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Speaker 1: This is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. Twenty twenty four is going to be

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Speaker 1: an amazing year for you and your family. Know that

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Speaker 1: we're praying for you, so get ready, keep your expectations up.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a great year.

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Speaker 3: Hope you enjoyed today's 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, social media.

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Speaker 3: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired.

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

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Speaker 1: about this elderly woman. She came to church one Sunday morning.

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Speaker 1: A friendly usher met her at the back door and

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Speaker 1: asked where.

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Speaker 3: She'd like to sit.

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Speaker 1: She said, I want to sit on the very front row.

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Speaker 1: He said, oh, no, ma'am, you don't want to sit there.

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Speaker 1: Our pastor is very boring. He'll put you to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Let me find you another seat.

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Speaker 3: She looked appalled. She said, sir, do you know who

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Speaker 3: I am? He said, no, ma'am. She said, I am

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Speaker 3: the pastor's mother. He hung his head. I had an

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Speaker 3: embarrassment and finally looked up and said, ma'am, do you

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Speaker 3: know who I am. She said no. He said, thank God, say.

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Speaker 1: It like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 1: am what it says I am. I have what it

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Speaker 1: says I have. I can do what it says I

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Speaker 1: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 1: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: a turnaround is coming. We all face situations that look

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Speaker 1: like they'll never change, and it's easy to get discouraged

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Speaker 1: and accept that it's never going to work out. But

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Speaker 1: God said in Zephiniah three, I will turn things around

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Speaker 1: for my people. He's a turnaround God. He turns bearing

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Speaker 1: wounds into babies. He turns red seas into dry pathways.

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Speaker 1: He turns five loaves and two fish into dinner. For

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Speaker 1: He turned skin filled with leprosy into skin as clear

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Speaker 1: as a little baby. When thoughts tell you your situation

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Speaker 1: is permanent, you'll never get out of this problem, never

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Speaker 1: get well, never see your family restored.

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Speaker 3: No, get ready. A turnaround is coming.

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Speaker 1: God is about to turn sickness into health, turn addictions

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Speaker 1: into freedom, turn lack into abundance, turn struggle in the ease.

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Speaker 1: You're coming in to a turnaround season. You're going to

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Speaker 1: see the hand of God do things that are unusual, uncommon,

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Speaker 1: out of the ordinary. This is what Zachariah said. God

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Speaker 1: has turned my mountains into mold hills. Mountains represent obstacles,

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Speaker 1: things that look permanent, like it's immovable. Depression can be

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Speaker 1: a mountain feels like you'll always struggle with it. A

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Speaker 1: mountain can be people at work that are not for you.

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Speaker 1: They have more seniority. What can you do about it?

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Speaker 1: Or how about a mountain of debt lack can't get ahead.

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Speaker 1: It's been in your family for years. This is a

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Speaker 1: new day. That mountain is about to be turned to

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Speaker 1: a mold hill. God is about to flatten some things out.

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Speaker 1: He's about to remove some obstacles. What used to hold

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Speaker 1: you back is not going to limit you anymore. People

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Speaker 1: that weren't for you suddenly they're out of your path.

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Speaker 3: You didn't have to do it. God turned it.

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Speaker 1: That mountain of loneliness, not having anyone in life to love,

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Speaker 1: it's about to become a mold hill. The right person

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Speaker 1: is going to find you, a divine connection somebody better

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Speaker 1: than you've imagined. Now you have to receive this by faith.

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Speaker 1: This won't do you any good if you think this

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Speaker 1: is not for me, Joel, my situation could never turn around.

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Speaker 1: You don't know what I'm facing. You can cancel out

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Speaker 1: what God wants to do by doubt, by negative thinking.

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Speaker 3: Why don't you be a believer and not a doubter.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you get in agreement with God and say, God,

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Speaker 1: I believe what you promised, that a turnaround is coming

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Speaker 1: in my health, in my finances, my relationship, my career,

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Speaker 1: whatever you think is permanent that you could never get past.

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Speaker 1: You need to see that mountain being turned into a

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Speaker 1: mold hill. David in the scripture, he went through a

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Speaker 3: You've turned my sorrow into joy.

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Speaker 1: He could have lived bitter, discouraged, looking into rear view mirror,

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Speaker 1: Yes, you may have seasons of mourning. Times you go

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Speaker 1: through loss, disappointments, things that are not fair, but that's

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Speaker 1: God is going to take what was meant for harm

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Speaker 1: stop all the difficulties. He won't keep you from every mountain,

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Speaker 1: but he did promise he would turn the sorrow into joy.

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Speaker 1: He'll turn the mountain into a mold hill. Weeping may

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Speaker 1: endure for a night, but joy is coming in the morning.

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Speaker 1: You have to get your fireback. The disappointments, the loss,

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Speaker 1: what you're up against didn't stop your purpose. God is

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Speaker 1: still in control. He didn't bring you this far to

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Speaker 1: leave you. It seems like a setback, but really it's

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Speaker 1: a setup for God to show out in a greater way.

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Speaker 1: Zephaniah went on to say, when God turns it around,

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Speaker 1: everything you've lost will be restored. Instead of shame, he

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Speaker 1: will give you honor. Burdens you've carried will be lift.

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Speaker 1: Verse nineteen says he will get rid of all those

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Speaker 1: He will bring home the prodigals. You will be respected

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Speaker 1: wherever you go. You need to get this down in

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Speaker 1: your spirit. It's turnaround time. What's limited you in the

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Speaker 1: past is not going to limit you anymore. When I

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Speaker 1: look back over my life, I can see the God

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Speaker 1: of the turnaround. My mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer,

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Speaker 1: no treatment that they could give her. It was Christmas

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Speaker 1: a time of weeping. I had never seen my mother

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Speaker 1: sick a day in her life. Now she was frail,

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Speaker 1: skin yellow, very weak. She was only forty six years old.

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Speaker 1: We did what I'm asking you to do, We said, Father,

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Speaker 1: this looks impossible to us, but we know you're a

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Speaker 1: turnaround God. You can turn this mountain into a mohill.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says, the moment you pray to tide of

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Speaker 1: the battle turns, something supernatural happens. When you pray in

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Speaker 1: faith the turnaround God goes to work. Miracles are set

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Speaker 1: in motion, angels are dispatched, favor is released. Don't just

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Speaker 1: think about your problems, don't just worry, live stressed. Go

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Speaker 1: to God in prayer, ask him to turn it around.

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Speaker 3: Ask him to heal.

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Speaker 1: You, to free you, to favor you, to bring that

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Speaker 1: Oh God, please, you got to do it.

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Speaker 3: Now, go to him in faith.

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Speaker 1: Father, I know you're bigger than this cancer. You're stronger

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Speaker 1: than this opposition. You're more powerful than this addiction. I'm

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Speaker 1: asking you to make a way where.

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Speaker 3: I don't see away. Here's the key.

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Speaker 1: Once you pray, believe Eve that is already done. You

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Speaker 1: may not see it with your physical eyes. Most of

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Speaker 1: That's a test of your faith, and thoughts will say

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Speaker 1: nothing happened. It's not going to work out. This turnaround

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Speaker 1: thing is not for you. Don't believe those lies in

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Speaker 1: the unseen realm. The turnaround is already in motion. What

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Speaker 1: God promised is already in round. Instead of going downhill,

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Speaker 1: like the medical report said about my mother, she started

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Speaker 1: getting better, defining the odds. Her skin went back to

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Speaker 1: her weight back. Today, forty one years later, she's still

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Speaker 3: What was that the turnaround God.

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Speaker 1: We can say with David, God has turned our sorrow

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Speaker 3: He's turned our mourning into dancing.

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Speaker 1: You may have the situations that look permanent, all the

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Speaker 1: circumstances say it'll never work out. It's been too long,

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Speaker 1: what limits us. We're natural. He's supernatural. He's saying to

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Speaker 1: He's going to turn that loneliness into companionship.

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Speaker 1: That child that's off course back into his purpose. He's

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Speaker 1: going to turn those people that are against you suddenly

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Speaker 3: That dream that looks too far gone.

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Speaker 1: Into a reality. This is a turnaround day. You're going

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Speaker 1: to see mountains turned into mole hills.

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Speaker 3: What was meant to stop you is going.

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Speaker 1: To be turned to push you into your destiny. When

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Speaker 1: we were trying to acquire this place, the former Compact Center,

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Speaker 3: We worked for a year and a.

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Speaker 1: Half convincing the council members. We had exactly ten Just

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Speaker 1: so much pressure from the other side he decided to

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Speaker 3: Against us the whole time. I thought, I have nothing

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Speaker 1: When I walked in his office, he said, Joel, I've

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Speaker 1: changed my mind. I'm going to vote for you. I

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Speaker 3: He changed his mind.

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Speaker 1: His vote gave us the facility. God knows how to

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Speaker 1: before you, I had worked on him with everything I had,

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Speaker 3: A five minute phone call.

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Speaker 1: When God is ready to turn it around, no person

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Speaker 3: No sickness, no addiction, no trouble.

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Speaker 1: What God has purposed for your life will come to

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Speaker 1: pass when you face these situations that seem permanent. You've

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Speaker 1: done all you can and the door hasn't opened. The

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Speaker 3: Now get ready.

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Speaker 1: A turnaround is coming. What God started he's going to finish.

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Speaker 1: There's not a mountain you face that he can't turn

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Speaker 3: There's not a person.

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Speaker 1: And I'm more laid back and I wasn't going to

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Speaker 3: So we ended up at the very back of the room.

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Speaker 1: In a few minutes, a lady came out, stood at

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Speaker 1: the front, Oh what was going on? Gave instructions about

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Speaker 1: That's where everyone had crowded up to We were standing

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Speaker 3: She said, okay, we're ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Everyone turn around and go back out the same door

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Speaker 1: the front. You may feel like you're falling behind. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: getting ahead of you. You had bad breaks, people are

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Speaker 3: Don't worry.

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Speaker 1: A turnaround is coming. God knows how to take it

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Speaker 1: from the back to the front, from being overlooked to

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Speaker 1: standing out, from working in those fields like ruth to

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Speaker 1: owning those fields. You are coming in to a turnaround season.

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Speaker 1: Things you couldn't make happen the turnaround God is about

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Speaker 1: to make happen even right now. He's turning sickness into hell.

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Speaker 1: It's turning borrowing into lending, turning sorrows into joy, turning

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Speaker 1: addictions into freedom.

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Speaker 3: What's hindered you in the past is not permanent.

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Speaker 1: That trouble at work is about to turn That child

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Speaker 1: a new day. Forces that have held you back are

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Speaker 1: being broken. I believe and declare what Zephy Andiah prophesied.

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Speaker 1: Everything you've lost will be restored. Instead of shame, you

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Speaker 1: will have honor. Burdens you've carried are being lifted. People

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Speaker 1: that have hindered you are being moved out of the way.

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Speaker 1: The sick of being healed. The prodigals are coming home.

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Speaker 1: You will be respected everywhere you go. It's turnaround time

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Then, if you receive it, can you

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Speaker 1: say amen?

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Speaker 3: I'd like to give you an.

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Speaker 1: Opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 3: Come into my heart.

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Speaker 1: I make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed

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Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd

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Speaker 1: love to send you some information on your new walk

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Speaker 1: with the Lord. Just text the number on the screen,

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Speaker 1: or you can go to the website. I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: get into a good Bible based church and keep God

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Speaker 2: Breathtaking that's what you feel when you look out at

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Speaker 2: majestic mountain peaks. Yes, God's creation truly is a masterpiece.

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Speaker 2: But even as you consider his handiwork, you might also

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Speaker 2: feel bless that not good enough or not valuable. The

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Speaker 2: image before you is incredible, but the confidence inside is lacking.

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Speaker 2: How do you overcome this?

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Speaker 1: The opinion you have of yourself is your most important opinion.

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Speaker 1: Too often we see ourselves as ordinary, not talented, unattractive.

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Speaker 1: That wrong self image is setting the limits for our life.

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Speaker 1: The key is to get an agreement with who God

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Speaker 1: If you'll have the right image of yourself, you'll rise

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Speaker 1: It will help you get rid of the wrong self

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Speaker 3: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every.

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Speaker 1: Until we meet again, May the Lord bless you and

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