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Speaker 5: The boy scout said, don't worry about it, sir, there

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Speaker 5: are still two parachutes left. You see the smartest man alive.

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Speaker 5: He just jumped out with my backpack. Say it like

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Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about it's all good.

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Speaker 5: Life is full of things that we don't like. Disappointments,

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Speaker 5: a friend betrayed us, we didn't get the promotion.

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Speaker 4: We see these things as being negative.

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Speaker 5: Thinking that was bad didn't work out. My prayers weren't answered.

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Speaker 5: But God won't allow a difficulty unless he's going to

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Speaker 5: somehow use it for our good. This means everything that

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Speaker 5: happens in life. We may not understand it, but if

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Speaker 5: you'll keep the right attitude, it'll push you further into

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Speaker 5: your destiny. Every closed doors, the delays, the person that

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Speaker 5: did you wrong, the loan that didn't go through. God says,

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Speaker 5: it's all good. I'm in control. It may not feel good,

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Speaker 5: but trust me and I'll use it for your good.

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Speaker 5: And when you understand this principle, life is much more freeing.

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Speaker 5: You don't get upset because a coworker is playing politics

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Speaker 4: You know it's all good.

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Speaker 5: God allowed it, and he's going to use it. You tried,

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Speaker 5: on your dreams. You know it's all good. It's a

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Speaker 4: Even simple things.

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Speaker 5: You get stuck in traffic, you don't let it frustrate

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Speaker 5: you ruin the rest of your day. You know God

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Speaker 5: is directing your steps. He may be keeping you from

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Speaker 5: an accident, or he may be developing patience in you.

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Speaker 5: Whatever it is, keep the right perspective.

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Speaker 4: It's all good.

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Speaker 5: This boils down to trusting God. We're never going to

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Speaker 5: understand everything that happens in life. If you try to

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Speaker 5: He can see the big picture.

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Speaker 4: For our lives.

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Speaker 5: He knows where the dead ends are, where the shortcuts are,

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Speaker 5: where the bumpy roads are. And sometimes he'll close a

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Speaker 4: Knows it would be a waste of time.

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Speaker 5: When you're a mature person, instead of getting bitter, you say, God,

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Speaker 5: I trust you. I may not like it, but I

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Speaker 5: things that God has in your future, if he gave

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Speaker 5: loves you too much to let it happen. He's developing

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Speaker 5: your character, growing you up. That boss that gets on

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Speaker 5: The reason he's not going anywhere is because God's using

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Speaker 5: him like sandpaper to rub the rough edges off of you. Now,

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Speaker 5: as you keep doing the right thing, keeping your mouth closed,

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Speaker 4: A work in you.

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Speaker 5: You couldn't develop your car without him. You may not

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Speaker 4: For the next level.

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Speaker 5: God is asking us, do you trust me with your

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Speaker 5: closed doors? Do you trust me with your unanswered questions,

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Speaker 5: you don't like, why don't you have this new perspective?

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Speaker 4: It's all good.

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Speaker 5: This grouchy boss, I can't stand him, but I know

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Speaker 4: This child that's hard to raise, this sickness.

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Speaker 5: I'm dealing with, this dream that's taken forever. I don't

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Speaker 5: like it, but I'm not going to live bitter. I

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Speaker 5: know God is on the throne. He's in control of

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Speaker 4: That's what Paul said in Romans.

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Speaker 5: All things work together for good to those that love

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Speaker 5: the Lord. Not some things, but all things. They may

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Speaker 5: not be good at the time. It's painful to go

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Speaker 5: by itself, that may not be good. But God has

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Speaker 4: One day you'll look back and say that was good. Well, Joel, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Discouraged because I lost a loved war er. I'm bitter

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Speaker 4: That wasn't good.

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Speaker 5: The problem is you're isolating that one incident. God hasn't

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Speaker 5: brought it all together yet. If that difficulty was going

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Speaker 5: to keep you from your destiny, God would have never

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Speaker 5: permitted it. That setback was really a setup for God

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Speaker 5: to show out in your life. So you have to

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Speaker 4: And have a victor mentality.

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Speaker 5: When you have this attitude that is all good. You

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Speaker 5: don't go around with a chip on your shoulder because

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Speaker 5: you had some bad breaks. You know, no weapon formed

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Speaker 5: against you will prosper endures for a night. But joy's

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Speaker 5: coming in the morning. You know, it's just a matter

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Speaker 5: of time before God brings it all together. We celebrated

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Speaker 4: Didn't look like a good Friday. The disciples thought it

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Speaker 4: was the worst day of their lives. Their dreams were shattered.

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Speaker 5: Can imagine Mary, the Mother of Christ, weeping and weeping

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Speaker 4: She's heartbroken, in so much pain.

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Speaker 5: If someone would have suggested, Mary, this is a good Friday,

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Speaker 4: Thought, what are you talking about? Good? Look what's happening.

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Speaker 5: But we all face these times when life doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 5: an illness. Nothing about the situation seems good. Good would

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Speaker 5: let the soldiers crucify him? God, why did you abandon

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Speaker 4: It was good Friday.

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Speaker 5: They look back on what they thought was the darkest

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Speaker 4: What am I saying? It's all good?

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Speaker 5: May not be good right now, may not make sense

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Speaker 5: all together. And what you think is going to stop

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Speaker 5: you hold you back. Can I tell you if you

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Speaker 5: will stay in faith, one day you will look back

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Speaker 5: and say that it was good. If Judas had not

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Speaker 4: The betrayal at the time didn't seem good.

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Speaker 5: It hurts when somebody does you wrong, walks out on you,

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Speaker 4: You may not see it at the time, but without that.

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Speaker 5: Betrayal, like Jesus, you couldn't become who you were created

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Speaker 5: to be. If they left you, you didn't need them.

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Speaker 5: If they walked away, they weren't a part of your destiny.

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Speaker 5: It may be painful Friday right now, but keep moving forward.

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Speaker 5: Sunday is coming, New beginnings.

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Speaker 4: Are on the way. A resurrection is in your future.

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Speaker 5: When God brings it all together, when you meet that

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Speaker 5: you'll look back and say with a smile, it was

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Speaker 5: a good friday.

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Speaker 4: When that old goat left. I mean, when that man left.

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Speaker 4: You didn't realize it.

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Speaker 5: But staying there with a good attitude, giving it your best,

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Speaker 5: Even your enemies quick complaining about the opposition, The people

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Speaker 5: but I know a secret.

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Speaker 4: It's all good good.

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Speaker 5: This is what Joseph did in the scripture. Nobody had

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Speaker 5: more bad breaks than him. As a teenager, his brothers

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Speaker 5: betrayed him, threw him into a pit. They ended up

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Speaker 5: selling him into slavery. He was lied about, falsely accused.

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Speaker 5: He spent years in prison for something that he didn't do.

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Speaker 5: It was one bad break after another. He could have

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Speaker 5: lived negative, bitter, but he understood this principle that even

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Speaker 5: though it may look bad, feel bad, be unfair, when

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Speaker 5: it comes together, God's going to use it for our good.

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Speaker 5: After thirteen years of trouble, God not only vindicated Joseph,

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Speaker 5: but he promoted him. He was put second in command

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Speaker 5: of the whole nation. Looking back, Joseph would tell you

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Speaker 5: that whole time that God was directing his steps. All

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Speaker 5: those bad breaks were a part of God's plan to

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

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Speaker 5: betrayal felt bad, but the.

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Speaker 4: Truth is it was good.

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Speaker 5: It was another step toward his destiny, being sold into slavery.

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Speaker 5: That was unfair, that was wrong. He didn't like it,

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Speaker 5: but he wouldn't change it. Without that disappointment, he would

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Speaker 5: have never become who God created him to be. Quit

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Speaker 5: fighting everything that you don't like. God wouldn't have allowed.

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Speaker 4: It if it wasn't going to move you forward. The

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Speaker 4: right attitude is God.

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Speaker 5: This doesn't make sense to me, but I believe when

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Speaker 5: you bring it all together one day, it will make sense. Now,

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Speaker 5: all those years, Joseph was doing the right thing when

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Speaker 5: the wrong thing was happening. That was getting him prepared

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Speaker 5: for his destiny. He was developing his character, strengthening his

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Speaker 5: spiritual muscles. He was proving to God that he could

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Speaker 5: handle it. My friends, Craig and Samantha had two healthy children.

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Speaker 4: When little Connor was born.

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Speaker 5: They soon realized that Connor wasn't the developing like the

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Speaker 5: other children. He wouldn't talk to them and interacted very much.

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Speaker 5: Connor was diagnosed with autism. Craig at that time was

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Speaker 5: the head of our Children's ministry. He and samanthare are

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Speaker 5: strong believers. They loved the Lord, but this was difficult

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Speaker 5: on them. One day, Craig was very discouraged. He said, God,

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Speaker 5: I don't understand it. Why was my son born with autism?

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Speaker 5: Why did this happen to me? He heard God say

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Speaker 5: four words, do you trust me? That moment, Craig did

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Speaker 5: what we all must do when we face things we

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Speaker 5: don't understand. He quit seeing it as being negative and

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Speaker 5: he embraced it as a part of God's plan for

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Speaker 5: his life. God will never give you something that you

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Speaker 5: cannot handle. When he made this shift in his thinking

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Speaker 5: from I'm a victim I've had these bad breaks to

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Speaker 5: God is in control of my life.

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Speaker 4: He's entrusted me with.

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Speaker 5: This situation, that's when things begin to change. Not only

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Speaker 5: did little Connor begin to defy the odds and begin

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Speaker 5: to talk and interact more than expected, Craig started a

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Speaker 5: ministry to help children with special needs called the Champions Club.

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Speaker 5: There are over thirty Champions Clubs around the world, plus

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Speaker 5: Craig and his associate have written the first ever faith

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Speaker 5: based curriculum for special needs children. Looking back, Craig would

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Speaker 5: tell you the same thing Joseph said that difficulty look

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Speaker 5: like a setback, but really it was a set up to.

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Speaker 4: Push him into his destiny. He would tell you that

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Speaker 4: it's all good.

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Speaker 5: You may not see it at the time, but the

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Speaker 5: closed doors are good, the disappointments are good, The bad breaks.

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Speaker 5: They may be uncomfortable, but when God brings it all together,

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Speaker 5: it's not going to work against you.

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Speaker 4: It's going to work for you. I'm asking you to

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Speaker 4: trust him.

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Speaker 5: anything good.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry.

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Speaker 5: Sunday is coming. God is in control. And I believe

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Speaker 5: and declare everything that was meant to stop you. God

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Speaker 5: is going to use it to push you forward. He's

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Speaker 5: bringing it all together right now. You're coming into good Friday,

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