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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks.

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Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 1: We believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God Bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, and social media, and you

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Speaker 1: can come visit us in person. We love to have

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Speaker 1: you be a part of one of our services. I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 1: this couple that had been married for sixty years and

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Speaker 1: never had an argument, never had a crossword, and they

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Speaker 1: were at a church function, and someone asked them the

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Speaker 1: secret of their success, and the man told how he

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Speaker 1: always treated his wife with respect, and how he took

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Speaker 1: her on trips around the world. He said, in fact,

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Speaker 1: for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China.

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Speaker 1: Everyone politely applauded, and someone asked, what'd you do for

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Speaker 1: your fiftieth anniversary?

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Speaker 2: He said, I went back and picked her up. All right,

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Speaker 2: y'all 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: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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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 trusting God's ways. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to understand everything that happens in life. There

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Speaker 1: will be detours, delays, and even dead ends and.

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Speaker 2: Times where it looks like we're stuck.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged when our plans don't work out,

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Speaker 1: and frustrated when a door closes, or upset over that

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Speaker 1: person that did us wrong. It's like we went one

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Speaker 1: step forward, then two steps backwards. But God doesn't always

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Speaker 1: take us in a straight line. The scripture says everything

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Speaker 1: serves his plan, not just the good breaks, times you're

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Speaker 1: promoted and see in favor, but even the closed doors,

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Speaker 1: the person that walked away, the promotion you didn't get

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to us.

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Speaker 2: But God has a master plan. He can see things

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Speaker 2: that we can't see.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes he'll take you backwards so he can move you forward,

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Speaker 1: or he'll.

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Speaker 2: Close a door to force us to change.

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Speaker 1: We were comfortable where we were, We were satisfied.

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Speaker 2: But God wasn't satisfied.

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Speaker 1: He has something greater, something that we've never imagined. He

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Speaker 1: uses trouble as transportation. We don't like it, feels like

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Speaker 1: a setback. The truth is it's a set up. The

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Speaker 1: trouble is not there to stop you.

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Speaker 2: It's there to propel you.

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Speaker 1: On the other side of that challenge is a new

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Speaker 1: level of your destiny.

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Speaker 2: The question is will you trust him in the trouble?

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Speaker 1: Will you stay in peace when things are happening. You

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Speaker 1: don't understand. You worked hard, but you didn't get the promotion.

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Speaker 1: You were good to that person, but they walked away.

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Speaker 1: It's tempting to get bitter, complain God, where were you?

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Speaker 1: This isn't fair? You know the right attitude is God.

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Speaker 1: I don't like it, but I trust you. I know

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Speaker 1: you're in control. You wouldn't have allowed this storm if

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Speaker 2: To my advantage. So I'm going to stay in faith.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to keep a good attitude knowing that something

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Speaker 1: greater is coming. March chapter six, Jesus had been teaching

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Speaker 2: Well, they were in this remote area.

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Speaker 1: There weren't any grocery stores, and even if there were,

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Speaker 1: He said, Jesus, that's impossible.

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Speaker 1: He asked them what they had, and they came back

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Speaker 1: and said all we could find were five bloves of

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Speaker 1: There was all this joy and victory. But while they

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Speaker 2: I can imagine them thinking, we don't want to leave.

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Speaker 1: seen you perform a great miracle. But the scripture says

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Speaker 1: immediately after they gathered the twelve baskets, Jesus made the

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Speaker 1: as the disciples were traveling across the Sea of Galilee,

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Speaker 1: some of them were experienced fishermen. They knew how to

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Speaker 1: navigate on the sea. They had dealt with storms, but

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Speaker 1: this situation was very dangerous. They didn't know if they

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Speaker 2: He knew there was going to be trouble. He knew

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Speaker 1: But he wouldn't have sent them if he didn't know

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Speaker 1: they were going to make it. And sometimes God will

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Speaker 1: take you out of a comfortable situation out of a

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Speaker 1: blessing for now, the winds, the waves. God, I never

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Speaker 1: thought I'd be dealing with this trouble, this medical issue,

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Speaker 2: You find yourself in a storm. Can I encourage you.

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Speaker 1: God wouldn't have allowed the storm if you weren't going

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Speaker 1: to make it to the other side. If that storm

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Speaker 1: going to take you out. He would have never had

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Speaker 1: you leave that place of blessing. The reason God sent

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Speaker 2: Greater things in your future. Yes, you saw a miracle

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Speaker 2: like the feeding of the five thousand. God's been good

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Speaker 1: He's provided, he protected, He's made ways you could be satisfied,

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Speaker 1: But you haven't seen anything yet. God loves you too

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Speaker 1: much to let you miss the fullness of what He

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Speaker 1: having the time of their lives. Now they were fighting

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Speaker 1: for their lives. Can hear them saying, what was Jesus thinking?

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Speaker 1: Why did he tell us to get in the boat

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Speaker 1: be a storm. They were confused and frustrated. But you're

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Speaker 1: not going to understand everything God does. The scripture says,

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Speaker 1: His ways are not our ways. This is what faith

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Speaker 1: They thought he was a ghost. They screamed in terror.

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Speaker 1: Things have come against you in your health, finances, maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm right there with you in that storm. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: He's not going to start now. When you're in peace,

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Speaker 1: that's a place of power. When you trust in the trouble,

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Speaker 1: Jesus walked over and got in the boat with the disciples.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that he didn't stop this storm. He didn't

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Speaker 1: Disciples were headed toward Beseda, but the winds were so

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Speaker 2: Jesus went through and healed them. All. The disciples were disappointed.

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Speaker 1: They had to leave the place where they saw Jesus

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Speaker 1: They didn't realize the reason Jesus forced them into the boat,

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Speaker 1: had them cross the lake and even go through a storm,

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Speaker 1: was so they could come to the land of miracles,

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Speaker 2: But an abundance of blessings.

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Speaker 1: They thought they were going to Bethsada, a barren place.

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Speaker 1: But notice what the storm did. It blew them to

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Speaker 1: a place of abundance. If the storm is not stopping

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Speaker 1: in your life, then it hasn't fulfilled its purpose. You

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Speaker 1: have to trust that God is in control, that he

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Speaker 1: has your best interest at heart, and that those winds

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Speaker 2: Going to blow you to Besada. To a barn place.

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Speaker 1: They're going to blow you to Genesrae, an abundant place.

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Speaker 1: The storm is a set up, the closed door, the delay,

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Speaker 1: the person that walked away. It's moving you into something greater.

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Speaker 1: Now the enemy will whisper. Now, man, you were blessed,

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Speaker 1: but look at you. Now, you got forced into this storm.

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Speaker 1: You're headed to a barren place, defeated, broke, lonely, overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies. He wouldn't be telling you that

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be in that storm, if you weren't headed

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Speaker 1: to something greater. You're gonna come out to an abundant place,

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Speaker 1: great favor, great health, great resources. Not just blessed, but

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Speaker 1: an abundance of blessings, something you could have never seen

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Speaker 1: without being forced into the boat, leaving the comfortable place,

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Speaker 1: going through the storm. The Psalmist said, we went through

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Speaker 1: You won't see the great abundance without going through some fires,

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Speaker 1: a door, if he's allowing you to be pushed out,

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Speaker 1: that means he's up to something. Trust him in the trouble.

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Speaker 1: Don't fight the winds of the storm. You can't override

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Speaker 1: what God has purpose. Let those winds blow you to

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Speaker 1: where God is taking you. The Disciples didn't like this storm,

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Speaker 1: but it was a setup. They were forced out of Jerusalem,

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Speaker 1: so they went to Judea and Samaria and begin to

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Speaker 1: share their faith. Had they not left Jerusalem, Christianity wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have spread. They would have just kept it to the

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Speaker 1: Jewish people. God had to get them out of their nest.

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Speaker 1: They were satisfied in Jerusalem, But what God had in

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Speaker 1: mind was much bigger.

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Speaker 2: Because of that.

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Speaker 1: Storm, that opposition, You and I are people of faith today.

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Speaker 1: We're believers because they got pushed out and has spread

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Speaker 1: all over the world.

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Speaker 2: You don't know what God is up to in real time.

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Speaker 2: We can't see it.

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Speaker 1: All we know is we're in a storm that we

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Speaker 1: didn't choose. Persecution pushed us out. A friend walked away.

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Speaker 1: The medical report hasn't improved. God is saying, I'm still

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Speaker 1: in control. I'm still ordering your steps. All going to

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Speaker 1: turn out.

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Speaker 2: Fine for you. Everything is serving his plan. Now.

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Speaker 1: Trust him when you don't understand, Trust him when it

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Thoughts will whisper. You're going to Besayda,

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Speaker 1: a barren place. It's always going to be a struggle.

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Speaker 1: You'll always have to deal with this sickness. Always be lonely.

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Speaker 1: Now what you can't see right now, or those winds

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Speaker 1: are blowing you to gennesa rain, to a garden of

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Speaker 1: abundance to a bountiful place, a healthy place, a victorious place.

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Speaker 1: God didn't bring you this far to leave you where

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Speaker 1: you are. Get your fire back, get your passion back.

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Speaker 1: The best part of your life is still in front

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Speaker 1: of you. That loss didn't stop your destiny. What looks

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Speaker 1: like your darkest hour, like God did for me. It's

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Speaker 1: going to launch you into your brightest hour. The people

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Speaker 1: that walked away, they didn't stop your purpose.

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Speaker 2: They had to leave so you can meet someone better,

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Speaker 2: a divine connection.

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Speaker 1: That door that closed you got pushed out of Jerusalem.

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Speaker 1: It had to close so you could step into greater things.

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Speaker 1: The storm feels like a setback, but really it's a setup.

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Speaker 1: God is working behind the scenes, getting you in position

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Speaker 1: to go places you've never dreamed. You haven't seen, heard

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Speaker 1: or imagined what God has in store for you. Now

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Speaker 1: trust His ways. If you'll do this, I believe and declare.

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Speaker 1: Those winds that should have defeated you, God is shifting

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Speaker 1: them right now. They're about to blow you into favor, healing, breakthroughs,

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Speaker 1: new levels. You're going to come into an abundant place,

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Speaker 1: an abundance of health, an abundance of joy, and abundance

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Speaker 1: of resources, the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name,

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Speaker 1: and if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd

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Speaker 1: like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the

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Speaker 1: Lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 2: you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 1: on your new walk with the Lord. You can text

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Speaker 3: Three minutes can such a small amount of time make

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Speaker 3: a big difference to your day to turn worry into confidence,

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Speaker 3: frustration to hope, defeat to victory. Maybe you just need

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Speaker 1: When we put God first place and get our thinking

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Speaker 1: the house, take three minutes to speak blessings over your

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Speaker 1: life and to declare God's favor, get your mind going

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. When you do that, you're setting

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Speaker 1: yourself up for a blessed, victorious day.

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

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

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Speaker 3: giving new daily devotional. Before your feet hit the ground

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Speaker 1: Victorian, I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. You'll

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Speaker 1: make it a difference all over the world. Remember you

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Speaker 1: can watch the services online Sunday morning, download our daily podcast,

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