Speaker 1: I hope you and your family are having a great summer.
Speaker 1: Victorian are praying for you, believing for God's very best
Speaker 1: in your life, and it's always my pleasure to be
Speaker 1: able to share a message with you. I hope you're
Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired today. Well, God bless you. It's great
Speaker 1: to be with you today, and I hope you'll stay
Speaker 1: connected with us during the week through our daily podcast
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Speaker 1: us in person. We'd love to have you be a
Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I'd like to start
Speaker 1: with something funny. And I heard about this man that
Speaker 1: was out walking on the beach and God said, son,
Speaker 1: you've been so faithful, I'm going to grant you one
Speaker 1: special wish. He was so excited. He said, God, I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I'm afraid to fly.
Speaker 1: So my wish is that you'd build me a bridge
Speaker 1: across the ocean. God said, son, that's impossible. Think of
Speaker 1: the logistics of that. I take a moment and wish again.
Speaker 1: Men thought about it, said okay, God, I've been married
Speaker 1: four times. All my ex wives say I am so insensitive.
Speaker 1: So my wish is that I would be able to
Speaker 1: understand a woman. I want to know why they think
Speaker 1: like they think, why they feel like they feel. There
Speaker 1: was a long pause. God said, do you want two
Speaker 1: lanes or four lanes on that bridge? And all the
Speaker 1: men said, Amen, here we go. God, this is my Bible.
Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 1: about time to try again. We've all had things that
Speaker 1: we wanted to see happen, but they didn't work out.
Speaker 1: We tried to start a business, tried to lose the weight,
Speaker 1: tried to have a baby, tried to forgive. We did
Speaker 1: our best, but we weren't able to do it. When
Speaker 1: we face these setbacks, it's easy to settle there and think,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be disappointed again. The relationship didn't
Speaker 1: work out. I don't want to get hurt again. My
Speaker 1: boss said I wasn't qualified for the position. I don't
Speaker 1: want to get rejected again. I tried to make peace
Speaker 1: with my loved one, only made it worse. I don't
Speaker 1: want to rock the boat again. Just because it hasn't
Speaker 1: happened yet doesn't mean that it's not going to happen.
Speaker 1: The people that reach their destiny are the people that
Speaker 1: try again. The enemy would love for you to live disappointed,
Speaker 1: dwelling on what wasn't fair and who hurts you. How
Speaker 1: you did your best, but the door closed. The promotion
Speaker 1: you deserved went to your coworker, and you wanted to
Speaker 1: get your degree, but you weren't that discipline. You didn't
Speaker 1: study your party. Then now it seems like it's too late.
Speaker 1: But God knew every mistake you would make. He knew
Speaker 1: every setback, every person that would do you wrong. He's
Speaker 1: already taken that into account. For every setback, He's already
Speaker 1: planned to come back for every loss, a new beginning
Speaker 1: for every closed door and open door. Failure is not
Speaker 1: final unless you quit trying. The scripture says a good
Speaker 1: man falls seven times, but he gets back up again.
Speaker 1: We're all gonna fall. The question is are you gonna
Speaker 1: get back up? Are you gonna believe that God's still
Speaker 1: ordering your steps? That what he started he will finish.
Speaker 1: There has to be a fire on the inside, a
Speaker 1: holy determination that you're gonna become all God's created you
Speaker 1: to be. But Joel, I tried to get back in shape.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. God is saying, try again. I
Speaker 1: tried to break the addiction. I've been to a rehab
Speaker 1: a few times. Try again. Tried to make my marriage work.
Speaker 1: We're too combative. I tried to start my company. I
Speaker 1: couldn't get the funding. Try again. Sometimes it wasn't the
Speaker 1: right time where God was working in you, getting everything arranged.
Speaker 1: But you will come in to what the scripture calls
Speaker 1: a window of grace where God empowers you to do
Speaker 1: what you couldn't do before, where there's a favor that
Speaker 1: causes doors to open, the right people to show up,
Speaker 1: an anointing of ease, where what used to be a
Speaker 1: struggle is not a struggle anymore. You have the grace
Speaker 1: to forgive, and the grace to get healthy, the grace
Speaker 1: to take new ground. But this power is only activated
Speaker 1: if you try again. First Chronicles thirteen, the Israelites had
Speaker 1: what they called the ark of the Covenant's rectangular box
Speaker 1: that represented the presence of God, had the Ten Commandments
Speaker 1: in it. It was very sacred, very holy, had to
Speaker 1: be treated with the utmost respect. At one point, the
Speaker 1: Philistines captured the Ark, took it from God's people. They
Speaker 1: paraded it around like a big trophy. Look what we've done.
Speaker 1: The problem was their people started getting sick and having
Speaker 1: these boils, and they knew it was because they had
Speaker 1: this arc, the God of Israel. They had to get
Speaker 1: rid of it, so they put it on a cart,
Speaker 1: hooked it up to two oxen, and let them wander
Speaker 1: wherever they wanted. Where the oxen came into Israel, God
Speaker 1: ordered their steps. The art came back home, was taken
Speaker 1: to a house up on a hill where they stood
Speaker 1: guard night and day. Was there for twenty years. When
Speaker 1: David became king, he wanted to bring the Ark to Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: the capital city. The Ark represented Jehovah. He wanted everyone
Speaker 1: united in worship to this one God. And he didn't
Speaker 1: like the fact that Ark had been neglected, stored in
Speaker 1: a house, not getting the reverence and honor it deserves.
Speaker 1: So he called all the leaders of Israel together, his
Speaker 1: military advisor's officials. He knew he had to get them
Speaker 1: on board. He said in verse two, if it seems
Speaker 1: good to you, and if it's the will of the Lord,
Speaker 1: let us bring back the ark of our God, for
Speaker 1: we neglected it during the reign of Saws. They all agreed,
Speaker 1: they knew it was a right thing. So David organized
Speaker 1: thirty thousand men from all the different provinces to come
Speaker 1: with them to bring it home. It was a historical
Speaker 1: moment to put the ark on a cart and began
Speaker 1: to lead the oxen down the hill. It was this
Speaker 1: huge celebration, all this singing, dancing, music playing. Everyone excited.
Speaker 1: But as the oxen got to the bottom of the hill,
Speaker 1: they stumbled and the arc started to fall. One of
Speaker 1: the workers reached out to study the arc, and instantly
Speaker 1: he was killed. You couldn't touch the ark. It was
Speaker 1: the presence of God. All of a sudden, the music stopped,
Speaker 1: the band quit playing, dancers put down their tambourines. This
Speaker 1: joyful celebration completely turned. Now they were standing their stunned
Speaker 1: in disbelief. I can see David put his head down,
Speaker 1: tell the people to go back home. It's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. We can't move this safely. They send it
Speaker 1: to a house close by. David was not only disappointed,
Speaker 1: he was angry. He was mad at God. He said
Speaker 1: in verse twelve, God, how do you expect me to
Speaker 1: bring this arc home? David had good intentions. He was
Speaker 1: trying to do the right thing. The art belonged with them,
Speaker 1: but he went about it the wrong way. He copied
Speaker 1: what the Philistines had done, put the arc on a
Speaker 1: cart and had oxen to carry it. But there was
Speaker 1: a specific protocol for transporting the art. There was a
Speaker 1: right way to do it. David was passionate. He was zealous.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring this home. I'm gonna honor Jehovah. But
Speaker 1: pulse it in Romans. Zeal without knowledge is not good.
Speaker 1: If David would have looked back at the Torah, he
Speaker 1: would have seen the art can't be carried by animals.
Speaker 1: The priests have to carry it, not on a cart,
Speaker 1: but on poles. If he would have researched it, he
Speaker 1: would have seen hundreds of years earlier, Joshua had the
Speaker 1: priest carry the arc as they crossed the Jordan River.
Speaker 1: You can do the right thing the wrong way and
Speaker 1: not have success. You can have good intentions. You tried
Speaker 1: your best, like David, you gave it your all, but
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. You disappointed. God, this isn't fair.
Speaker 1: Here's the good news that disappointment is not where your
Speaker 1: story ends. God doesn't hold our failures against us. The
Speaker 1: key is learned from your mistakes. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: there's a lesson. There's something we could do differently. We
Speaker 1: got in a hurry, we didn't take time to study.
Speaker 1: We're doing a good thing, we know God put it
Speaker 1: in our heart. We went about it the wrong way.
Speaker 1: This was embarrassing for David. He was humiliated, this national event,
Speaker 1: all of his leaders, the whole country watching, and it
Speaker 1: turns into a big tragedy. David went back home so
Speaker 1: disappointed he could have said, forget about that art. I'm
Speaker 1: never touching that thing again. God, you better find someone else.
Speaker 1: One thing that made David a champion is he was
Speaker 1: willing to try again. He didn't stay disappointed. Instead of
Speaker 1: sitting around in self fidy, he began to study how
Speaker 1: you move the art? God? What did I do wrong?
Speaker 1: Is there something I need to change? When we're disappointed
Speaker 1: things haven't worked out, it's very powerful to look inside
Speaker 1: and say, God, show me where I missed it? What
Speaker 1: could I do better next time? Prepare more? Could I
Speaker 1: watch my words in this relationship, not be critical in harsh?
Speaker 1: Could I choose better people to be in business with.
Speaker 1: Could I be more sensitive to what I'm feeling down
Speaker 1: in here, not go against that unrest? Could I get
Speaker 1: more knowledge to match this zeal? Study make sure the timing.
Speaker 1: Nothing is ever wasted. If you learn from the experience,
Speaker 1: there's a lesson. If you're open, God will show you
Speaker 1: so you don't keep repeating the same mistakes. For three months,
Speaker 1: the ark was stored in a house of the man
Speaker 1: named Obed. You would think that David would be done
Speaker 1: thinking about that after he was so disappointed, so embarrassed.
Speaker 1: But during those three months David figured out what he
Speaker 1: did wrong. Says in verse thirteen. It was because the Levites,
Speaker 1: the priests didn't carry the arc that the anger of
Speaker 1: the Lord broke out. We did not inquire of him.
Speaker 1: How did do it the prescribed way? David is saying
Speaker 1: something powerful. I had all this passion, all this zeal,
Speaker 1: but I should have asked God how to do it
Speaker 1: the right way? There was a prescribed way. How many
Speaker 1: disappointments can this keep us from? If we'll ask God
Speaker 1: ahead of time. God showed me how to do this.
Speaker 1: God give me wisdom, show me the best way. David
Speaker 1: made a mistake, learned the lesson. That could have been
Speaker 1: the end. He didn't bring the art back. It stayed
Speaker 1: with Obed. David had this boldness to try again. His
Speaker 1: attitude was when I fall, I shall arise. Verse twenty
Speaker 1: eight says David went down to Obed's house and brought
Speaker 1: the art to Jerusalem with great singing and dancing. Three
Speaker 1: months earlier he was down on himself, thinking he blew it.
Speaker 1: Now he's got the art, dancing, celebrating, thanking God for
Speaker 1: the victory. Like David, we're all going to go through disappointments.
Speaker 1: Times we did our best, We had good intentions, didn't
Speaker 1: work out. Doesn't seem fair. That's not the end of
Speaker 1: the story. Thoughts will tell you you'll never bring the arkon,
Speaker 1: never start your business. The last one didn't make it,
Speaker 1: Never have a healthy relationship. You put your heart and
Speaker 1: soul into the last one. It didn't last. No, learn
Speaker 1: the lesson and dare to try again. God will always
Speaker 1: give you another chance. Now, what will keep you stuck
Speaker 1: is if you don't try Joel, I've been too hurt,
Speaker 1: too embarrassed, through too much. You're right where David was.
Speaker 1: He could have settled there, and disappointment missed his destiny.
Speaker 1: You have to get your fire back. You are coming
Speaker 1: into a window of grace to do what you couldn't
Speaker 1: do before. God is breathing new life into your spirit,
Speaker 1: new strength into your body, passion into your heart. That
Speaker 1: setback didn't stop what he had planned. There may have
Speaker 1: been a delay, but it didn't cancel your purpose. Your
Speaker 1: art is still coming home, that dream is still going
Speaker 1: to come to pass. Your child will still get back
Speaker 1: on course, your marriage is still going to flourish. Your
Speaker 1: business is still going to take off. Now you have
Speaker 1: to do your part and try again. Go back to
Speaker 1: Obed's house and get what belongs to you. Yes, the
Speaker 1: disappointment was difficult, but it wasn't wasted. It prepared you.
Speaker 1: You learned the lesson. This time, You're going to do
Speaker 1: it the right way because you inquired of the Lord.
Speaker 1: God is going to give you wisdom, insight, clear direction.
Speaker 1: He's lining up the right people right now. He's arranging
Speaker 1: things in your favor. When you see what God does
Speaker 1: and how he brings to pass what you thought was
Speaker 1: over and gives you another chance when thought said you've
Speaker 1: made too many mistakes. You're going to dance like David dance.
Speaker 1: There will be great shouts of joy and victory in
Speaker 1: your house, in the house of the righteous. I met
Speaker 1: a woman after the service a while back, and she
Speaker 1: was eighty six years old, and she opened up this
Speaker 1: folder and showed me a certificate. It was her college degree.
Speaker 1: She had just graduated that weekend. She told how she
Speaker 1: always promised her mother that she would get her degree
Speaker 1: in her late teen she was in college, but she
Speaker 1: got distracted. She didn't take it seriously. She's so busy
Speaker 1: hanging around friends having fun. She ended up dropping out.
Speaker 1: Over the years, she kept making excuses, Mom, I can't
Speaker 1: do it now. I have children, have to go to work,
Speaker 1: have so much responsibility. She had accepted that she had
Speaker 1: missed her chance. Deep down, she never felt good about it.
Speaker 1: She was always bothered that she did keep her word
Speaker 1: to her mom, she didn't tap into that potential. One day,
Speaker 1: she's flipping through the channels and she came across our
Speaker 1: services and I was talking along these lines about how
Speaker 1: it's never too late to get started and we have
Speaker 1: to try again. Something came alive on the inside. See
Speaker 1: that promise God put in you, that dream. It's like
Speaker 1: a seed. It never dies. It can lie their dormant
Speaker 1: for years, but it's still alive. At eighty two years old,
Speaker 1: she went back to college and got her bachelor's degree,
Speaker 1: fulfilled that promise. To her mother. I said, wow, man,
Speaker 1: your mom must be so proud of you. She must
Speaker 1: be smiling down from heaven right now. She said, no, Joel,
Speaker 1: my mother's right over there, one hundred and four years old,
Speaker 1: so healthy, smiling, waving. Are you going to miss something
Speaker 1: God put in your heart because you never tried again.
Speaker 1: I tried to write my book, but nobody helped me.
Speaker 1: Try again. I tried to get in management. They said
Speaker 1: I wasn't talent enough. Try again. I tried to break
Speaker 1: this addiction. It's been years. You are on the verge
Speaker 1: of God doing a new thing. He sees the disappointment.
Speaker 1: He knows what didn't work out. Lonely nights, those times
Speaker 1: you did your best, You gave it your all, but
Speaker 1: the art didn't come back home. That's not the end
Speaker 1: of your story. God is the one that put the
Speaker 1: dream in you. He's the one that gave you the
Speaker 1: desire to be free, to be healthy, to get married.
Speaker 1: You have to stir up those gifts. God didn't bring
Speaker 1: you this far to leave you. And sure you may
Speaker 1: have missed the opportunity in the past. You didn't take
Speaker 1: it seriously. But another chance is coming. You got turned
Speaker 1: down for that promotion. That's not the end. Another one
Speaker 1: is on the way. The relationship didn't work out, that
Speaker 1: person walked out of your life. Someone better is already
Speaker 1: in rout. My father was married at a young age,
Speaker 1: and he was excited about life and excited about his future.
Speaker 1: He never dreamed that marriage wouldn't make it. Sometimes life
Speaker 1: throws things at us that we didn't see coming, and
Speaker 1: my father was devastated. He was pastoring a church and
Speaker 1: he not only lost his marriage, but he resigned from
Speaker 1: his church, and denominational leaders told him that he would
Speaker 1: never pastor again, that that attained his future. He was
Speaker 1: no longer qualified. But people don't determine your destiny. God does.
Speaker 1: People may write you off and focus on your failures.
Speaker 1: How you don't measure up, you don't deserve it. But
Speaker 1: God is full of mercies. He knows how to take
Speaker 1: what was meant for harm, and turn it to your advantage.
Speaker 1: My father left the ministry and started selling insurance, and
Speaker 1: thoughts told him that he had blown it. Did he'd
Speaker 1: never have a family and never be in ministry again.
Speaker 1: The enemy is called the accuser. He'll remind you of
Speaker 1: every mistake you've made. He wants you to live down
Speaker 1: on yourself, reliving your mistakes, thinking that you're not worthy.
Speaker 1: You need to tune all that out. God's mercy is
Speaker 1: bigger than any mistake that you've made. Learn a lesson
Speaker 1: from it, find anything that's helpful, what you could do better.
Speaker 1: Then leave all the guilt the condemning voices behind. God
Speaker 1: doesn't remember your mistakes. Why are you remembering them? If
Speaker 1: anyone is bringing them up, you know it's not God.
Speaker 1: That's the accuser trying to keep you from trying again.
Speaker 1: It took a couple of months, but my father finally
Speaker 1: shook off that defeated mentality and tuned out all the
Speaker 1: condemning voices and started ministering again. A church hired him
Speaker 1: as their pastor. He was visiting his members in the
Speaker 1: hospital and saw this young nurse, a twenty two year
Speaker 1: old girl named Dody. He liked her so much. He
Speaker 1: would go to that hospital any chance he could. If
Speaker 1: you told him one of your third cousins, best friends,
Speaker 1: next door neighbors was in there, he'd go in a minute.
Speaker 1: He was looking for reasons to show up, I think,
Speaker 1: secretly praying that his members would get ill. Well. Mother
Speaker 1: had never met him, but she told her friends that
Speaker 1: pastor has the sickest congregation I have ever seen. She
Speaker 1: didn't know. He wasn't after the patience he was after
Speaker 1: the nurse. My parents got married and had four average children,
Speaker 1: one exceptional child, and they were married almost fifty years.
Speaker 1: Started Lakewood Day passored here nearly forty years. This all
Speaker 1: happened after a disappointment, after a failure, when he was
Speaker 1: doing his best. He had good intentions, but it didn't
Speaker 1: work out. If my father had not tried again, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be here. There wouldn't be a Lakewood. What will
Speaker 1: the world miss if you don't try again? That mistake
Speaker 1: didn't stop your purpose. God knows how to work all
Speaker 1: things for your good. The disappointment didn't cancel your destiny.
Speaker 1: The art didn't come home the first time, didn't turn
Speaker 1: out like you had hoped. There were some mistakes, maybe
Speaker 1: things you could have done better. God's not holding that
Speaker 1: against you. Learn from it, ask him to show you
Speaker 1: how you can do better. Be open for change. Then
Speaker 1: this next part is so important. Try again, Joel. I
Speaker 1: tried to forgive, but they hurt me so badly. I
Speaker 1: know it's hard, but God is going to give you
Speaker 1: the grace to do it. If you'll make a move,
Speaker 1: you'll feel his power in a new way. I tried
Speaker 1: to meet someone new, tried to get free from this addiction.
Speaker 1: Didn't happen. Joel, this is a new day. You're stepping
Speaker 1: into a new grace. The spirit of God is coming
Speaker 1: on you in a greater way. This is a destiny moment.
Speaker 1: The scripture says, today, when you hear his voice, do
Speaker 1: not turn away. Don't go another five years on hold complacent,
Speaker 1: thinking you've seen your best days. Go back and get
Speaker 1: the arc. This time is coming home. This time there
Speaker 1: will be great joy, great dancing, great celebration. You're gonna
Speaker 1: look back and say, like David, look what the Lord
Speaker 1: has done. He's gonna exceed your expectations. There was a
Speaker 1: man in the scripture named Zeruba bel God gave him
Speaker 1: a dream to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, and the
Speaker 1: king gave him permission to start the project. And he
Speaker 1: took fifty thousand men and they laid the foundation. Took
Speaker 1: two years. They were so excited. The scripture says the
Speaker 1: people let out a great shout praising God because the
Speaker 1: foundation had been laid. They were about to start the
Speaker 1: next phase when opposition arose. The enemies of Judah heard
Speaker 1: about what was happening. They didn't like it. They started
Speaker 1: stirring up trouble and spreading rumors, trying to bring confusion.
Speaker 1: It's interesting how when you start doing great things and
Speaker 1: taking new ground, it stirs up the enemy, jealousy, gossip,
Speaker 1: people trying to stop you. They were fine as long
Speaker 1: as you stayed in your box. Don't make any ways.
Speaker 1: Be ordinary. That's not who you are. You're a history maker.
Speaker 1: God has called you to stand out to set new standards.
Speaker 1: These people continue to cause trouble and lie about Zeruba bell.
Speaker 1: They sent a letter to the king saying that he
Speaker 1: was defiant and was going to lead a rebellion and
Speaker 1: not pay taxes. All lies, but the king believed them.
Speaker 1: They were ordered to stop the construction. No work could
Speaker 1: be done. Week went by a month a year. I
Speaker 1: can see zeruba Bell walking around the empty foundation, thinking, God,
Speaker 1: what happened? I know you put this dream in my heart.
Speaker 1: Why did they lie about me? He couldn't understand it.
Speaker 1: But part of faith is trusting when it doesn't make sense,
Speaker 1: believing that God is still in control when the promise
Speaker 1: seems like it's never going to happen. Sixteen years, the
Speaker 1: foundation sat there untouched. Zerubebel had accepted that it wasn't
Speaker 1: meant to be. But what God starts, he's going to finish.
Speaker 1: God doesn't abort dreams. We may give up, but God
Speaker 1: doesn't give up. One day, the prophet Zachariah showed up.
Speaker 1: He said, zeruba Bel, it's time to start rebuilding the
Speaker 1: temple again. He could have thought, what do he means?
Speaker 1: Been sixteen years? Do you know what we've been through?
Speaker 1: All the disappointments, all the things people did to us us.
Speaker 1: He had plenty of reasons to say, no, thanks, it's
Speaker 1: too late. But like David, zerube Bel said, God, if
Speaker 1: you say try again, then I'm going to try again.
Speaker 1: Zachariah went on to say, this time, Zerubabill, it's not
Speaker 1: going to be by your might by your power, but
Speaker 1: by the spirit of the living God. He was saying
Speaker 1: what God is saying to us. You're coming into a
Speaker 1: window of grace where God is going to breathe on
Speaker 1: your life. Supernatural provision, uncommon favored healing, freedom, things that
Speaker 1: you couldn't make happen. The hand of God is going
Speaker 1: to make happen. This time there was a new king.
Speaker 1: He found in the official archives that there was a
Speaker 1: decree written years earlier that the temple was supposed to
Speaker 1: be rebuilt. The king told the critics not that he
Speaker 1: was going to stop Zeruba Bell, but that they had
Speaker 1: to pay for the construction cost. He ordered the opposition
Speaker 1: to provide all the material, all the supplies, and to
Speaker 1: bring them food and water each day. The first time
Speaker 1: it may not have worked out for you was unfair.
Speaker 1: You got passed over. You've had these seasons of silence
Speaker 1: where it seems like it could never happen. If you
Speaker 1: will try again, you're going to see the hand of
Speaker 1: God in ways you've never seen. It's not going to
Speaker 1: be just by you might intellect, your connections. The most
Speaker 1: tied God is going to open doors, turn your child around,
Speaker 1: heal your body, give you explosive blessings that catapult you ahead.
Speaker 1: Is there some area that you've given up in You
Speaker 1: went through a disappointment, or you made a mistake, You
Speaker 1: could have done it better. Don't go through life down
Speaker 1: on yourself. Learn the lesson and move forward. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: be hearing this if you weren't entering a window of grace,
Speaker 1: the power to do what you couldn't do before. Try
Speaker 1: again to make the marriage work, Try again to start
Speaker 1: your business, Try again to have that baby, Try again
Speaker 1: to get close to God. Your act of faith is
Speaker 1: what causes the creator of the universe to do what
Speaker 1: only he can do. If you'll do this, I believe
Speaker 1: and declare, like David, You're gonna bring your our come.
Speaker 1: God's gonna restore make ways, open doors like Zorubabill. Things
Speaker 1: that looked like they were too late are about to
Speaker 1: come to pass. Dreams. Business is healings, relationships, the fullness
Speaker 1: of your destiny in Jesus's name, and if you receive it,
Speaker 1: can you say amen? I'd like to give you an
Speaker 1: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would
Speaker 1: you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I repent
Speaker 1: of my sins, come into my heart. I make you
Speaker 1: my Lord and Savior. If you prayed that simple prayer,
Speaker 1: we believe you got born again. We'd love to send
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Speaker 1: amazing what happens when you take a few moments throughout
Speaker 1: the day to connect with God. A moment to thank
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