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Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 2: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 2: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. We'll keep you

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Speaker 2: encouraged and inspired. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 2: and I heard about this college professor. He was going

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Speaker 2: He said, God, if you're real, then knock me off

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Speaker 2: this platform, and I'll.

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Speaker 2: With every minute that went by, he taunted, God, God,

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Speaker 2: I'm still here. I'm still waiting. At the last minute,

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Speaker 2: a three hundred pound football player walking down the hall

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Speaker 3: Off the platform. The professor woke up in a daze.

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Speaker 3: What in the world do you do? That for.

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Speaker 2: The football player replied, God said he was busy, so

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Speaker 2: he sent me. Come on, 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: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about carried by the Creator.

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Speaker 2: We all face seasons where we don't know how we're

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Speaker 2: off course. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, live worried, think

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Speaker 2: much for you. God is saying, don't worry. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to carry you. You're going to feel supernatural strength, peace

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Speaker 2: that passes understanding, favor that causes things to fall into place.

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Speaker 2: you'd fall apart in that divorce, that trouble at work

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Speaker 2: where God carried you. How'd you make it through that

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Speaker 2: caused you to give up on dreams. But every day

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Speaker 2: It's easy to thank him for blessings. I thank him

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Speaker 2: we were both learning a new profession becoming pastors? That

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Speaker 2: barely able to speak, one of the first things she

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Speaker 3: There was a movie being filmed.

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Speaker 2: The lead actor was in a helicopter over the ocean,

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Speaker 2: and in this scene he was supposed to hand something

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Speaker 2: helicopter came down real low, but it hit a burst

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Speaker 2: of wind. The pilot lost control, spun around several times,

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Speaker 2: and hit the water very forcefully, quickly begin to sink.

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Speaker 2: About thirty seconds later, the pilot's head popped up.

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Speaker 3: He was alive.

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Speaker 2: People were so relieved. No sign though of this other man,

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Speaker 2: the lead actor. Minute went by, two minutes, three minutes,

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Speaker 2: four minutes.

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Speaker 3: Seemed like an eternity. They thought he was gone. Then

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Speaker 3: five minutes in he came bursting up out of the water.

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Speaker 3: They took him to the shore.

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Speaker 2: He told how he was knocked unconscious when the helicopter

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Speaker 2: hit the water. When he came to, he was underwater,

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Speaker 2: stealing the helicopter and disoriented, couldn't find his way out.

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Speaker 2: He said, I want to thank the rescuers, and especially

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Speaker 2: the one that grabbed the back of my shirt, pulled

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Speaker 2: me out of the helicopter and gave me that big

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Speaker 2: push toward the top of the water. People listening were confused, said,

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Speaker 2: what do you mean there were no rescuers. You were

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Speaker 2: down there by yourself. Tears began to come down his cheeks.

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Speaker 2: He looked up and said, then.

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Speaker 3: It was his hand then lifted me out.

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Speaker 2: God's been carrying us our whole life, keeping us from harm,

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Speaker 2: pushing back the darkness, sustaining us in the tough times.

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Speaker 3: I thank him for his blessings.

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Speaker 2: I thank him for his favor, but also thank him

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Speaker 2: that he carries me. You may have things coming against

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Speaker 2: you now, you don't see how you can keep going.

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Speaker 3: You could live worried upset. God is saying, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to carry you. I have you close to my heart.

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Speaker 2: He knows what you're going through, the struggles, the lonely nights,

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Speaker 2: the unfair situations. You're about to feel strength that you've

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Speaker 2: never failed, peace when you could be stressed. Favor that

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Speaker 2: will make things happen that you couldn't make happen.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna look back and think, how did I make

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Speaker 3: it through?

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Speaker 2: That it was God's sustaining you when you should have

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Speaker 2: gone under. I believe and declare like the Israelites, God's

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Speaker 2: about to carry you out on eagle's wings. You're not

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Speaker 2: gonna just make it through. You're going to soar to

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Speaker 2: to stop you.

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Speaker 3: He's going to carry you to the palace.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna see favor, promotion, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 3: You will fulfill your purpose and become all you were

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Speaker 3: created to be in Jesus now.

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Speaker 3: with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 2: Come into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 4: Our negative thinking can short circuit God's power and blessing

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Speaker 4: in our lives. When you say, I always seem to worry.

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Speaker 3: Every morning.

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