Andrew Wommack - Don't Limit God

January 20, 2025 | S25:E14

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

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Andrew Wommack: Gospel Truth | Andrew Wommack - Don't Limit God | January 20, 2025

Count down
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Music
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>> welcome to gospel truth
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With andrew wommack.
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Celebrating 25 years of sharing
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God's unconditional love
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And 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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Broadcast of the gospel truth.
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I'm now into my third week
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Talking about don't limit god.
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You know, we are celebrating 25
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Years of daily television, and
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Man, it has been miraculous what
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God has done. but even though
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I've been on television for 25
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Years, there's only been 23
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Years that god spoke to me
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About how i was limiting
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Him by my small thinking
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From psalms 78:41, that
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From psalms 78:41, that says in their heart they
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Says in their heart they turned back and tempted
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Turned back and tempted god, and limited the holy one of
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God, and limited the holy one of israel. and god spoke to me
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About how i had limited him. and
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About how i had limited him. and so, in 2002, january 31st, i
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So, in 2002, january 31st, i started taking the limits off of
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Started taking the limits off of god, and our ministry has grown
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God, and our ministry has grown 60 times over what it was in
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60 times over what it was in some areas. other areas it's
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Some areas. other areas it's grown 100 times in the last 23
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Grown 100 times in the last 23 years. that is just phenomenal.
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Years. that is just phenomenal. and again, those numbers may not
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And again, those numbers may not mean anything to you, but it is
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Mean anything to you, but it is absolutely supernatural, and i
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Absolutely supernatural, and i believe that what god has done
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Believe that what god has done in my life, he wants to do in
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In my life, he wants to do in everybody's life. i believe he
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Everybody's life. i believe he has bigger plans for us than
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Has bigger plans for us than what any of us have ever
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What any of us have ever realized. it doesn't matter how
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Realized. it doesn't matter how successful you are, how much you
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Successful you are, how much you are seeing good things happen in
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Are seeing good things happen in your life, god is bigger. if
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Your life, god is bigger. if somehow or another you could
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Somehow or another you could believe so big that you just
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Believe so big that you just maxed god out, he'd get bigger.
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Maxed god out, he'd get bigger. amen? you'll never out-believe
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Amen? you'll never out-believe god. god is a god of faith. he's
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God. god is a god of faith. he's a god of increase. and so
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A god of increase. and so anyway, that's what we've been
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Talking about. i've got a lot of
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Things here on don't limit
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God. we'll give out all that
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Information at the end of the
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Program today. so, i've shared a
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Lot about why people do, do
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Lot about why people do, do limit god. because they're just
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Limit god. because they're just comfortable, they're taking it
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Comfortable, they're taking it easy, they're retiring. because
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Easy, they're retiring. because they're afraid of failure,
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They're afraid of failure, they're afraid of rejection or
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They're afraid of rejection or either afraid of success. those
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Either afraid of success. those are all things that i dealt
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Are all things that i dealt with. and then on last friday's
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With. and then on last friday's program, one of the first things
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Program, one of the first things that the lord spoke to me that i
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That the lord spoke to me that i had to do, i didn't know how to
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Had to do, i didn't know how to change and take the limits off
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Change and take the limits off god. i didn't know how to do it.
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God. i didn't know how to do it. but one of the first things that
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But one of the first things that he showed me was i was going
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He showed me was i was going to have to start speaking
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To have to start speaking forth my faith. and i
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Forth my faith. and i used a lot of scriptures.
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Romans, chapter 10, where
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Romans, chapter 10, where it says, the righteousness
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It says, the righteousness which is of god speaks on this
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Which is of god speaks on this wise. i used a scripture out of
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Wise. i used a scripture out of john, chapter 5, verse 44, where
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John, chapter 5, verse 44, where jesus said, how can you believe
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Jesus said, how can you believe if you are seeking honor that
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If you are seeking honor that comes from people, and not the
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Comes from people, and not the honor that comes from god alone?
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Honor that comes from god alone? if you're afraid of people's
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Rejection over you speaking your
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Rejection over you speaking your vision, then you don't fully
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Vision, then you don't fully believe it. you know, if a
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Believe it. you know, if a person says well, i believe that
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Person says well, i believe that god can heal, but then they say
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God can heal, but then they say well, are you healed? and you're
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Well, are you healed? and you're afraid to speak forth that yes,
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Afraid to speak forth that yes, i'm healed in the name of jesus,
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I'm healed in the name of jesus, well then you don't believe it
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Well then you don't believe it with all of your heart. when you
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With all of your heart. when you truly believe something with all
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Truly believe something with all of your heart, you've got to
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Of your heart, you've got to speak it. so one of the first
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Speak it. so one of the first things god had me start doing
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Things god had me start doing was speaking my faith. i started
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Was speaking my faith. i started speaking it to everybody. i got
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Speaking it to everybody. i got on television and started
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On television and started telling them that i was going to
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Telling them that i was going to cover the world with the
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Cover the world with the gospel. and this is back when i
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Gospel. and this is back when i only had just a very small
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Only had just a very small footprint of our television
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Signal, 3% of the u.s.
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Population. and now we
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Cover the whole world with
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Multiple programs per day and
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Stuff. but i had to start
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Speaking that when it didn't
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Speaking that when it didn't look like there was any proof of
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Look like there was any proof of it. you know, right now, i...
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It. you know, right now, i... it's not something you do just
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It's not something you do just one time and that you, you get
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One time and that you, you get this nailed and you never
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This nailed and you never have to deal with it. god is
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Have to deal with it. god is speaking to me right now
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Speaking to me right now about increasing our campus
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That we have here in woodland
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Park, colorado. we've got
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Many students. we've had as
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Many students. we've had as many as 4 to 500 students who
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Many as 4 to 500 students who registered to come and didn't
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Registered to come and didn't show up. and when we contact
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Show up. and when we contact them and ask why, they said they
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Them and ask why, they said they couldn't find housing. woodland
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Park, colorado is a small
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Community of 7,500 people. and
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We have now over 1,100
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Students and the community is
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Just having trouble absorbing
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Just having trouble absorbing them and providing housing. so
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Them and providing housing. so people have to go, you know, 15,
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People have to go, you know, 15, 20 miles away in colorado
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20 miles away in colorado springs to find housing and
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Springs to find housing and drive up a pass, and so, anyway,
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Drive up a pass, and so, anyway, it's just prohibited for some
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It's just prohibited for some people. and i could go into a
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People. and i could go into a lot of detail, but the lord has
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Lot of detail, but the lord has told me to start building
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Student housing. and then as we
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Have students live on the
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Property here, the lord has
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Blessed us with 527 acres, so
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We've got plenty of room to
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Expand. but as students start
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Living on the property, now
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Living on the property, now we've got to provide them with a
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We've got to provide them with a place to congregate, to get
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Their meals. we need more
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Classroom space. we need more
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Office space. and then we need
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An athletic center to be able
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To, you know, compete with other
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Places where people could go,
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Places where people could go, and so we're going to be
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Building an athletic center.
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We're going to bill, build a
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Hotel and conference center, a
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Performing arts center and just
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On and on. we'll eventually have
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Enough student housing to house
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1,100 people. and in order to do
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This, it's huge. and did you
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This, it's huge. and did you know right now, i don't have the
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Know right now, i don't have the money. i don't have the ability
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Money. i don't have the ability to do it, but i'm speaking forth
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To do it, but i'm speaking forth my faith that those things are
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My faith that those things are coming to pass. we have a
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Coming to pass. we have a billion-dollar building program
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Billion-dollar building program going on and it is going to get
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Going on and it is going to get done. and i know that there is
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Done. and i know that there is people that will reject that.
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People that will reject that. there is people that'll
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There is people that'll criticize me, but you know what,
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Criticize me, but you know what, i just tell them hide and watch.
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I just tell them hide and watch. if you say, well, i don't
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If you say, well, i don't believe that, well, then it's
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Believe that, well, then it's not going to be your faith when
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Not going to be your faith when it comes to pass. but i believe
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It comes to pass. but i believe that we're going to get that
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That we're going to get that done. we've already got artist
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Done. we've already got artist renderings. we don't have the
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Renderings. we don't have the plans completed yet but see, i'm
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Plans completed yet but see, i'm speaking forth my faith. if you
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Speaking forth my faith. if you are really believing something
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Are really believing something and if you're afraid to speak
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And if you're afraid to speak it, well then you don't
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It, well then you don't believe it with all of your
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Believe it with all of your heart. when you truly
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Heart. when you truly believe you will speak.
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Romans, chapter 10, says, for
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Romans, chapter 10, says, for with the heart man believes,
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With the heart man believes, and with the mouth confession is
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And with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. so you've
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Got to speak forth what god has
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Got to speak forth what god has placed in your heart. there are
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Placed in your heart. there are people watching this program
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People watching this program right now that you've got
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Right now that you've got dreams, and i hate to start
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Dreams, and i hate to start being specific because that will
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Being specific because that will limit it to what i'm saying. but
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Limit it to what i'm saying. but i believe that god is speaking
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I believe that god is speaking things to you. you know some of
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Things to you. you know some of you may have dreams of starting
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You may have dreams of starting your own business. some of you
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Your own business. some of you have dreams of, of having some
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Have dreams of, of having some type of a ministry to children
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Type of a ministry to children or something. or you have a, a
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Or something. or you have a, a vision of doing things and it
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Vision of doing things and it could just, it's limitless with
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Could just, it's limitless with all of the different people that
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All of the different people that are watching this. but there are
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Are watching this. but there are some of you that have had
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Some of you that have had dreams, and you've let life just
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Dreams, and you've let life just beat those dreams out of you and
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Beat those dreams out of you and you don't speak your vision. you
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You don't speak your vision. you know this is actually where i
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Know this is actually where i was back in 2002 when the lord
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Was back in 2002 when the lord first told me i was limiting him
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First told me i was limiting him by my unbelief. for decades, i
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By my unbelief. for decades, i mean for 20 or 30 years prior to
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Mean for 20 or 30 years prior to 2002, i had known that god
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2002, i had known that god wanted me to reach out all over
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Wanted me to reach out all over the world and to be impacting
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The world and to be impacting people and doing things. and i
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People and doing things. and i had spoken it, but when i would
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Had spoken it, but when i would speak it there was no evidence.
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Speak it there was no evidence. there was nothing in my life
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There was nothing in my life that remotely looked like that
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That remotely looked like that could ever happen. and because
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Could ever happen. and because of it, i would get criticism.
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Of it, i would get criticism. and sometimes it wasn't
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And sometimes it wasn't malicious, but it was just like
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Malicious, but it was just like you could tell people's
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You could tell people's reaction, like, man, you, this
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Reaction, like, man, you, this is impossible. and sometimes the
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Is impossible. and sometimes the people who love you the most,
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People who love you the most, and they tried to be nice, and
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And they tried to be nice, and they'd say well, you know,
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They'd say well, you know, that's a great dream but. that
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That's a great dream but. that would just pour water on my
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Would just pour water on my dream. and because of it, i had
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Dream. and because of it, i had gotten to where i had quit
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Gotten to where i had quit speaking my dream. and some of
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Speaking my dream. and some of you might remember a, a week ago
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You might remember a, a week ago i was talking about one of the
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I was talking about one of the ways i realized that i was
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Ways i realized that i was limiting god, we were in a
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Building that was 14,600 square
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Feet. and when we first moved in
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That building it felt like a bb
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That building it felt like a bb in a barrel. it's like, man,
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In a barrel. it's like, man, we'll never outgrow this. but
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When we started our bible
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College, within a short period
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Of time we had maxed that place
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Out. we actually had to put
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Porta potties outside and have
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The men go outside in the winter
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The men go outside in the winter to use the porta potties, and we
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To use the porta potties, and we converted all of the inter...
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Converted all of the inter... internal toilets into women's,
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Internal toilets into women's, just preferring them. and we
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Just preferring them. and we were maxed out. we could not
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Were maxed out. we could not grow. we had to get a new place.
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Grow. we had to get a new place. and when i came back from one of
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And when i came back from one of my meetings, jamie met me at the
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My meetings, jamie met me at the airport, and she wanted to take
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Airport, and she wanted to take me by one of the places a
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Me by one of the places a realtor had shown her. and it
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Realtor had shown her. and it was 30,000 square feet. now
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Remember, we were in a 14,000
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Square foot building. this was
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Over twice as big and jamie
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Said, this ought to last us the
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Rest of our life. and when she
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Said that, man, that just
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Said that, man, that just grieved me because i knew that
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Grieved me because i knew that god wanted us to have a large
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God wanted us to have a large ministry that was reaching all
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Ministry that was reaching all over the world, and you couldn't
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Over the world, and you couldn't do that with a 30,000 square
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Do that with a 30,000 square foot office space. i knew it had
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Foot office space. i knew it had to be bigger than that. and it
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To be bigger than that. and it really bothered me that i hadn't
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Really bothered me that i hadn't even spoken this to my wife. and
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Even spoken this to my wife. and jamie and i share everything. we
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Jamie and i share everything. we don't hide anything. we don't
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Don't hide anything. we don't have secrets. and yet i had
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Have secrets. and yet i had gotten to where i had, you know,
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Gotten to where i had, you know, it's like when you bend over and
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It's like when you bend over and pet a dog, if every time you pet
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Pet a dog, if every time you pet the dog it bites you, after a
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The dog it bites you, after a while you get to where you don't
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While you get to where you don't want to pet that dog. and every
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Want to pet that dog. and every time i had spoken forth my
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Time i had spoken forth my vision about god... what god
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Vision about god... what god wanted to do in my life, people
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Wanted to do in my life, people would reject it. sometimes
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Would reject it. sometimes maliciously. other times they
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Maliciously. other times they were trying to be nice, but you
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Were trying to be nice, but you could tell they didn't believe
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Could tell they didn't believe it. and it got to where it was
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It. and it got to where it was just a negative experience, so i
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Just a negative experience, so i had quit speaking my vision. and
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Had quit speaking my vision. and one of the first things that god
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One of the first things that god told me when i realized i had
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Told me when i realized i had limited him and i said, god, how
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Limited him and i said, god, how do i change? how do i take the
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Do i change? how do i take the limits off? he says, you got to
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Limits off? he says, you got to start speaking your vision. you
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Start speaking your vision. you got to speak it. you got to get
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Got to speak it. you got to get past being afraid of what other
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Past being afraid of what other people are going to think
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People are going to think and what they feel like.
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Again, that verse i've used
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Again, that verse i've used yesterday, john, chapter
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Yesterday, john, chapter 5, verse 44, how can you
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5, verse 44, how can you believe which receive honor one
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Believe which receive honor one of another, and seek not the
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Of another, and seek not the honor that comes from god alone?
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Honor that comes from god alone? that was jesus speaking, the
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That was jesus speaking, the author and the finisher of our
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Author and the finisher of our faith. and he says if you are
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Worried about what other people
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Worried about what other people are going to say and you have to
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Are going to say and you have to have their honor, their
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Have their honor, their validation, then you don't have
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Validation, then you don't have god's kind of faith. if you are
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God's kind of faith. if you are going to operate in faith,
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Going to operate in faith, you're going to have to get to
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You're going to have to get to where you start speaking it. and
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Where you start speaking it. and you don't back down. boy, that
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You don't back down. boy, that is a big statement. and i know
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Is a big statement. and i know that god is speaking to some
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That god is speaking to some people right now that you've got
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People right now that you've got more vision in your heart than
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More vision in your heart than what you're speaking. you're
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What you're speaking. you're afraid to speak it because
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Afraid to speak it because people will look at you and
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People will look at you and think, how could you do
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Think, how could you do something like that? you're a
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Something like that? you're a nobody. you know going back to
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Nobody. you know going back to that teaching i did last week
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That teaching i did last week in, in numbers, chapter 13,
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In, in numbers, chapter 13, those ten spies said, we are
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Those ten spies said, we are grasshoppers in our sight
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Grasshoppers in our sight compared to them. there is
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Compared to them. there is people that if you start
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People that if you start speaking your faith, they're
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Speaking your faith, they're going to come out and say,
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Going to come out and say, you're a grasshopper. what makes
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You're a grasshopper. what makes you think you can go in and
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You think you can go in and conquer these giants? you're
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Conquer these giants? you're just like a little grasshopper
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Just like a little grasshopper compared to these giants. there
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Compared to these giants. there is people that will project
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Is people that will project their unbelief, their
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Their unbelief, their negativism, their rejection upon
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Negativism, their rejection upon you. and unless you are willing
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You. and unless you are willing to stand and speak and not care
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To stand and speak and not care what people think, you aren't
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What people think, you aren't going to be able to see god's
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Going to be able to see god's vision come to pass in your
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Vision come to pass in your life. boy, that's big what i'm
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Life. boy, that's big what i'm saying. i believe that god is
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Saying. i believe that god is speaking to some people right
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Speaking to some people right now. there's lots of people he's
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Now. there's lots of people he's speaking to all around the
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Speaking to all around the world. i believe specifically
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World. i believe specifically there are some ministers that
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There are some ministers that you have reached a level to
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You have reached a level to where you've got a building,
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Where you've got a building, you've got a church, things are
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You've got a church, things are going well. there's people that
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Going well. there's people that are being blessed, but your
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Are being blessed, but your community needs more. your
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Community needs more. your comm... community needs more and
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Comm... community needs more and you're just playing it too safe,
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You're just playing it too safe, and many of you know exactly
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And many of you know exactly what god is wanting you to do.
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What god is wanting you to do. you've got dreams of doing some
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You've got dreams of doing some things that would just totally
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Things that would just totally transform the area that you're
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Transform the area that you're in. and yet you're letting lack
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In. and yet you're letting lack of finances, rejection from
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Of finances, rejection from people, worrying about what the
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People, worrying about what the people in the community are
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People in the community are going to think or whatever, or
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Going to think or whatever, or you're looking at yourself and
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You're looking at yourself and thinking, but who am i to do
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Thinking, but who am i to do some of these things? god is
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Some of these things? god is speaking directly to you today.
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Speaking directly to you today. he had me pause what i'm saying
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He had me pause what i'm saying here to talk directly to some
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Here to talk directly to some ministers who you know there is
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Ministers who you know there is more. you've got dreams. you've
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More. you've got dreams. you've got goals. you've got a vision
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Got goals. you've got a vision of doing more, and yet you have
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Of doing more, and yet you have not been speaking your vision.
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Not been speaking your vision. you're afraid of what people
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You're afraid of what people will say. i'm just saying
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Will say. i'm just saying through the power of the lord
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Through the power of the lord that yes, there are people that
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That yes, there are people that will ridicule you, but you need
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Will ridicule you, but you need to get beyond that. and there
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To get beyond that. and there are people that will embrace
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Are people that will embrace that vision. if you would start
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That vision. if you would start speaking this vision, god is
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Speaking this vision, god is going to start bringing people
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Going to start bringing people to you. sometimes from outside
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To you. sometimes from outside of your local church that you
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Of your local church that you have right now, but god is going
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Have right now, but god is going to draw other people to you that
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To draw other people to you that will catch that vision. but they
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Will catch that vision. but they aren't going to catch the vision
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Aren't going to catch the vision unless you write it and make it
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Unless you write it and make it plain, unless you start speaking
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Plain, unless you start speaking that vision. you got to speak
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That vision. you got to speak forth what god has put in your
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Forth what god has put in your heart. and if you don't, you
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Heart. and if you don't, you aren't going to get it this is
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Aren't going to get it this is one of the ways you start taking
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One of the ways you start taking the limits off of god. you got
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The limits off of god. you got to overcome the fear of what
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To overcome the fear of what people may think or say, and
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People may think or say, and you've got to start speaking
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You've got to start speaking your vision. man, that's
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Your vision. man, that's powerful. i know that god is
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Powerful. i know that god is speaking to people right now all
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Speaking to people right now all over the world. i hate to go on.
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Over the world. i hate to go on. i've got other things i want to
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I've got other things i want to share, but this is so important.
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Share, but this is so important. if, if you are bearing witness,
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If, if you are bearing witness, if you feel like god is speaking
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If you feel like god is speaking to you through this program
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To you through this program today, you need to make some
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Today, you need to make some decisions and you need to go out
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Decisions and you need to go out and start speaking your vision.
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And start speaking your vision. you might pray and ask god,
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You might pray and ask god, alright, where do i start? and
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Alright, where do i start? and he'll show you somebody. he'll
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He'll show you somebody. he'll show you some way to start
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Show you some way to start speaking, but you've got to
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Speaking, but you've got to start putting your vision out
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Start putting your vision out there. people can't embrace your
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There. people can't embrace your vision, they can't support it,
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Vision, they can't support it, they can't help you accomplish
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They can't help you accomplish it if you don't speak it. you've
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It if you don't speak it. you've got to speak it. and, you know,
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Got to speak it. and, you know, we're, like i said earlier, we
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We're, like i said earlier, we are believing god for a massive
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Are believing god for a massive growth here on our campus. and i
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Growth here on our campus. and i don't know exactly what it's
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Don't know exactly what it's going to cost. my ceo says he
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Going to cost. my ceo says he thinks it's going to be a
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Thinks it's going to be a billion dollars and we're going
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Billion dollars and we're going to do it all debt-free. and i
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To do it all debt-free. and i had one person who's been a big
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Had one person who's been a big giver to this ministry. i mean,
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Giver to this ministry. i mean, gave a large gift to this
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Gave a large gift to this ministry. he told me, he says,
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Ministry. he told me, he says, you're making too big of a
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You're making too big of a statement, and it overwhelms
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Statement, and it overwhelms people and people just can't
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People and people just can't embrace it. you need to break it
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Embrace it. you need to break it into small pieces. you know, i
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Into small pieces. you know, i do believe that there is wisdom
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Do believe that there is wisdom in not trying to eat an elephant
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In not trying to eat an elephant all at one bite. you have to cut
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All at one bite. you have to cut it into bite-size pieces, so
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It into bite-size pieces, so i've got steps and stages.
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I've got steps and stages. we are now, you know,
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We've built our first student
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Dorm, and we have it
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Occupied. we have a second
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Student dorm about 70%
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Complete. and we've got six
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Student dorms that have had the
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Foundation work and all the
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Plumbing and things like that
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Put in. and so i'm doing it in
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Stages, but at the same time if
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I don't speak my total vision,
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I don't speak my total vision, well then people aren't going to
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Well then people aren't going to catch that vision. so anyway,
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Catch that vision. so anyway, this man was telling me you need
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This man was telling me you need to quit talking about how big
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To quit talking about how big your vision is. it's
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Your vision is. it's overwhelming people. and i can
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Overwhelming people. and i can understand what he's saying. i'm
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Understand what he's saying. i'm not a hundred percent rejecting
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Not a hundred percent rejecting that, but at the same time i'm
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That, but at the same time i'm just a firm believer that i have
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Just a firm believer that i have to speak forth my vision, and so
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To speak forth my vision, and so i'm doing that. you need to do
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I'm doing that. you need to do that. you don't need to worry
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That. you don't need to worry about what, you know,
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About what, you know, small-thinking people are going
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Small-thinking people are going to say about you because you've
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To say about you because you've got some big vision. don't let
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Got some big vision. don't let their unbelief limit you. if you
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Their unbelief limit you. if you want to win a popularity
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Want to win a popularity contest, you're never going to
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Contest, you're never going to accomplish what god wants you to
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Accomplish what god wants you to do. you got to start being bold
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Do. you got to start being bold and you got to speaking out...
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And you got to speaking out... speak it out. and so anyway,
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Speak it out. and so anyway, that's all i'm going to say
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That's all i'm going to say about that. i could talk more
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About that. i could talk more about that, but i want to move
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About that, but i want to move on and talk about the next thing
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On and talk about the next thing that the lord showed me. i not
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That the lord showed me. i not only started speaking my vision,
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Only started speaking my vision, but you know what i, i had to
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But you know what i, i had to start using my imagination to
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Start using my imagination to see what god was speaking to me
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See what god was speaking to me coming to pass. and let me just
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Coming to pass. and let me just say some things here that most
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Say some things here that most people believe that an
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People believe that an imagination is childish, that
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Imagination is childish, that this is for kids. and they look
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This is for kids. and they look at imagination as fantasy, like
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At imagination as fantasy, like being a mouse that talks or an
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Being a mouse that talks or an elephant that flies or, you
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Elephant that flies or, you know, a dog that speaks and does
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Know, a dog that speaks and does all these kind of things, all
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All these kind of things, all the disney type stuff. that's
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The disney type stuff. that's imagination but that's fantasy,
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Imagination but that's fantasy, and that's not based in reality.
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And that's not based in reality. there is an imagination that is
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There is an imagination that is not only good for an adult, it's
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Not only good for an adult, it's necessary, you can't function
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Necessary, you can't function without an imagination. your
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Without an imagination. your imagination, according to the
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Imagination, according to the dictionary, is just the ability
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Dictionary, is just the ability to picture something in your
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To picture something in your heart that you can't see with
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Heart that you can't see with your eyes. it's not in front of
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Your eyes. it's not in front of you or it's not real, that would
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You or it's not real, that would be the fantasy part of it. but
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Be the fantasy part of it. but it's your ability to see
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It's your ability to see something with your heart
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Something with your heart instead of just seeing it with
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Instead of just seeing it with your eyes. and it's amazing but
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Your eyes. and it's amazing but you know kids, they just have an
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You know kids, they just have an imagination. they can believe
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Imagination. they can believe for big things. but as they grow
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For big things. but as they grow up, it's just, we're
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Up, it's just, we're systematically taught to start
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Systematically taught to start thinking less, to start
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Thinking less, to start believing less, to start being
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Believing less, to start being realistic. quit, you know, get
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Realistic. quit, you know, get rid of all of these dreams that
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Rid of all of these dreams that you've had and just start
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You've had and just start dealing in reality. and the
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Dealing in reality. and the average person, even the average
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Average person, even the average christian by the time you're an
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Christian by the time you're an adult, you have basically pretty
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Adult, you have basically pretty much done away with your
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Much done away with your creative imagination. and that's
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Creative imagination. and that's a sad thing. let me turn over to
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A sad thing. let me turn over to genesis, chapter 11, and this is
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Genesis, chapter 11, and this is where the children of... the
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Where the children of... the descendants of adam and eve were
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Descendants of adam and eve were building the tower of babel. it
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Says in verse 6, the lord said,
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Says in verse 6, the lord said, behold, the people is one, and
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Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and
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They have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now
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This they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from
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Nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined
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Them, which they have imagined to do. that is one radical
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To do. that is one radical statement. the lord said that
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Statement. the lord said that nothing will be restrained which
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Nothing will be restrained which they have imagined to do. and
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They have imagined to do. and because of that, this is where
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The lord confounded the language
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The lord confounded the language of the people, and so they
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Of the people, and so they weren't able to communicate. i
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Weren't able to communicate. i believe that he, he probably
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Believe that he, he probably left them in family groups.
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Left them in family groups. probably all one family could
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Probably all one family could still speak and communicate with
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Still speak and communicate with each other, but he divided their
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Each other, but he divided their languages. and because of that,
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Languages. and because of that, they had to leave off the
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They had to leave off the building of the tower of babel,
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Building of the tower of babel, and they were dispersed over the
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And they were dispersed over the face of the earth. but look at
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Face of the earth. but look at this. the imagination of men was
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This. the imagination of men was so powerful that god's purposes
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So powerful that god's purposes and plan for mankind was
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And plan for mankind was challenged by it, and so he had
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Challenged by it, and so he had to do something to limit their
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To do something to limit their unity. because if they were
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Unity. because if they were unified, anything they imagined
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Unified, anything they imagined could come to pass. boy, that is
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Could come to pass. boy, that is powerful. and i don't think that
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Powerful. and i don't think that most people have sat down and
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Most people have sat down and really thought about this. most
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Really thought about this. most people are just occupied with
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People are just occupied with doing what is right in front of
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Doing what is right in front of them, what they have to do that
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Them, what they have to do that day to get through the day. they
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Day to get through the day. they don't spend much time thinking
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Don't spend much time thinking about the future and imagining
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About the future and imagining where god wants them to go and
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Where god wants them to go and what god wants to do in their
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What god wants to do in their life. again, most people would
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Life. again, most people would look at that as daydreaming. but
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Look at that as daydreaming. but did you know that you use your
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Did you know that you use your imagination constantly? you
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Imagination constantly? you can't function without an
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Can't function without an imagination. it says in 1
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Imagination. it says in 1 chronicles, chapter 29,
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Chronicles, chapter 29, verse 18, i believe it is,
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Verse 18, i believe it is, david prayed a prayer
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And said, o lord, keep this for
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And said, o lord, keep this for ever in the imagination of
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Ever in the imagination of the thoughts of their
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The thoughts of their heart continually. if you'd
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Heart continually. if you'd look it up, it's, it's talking
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About that you can't remember
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About that you can't remember without imagining. you
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Without imagining. you know, if right now i was to say,
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Know, if right now i was to say, what kind of house did you grow
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What kind of house did you grow up in? there may be some people
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Up in? there may be some people watching this that you moved so
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Watching this that you moved so often that maybe you didn't have
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Often that maybe you didn't have just one place you grew up in,
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Just one place you grew up in, and so it, it would be a little
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And so it, it would be a little hard for you to focus on this.
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Hard for you to focus on this. but i grew up in the same house
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But i grew up in the same house from the time i was 2 until i
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From the time i was 2 until i got married at 23 and left home.
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Got married at 23 and left home. and did you know what? right
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And did you know what? right now, i could tell... i could
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Now, i could tell... i could describe that house to you. i
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Describe that house to you. i could tell you exactly how many
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Could tell you exactly how many exterior doors there are. i
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Exterior doors there are. i could go and tell you how many
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Could go and tell you how many windows we have, and yet i've
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Windows we have, and yet i've never counted the windows in
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Never counted the windows in that house. but you know what, i
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That house. but you know what, i can see it. this is how you
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Can see it. this is how you remember. i remember the house
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Remember. i remember the house that i grew up in, and i can
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That i grew up in, and i can tell you what it looked like. i
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Tell you what it looked like. i could draw a floor plan. and i
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Could draw a floor plan. and i might miss it as far as, you
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Might miss it as far as, you know, exactly the number of feet
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Know, exactly the number of feet and inches, but i could tell
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And inches, but i could tell you, i could tell you exactly
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You, i could tell you exactly what it was like. if you asked
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What it was like. if you asked how many windows, it... i could
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How many windows, it... i could sit there and count them. not
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Sit there and count them. not because i can see it. i don't
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Because i can see it. i don't have that house in front of me
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Have that house in front of me right now, but i've got my
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Right now, but i've got my memory. that's imagination. did
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Memory. that's imagination. did you know you can't find your car
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You know you can't find your car when you go into a mall without
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When you go into a mall without your imagination. you may not
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Your imagination. you may not remember the exact spot, but you
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Remember the exact spot, but you remember that it was outside on
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Remember that it was outside on this side of the mall. you know,
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This side of the mall. you know, there's de... different
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There's de... different entrances to a mall. you'll
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Entrances to a mall. you'll remember which entrance it was
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Remember which entrance it was like. you will maybe not
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Like. you will maybe not remember the exact spot, but
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Remember the exact spot, but you'll know that when you walk
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You'll know that when you walk out, it's either on the front
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Out, it's either on the front row or it's the back row, or
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Row or it's the back row, or it's to the left or it's to the
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It's to the left or it's to the right. you have a picture. this
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Right. you have a picture. this is how you think. did you know
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Is how you think. did you know when you go home, you couldn't
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When you go home, you couldn't go home if you didn't have a
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Go home if you didn't have a picture of how to get home. the
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Picture of how to get home. the first time you go home, you
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First time you go home, you probably had to use a gps system
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Probably had to use a gps system or something like that to find
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Or something like that to find it. but after you've done it
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It. but after you've done it numerous times, you can see it.
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Numerous times, you can see it. you can see yourself going in
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You can see yourself going in what direction. and, and if i
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What direction. and, and if i was to ask you, how do you get
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Was to ask you, how do you get to the airport? you could say,
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To the airport? you could say, well, you go down here and it's
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Well, you go down here and it's the second... no, it's the third
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The second... no, it's the third light. it's not because you're
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Light. it's not because you're seeing it with your eyes. you're
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Seeing it with your eyes. you're seeing it with your heart and
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Seeing it with your heart and you're literally able to see.
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You're literally able to see. that's your imagination. you
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That's your imagination. you can't function without it, and
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Can't function without it, and you can't take the limits off of
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You can't take the limits off of god without beginning to
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God without beginning to start imagining what
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Start imagining what he's told you to do.
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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's calling you to find it.
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We want to help you
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Experience his unconditional
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Love to be equipped
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And empowered to
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Become a world changer.
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Have been giving is what we call
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Legacy giving. this is an end of
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Your giving even after you've
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Gone to be with the lord, you
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Can still be a blessing to all
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Of the people that we're
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Ministering to. so check out the
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Information on the screen
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And become a part of our
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Legacy giving today.
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>> andrew is offering his
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Booklets, take the limits off
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God and believing is seeing in
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Either english or spanish as his
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Free gifts to you today. this
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Offer is limited to one set of
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Booklets per household and is
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Available in the us, uk, canada,
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And australia. contact us today
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To receive your free booklets.
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Andrew's complete series don't
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Limit god is available as a
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Book, study guide, cd album, and
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As a tv dvd album made from our
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Daily television broadcast. you
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Can also receive a free
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When you contact us.
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Also available today is the
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Cd and dvd album. each of these
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Valuable resources are available
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For a gift of any amount when
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You contact us. you can
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Order resources or
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Receive prayer by calling
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Our helpline at 719-635-1111.
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Our helpline is open 24
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Hours a day, 7 days a week.
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>> when i was very young,
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I had major problems
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With condemnation.
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>> i lost my father when i was
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Very young. i tried to pray for
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Him to be healed and he didn't,
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And instead of doing what
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Andrew did, i did exactly
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The opposite and became
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Very angry with god and
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Walked away from god.
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>> i said to god, god,
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Andrew believes that i can
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Be healed, but i need to
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Believe that. i need to
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Believe like he believes.
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>> part of my story is that i
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Terminated three children
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Before, before my healing.
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>> learning the truth about
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God's grace, learning the truth
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About god's love set me free
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From the condemnation.
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>> and it eventually led to the
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Fact that i got bold enough
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That i believe that i would be
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Able to pray for people.
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>> looking back, i see that
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God was renewing my mind
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And increasing my faith.
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>> and andrew taught me
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About god's love through his
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Teachings and through that
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I can't thank him
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Enough for changing my
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Life, for saving my life.
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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 20, 2025 | S25:E14

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