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Speaker 5: much for tuning in today, and thank you again for

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Speaker 5: coming out. And I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 5: And I heard about this pastor. He was in the

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Speaker 5: lobby after service, greeting people. He saw men that he

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Speaker 5: Army of the Lord. The men said, what are you

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Speaker 5: He whispered back, because I'm in the secret Service. Hold

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Speaker 5: up your Bible, say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 5: is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about trusting God to do

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Speaker 5: things the logical way. God uses unorthodox methods. He's unconventional

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Speaker 5: Our attitude should be God, I'm letting you out of

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Speaker 5: can do whatever he wants to do. Don't put him

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Speaker 4: It's just not the way that we expected.

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Speaker 5: When our son Jonathan was about four years old, Victoria

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Speaker 5: years ago, Victoria said, Joel, I realize now God did

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Speaker 5: Be the way you had planned. God may not use

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Speaker 4: God. I trust you. You know what's best.

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Speaker 5: Maybe God has answered your prayers, just not the way

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Speaker 5: What if God knew that, if he answered Victoria's prayer

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Speaker 5: Jesus instructed him to wash it off. When he did,

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Speaker 5: What if God answers your prayers differently than you were expecting.

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Speaker 5: skin was perfectly clean. I was wondering how many of

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Speaker 5: us missed God's best because we thought.

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Speaker 4: It would happen another way.

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Speaker 5: I thought I would give birth to my children, not

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Speaker 5: adopt them. I thought I would get well without the treatment.

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Speaker 5: I thought i'd get that promotion. That's how I'd be blessed. No,

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Speaker 5: stay open and let God do it his way. When

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Speaker 5: It's a very beautiful place. We bought it for a

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Speaker 5: great price and felt very blessed.

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Speaker 4: A couple of.

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Speaker 5: Years later, we had a desire to buy a house.

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Speaker 5: We put the townhome on the market. It sold very

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Speaker 5: quickly and we found this nice house.

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Speaker 4: That we really wanted.

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Speaker 5: It was in our price range, and we thought, this

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Speaker 5: they responded and didn't accept it, so we made a

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Speaker 5: better offer very close, just a few thousand dollars off.

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Speaker 5: Victoria and I were praying and believing. Our heart was set.

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Speaker 5: We knew this was the right house for us. Months later,

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Speaker 5: property to somebody else. We were so discouraged. We thought, God,

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Speaker 5: how could that happen? We prayed, we believed a few

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Speaker 5: months later we were out looking around. We found this

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Speaker 5: old Rundown beat up house. But it was in a

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Speaker 5: nice neighborhood close into the city. It's on a beautiful

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Speaker 5: lot with big trees, but the house had been abandoned

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Speaker 5: for a couple of years. Windows were broken out, no

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Speaker 5: floors as crooked as can be. It didn't make sense

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Speaker 5: to our mind.

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Speaker 4: But in our.

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Speaker 5: Spirit we felt an incredible peace. Looked at me and said, Joel,

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Speaker 5: this is the house for us. Let's buy it, fix

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Speaker 5: it up, and live in it. It didn't seem logical here.

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Speaker 5: We had just come out of a beautiful townhouse. This

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Speaker 5: was just the opposite, not a step up. It looked

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Speaker 5: like a step down. But God's ways are not our ways.

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Speaker 5: We could have been narrow minded and thought we are

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Speaker 5: not even going to entertain this old piece of jump.

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Speaker 5: After all, Victoria comes from a well to do family.

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Speaker 5: They have a high end jewelry store. When Victoria was

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Speaker 5: for it, I knew that was a sign from Almighty God.

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Speaker 5: Plus it saved me a lot of money. We bought

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Speaker 5: the house, fixed it up, living in it. Six months later,

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Speaker 5: men knocked on our door unannounced a builder. He said,

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Speaker 5: I'd like to buy this property and build two houses

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Speaker 5: on it. He said, I'm sorry, property is not for sales.

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Speaker 5: He said, let me ask you how much did you

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Speaker 5: pay for it? I told him what we paid. He said,

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Speaker 5: how about I pay you double? I said, like I said,

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Speaker 5: we love to sell it. We sold that old rundown,

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Speaker 5: beat up house and got a brand new house on

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Speaker 5: the same piece of property. Friends, God knows what he's doing,

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Speaker 5: trust him, let him do it his way. You may

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Speaker 5: not understand it at the time, it may not make sense,

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Speaker 5: but one day you will see what God was doing.

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Speaker 5: His plan will be better.

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Speaker 4: Than your plan.

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Speaker 5: When I look back over my life, like Nieman, I

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Speaker 5: have a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of eye thoughts.

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Speaker 5: I thought we would buy a new house, not an old, rundown,

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Speaker 5: beat up one. I thought I would be behind the

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Speaker 5: scenes my whole life, not out here in front of people.

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Speaker 5: I thought we would build a new sanctuary when Lakewood

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Speaker 5: needed more room, not move into the former Compact Center

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Speaker 5: where the rockets used to play. The common denominator in

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Speaker 5: all of my eye thoughts is that God's plan was

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Speaker 5: much better than my plan. What God had in mind

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Speaker 5: was much of bigger, much more rewarding than anything I

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Speaker 5: dreamed of. I'm asking you to trust him. Our attitude

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Speaker 5: should be God. I'm wide open. Do anything you want,

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Speaker 5: any time you want, use anyone you want.

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Speaker 4: I'm not set on having it my way. God. I

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Speaker 4: know your plan is the best plan.

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Speaker 5: If you will stay open and let God do it

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Speaker 5: his way, God will open doors for you that no

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Speaker 5: man can shut. He is favor is going to thrust

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Speaker 5: you years ahead. You will see promises, fulfilled dreams come

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Speaker 5: to pass. I believe and declare you will overcome every obstacle,

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Speaker 5: defeat every enemy, and become everything God's created you to be.

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Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you say amen? Today? We

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Speaker 5: Close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 5: Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 5: into my heart, wash me clean.

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Speaker 4: I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 5: Keep God first place. He's going to take you places

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