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

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It is always a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: We love you and we know God has great things

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Speaker 1: in store for each one of you. If you're ever

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Speaker 1: in our area, stop by and see us. I promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. Thanks again for coming out today. I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny each week, and I

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Speaker 1: heard about this man. He got caught shoplifting at the

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Speaker 1: grocery store. He was in court and the judge said, sir,

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Speaker 1: I understand you stole a can of peaches. How many

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Speaker 1: peaches were in that can? He said five, Your honor,

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Speaker 1: He said, all right, I'm going to give you one

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Speaker 1: week in jail for each peach. You got five weeks

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Speaker 1: in jail. The man's wife stood up and said, your honor,

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Speaker 1: may I say something? He said, yes, what is it?

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Speaker 1: She said? He stole a can of peace too? All right.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about not accepting things as permanent.

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Speaker 1: When we've dealt with something for a long time and

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Speaker 1: this is never going to get better. I've struggled in

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Speaker 1: my marriage for years. This is as good as it gets.

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Speaker 1: I've had this addiction since I was a teenager. Or

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Speaker 1: I've tried and tried to qualify for that new home.

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Speaker 1: It's never going to happen. Too often we get discouraged

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Speaker 1: to be. I have people tell me, Joel, I've always

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Speaker 1: been naggative. That's just who I am. I've always had

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Speaker 1: this sickness. I'm just learning to live with it. They've

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Speaker 1: convinced themselves that it's never going to change. In their mind,

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Speaker 1: they've allowed a stronghold to form. Now, really it's their

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Speaker 1: own thinking that's holding them back, because the problem is

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Speaker 1: if we don't believe it's going to get any better,

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Speaker 1: and we start accepting sickness as the norm, and we

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Speaker 1: accept not having enough as the norm. We accept allows

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Speaker 1: the marriage as the norm. That's our faith at work,

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Speaker 1: and it allows it to become the norm. If you

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Speaker 1: If you believe you've reached your limits, than you have.

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Speaker 1: The problem is our own thinking. The moment we accept

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Speaker 1: it and allow the stronghold to take root, we've lost

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Speaker 1: the battle. But here's the key. You have to view

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Speaker 1: everything negative in your life, every obstacle, every limitation, every sickness,

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Speaker 1: every problem. View it as only temporary. It is not

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Speaker 1: going to last forever. That sickness is just a season.

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Speaker 1: It is not going to keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 1: You may have had it for twenty years. The doctor's

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Speaker 1: telling you just learned to live with it, but in

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Speaker 1: day you need to say father, thank you, that this

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Speaker 1: too shall pass. Sickness cannot live in my body. It's

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Speaker 1: on foreign territory. It is only temporary. You have to

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Speaker 1: stand against the lie of permanencies. Maybe in your career

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Speaker 1: you feel like you're stuck. You haven't had a promotion

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Speaker 1: know I have more in me. I'm going to accomplish

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time before those new doors

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Speaker 1: begin to open up. If you have to stand in

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Speaker 1: faith your whole lifetime, you should never accept mediocrity in

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Speaker 1: your marriage, in your career, in your finances, in your health,

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Speaker 1: in faith if you'll recognize God is working in your

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean God is not working, it says in

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Speaker 1: Philippians two thirteen. God is constantly at work in those

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Speaker 1: who believe. That means because you're a believer. Right now,

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Speaker 1: God is working, not next week, not next month. Right now.

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Speaker 1: God is arranging things in your favor. Right now. God

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Speaker 1: is lying up the right people right now. Health and

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Speaker 1: healing is flowing through your body. Right now. God's protecting

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Speaker 1: your children. Right now, God's fighting your battles for you.

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Speaker 1: As long as you're believing, God is working. That's why

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Speaker 1: it's so important to live in an attitude of faith

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Speaker 1: and expectancy. It allows God to continue to work all

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Speaker 1: never going to get married. You might as well accept it.

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Speaker 1: That is the forces of darkness trying to keep you

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Speaker 1: in the natural. It may look the same week after week,

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Speaker 1: month after month, even year after year, but you've got

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Speaker 1: know because I'm a believer. Right now, God is working

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Speaker 1: in my finances right now. God's working in my children.

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Speaker 1: Right now, God's working in my health. When you believe,

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Speaker 1: you activate God's power. But if we don't guard our

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Speaker 1: minds and constantly down these wrong thoughts, then over time

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Speaker 1: we'll get worn down and eventually we'll give in. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to believe what you're saying, but you don't

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Speaker 1: It's been this way so long. Now. When you dwell

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Speaker 1: Almighty God. If you could see behind the scenes right now,

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Speaker 1: you would see God arranging things in your favor, lining

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Speaker 1: up your vindication, planning your breakthrough. But all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: God says to the angels, hold on, everybody, We've got

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Speaker 1: on hold. One of the angels says, why God, why

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Speaker 1: can't we finish. Why can't we give them the victory?

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Speaker 1: Why can't we turn it around? God says, we have

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Speaker 1: to stop because they quit believing. They're not releasing their

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Speaker 1: faith anymore. If they're not activating my power, I can't

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Speaker 1: continue to work. I don't know about you, but I

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Speaker 1: need all the help I can get. I need God

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Speaker 1: to fight my battles for me. I need his favor,

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Speaker 1: his wisdom, his strength. Let's make up our minds. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna be believers and not doubters. And it may be

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Speaker 1: stay at peace knowing at the exact right time, in

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Speaker 1: due season, it is going to come to pass. Now.

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Speaker 1: I know some of you have had these same challenges

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Speaker 1: is saying it is not permanent. It is not going

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Speaker 1: to last forever. Your day of victory is on its way.

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Speaker 1: Because you're a believer, things are changing in your favor.

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Speaker 1: God is working behind the scenes and it's just a

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Speaker 1: matter of time before you see new doors begin to open.

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Speaker 1: Divine connections are coming your way, restoration, vindication, promotion, health

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Speaker 1: Now's not the time to get discouraged. Think aw man,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen for me. No, Now more than

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Speaker 1: ever is the time to dig your heels in, stay

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Speaker 1: in faith, knowing that your time is coming. I think

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Speaker 1: about the Israelites. They had been in slavery year after year.

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Speaker 1: They were very mistreated. Taking advantage of was unfair. But

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Speaker 1: they finally made it to the Promised Land. They were

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Speaker 1: That negative report spread like wildfire throughout the rest of

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Speaker 1: to die? Why can't we just go back to being slaves?

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Speaker 1: Do you know those people, even though they were camped

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Speaker 1: They wandered around in the wilderness for over forty years.

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Speaker 1: What's my point. It became permanent because of their own

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Speaker 1: wrong thinking. It was never God's intention for them to

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Speaker 1: around defeated, constantly, struggling, constantly in lack. They had seen

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Speaker 1: God do great things. But when we get discouraged and

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Speaker 1: Then our own wrong thinking is what allows it to

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Speaker 1: become permanent. Some of you today, just like them, You

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Speaker 1: close to seeing that promotion you've been praying for, close

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Speaker 1: that child turn around. Let me encourage you. Don't do

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Speaker 1: permanent in our own minds. The Book of Genesis, Isaac

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Speaker 1: He said, Esau, your brother has tricked me, and he

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Speaker 1: has carried a your blessing. This is saying someone or

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Speaker 1: something can carry away our blessing. I'm sure sometimes we've

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Speaker 1: let disappointments carry away our blessing. Sometimes we let discouragement

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Speaker 1: carry away a blessing. No doubt, at times we've all

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Speaker 1: let other people steal our blessings. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 1: makes me more determined than ever that I am gonna

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Speaker 1: stand in faith and not allow anyone or anything to

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Speaker 1: carry away my blessings. Some of you today, you need

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Speaker 1: to go back and get your blessings. That's a great

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Speaker 1: thing about God. It's never too late. You can reclaim

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Speaker 1: lost blessings. Maybe you didn't go into the promised Land

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Speaker 1: the first time you were camp next door. Your attitude

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Speaker 1: needs to be. I'm gonna go in the next time.

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Speaker 1: No person is gonna talk me out of my victory.

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Speaker 1: What I lost in the past, I know God can

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Speaker 1: reclaiming mode. You need to reclaim every lost opportunity, Reclaim

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Speaker 1: every blessing you let pass by, Reclaim every promotion that

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Speaker 1: exaggerated points of view. You've got to reprogram your thinking.

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Speaker 1: This is the latest, greatest version available. It says every

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Speaker 1: God is supplying all of your needs. He's gonna prosper

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Speaker 1: you even in the desert. What was meant for your harm,

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Speaker 1: God's gonna use to your advantage. It may be taking

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Speaker 1: news is God will finish what he started. If you're

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Speaker 1: gonna exaggerate anything, exaggerate the goodness of God in your life.

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Speaker 1: Magnify his promises. Recognize every adversity is only temporary. It

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Speaker 1: may have been there for years, but it is not permanent.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you what is permanent, Psalm thirty, verse five.

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Speaker 1: God's favor will last for a lifetime. Friends, Challenges are temporary.

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Speaker 1: Favor is permanent. David said, goodness and mercy will follow me,

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Speaker 1: not a little while, not six days, a week, all

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Speaker 1: came to stay. That sickness is not gonna last forever.

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Speaker 1: Favor is gonna last forever. That financial difficulty is not permanent.

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Speaker 1: Favor is what's permanent. Because you honor God, he has

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Speaker 1: That means trouble is not gonna overtake you. Bless things

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Speaker 1: are going to overtake you when you look back. Don't

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Speaker 1: look for heartache, disappointments, failure. Look for promotion, increase, blessings

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Speaker 1: of favor. Remember, everything you're facing is subject to change

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Speaker 1: right now. The creator of the universe is at work

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Speaker 1: but favor is permanent. If you'll have this perspective and

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Speaker 1: view everything negative as temporary, here's what's gonna happen. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna step into a new freedom. You're gonna enjoy each

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Speaker 1: day more. You're gonna overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna live that life of victory God has

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Speaker 1: in story. Amen, do you receive it today. It's easy

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Speaker 1: to feel stuck in life, wondering why things aren't changing

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Speaker 1: important to keep your mind filled with hope and expectancy

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Speaker 1: when you pray in faith, believe in what God promised.

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Speaker 1: That's what moves the hands of God, and that's when

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Speaker 1: you'll see doors open, healing begins to come, breakthroughs in

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Speaker 2: Pray it Forward as our way of saying thank you

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Speaker 1: When you pray the promises what God has spoken over

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