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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Oh God, bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: can come visit us in person. We'd love to have

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Speaker 1: you be a part of one of our services. High

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Speaker 1: lights us talk with something funny and I heard about

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Speaker 1: this man. He was the only Protestant in a large

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Speaker 1: Catholic neighborhood. Every Friday during Lent, while his neighbors were

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Speaker 1: eating cold fish, he was grilling a steak in his backyard.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't stand the temptation and decided to try to

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Speaker 1: convert him to Catholicism. He finally agreed, and a priest

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Speaker 1: came over and sprinkled water on him, said, you were

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Speaker 1: born a Baptist, you were raised a Baptist, but now

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Speaker 1: you're a Catholic. The next year, on the first Friday

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Speaker 1: of Lent, they smelled the same smell. They rushed to

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Speaker 1: his house. He was in the backyard sprinkling water over

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Speaker 1: his steak, saying, you were born a cow, you were

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Speaker 1: raised a cow, but now you're a fish, all right, y'all,

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Speaker 1: saying like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 1: am what it says I am. I have what it

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Speaker 1: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 1: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is recepted.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: dealing with ugly situations in life. We all face the good,

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Speaker 1: the bad, and the ugly. We love the good times

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Speaker 1: where we're seeing God's favor and doors are opening. We

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Speaker 1: can handle the bad. We didn't get the contract, a

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Speaker 1: neighbor is talking about us, that's just life happening. But

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Speaker 1: there are some situations. The only way to describe then

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Speaker 1: is ugly. An ugly medical report we never thought we'd

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Speaker 1: be facing this, or an ugly breakup someone we counted

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Speaker 1: on walked away, or an ugly addiction. It's easy to

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Speaker 1: get discouraged, and then God, where were you? But God

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Speaker 1: won't allow a difficulty if he's not going to use

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Speaker 1: it for your purpose. The scripture says everything is serving

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Speaker 1: his plan, not just the good times, the promotion, the blessings,

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Speaker 1: but even the ugly times when it's not fair and

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Speaker 1: life throws us accur If you'll go through the suffering

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Speaker 1: with the right attitude and through that hardship trusting that

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Speaker 1: God's in control, then God will make something beautiful out

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Speaker 1: of the ugly. You will go to levels of your

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Speaker 1: destiny that you could have never reached by just living

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Speaker 1: in the good times. These ugly seasons are uncomfortable. We'd

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Speaker 1: are necessary to all you were created to be. See,

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Speaker 1: you don't grow as much in the good times. It's

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Speaker 1: in the difficult times you're stretched. Your faith can increase

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Speaker 1: your trust, your endurance. David said, God, you enlarged me

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Speaker 1: in my distress. Not enlarged me when I was comfortable,

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Speaker 1: when everyone was celebrating me. But you enlarged me when

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Speaker 1: I was chased by Saul through the desert and I'd

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Speaker 1: done nothing wrong. You enlarged me when my own father

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Speaker 1: didn't think I'd amount to anything. You enlarged me when

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Speaker 1: people I had been good to were slandering me, trying

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Speaker 1: But that's when God does some of his greatest work,

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Speaker 1: preparing you for something that you've never seen. And that's

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Speaker 1: what happened with Jacob. He just moved to a new

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Speaker 1: named Laban. Laban had two daughters and Leah Rachel was

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Speaker 1: extremely attractive. She was stunning. The scripture says she was

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Speaker 1: but her older sister, Leah, not so much. Verse seventeen

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Speaker 1: says Leah had weak eyes. One translation says Leah was

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Speaker 1: dull looking. Rachel got all this physical beauty, but Leah

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Speaker 1: was unattractive. And it's not often that the scripture described

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Speaker 1: someone's physical appearance. This has a deeper meaning because every

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Speaker 1: But the symbolism here is Rachel is beautiful and Leah

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Speaker 1: Laban shook his hand and said, you have a deal.

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Speaker 1: Seven years and she's yours. Well, Jacob was so in

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Speaker 1: couldn't see who it was. After the ceremony, they had

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Speaker 1: to Laban said, this is not what we agreed to.

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Speaker 1: I didn't ask for the unattractive one. I asked for

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Speaker 1: the beautiful one. How many times have we prayed for Rachel,

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Speaker 1: but we got Leah. Like Jacob, we worked hard, we

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Speaker 1: did the right thing. We were expecting Rachel, favor, promotion,

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Speaker 1: good breaks, but Leah showed up something unfair that we

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Speaker 1: his word. But in his defense, in those days, the

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Speaker 1: father was responsible for giving the oldest daughter in marriage first.

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Speaker 1: That was the tradition. That was being an honorable father,

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Speaker 1: not overlooking older. Laban said to Jacob, if you'll work

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Speaker 1: Jacob wasn't happy about it, but he agreed. He worked

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Speaker 1: advantage of. It might have been protocol, but Laban should

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Speaker 1: wasn't his choice. He didn't blame her. Why are you unattractive?

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Speaker 1: You're not who I wanted. He did the right thing

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Speaker 1: an ugly situation, and at the end of the seven

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Speaker 1: years he married Rachel, he saw that promise come to pass.

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Speaker 1: Rachel represents what we're believing for our dreams, good health, joy, peace, abundance.

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Speaker 1: We all want Rachel, but often Leah shows up first,

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Speaker 1: something that we didn't want, what's unattractive. What you do

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Speaker 1: for you. You may be in one of those ugly

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Speaker 1: times now things haven't turned out the way you had planned.

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Speaker 1: You can get bitter give up on your dreams. Or

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Speaker 1: when it's unfair, keep being your best when life throws

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Speaker 1: you a curve. Rachel is coming. What God promised you

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Speaker 1: is still in route. Leah is a test. The ugly

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Speaker 1: situation is where you have to prove to God what

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Speaker 1: you're made up anyone can get soured. Forget you, Laban,

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Speaker 1: this is unfair. But if you don't deal with Leah properly,

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Speaker 1: you'll never see Rachel. It was necessary that Leah came first.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't a coincidence. That's just how the story pays out.

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Speaker 1: It was ordained by God. We can't see it at

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Speaker 1: the time. How any good can come out of this

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Speaker 1: an illness, We lost a loved one. It may not

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Speaker 1: be fair, but without it, you couldn't become all you

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Speaker 1: were created to be. It's depositing something in you. It's

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Speaker 1: stretching you, getting you prepared for things greater than you've imagined.

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Speaker 1: Jacob married Rachel, and he married Leah. He had two wives,

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Speaker 1: but he never really loved Leah. The scripture says that

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Speaker 1: Leah was disliked. She felt unwanted. She had baby after baby,

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Speaker 1: Over time, both Rachel and Leah had children. Leah had

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Speaker 1: was born through Leah's family line. Out of this ugly

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Speaker 1: situation came something magnificent, something Jacob couldn't see at the time.

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Speaker 1: All he saw was lab and tricked me, this is

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Speaker 1: not what we agreed to. I wanted the beautiful daughter,

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Speaker 1: not the unattractive one. But you don't know what God

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Speaker 1: is up to. Leah was necessary. If Jacob didn't have

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Speaker 1: Leah the ugly situation, we wouldn't have the Messiah. God

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Speaker 1: uses things that we don't like. He wouldn't have allowed

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Speaker 1: it if there wasn't a purpose. We don't understand it.

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Speaker 1: All we know is we prayed for Rachel. We did

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Speaker 1: Our child got in trouble. We didn't see this medical

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Speaker 1: is necessary. God is working behind the scenes. Stay in faith,

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Speaker 1: keep trusting. You won't see Rachel if you don't deal

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Speaker 1: the beautiful girl, the attractive one. But God was showing

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Speaker 1: us how he uses ugly situations to do something beautiful,

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Speaker 1: something that you had never seen, without the betrayal, without

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Speaker 1: the laws, without the adversity. Genesis forty nine. Jacob was

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Speaker 1: there I buried Leah. In those days, it was very

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Speaker 1: You would have put much time and effort into it

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Speaker 1: had great meaning and significance. Isn't it interesting that Jacob

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Speaker 1: didn't say, bury me next to Rachel. Make sure I'm

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Speaker 1: and admired you. No, Jacob said bury me next to Leah.

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Speaker 1: He was saying, in effect, when I look back over

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Speaker 1: my life, I realized Leah was necessary. I was uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: I didn't choose it. It's not what I expected. But

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have become who I am without Leah. And

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Speaker 1: to realize it wasn't just the good breaks, the Goddess

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Speaker 1: to where we are, the open doors, the happy times.

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Speaker 1: It was to Leah, the things we didn't like that

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Speaker 1: We stayed faithful, We trusted even though it didn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: That's where we grew. That's where our faith got stronger.

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Speaker 1: You may be dealing with Aleah now something you don't understand.

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Speaker 1: Have the right perspective. It's necessary. You couldn't become who

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Speaker 1: you were created to be without it. Don't fight it,

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Speaker 1: embrace it. It's not stopping you, it's preparing you. God

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have allowed that Leah, that ugly situation if he

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Speaker 1: didn't have something beautiful coming. Judah came out of Leah.

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Speaker 1: God chose to bring his only son through an ugly situation,

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Speaker 1: through the lineage of Leah. Your situation may be far

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Speaker 1: from beautiful. You were promised Rachel, but you got Leah.

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Speaker 2: Life throws so much at us disappointments, failures, challenges. We

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Speaker 1: Life has a way of changing us. At one time,

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