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Speaker 1: Hi, this is joelan Victorium.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks

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Speaker 2: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with.

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Speaker 2: You today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us

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Speaker 2: during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I'd like to start with.

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Speaker 2: Something funny each week, and I heard about this lady.

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Speaker 2: She just got out of choir practice and she was

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Speaker 2: so fired up. She put a hank if you love

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Speaker 2: Jesus bumper sticker on her car. At the intersection, she

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Speaker 2: was digging in her purse and didn't notice the light

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Speaker 2: had changed. She said, I was so excited to find

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Speaker 2: out the guy behind me loved Jesus. He started honking,

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Speaker 2: so I rolled my window down, waved real big, and said,

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Speaker 2: I love Jesus too. She said, I found out a

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Speaker 2: whole lot of people love Jesus. Everyone started honking, man

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Speaker 2: even screamed Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: After we shared all that love together, I was the

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Speaker 2: only one that made it through the intersection.

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Speaker 1: 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 stay thirsty. Our body

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Speaker 2: is made up of seventy percent water. It's essential to ourselves,

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Speaker 2: our organs, our skin. So God put in us a

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Speaker 2: natural instinct to drink water. There's a mechanism that sends

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Speaker 2: us signal to our brain that tells us when we're thirsty.

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Speaker 2: If we drink water, we get hydrated. Everything's fine. But

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Speaker 2: sometimes we ignore that signal. We get busy, we're distracted.

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Speaker 2: Suppressed long enough, the body will quit sending the signal,

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Speaker 2: it adapts to the environment and begins to conserve water.

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Speaker 1: A leading expert said that most of.

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Speaker 2: The clients he sees are chronically dehydrated. When he asked

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Speaker 2: why they don't drink water, the common response is I'm

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Speaker 2: Natural parallels the spiritual. God created us to be thirsty.

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Speaker 2: He put dreams in our hearts. He's given us goals

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Speaker 2: Disappointments taken longer than we thought, we didn't get the promotion,

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Speaker 2: pandemic hit, throw things off.

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Speaker 2: We used to be passionate about getting in shape, starting

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Speaker 2: Now we've settled where we are thinking it's not meant

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Speaker 1: But God didn't create you to live in mediocrity. Just

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Speaker 2: Just because the dream hasn't come to pass doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: Psalm one oh seven says God satisfies the thirsty soul.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to see good things, healing, breakthroughs, favor,

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Speaker 2: Jehovah Rafah, the Lord, my healer. My business is slow.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to figure out how it's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: Water down our dreams, thinking this is not what I

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Speaker 2: want to Joel, But I guess is good enough.

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Speaker 1: I guess I'm making it good enough. Is not your destiny.

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Speaker 2: God put greatness in you. He has an awesome future

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Speaker 2: in store. But one of the enemy's favorite tricks is

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Speaker 2: you and to not wanting more, not believing to get well,

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Speaker 2: And if he can deceive you into going through life

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Speaker 2: He can keep you from your purpose. Don't fall into

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Speaker 2: that trap. Get thirsty again, start dreaming again, start believing again,

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Speaker 2: Start hoping again, Joel, I tried this once and it

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Speaker 2: That's one report. But there's another report. It says God

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Speaker 1: Health back into you. This is what Marissa and Rubin did.

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Speaker 1: I love their story. Their young son Christian, diagnosed with.

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Speaker 2: like he could barely breathe. Medically speaking, it didn't look good.

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Speaker 2: They could have fallen apart, been depressed. There were plenty

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Speaker 1: They stayed thirsty.

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Speaker 2: When they could have been complaining talking about how bad

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Speaker 2: They weren't talking about how big the problem was. They're

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Speaker 2: talking about how big our God is. When you're thirsty,

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Speaker 2: Angels go to work when you're thirsty, Miracles are set

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Speaker 1: God will make things happen that you can't make happen.

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Speaker 2: The doctors told them they can't explain it, they don't

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Speaker 2: Who told you you can't get well, Who told you

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Speaker 2: Don't let other people numb your thirst. Don't let what

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Speaker 1: Don't let time cause you to give up on the

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Speaker 2: And don't let mistakes you've made convince you to live

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Speaker 1: Get your thirst back, get your fireback. God is still

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Speaker 2: Mind about what he promised you. God doesn't abort dreams.

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Speaker 2: It may not have happened on your timetable. There may

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Speaker 2: have been disappointments, setbacks, but that didn't stop the promise.

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Speaker 2: The enemy would love to convince you to live dehydrated,

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Speaker 2: I may not be the most interesting man in the world,

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Speaker 1: Stay thirsty, my friends.

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Speaker 2: Septy King three, the people of Judah headed out into

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Speaker 1: But I can.

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Speaker 2: Imagine by this time they were all dehydrated. They had

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Speaker 2: They were so tired, so worn out. They thought, Elijah,

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Speaker 2: Sometimes God will ask you to do things that you

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Speaker 2: don't understand, so you'll get your thirst back. When we've

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Speaker 1: Believe for favor, healing breakthroughs.

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Speaker 2: God will ask you to do something out of the ordinary.

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Speaker 2: If you'll do what he's asking, you'll see water increase

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Speaker 2: abundance like you've never seen. The people finally decided to

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Speaker 2: Jesus said he that hungers and thirst after righteousness will

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Speaker 2: be filled. Notice the principle you have to be thirsty

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Speaker 2: before God will fill you. They had to dig ditches

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Speaker 2: by their actions, God, we're thirsty. Yes we're in a desert,

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Speaker 2: but we believe you can bring water. We don't see away,

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Speaker 2: but God, we know you still have a way. Now,

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Speaker 2: God could have brought them water without digging ditches. He

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Speaker 2: how can this happen? But God says, if you're thirsty,

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Speaker 2: I'll show you good things.

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Speaker 1: If you're thirsty, I'll fill you with water, with health,

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Speaker 1: with abundance. When we've been without water for.

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Speaker 2: Days like these people, difficulties aren't turning around, dreams aren't

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Speaker 1: We're in a valley.

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Speaker 2: We need water, healing, restoration, but we're not digging any dishes.

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Speaker 2: We're not believing for our dreams, declaring favor over our finances,

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Speaker 2: you have to get thirsty again.

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Speaker 2: My mother and father started Lakewood nineteen fifty nine with

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Speaker 2: a while back. He was so likable. He looked like

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Speaker 2: he was seventy years old. He didn't have one wrinkle

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Speaker 2: on his face. I commented on how good he looked.

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Speaker 2: He's African American. He touched his face and said, Joel Black,

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Speaker 2: don't crack. He was so funny and so good natured,

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Speaker 2: and I ask him how long he was.

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Speaker 1: Planning on living.

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget what he told me. He said, I

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Speaker 2: have seven children. One of my sons is not serving God.

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Speaker 2: He's off track, not making good decisions. God promised that

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Speaker 2: as for me and my house.

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Speaker 1: We will serve the Lord.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna die until I see him back on course.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and six years old, and he's still thirsty.

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Speaker 1: He's still expecting God to bring promises to pass.

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Speaker 2: He could have thought, Oh, man, six out of seven

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Speaker 2: children doing good.

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Speaker 1: That's not bad. I've lived a long, healthy life. Enough. No,

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Speaker 1: don't water down what God promised.

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Speaker 2: You stay passionate, keep believing for the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 2: This is what Caleb did in the scripture. He was

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Speaker 2: forty years old when he and.

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Speaker 1: Joshua was spied out the Promised Land.

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Speaker 2: They were the only two out of twelve spies that

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Speaker 2: had a positive report. They said, we can take the land.

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Speaker 2: Let us go in at once. The other spies told

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Speaker 2: Moses the people are too big, there are giants in

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Speaker 2: the land. That word spread throughout the camp. Before long,

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Speaker 2: all two million of the Israelites were discouraged. They never

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Speaker 2: did make it into the Promised Land. Caleb could have

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Speaker 2: lived bitter wasn't his fault. He had faith. Other people

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Speaker 2: kept him from going in. Forty five years later, Caleb

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Speaker 2: was eighty five years old. The children of the Israelites

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Speaker 2: were about to go into the Promised Land. You would

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Speaker 2: think Caleb would be retired, old and proil, but Caleb said, Yoshauwa,

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Speaker 2: I'm still as strong today as the day Moses sent

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Speaker 2: me out.

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Speaker 1: Forty five years ago.

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Speaker 2: He looked at the mountain, the same place they had

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Speaker 2: spied out with the giants in the land.

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Speaker 1: He said, I want that mountain.

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Speaker 2: Joshua could have said, Caleb, there are still giants on

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Speaker 2: that land.

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Speaker 1: You're too old.

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Speaker 2: Let me give you this other place. Caleb said, no, Joshua,

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Speaker 2: I'm still thirsty. I'm still believing for what God promised

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Speaker 2: me that it will come to pass. Yes, he had

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Speaker 2: had delays, bad breaks, people that didn't believe, but that

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Speaker 2: didn't stop him from becoming all he was created to be.

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Speaker 2: At eighty five, he defeated three giants and went into

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Speaker 2: the Promised Land. Like Caleb, many of you have stayed thirsty.

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Speaker 2: You've kept believing when the odds were against you. You

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Speaker 2: kept thanking God when there was no sign of it.

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Speaker 2: You kept digging ditches when there were no clouds, praising

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Speaker 2: when you could have been complaining. That hasn't gone Aknow,

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Speaker 2: God saw your faith, He saw your dedication.

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Speaker 1: What he promised you is still going to come to pass.

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Speaker 2: It's not too late, you're not too old. The obstacle

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Speaker 2: is not too big. You're about to see a soon moment,

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Speaker 2: something unusual, uncommon that you didn't see coming, water without rain,

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Speaker 2: rivers in the desert because you're thirsty. I believe and

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Speaker 2: declare God is going to satisfy your life with good things, promotion, healing, restoration,

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Speaker 2: the right people, the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: And if you receive it. Can you say, then today

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Speaker 2: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 2: the Lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 1: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll make

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Speaker 1: you my lord and save you.

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Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 2: born again. We'd love to send you some information on

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Speaker 2: your new walk with the Lord. Just text the number

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Speaker 2: on the screen or go to the website. I hope

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Speaker 2: you'll get into a good Bible based church and keep

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Speaker 2: God first place.

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Speaker 3: God has put a specific dream in your heart. Maybe

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Speaker 3: it's a dream for a better career, a blessing that

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Speaker 3: enables you to bless others, to be in a healthy,

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Speaker 3: loving relationship, to launch your own business or ministry endeavor.

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Speaker 3: We all have dreams, but sometimes setbacks and opposition can

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Speaker 3: rob us of our dreams. So how do you make

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Speaker 3: your dreams a reality?

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Speaker 2: One way you know it's a God given dream is

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Speaker 2: you can't accomplish it on your own. We never thought

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Speaker 2: we'd be having church in a former basketball arena, but

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Speaker 2: this is what can happen when you take the limits

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Speaker 2: off of God.

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Speaker 4: When you believe what God put in your heart, that's

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Speaker 4: when He steps in and makes ways where you never

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Speaker 4: saw ways.

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Speaker 2: Now love to send you my newest book, It's Time

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Speaker 2: to Dream again. It'll help you to hold on to

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Speaker 2: what God promised and now get discouraged by how impossible

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Speaker 2: it looks or how long it's taken. You are closer

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Speaker 2: than you think. God's working behind the scenes right now.

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Speaker 1: Stay in faith.

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Speaker 2: You're going to see the Greatness of God, bring your

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Speaker 2: dreams to pass.

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and

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Speaker 3: Victoria would like to send you this dream releasing, life

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Speaker 3: affirming book, It's Time to Dream Again. You might sense

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Speaker 3: that your dreams have been buried, but with this book,

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Speaker 3: you'll see that they are actually a hidden treasure just

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Speaker 3: waiting to be uncovered and come to life. God's plan

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Speaker 3: for you is significant. His dreams for you are beyond

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Speaker 3: what you could imagine. Don't wait another day. It's time

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Speaker 3: to dream again.

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Speaker 4: This book will help you gain a fresh perspective for

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Speaker 4: your dreams and to believe for everything God has put

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Speaker 4: in your heart.

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Speaker 2: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your

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Speaker 2: generosity is making a difference around the world. Remember you

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Speaker 2: can watch the services live online every Sunday, download the

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Speaker 2: daily podcast or our YouTube channel. Listen on Serious XM.

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Speaker 2: We will keep you encouraged and inspired. But until we

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Speaker 2: meet again, may the Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of It's Time to

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