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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. If you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop by and be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. That thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in, and thank you again for coming out.

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

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Speaker 1: about this husband that died and he left his wife

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars. After the funeral, his wife told a

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Speaker 1: friend that she was totally broke. The friend said, what

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Speaker 1: do you mean you broke? Thought you had twenty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: She said, well, I spent five thousand dollars on the

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Speaker 1: funeral and fifteen thousand on the memorial stone. The friend said, wow,

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Speaker 1: that was some stone. How big was it? She held

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Speaker 1: up her finger and said three and a half carrots.

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Speaker 1: All right, say it like you mean it. This is

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about waiting with expectancy. In life, we're

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Speaker 1: always waiting for something, waiting for a dream to come

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Speaker 1: to pass, waiting to meet the right person, waiting for

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Speaker 1: a problem to turn around. Much of life is spent waiting.

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Speaker 1: There's a right way to wait and a wrong way

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Speaker 1: to wait. Isaiah said they that wait upon the Lord

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Speaker 1: will mount up with wings as eagles. We hear that

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Speaker 1: word weait, and most of the time we think that

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Speaker 1: means do nothing, be passive. But the amplified version explains

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Speaker 1: what the word weight really means. It says, though those

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Speaker 1: who expect, who hope, who look for God's goodness, waiting

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Speaker 1: is not supposed to be passive. True waiting is actively expecting.

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Speaker 1: I prayed, I believed. Now I'm looking for God's goodness.

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Speaker 1: I'm expecting my health to improve. I'm expecting new doors

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Speaker 1: to open. I'm expecting to have a blessed shere. That's

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Speaker 1: what it really means to wait. David understood this principle.

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Speaker 1: He said in Psalm five. Each morning, I bring my

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Speaker 1: request to you and wait expectantly. When you're waiting expectantly,

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Speaker 1: you know this could be the day you get the

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Speaker 1: break you need. This could be the day the problem

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Speaker 1: turns around. There's an anticipation in your spirit. You talk

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Speaker 1: to happen. You're on the lookout. That expectancy is your

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Speaker 1: faith being released. Now all through the scripture we see

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Speaker 1: this in David's light. He said, surely goodness and mercy

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Speaker 1: will follow me. He was expecting God's blessing. In Psalm

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, all kinds of bad things were happening to David.

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Speaker 1: Violent enemies were chasing him, people lying about him, falsely

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Speaker 1: accusing him. Yet right in the midst of it, he said,

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Speaker 1: only prayed, he not only believed. He took it one

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Speaker 1: step further. He went out looking for God's favor. Like David,

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Speaker 1: you may be facing difficulties in the natural. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: look good. But when you're waiting with expectancy, you're not

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Speaker 1: moved by what you see. You're moved by what you know.

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Speaker 1: Psalm one twelve says when darkness overtakes, the righteous light

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Speaker 1: will come bursting in. Notice God used the word bursting.

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Speaker 1: He didn't say it's going to trickle in. It's going

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Speaker 1: to barely get there. It's going to show up little

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Speaker 1: by little. No, God said, suddenly things will turn around.

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Speaker 1: You may have been dealing with the situation for many years,

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Speaker 1: right way to wait is not Oh God, this is

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Speaker 1: drive me crazy. Now, get up every morning and say, God,

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Speaker 1: I'm expecting your light to come bursting in. I'm expecting

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Speaker 1: a sudden breakthrough, a flood of your favor, a flood

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Speaker 1: You wait with expectancy like that, and you'll see God

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Speaker 1: show up and do amazing things. Now. I know some

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Speaker 1: of you have had tough times. Maybe you had a

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Speaker 1: new gear. Get your expectations up. Proverbs thirteen says trouble

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Speaker 1: What should you be expecting trouble, bad breaks, heartache. No,

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Speaker 1: get in agreement with God and start expecting his blessings

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Speaker 1: to chase you down. Start expecting God's favor when you

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Speaker 1: go through a disappointment and we all do you have

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Speaker 1: is chasing me down. Business may be slow, I'm not discouraged.

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Speaker 1: I know opportunity sells, contracts, ideas, inventions, good breaks are

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Speaker 1: chasing me down. My child may be on the wrong path,

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Speaker 1: but it's only temporary. I know a turn around is

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Speaker 1: chasing him down. That's not just being positive. That's doing

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Speaker 1: what David did. Waiting with expectancy. You're saying God, I

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Speaker 1: know you're still on the throne. You're bigger than this difficulty.

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Speaker 1: What you promised in my life will come to pass.

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Speaker 1: One reason people don't have the joy they should is

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Speaker 1: they're not expecting anything good. The scripture says, hope deferred

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Speaker 1: makes the heart sick. If you're not expecting to see

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Speaker 1: problem to turn around. It will not only limit what

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Speaker 1: It'll cause you to be discouraged. Too. Many people today

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Speaker 1: are not healthy, not physically but emotionally because they're not

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Speaker 1: waiting with expectancy. At one point they had a big dream.

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Speaker 1: They knew it was going to work out, but it

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Speaker 1: didn't happen on their timetable. Now they've gotten passive and

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Speaker 1: they think that it's never going to happen. But you've

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Speaker 1: got to shake that off and get your fire back.

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Speaker 1: God is still on the throne. It may not have

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Speaker 1: happened on your timetable, but God's a faithful god. He

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Speaker 1: can still bring it to pass. Now do you a

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Speaker 1: Start expecting God's blessings to chase you down. Don't let

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Speaker 1: people talk you out of it. Don't believe the never

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Speaker 1: lies they come to all of us. You'll never get well,

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Speaker 1: you'll never get married, you'll never get out of debt.

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Speaker 1: Let that go in one ear and out the other.

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Speaker 1: Our attitude should be, I know my answer is already

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Speaker 1: on the way. I could see it before I go

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Speaker 1: dreams before I leave this building. Be sure to look

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Speaker 1: around before you leave. I could see my health improved

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Speaker 1: this week. I could get totally out of debt, pay

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Speaker 1: my house off this year. It may be impossible in

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Speaker 1: the natural, but I know I serve a supernatural God.

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Speaker 1: When you wait with expectancy, the most powerful force in

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Speaker 1: the universe goes to work. In the Book of James,

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Speaker 1: it tells us to wait for God's promises like a

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Speaker 1: farmer waits for his harvest. When a farmer plants his crops,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't wait or worried. He doesn't go to bed

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Speaker 1: If somebody says to him, I don't think you're going

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Speaker 1: to get a harvest this year, he wouldn't pay any

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Speaker 1: attention he's planted, he's watered, He has no doubt that

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Speaker 1: not just hoping, not just believing. He takes it one

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Speaker 1: step further. He knows his crops are going to come up.

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Speaker 1: That's the way we're supposed to wait on what God

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Speaker 1: promised us. Like the farmer prayed. You've planted, you've watered

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Speaker 1: your seeds. You thank God. Now you've got to come

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Speaker 1: over into this confidence, a knowing that says not if

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Speaker 1: it happens, but when it happens. Somebody asks you, you

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Speaker 1: still think you're going to get out of debt with

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Speaker 1: the economy like it is. Tell them, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: My God is Jehovah Jirah. He is the Lord, my provider.

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Speaker 1: He is not affected by the economy. He controls it all.

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Speaker 1: You still think your child's going to straighten up? Looks

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Speaker 1: like they're wilder than ever. To me, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I know. So as for me and my house, we

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Speaker 1: will serve the Lord. You still think you're gonna get married,

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Speaker 1: You've been single a long time. I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: I know. So God said he would give me the

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Speaker 1: They are chasing me down even as we speak. You've

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Speaker 1: got to have this unshakable confidence, just like you know

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Speaker 1: You know what God promised you is going to come

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Speaker 1: to pass. It may happen today, may happen next week

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Speaker 1: or next year, But like that farmer, you know that

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Speaker 1: you know your harvest is on its way. This passage

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Speaker 1: in James uses Job as the example of how to wait.

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Speaker 1: You remember, Job went through a lot of heartache and pain,

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Speaker 1: lost his health, his family, his business. But about nine

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Speaker 1: months later he came out with twice what he had before.

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Speaker 1: Not only saw it all restored, but he had twice

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Speaker 1: the cattle twice, the sheep twice, the joy twice, the peace. Now.

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Speaker 1: Of all the people in the scripture, God could have

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Speaker 1: chosen as the example of how to wait, God chose Job.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's significant. God is saying, when you go

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Speaker 1: through a loss, a disappointment, a bad break, don't expect

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Speaker 1: to come out the sea. Expect to come out better

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Speaker 1: be negative, discouraged, settle where you are. No God wants

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Speaker 1: it to your advantage to increase You dare to believe,

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Speaker 1: like job that you're going to come out with twice

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Speaker 1: to halfway recover. If you could at least get back

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Speaker 1: were laid off, before the disappointment, you would be happy

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Speaker 1: if you could just get back to even. But that's

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Speaker 1: not the way our God works. God is going to

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Speaker 1: make the enemy pay for bringing that trouble into your life.

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Speaker 1: God is saying, get ready for double. You have not

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Speaker 1: seen your best days. Weeping may endure for a night.

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Speaker 1: give you beauty for those ashes. He's going to make

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Speaker 1: been if that would have never happened. But you've got

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Speaker 1: to do your part and start waiting with expectancy. If

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Speaker 1: shake it off and start waiting like job father, I

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Speaker 1: want to thank you that double is coming my way.

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Speaker 1: I may be sick right now, but I'm expecting to

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Speaker 1: come out twice as healthy, with twice the energy, twice

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Speaker 1: the strength. I may have gotten laid off, but Lord,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for a job with twice

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Speaker 1: the benefits, twice the friends, twice the fulfillment, twice the income.

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Speaker 1: This person may have walked out on a relationship, done

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Speaker 1: me wrong, but Lord, I just thank you for bringing

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Speaker 1: good looking, twice as well off. Well, you say, Joe,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of far out. Yeah, we serve a far

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