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I'm Joyce Meier. I've seen God's power transform my own life and He will do it for you.

Are you willing to take a risk when you need to? You know, God has an amazing plan for your life,

but in order to actually experience it, you may have to take a risk and step out in faith and

trust God. I want to encourage you with some practical steps that will help you do that later in

the program. Risk taking and following God into the unknown is something I'm very familiar with

in my own life and ministry. It's how we got started and how we continue to walk in God's will

to this very day. This year, our ministry is celebrating 30 years of broadcasting the gospel on TV,

and we've seen so many people's lives transformed by the power of God's word.

The day of ginger is with me and we're going to talk about taking risks.

You know, I can't imagine what it must have felt like for you and for Dave 30 years ago,

but before you had this foresight, you know, what God was going to do through all of it to think

about going on television. I mean, what a huge hurdle and a risk to take. How did that kind of come

about that you thought, okay, we're going to do this thing? Well, it's very interesting because

I was just doing my various meetings around town here. I did, as I said, God told me to go to North

South East and West, so I did. I went to North St. Louis, South St. Louis, East St. Louis and West

St. Louis. I had a meeting once a month in each one of those places and one day Dave came home and

he said, I bought a television camera today. And I said, what? And he said, yeah, I just felt like

that God showed me that once you do these teachings, that they're lost forever and that we need to

capture them. And so I got a little bit aggravated because it cost fair amount of money and we didn't have

any money to waste. We didn't have much extra cash laying around. But he just really felt strongly

that it was God. And so we didn't even have a camera operator that really had ever operated

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