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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Joe Loostine Podcast. Help let's continue to

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Speaker 1: share the message of hope with those all over the world.

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Speaker 2: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 2: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this minister that was driving down the road when

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Speaker 2: he got pulled over by a policeman. The officer came

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Speaker 2: to his window and smelled alcohol. He saw a thermos

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Speaker 2: and said, sir, what are you drinking. The minister said,

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Speaker 2: just water. Officer, he asked to see the thermoist. He

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Speaker 2: took one sniff and said, this smells like wine to me.

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Speaker 2: The minister said, what do you know? Jesus did it

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Speaker 2: again and say it like you mean it. This is

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is

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

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 2: to you today about your father's world. We knew this

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Speaker 2: man growing up that was very successful, very wealthy. He

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Speaker 2: built a large business with offices around the world. His

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Speaker 2: wife of many years had died earlier. They'd never had

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Speaker 2: any children. He remarried a lady much younger than he was.

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Speaker 2: When he was sixty five, they found out that they

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Speaker 2: were pregnant. He couldn't believe at that age she was

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Speaker 2: going to have a baby, his first child. While he

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Speaker 2: was excited, he was a little inted. They were used

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Speaker 2: to traveling the world and going whenever they wanted, and

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Speaker 2: now they were going to have this new responsibility. He

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Speaker 2: was looking forward to it, of course, but in the

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Speaker 2: back of his mind, thinking it was going to cramp

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Speaker 2: his style. His wife went into labor, left an important meeting,

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Speaker 2: rushed to the hospital. When she gave birth, the nurse

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Speaker 2: something that he had never felt. He began to weep

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Speaker 2: and weep. He was so overcome with joy and so

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Speaker 2: overwhelmed with gratitude. He looked him in the eyes and said,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to give you my world. He was

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Speaker 2: so in love with this baby. He took him wherever

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Speaker 2: he went, showed him off to friends. He was the

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Speaker 2: proudest father you could ever meet. That's the way your

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Speaker 2: heavenly father feels about you. He's been thinking about you

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Speaker 2: a long time before you were formed in your mother's wombs.

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Speaker 2: He knew you. He's already planned out your days. He

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Speaker 2: didn't create you to be average, to be mediocre, to

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Speaker 2: get by in life. He's lined up amazing opportunities, good breaks,

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Speaker 2: the right people. He's saying to you, I can't wait

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Speaker 2: to give you my world. His world is big, His

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Speaker 2: world is abundant. His world is full of favor. He's

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Speaker 2: going to take you further than you've dreamed. He's going

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Speaker 2: to open doors bigger than you've imagined. He's going to

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Speaker 2: bring talent out that you didn't know you had. He's

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Speaker 2: been waiting for you to get here. Jesus said, it

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Speaker 2: is the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

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Speaker 2: Not okay, you're here. I have to take care of you. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I love you, but you're a pain. You're always getting

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Speaker 2: into trouble. Have a new perspective. You are not a

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Speaker 2: burden to God. You're not inconveniencing him. You're the apple

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Speaker 2: loves showing you favor. He takes pleasure in giving you

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Speaker 2: wherewith God loved us. Wasn't a little love I get

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Speaker 2: going to boggle your mind. We think natural. God thinks supernatural.

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Speaker 2: We think, let me have enough to pay my bills.

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Speaker 2: help pay other people's bills. We think, let me learn

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Speaker 2: to live with this sickness. God thinks, let me free

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Speaker 2: God thinks, let me give you one that's already built.

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Speaker 2: Let me bring you a compact center. God has things

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Speaker 2: in your future that you've never dreamed of. I never

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Speaker 2: on what God has done. What He has planned is

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Speaker 2: much bigger than what we have in mind. The good

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Speaker 2: Isaiah said, God is longing to be good to you.

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Speaker 2: My question is are you expecting to rise higher, to

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Speaker 2: a way. He is not limited by what you don't have,

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Speaker 2: by your family, by your education. His favor on your

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Speaker 2: life will open doors that you could not open. His

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Speaker 2: anointing will cause you to accomplish more with less talent.

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Speaker 2: His blessing will bring divine connections, people that will use

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Speaker 2: to find them, they'll find you. Now, stay in agreement

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Speaker 2: Abraham was standing outside his tent when three men came

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Speaker 2: Sarah was. Abraham told him that she was in the tent.

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Speaker 2: The man said, about this time next year, when I return,

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Speaker 2: God had promised Abraham and Sarah some twenty years earlier

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Speaker 2: Says Sarah laughed to herself and thought, how can a

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Speaker 2: that it's laughable. When my father went to be with

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Speaker 2: But here's what I'm saying. Don't be surprised when God

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Speaker 2: But Abraham got in trouble, God said Abraham. Why did

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Speaker 2: I love the fact that when God puts big things

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Speaker 2: in our hearts, even when we laugh, even when we think, yeah, right,

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Speaker 2: there's no way, God doesn't say, all right, you're done.

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Speaker 2: You laughed. I'm not going to give you my world.

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Speaker 2: God is so merciful. He says, all right, let me

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Speaker 2: give you something to really laugh about. Let me show

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Speaker 2: you what I can do. A year later, at eighty

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Speaker 2: him Isaac. Isaac means laughter. Time she called his name,

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Speaker 2: to be laughing in amazement, laughing with gratitude, overwhelmed with

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Speaker 2: that she'd waited for a lifetime, tears running down her cheeks.

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Speaker 2: I can hear God say, and Sarah, welcome to my world.

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Speaker 2: In my world, I do the impossible. In my world,

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Speaker 2: I bring dreams to past. In my world, I take

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Speaker 2: you further than you've imagined. Sarah said in chapter twenty one,

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Speaker 2: God has brought me out with laughter. All who hear

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Speaker 2: Now she's holding her baby, laughing amazement. The scripture says,

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Speaker 2: God will fill your mouth with laughter. Some of this

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Speaker 2: finish college. It may seem laughable. The odds are against you.

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Speaker 2: But like her, you're about to come into this second

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Speaker 2: turn around, show you favor that thrust you to a

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Speaker 2: some of these? Who would have ever thought blessings in

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Speaker 2: would still be alive after being diagnosed with terminal cancer

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Speaker 2: thirty seven years ago? Who would have ever thought we

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Speaker 2: would be having church in the former Compact center. Who

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Speaker 2: Who would have ever thought you could pay your house

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Speaker 2: of these? Who would have ever thought blessings? Well, Joe,

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Speaker 2: this sounds good, but you don't know my situation. I

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Speaker 2: God did for Sarah. I bet you're not eighty years

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Speaker 2: to pray for you. God did it for her. He

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Speaker 2: could do it for you. But I don't have the connections.

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Speaker 2: I don't know the right people. You may not, but

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Speaker 2: God does you have friends in high places. The medical

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Speaker 2: report says I'm not going to get well. God has

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Speaker 2: another report, Lord. It says you will live and not die.

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Speaker 2: You may be laughing now in disbelief, but God is

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Speaker 2: up to something. There is a time coming where you're

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Speaker 2: going to be laughing in amazement. Psalm one twenty six

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Speaker 2: was like a dream. Our mouth was filled with laughter,

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Speaker 2: and we sang for joy. The Israelites had been in

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Speaker 2: If you receive it, can you say amen? Today? I'd

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Speaker 1: As a thank you for your support of our ministry.

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Speaker 1: This month, Jewel and Victoria would like to send you

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Speaker 1: Discover how to live full of hope, filled with peace

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Speaker 1: and Fueled by Faith. We all have times where we

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