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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan's Victoria.

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: It's always a joy to come into your homes, and

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Speaker 2: if you're ever in our area, please stop by and

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Speaker 2: we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for tuning in today, and thank you again for

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Speaker 2: coming out. I like to start with something funny, and

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Speaker 2: I heard about this man named Bubba. He lived way

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Speaker 2: out in the country and had this stray dog that

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Speaker 2: kept showing up at his house. His wife said, Bubba,

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Speaker 2: the dog was walking up the driveway practically beat him back.

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Speaker 2: He did it again, same thing. Dog came right back.

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Speaker 2: So I said, Bubba, you got to take him way out,

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Speaker 2: drive him around in circles, get him all mixed up.

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Speaker 2: Bubba put him in the truck drove him an hour away.

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Speaker 2: Chris crossed these country roads that he had never seen before.

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Speaker 2: Two hours later, Bubba called from the truck ask his wife.

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Speaker 2: Did the dog happen to show back up? She said, yep,

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Speaker 2: he's walking up the driveway. He said, do me a favor.

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Speaker 2: Put him on the line.

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Speaker 1: I need directions. Hold up your Bible. Say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind

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

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about one more time. When

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Speaker 2: God laid out the plan for your life, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: dependent on you never making a mistake. He didn't say,

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Speaker 2: If you perform perfectly, if you never make a wrong turn,

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Speaker 2: I'll bless you. I'll guide you, I'll protect you. No

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Speaker 2: God knew every wrong turn that you would make. Jesus

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Speaker 2: told Peter, you'll deny me three times before the rooster

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Speaker 2: when he needed him the most. Nothing you've done is

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Speaker 2: a surprise to God. The good news is God has

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Speaker 2: already lined up mercy for every mistake. Romans five says

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Speaker 2: where sin abounds, grace.

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Speaker 2: In other words, God's mercy will always supersede any mistake.

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Speaker 2: If sin abounds at a level five, mercy will show.

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Speaker 2: If sin abounds at level fifty, mercy will show up

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Speaker 2: at level five hundred. Looking at some of you, I

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Speaker 2: I've made a lot of misis. I got away from God,

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Speaker 2: has bigger time mercy. It supersedes every failure, every weakness,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I told him. You're not that powerful.

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Speaker 2: You think your mistake can stop what the creator of

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Speaker 2: God ordained for you before you were formed in your

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Speaker 2: got to pay God back for your mistakes. No, the

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Speaker 2: He rebuilt the pagan shrines that his father Hezekiah had

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Speaker 2: Tell how God delivered him from the Babylonians. He returned

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Speaker 2: That's the mercy of our God. We think I haven't

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Speaker 2: But Joel, God's not ever gonna help me, not gonna

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Speaker 1: Had before he had made those mistakes.

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Speaker 2: God could have said, Sampson, you had your chance. You

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Speaker 2: Learn to receive God's mercy. When our children were small,

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Speaker 2: God is saying, your heavenly father is saying, let's go

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Speaker 2: An angel appeared to him in the form of a man.

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Speaker 2: They began to wrestle this winter on all night. The

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Speaker 2: made an interesting statement. He said, no I'm not letting

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Speaker 2: life of cheating, taking advantage of people stealing his brother's birthright.

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Speaker 2: Surely God would say, Jacob, you are the last person

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Speaker 1: Can forget about it. No, God said, in.

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Speaker 2: Effect, Jacob, I like the fact that you come boldly

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Speaker 2: to the throne. I like the fact that you know

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Speaker 2: I'm full of mercy, that you know where sin abounds,

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Speaker 2: grace does much more abound. God not only gave him

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Speaker 2: the blessing, but he changed his name from Jacob, which

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Speaker 2: means deceiver, to Israel, which means prince with God. From

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Speaker 2: that day, Jacob went out with the blessing a changed man. Friends,

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Speaker 2: God is not holding anything against you. Some of you

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Speaker 1: Never be good to you. Have you ever asked? Have

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Speaker 1: you ever said, God, I.

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Speaker 2: Haven't performed perfectly. I've made a mess out of things.

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Speaker 1: But God, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Asking you to bless me in spite of my mistakes. God,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to strengthen me.

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Speaker 1: One more time.

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Speaker 2: God did it for Jacob, he did it for Jonah,

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Speaker 2: did it for Sampson, did it for Nanassa.

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Speaker 1: He'll do it for you. He's a one.

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Speaker 2: More time God, one more time. He's gonna bless you

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Speaker 2: one more time.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna restore you.

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Speaker 2: The good news is he'll never run out of the

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Speaker 2: one more times. Now, shake off the guilt and go

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Speaker 2: boldly to the throne. If you do this, you won't

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Speaker 2: be disappointed.

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Speaker 1: I believe and declare.

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Speaker 2: God will restore you, bless you, bring you out, and

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Speaker 2: you will still fulfill the best plan that He's laid

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Speaker 2: out for your life.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say

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Speaker 1: him in today?

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity.

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Speaker 1: To make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you

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Speaker 1: pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart.

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Speaker 2: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you

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Speaker 2: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again.

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Speaker 2: Get in a good Bible based church, Keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the stresses of life can feel like you're just

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Speaker 3: getting by. God wants to bless us, but how do

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Speaker 3: you move from barely enough to just enough to more

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Speaker 3: than enough.

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Speaker 2: We all face difficulties and people that are hard to

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Speaker 2: deal with. You can't eliminate all the stress, but if

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Speaker 2: you'll handle it the right way, you don't have to

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Speaker 2: live stressed out. Much of our frustration is we're trying

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Speaker 2: to control things that we can't control, letting things stress

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Speaker 2: How much time are you spending worried, upset and frustrated.

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Speaker 1: Life is too short to live stressed.

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Speaker 2: If you'll make some simple adjustments, you can live blessed

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Speaker 1: All over the world.

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Speaker 2: Remember you can watch the services online Sunday mornings, download

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Speaker 2: But until we meet again, let the Lord bless you

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