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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry.

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Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 2: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Oh God bless you. And it's great to be with

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Speaker 1: you today.

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Speaker 2: And I hope you'll stay connected with us during the

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Speaker 2: week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media,

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Speaker 2: people in all of Houston, Texas are right here at

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Speaker 1: Of our services.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this man. He was the mayor of a small town.

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Speaker 2: He was in a parade, riding down main Street and

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Speaker 2: afloat with his wife. While he was waving at all

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Speaker 2: the people, he spotted his wife's formal boyfriend in the crowd.

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Speaker 1: He owned the local gas station. He whispered in her ear.

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Speaker 2: Aren't you glad you didn't marry him, you'd be working

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Speaker 2: at a gas station. She whispered back, No, if I

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Speaker 2: were to marry him, he would be the mayor that's

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Speaker 2: the way you need to see yourself as favored, influential,

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Speaker 2: as a mighty child of God. Come on, say like

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Speaker 2: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 2: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I'll boldly

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Speaker 2: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 2: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about the promise

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Speaker 2: is coming. We're all waiting for something, waiting for a

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Speaker 2: dream to come to pass, or waiting for a health

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Speaker 2: to improve, waiting.

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Speaker 1: For a child to turn around.

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Speaker 2: When it's taken a long time and we don't see

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Speaker 2: anything happening, it's easy to get discouraged and think that

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Speaker 2: it's not meant to be. But the scripture says in

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Speaker 2: Hebrew's ten, patient endurance is what you need now, then

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Speaker 2: you will receive.

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Speaker 1: All that God has promised.

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Speaker 2: This is saying, don't get talked out of what God

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Speaker 2: put in your heart.

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Speaker 1: Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Mean it's not going to happen. God is faithful, He

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Speaker 2: heard your request. He sees you standing in faith. He

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Speaker 2: hears you thanking him when you could be complaining. What

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Speaker 2: you're believing for is on the way. When you prayed

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Speaker 2: in faith according to God's will, he put the promise

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Speaker 2: on the schedule. He already set the time to bring

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Speaker 2: it to pass. You may not see any sign of it.

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Speaker 2: Nothing looks like it's changing. But God is working behind

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Speaker 2: the scenes. Things are happening right now that you can't see.

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Speaker 2: He's lining up the right people, arranging the good breaks,

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Speaker 2: the healing, the freedom, the abundance. It's just a matter

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Speaker 2: of time before you see what God is up to.

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Speaker 1: But here's the key. Before the promise.

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Speaker 2: Is fulfilled, you have to pass the discouragement test. Where

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Speaker 2: you're waiting and you don't see anything happening, doubt comes saying, man,

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Speaker 2: it would have happened by now.

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Speaker 1: It's too late.

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Speaker 2: You'll never get well, never meet the right person, never

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Speaker 2: see your family restore.

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Speaker 1: This is where many people miss their miracle.

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Speaker 2: They get discouraged and think that God has forgotten about them.

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Speaker 2: What you do while you're waiting will determine whether you

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Speaker 2: see the promise. That's why God said you need patient endurance,

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Speaker 2: not just patience, but endurance that means you're not going

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Speaker 2: You're going to keep thanking God when you don't see

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Speaker 2: any sign.

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Speaker 1: You're going to keep believing when.

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Speaker 2: Every circumstances there's no way. When you do that, God

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Speaker 2: says you will receive all that he promised, not some,

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Speaker 2: not most of it, not ninety percent. No, you'll see

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Speaker 2: the fullness of the blessing. You may be in a

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Speaker 2: what God has put in your heart, settled for less.

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Speaker 1: No, don't water down your dreams.

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Speaker 2: Don't let delays convince you to lower your expectations.

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Speaker 2: You'll never meet a spouse, or you can't start that business.

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Speaker 1: You're doing all right, Just accept where you are.

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Speaker 2: No, God didn't put that promise in you to tease

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Speaker 1: Up and then never let it happen.

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Speaker 2: He put it there because He has every intention of

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Speaker 1: I will not give up.

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Speaker 2: I will not let doubt, people, delays, circumstances, bad breaks

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Speaker 1: You have to have a made up mind.

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Speaker 2: We're all going to wait, but how we wait makes

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Speaker 2: all the difference. David said in Psalms, bring your request

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Speaker 2: before God and wait expectantly, Wait in faith, Wait knowing

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Speaker 2: that God is working, wait expecting it to show up.

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Speaker 2: Every time doubt comes and it's been too long, it's

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Speaker 2: never going to happen. Turn it around. Father, Thank you

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Speaker 2: that healing is coming. Thank you that breakthroughs are coming.

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Speaker 2: Thank you that abundance is coming. It's not enough to

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Speaker 2: just pray in faith. That's important, but you have to

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Speaker 2: wait in faith, wait with expectancy, not God. This has

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Speaker 2: taken so long. I just don't understand it. That kind

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Speaker 2: of waiting is canceling out your prayer.

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Speaker 1: Try a different approach. Lord.

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Speaker 2: I thank you that what you promise me is already

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Speaker 2: en route. I know it could happen this month, it

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Speaker 2: I'm expecting your goodness. I'm expecting the right person to

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Speaker 2: show out. I'm expecting my health.

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Speaker 1: To turn around now. While you're waiting, there will be

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Speaker 2: If you're single and believing to meet someone, Don't be

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Speaker 2: surprised if you see your best friend get married, your cousin,

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Speaker 2: your coworker, your next door neighbor, your great great grandmother

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Speaker 2: on her honeymoon and ask you to keep the dog.

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Speaker 1: You'll be tempted to think I give up. You know

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Speaker 1: the right attitude is God. You did it for.

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Speaker 2: Them, I know you can do it for me. I

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Speaker 2: know my time is coming.

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Speaker 1: I know what you promised me is already on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I've learned. When it's taking a long.

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Speaker 2: Time, it's because what God has for you is going

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Speaker 2: to be better than you thought, more rewarding, more fulfilling.

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Speaker 2: Don't despise the waiting period. God knows what's best for us.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we're waiting because another person is not ready, or

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Speaker 2: we're waiting because God is getting us prepared to handle

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Speaker 2: the weight of blessing.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a big blessing, but.

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Speaker 2: It's going to require greater maturity, greater character. We all

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Speaker 2: want everything fast, me included, but God knows when the

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Speaker 2: right time is. One of the best things I've learned

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Speaker 2: is to trust God's timing. If it hasn't happened yet,

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Speaker 2: then it hasn't been the right time. But I can

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Speaker 2: assure you when God is ready, all the forces of

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Speaker 2: darkness cannot hold him back. It says in a backup

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Speaker 2: God has an appointed time to bring the promise to pass,

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Speaker 2: and it will not be one second late. Thoughts will

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Speaker 2: tell you you're falling behind, You're missing out.

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Speaker 2: When you come into your appointed time, God will make

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Speaker 2: up for what looks like lost time.

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Speaker 1: God knows how to catapult you ahead.

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Speaker 2: He knows how to thrust you from the background to

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Speaker 1: Looks like it will take years to get well.

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Speaker 2: But one touch of God's favor and suddenly it happens.

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Speaker 1: Years for your business to grow.

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Speaker 2: But when you hit that appointed time, suddenly it takes off.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly you meet the right person, Suddenly your child is

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Speaker 1: You can't explain it, it doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 2: It's just the goodness of God pushing you into your destiny.

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Speaker 2: How does this happen? Through patient endurance, believing when there's

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Speaker 2: no sign thanking God that is coming. When your mind

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Speaker 2: says it's never going to happen, you may have been

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Speaker 2: waiting a long time and thoughts are trying to talk

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Speaker 2: you out of it.

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Speaker 1: God is saying, get a.

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Speaker 2: New grip, take hold of his promises in a new way.

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Speaker 1: Make up your mind.

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Speaker 2: No matter how long it takes or how impossible it looks,

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Speaker 2: You're going to be a believer and not a doubter.

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Speaker 2: The right attitude is what God promised me will come

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Speaker 2: to pass. I will lend, not borrow. I will live

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Speaker 2: and not die. My children will be mighty in the land.

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Speaker 2: I am free from every addiction. My latter days will

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Speaker 2: be better than my former days. You keep declaring that,

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Speaker 2: keep waiting with expectancy. You're gonna see God show out

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Speaker 2: in your life. He's gonna do things that are uncommon, unusual.

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Speaker 2: You didn't see it coming.

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Speaker 1: It's the greatness of our God.

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Speaker 2: The next verse in Hebrews says, for in just a

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Speaker 2: little while, the coming One will come and will not delay.

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Speaker 2: It's significant that right after it talks about having patient endurance,

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Speaker 2: it refers to God as.

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Speaker 2: This is saying, while you're waiting, while thoughts of doubt

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Speaker 2: to have this image of God as the coming one,

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Speaker 2: not the delayed one, not the forgot about you one,

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Speaker 2: not that you don't deserve it one. Have a new perspective.

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Speaker 2: The God we serve is the coming one. He's coming

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Speaker 2: with healing. He's coming with favor. He's coming with salvation

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Speaker 2: for your children. He's coming with that dream he put

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Speaker 2: in your heart. He's coming with the spouse he already

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Speaker 2: picked out for you. He's coming with freedom for your

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Speaker 1: Thoughts were tell you it's never gonna happen. Can I

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Speaker 2: The Coming One is already on the way. The healing

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Speaker 2: is already en route, The abundance is already in motion.

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Speaker 2: That breakthrough is already heading towards you. When you know this,

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Speaker 2: it's easy to wait with expectancy. It's easy to believe

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Speaker 2: when you don't see a sign. You know God as

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Speaker 2: not just your savior, not just as your creator, but

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 1: Him as the coming One. I love what it says.

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Speaker 2: For in a little while, the coming One will come

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Speaker 2: and not delay. He doesn't say in a long time,

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Speaker 2: years from now, sometime in the sweet by and bye,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna be blessed.

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Speaker 1: No, in just a little while, you're going.

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Speaker 2: To see God do something awesome in your life.

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Speaker 1: In just a little while. The right person is going

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Speaker 1: to show up. In just a little while. Your business

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Speaker 1: is going to take off.

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Speaker 2: In just a little while, your health is going to

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Speaker 1: Don't believe those forever lies. The enemy loves to whisper.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be years before you get well, years

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Speaker 2: before that depression leaves, years before you break that addiction.

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Speaker 2: It's trying to get you discouraged, doubting, where you give

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Speaker 2: Healing from this cancer in Rolph, freedom from this addiction, JORL.

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Speaker 2: I don't see anything happening. Be patient is in Ralph.

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Speaker 2: You don't know what's already en route to you. You

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Speaker 2: People telling her no, she didn't have the funds, but

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Speaker 2: already headed to Lakewood. When it seemed impossible. Don't go

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Speaker 2: when God loves to show up. When the odds are

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Speaker 2: against you, nothing looks possible.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly Samuel comes knocking on your door.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly, Richard, whom you've never met, says, God sent me

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Speaker 2: wait knowing that God heard your request, that he set

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Speaker 2: Fifteen years later, my mother wasn't believing for a swimming pool.

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Speaker 1: She was believing for her life.

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Speaker 2: She was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer and given a

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Speaker 2: unshakable faith, not being talked out of what God put

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Speaker 1: Deep down, she knew that healing.

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Speaker 2: Was already en route, just like Rich showed up unexpectedly,

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Speaker 2: that the coming one was on his way with healing

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Speaker 2: in his wings. Four decades later, my mother is still

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Speaker 2: alive and healthy, the goodness of our God. The Israelites

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Speaker 2: had wandered in the desert for many years and didn't

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Speaker 1: They felt stuck.

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Speaker 2: But Deuteronomy's six says, the Lord, your God will soon

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Speaker 2: bring you into the land he promised.

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Speaker 1: It's filled with prosperous cities that you didn't build.

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Speaker 2: The houses are stocked with goods you didn't produce.

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Speaker 1: You will draw from wells that you did not dig.

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Speaker 2: After all this time of waiting, wondering, dealing with the heat,

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Speaker 2: the opposition, God said, you're coming in to your appointed time.

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Speaker 1: Soon.

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Speaker 2: You're going to go into a land like nothing you've

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Speaker 1: You may have been waiting for a long time.

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Speaker 2: You could easily settle where you are, think that it's

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Speaker 2: never going to change. But you've fought off the doubt.

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Speaker 2: You've waited with expectancy. You've kept an attitude of faith.

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Speaker 2: God is saying to you.

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Speaker 1: Soon you're going to see your healing. Soon. The right

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Speaker 1: person is going to show up. Soon, that new door

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Speaker 2: You're on the verge of seeing God do something that

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Speaker 2: you've never seen. The coming one is about to show

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Speaker 2: up with blessings, with favor, with opportunity. There are things

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Speaker 2: already en route to you right now that you can't imagine.

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Speaker 2: Now do your part and keep thanking him for what

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Speaker 1: On the way.

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Speaker 2: If you'll do this, I believe and declare, Like with David,

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Speaker 2: Samuel's going to come looking for you, like with my mother,

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Speaker 2: vindication of abundance. God is going to show out in

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Speaker 2: your life. I believe it and declare it in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: And if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd

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Speaker 2: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I

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