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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 life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. We love you,

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Speaker 1: and if you're ever in our area, please stop buying.

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Speaker 1: Be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out.

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this reporter. He was visiting churches all across the country.

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Speaker 1: While in New York, he noticed this golden telephone on

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Speaker 1: the wall and a sign that said calls ten thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars per minute. He asked the pastor what it meant.

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Speaker 1: The pastor explained that was a direct line to Heaven.

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Speaker 1: If you were willing to pay the price, you could

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Speaker 1: talk directly to God. He continued visiting different churches and

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Speaker 1: saw the same phone with the same sign. When he

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Speaker 1: finally made it to Texas, he saw the phone, but

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Speaker 1: the sign said calls twenty five cents per minute. Intrigued,

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Speaker 1: he asked the pastor why it was so much cheaper.

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Speaker 1: The pastor said, you're in Texas now, it's a local call.

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Speaker 1: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about how God

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Speaker 1: is in control of the storm. Most of the time,

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Speaker 1: we believe God's in control when everything's going our way.

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Speaker 1: We're getting good breaks, business is up, the family is happy,

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Speaker 1: kids are making good grades. We know God's on the throne.

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Speaker 1: We know he's directing our steps. Life is good, but

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Speaker 1: having faith doesn't exempt us from difficulties. The storms of

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Speaker 1: life come to every person. We get a bad medical report,

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Speaker 1: difficult times, it's easy to think, God, where are you?

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Speaker 1: How could you let this happen to me? No, the

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Speaker 1: same God that's in control in the good times is

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Speaker 1: just as in control in the tough times. God will

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Speaker 1: not allow a storm unless he has a divine purpose

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Speaker 1: for it. He never said he would prevent every difficulty,

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Speaker 1: but God did promise he would use every difficulty. Here's

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Speaker 1: the key. God will direct the winds of the storm

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Speaker 1: to blow you where he wants you to go. We

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Speaker 1: see storms as being negative. Oh this is so bad,

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Speaker 1: can't believe this is happening to me. But God uses

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Speaker 1: the storm to move you from point A to point B.

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Speaker 1: The winds may be strong, the circumstances may look bad.

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Speaker 1: But if you'll stay in faith, not get better, not

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Speaker 1: start complaining, those winds will blow you to a new

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Speaker 1: level of your destiny. It may have been meant for

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Speaker 1: your harm. But God knows how to shift the winds.

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Speaker 1: Instead of blowing you backwards, he can cause them to

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Speaker 1: blow you forward where you not only come out better, stronger,

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Speaker 1: but that storm will move you to a place of

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Speaker 1: greater blessing, greater influence. And a lot of people say

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Speaker 1: they have faith, but in the tough times they fall apart.

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Speaker 1: They feel like God's disappointed them. They're not going to

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Speaker 1: be happy until the storm is over. But you have

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Speaker 1: to realize God is in control of that storm. Nothing

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Speaker 1: is happening without God's permission. If that storm was going

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Speaker 1: to keep you from your destiny, God would have never

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Speaker 1: allowed it. If that person that left you that financial

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Speaker 1: difficult that legal situation was going to stop God's plan

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Speaker 1: for your life, he would have never permitted it. The

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Speaker 1: reason he did was to move you one step closer

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Speaker 1: to your divine destiny. Instead of using our faith to

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Speaker 1: try to pray away every difficulty, we should use our

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Speaker 1: faith to believe that when the wind stopped blowing, will

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Speaker 1: be exactly where God wants us to be. This is

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Speaker 1: what the apostle Paul did. God promised that he would

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Speaker 1: stand before Caesar. He was doing the right thing, fulfilling

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Speaker 1: his purpose. When he was arrested, they put him on

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Speaker 1: There's bad weather up ahead. He had this inside information,

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Speaker 1: what must have been going through Paul's mind. Here he's

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Speaker 1: It's just another step on the way to your divine destiny.

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Speaker 1: Most storms, we can see the end at one point.

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Speaker 1: We know it's going to be over. We just have

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Speaker 1: to dig our heels in and endure it. But there

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Speaker 1: are some storms like Paul faced. You don't see any

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Speaker 1: sign of the end. Doesn't look like it's ever going

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Speaker 1: to turn around. In the natural, you'll never get well,

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Speaker 1: That was the storm Paul was facing. The crew finally

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Speaker 1: said to Paul, you were right. We should have listened

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Speaker 1: to you. Paul didn't say, I told you so. Now

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Speaker 1: in effect, don't worry about it. The God I Serve

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Speaker 1: has given me a promise. He said that I will

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Speaker 1: stand before Caesar. He would not have allowed this storm

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Speaker 1: When you have a promise deep down in your heart,

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Speaker 1: everything in the world can come against you. The dream

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Speaker 1: keep you from becoming who God's created you to be.

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Speaker 1: The wind became so strong, the waves so big, that

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Speaker 1: they could not control the ship anymore. Instead of fighting it,

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Speaker 1: instead of trying to steer it where they wanted it

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Speaker 1: to go, says in Acts twenty seven that they took

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Speaker 1: a point when you've done everything that you can. You've prayed,

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Speaker 1: you believed, you stood in faith. Now you've got to

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Speaker 1: to work out, and just relinquish control. Let the storm

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Speaker 1: never take you someplace where He won't sustain you. When

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Speaker 1: you relinquish control. In other words, when you quit worrying

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Speaker 1: I trust you, I know you control these winds. They

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Speaker 1: can either blow me backward, forward, sideways, up, down. But

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Speaker 1: one thing I'm confident in is where you take me,

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Speaker 1: is where I'm supposed to be. That's a powerful attitude.

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Speaker 1: When my father was seventy seven years old, he had

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Speaker 1: had done so many times before. But unfortunately, this time

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Speaker 1: God was still in control. That storm didn't defeat him.

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Speaker 1: It promoted him. Those winds blew him into his eternal home,

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Speaker 1: into the arms of his heavenly father. But for our family,

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Speaker 1: it seemed like everything was out of control. This was

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Speaker 1: one of those storms. We couldn't see the end. We

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Speaker 1: didn't know how it was going to work out. The

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Speaker 1: critics were saying Lakewood will never make it without my dad.

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Speaker 1: My own thoughts were telling me that it's never going

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Speaker 1: to work out. Lakewood has seen its best days. The

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Speaker 1: fact is God could have changed it. God had healed

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Speaker 1: my mother of terminal cancer years before. He's God. He

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Speaker 1: could have healed my father as well. But we all

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Speaker 1: faced situations that don't turn out the way we had hoped.

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Speaker 1: We prayed, we believed, but our loved one didn't make it.

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Speaker 1: Our prayers didn't get answered the way we wanted on

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Speaker 1: our timetable. It's easy to get negative, bitter, give up

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Speaker 1: I'd worked with him for many years. We'd traveled the

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Speaker 1: I had to do what I'm asking you to do,

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Speaker 1: I said, God, I know this storm is not a

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Speaker 1: surprise to you. I can't bring my dad back. I

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Speaker 1: can't make it happen my way. So God, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to turn loose of the cells and I'm gonna let

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Speaker 1: I relinquished control and came back to that place of

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Speaker 1: peace instead of worrying how's it gonna work out? What's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen? Next. No, God, I trust you. I know

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Speaker 1: scripture means. What is meant for your harm? God will

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Speaker 1: use to your advantage. The winds may be blowing in

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Speaker 1: your life today, the waves rage, and you don't see

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Speaker 1: the end. Why don't you take that step of faith

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Speaker 1: faithful God. His plan for your life will not be

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Speaker 1: to raise up a barrier. You may be in a storm,

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Speaker 1: there's pressure all around you. You could easily live worried.

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Speaker 1: But know this, the battle is not yours. The battle

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Speaker 1: is the lord's. God is saying, if you'll trust me,

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Speaker 1: I'll shift those winds, and instead of blowing you backwards,

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Speaker 1: they will thrust you forward. Today Lakewood is experiencing our

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Speaker 1: greatest days of ministry. The critics said we'd never make it,

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Speaker 1: But today Lakewood is stronger than ever. God used the

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Speaker 1: and God shifted the direction, and they've taken us places

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Speaker 1: we could have never gone on our own. The same

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Speaker 1: wind God uses to thrust you forward. I read about

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Speaker 1: Here he had practically built the company from ground up.

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Speaker 1: Just when he thought he could relax and enjoy the

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Speaker 1: all over. He felt betrayed the company that he gave

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Speaker 1: his life to. Just cut him loose. But he understood

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Speaker 1: this principle of how God can direct the winds of

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Speaker 1: he forgave the people that hurt him. He let go

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