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Hello, hello, welcome back, god's diamonds in the rough.
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Amen, we are so glad to be back with you one more time.
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Amen, I hope all is well.
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If you don't know who we are, I'm Catherine.
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And I am Michael.
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And we are always excited to be before you.
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Amen, definitely.
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Y'all know, as always, we always have a great show ready and prepared for you, or rather the spirit.
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Let's just say that.
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Yeah.
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Because, you know, I don't feel like we can ever really prepare for what spirit has for us.
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I completely agree, because you know, when you try to prepare something and it's not the way God wants it, he's going to make it known he absolutely knows how to shift it around yes, he do absolutely so, diamonds.
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We have a guest with us on today and we'll tell you who he is and what he does, and all of that good stuff, as we are impacting the world making a statement as the body of Christ.
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Y'all know we got to pray first before we get into it.
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All right, let's get it.
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Let us pray, heavenly Father, our Lord and our Savior, jesus Christ, we come to you right now in boldness to say thank you.
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We thank you for your grace and your mercy.
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We thank you for your love and kindness and tender mercies.
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We put the devil on notice, letting him know he has no control to counsel anything that God wants, but we have the control to counsel the assignments that he has.
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I just call on Jesus.
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We pray in the name of Jesus.
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You will just have your way.
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Let your spirit move about us, let your spirit move about your people.
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Let your spirit move all across this world.
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We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that have no desire to know who you are.
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We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that know who you are but don't know how to get to you.
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We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that know who you are but don't know how to get to you.
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We pray in the name of Jesus for the ones that know you, know how to get to you but just need help when they say pray for me.
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We pray in the seeding right now, on their behalf, in Jesus mighty and Max's name.
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We say have your way, god, have your way, god In Jesus mighty and max's name.
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We say have your way, god, have your way, god in jesus mighty and max's name.
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We say thank you and we say amen, amen and amen amen, hallelujah.
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Uh, so y'all, today we are going.
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Well, actually, let start with a question have you ever failed at anything?
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A lot of times, a lot of times, a lot of times.
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But you know, when I see failure, that's just a step to getting it right.
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Come on, go right now.
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So today we have a young man, his name is Stephen Capps, a man.
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He is an entrepreneur, a podcaster, he's a business coach and he's a speaker.
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He is a man of God that is here to help us, to help all of us, amen.
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And I asked the question of have you ever failed anything?
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Because he has five hacks to supercharge failure into success.
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I'm going to say that again he has five hacks to supercharge failure into success.
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Amen.
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And I'm so interested to hear about these hacks, amen, amen.
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And we, I'm so interested to hear about these hacks.
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Amen.
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Because you know, we've all experienced, uh, failure at some point in our life.
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Amen.
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And you know, if you've ever fallen, then you've had to get up.
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Amen.
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And so I know that we all have something to say about uh, failure into success and overcoming and changing your mind and all of that.
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But, stephen, will you say hello and please introduce yourself the way you would like to well, I am so glad to be here with you guys.
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Thank you so much.
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And, um, like you said, my name is Stephen Capps.
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I'm a follower of Jesus, I'm a husband, I'm a girl dad, my wife and I have a couple of businesses and I'm a podcaster and a business coach, and I'm just glad to be here to see if we can't help bring some value and bring the knowledge of Christ to those who maybe feel like that they have failed.
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And well, well, you know why should I try again?
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Because I failed.
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So I'm a failure, but I have some answers that I think that they would would love to hear, and I'm so glad to be here.
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Thank you again.
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Right, we are glad to have you, sir.
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So how would you describe failure?
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What would be the answer?
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Well, I think well for me, because I'm a passionate guy, I am very emotional, so for me it is like failure is like heartbreak.
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It's like you did something that was really important to you and it had a lot of value to you and you put, you know, you pour your life into this thing and then it doesn't work out like you hoped that it would, and it could be something small, it could be something you know public, like you know a business that went out of business and there's so many things tied up in to that.
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And then you fail and then you're like man, I am such a failure and I think that we need to make a mind shift there that no, you are not a failure, you failed at doing something and you know failure just gets us one more step closer to a success.
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Is how I see it, because if you're not a failing, then you're not doing enough.
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Failing, then you're not doing enough.
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But I think what we want well, what we want is to have small micro failures, because lots of times we just, you know, you know, jump off the diving board without checking to see if there's any pool, seeing that there's any water in the pool.
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Yeah, I like it, and so my number one thing, my number one hack, is that we have to count the cost, count the cost Before we do something you know, rather than you know jumping off the high dive.
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You know how about we go down and go down and put our toe in the water to make sure that you know the water is good, because we don't want to be the man that went to build a tower, but he did not count the cost and then therefore did not have the money to finish the tower.
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And we live in such an age that information is so available.
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But I think that we are so lacking in wisdom that we are so lacking in wisdom.
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You know we have tons of information but not wisdom to go with it lots of times and just real quick, real quick.
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And I just want to add this you know, when he just said something that's powerful, he said we lack wisdom and what we need to understand is that you know and I say this all the time is that knowledge without understanding will leave you broke and bankrupt.
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You have to get understanding, and that really is the essence of wisdom, would you all agree?
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Yeah, I definitely agree.
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And if I can just add to that, you know, something that really caught my attention is the word hacks.
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You know that lets me know.
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Look, and this is typical, okay, and I got to go there for a minute.
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This is typical.
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We.
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We do things in life and everything's got to be done a certain way, and when we do that it winds up not letting the spirit move.
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But when we have the hacks, it's an easier way to doing things, because we all overcomplicate things when we do things, but when we do the simpler way, we have that room for God to move and switch it up.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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One of my favorite scriptures says that the path of the just shines brighter and brighter as the noonday sun.
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So I don't have all of the information right now, at this moment.
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If God is calling me down this path, he is going to light my path, because his word is a lamp unto my feet and a light and light and light into my pathway.
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And and this isn't just something for, you know, a Sunday morning church.
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This is life, everyday life.
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If anyone lacks wisdom, let them ask of God, who gives what Liberally, without reproach.
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And you know, I think, a lot of times we are looking, you know, for that, you know a booming voice from heaven you know durst thou not know the, you know elestiviousness of thy beatitudes.
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You know, I don't know what we're looking for, but there are people in all of our lives, you know, and if you are a believer and you have, you know, yourself surrounded with people who believe there are people that can speak into our lives, that can speak the voice of God, and so I'm going to do something new.
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Well, I'm not, you know, 20 anymore, I just turned 50.
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So you know, I don't have a lot of years to recover from a major, devastating mistake.
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Now, with God, all things are possible.
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That's right.
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But I have learned in wisdom.
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Okay, I want to do something.
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I believe that I am supposed to do X, y, z.
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Let me seek wisdom and counsel, because in the multitude of counsel there is safety.
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Absolutely, amen, amen.
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And again, it is not just for you know, a Sunday school it's like okay, I believe that I am supposed to start a business.
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Okay, what does the Bible say?
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In the multitude of counsel, there is wisdom.
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Okay, are there three people, five people in my life that I can go to and can I draw wisdom from them?
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Wisdom from them, I say that we all need to have a board of directors in our life, which all that is is four or five people that we know and trust and we know that they love us enough to tell the truth.
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So, anytime that I'm making a major decision which you know, that's all different for each individual, but if I'm going to make a major decision in my life, I am talking to these four or five people to find the wisdom of God.
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That's good, that's really good.
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That's really good, that's really good.
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So I hope that y'all can hear the spirit working, and everything that he just said is rooted in the word of God.
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So, diamonds, we cannot do it.
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We cannot really impact this world and do what it is that god has called you to do without him it.
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We live in a world where, where people are trying to do jesus without jesus.
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They're trying to live out jesus, talk about jesus, but not, um, incorporate him into who they are and who you are.
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You have to do that.
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That is a part of the word being alive in you and coming alive because he is living water.
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So therefore, the ways of the Lord is something that they, you adopt and they become a part of you is absolutely necessary.
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So everything that Stephen has said thus far, it is not without the word of God.
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It is not without the word of God.
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So you know we want to get through all of these hacks.
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So can you go forward with the second hack please, sir?
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Number two is a simple two letter word.
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You have to do.
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First I have to count the cost and then I have to do, because the power is in the doing.
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You know the man that had a withered hand.
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What did he say?
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Stretch out your hand.
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And the blind man, you know, go and wash.
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It was always corresponding action.
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So after we have counted the cost, gotten the wisdom, then we have to do, we have to act.
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And because something happens whenever you put your hand to something, because, according to the word of God, whatsoever you put your hand to, you will be blessed in all that you do.
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Well, I'm not blessed, I'm not.
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This, I'm not whatever.
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Well, what are you?
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What are you putting?
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your hand to wow.
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That's interesting because a whole lot of folk they are they're saying, um well, I, I'm moving in faith, but what are you doing?
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Is absolutely true.
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Oh Right, what are you doing?
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And faith without works is dead.
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Come on somebody.
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Yeah, yeah, and you know, let's.
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Let's take baseball, ok, as an example.
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All right, a batting average of 300 is a good batting average, ok, that means that they only hit the ball three out of 10 times at bat, or they strike out 70 percent of the time.
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So we have to take action.
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So we have to take action and small micro actions, and then we may fail 70% of the time, but it is the other times where we are winning and we are moving forward.
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Because I say that there's two types of people People who talk and then people that do.
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You know, there are people that just talk all the time about what they are going to do, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, but then they never do anything.
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So we have to do And'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, but then they never do anything.
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So we have to do, and I say talk less and do more.
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All right, number three All right, this is where people sort of cringe and they draw back and I don't know about that, but you have to fail.
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You have to fail why do we have?
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you because that is just a part of life.
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Failure is a part of life because if I was to ask you, ask you a question, if you could do anything and you knew that you would not fail, what would you do?
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You know people would do lots of things but they're not doing it because I might fail.
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Well, guess what?
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You will fail.
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So we want to get information, get counsel, wisdom, understanding.
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Then we make small, non-fatal failures.
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Then so, so well, it is like the first time that you ever rode a bike, you know what did you do.
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You know you fell over, you uh crash.
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Or the first time that you ever walked.
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Anytime that you do something new, you are going to fail and you're not going to be a good at it.
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And you know I am, I am 50 years old, but every once in a while I trip, you know just in.
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You know walking up some stairs, you know you, I trip up the stairs.
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Failure is a part of life.
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So the first time that you do something, you can count on failure.
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But again, we want small, non-fatal failures.
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Man.
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But let me say this If you have failed and you feel like this is a big time failure, this is not a small failure Well, I've been there too, and I love the scripture where you know with God, you know.
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You know with man things are impossible, but with God all things are possible.
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So I don't care how bad it is, I don't care how hard it is, I don't care how impossible it looks, with God are possible.
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So, at 33 years old remember I was 33, I lost my wife to cancer, we lost our largest customer, I suffered near financial ruin and then I got remarried and it was like a it, it.
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It was a whirlwind.
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You know things of God and then things not of God.
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And I made the statement man, I just feel like I'm set back 10 years of my life.
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I just feel like I'm just behind.
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Well, god spoke to me and was like you're exactly where I want you to be, because God has these amazing plans for our life.
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Many, many are my thoughts towards you, thoughts of good and not evil, to give you an expected end.
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But we have to go through this to get to that, amen.
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So God will use a setback to set you up.
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Absolutely Setback for a setup.
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I like it.
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Amen, michael, you got any comments?
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I'm just listening.
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I mean, it's so powerful, even when you say, when you trip, you know, always look at it as like hey, I must be clumsy or something, because I always trip too.
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But the way I look at it now is it's almost like I'm going to say that to the end because this is powerful and I believe this is going to be my final word.
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But man, I'm excited, amen, I'm just so excited.
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All right, stephen.
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Come on honey for the next one.
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And then, after we fail, we go to the next one, which is super important.
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Every single one of these are very, very important.
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Then, after we fail, we learn.
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If you cannot learn from a failure, then you, just, then, you, just, you know, survived.
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And I don't want to just survive, I just don't want to, you know, make it through the storm.
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I want to extract every good and perfect thing that God has for me in that.
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I just don't want to survive.
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And hey, I made it.
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So I want to learn.
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Okay, why did I fail?
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What did I learn that did not work?
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So we have to learn.
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Like I've been podcasting for three years three years now, after, like my eighth episode, I was ready to throw in the towel because it's hard, it is too hard, I can't do this.
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Um, well, well, I needed to learn something.
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But have you ever heard someone say I am doing everything that I know to do.
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Well, you don't know enough.
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If I'm doing everything that I know to do, then I don't know enough.
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So I need to learn something.
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So, from a failure, what didn't work?
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How can I improve?
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What should I add?
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And then, what should I do differently next time?
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Because if we learn something new every day.
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We will learn 365 new things in a year, and the compounding effect of that over time is unbelievable is unbelievable.
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So we have to do, we have to fail, we have to learn, and then we go on to number five.
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We have to repeat.
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This is a rinse and repeat.
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We have to do it over and over and over again.
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I've been in business for 20 years and I'm going to fail.
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Today I'm going to do something wrong.
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Today I'm going to do something stupid.
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Today I'm going to say it wrong, I do it wrong, but I'm not going to stop doing it.
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So we have to repeat, we have to go and, you know, do all these things over and over and over again.
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And then that is what drives us forward in our walk with Christ, in our families, in our businesses and in our different relationships.
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This is what drives us forward.
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And, you know, someone has a bad relationship.
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What's the first thing that they don't want to do?
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I ain't going to do that again, right?
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So either God is with us or he's not, because he said I will never leave you, never forsake.
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You and each of us have an amazing purpose and an amazing call to fulfill on this earth, and by stopping we are not going to fulfill that.
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So if you've been hurt, if you've been burned, if you have been let down, let down, let down.
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That is all part of life.
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You know the, you know bumps and the bruises and the hurts and the rejections and the betrayal.
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Yeah, it's hard, yes, it's hard.
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But Jesus said if I have overcome the world, then you can overcome the world, and then I will finish up with this here.
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You know he was like your sorrow will be turned into joy.
