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Speaker 5: and thank you again for coming out today.

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Speaker 4: And I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 5: And I heard about this man that died and went

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Speaker 5: to heaven. Saint Peter escorted him down this long hallway

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Speaker 5: filled with clocks. The hens on the clocks were all

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Speaker 5: moving at different speeds. Peter explained that every person has

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Speaker 5: There was another clock creeping along Mother Teresa's clock. He said, curiously,

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Speaker 5: can I see my clock? Peter said, yeah, we keep

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Speaker 5: yours in the office and use it as a fan.

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Speaker 5: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess is alert.

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Speaker 5: My heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 5: to you today about remember your dream. All of us

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Speaker 5: have things that we're believing for something that we want

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Speaker 5: to accomplish. Deep down, we know it's a part of

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Speaker 5: our destiny. We can feel it so strongly. But then

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Speaker 5: we hit some setbacks. We didn't get the promotion, the

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Speaker 5: medical report wasn't good, or a relationship didn't work out.

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Speaker 5: Life has a way of pushing our dreams down. They

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Speaker 5: can become buried under discouragement, buried under past mistakes.

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Speaker 4: There are dreams.

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Speaker 5: Buried under divorce, buried under low self esteem. It's easy

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Speaker 5: to settle for mediocrity, even though we have all this

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Speaker 5: up doesn't mean God gave up. Your dream may be buried.

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Speaker 5: The good news is it's still alive. It's not too

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Speaker 5: But instead of remembering the hurt, the pain, what didn't

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Speaker 5: have to remember your dream. Remember what God promised you,

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Speaker 5: Remember what He whispered to you in the middle of

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Speaker 5: Every voice tells you it's not going to happen. You've

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Speaker 5: promised you, I'm still going to do. I spoke it

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Speaker 5: if you'll do your part and start believing again, get

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Speaker 5: your passion back. God is going to resurrect what you

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Speaker 5: thought was dead, dreams that you're giving up on. You tried,

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Speaker 5: to suddenly come back to life. Problems that looked permanent

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Speaker 5: going to suddenly turn around what should have taken years.

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Speaker 5: God's going to do in a fraction of the time.

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Speaker 5: He hasn't changed his mind. He has the final say. Now,

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Speaker 5: don't let circumstances talk you out of it. You may

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Speaker 5: not understand why a business didn't make it, why a

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Speaker 5: You were doing the right thing, but the wrong thing happened.

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Speaker 5: It's all a part of the process. Every disappointment, every delay,

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Speaker 5: It's a set up for God to get you to

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Speaker 5: remember your dream? What is God put in your heart?

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Speaker 5: What did you used to be excited about? Now you

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Speaker 5: think it's been too long, it's too big, It's not possible.

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Speaker 5: You don't think you could write the book, finish school,

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Speaker 5: see your marriage restored, start the business. No, get your

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Speaker 5: not had too many bad breaks. You're not lacking. You

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Speaker 5: didn't get short changed. When God breathed life into you,

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Speaker 5: he put in you everything you need to fulfill your destiny.

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Speaker 5: People can't stop you bad breaks, disappointments lost. The most

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Speaker 5: flowing through your veins. There are seeds of greatness in

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Speaker 5: with your creator. Believe in that you're a person of destiny,

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Speaker 5: that he's directing your steps, That if he before.

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Speaker 4: You, who dare be against you?

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Speaker 5: And when we go through opposition these challenging times, we

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Speaker 4: God controls the whole universe.

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Speaker 5: He won't allow anything to happen unless he knows how

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Speaker 4: Good out of it. But you have to do your

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Speaker 4: part and keep your faith stirred up.

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Speaker 5: The enemy would love to deceive you into burying your dream,

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Speaker 5: thinking that it's never going to work out.

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Speaker 4: Don't believe those lies.

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Speaker 5: It's not too late to become all that you were

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Speaker 7: And every time you remember your dream, every time.

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Speaker 5: You say Lord, thank you for bringing it to pass,

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Speaker 5: you're removing some dirt. You're digging it back out. Maybe

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Speaker 5: you've struggled with an illness for a long time. Early on,

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Speaker 5: years and you're just learning to live with it. What's

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Speaker 5: happened is your healing, your breakthrough, your freedom has gotten buried.

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Speaker 4: It's still in you, it's still alive.

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Speaker 5: If you'll start believing again, God can bring it to

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Speaker 5: pass instead of thinking.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's never gonna work out.

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Speaker 5: I've had so many bad medical reports. That's putting more

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Speaker 4: Burying it deeper.

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Speaker 5: Why don't you get your shovel out and start removing

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Speaker 4: How do you do that? Lord?

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Speaker 5: Thank you that you're restoring health back into me. Think

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Speaker 5: you that the number of my days you will fulfilled.

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Speaker 5: Think you that I'm getting stronger, healthier. If you'll keep talking,

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Speaker 5: thinking like that, that dream that's been buried is going

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Speaker 5: to come back to life. This is what allows God

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Speaker 5: to do great things. God is moved by our faith.

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Speaker 5: He's not moved by our discouragement, by our complaining, by

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Speaker 5: our self pity. Joel, I'm never going to meet the

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Speaker 5: right person. I've been hurt too many times. You're remembering

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Speaker 5: you're going to get stuck. Turn it around, start remembering

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Speaker 5: your dream. Father, Thank you that you you have a

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Speaker 5: divine connection. Come in my way, somebody perfect for me,

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Speaker 5: better than I ever imagine. Instead of I'll never be

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Speaker 5: in management, I'll never get the promotion this company. They

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Speaker 5: don't even like me. You're putting more dirt on your dream.

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Speaker 5: You're burying it deeper. Get your shovel and start digging

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Speaker 4: Some of you have done this so long. You need

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Speaker 5: It starts in our thinking, in what you're believing, in

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Speaker 5: I'll never break this addiction. I'll never live in a

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Speaker 5: God's favor. Blessings are chasing me down because I delight

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Speaker 5: how impossible it looks, I'm asking you to stir it up.

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Speaker 5: You have to get in agreement with God.

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Speaker 7: He's the giver of all dreams.

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Speaker 5: He's the one that put the desires in you. You

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Speaker 5: may need to get alone in your quiet time, search

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Speaker 4: Showed me what it is.

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Speaker 5: God, don't let me die with any dreams still buried

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Speaker 4: This is what Caleb did.

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Speaker 5: He and his friend Joshua went and spied out the

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Speaker 5: well able to take the land. Let us go in

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Speaker 5: at once, But the other ten Spies came back and

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Speaker 4: They talked Moses out of it.

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Speaker 5: The Israelites became afraid, and some two million people, even

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Speaker 4: He knew they were supposed to go in.

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Speaker 5: God put the dream in his heart, and it looked

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Speaker 5: like somebody else Coust his dreams to get buried caused

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Speaker 5: He started writing poetry. He was very eloquent, very talented.

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Speaker 5: That dream had been buried under dysfunction, under addictions, but

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Speaker 4: What am I saying? What you gave up on.

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Speaker 4: It's still in you.

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Speaker 5: I believe there are some dreams shut up in you

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Speaker 5: May not have happened the first time. The loan didn't

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Speaker 5: He's still going to get you to where you're supposed

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Speaker 4: They cannot stop your dream.

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Speaker 5: Joseph's own brothers tried to push his dream down. I

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Speaker 5: You don't need their approval, You have Almighty God's approval.

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Speaker 5: You wouldn't be having that opposition if you didn't have

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Speaker 5: Friends, when you're a dreamer, you're dangerous to the enemy.

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Speaker 5: You give him a nervous breakdown. He knows you're headed

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Speaker 5: This was his chance to pay them back. But the

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Speaker 5: scripture says, when Joseph saw his brothers, he remembered his dream.

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Speaker 5: He didn't remember the hurt, He didn't remember the betrayal,

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Speaker 5: the lonely knights, the times he was confused.

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Speaker 4: He remembered the promise.

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Speaker 5: He remembered what God had spoken to him. Now, all

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Speaker 5: these bad breaks, it looked like Joseph missed his destiny.

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Speaker 5: The whole time, God was directing his steps, leading him,

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Speaker 5: guiding him. It was all a part of the process

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Speaker 5: to get him to where he was supposed to be.

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Speaker 5: When God puts a dream in your heart, when he

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Speaker 5: gives you a promise, it doesn't mean that it's going

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Speaker 5: to come to pass with no opposition, no delays, no adversity.

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Speaker 5: There will be things that you don't understand. You'll have

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Speaker 5: plenty of opportunities to get negative and think I must

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Speaker 5: not have heard God.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 5: In those tough times, you have to do like Joseph

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Speaker 5: and remember your dream.

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Speaker 7: God has not brought you this far to leave you.

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Speaker 4: He has you in the palm of his hand. He's

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Speaker 4: directing your steps. Now do your part.

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Speaker 7: Dare to trust him, dare to believe.

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Speaker 5: Let him fight your battles, let him be your vindicator.

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Speaker 5: He has it all figured out. Well, Joel, I'm upset.

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Speaker 5: I don't understand it. I got thrown into a pit.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry. Another caravan is coming to move you onto

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Speaker 4: your next location.

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Speaker 5: Well, a friend lied about me, I lost a loved one,

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Speaker 5: I went through a divorce.

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Speaker 4: Don't get bitter.

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Speaker 7: It's just a detour on the way to your destiny.

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Speaker 5: The palace is coming, the promise is on track. The

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Speaker 5: dream will be fulfilled. The scripture says, these light afflictions

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Speaker 5: are for a moment when you face opposition.

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Speaker 4: Things don't go your way.

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Speaker 5: Recognize that it's not permanent. That's not your final destination.

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Speaker 5: Quit worrying about things that are only temporary, like Joseph.

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Speaker 5: The pit is temporary, the injustice is temporary. The betrayal

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Speaker 5: is not your permanent home. It's a temporary stop. The

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Speaker 5: Psalmist put it this way, passing through the valley of weeping.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't say settling in the valley, getting stuck in

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Speaker 5: the valley, building your house in the valley. The valley

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Speaker 5: is temporary, you're passing through it. My challenge, quit losing

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Speaker 5: sleep over a temporary stop. Quit being discouraged over something

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Speaker 5: that's only for a season.

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Speaker 4: It's not permanent.

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Speaker 5: I was in my backyard one time and my grass

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Speaker 5: looked so dead. It was brown, worn out, run down.

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Speaker 5: I called the man that helps with my landscaping, said

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Speaker 5: what happened to my grass?

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Speaker 4: Why did it die?

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Speaker 5: He kind of laughed and said, Joel, it's not dead.

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Speaker 5: It's just not in season. It's dormant right now. But

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Speaker 5: in a few months it will be as green and

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Speaker 5: lush as can be.

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Speaker 4: See.

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Speaker 5: I was worried about something that was only temporary. I

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Speaker 5: thought that's the way it was always going to be.

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Speaker 5: When I realized that that was normal, I never worried

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Speaker 5: about it again. When I saw my brown grass, I thought,

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Speaker 5: no big deal, just a matter of time for it's

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Speaker 5: back to green. Are you worried about things that are

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Speaker 5: only temporary, letting something steal your joy because you think

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Speaker 5: that's the way it's always going to be. Can I

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Speaker 5: tell you your dream is not dead, it's just not in season.

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Speaker 5: Your time is coming the right people, the right breaks, favor, restoration, vindication.

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Speaker 5: That's what's headed your way. These light afflictions are for

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Speaker 5: a moment. It goes on to say they work in

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Speaker 5: us and eternal weight of glory. In other words, the

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Speaker 5: adversity is temporary, the glory is eternal. Friends, stir up

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Speaker 5: what God's put on the inside. You may have a

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Speaker 5: dream that you bury. You need to get your shovel

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Speaker 5: out and start thanking God that it's still coming to pass.

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Speaker 5: Perhaps you're on a detour right now something you don't understand.

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Speaker 5: Don't get discouraged. It's temporary. You're just passing through. It's

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Speaker 5: easy to remember.

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Speaker 7: The hurt, the disappointment, the failure.

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Speaker 5: I'm asking you to remember your dream, remember what God's

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Speaker 5: promised you. If you'll do this, I believe and declare

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Speaker 5: dreams that you buried are about to come back to life.

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Speaker 5: Promises you've given up on are being resurrected.

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Speaker 4: Like Joseph.

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Speaker 5: God is going to turn every stumbling block into a

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Speaker 5: stepping stone. You're going to rise higher, accomplish your goals,

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Speaker 5: and become everything you were created to be in Jesus's name.

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Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you say it? Men?

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Speaker 5: Today, we never like to close our broadcast without giving

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Speaker 5: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I.

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Speaker 5: Repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that

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Speaker 5: simple prayer, we believe you got born again.

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Speaker 4: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 4: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed.

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