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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes,

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Speaker 1: and if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 1: and be a part of one of our services. I'll

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

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 1: these three men, a Baptist, a Catholic, and a Charismatic.

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Speaker 1: They died on the same day and went to heaven.

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Speaker 1: Saint Peter met them at the Pearly gates and said,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, men, your rooms are not available yet. He

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Speaker 1: didn't know what to do with them. He decided to

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Speaker 1: ask Satan if he would keep them for a little while,

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Speaker 1: and Satan reluctantly agreed. A few hours later, Satan called

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Speaker 1: back to Peter, You've got to come get these guys.

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Speaker 1: The Baptist man is saving everyone, the Catholic man is

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Speaker 1: forgiving everyone, and the charismatic has already raised enough money

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Speaker 1: for air conditioning. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about healed through humility. We

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Speaker 1: all have times where we know we're supposed to do something,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem fair. To forgive that person that

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Speaker 1: did you wrong, be kind to a neighbor that's not

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Speaker 1: treating you right. Volunteer at the hospital even though nobody

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Speaker 1: is saying thank you, everything on the inside, will say

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Speaker 1: I'm not forgiving them. It was their fault. They need

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Speaker 1: to ask me for forgiveness. I'm not working on that

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Speaker 1: small project serving in the nursery. I'm more qualified than that.

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Speaker 1: But if you're going to reach your highest potential, you

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Speaker 1: have to humble yourself and do things you may not understand.

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Speaker 1: We see this in the scripture with Peter. He'd been

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Speaker 1: out fishing all night and caught nothing. Early the next morning,

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Speaker 1: as he was coming in about to put his boat away,

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Speaker 1: Jesus said to him, launch out into the deep, and

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Speaker 1: you will catch a great haul of fish. Peter could

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Speaker 1: have said, Jesus, I love you, but you're a teacher.

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Speaker 1: You need to stick with your profession. I'm a fisherman.

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Speaker 1: I have years of training. He could have let pride

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Speaker 1: know what I'm doing. Instead, he humbled himself and said, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: if you say launch out, it doesn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 1: But I trust you. You know what's best. So I'm

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Speaker 1: going to take this step of faith. When he did,

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Speaker 1: he caught so many fish that his net began to break.

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Speaker 1: His promotion was in his humility. When you swallow your

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Speaker 1: pride and say this may not make sense, but I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do what God's asking me to do. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to humble myself and be good to this person

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Speaker 1: walk in humility, you will see the great haul of fish.

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Speaker 1: Like Peter, your promotion, your healing, your breakthrough, it's in

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Speaker 1: your humility. The scripture says Jesus humbled himself and became obedient.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't say he was obedient because he was so

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Speaker 1: strong willed, so righteous that he always did the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Even Jesus had to humble himself. It takes humility to

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Speaker 1: the son of God. I don't have to put up

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Speaker 1: was his humility that kept him from retaliating from the

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Speaker 1: They don't know what they're doing. And there are times

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Speaker 1: God asks us to do things that seem hard. Your

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Speaker 1: like Jesus, humble yourself so you can become obedient. You

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Speaker 1: somebody else be right, honor them by letting them have

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Speaker 1: to the back. This was too easy. And for a

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Speaker 1: real quickly and hoped that she didn't see me. And

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Speaker 1: didn't want to walk thirty more feet to the back.

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Speaker 1: Pride causes us to make lame excuses, to be stubborn,

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Speaker 1: only see things our way. One day I went in

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Speaker 1: in here say, Joel, when are you going to start

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Speaker 1: honoring your wife by doing what she's asking you to do?

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Speaker 1: I thought that couldn't be God. It's never God when

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Speaker 1: we don't like it. But there may be things that

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to walk to the back. I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have to clean up the mess they made. I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: overlook the offense from me? Do it under God? When

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Speaker 1: you honor God, he will always honor you. A few

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Speaker 1: years later we built a new house. I put a

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Speaker 1: sink right at my back door. The first time Victoria

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Speaker 1: much better our relationships would be if we'd start walking

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Speaker 1: not always having to be right. I know this couple.

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Speaker 1: They argued for years over the best way to get

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Speaker 1: And one day they heard me speaking on this subject,

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Speaker 1: your humility. It's when you humble yourself and do your

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Speaker 1: part to get along well. Joel, when he starts treating

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Speaker 1: When they see you taking the high road, not being stubborn,

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Speaker 1: when things will begin to change. The scripture says, it's

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Speaker 1: the little foxes that spoil the vines. If I would

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Speaker 1: treating them with respect, doing what you can to honor them,

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Speaker 1: being kind, serving them those seeds you're sewing, they'll come

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Speaker 1: back to you. Just as little foxes can spoil the vine.

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Speaker 1: Little acts of kindness can make a big difference. When

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Speaker 1: doing it just to honor her, just because she asked

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Speaker 1: our relationship went to a new level. She started cooking

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Speaker 1: That didn't help my relationship at all. But the first

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Speaker 1: fifteen years or so of our marriage, before we had help,

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Speaker 1: Victoria never filled her car up with gas. Anytime that

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Speaker 1: The healing is in your humility, not in having your way,

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Speaker 1: not in getting even, not in holding a grudge. When

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Speaker 1: This young man's life was a constant struggle. He couldn't

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Speaker 1: didn't know how he could send his child to college,

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Speaker 1: That's when the favor came on his life. Pride keeps

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Speaker 1: When you walk in humility, you can be the bigger person.

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Speaker 1: as we allow pride in, we make excuses. It's not right.

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Speaker 1: Just do it well, Joel. I've been doing it for

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Speaker 2: enables you to bless others, to be in a healthy

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Speaker 2: We all have dreams, but sometimes setbacks and opposition can

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Speaker 1: One way you know it's a God given dream is

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Speaker 1: you can't accomplish it on your own. We never thought

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Speaker 1: we'd be having church in a former basketball arena, but

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Speaker 3: When you believe what God put in your heart, that's

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Speaker 3: when He steps in and makes ways where you never

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Speaker 1: Now I love to send you my newest book, It's

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Speaker 1: Time to Dream Again. It'll help you to hold on

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Speaker 1: to what God promised and now get discouraged by how

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Speaker 1: impossible it looks or how long it's taken. You are

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Speaker 1: closer than you think. God's working behind the scenes right now.

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Speaker 1: Stay in faith. You're going to see the greatness of God.

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Speaker 1: God bring your dreams to pass.

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Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 2: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and

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Speaker 2: Victoria would like to send you this dream releasing, life

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Speaker 2: affirming book, It's Time to Dream Again. You make sense

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Speaker 2: you'll see that they are actually a hidden treasure just

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Speaker 2: for you is significant. His dreams for you are beyond

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Speaker 2: what you could imagine. Don't wait another day. It's time

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Speaker 3: This book will help you gain a fresh perspective for

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Speaker 3: in your heart.

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Speaker 1: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your

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Speaker 1: generosity is making a difference around the world. Remember you

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Speaker 1: can watch the services live online every Sunday, download the

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Speaker 1: daily podcast our YouTube channel, listen on serious exam. We

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Speaker 1: will keep you encouraged and inspired until we meet again.

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Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of It's Time to

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Speaker 2: Dream Again today. Visit Joelostein dot com or call eight

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