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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. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, bless you so joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 2: We love you, We know God has great things in store.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, stop buying. Be

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

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Speaker 2: we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. I

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

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Speaker 2: heard about this archaeologist from New York. He dug down

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Speaker 2: ten feet and found traces of copper wiring dating back

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Speaker 2: one hundred years. He concluded that New Yorkers had a

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Speaker 2: telephone network over one hundred years ago. Not to be outdone,

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Speaker 2: an archaeologist from California dug down twenty feet and found

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Speaker 2: copper wiring dating back two hundred years. He concluded that

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Speaker 2: Californians had a massive communications network.

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Speaker 1: One hundred years before the New Yorkers.

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Speaker 2: Hearing these reports, Bubba from Texas dug down thirty feet

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Speaker 2: on his farm and found absolutely nothing. He concluded, three

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Speaker 2: hundred years ago, Texans had already gone wireless.

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Speaker 1: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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

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

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

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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 God wants to

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Speaker 2: bring you to a flourishing finish. We all go through

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Speaker 2: disappointments and have unfair things that happen. The mistake many

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Speaker 2: people make is they get stuck where they are. They

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Speaker 2: get bitter and negative, and they end up giving up

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Speaker 2: on their dreams. Had a lady tell how she'd worked

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Speaker 2: for this company many years, gave it her best, was

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Speaker 2: as loyal as can be, but when the company changed ownership,

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Speaker 2: the new leaders said that they didn't need her anymore.

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Speaker 1: After twenty two years, she was let go.

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Speaker 2: She was all discouraged. She just couldn't understand how God

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Speaker 2: could let that happen. Here's the good news that disappointment

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Speaker 2: is not the final chapter. God never ends in a negative.

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Speaker 2: If you'll keep moving forward with your life, God promises

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Speaker 2: in Philippians one p. Six, he will bring you to

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Speaker 2: a flourishing finish, not a defeated finish, a bankrupt finished,

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Speaker 2: your future, God has a victorious finish that set back,

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Speaker 2: the disappointment, the betrayal. Instead of it working against you,

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Speaker 2: God knows how to turn it around and cause it

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Speaker 2: to work for you. When you're in difficult times. Don't

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Speaker 2: where you are. Don't put your roots down and think

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Speaker 2: that it's never going to change. Now, for every setback,

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Speaker 2: God's already lined up a comeback for every injustice, vindication

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Speaker 2: for every disappointment, restoration, new beginnings. In Second Corinthians two fourteen,

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Speaker 2: it says, thanks be to God, who always causes us

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Speaker 2: to triumph. You could say we're in a fixed fight.

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Speaker 2: We already know the outcome. In the end, we will

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Speaker 2: be victorious. Sometimes I'll record a football game and watch

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Speaker 2: it when I get home later. I already know how

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Speaker 2: the game ends. I've talked to friends, watch the news.

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Speaker 2: I know my team wins, and so while I'm watching,

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Speaker 2: The truth is, the further behind we fall, the more

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Speaker 2: to happen. As believers, this is the promise God makes

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Speaker 2: to us. You may go through disappointments at times it

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Speaker 2: a fixed fight. Already know the outcome. God never ends

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Speaker 2: A little over two thousand years ago, Jesus was on

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Speaker 2: That's why he didn't call thousands of angels to come

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Speaker 1: Didn't look good, but he knew Sunday was coming.

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Speaker 2: On Friday, the enemies were rejoicing, having a party celebrating

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Speaker 2: can live also. And it may feel like Friday in

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Speaker 2: health may be a legal situation, looks like you've already

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Speaker 2: God does not end in defeat. He's got another victory

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Speaker 2: in your future. My friend Del Bronner says God always

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Speaker 2: ends in all is well, So if all is not well,

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Speaker 2: that simply means it's not the end. Don't quit believing

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Speaker 2: victory is in front of you. When you say, Joel,

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Speaker 2: in debt. That's okay, it's not the end. God is

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Speaker 2: still working. Jehovah Jihrah, the Lord your provider, has breakthroughs

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Speaker 2: God has healing restoration come in your way. All is

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Speaker 2: not well in your family, in a relationship, don't write

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Speaker 2: God does not end in defeat. He didn't say most

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Speaker 2: I'll always cause you to triumph. You may go through difficulties,

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Speaker 2: Defeat is not your normal state. If all is not

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Speaker 2: I love the story that our friend Danny Goki told

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Speaker 2: The scripture talks about how God has written every page

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Speaker 2: He's already planned it out. The good news is your

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Speaker 2: plans for you are for good, to bring you.

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Speaker 1: To a flourishing finish.

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Speaker 2: When you go through a disappointment and something doesn't work out.

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Speaker 2: Danny got stuck on that negative page for a while,

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Speaker 2: but he told how one day he put his foot

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Speaker 1: He started moving forward. God begin to open up new doors.

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Speaker 2: Not only that, he started a charity to help families

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Speaker 1: What am I saying?

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Speaker 2: God never ends on a negative Just because a company

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Speaker 2: to open new doors and bring new opportunities and new people.

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Speaker 2: There are amazing victories still in your future. Well, you say, Joel,

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Speaker 2: Realize it's the greatest victory of your life. I heard

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Speaker 2: God taken you to a flourishing finish. Think about Joseph.

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Speaker 1: God vindicated him.

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Speaker 2: The brothers that betrayed him came back and bowed low

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Speaker 2: As a young man, David was anointed by the prophet

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Speaker 2: It may be Friday, but Sunday is coming now. Don't

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Speaker 2: They didn't call him what he was, They called him

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Speaker 2: Don't give up on your family, Don't give up on

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Speaker 2: It may not happen on our timetable or the way

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Speaker 2: See, sometimes you have to say all is well before

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Speaker 2: But over time he let his guard down, became undisciplined,

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Speaker 2: He was captured by his enemies. They were so afraid

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Speaker 2: of him they gouged out both of his eyes. Now,

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Speaker 2: this once powerful man that carried God's anointing and favor

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Speaker 1: You would think God wouldn't have anything to do with him.

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Speaker 2: He had his chance, he had a supernatural birth, supernatural strength.

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Speaker 2: God gave him favor. Too bad, he made wrong choices. No,

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Speaker 2: that's not the way our God thinks. God will always

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Speaker 2: give you another chance. You may have made a thousand mistakes,

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Speaker 2: but God does not want your life to end on

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Speaker 1: The scripture says Sampson's hair began to grow once again.

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Speaker 1: After all these mistakes.

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Speaker 2: God was saying, I'm still going to bring you out

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Speaker 2: with the flourishing finish. One day, Sampson was in this

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Speaker 2: The enemy had him chained to the walls. It's like

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Speaker 2: he was on display. They were coming by, making fun

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Speaker 2: mocking him. Sampson asked one of the small children to

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Speaker 1: Hall so he could rest.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says the spirit of the Lord came on

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Speaker 2: He pushed those walls down, and he defeated more of

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Speaker 1: That's a flourishing finished. That's what God wants to do

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Speaker 2: But some of you think you made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 2: You just have to sit on the sidelines of life.

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Speaker 2: God could never bring your dreams to pass. No, just

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Speaker 2: like with Sampson, the spirit of the Lord is going

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Speaker 2: to come on you another time. Now you've got to

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Speaker 1: Quit beating yourself up.

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Speaker 2: You can't do anything about the past, but you can

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Speaker 2: do something about your future. Put your shoulders back, hold

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Speaker 2: your head up high, and say God, I may have

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Speaker 2: made a lot of mistakes. But if you did it

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

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go around beat myself up, guilty, condemned.

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Speaker 2: I believe my end is going to be better than

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Speaker 2: going to be the best of my life. Friends, we

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Speaker 2: that simply means it's not the end.

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Speaker 1: Don't get discouraged. God's still working.

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Speaker 2: It may be Friday, but the good news is Sunday

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Speaker 2: but don't get stuck on that page. If you'll keep

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Speaker 2: moving forward, you'll come into a chapter of victory, a

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Speaker 2: chapter of restoration, a chapter of new beginnings. No matter

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Speaker 2: what comes your way, let me declare it over you. Your

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Speaker 2: life is not going to end on a negative. God

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Speaker 2: is going to restore what's been stolen. He's gonna repair

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Speaker 2: what's been broken. He's gonna take every setback and turn

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Speaker 2: it into a setup for a greater comeback. You're not

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Speaker 2: okay finish, No, you need to get ready. God's going

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Speaker 1: I believe it. I declare it in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: If you receive it, give the Lord one more shot

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