Conceiving The Good Things of God

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This is not an 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:29.759 offer to buy your self securities, nor is it investment, 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:30.760 legal or tax advice. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.959 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.759 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.240 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.800 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.840 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:56.400 your life, and God bless you. 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.000 It is always a joy to come into your homes. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.720 We love you, We know God has good things in 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.640 store for you. He rewards people that seek after Him, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.640 and we just trust today you'll be blessed and inspired, 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:08.799 and just. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:09.640 Thank you for tuning in. 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.440 If you're ever out in our area, comebin and see us. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.359 We'd love to have you. We'll make it feel right 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.840 at home. But again, thanks for watching today. And I 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.080 like to get started with something funny each week, so 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.080 listen to this one. A pastor decided to skip church 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.240 one Sunday and go play golf. He told his assistant 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.760 he wasn't feeling well and drove to a golf course 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.519 in the next city where no one would know him. 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.120 He teed off on the first hole and suddenly the 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.040 wind picked up the ball, carried it an extra hundred yards, 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.239 and blew it right into the hole for a four 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.480 hundred and twenty yard hold in one. An angel said 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.120 to God, what'd you do that for? God smiled and said, 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:47.160 who's he gonna tell? All right, hold up your bibles 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.400 say it like you many ready, This is my Bible. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.400 I am what it says I am. I have what 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.959 it says I have. I can do what it says 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:56.480 I can do. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.800 Today I will be talked the word of godly confess. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.200 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.240 I will never be the same In Jesus' name, God 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.480 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.720 conceiving the good things God has in store. You cannot 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.800 give birth to something if you don't first conceive it. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.799 And I believe that God is always trying to plant 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.880 new seeds in our heart, seeds of hope, seeds of increase, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:26.880 seeds of change. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:28.120 But if the. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.080 Condition of our heart is not right, even though the 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.320 seed is there, we still will not conceive it. And 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.000 by conceive I mean you've got to make room for 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:38.040 it in your thinking. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:39.760 You've got to believe you. 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.640 Can rise higher, Believe you can accomplish your dreams, Believe 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.120 the marriage can be restored, Believe you can live a 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:50.240 healthy life. The seed has to take root. Conception is 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.800 the very first step. It will not come to pass 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:55.800 on the outside until you conceive it on the inside. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.320 And every one of us should be pregnant with our dreams. 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.000 We should be pregnant with the good things of God. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.360 The too many people today are going around stuck in 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.040 a rut. They think they've reached their limits in life. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.840 They don't believe for anything good, they don't expect things 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.680 to change, and then they wonder why nothing gets better. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.000 It's because their thinking is limited. You cannot give birth 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.400 to a baby if you don't first conceive it. You've 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.839 got to make room for it in your own mind. 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.040 You need to look out through your eyes of faith 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.159 and see that coming to pass. And Jesus said here 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.080 in Matthew nine, verse seventeen, you cannot put new wine 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.520 in old wine skins. And back in those days, the 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.359 wine skins were made out of leather, and when the 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.840 leather would get old, it would become hard and stiff, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.520 and it couldn't expand anymore. And so if you put 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.880 the new wine in there, it would burst, and of 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.920 course you'd lose that wine. And one thing Jesus was 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.080 saying through this passage is you. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.560 Cannot have a new life with old thinking. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.080 And many times, just like an old wine skin, we 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.400 get stuck in a our ways. We get set in 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.640 our attitudes, we get set in our thinking. And here 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.960 God is trying to pour out the new wine. He's 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.680 trying to give us a new beginning, to increase us, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.880 to promote us. But the real question is are we 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:14.880 willing to get rid of our old wine skins? 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.279 Are we willing to enlarge our vision? 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.320 You cannot go through life thinking that you've reached your 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.400 limits in a negative frame of mind and expect to 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.760 have God's blessings. Well, Joe, my marriage, You'll never get better, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.840 I'll never get out of debt, I'll never go any further. Now, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.200 God has so much more in store for every one 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.440 of you. He wants to take you to new levels. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:37.960 But you have to do your part and let the 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.200 seed take root. The first step to change in your 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.880 life is you've got to change your thinking. You got 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.200 to quit looking at what you can't do and start 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.000 looking at what you can do. You and God are 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.880 a majority. If God be for you, who dare even 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.560 be against you? If you're ever going to rise up 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.320 and be all God's created you to be, you've got 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.840 to get rid of limited thinking, and you've got to 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.880 start having possibility thinking. You've got to enlarge your vision. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.279 You've got to believe that you can be all God's 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.000 created you to be. Act like it's true, Talk like 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.000 it's true. Let that seed take root. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:11.479 Now. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.280 I can tell you we wouldn't be moving into the 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.800 Compact Center if we had not done just that. We 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.400 had to enlarge our vision. We could have thought man 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.360 that's too much money. There are too many obstacles. It's 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.159 too big, it's never gonna happen. No, we simply said, God, 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:26.280 not our will. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.640 But your will be done. We're ready. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.599 We believe you can make a way. We believe you 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.560 can fight our battles for us. We know that no 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.520 man can stand against you. We got an image of 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.880 victory on the inside, and the seed begin to grow 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.640 and grow, and today we're seeing it all come to pass. 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.040 I would challenge you as well, have a big vision 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.200 for your own life. Don't talk yourself out of the 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.080 new things that God is trying to do. He wants 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.440 to increase you, He wants to restore what the enemy 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.680 has stolen. Why don't you let this new seed of 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.400 hope take root in your heart today? Why don't you 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.479 dare to believe that God can and will bring that 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.120 to pass. You remember when God told Abraham that his 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.560 wife Sarah was going to have a child, and they 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.480 were both way up there in years, In fact, they 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.520 were close to eighty years old. And when Sarah heard it, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.400 the first thing she did was laugh and laugh. She said, Abraham, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.400 what are you talking about? I'm never going to have 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.680 a baby. I'm an old lady. See, the condition of 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.600 her heart was not right. God was trying to plant 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.680 that new seed, but her thinking kept it from happening. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.560 She had to conceive it in her heart before she 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.400 could ever conceive it in her physical body, and year 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.240 after year went by no child. Finally, some twenty years later, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.520 she gave birth to her son named Isaac. But I 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.960 believe one of the main reasons why it took so 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.080 long was because she wasn't willing to get rid of 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.680 her old wine skin. She couldn't conceive it in her heart. 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.280 Many of you today, you're looking for something new in 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:59.160 your life, a new beginning, a new season. The only 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.320 way that's gonna have happen is for you to get 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.239 rid of those old mindsets that are holding you back. Well, Joel, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.200 I'll never lose this weight. This is the way I've 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.240 always been. My marriage will never get better. You know, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.920 we've always had problems. I'll never get out of debt. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.120 My child will never change. Now you've got to get 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.480 rid of that defeated mentality. Our attitude should be I 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.560 can do all things through Christ. God is going before me, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.760 making my crooked places straight. I know whatever I touch 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.960 is going to prosper and succeed. Well, Joe, you just 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.240 don't know my family, man. They're all negative. We've always 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.760 been defeated, discouraged. No, you can set a new standard. 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.800 You are not being limited by your environment. You're not 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.599 being limited by your past. What's gonna limit you is 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.920 your own thinking. You got to get rid of those 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.280 old wine skins, and you need to have a new 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.679 image of your self rising higher, accomplishing your dreams. You 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.000 should see yourself setting new standards for your family to 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.360 live by. This is just what my father did. Daddy 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.480 grew up in a very poor family. They were cotton farmers, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.160 and they lost everything they had during the Great Depression, 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.360 and so Daddy went to high school with holes in 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.880 his pants, holes in his shoes. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:08.559 Didn't look like he had a. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.000 Very bright future in front of him, and he could 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.600 have easily just settled in there. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.839 For the status quo. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.960 No, at the age of seventeen, Daddy gave his life 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.920 to the Lord and God planted a new seed in 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.280 his heart. God gave him a dream that one day 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:26.120 he would pastor a church with thousands of people in it. 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.000 Back then, that was unheard of. Sixty or seventy years ago, 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.920 there weren't any big churches like there are today, and 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.400 in the natural that seemed impossible. He didn't have any 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.120 education to speak of, never been to seminary, they didn't 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.080 have any money. But my father didn't let any of 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.680 that stop him. He conceived that seed. He got a 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.280 vision of it on the inside, and Daddy began to 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.360 see himself rising up out of that environment. He began 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:55.040 to see himself doing great things for God, touching people 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.720 all over the world. And you know the story he did. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.160 Just that, he fulfilled his destiny, and every one of 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.920 you can do the same thing. No matter where you are, 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.959 no matter how many odds are against you, you can 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.800 rise higher. You can break out of the barriers of 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.280 the past. The seed is being planted. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:13.040 I don't know. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.000 Maybe right now you can feel God speaking to you, 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.880 you can feel faith rising. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:18.559 In your heart. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.760 But understand, having the seed there is not enough. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.160 It's a two way street. We have to conceive it. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.360 The seed can be in you your whole lifetime, but 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:28.839 until you believe. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.240 It and act on it, it's not going to do 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:30.959 you any good. 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.000 And God said in the Book of Isaiah forty three, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.240 Verse nineteen. Behold, I am doing a new thing. Can 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.760 you not perceive it? Notice? God is always trying to 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.120 do new things in our lives. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:44.760 He is always trying. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.720 To increase us, to give us better marriage, is to 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:51.720 give us more influence. But isn't it interesting? God asked 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.840 the question can you perceive it? In other words, God 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.679 was saying, are you making room for it in your thinking? 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.360 Are you believing for a better man? Are you believing 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.680 to excel in your career? 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.320 Or have you got stuck in that rut like so 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.679 many people today, thinking that they've already reached their limits. Now, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.800 why don't you enlarge your vision? You got to learn 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.480 to conceive the new things that God's trying to. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:15.840 Do in your life. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.719 I remember many years ago, Victoria and I used to 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.240 live in this older home. It was built way back 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.079 in the forties, and it had some foundation problems and 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.680 so some of the floors were crooked. It was in 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.520 pretty bad shape. But we really loved the neighborhood that 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.000 it was in. It was on a great piece of property, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.200 and so we stretched and we spent everything we could 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.439 just to buy that place. And during the week, probably 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.280 several times a week, we'd go out and take a 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.880 walk through the neighborhood, and there were all these new 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.120 homes being built, and they were big, two story homes, 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:49.680 really beautiful, really nice. And one day, as we were walking, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.760 we decided to go through this one house that was 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.600 just being finished up. Nobody lived there yet, of course, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:55.880 and so we went in and. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.559 Like I said, it was just so beautiful. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.760 I remember the living room was two stories reason had 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.400 windows all the way up to the top. 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.200 It was just so inspiring. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.920 And as we walked out, we were standing on the 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.640 front porch, and I'll never forget what Victoria said. She said, Joel, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.160 one day we're gonna live in a house just like this. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.160 And she might as well say to me, Joel, one 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.679 day we're gonna live on Mars. I no more believe that, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.320 I said, Victoria, what are you talking about. We could 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.520 never afford a place like this, we'd said up our 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.440 whole lifetime, and still not having that, just went in 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:27.680 one ear and out the other ear. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.920 Didn't bother her a bit. She said, no, Joel, I 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.120 feel it right down in here. One day we're gonna 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.280 have a nice house like this. Do you know. 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.520 We stood out there on the sidewalk and debated that 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:37.640 for like thirty minutes. 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:39.319 She told me. 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.440 All the reasons why it could happen, and me, being 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.520 the great man of faith that I am, I told 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.920 her all the reasons why it would never happen. But see, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.839 God was trying to plant a new seed in my heart. 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.000 God was trying to use her to get me to 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.200 enlarge my vision, to believe for the extraordinary. But like 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.720 many people, I just looked at the natural. I tried 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.040 to figure it out in my own thinking, and every 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.600 time I did, my mind said, tilt tillt it is 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.480 not gonna happen. This is impossible. We have to understand 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.240 God's ways are not our ways. We think naturally, but 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.280 God thinks supernaturally. And Jesus said, if you can believe, 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.440 then all things are possible. In other words, if you'll 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.520 just let the seed take root, there's no limit to 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:26.959 what God can do in your life. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:28.040 You may not be. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.800 Able to figure out how your business is ever gonna grow. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.120 Looks like you plateaued, it looks like you're having a 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.840 lot of problems, But don't do like me. Let the 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.640 seed take root. God can give you one new idea, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.040 or he can give you one new client that could. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:42.920 Turn everything around. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.520 God could cause you to bump into somebody, to be 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.720 at the right place at the right time, and somebody 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.480 offer you a brand new opportunity. Conceive it on the inside. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.560 Let hope fill your heart. Or maybe you're here today 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.360 and you don't see how your health could ever get better. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.680 Every doctor, every specialist told you it's just too bad. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.600 You've got to learn to live with it. Nothing they 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.040 can do. But no, God made your body. God can 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.320 supernaturally fix what's wrong. God can create what you need. 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:13.960 Why don't you let a new seed of hope take root? 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.680 Why don't you start declaring every day God is restoring 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:18.240 health back. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.040 Unto me, I am getting better and better with long life. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.960 He's gonna satisfy me. See, you got to get rid of. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:29.600 Those old mindsets, old wine skins, in larger vision and 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.720 take the limits off of God. Several months went by, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.240 and every time we went out to walk, Victoria did 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:35.840 the same thing. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.520 One day, we're gonna have one of these houses. Well, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.800 finally I had heard that so much. I gave in. 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.360 I let her convince me, and I let that seed 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.360 take root. I thought, after all, what's it gonna hurt 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.520 to put my faith out there. What's it gonna hurt 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.720 to get my hopes up? What's it gonna hurt to believe? 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.520 I'd rather believe for something great and get half of it, 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.160 rather than believe for nothing and get all of it. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:14:59.960 And so we went out. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.760 There, and every day we walked, we just kept on 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.400 thanking God for his goodness. Father, Thank you that you're 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.720 causing people to want to be good to us. Thank 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.360 you that You're hand of favors upon us. Thank you 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.480 that you're going to show your goodness in our lives. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:14.840 We just kept watering that seed. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.040 And do you know, one day out of the clear blue, 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.440 a builder knocked on our door and he offered to 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.920 buy half of our property for more money than we'd 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.800 paid for the whole thing. He eventually ended up building 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.280 two houses there, one for us and one for somebody else, 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.360 and we sold ours and long story shorts. Several years 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.400 later we were living in a house just like Victoria 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.920 had said. I've learned now to listen to her more often, 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.280 you know. But I don't believe that any of that 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.400 would have happened if I had not first conceived it 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:43.320 on the inside. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.560 I had to enlarge my vision. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.640 I had to see it through my eyes of faith. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.120 And some of you today, God has been trying and 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.040 trying to plant new seeds in you, but like me, 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.640 you keep thinking, Man, that's never going to happen. I've 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.960 got too many odds against me. I'll never get promoted, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.760 I've gone as far as my education allows. Or I'll 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.840 never get married. Joe, I've been single so long. 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.800 Why don't you let a new seed take root? As 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:08.840 I said, you can't. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.120 Give birth to something if you don't conceive it. You've 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:15.240 got to change your thinking, change your attitude, start believe 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.600 in God for more, start expecting his favor kind to 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.280 make room for it in your own mind. I like 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.120 to think about it like a couple that's expecting a baby. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.840 Once they find out that they're pregnant, they start making 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.120 preparations for that child. And the fact is they've never 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:34.360 physically seen their baby. The only proof they have probably 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.040 is a doctor's report or some kind of test. But 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.560 yet they'll go out and buy baby clothes and baby 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.600 furniture and get the house all baby proof. See, they're 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.520 making plans. A baby has been conceived, a. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:47.160 Child is on its way. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.880 Well, we should do the same thing once the seed 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.240 takes root. Not only make preparations in your mind, but 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.640 you need to take some steps to show your faith. 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.920 For instance, I know this couple that had a son 0:16:58.960 --> 0:16:59.960 that was on drugs. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.160 He was in his mid twenties, and he. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.400 Had been running with the wrong crowd, living on his own, 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.399 just living a very rebellious life. And we'd prayed together 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.040 here at this altar many many times. That young man 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.240 was just breaking his parent's heart, but they refused to 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.480 give up on him. They refused to accept that as 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.679 the way it always had to be. They had a 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.040 seed of hope in their heart and they let it 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:21.560 take root. 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:23.240 They believed that one. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.840 Day he would be in here with them, serving God. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.160 They believed that he would be productive and fulfilling his destiny, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.719 and they made preparations for him to turn his life around. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.680 They went out and bought a Bible and had his 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.840 name engraved on it. This young man would never come home, 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.119 hardly even spoke to the parents, very much at odds 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.760 with them, but they just put that Bible on their 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.840 coffee table, and every time they walked by and saw 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.520 his name, they just used that as a reminder to 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.680 thank God that their child was going to come back home, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.760 to thank God that one day their family would be reunited. 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.760 Do you know seven years went by, they never saw 0:17:58.800 --> 0:17:59.840 any sign of change. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.920 The sun hardly even spoke to them. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.359 But one Friday night they told for no apparent reason, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.720 he knocked on the door, said Mom and Dad, I 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.199 want to come back home. I want to get my 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.400 life straightened out. And just like the prodigal son, they 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:14.679 received him back with open arms and got in the 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.280 help that he needed. And now almost every time I 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.040 see that young man, he's holding that Bible that his 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.000 parents had bought for him over seven years before, so 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.160 always got it with him to see the seed took root, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:31.080 and they showed their faith by making some preparations. I 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.679 know this other couple, they'd tried for several years to 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.880 have a baby, but with no success. They had gone 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.600 through all the fertility treatments and didn't look like anything 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.040 was happening. But one day they decided to take it 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.760 a step further, and just to show their faith, they 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.560 went out and bought a little baby outfit, just a 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.520 little set of clothes, and they put it there in 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:51.840 their kitchen so that they could see it every time 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.679 they were in there. It helps to keep the vision 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.040 in front of you, says in a back to write 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.520 your vision down, do something to help you keep your 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:00.000 faith up. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.840 Well. Just several months after she had. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.120 Taken that step of faith and bought those clothes, that 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.840 young lady conceived, and not too long ago we dedicated 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.720 their little child here at the altar. And do you 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.199 know what that baby was wearing those very clothes that 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.919 they had bought for her. And the truth is that 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.560 was not the first time they had seen their baby 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.760 wearing those clothes. They had seen him many times through 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.439 their eyes of faith. See the seed took root. They 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.240 made preparations, they showed their faith. Maybe you're here today 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.560 and you've gone through some kind of disappointments, a marriage, 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.160 a relationship didn't work out, some kind of dream has died. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.320 But I would just encourage you that that is not 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.600 the end. God still has a great plan for your life. 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.720 And when one door closes, I know God will always 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.320 open up another door. Non't wall around in self pity. 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.480 Don't go around thinking, man, I've blown it. Life's all 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.920 downhill from here. No God wants to take the negative 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.320 things that have happened to you and turn them around 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:57.240 and use them. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:58.160 To your advantage. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.520 If one dream dies, you've got a dream in the dream. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.840 If you get knocked down, get back up again. 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.080 God is still in control. 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.600 But don't let the enemy convince you that all it's 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.440 never gonna get any better and you're never gonna get 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.959 well when Joel, those are great stories, but I know 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.760 I'll never have a nice house. My family will never 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.000 be restored. Now you've got to get rid of that 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.240 old wine skin. God does have good things in store 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.240 for you. And no matter what you've been through, no 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:25.600 matter how impossible it looks, it's not too difficult for 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:29.320 our God. God created the whole universe, and he's got 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.320 you in the palm of his hands. And if you'll 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.919 just dare to believe, if you'll dare to get your 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.240 hopes of you can rise higher. You can break out 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:39.480 of the bondages of the past, and you can see 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:41.879 a new beginning in your life. And some of you 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.040 are so focused on your faults and everything that you've 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:47.800 done wrong, and you're just convinced that God has finished 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.159 with you and you just need to sit on the 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.360 sidelines of life. But that could not be further from 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:55.680 the truth. Why don't you receive God's mercy? Why don't 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.160 you learn to forgive yourself and start expecting God's blessings 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.359 in his favor. I know too many people they're only 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.560 focused on their faults and weaknesses. You got to quit 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.040 looking at what you are not and start looking at 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:11.439 what you can be. You may have some habits today 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:13.720 that you're not proud of, or maybe you struggle with 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:16.439 some addictions. Let me tell you, if you go around 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.880 always feeling bad about yourself, guilty and condemned, that new 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:24.080 set of change will never take root. One of my 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.520 favorite scriptures is Philippians one six. 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.479 You all know it. Be confident of this. He that 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.200 began a good work. 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.960 In you will continue to perform it until it's perfectly complete. 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:37.800 That means I may not be all I want to be, 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.399 But the good news is God is not through working 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.480 on me. I am not a finished product. If we're 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:45.680 ever going to rise higher, we have to have the 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.640 right image on the inside. You got to quit looking 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.600 at what you're not, what you don't have, and what 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.080 you can't do. Listen, you are a child of the 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.840 most tied God. You have his power on the inside 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.000 of you. You can do whatever you need to do 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.520 and accomplish things that you never even thought possible. When 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:07.200 you're up against obstacles or maybe some opportunities come your way, 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.080 don't you dare shrink back in fear, learn to rise 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.439 up and become all God's created you to be. I know, 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:15.679 I never dreamed that I would be up here. I 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:18.200 never dreamed this was even in me. But when Daddy 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.719 went to be with the Lord, I felt that I 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:22.080 was supposed. 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:23.240 To step up and pastor this church. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:25.399 But the first thing I thought of were all the 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:26.600 reasons why I couldn't do it. 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:28.359 I thought, you know what, I've never spoken. 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:30.919 Before, and I'm not a preacher, and I don't feel qualified. 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.920 There was this battle taking place on the inside. God 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.440 was trying to plan a new seed in me. He 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:39.600 was trying to promote me and take me into my 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:40.720 divine destiny. 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.359 But I had to make a decision. Was I going to. 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.119 Conceive the seed and hey, believe that I can do 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.960 this and take that step of faith. Or was I 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:50.800 going to do like I did with that first house 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:53.439 and keep my old wine skin and say, man, I 0:22:53.440 --> 0:22:54.040 can't do that. 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:56.199 I'm too nervous. I'm too shy. I don't have what 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:56.720 it takes. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:22:57.480 Now. 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.080 Thank God, this time I had learned. I let the 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:03.000 seed take root. The first thing I did is I 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:06.119 begin to see myself up here ministering to people. I 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:09.040 begin to see the building full. I begin to see 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.760 myself succeeding. I had it on the inside. And sure 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:14.760 there were nights where I woke up in the middle 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:16.639 of the night with a cold sweat, thinking what have 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:17.120 I done? 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:18.480 Nobody's ever gonna show up. 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:20.640 But no, I learned to get rid of those thoughts 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:23.480 of defeat, and I just speak to myself, Joe, you can. 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:24.560 Do all things through Christ. 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:26.439 You are strong in the Lord and the power of 0:23:26.480 --> 0:23:30.080 his life. I tell myself, I am well able to 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:34.080 fulfill my destiny. What was happening is the seed was 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:37.240 taking root and growing and growing. Today I'm seeing it 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:39.439 come to pass. I'm seeing God do more than I 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.240 could even ask or think. You can do the same thing. 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.320 You have so much more in you. God has planted 0:23:46.359 --> 0:23:49.760 seeds of greatness. He wants you to excel at whatever 0:23:49.840 --> 0:23:52.040 He's called you to do. Why don't you take the 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:54.720 limits off of him today? Why don't you start enlarge 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:58.520 in your vision. You can be happier, you can be healthier, 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:01.199 you can be more fulfilled. But I can tell you 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:04.119 it all starts by conceiving it on the inside. In 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:05.879 other words, you need to get a picture of it. 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.240 You need to have an image of it. What you 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:11.720 see is so very important. And some people, when they 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:13.880 look out into the future, all they see is more 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:18.240 of the same, mediocrity, defeat, failure. The whole problem is 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:20.440 they're conceiving the wrong seeds. 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:21.880 You've got to get rid of that. 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:26.440 Junk and start seeing yourself rising higher, start seeing yourself 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:30.359 healthier and happier and fulfilling your God given destiny. That's 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:32.400 the only way the seed is going to take root. 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:34.600 You've got to keep seeing it through your eyes of faith. 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:38.000 In Genesis chapter thirty, there's a story about Jacob and 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:38.959 his uncle Laban. 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:40.520 And Jacob had worked for. 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:42.800 Laban for many, many years, but it wasn't a very 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:46.040 good relationship. Laban had not treated him fairly, and so 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:47.520 Jacob was ready to. 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:49.200 Go out on his own and do his own thing. 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.199 But he said Laban, I'll continue to take care of 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:54.760 your flocks if you'd like me to. And Laban said 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:56.200 that'd be great, But what do you want me to 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:58.439 pay you for it? And Jacob said, well, I'll make 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:01.600 a deal with you. You'll give me all the spotted 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:05.399 and streaked sheep and goats. That'll be my pay, and 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:08.000 you can keep all the solid colored ones. They're more 0:25:08.080 --> 0:25:11.320 valuable anyway, and that way we'll always know the difference. 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:14.600 Yours are solid minor streaked and spotted. Laban said that 0:25:14.680 --> 0:25:18.120 sounds fine. But Laban was so dishonest. He went out 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:21.520 during the night and he took practically all the animals 0:25:21.600 --> 0:25:24.160 that should have been Jacob's and gave him to one 0:25:24.160 --> 0:25:26.680 of his sons, and then he made sure he took 0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:31.080 all the mail spotted and streaked animals. And so Jacob 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:33.840 not only didn't get what he was supposed to, he 0:25:33.920 --> 0:25:37.439 didn't have any way for his flocks to reproduce. But 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:41.240 in verse thirty seven, Jacob did something so interesting. It 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:44.480 says that he cut fresh cut branches off the tree, 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:47.399 and he peeled the bark off of them in certain 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:51.360 places to make them look spotted and streaked. I guess 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:53.040 the branches were kind of brown, and when. 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:54.680 He pulled the bark off, it was white. 0:25:54.760 --> 0:25:57.960 And so now he's got all these spotted and streaked branches, 0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:01.000 and he put them in front of the watering troughs 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.000 where the animals would come to drink water. And not 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.480 only would they drink water there, but that's where they 0:26:06.520 --> 0:26:09.800 made it, that's where they bred and conceived. And so imagine, 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:13.280 as these animals are breeding, they are staring at these 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:16.360 spotted and streaked rods. And do you know the Bible 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:20.199 says that when Laban's animals gave birth, even though they 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:23.520 were solid in color, their babies that were born were 0:26:23.520 --> 0:26:27.720 spotted and streaked. God supernaturally made it up to Jacob. 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:30.040 He ended up having twice as many flocks as his 0:26:30.119 --> 0:26:33.000 uncle Laban. But the point I want you to see is, 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:36.600 I believe one reason that Jacob put the spotted and 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.760 streaked branches in front of those animals is because he 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:43.720 knew they would produce what they saw. And really it's 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:46.320 the same principle with us today. We are going to 0:26:46.400 --> 0:26:50.399 produce what we're continually looking at. You are a child 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:53.080 of the Most High God. You were created to live 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:56.320 in victory, in health, in abundance. But do you know, 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:59.359 if you stay focused on the wrong things, if you 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:01.600 have the wrong image on the inside. 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:03.399 You will not produce what you should. 0:27:03.640 --> 0:27:06.320 The seed will not take root, and some of you 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:09.080 today you need to peel some new branches. You need 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:11.199 to start looking at some better thing. Get a bigger 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.960 vision for your life. What kind of image do you. 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:14.720 Have in yourself? 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:17.480 If you see yourself not able to, then you will 0:27:17.480 --> 0:27:20.920 never be able to. If you see yourself defeated and lonely, 0:27:21.240 --> 0:27:23.360 then you're going to live that kind of life. You've 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:25.800 got to change what you're seeing. Why don't you peel 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:28.800 some new branches. You ought to put Scripture verses up 0:27:28.840 --> 0:27:31.800 all over your house, at the desk, in your car, 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:34.280 everywhere you go. You should see I can do all 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:37.520 things through Christ. I am more than a conqueror. I'm 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:40.840 the head and not the tail. Everything I touch prospers 0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:44.080 and succeeds. If you start looking at that day in 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:47.160 and day out, you'll create a new image on the inside. 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.120 That seed will take root, and you'll begin to rise 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:52.919 to new levels of God's victory. So I just challenge 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:55.800 you again today, have a big vision for your life. 0:27:55.880 --> 0:27:58.879 Get rid of those old wine skins, go beyond the 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:01.760 barriers of the past, and start expecting God to do 0:28:01.800 --> 0:28:02.399 great things. 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:03.280 In your life. 0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:07.040 You can rise higher, you can go further. Learn to 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:10.159 conceive the good things of God. Let those seeds of 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:13.920 faith and hope and victory really take root. Remember, you've 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:16.360 got to conceive it on the inside before it's ever 0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:18.200 going to come to pass on the outside. 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:19.040 Now, I can tell you. 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:21.200 God has so much more in store for every one 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:23.520 of you. He wants to take you places that you've 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:26.640 never even dreamed of. 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