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Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 6: about these three men that were traveling together, a Hindu priest,

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Speaker 6: a Jewish rabbi, and a televangelist. They stopped at a

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Speaker 6: farmhouse for lodging. Farmers said, I only have room for

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Speaker 6: stay out in the barn. The Hindu priest said, I'll

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Speaker 6: do it in a few minutes. There was a knock

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Speaker 6: on the door. He said, I can't stay out there.

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Speaker 6: There's a cow and cows are sacred in our religion.

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Speaker 6: The Jewish rabbi said, I'll do it.

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Speaker 6: A knock on the door said I can't stay out there.

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Speaker 6: There was a pig and that wouldn't be kosher. The

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Speaker 6: televangels said, okay, I'll do it. A few minutes there

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Speaker 6: was a knock on the door. It was the cow

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Speaker 4: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible.

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Speaker 6: I am what it says, I am, I have what

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Speaker 6: I can do what it says I can do. Today,

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Speaker 6: I will be taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess.

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Speaker 6: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 6: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 6: I want to talk to you today about all is well.

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Speaker 6: It's easy to go through life worried about the future,

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Speaker 6: frustrated because the dream is taking so long, upset because

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Speaker 6: somebody did us wrong. But instead of complaining about the difficulty,

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Speaker 6: instead of being sour because your plans didn't work out,

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Speaker 6: God is still on the throne. He's directing your steps.

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Speaker 4: He wouldn't have allowed it unless he had a purpose

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Speaker 6: When you're tempted to get discouraged, keep reminding yourself.

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Speaker 6: I lost my biggest client. I'm not stressed over it.

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Speaker 6: I know something better is coming. All is well. I

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Speaker 4: God is my vindicator. All is well. Prayed for my

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Speaker 4: I know they're in heaven rejoicing, where there is no pain.

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Speaker 4: All is well.

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Speaker 6: When you have this all is well attitude. There's a peace,

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Speaker 6: on a roller coaster. You know, all is well when

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Speaker 6: you're on the mountaintop, and all is well in the valley.

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Speaker 6: All is well when business is great, and all is

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Speaker 6: well when it's not so great. You have a made

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Speaker 6: up mind. You know God is bigger than any obstacle.

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Speaker 4: As long as you stay in faith, nothing can keep

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Speaker 6: That's what three Hebrew teenagers did in the scripture shad

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Speaker 6: Raknijak a Bendigo. They refuse to bow down to the

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Speaker 6: a fiery furnace. They could have complained, God is not fair,

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Speaker 6: No, they said to the king, we're not going to bow.

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Speaker 6: he doesn't, we're still not going to bow. They were saying,

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Speaker 6: is well if it doesn't go our way, all is

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Speaker 6: if they don't get answered. The king had them thrown

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Speaker 6: didn't we throw three men in bound? I see four

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Speaker 6: men loose, and one looks like the son of God.

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Speaker 6: When you know, all is well, the creator of the

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Speaker 6: universe will make things happen that you could never make happen,

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Speaker 6: like these teenagers.

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Speaker 4: You may be in a.

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Speaker 6: Situation where you don't see a way out. You could

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Speaker 6: be discouraged, upset, stressed. No, you need to start declaring

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Speaker 6: all as well. I'm struggling in my marriage, but I'm

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Speaker 4: All is well.

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Speaker 6: I'm dealing with this addiction, not where I thought i'd

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Speaker 6: be in life, but I'm not discouraged. God is still

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Speaker 4: All is well.

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Speaker 6: I never thought i'd be facing this legal problem, this sickness,

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Speaker 6: is well, I'm at peace. I know God is in

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Speaker 4: Maybe you're single.

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Speaker 6: You thought you would have met somebody by now, let

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Speaker 4: All is well.

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Speaker 6: God already has the right person lined up for you.

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Speaker 6: They are in your future. Now stay in agreement with God.

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Speaker 6: Don't go around thinking, oh, it's never gonna happen, nor

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Speaker 4: All is well.

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Speaker 6: Maybe your child made some poor choices. Worrying is not

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Speaker 6: going to help. Losing sleep doesn't make it better. All

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Speaker 6: through the day, let this phrase play in your mind.

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Speaker 4: All is well. You'll hear the voice. What if he

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Speaker 4: doesn't change? Answer back? All is well? What if he

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Speaker 4: gets in more trouble? All is well? What if it

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Speaker 6: Replace the thoughts of worry with all is well. Maybe

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Speaker 6: the medical report wasn't good. It would be easy to

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Speaker 6: let those words.

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Speaker 4: Play all day long.

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Speaker 6: You're not gonna make it, Learn to live with it. No,

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Speaker 4: All is well.

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Speaker 6: The number of my days God will fulfilled. Nothing can

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Speaker 6: snatch me out of his hands. Or perhaps a legal

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Speaker 6: situation you don't like it. It wasn't fair, But all

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Speaker 6: is well, it says in Psalms, the trap the enemy

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Speaker 6: set for me, they will fall in themselves. When you

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Speaker 6: meditate on this simple phrase, all is well, you're saying God,

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Speaker 6: I trust you. You're bigger than this problem. You can

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Speaker 4: It's interesting.

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Speaker 6: The Hebrew teenagers were doing the right thing when the

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Speaker 6: wrong thing happened to them. Being in God's perfect will

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Speaker 6: doesn't mean we won't have difficulties. You can't reach your

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Speaker 6: destiny without opposition, unfair situations, people doing you wrong. When

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Speaker 6: things come against you. It's easy to think, Joel.

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Speaker 4: All is not well. Look at these difficulties. Now.

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Speaker 6: The truth is, the enemy wouldn't be fighting you unless

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Speaker 6: can stay in faith, you can declare all is well,

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Speaker 6: knowing that that opposition is a sign that's something great

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Speaker 6: when you face various trials. Don't get bent out of

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Speaker 6: Sometimes we face difficulties not because we're doing doing something wrong,

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Speaker 6: come from? I didn't sow these seeds. Any time, you're

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Speaker 6: You find some weeds among your wheat like this farmer,

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Speaker 6: doesn't mean you've done anything wrong. We think I've been

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Speaker 6: loyal to this company for twenty years. How could they

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Speaker 6: veering off course. I just don't understand it. Those are

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Speaker 6: simply weeds that the enemy has so into your field.

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Speaker 6: The good news is those weeds cannot keep you from

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Speaker 6: he would have never permitted it. What I've learned is

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Speaker 6: the weeds always pop up right.

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Speaker 4: Before the harvest.

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Speaker 6: Your business slows down, a child acts up, if you

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Speaker 6: have trouble in a relationship, don't panic.

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Speaker 4: You are close to your breakthrough.

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Speaker 6: Your harvest is about to come. That's why the weeds

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Speaker 6: are popping up. And instead of falling apart, God, why

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Speaker 6: did this happen? Know our attitude should be it'snow big deal.

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Speaker 6: It's just another weed. I didn't sow it. I don't

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Speaker 6: have to reap it. God said he would take care

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Speaker 6: of it for me. If for some reason you were

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Speaker 6: to lose your job, don't panic. That's just a weed

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Speaker 6: popping up. You stay in faith and God will give

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Speaker 6: you a better job. If the medical report is negative,

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Speaker 6: don't get discouraged. See that sickness as a weed. It

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Speaker 6: you have the most powerful force in the universe breathing

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Speaker 4: Now all is well.

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Speaker 6: A mature attitude is all is well. If my prayers

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Speaker 6: You don't live sour because your prayers didn't get answered

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Speaker 4: Life may have thrown me a few.

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Speaker 6: Curves, but it is well with my soul. All my

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Speaker 6: dreams haven't come to pass yet, but it is well.

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Speaker 6: Went through a divorce, I'm not bitter.

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Speaker 4: It is well. Lost a loved one, don't understand it,

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Speaker 4: but it is well with my soul.

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Speaker 6: Fifteen years ago Thursday, my father went to be with

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Speaker 6: the Lord and I received a call from my mother

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Speaker 6: that night, Joel, come over quick.

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Speaker 4: Daddy's had a heart attack. He died the next day.

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Speaker 4: It seemed like everything was out of control.

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Speaker 6: We didn't know what was going to happen to the church,

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Speaker 6: would people keep coming, who would the pastor be There

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Speaker 6: were all these variables. In the midst of that storm.

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Speaker 6: The waves seem so big, the winds were howling. We

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Speaker 6: could have gotten discouraged, depressed. But really we did what

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Speaker 6: I'm asking you to do. We said by faith, all

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Speaker 6: is well. And sometimes you have to announce it, not

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Speaker 6: only so you can hear it, not only so God

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Speaker 6: can hear it, but so the enemy can hear it.

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Speaker 6: He's expecting you to fall apart, get depressed, give up

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Speaker 6: on your dreams. But when you look at adversity in

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Speaker 6: the eye and you're not moved by it, you've still

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Speaker 6: got a report of victory. You've still got a smile

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Speaker 6: on your face. You're still being good to people. That

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Speaker 6: gives him a nervous breakdown. He hits you with his

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Speaker 6: best shot, but his best was not enough. He doesn't

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Speaker 6: have the final say. God has the final say, and

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Speaker 6: God has not brought you this far to leave you.

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Speaker 6: You've seen God's goodness, mercy, favor in the past. You're

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Speaker 6: going to see it again in the future. When it's

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Speaker 6: all said and done, you'll still be standing strong.

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Speaker 4: Now, you've got to do your part and speak victory

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Speaker 4: into your future.

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Speaker 6: If you don't talk to yourself the right way, negative

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Speaker 6: thoughts will try to talk you out of it. The

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Speaker 6: what ifs will bombard your mind. What if people don't

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Speaker 6: keep coming, Joel, What if you don't meet the right person,

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Speaker 6: What if you don't have the funds, What if your

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Speaker 6: health doesn't improve? No, declare it by faith. All is

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Speaker 6: well God. I may not see away, but I know

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Speaker 6: you have a way. This may be a surprise to me,

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Speaker 6: but it's not a surprise to you. Week after week,

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Speaker 6: month after month, I kept meditating on that simple phrase,

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Speaker 6: all as well. Today, we don't have to say it

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Speaker 6: by faith. We can say it as a fact. Lakewood

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Speaker 6: is well, the Church is strong, greatest days are still

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Speaker 6: out in front of us.

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Speaker 4: The future is right.

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Speaker 6: How you respond in the difficult times will determine whether

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Speaker 6: or not you reach the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 4: If we would have.

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Speaker 6: Gotten depressed, discouraged in self pity, we would not be

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Speaker 6: here today.

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Speaker 4: Friends.

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Speaker 6: There will be obstacles on the way to your promised land.

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Speaker 6: We all have weeds sown into feels, things that don't

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Speaker 6: make sense. We don't like it, loss, unfair situations, disappointments.

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Speaker 6: But don't complain, don't get bitter. Do like Daniel, Do

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Speaker 6: like Joe, Do like the young couple in the house.

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Speaker 6: Dare to say all is well. That shows God that

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Speaker 6: you're trusting him. That's what allows him to.

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Speaker 4: Give you beauty for ashes, to.

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Speaker 6: Turn what was meant for your harm and turn it

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Speaker 6: into your advantage. Maybe you're in a situation now that

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Speaker 6: you could be discouraged, upset. You don't see how it

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Speaker 6: could ever work out in your favor. But Isaiah three

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Speaker 6: says say to the righteous, it shall be well with you.

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Speaker 4: You are the righteous.

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Speaker 6: God says say this to you, it shall be well.

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Speaker 6: Not hope, so not maybe not if you get lucky. No,

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Speaker 6: God promises it shall be well with you. Maybe you

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Speaker 6: lost a loved one. You don't see how you can

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Speaker 6: go on.

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Speaker 4: That is not the end, that is a new beginning.

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Speaker 4: Shall be well with you.

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Speaker 6: The job situation didn't work out, you lost a client.

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Speaker 4: You God let go, don't worry. God has something better.

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Speaker 4: It shall be well with you.

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Speaker 6: You're struggling in your finances. You don't know how you're

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Speaker 6: going to make it. God's got it all figured out.

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Speaker 6: He's called the Lord, our provider. He closed the lilies

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Speaker 6: of the field, he feeds the birds of the air.

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Speaker 4: It shall be well with you.

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Speaker 6: I'm asking you all through the day to let this

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Speaker 6: phrase play in your mind. When you're tempted to get upset,

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Speaker 6: to be worried, offended, just smile, no thanks.

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Speaker 4: I know all is well friends.

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Speaker 6: God has promised that all things, not some, all.

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Speaker 4: Things are going to work out for your good. That

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Speaker 4: means even the weeds are going to work to your advantage.

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Speaker 6: You may have some weeds in your life right now,

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Speaker 6: you remember that's a sign that.

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Speaker 4: You are close to your harvest.

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Speaker 6: You're about to see a breakthrough, healing, restoration, promotion.

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Speaker 4: You may have to say it by faith.

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Speaker 6: Today, but one day, like the lady and Elisha, you

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Speaker 6: will say it as a fact. All is well in

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Speaker 6: my health, got a good medical report, all is well

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Speaker 6: in my career. Dreams are coming to past. All is

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Speaker 6: well with my children. They're fulfilling their destinies. You will

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Speaker 6: see the faithfulness of God.

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Speaker 4: Promises will be fulfilled. Negative situations will turn around.

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Speaker 6: I believe and declare you're coming into your harvest the

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Speaker 6: fullness of your destiny. It shall be well with you

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Speaker 6: in Jesus's name, if you receive it.

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Speaker 4: Can you say him in today? We never like to.

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Speaker 6: Close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus.

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Speaker 4: The Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 6: Just say Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 6: into my heart, wash me clean. I make you my

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