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

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Speaker 1: Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. Now,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your

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Speaker 1: homes each week. We loved you and we know God

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Speaker 1: has great things in store for each one of you.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: come out and be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: We would love to have you, and I promise you

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Speaker 1: will make you feel right at home. But thanks for

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Speaker 1: tuning in today. I like to get started each week

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Speaker 1: with something kind of funny. And I heard about this

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Speaker 1: minister that was out walking down the street and he

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Speaker 1: came upon this group of young boys that were surrounding

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Speaker 1: a little dog. He asked them what they were doing

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Speaker 1: and they explained that they were having a contest and

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Speaker 1: whoever could tell the biggest lie would get to keep

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Speaker 1: the dog. And the minister launched into a ten minute

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Speaker 1: sermon on lying, beginning with don't you know lying is

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Speaker 1: a sin? And ending with when I was your age.

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Speaker 1: I never told a lie. There was complete silence. Just

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Speaker 1: when he thought he'd gotten through to them, the youngest

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Speaker 1: boy spoke up and said, all right, give him the dog.

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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 stay and

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Speaker 1: filled with hope and believing that your time is coming.

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Speaker 1: God has put promises in every one of our hearts.

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Speaker 1: You have dreams and desires, things you want to accomplish,

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Speaker 1: situations you want to see change. But so often because

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Speaker 1: it's taken so long, or because we tried and failled,

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Speaker 1: we went through a disappointment, somebody didn't treat us right now,

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Speaker 1: we've given up on those dreams. We've gotten complacent and

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Speaker 1: we're not pursuing what God's put in our heart. But

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Speaker 1: I want to encourage you today to get your fire back.

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Speaker 1: You have to stay filled with hope. It may be

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Speaker 1: taken a long time, but God is a faithful God,

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Speaker 1: and He's saying, no matter how long it's been, no

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Speaker 1: matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith,

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Speaker 1: your time is coming. Every dream that's in your heart,

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Speaker 1: every promise that's taken root, God not only put it there,

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Speaker 1: but he has every intention of bringing it to pass. Now,

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Speaker 1: I want you to have this attitude. My time is coming.

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Speaker 1: I've been giving and giving, haven't seen a lot of results,

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Speaker 1: but that's okay. I know my time is coming. Or

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Speaker 1: I'm living in a small apartment. All my friends have

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Speaker 1: nice homes. I'm not discouraged. I know my time is coming.

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Speaker 1: Or I really want to get married. Haven't met anybody yet,

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Speaker 1: but I know God's in control at the right time.

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Speaker 1: He's going to bring the right person. My time is coming.

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Speaker 1: This is what hope is all about, believing that the

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Speaker 1: promise God put in you will come to pass. Now.

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Speaker 1: I love what David said. I have pitched my tent

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Speaker 1: in the land of hope. Let me ask you where

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Speaker 1: have you pitched your tent? What are you expecting each day?

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Speaker 1: What kind of attitude do you have? Well? Joel I've

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Speaker 1: been praying for my child for five years. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's ever going to change or everybody on my

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Speaker 1: job gets promoted except me. I tried to start this business,

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Speaker 1: but nobody would help me. No, you pitched your tent

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Speaker 1: in the wrong place. You're not believing for God's blessings

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Speaker 1: in favor. You're not expecting God to turn that around.

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Speaker 1: You need to go dig up your stakes, pack up

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Speaker 1: your belongings, and move out of the land of discouragement.

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Speaker 1: Move out of the not going to happen division, move

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Speaker 1: out of can't do it Bill. It's time to leave

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Speaker 1: self pity estates. Get out of those areas and move

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Speaker 1: into a land of hope, a land of faith, a

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Speaker 1: land where you know anything is possible, a place where

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Speaker 1: you know your time is coming. And sometimes you just

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Speaker 1: need something spoken over your life. You need someone to

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Speaker 1: You may have been through a thousand disappointments in the natural.

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Speaker 1: You may have every reason to give up on what

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Speaker 1: let this simple phrase take root. Your time is coming.

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Speaker 1: God is in control of your life. He knows exactly

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Speaker 1: where you are. He knows even the hidden dreams He's

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Speaker 1: put in you. The scripture calls them the secret petitions

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Speaker 1: But God still has a way to bring them to pass.

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Speaker 1: And you need to draw the line in the sand

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Speaker 1: even the secret petitions of my heart are going to

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Speaker 1: come to fulfillment. And when you have this kind of attitude,

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Speaker 1: all the forces of darkness cannot stop God from bringing

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Speaker 1: it to pass. And when you get up in the morning,

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Speaker 1: you're tempted to be discouraged, and the negative thoughts come

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Speaker 1: telling you it's never gonna happen. You're never gonna get married,

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Speaker 1: be happy. This is as good as it gets. Now

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Speaker 1: you have to shake that off and just say, Father,

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Speaker 1: you said the path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter.

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Speaker 1: You said, no good thing will you withhold because I

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Speaker 1: walk up rightly? You said, because I delight myself in you,

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Speaker 1: you would give me the secret of my heart. So, Father,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you that you're in control of

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Speaker 1: my life. Good things are in store, and I believe

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Speaker 1: my time is coming. Stay in an attitude of faith,

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Speaker 1: an attitude of expectancy. And when you go through unfair circumstances,

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Speaker 1: and we all do, somebody does you wrong, or you

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Speaker 1: get some bad breaks, don't make the mistake of constantly

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Speaker 1: year ago, five years ago, thirty years ago. They're still

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Speaker 1: allowing it to poison their life. The scripture says here

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Speaker 1: in Zachariah nine, verse twelve, if you will be a

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Speaker 1: prisoner of hope, God will restore back to you double

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Speaker 1: everything that was stolen. That means if somebody does you wrong,

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Speaker 1: instead of getting negative and bitter, your attitude should be

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Speaker 1: they just did me a favor, They just qualified me

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Speaker 1: for double. And I'm won't believe my time's not only come.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna come out with twice the joy, twice the

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Speaker 1: peace twice the victory. That's an attitude of hope, an

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Speaker 1: attitude that says I will not be defeated. It may

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Speaker 1: know God is my vindicator. It may be taken a

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Speaker 1: Joseph did. He spent thirteen years in prison for something

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Speaker 1: he kept being good to people, he kept a good attitude.

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Speaker 1: How could he have possibly not gotten bitter? Joseph understood

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Speaker 1: like Joseph, had been through a series of losses. Life

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Speaker 1: hasn't treated you fair, and it's easy to think it's

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Speaker 1: never going to get any better. This is just my

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Speaker 1: lot in life, and if we're not careful, our own

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Speaker 1: negative thoughts are drawn in more of the negative. It

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Speaker 1: out of that rut you may have been through unfair situations.

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Speaker 1: But it's not over until God says it's over. God

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Speaker 1: always has the final say, and he is a god

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Speaker 1: of justice. God sees every wrong that's ever been done

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Speaker 1: you will stay in faith, if you'll keep your hopes up,

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Speaker 1: he will make your wrongs right. He'll bring justice into

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Speaker 1: your life. Your attitude should be. It may have been unfair,

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Speaker 1: get bitter. I know my time is coming. There's a

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Speaker 1: lady in the scriptures by the name of Naomi. Her

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Speaker 1: name means my joy. So everyone said hello Naomi. They

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Speaker 1: my job. But Naomi went through a series of losses.

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Speaker 1: that's not God's plan. And sure, it's difficult when we

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Speaker 1: go through a time of loss. There's a proper time

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Speaker 1: turn into a lifetime of morning. Naomi got so bitter

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Speaker 1: she actually changed her name Tomorrowmorrow means sorrow. When somebody said, hey, Naomi,

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Speaker 1: Call me by my new name. Now. Every time someone

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Speaker 1: am I saying, don't let life change your name. You

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Speaker 1: may have been through unfair situations. Maybe one of your

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Speaker 1: you God still has a great plan for your life.

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Speaker 1: When one door closes, he will always open up another door.

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Speaker 1: You need to dig your heels in and say I

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Speaker 1: may have been through a lot, but I've come too

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Speaker 1: refuse to live my life negative. I know God has

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Speaker 1: great things. In story, what was the difference between Joseph

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Speaker 1: though life dealt him some tough blows. He understood his

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Speaker 1: time was coming. He pitched his tent in the land

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Speaker 1: of hope. David said in Psalm twenty seven, what would

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Speaker 1: have happened to me if I had not believed to

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Speaker 1: see the goodness of God? No matter what comes your way,

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Speaker 1: see God's goodness again. You've got to believe you're gonna

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Speaker 1: open up new doors. There's something about a person filled

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Speaker 1: with hope. Now I've learned, when you feel like dying,

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Speaker 1: you got to talk about living. When you feel like

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Speaker 1: God has something great in storm. When the bottom falls out,

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Speaker 1: it looks like you hit an all time low and

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Speaker 1: That's not the time to get negative. That's the time

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Speaker 1: a the tone I read about this man. He was

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Speaker 1: Why did Peter want to get out? Why did he

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden think he could do that, Well,

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Speaker 1: you say, Joel, it's because he had seen Jesus open

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Speaker 1: It's because Peter understood it was his time. He stirred

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Speaker 1: could do what God put in his heart. Jesus said, Peter,

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Speaker 1: I do. He said, well get out. Peter stepped out

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Speaker 1: but he walked more than me and you, some of

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Speaker 1: you today you need to have that same kind of boldness.

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Speaker 1: Don't just believe that your time is coming. Start believing

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Speaker 1: that your time is here. All the dreams that you buried,

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Speaker 1: time to start believing again. You need to have the attitude.

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Speaker 1: It's my time to come up to a new level.

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Speaker 1: I've seen it happen for others, but it's my time

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Speaker 1: to see God's blessings in favor. It's my time to

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Speaker 1: accomplish my dream. It's my time to break these addictions.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna sit around wishing it would happen anymore, bitter, hurt, jealous. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not changing my name. I don't have time for

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Speaker 1: you do that, you're saying in the fact what Peter said, God,

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Speaker 1: can I come with you? I believe it's my time. Now.

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Speaker 1: You notice what Jesus said. He didn't say, Peter's stay

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Speaker 1: he said Peter. I like your attitude of faith. I

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Speaker 1: like the fact you believe you can do great things.

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Speaker 1: That tells me it's your time now. Every one of

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Speaker 1: us has dreams in our heart that we haven't seen

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Speaker 1: come to pass. Let's stay filled with hope. Don't get

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Speaker 1: complacent and think it's never gonna happen. No, right now,

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes in your life, God is arranging things

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Speaker 1: in your favor. Right now, I believe the change of mediocrity,

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Speaker 1: the change of failure, the chains of lacke, the chains

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Speaker 1: of addiction are being broken off of us. And it

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Speaker 1: may look like your dream has died. That The good

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Speaker 1: news is God can resurrect that dead dream. He did

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Speaker 1: it for Moses, he can do it for you. I

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Speaker 1: want some prisoners of hope. I want you to know,

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Speaker 1: deep down on the inside, no matter where you are

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Speaker 1: in life, your time is coming. Get up every morning

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Speaker 1: and declare it by faith. If you do that, you

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Speaker 1: won't be disappointed. I believe, like Semion, before you leave

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Speaker 1: this earth, you'll see every dream, every desire. God will

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Speaker 1: bring them to pass. He'll pour out his blessings in favor,

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Speaker 1: and you're going to live the life of victory he

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Speaker 1: has in story. Amen, do you receive it today? We

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Speaker 1: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would

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Speaker 1: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll repent

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Speaker 1: of my sins, Come into my heart. I'll make you

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Speaker 1: my lord savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer,

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Speaker 3: It's easy to let the day get away from us

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Speaker 3: before the day even starts. The first few minutes of

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Speaker 3: your morning are more powerful than you might think. Life

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Speaker 1: But here's the truth. How you start the day can

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