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Speaker 5: But thanks so much for tuning in today. I like

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Speaker 5: to get started with something kind of funny each week,

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Speaker 5: so listen to this one. A woman parked her brand

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Speaker 5: new Lexus in front of her office, wanting.

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Speaker 5: As she got out, a truck passed too closely and

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Speaker 5: car would never be the same. The officer shook his

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Speaker 5: head and said, lady, you are so materialistic. Don't you

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Speaker 5: realize when the truck hits your car, it ripped your

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Speaker 5: where's my tennis bracelet? You know some people like that.

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Speaker 5: Come on, Hold your bibles up and say it like

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Speaker 5: you mean it. Ready, this is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 5: what it says I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 5: Today I'll be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 5: never be the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible,

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Speaker 5: ever living seed of the Word of God. I'll never

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Speaker 5: be the same, never, never, never, I'll never.

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Speaker 4: Be the same.

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. You sound great as usual.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about living with

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Speaker 5: expectancy and believing for more of God's favor in your life.

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Speaker 5: Too many people are stuck in a rut and they're

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Speaker 5: not really expecting anything good. They don't expect to rise higher,

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Speaker 5: But no, you've got to change what you're expecting. God

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Speaker 5: meets us at the level of our expectations. If you

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Speaker 5: then unfortunately, your own wrong thinking is gonna set the

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Speaker 5: today to raise your level of expectancy, get your hopes up,

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Speaker 5: Many great things in store for you. He wants to

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Speaker 5: promote you, to increase you. God can turn any situation around,

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Speaker 5: I believe this is going to be a great day.

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Speaker 5: God's favor surrounds me wherever I go. I know God

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Speaker 5: Believe that that situation can turn around. Put your faith

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Speaker 5: God is longing to be good to people that are

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Speaker 5: looking for his goodness, his favor, and his victory. Notice,

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Speaker 5: God wants to be good to you, but it's only

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Speaker 5: if you are expecting his blessings in favor. In other words,

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Speaker 5: we should actively be releasing our faith for more of

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Speaker 5: I know God wants to pour out his blessings and favor.

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Speaker 5: It says in the Book of Psalms that God has

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Speaker 5: crowned us with glory and honor. Another word for honor

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Speaker 5: is favor. Favor means to assist, to provide with advantages,

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Speaker 5: and to receive preferential treatment. God is simply saying he

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Speaker 4: He wants to assist you. He wants to give you advantages.

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Speaker 5: And what a shame to go through life, negative, defeated,

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Speaker 5: never expecting anything good, when Almighty God has already crowned

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Speaker 5: Hold our shoulders back and live with confidence, knowing that

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Speaker 5: we have a right to walk in victory. We have

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Speaker 5: a right to expect good things. We have an advantage

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Speaker 5: in life. We have the favor of God. One translation

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Speaker 5: says God to show us his far and beyond favor,

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Speaker 5: he wants to do unusual, unprecedented things. But if that's

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Speaker 5: also declaring God's favor. Every day we should say, Father,

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Speaker 5: I thank you that I have your favor. Thank you

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Speaker 5: I have favor with my clients, Thank you that my

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Speaker 5: day long, Father, thank you that your hand of favor

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Speaker 5: it's not enough to just believe this. It's not enough

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Speaker 5: out words give life to our faith, and we should

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Speaker 5: get in a habit of declaring favor. Just like you're

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Speaker 5: in a habit of speaking favor over your life every

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Speaker 5: cause you to get a promotion even though you're not.

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Speaker 5: I told Victoria I need to go shopping with you

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Speaker 5: What are you living favor minded? Are you expecting good things?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 5: I could tell you we would not be where we

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Speaker 5: are today as a church if we didn't believe strongly

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Speaker 5: in the favor of God. When the Compact Center became

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Speaker 5: available and we signed the agreement with the city that

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Speaker 5: took most of our resources to secure the facility.

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Speaker 4: Most of you know we prepaid the lease.

447
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Speaker 5: When we met with the architects about remodeling it and

448
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Speaker 5: redesigning it and adding the children's facility and the broadcast

449
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Speaker 5: center and all of that. They told us it was

450
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Speaker 5: going to cost close to eighty million dollars. Well, we

451
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Speaker 5: didn't have that much money at the time, and I

452
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Speaker 5: didn't want to wait several years while we raised the

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Speaker 5: funds because we need the room now, and so I

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Speaker 5: told our team we need to meet with the bank

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Speaker 5: about getting a construction loan.

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Speaker 4: So they got it all lined up and when dal I.

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Speaker 5: Went to this meeting, and these people were very, very

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Speaker 5: nice people, but they were very negative.

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Speaker 4: They told us all the reasons why.

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Speaker 5: It wouldn't work, and why they couldn't be involved, all

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Speaker 5: the risks that they would have to take, and on

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Speaker 5: and on and on. Finally, at the end of the meeting,

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Speaker 5: they said, well, just maybe there's a slight chance we

464
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Speaker 5: could offer you about.

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Speaker 4: One fifth of what you really need. Man.

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Speaker 5: I left that meeting kind of discouraged. I thought, God,

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Speaker 5: how is this ever going to work out? The next morning,

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Speaker 5: when I woke up, it dawned on me that I

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Speaker 5: needed to start believing for God's supernatural favor, and so

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Speaker 5: I just started declaring every day, Father, thank you that

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Speaker 5: your favor is leading us to the right people, thank

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Speaker 5: you that your favor will bring people across our path

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Speaker 5: that want to help us, people that get behind the vision,

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Speaker 5: people that are excited about this project.

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Speaker 4: And I just kept doing that day after day.

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Speaker 5: Well several weeks later, we met with another bank and

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Speaker 5: it was like night and day difference. This group was

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Speaker 5: excited about being involved. In fact, in the first meeting

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Speaker 5: they brought a letter already written offering us twice as

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Speaker 5: much as the other bank, and they hadn't even seen

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Speaker 5: our records. They hadn't even seen our finances. I mean,

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Speaker 5: their attitude was, we'll do whatever it to be involved.

483
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Speaker 5: Wasn't a struggle. We didn't have to convince them. It

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Speaker 5: was the favor of God. Now I believe it's that

485
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Speaker 5: same favor. It's going to help us to pay off

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Speaker 5: that construction loan. But the point I'm making to you

487
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Speaker 5: is maybe you've been trying to get another house, or

488
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Speaker 5: maybe you need some credit so your business can really grow.

489
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Speaker 5: But everybody has told you how impossible it is, how

490
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Speaker 5: it's never gonna work, and you might as well just

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Speaker 5: forget it. But no, you need to hear God saying

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Speaker 5: that God has the resources for you. He has the

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Speaker 5: people that can help you. God can make a way

494
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Speaker 5: even when it looks like there is no way. But

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Speaker 5: you've got to put your faith out there. You've got

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Speaker 5: to do like we did and start saying Father, thank

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Speaker 5: you that your favor is bringing the right people across

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Speaker 5: my path.

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Speaker 4: When you do that, that's when supernatural doors are going

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Speaker 4: to open.

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Speaker 5: Well, you say, Joel, I've tried and tried, and they

502
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Speaker 5: just tell me it's against the policy, it's against the regulation,

503
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Speaker 5: against the rules. Now listen to what I've discovered. The

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Speaker 5: favor of God can bend the rules for you. The

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Speaker 5: favor of God can make exceptions for you. If you'll

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Speaker 5: just keep believing, keep declaring it, keep expecting it, and

507
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Speaker 5: supernatural doors are going to open. I know some of

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Speaker 5: you today are going through great difficulties. You've got a

509
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Speaker 5: lot of obstacles in your path, and you're kind of thinking, man,

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Speaker 5: I don't want to hear about favor. I want to

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Speaker 5: know how to get out of my problems. But let

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Speaker 5: me tell you, the favor of God can turn your

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Speaker 5: situation around. God's favor can bring you out of that adversity.

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Speaker 5: I love what David said and Saw forty one eleven.

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Speaker 5: He said the favor of God keeps.

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Speaker 4: My enemies from triumphing over me.

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Speaker 5: The favor of God can do the same thing for

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Speaker 5: you and all through the Bible there are examples of

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Speaker 5: where people were in a great time of need, yet

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Speaker 5: God's favor showed up and turned everything around. I think

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Speaker 5: about Noah. He was facing the greatest challenge of his life.

522
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Speaker 5: The whole world was about to be destroyed by the flood.

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Speaker 5: Don't you know he could have easily gotten discouraged. He

524
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Speaker 5: could have easily just given up and thought it was hopeless.

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Speaker 5: But the Bible says that Noah found favor in the

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Speaker 5: eyes of God. In other words, God's supernatural ability came

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Speaker 5: on him. It assisted him and helped him to build

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Speaker 5: that huge arc which saved he and all of his family.

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Speaker 5: I think about Ruth. She and her mother in law

530
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Speaker 5: were widows. They hardly had any money. They were just

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Speaker 5: barely surviving. Ruth would go out into the fields each

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Speaker 5: day and pick up the leftover grain. They were just

533
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Speaker 5: barely making it. But the Bible says the favor of

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Speaker 5: God came on Ruth and she found favor with Bo

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Speaker 5: as the owner of that field, and he told his

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Speaker 5: workers to leave handfuls of grain on purpose for little Ruth.

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Speaker 4: And now they had all their needs supplied.

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Speaker 5: You think about that, here they were in that time

539
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Speaker 5: of crisis, the favor of God changed and all the

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Speaker 5: sudden things turned around. One more example, Joseph. You know,

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Speaker 5: he was sold into slavery. He was so mistreated, so

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Speaker 5: taken advantage of. But the Bible says the favor of

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Speaker 5: God was upon Joseph, and every place they put him,

544
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Speaker 5: he continued to prosper. Even when they lied and threw

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Speaker 5: him into prison, they couldn't keep him down. The favor

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Speaker 5: of God caused him to rise to the top. And

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Speaker 5: in each of these examples, God's favor came in the

548
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Speaker 5: midst of a storm. It came in a famine, came

549
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Speaker 5: in a flood, came when somebody was being mistreated. And

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Speaker 5: when you're in one of life's challenges, maybe you've got

551
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Speaker 5: a difficult thing going on right now, somebody's mistreating here,

552
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Speaker 5: you're struggling financially. It's so tempting to get negative and

553
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Speaker 5: discourage and just to expect the worst. But you need

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Speaker 5: to more than ever become favor minded. That means expect

555
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Speaker 5: the situation to change and start speaking favor over that difficulty.

556
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Speaker 5: Maybe you've got a child that's just running with the

557
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Speaker 5: wrong crowd. You need to say, Father, thank you that

558
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Speaker 5: your favor is keeping him from getting into trouble. Thank

559
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Speaker 5: you that your favor is going to bring good people

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Speaker 5: across his path. Or if you're struggling financially, Father, thank

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Speaker 5: you that your favor is opening up new doors. Thank

562
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Speaker 5: you that your favor is going to help me to prosper.

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Speaker 5: See it says in Firs Peter, to hope to the

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Speaker 5: end for the divine favor that is coming. God is saying,

565
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Speaker 5: if you can just keep your hopes up, then divine

566
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Speaker 5: favor is on its way. You may not be able

567
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Speaker 5: to see it right now in the natural. Your situation

568
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Speaker 5: may look pretty impossible. But if you can just keep believing,

569
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Speaker 5: keep expecting, he promises that favor is going to show up.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you.

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Speaker 5: When God's favor comes on to sing, things are going

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Speaker 5: to change. Like David, the favor of God will keep

573
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Speaker 5: your enemies from defeating you. Like Joseph, the favor of

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Speaker 5: God will cause you to always rise to the top.

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Speaker 5: God's favor will open up doors to you that men

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Speaker 5: say are impossible. So let me challenge as we go

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Speaker 5: into this new year, live more favor minded, expect it,

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Speaker 5: Declare it every day, Say Father, thank you that I

579
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Speaker 5: have your favor. Don't just sit back and take what

580
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Speaker 5: life brings your way. Be aggressive, believe for big things.

581
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Speaker 5: God wants to show you the surpassing greatness of his favor.

582
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Speaker 5: He's longing to be good to you, but you got

583
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Speaker 5: to be looking for his goodness.

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Speaker 4: And when you're tempted to just.

585
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Speaker 5: Shrink back and just kind of settle for mediocrity and

586
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Speaker 5: not expect anything good, you got to remind yourself you

587
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 5: have been crowned with glory and honor. You are a

588
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Speaker 5: child of the most High God. God wants you to

589
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Speaker 5: be favored. He wants to assist you, He wants you

590
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Speaker 5: to have advantages in life and friends. If you will

591
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Speaker 5: do your part and just make a decision with me

592
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 5: that you're gonna consistently expect good things and you're going

593
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Speaker 5: to declare God's favor, then God promises he'll make his

594
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 5: face shine down on you.

595
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Speaker 4: He'll give you his.

596
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Speaker 5: Favor, He'll meet all your needs in abundance, and I

597
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Speaker 5: believe you'll experience the victory that He has in story.

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Speaker 4: Amen, how many of you receive it this morning? Can

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Speaker 4: you say Him in today? We never like to close.

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Speaker 5: Our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 5: the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

604
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Speaker 5: into my heart.

605
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Speaker 4: I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

607
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Speaker 5: God born again. Get in a good Bible based church.

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