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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 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's great to have you with us today and I

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Speaker 2: hope you'll stay connected with us all through the week.

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Speaker 2: But thanks again for tuning in. I like to start

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Speaker 2: with something funny, and one day, Jesus and Satan were

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Speaker 2: having a contest to see who was better with computers.

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Speaker 1: After six hours.

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Speaker 2: Of making spreadsheets and designing web pages, a thunderstorm knocked

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Speaker 2: the power out. When they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming,

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Speaker 2: it's all lost, all my materials gone, while Jesus quietly

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Speaker 2: walked over and printed out his turned it in. Satan complained,

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Speaker 2: this isn't fair. He must have cheated. How come he

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Speaker 2: didn't lose his material God smiled and said, Jesus saves,

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Speaker 2: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what

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

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about time is on your side. We've all been through

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Speaker 2: seasons in life where it feels like we've lost time.

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Speaker 2: We were in a relationship that didn't work out. We've

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Speaker 2: lost those years we weren't raised in a healthy environment.

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Speaker 2: It feels like we've lost our childhood. We came down

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Speaker 2: with an illness or struggled with an addiction months past,

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Speaker 2: maybe years. It's time that we can't get back.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to think that was just a rough season.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing that I can do about it. But God

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Speaker 2: said in the Book of Joel, will restore the years

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Speaker 2: that the locusts have eaten, the years that the canker

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Speaker 2: worm and palmer worm have destroyed. It's said that time

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Speaker 2: is the one thing that we can't get back. That's

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Speaker 2: true in the natural, but we have a supernatural God.

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Speaker 2: He knows how to make up for lost time.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to just restore you.

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Speaker 2: He's going to restore the years that you spent in

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Speaker 2: that relationship that didn't make it. It feels like it

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Speaker 2: was a waste of time. But God is going to

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Speaker 2: make the rest of your life so fulfilling that you

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Speaker 2: don't think about what you've been through. He's not going

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Speaker 2: to just bring you out of that illness. He's going

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Speaker 2: to restore the years that you spent taking the treatment.

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Speaker 2: Your latter days will be better than your former days.

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Speaker 2: And here's how good God is. He's even going to

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Speaker 2: restore the years that we've wasted making poor choices, running

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Speaker 2: with the wrong crowd. Years you should have been studying,

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Speaker 2: We just spent them partying. Years that you should have

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Speaker 2: been raising children, but you were distracted doing other things.

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Speaker 2: Years you should have been pursuing dreams, but you let

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Speaker 2: fear and opposition hold you back.

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Speaker 1: It should be too late. You missed your chance.

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Speaker 2: God is saying, get ready, I'm about to restore the years.

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Speaker 2: I'm about to make up for the time you missed

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Speaker 2: with your children. He's not going to just restore the relationship.

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Speaker 2: Make it as if you never lost that time. That

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Speaker 2: God is not going to just turn it around, but

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Speaker 1: What should have been yours.

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Speaker 2: In this passage from the Book of Joel, the Israelites

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Speaker 2: They had worked hard but had nothing to show for it.

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Speaker 2: But when the crops were ready to harvest, here came

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Speaker 2: We know what's going to happen. These locusts are going

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Speaker 2: I'm believing for my health to impro but every time

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Speaker 2: While the Israelites were discouraged, thinking they would never see

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Speaker 1: He said, in effect, I know it hasn't been fair.

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Speaker 2: not going to just give you a harvest this season.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to restore the years that were stolen. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to give you this season's harvest plus four more

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Speaker 2: harvest seasons. That's how amazing God is. He's going to

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Speaker 2: The scripture went on to say, your threshing floor will

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Speaker 2: Notice what happens when God restores abundance, overflow more than enough.

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Speaker 2: They had been in famine, not seeing any increase, and

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Speaker 2: suddenly God not only turned it around, but he paid

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Speaker 1: He made up for.

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Speaker 2: What should have been theirs. God is keeping a record

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Speaker 2: of everything that should have been yours.

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Speaker 1: He knows what you didn't get.

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Speaker 2: He saw you working hard, raising those children, making sacrifices,

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Speaker 1: He saw you taking.

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Speaker 2: God is not going to just free you just heal you,

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Speaker 1: He's going to restore the years that you've lost.

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Speaker 2: You're going to still get a harvest from all those

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Speaker 2: That harvest has been stored up. The enemy may think

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Speaker 1: He has blessings.

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Speaker 2: Stored up for you. When he restores the years, you're

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Speaker 2: going to be more fulfilled than you've ever been. You're

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Speaker 2: overflow with blessings, overflow with joy, overflow with favor. A

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Speaker 2: he went overboard to love, to forgive, to go the

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Speaker 2: being his best, raising the children basically by himself. The

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Speaker 2: man was so heartbroken. When I saw him, it looked

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Speaker 2: but he was so down. He said, I've invested all

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Speaker 2: God sees the years you've lost. He knows the pain,

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Speaker 2: the hurt, what wasn't fair. The beauty of our God

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Speaker 2: is he doesn't just heal the wounds, He restores the years.

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Speaker 2: He makes up for what wasn't fair. You may feel

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Speaker 2: like you're in one of those lost years. The pandemic

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Speaker 2: You've invested so much, but it looks like it was wasted.

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Speaker 2: Payback is coming. God is keeping the records He knows

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Speaker 2: how to not just restore you, but restore the years

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Speaker 2: that were stolen, the years that were unfair, the years

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Speaker 2: like what you've been through. When he makes up for

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Speaker 2: that you had the illness.

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Speaker 2: You'll be I'm so blessed, so happy, so healthy, nobody

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Speaker 2: Instead of living defeated, he started thanking God that there

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Speaker 2: God was turning to his advantage. Three years later, he

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Speaker 2: he said, Joel, I have never been this happy in

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Speaker 2: all my life. I never dreamed I could be this fulfilled.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know what a healthy relationship was. What was

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Speaker 2: that God was storing the years that were lost. God

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Speaker 2: knows how to make up for what should have been yours,

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Speaker 1: God is storing up what belongs to you.

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Speaker 2: I believe he's about to release some of those stored

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Speaker 2: up blessed. When he restores the years, you'll see increase

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Speaker 2: that you've never seen, blessings that will catapult you ahead,

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Speaker 2: divine connections, people better than you've ever imagined. Those locusts

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Speaker 2: may have eaten up your crops, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: They may have taken your harvest.

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Speaker 2: The good news is it's only temporary. Everything that belongs

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Speaker 2: to you is coming back. The health, the freedom, the promotion,

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Speaker 2: the joy, the victory.

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Speaker 1: It's not coming back like it was. It's going to.

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Speaker 2: restores the years, like with my friend, your joy will overflow.

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Speaker 2: You'll have an abundance of opportunity, an abundance of resources,

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Speaker 2: and abundance of good health. The Israelites had been in

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Speaker 2: He's going to make you more effective, more productive, more focused,

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Speaker 1: Don't sit back and think I waited too long, I'm

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Speaker 2: may feel like you're running out of time, but God

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