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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the podcast today, Victorien. I

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Speaker 1: as praying for you and just believing for God's very best.

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Speaker 2: I believe that this month is going to be an

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Speaker 2: amazing month for you and your family.

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Speaker 1: Keep that expectation in your heart and see what God

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Speaker 1: will do. Well. God bless you. It's always a joy

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Speaker 1: to come into your homes. We love you. We know

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Speaker 1: God has great things in store. He rewards the people

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Speaker 1: that seek after him.

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Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, please stop by and

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Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 2: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for tuning in. Thanks again for coming out today.

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

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Speaker 2: about this husband and wife. They argued month after month

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Speaker 2: about who should make the coffee in the morning. The

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Speaker 1: She just didn't agree.

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Speaker 2: And after several heated debates, the wife finally said, I

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Speaker 2: can prove to you from the Scripture that the man.

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Speaker 1: Is supposed to make the coffee.

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Speaker 2: He said, what are you talking about in the Bible

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Speaker 2: about the man making the coffee?

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Speaker 1: She said, sure, there is. She opened her Bible and

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Speaker 1: pointed to the Book of he Brews. All right, say

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

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

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about how you are blessed

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Speaker 2: and cannot be cursed.

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Speaker 1: In life.

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Speaker 2: We all have negative things that happen to us. We

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Speaker 2: go through situations that are unfair. If we're not careful,

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Speaker 2: they can cloud our future and keep us from pressing forward.

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Speaker 2: And I know people that weren't raised in a healthy environment.

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Speaker 2: They had parents that had issues, and now it's making

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Speaker 2: it much more difficult on them. A young man recently

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Speaker 2: told how his father was an alcoholic.

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Speaker 1: He was never around when he was growing up.

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Speaker 2: His mom had plenty of issues of her own, and

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Speaker 2: he ended up being passed from foster home to foster home,

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Speaker 2: and now he's struggling trying to overcome his own challenges.

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Speaker 2: He said, Joel, my parents put me at such a

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Speaker 1: Like they cursed my future. But here's what I've learned.

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Speaker 2: Before anyone could put a curse on you, God put

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Speaker 2: a blessing on you. The good news is the blessing

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Speaker 2: always overrides the curse. When you understand who you are

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Speaker 2: and what God has already done, then no matter what

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Speaker 1: You were raised, you won't get better.

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Speaker 2: You won't live with a chip on your shoulder, you

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Speaker 2: won't try to get even. You realize that cannot stop

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Speaker 2: you from fulfilling your God given destiny. You may have

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Speaker 2: had parents that put you at a disadvantage, but understand

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Speaker 2: you didn't come from your mother. Of course, we love

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Speaker 2: our mothers, but you didn't come from your mother. You

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Speaker 2: came through your mother. You came from Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: He gave you life, He gave your breath. God used

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Speaker 1: our mother to get us here. But we came from God.

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Speaker 2: That means your destiny, your assignment, your purpose cannot be

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Speaker 2: most high God. He has the ultimate saying. I had

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Speaker 2: cocaine babies. Her mother had all kinds of addictions, and

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Speaker 2: and now she's struggling with other addictions, with her sense

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Speaker 2: You came from Almighty God, and he has already planned

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Speaker 2: I heard somebody say, don't let your heredity stop your destiny.

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Speaker 1: Don't let how somebody treated you or what they.

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Speaker 2: doesn't have to be your future. You can be the

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Speaker 1: You don't have to keep letting that.

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Speaker 2: the one to say no more, this is a new day.

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Speaker 2: I may have had an unfair past, but I'm not

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Speaker 2: you said, Joel, I was just raising such a dysfunctional family.

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Speaker 2: You should see how messed up we are. So let

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Speaker 2: me tell you a secret. Every family has a little dysfunction.

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Speaker 2: There is no such thing as the perfect family. I

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Speaker 2: used to think we were. Then my brother Paul came along.

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Speaker 2: What am I saying? Quit making excuses. I know people

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Speaker 2: may have been unfair. All I'm saying is, don't let

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Speaker 1: God knew who your parents would be.

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Speaker 2: Your mom and dad didn't just get together and decide

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Speaker 1: No, before you were even a thought in their mind.

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Speaker 2: God had already planned out your life.

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Speaker 1: Talks about in Psalm one nine, how God.

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Speaker 2: Knew us even when we were an unformed substance. He

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Speaker 2: for this person. This is when they will live, This

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Speaker 2: is who their parents will be, This is their assignment.

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Speaker 2: He then breathed his life into you and sent you

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Speaker 2: through your mother, through your father. They may have had issues,

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Speaker 2: but that doesn't have to stop you. The creator of

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Speaker 2: the universe breathed his purpose into you. You are a

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Speaker 2: person of destiny. You've got to have this down in

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Speaker 2: your spirit. You are not an accident. You have been

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Speaker 1: This time in history.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we hear parents say we weren't expecting this child.

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Speaker 1: They were a surprise. They were an accident.

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Speaker 2: No, they may have been a surprise to you, but

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Speaker 2: they weren't a surprise to Almighty God.

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Speaker 2: No child can be born without God breathing his life

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Speaker 2: into them. You may think, well, Joel, I was unwanted.

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Speaker 2: I was an unplanned pregnancy. My mother and father weren't married. No,

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Speaker 2: you wouldn't be here if God didn't give life to

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Speaker 2: God had already planned out your days long before you

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Speaker 2: before you were born, I knew you, and I already.

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Speaker 2: Notice he had an assignment from Almighty God before he

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Speaker 2: have a mother that really loved you and spoke faith

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Speaker 2: fulfilling your purpose. A parent may not have given you

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Speaker 2: their blessing. The good news is God gave you his blessing.

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Speaker 2: The very fact that we woke up with air to

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Speaker 2: You've got to get rid of every thought that's telling

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Speaker 2: you that you're a mistake. You didn't really have a

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Speaker 1: Father to the fatherless.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to have everybody else's approval you have

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Speaker 2: God's approval, that's all that really matters. I think about

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Speaker 2: our friend Israel Houghton, one of our worship leaders, when

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Speaker 2: his mom was pregnant with him. She was a teenager

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Speaker 2: living in Iowa. She was white, the father was black.

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Speaker 2: They weren't married. This was back in the nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 2: Her parents said, you're not gonna keep this child.

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Speaker 2: You're going to ruin your life and the baby's life.

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Speaker 2: They gave her an ultimatum, either abort this baby, or.

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Speaker 2: Sadly, sometimes when our children need us the most, we

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Speaker 2: to keep the child. She moved to California all by herself.

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Speaker 2: At seventeen years of age. She was on the street

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Speaker 2: We all know that Israel was not a mistake.

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Speaker 1: He was not an act for them.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the great worship leaders, one of the

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Speaker 1: He's written songs that are sung.

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Speaker 2: Israel new I'm a person of destiny. I have a

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Speaker 2: I love her, But I came from Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: I know he has an assignment for me.

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Speaker 2: Reasons why you could live with a chip on your

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Speaker 2: breathed his life into you. He's given you an assignment.

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Speaker 2: You are not here to just take up. You're not

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Speaker 2: You're supposed to be living an abundant life, pursuing your God.

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Speaker 2: settling where I am. It may have been unfair, it

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Speaker 2: may not have been right, but I know who I am.

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Speaker 2: I am a person of destiny. I'm a person of purpose,

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Speaker 2: and I realized before anyone could put a curse on me,

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Speaker 2: God put his blessing on me.

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Speaker 1: So I am going to rise.

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Speaker 1: Here's my point. You've got to get rid of any

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Speaker 2: the wrong family. No God knew who your parents would be.

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Speaker 2: That's the attitude we should have. Somebody talking about you,

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Speaker 2: you don't get upset. You know, the more they talk,

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Speaker 2: What God has blessed, no person can curse. Does it

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Speaker 2: When you really understand this, there's a real freedom. Somebody's

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Speaker 2: I know they are powerless to stop the blessing God

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Speaker 1: Well, you got laid off, got some bad breaks. Aren't

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Speaker 2: I know the blessing God put on me will always

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Speaker 1: They think if they can.

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Speaker 2: It may mean talking behind your back, not inviting you

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Speaker 2: to an important meeting, not giving you the credit you deserve.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to get frustrated and want to get in

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Speaker 2: there and set the record straight. But I've learned if

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Speaker 2: you'll just leave it up to God, God and still

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Speaker 2: on the high road, God will fight your battles for you.

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Speaker 2: It may look like they're getting the best of you,

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Speaker 2: like they're keeping you from being promoted, but don't get discouraged.

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Speaker 1: Your time is coming. God always has the final say.

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Speaker 2: They may keep you down temporarily, but like Balem said,

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Speaker 2: they are powerless to curse what God has already blessed.

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Speaker 1: One night, this king couldn't sleep.

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Speaker 2: He asked an assistant to go get him the record

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Speaker 1: Had gone on in that city. It just so happened.

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Speaker 2: He opened to the page where it talked about where

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Speaker 2: Mordecai had done a great deed and saved the city

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Speaker 2: from harm.

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Speaker 1: The next morning, the king called Haman in and.

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Speaker 2: Said, Hayman, what do you suggest I do to honor

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Speaker 2: a person that has really pleased the king and done

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Speaker 2: a great deed for our city. Haman was so full

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Speaker 2: of pride and so stuck on himself he thought the

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Speaker 2: king was talking about him, so he played it up

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Speaker 2: really big. He went overboard. He said, I think water

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Speaker 2: have a big parade, Put a royal robe on this person,

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Speaker 2: march him up and down the streets, blowing trumpets, announcing

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Speaker 2: how great he is. The king said, Hayman, that's a

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Speaker 2: great idea. I'm putting you in charge. Now go get

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Speaker 2: Mordecai and do just what you said. Friends, God knows

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Speaker 2: how to vindicate you. He can take the very ones

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Speaker 2: that are trying to curse you and use them to

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Speaker 2: be the ones that bless you. David said in Psalm

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Speaker 2: one O nine. They will curse me, but God you

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Speaker 2: will bless me. Some of you have had a lot

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Speaker 2: of negative things come against you. It's worn you down

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Speaker 2: to where you're not really expecting God's blessings that I

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Speaker 2: believe today a new seed is taken root. You're not

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Speaker 2: gonna let your heredity stop your destiny. You're not gonna

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Speaker 2: allow what someone has said to keep you from pressing forward.

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna let a jealous, critical person steal your joy.

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Speaker 1: You know God, God is fighting your battles.

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Speaker 2: You know He put a blessing before anyone could put

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Speaker 2: a curse. And I realized you could not choose who

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Speaker 2: your parents were. You couldn't choose how you were raised,

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Speaker 2: you couldn't choose when you were born. But you can

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Speaker 2: choose to walk in the blessing. You can choose to

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Speaker 2: fulfill your purpose. You can choose to not live life

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Speaker 2: bitter looking back, but pressing forward in faith. You may

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Speaker 2: have had some generational curses in your family line, but

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Speaker 2: when you came to Christ, the scripture says you became

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Speaker 2: a new creation.

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Speaker 1: Old things have passed away.

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Speaker 2: Just like there were generational curses, I believe now there

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Speaker 2: are generational blessings, and what God has blessed, no person

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Speaker 2: can curse Now I'm asking you today to rise up

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Speaker 2: in faith. Say yes, I may have had some bad breaks.

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Speaker 2: Yes it may have been unfair.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not worried. I'm not discouraged.

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Speaker 2: I know the blessing God put on my life will

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Speaker 2: always override the curse. If you do that, I can

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Speaker 2: tell you with confidence, favor is in your future. Good

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Speaker 2: breaks is in your future. Vindication is in your future.

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Speaker 2: New opportunities are in your future. Healing, health, holness, promotion,

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Speaker 2: victory is in your future.

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Speaker 1: Friends, you are blessed and you cannot be cursed. Do

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Speaker 1: you receive that blessing today?

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus.

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Speaker 1: The lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 1: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: It starts with just a tiny seed. From it tender

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Speaker 2: Sometimes our life is limited because we're believing too small.

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Speaker 1: Faith is like a sea.

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Speaker 2: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: We don't have to figure out how it's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: All we have to do is believe. There may not

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