we could to try and keep up with it. and
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To try and keep up with it. and that's kind of descriptive of
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That's kind of descriptive of where our ministry is now.
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Where our ministry is now. things are just growing and
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Things are just growing and expanding at such a rate that
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Expanding at such a rate that it's all i can do to keep up
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It's all i can do to keep up with it. and so my point is,
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With it. and so my point is, see, that sometimes we have been
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See, that sometimes we have been under that stress of trying to
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Under that stress of trying to do whatever it is that we feel
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Do whatever it is that we feel god has put in our heart, and it
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God has put in our heart, and it just seems like it's stressful,
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Just seems like it's stressful, and you reach a place to where
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And you reach a place to where things are going relatively
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Things are going relatively smooth. and if you aren't
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Smooth. and if you aren't careful, you'll just become
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Careful, you'll just become lazy, you'll become comfortable,
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Lazy, you'll become comfortable, and you forget about other
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And you forget about other people. you forget that god
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People. you forget that god wants to use you to be a
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Wants to use you to be a blessing to other people. i
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Blessing to other people. i don't care who you are. whether
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Don't care who you are. whether you ever speak in front of
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You ever speak in front of people, whether you ever get on
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People, whether you ever get on television, whether you ever do
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Television, whether you ever do anything that, you know, is
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Anything that, you know, is typically a christian ministry,
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Typically a christian ministry, god wants to use every one of
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God wants to use every one of you to reach out and touch
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You to reach out and touch people around you. and you've
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People around you. and you've got to be stretching in that
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Got to be stretching in that direction, and you have to
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Direction, and you have to overcome the fear of failure.
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Overcome the fear of failure. did you know some people,
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Did you know some people, they just find a place where
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They just find a place where everything is secure, and they
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Everything is secure, and they just want to build a wall there
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Just want to build a wall there and protect it and just live in
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And protect it and just live in this place. that's not the way
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This place. that's not the way that the christian life should
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That the christian life should be. you ought to constantly be
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Be. you ought to constantly be stretching yourself. you know,
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Stretching yourself. you know, i'm now 75 years old. there's a
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I'm now 75 years old. there's a lot of people that their goal
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Lot of people that their goal is to retire by the time that
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Is to retire by the time that they're 60 or 65, and they just
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They're 60 or 65, and they just look forward to just, you know,
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Look forward to just, you know, taking off and doing nothing,
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Taking off and doing nothing, just goofing off the rest of
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Just goofing off the rest of their life. i don't think that's
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Their life. i don't think that's good for you. i believe that
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Good for you. i believe that every person ought to have a
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Every person ought to have a goal, and your goal shouldn't be
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Goal, and your goal shouldn't be to just retire and do nothing.
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To just retire and do nothing. you know, my mother, i remember
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You know, my mother, i remember when she retired from the school
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When she retired from the school system, she was a supervisor
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System, she was a supervisor in the arlington, texas public
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School system, and she retired.
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And my mother was a beautiful
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Woman. i remember some people
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Whistling at her when she was in
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Her 60s, and they were driving
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Down the street. and, i mean, my
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Mother was just a beautiful
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Woman, but when she retired, she
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Woman, but when she retired, she aged 20 years in two years. i
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Aged 20 years in two years. i mean, she just had nothing. she
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Mean, she just had nothing. she was going to bridge parties,
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Was going to bridge parties, she was going to these garden
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She was going to these garden things. and there's nothing
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Things. and there's nothing wrong with those things, but
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Wrong with those things, but you've got to have a purpose.
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You've got to have a purpose. you've got to have a goal for
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You've got to have a goal for your life. and so anyway, after
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Your life. and so anyway, after two years of retirement, she had
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Aged a lot. she came to work for
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Me, and she loved that because
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She always really wanted to be
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In ministry, and she was living
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Vicariously through me. she was
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Opening our mail and doing
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Things like that, and my mother
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Revived. she lived until she was
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95, and it was when she came
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Back to work and had a purpose
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For life that things started
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Straightening up. and i mean,
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She lived in total health,
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Supernatural health until she
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Was about 94 or 95. and i just
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Saw through her, and i've seen
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Through other people, that
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Through other people, that when you retire and you have
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When you retire and you have no goals, nothing, you aren't
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No goals, nothing, you aren't stretching yourself for
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Stretching yourself for something, you just... that's
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Something, you just... that's not what god intended us to be.
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Not what god intended us to be. every one of us, god has
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Every one of us, god has something, and what i'm saying
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Something, and what i'm saying is, that in the same way the
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Is, that in the same way the lord showed me i was limiting
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Lord showed me i was limiting him by my small thinking, i
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Him by my small thinking, i think that every person watching
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Think that every person watching this, regardless of how much
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This, regardless of how much you're doing, there's always
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You're doing, there's always more. if you attorn... attain a
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More. if you attorn... attain a certain level, god is just going
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Certain level, god is just going to give you more to do. there is
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To give you more to do. there is no limits in god, and we need to
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No limits in god, and we need to start believing god. so i want
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Start believing god. so i want to encourage you with this. this
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To encourage you with this. this is something that god spoke to
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Is something that god spoke to me 22 years ago, and it has
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Me 22 years ago, and it has radically changed my life. and
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Radically changed my life. and i've shared this... i shared
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I've shared this... i shared this last week in a conference,
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This last week in a conference, and i mean, people were
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And i mean, people were challenged. we had thou... we
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Challenged. we had thou... we had a thousand people come
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Had a thousand people come forward saying that they had
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Forward saying that they had just been limiting god and not
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Just been limiting god and not believing god. i believe that
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Believing god. i believe that every one of us, nobody has
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Every one of us, nobody has tapped god out, and i just want
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Tapped god out, and i just want to encourage you that we need to
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To encourage you that we need to take the limits off god. if you
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Take the limits off god. if you don't know for sure what god's
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Don't know for sure what god's purpose for your life is, you
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Need to head in that direction,
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And i've got teaching. you could
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Go to our website, and i've got
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Teaching on how to find, follow
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And fulfill god's will. if
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You're just going through life
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Aimlessly, and if you're
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Shooting at nothing, you're
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Going to hit it every time. you
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Need to know what god's will is.
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But even people that know what
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God wants you to do, and you
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God wants you to do, and you have found the direction
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Have found the direction for your life, we need to be
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For your life, we need to be pursuing it with all we've got.
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Pursuing it with all we've got. like jesse duplantis was saying,
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Like jesse duplantis was saying, we need to give god a job. we
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We need to give god a job. we need to get god involved. you
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Need to get god involved. you need to go to believing for
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Need to go to believing for something that it's going to
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Something that it's going to take the supernatural power
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Take the supernatural power and ability of god for you to
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And ability of god for you to accomplish it. and if you
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Accomplish it. and if you haven't got things in mind, and
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Haven't got things in mind, and if you don't feel like god is
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If you don't feel like god is leading you to do things that
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Leading you to do things that you need god to put his super on
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You need god to put his super on your natural to get it done,
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Your natural to get it done, then i don't believe that you've
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Then i don't believe that you've really found god's will for your
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Really found god's will for your life. god is lea... going to
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Life. god is lea... going to lead every one of us and stretch
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Lead every one of us and stretch us and get us out of our comfort
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Us and get us out of our comfort zone and start believing that we
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Zone and start believing that we need to be responsive to god and
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Need to be responsive to god and let god flow through us so
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Let god flow through us so that god can do something
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That god can do something supernatural through us.
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>> you were created with a
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Purpose, written in the heart of
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God, long before you were born.
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He is calling you to find it. we
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Want to help you experience his
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Unconditional love, to be
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Equipped and empowered to
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Become a world changer.
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>> all right, so in the name of
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Jesus, here we go. 1, 2, 3.
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We have officially
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Broke ground. praise god.
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>> thanks to the support of our
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Days a week. we appreciate
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Your generosity and hope
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To hear from you today.
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>> it's your spirit that was
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Changed when you got born again.
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It was created in righteousness
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And true holiness. and then
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According to ephesians 1:13, you
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Were immediately sealed by the
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Holy spirit, vacuum packed. the
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Holy spirit has encased your
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Perfect, born again spirit. if
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You are committed to god and
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Following god, i'm telling you,
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You're a success if you're being
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Sold into slavery. you're a
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Success if you've been lied
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About put in prison. god is
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Pleased with you. god loves you.
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He's more pleased with you than
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What any of us know.
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>> he was like, i had no
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Reason anymore to be sick,
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To have pain, to be fearful.
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>> i thought that i was not
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Good enough, that god could
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Not forgive me everything that
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I've done in my life. but then i
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Came into the teaching of andrew
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Wommack and i saw it on youtube
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On one series about the
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True nature of god, and it
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Changed my life forever.
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>> and i just want to thank
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Andrew wommack for all
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What- yes, preaching and what a
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Blessing to the whole world.
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Music
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>> if there was a kidney
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Transplant, she couldn't because
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Her heart wasn't strong enough,
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A spoonful of food, she
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Would throw that up. and i
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Was just literally watching
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My wife just wither away.
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>> the doctors are trying to
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Help, but they're failing
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Miserable, and we just didn't
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Know what to do either, and i
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Just decided, i just said, lord,
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In jesus name, i'm going to eat.
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>> now, my wife hasn't had
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Anything really to eat in
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Eight, nine years, but she
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Started consistently eating.
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>> i went back to see
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The doctor three months
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Later, and he was astounded.
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Music
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>> hello, i'm andrew
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Wommack and you have
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Been watching my gospel truth
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Program that's been aired on tbn
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Since 2011, but i have good
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News, now we air seven days a
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Week. we have a saturday and
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Sunday broadcast. the times are
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On the screen, and i just
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Encourage you to join me for not
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Only our weekday program, but
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Also our weekend programs of the
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Gospel truth. i guarantee you,
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You will be blessed.
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Andrew Wommack - Don't Limit God

January 13, 2025 | S25:E9

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