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

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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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 line. God bless you and

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

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media, and you can come

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Speaker 1: visit us in person. We'd love to have you be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny and I heard about this pastor.

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Speaker 1: He was walking down the street when he came upon

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Speaker 1: this group of young boys that were surrounding a small dog,

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Speaker 1: and he asked what they were doing. They said they

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Speaker 1: were having a contest that whoever could tell the biggest

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Speaker 1: lie would get to keep the dog. The pastor launched

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Speaker 1: into a ten minute sermon, starting with don't you know

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Speaker 1: lying is a sin and ending with when I was

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Speaker 1: your age, I never told a lie. There was complete silence,

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Speaker 1: and just when he thought he'd gotten through to them,

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Speaker 1: the young this boy spoke up and said, all right,

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Speaker 1: give him the dog. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about divine surprises. God has

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Speaker 1: moments of favor already lined up for you that you

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Speaker 1: didn't see coming. Unexpected blessings and good breaks that catch

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Speaker 1: you off guard. There was no sign of it. You

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Speaker 1: weren't next in line for the promotion. The medical report

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Speaker 1: said you weren't going to get well. You've been single

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Speaker 1: a long time, no indication anything was going to change.

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Speaker 1: Then suddenly your business takes off, your health turns around,

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Speaker 1: you meet the right person. Just a lucky break, just

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Speaker 1: a coincidence. That's a divine surprise, the hand of God

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Speaker 1: showing out in your life unexpectedly. You couldn't plan it,

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Speaker 1: no reason to believe it was going to happen. But

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Speaker 1: God steps in and says, surprise, does something out of

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Speaker 1: the ordinary you never saw coming. Deuteronomy twenty eight says,

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Speaker 1: if you'll obey God's word and follow his commands, then

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Speaker 1: all these blessings will overtake you. One translation of that

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Speaker 1: word overtake is to catch by surprise. You may be

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Speaker 1: in a situation that looks permanent. You've gone as far

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Speaker 1: as you can in your career, a child that will

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Speaker 1: will always hinder you. What you can't see is God

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Speaker 1: has some surprises come in your way. Because you're honoring him.

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Speaker 1: He has blessings that are going to overtake you. Favor

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Speaker 1: that you can outrun good breaks that chase you down.

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Speaker 1: Now get ready for some surprises, some unexpected blessings. You

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Speaker 1: look back and think, man, I didn't see that door opening,

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Speaker 1: I didn't see that person showing up. I didn't see

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Speaker 1: me feeling this good. I didn't see me running my

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Speaker 1: own business. One surprise and you'll go from struggling to overflow,

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Speaker 1: from being lonely to being with the person of your dreams,

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Speaker 1: from overcome with problems to overcome with opportunities. You wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be hearing this if God didn't have surprises come in

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Speaker 1: your way. He's about to do something suddenly, unexpectedly, favor

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Speaker 1: that catapults you ahead, good breaks that thrust you into

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Speaker 1: your destiny. You couldn't make it happen. It's not something

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Speaker 1: you worked for, you deserve, you had planned. It's the

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Speaker 1: favor of God breathing on your line, taking you where

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Speaker 1: you couldn't go on your own. And all through the

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Speaker 1: scripture we see these divine surprises. Paul and Silas were

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Speaker 1: God said, surprise. It looked impossible. The odds were against them.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes God waits on purpose, so it'll be a bigger miracle.

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Speaker 1: Not only will you know it's him, but other people

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Speaker 1: It's not practical. Now, don't get ready for a surprise.

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Speaker 1: What God started, He's going to finish. One surprise and

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Speaker 1: will open that you never imagine. Now thoughts what it's

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Speaker 1: not going to happen. It's too late for me, Joel,

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Speaker 1: too hard, too much opposition. Don't believe those lies. Turn

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Speaker 1: it around. Father, Thank you that you're a god of surprises.

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Speaker 1: Thank you that you have unexpected blessings in my future.

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Speaker 1: That you will get me to where I'm supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: John Chapter five. There was a man who had been

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Speaker 1: crippled for thirty eight years. Every day he went to

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Speaker 1: the first person in would get healed. Well. He didn't

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Speaker 1: One day Jesus came walking by him. He asked the

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Speaker 1: the water, and how impossible it was. Jesus simply said, rise,

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Speaker 1: What was that, God saying, surprise. The man thought he'd

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Speaker 1: be that way thirty eight more years, but suddenly he was, well,

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Speaker 1: you may be dealing with things that look like they'll

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Speaker 1: never change, your hell, your finances, your family. Like this man.

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Speaker 1: You've gone to the pool each day, you pray, believe,

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Speaker 1: done what you can. God sees your faithfulness. He sees

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Speaker 1: you doing the right thing when it's hard, believing when

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Speaker 1: There's a surprise coming, something unexpected, and it's interesting. The

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Speaker 1: man didn't go to Jesus. Jesus came to the man.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what God has come in your way.

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Speaker 1: have things that we're chasing, chasing our dreams, chasing good hell,

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Speaker 1: even more exciting is what God has chasing you, the

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Speaker 1: favor that He's already planned to overtake you. And here's

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Speaker 1: Strive and manipulate, force doors to open, make people like

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Speaker 1: you know. If you'll chase God, the blessings will chase you.

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Speaker 1: If you'll keep God first place, you won't be able

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Speaker 1: God has planned is so much bigger, so much more

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Speaker 1: blessings caught me by surprise. Twenty two years old, I

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Speaker 1: I don't know what she meant. It was an old

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Speaker 1: old fixer upper. But God said, surprise, that blessing cattle

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Speaker 1: pulled us ahead. What am I saying? God has some

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Speaker 1: you're chasing him. His blessings are going to chase you. See,

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Speaker 1: we look at our circumstances from a natural, logical point

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Speaker 1: But what you can't see are these divine surprises. Things

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Speaker 1: you could have never planned, Blessings that will catti pulled

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Speaker 1: After my father went to be with the Lord and

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Speaker 1: a larger auditorium. Twice the property we found was sold

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Speaker 1: was tempted to be discouraged. I didn't see how we

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Speaker 1: But God is supernatural. His ways are better than our ways.

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Speaker 1: Many times, the reason our plans aren't coming to pass

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Speaker 1: we wouldn't see the fullness of our destiny. In six

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Speaker 1: told me that the Rockets basketball team was moving out

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Speaker 1: I didn't see this coming. This was more than I

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Speaker 1: to have this facility. You know what, this building is

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Speaker 1: a surprise, God's blessing, chasing us down. I tried to

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Speaker 1: go after the other properties, but this building came to me.

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Speaker 1: You can look back in your life and see times

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Speaker 1: where God surprised you, opened doors, brought the right people,

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Speaker 1: no end to his surprises. Can I encourage you? Your

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Speaker 1: best surprises are still in front of you. God's going

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