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Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer. Know that we're praying

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Speaker 1: for you, and we know God has awesome things in store.

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Speaker 1: So great having you with us. Enjoyed the message today. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's always a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. And if you're ever in our area, please

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Speaker 1: stop by and be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again

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Speaker 1: for coming out today. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 1: and I heard about this elderly minister. He was dying.

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Speaker 1: He sent for two of his members, an our s

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Speaker 1: agent and a lawyer to come to his house. When

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Speaker 1: they arrived, he motioned for both of them to sit

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Speaker 1: on each side of the bed. They were very moved

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Speaker 1: to be with the minister in his final moments. At

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Speaker 1: one point, the lawyer said, very sincerely, sir, why did

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Speaker 1: you choose both of us? The minister mustered up some

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Speaker 1: strength and said, Jesus died between two sinners. That's how

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Speaker 1: I want to go up. Your Bible, say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 1: it says, I am, I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today,

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 1: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about strategically ordered steps.

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Speaker 1: God is not a random God. He's not vague approximant.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do this, maybe I'll do that. God is precise, exact.

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Speaker 1: He's already laid out the plan for your life down

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Speaker 1: to the smallest details. And just as God will strategically

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Speaker 1: bring good breaks, promotion the right people, God will also

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Speaker 1: use adversities, disappointments, closed doors to move us toward our destiny.

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Speaker 1: At the time, we may not understand it. This couldn't

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Speaker 1: be God. I lost my biggest client, I'm in a

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Speaker 1: legal battle, my friend turned on me. No, God wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have allowed it unless he had a purpose for it.

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Speaker 1: God doesn't just randomly say, let me give them some heartache,

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Speaker 1: a bad break, let this person reject them. No. God

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Speaker 1: is strategic. He may not have sent it, but if

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Speaker 1: he allowed it, he can use it to your advantage.

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Speaker 1: God sees the big picture for our life. He knows

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Speaker 1: what we're going to need in a month, in a year,

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Speaker 1: and in twenty years. In the scripture, Samson wanted to

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Speaker 1: marry a young lady from another tribe. His parents didn't

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Speaker 1: want him to do it. God had instructed them to

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Speaker 1: But the scripture says his parents didn't realize the Lord

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Speaker 1: was at work in this, creating an opportunity to disrupt

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Speaker 1: the Philistines, who ruled Israel at that time. This is

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Speaker 1: a situation doesn't necessarily fit into our theology. God told

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Speaker 1: them not to marry foreigners, Yet God was the one

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Speaker 1: that led Sampson to do it. God knew years down

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Speaker 1: to carry out his plan. Here's my point, We're not

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Speaker 1: always going to understand why something happens. True faith is

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Speaker 1: trusting God when it doesn't make sense, believing that he's strategic,

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Speaker 1: that he knows what he's doing. It may be uncomfortable,

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Speaker 1: know that if God allowed it, that somehow it's going

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Speaker 1: to further us ultimately toward our divine destiny. Proverbs twenty

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Speaker 1: don't try to figure out everything that happens along the way.

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Speaker 1: Why did my business go down? Why did my child

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Speaker 1: You may never know why, but you can come back

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Speaker 1: to this core truth that God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: His plan for your life is good, and even in opposition,

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Speaker 1: like with Samson, God is creating opportunity somewhere down the road.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to work against you. It's going to

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Speaker 1: work for you. And if you don't understand this principle,

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Speaker 1: you'll live frustrated because there are times in God's divine

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Speaker 1: Your back is facing your goal. You know you're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be going this way, but you're headed just the opposite.

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Speaker 1: This is what faith is all about. Will you trust

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Speaker 1: Will you keep a good attitude when you're praying for

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Speaker 1: increase but seeing decrease? Will you stay in faith when

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Speaker 1: you were the most qualified but you got passed over? Friends,

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Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. He would have never allowed

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Speaker 1: if you'll keep moving forward, one day you will see

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Speaker 1: what God was up to. I've seen in my own life.

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Speaker 1: God doesn't always take us the most logical way. We

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Speaker 1: plan God has for your life on a map, it

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Speaker 1: would not be in a straight line. Imagine a bunch

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Speaker 1: Then there's a turn and another turn. Now you're headed

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Speaker 1: back to where you started. Direction doesn't make sense. Then

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Speaker 1: than it dips down, on and on. At some point,

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Speaker 1: you could be on a stepping stone God ordained for you.

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Speaker 1: He strategically placed it before the foundation of time. But

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Speaker 1: your goal. It's easy to think, Joel, this is not

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Speaker 1: God's plan. I'm going the wrong way. Why do these

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Speaker 1: things keep happening to me? Stay in faith. God's plan

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Speaker 1: is not straight. There are curves, detours, u turns, shortcuts.

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Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. He's strategically directing your steps.

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Speaker 1: It may be uncomfortable, but God's the one that put

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Speaker 1: the stepping stone there. It's all a part of his plan.

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Speaker 1: And we all want to go to a higher level.

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Speaker 1: We all want to see more of God's favor. But

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Speaker 1: a higher mountain. God has something better, something bigger. You

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Speaker 1: But too often we think God, I'm going backwards. You

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Speaker 1: seeing drought. Now, don't get discouraged. God is simply bringing

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Speaker 1: see this principle in the life of Joseph. God knew

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Speaker 1: As a teenager, he had the promise from God. His

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Speaker 1: but now I'm a slave. This doesn't make sense. The

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Speaker 1: Here's the key. Those stones are temporary. That's not where

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Speaker 1: If you isolate one stone, one bad break, one disappointment,

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Speaker 1: simply one step in the plan God has for your life.

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Speaker 1: It is not the final peace. God says his plans

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Speaker 1: God strategically orchestrated Joseph to be inside a foreign country,

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Speaker 1: The good news is God is lining up people today

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Speaker 1: Nothing randomly happens. If Joseph's brothers hadn't rejected him, he

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Speaker 1: it to your throne. God ordain them not to hold

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Speaker 1: like Joseph, you will step into promotion, into abundance, into

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Speaker 1: People say, well, Joel, if God's so good, why did

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Speaker 1: struggling at work? This, that adversity, that difficulty, is simply

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Speaker 1: a test. God strategically placed you there. He would have

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Speaker 1: never allowed it if you couldn't handle it. It may

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Speaker 1: You are a child of the most high God. You

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Speaker 1: don't complain about the difficulty. Dig your heels in. Have

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Speaker 1: This rejection, this breakup, this closed door, this disappointment, this

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