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God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

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It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

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A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

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If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

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Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

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The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.

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You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

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I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down.

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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

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It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

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Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

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Only God can look at somebody's heart.

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You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

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There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

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I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

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You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

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You can be happy where you are.

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When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

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People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

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I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

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If you give, you will be blessed.

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I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He's on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

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I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

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Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

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I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

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I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.

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I think Bible principles are principles for life.

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A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

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It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

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When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

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Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

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