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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast today. Want

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Speaker 1: you to know that Victorian and I are praying for

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Speaker 1: you and your family this summer and just asking God

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Speaker 1: to bring you more peace and joy and victory than

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Speaker 1: you've ever seen before. Know that God's for you has

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Speaker 1: got you in the palm of his hand, and I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoy the message today.

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Speaker 2: Your faith is amazing.

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Speaker 3: Go out and tell people about this saving power of

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Speaker 3: Jesus Christ, Amen, and that he can do what no

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Speaker 3: one else can do.

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Speaker 2: You are His light in all the world.

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Speaker 3: You see, we're all on this journey of faith together,

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Speaker 3: and if we're going to experience the fullness of God's promises,

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Speaker 3: we're going to have to develop the ability to see

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Speaker 3: beyond where we are right now. See, it's so easy

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Speaker 3: to get stuck in a problem. It's so easy to

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Speaker 3: see what didn't work out, what didn't happen, the mistakes

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Speaker 3: then we think, what's our next step?

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Speaker 2: God, how are we going to get out of this?

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Speaker 3: It becomes difficult to see the next step sometimes. But

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Speaker 3: when we take our eyes off of the circumstances, off

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Speaker 2: And hold us back.

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Speaker 3: That's when we can put our eyes on the promises

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Speaker 3: of God, not the problems. We can't set our eyes

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Speaker 3: the promises. That's how we're going to rise above where

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Speaker 3: we are right now. We have to look beyond where

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Speaker 3: we are and lift our eyes. In the Book of Genesis,

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Speaker 3: Abraham was called by God to go on a journey

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Speaker 3: of faith with him. He spoke to Abraham and said,

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Speaker 3: leave your father's house. Abraham did. The Bible says he

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Speaker 3: believed God, and it was credited unto him as righteousness.

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Speaker 3: He left his father's land. He took his family and

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Speaker 3: his nephew Lot, and they went on this journey.

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Speaker 2: But there was a point in his journey.

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Speaker 3: We're not His nephew and himself had acquired so many

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Speaker 3: possessions that they had to part ways. The land could

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Speaker 3: not sustain both of them. So Abraham looked at Lot

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Speaker 3: and said, you pick first. Which way do you want

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Speaker 3: to go? What direction do you want to go? Lot,

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Speaker 3: I'm giving you first choice. Well, Lot looked around and

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Speaker 3: he found a place that he thought would be perfect

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Speaker 3: for he and his family. The Bible calls. It was east,

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Speaker 3: It was towards the Jordan. It was lush in voliage.

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Speaker 3: When Abraham looked the other direction, what he saw was dirt.

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Speaker 3: He saw was dust, no development, just land. And he

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Speaker 3: thought to himself, Wow, what in the world have I

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Speaker 3: that God spoke to Abraham and he said, Abraham, lift

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Speaker 3: up your eyes. Now, lift up your eyes. Now look

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Speaker 3: out as far as you can see, from the north,

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Speaker 3: the south, the east, and the west. He said, what

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Speaker 3: will give it to you.

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Speaker 2: I will give it to you. You see.

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Speaker 3: It was this point that Abraham had to lift his eyes.

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Speaker 3: I love that phrase, lift your eyes, because this lifted

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Speaker 3: eyes became the theme of Abraham's life. You see, God

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Speaker 3: knew that Abraham could easily get his eyes on the

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Speaker 3: wrong thing. He could have easily said, why did not

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Speaker 2: Why did I make that mistake.

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Speaker 3: But see, God wanted him to lift his eyes so

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Speaker 3: wanted to do in his life. Do you know the

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Speaker 3: name Lot means veil, And when he separated from Lot,

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Speaker 3: it was as if God lifted the veil from his

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Speaker 2: You see.

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Speaker 3: God wanted to reveal himself to Abraham in unseen ways.

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Speaker 2: You see. It may have.

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Speaker 3: Looked like Lot got paradise, but Abraham he got the promise,

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Speaker 2: You have the promises of God.

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Speaker 3: In fact, the veil has been lifted from your eyes.

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Speaker 3: It has been torn into by the power of Christ.

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Speaker 3: And God wants to show you along this journey things

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Speaker 3: I want to show you this land that I'm taking you.

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Speaker 2: I want you to inhabit it, I want you to

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna make your seed great, and I'm gonna bless

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Speaker 2: Over the earth. His name was Abram.

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Speaker 3: God hadn't changed his name yet to the Father of

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Speaker 3: believing God going on this journey of faith. In fact,

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Speaker 3: he didn't look anything like what God was saying about him.

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Speaker 3: But God's promises are spoken in the unseen realm. God's

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Speaker 3: promises are spoken but not seen yet. That's why the

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Speaker 3: God wanted to do.

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Speaker 3: Take the veil off of Abraham's eyes so that he

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Speaker 3: could see what God was doing. You see, God's promises

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Speaker 3: are progressive. They unfold in his timing. They may not

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Speaker 3: be seen yet, but it's only a matter of time

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Speaker 3: until God gets you to where you need to be,

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Speaker 3: until you start looking like God says you're gonna look,

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Speaker 3: It's progressive and it's in God's timing. I have these

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Speaker 3: beautiful lemon trees in my backyard. I have two of them,

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Speaker 3: of mine we were in my backyard, and we happened

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Speaker 3: the fruit on those trees are still in process. They're

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Speaker 3: not finished yet. They don't look right now the way

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Speaker 3: they're going to look. They're green now, Yeah, they look

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Speaker 3: matter of time. You see, Hebrews eleven says we inherit

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Speaker 3: the promises of God through faith and patience. You, just

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Speaker 3: like those lemons, are in process. You are becoming everything

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Speaker 3: God wants you to be. You may not look like

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Speaker 3: The process is what makes you become well God's called

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Speaker 3: He proved God to be faithful and true. Abraham went

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Speaker 2: He went through challenges.

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Speaker 3: He didn't even have his promised child till he was

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Speaker 3: one hundred years old. But he saw the character of God.

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Speaker 3: You see, someone else may look like they have paradise,

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Speaker 3: but don't forget you have the promise. You're in the process,

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Speaker 2: If you find yourself consumed.

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Speaker 3: With a problem today, you're going through a transition in

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Speaker 3: It's time. It's time. It's time to lift your eyes

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Speaker 3: You got to realize beyond this place is greater heights,

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Speaker 2: Listen, I believe.

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Speaker 3: If you won't get stuck, if you won't settle where

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Speaker 3: just like Abraham, and you will see God's faithfulness. You

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Speaker 3: you will become everything that God intended you to be. Amen.

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