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Speaker 5: something funny and I heard about this pastor. He was
Speaker 5: in the lobby after service greeting people, and he saw
Speaker 5: this man that he hadn't seen in a long long time,
Speaker 5: pulled him over to the side and said, sir, you
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Speaker 5: the Secret Service. Hold your Bible up, say it like
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Speaker 5: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 5: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.
Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will
Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about blessed by
Speaker 5: your enemies. We all know that God can bless us.
Speaker 5: He can show us favor, promote us, heal us. But
Speaker 5: we don't always realize God can.
Speaker 6: Use our enemies to bless us.
Speaker 5: And what you may think is a disappointment, A person
Speaker 5: that walked away, friend that betrayed you, a coworker that's
Speaker 5: trying to make you look bad. You may not like that,
Speaker 5: but you couldn't reach your destiny without them. It's all
Speaker 5: a part of God's plan to get you to where
Speaker 5: you're supposed to be. David would only be known as
Speaker 5: a shepherd boy if it wasn't for Goliath. Goliath was
Speaker 5: strategically placed in David's path, not to defeat.
Speaker 6: Him, but to promote him.
Speaker 5: Without Goliath, David would have never taken the throne. Don't
Speaker 5: complain about your enemies. It may look like a setback.
Speaker 6: But really it's a set up for God to get
Speaker 6: you to your throne.
Speaker 5: After all, God could have used King Saul to promote David.
Speaker 5: Saul had the authority, he could have moved on Saul's heart,
Speaker 5: told him promote that young man. But God chose to
Speaker 5: bless David, not through his friends, but through his enemies.
Speaker 5: And that's why we don't have to play up to people.
Speaker 5: Try to convince them to like us. Hopefully they'll give
Speaker 5: me a good break. No, God doesn't have to use
Speaker 5: your friends. He can use your enemies, your critics, the
Speaker 5: ones that are trying to push you down. He can
Speaker 5: use them to push you up. And it's interesting when
Speaker 5: David defeated Goliath, you never hear any more about Goliath.
Speaker 5: Goliath was created for David's purpose. Part of his destiny
Speaker 5: was to establish who David was. And just as God
Speaker 5: has divine connections lined up for you, people to encourage you,
Speaker 5: push you forward, He's also lined up people that will
Speaker 5: try to stop you, discourage you, try to make it
Speaker 5: look bad. There are Golias ordained to come across your path,
Speaker 5: and if you don't understand this principle, you'll get discouraged. God,
Speaker 5: why is this happening to me? That opposition wasn't meant
Speaker 5: to stop you. It was meant to establish you. When
Speaker 5: you overcome it, you will not only step into a
Speaker 5: new level of your destiny, but everyone around you will
Speaker 5: see the favor of.
Speaker 6: God is on your life.
Speaker 5: In two thousand and two, we received word that the
Speaker 5: Houston Rockets basketball team was moving out of this building
Speaker 5: and the city was thinking about selling it.
Speaker 6: We needed a larger auditorium.
Speaker 5: When I heard that something came alive on the inside,
Speaker 5: I knew it was supposed to be ours. The word
Speaker 5: got out in the city that we were interested in it,
Speaker 5: and there was all kinds of debate as to what
Speaker 5: should happen to this building.
Speaker 6: And a friend of mine.
Speaker 5: Was at a business lunching sitting with some high powered executives.
Speaker 5: One of these executives, a very influential man, found out
Speaker 5: that my friend attends Lakewood. He started talking about the
Speaker 5: Compact Center and about how against us he was, and
Speaker 5: about what a terrible thing this would be for the
Speaker 5: city now, how no church should ever have this building.
Speaker 6: On and on.
Speaker 5: Some other people at the table joined in kind of laughing,
Speaker 5: making fun talked about how Lakewood didn't have a chance
Speaker 5: in the world to get it. Finally, this executive looked
Speaker 5: at my friend and said, very sarcastically, it will be
Speaker 5: a cold day in hell before Lakewood ever gets that building.
Speaker 5: My friend called me afterward and told me about the conversation. Said,
Speaker 5: thanks a lot for the good news. Appreciate that encouragement.
Speaker 5: But the truth is that conversation was ordained by the Creator.
Speaker 5: He was one of those goliath God had strategically placed
Speaker 5: in her path. And when I heard about how against
Speaker 5: us was, I was already determined, but something.
Speaker 6: Rose up in me.
Speaker 5: I had a holy determination. I had a new fire,
Speaker 5: a new result, And every time things got tough, looked
Speaker 5: like it wasn't going to work out. I would be
Speaker 5: tempted to get discouraged. I could hear that phrase a
Speaker 5: cold day in hell. I'd get my passion right back.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't take me five seconds. Sometimes God will put an
Speaker 5: enemy in your life to keep you stirred up. He'll
Speaker 5: allow critics, doubters, discouragers, even some haters.
Speaker 6: So when you.
Speaker 5: Feel tired and think you want to give up, you'll
Speaker 5: keep pressing forward, shaking it off. Not because you feel
Speaker 5: like it, but because you don't want to give your
Speaker 5: enemies the joy of shitting you defeated.
Speaker 6: Now out us fight, not out of pride. It's a
Speaker 6: holy determination.
Speaker 5: God uses the negative to keep us stirred up. And
Speaker 5: that business leader that was so against us, he doesn't
Speaker 5: realize it, but God used him more than he used
Speaker 5: my friends. He was one of the most instrumental people
Speaker 5: in us getting this building.
Speaker 6: And the funny thing is he wasn't for.
Speaker 5: Us, he was against us. God used our enemies to
Speaker 5: bless us. If I ever see that man, I need
Speaker 5: to buy him dinner. McDonald's. Probably some of my enemies.
Speaker 5: I feel like I need to write.
Speaker 6: Them a check.
Speaker 5: If they hadn't have been against me, I wouldn't have
Speaker 5: prayed so hard. They hadn't have made fun I would
Speaker 5: have given up sooner. If they hadn't have told me
Speaker 5: I couldn't do it, didn't have what it takes, might
Speaker 5: have been complacent, settled where I was. It was their
Speaker 5: opposition that pushed me forward many times. God will use
Speaker 5: your enemies to catapult you to success more than your friends,
Speaker 5: David said. God prepares a table before me in the
Speaker 5: presence of my enemies. Notice when God brings you through
Speaker 5: the opposition, he's not going to do it in private.
Speaker 5: He's going to do it where all of those enemies
Speaker 5: can see it. This building is located on the second
Speaker 5: busiest freeway in the nation. You can't drive in this
Speaker 5: city very long without seeing what God has done. And
Speaker 5: that man that was against us, I can only imagine
Speaker 5: every time he passes by, something.
Speaker 6: Whispers in his ear.
Speaker 5: It must be a cold day in hell, because there
Speaker 5: they are. Maybe today you're facing some kind of enemy,
Speaker 5: not just a person, an enemy in your health, in
Speaker 5: your finances, in a relationship, doesn't look like it's ever
Speaker 5: going to work out. Have this new perspective right now,
Speaker 5: God is preparing the table. The angels are taking the
Speaker 5: food out of the oven. Gabriel's putting his finishing touches
Speaker 5: on that meal. Any moment, you're gonna hear the dinner
Speaker 5: bell ringing. God's going to say, it's your time. Here's
Speaker 5: the table, here's the meal I prepared for you. It's
Speaker 5: not gonna be a little fast food meal hidden over
Speaker 5: in the corner.
Speaker 6: Nobody notices.
Speaker 5: Now God is preparing a table like he did for David,
Speaker 5: like he did for us, to where not just all
Speaker 5: of your friends see it, but even those enemies, the doubters,
Speaker 5: the discouragers, the ones that said you couldn't do it,
Speaker 5: They're going to see you blessed, promoted, vindicated, live in
Speaker 5: your dreams, in a place of honor, in influence. In
Speaker 5: one sense, God used Judas more than he used the
Speaker 5: other disciples.
Speaker 6: Judas was ordained to betray Jesus.
Speaker 5: That was his purpose to try to stop him, and
Speaker 5: it wasn't just his idea, it was the plan of God.
Speaker 5: At the time, it seemed like a bad break. But
Speaker 5: if he had not betrayed Jesus, there wouldn't have been
Speaker 5: a crucifixion. With that the cross there wouldn't have been
Speaker 5: a resurrection. Without the resurrection, we wouldn't have redemption, no salvation.
Speaker 5: And we celebrate Mary, the mother of Jesus, giving birth
Speaker 5: in the manger. We celebrate John baptizing Jesus the dove
Speaker 5: coming down from heaven. But the men who betrayed Jesus,
Speaker 5: the one who sold him for thirty pieces of silver,
Speaker 5: was just as critical a part of his destiny, if
Speaker 5: not more so than the others. What am I saying,
Speaker 5: don't complain about the person that betrayed you. If they
Speaker 5: walked away, they didn't set you back. They set you
Speaker 5: up for.
Speaker 6: The fullness of your destiny.
Speaker 5: If they lied about you, tried to push you down,
Speaker 5: overlooked you, it may not have been fair.
Speaker 6: But if God allowed it, he knows how to use
Speaker 6: it for your good.
Speaker 5: What if Jesus would have gotten upset, said God, I'm
Speaker 5: your son, How could you let this man betray me?
Speaker 6: He's one of my disciples. Now, Jesus knew that Judas was.
Speaker 5: Going to betray him, but he didn't try to stop him.
Speaker 5: He didn't try to talk him out of it. He
Speaker 5: knew that betrayal was a part of his divine destiny.
Speaker 5: And too often we fight against everything that doesn't go
Speaker 5: our way. Get upset, bitter God, Why is this happening.
Speaker 5: The longer I live, the more I realize nothing happens
Speaker 5: by accident, even the opposition. If you'll keep the right attitude,
Speaker 5: God will use it to your advantage. I was talking
Speaker 5: to a well known minister one time. For over fifty years,
Speaker 5: he had gone around the world doing so much good.
Speaker 5: Most people were very appreciative, but in his hometown, the
Speaker 5: local newspaper was never for him.
Speaker 6: They were always finding fault.
Speaker 5: He could do one hundred things right, they wouldn't report that,
Speaker 5: they'd find the one thing they didn't like, make a
Speaker 5: big deal out out of it.
Speaker 6: This went on year after year. He had an interesting perspective.
Speaker 6: He said, if it hadn't been.
Speaker 5: For that newspaper, I would have never accomplished so much.
Speaker 6: Thought, what do you mean?
Speaker 5: He said, that newspaper not only kept me on my knees,
Speaker 5: but it gave me the fuel to keep pressing forward
Speaker 5: to prove to them that they were wrong. He went
Speaker 5: on to build a beautiful university in that city. Tens
Speaker 5: of thousands of young people have attended, and toward the
Speaker 5: end of his life. When he was just about done,
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, the newspaper had a change of heart.
Speaker 5: They wrote this big front page article celebrating everything that
Speaker 5: he had done. It was almost like God waited on purpose.
Speaker 5: God knew that enemy. Even though my friend didn't like it.
Speaker 6: It was making him better.
Speaker 5: It was keeping him stirred up, made him more determined,
Speaker 5: more resilient. Some of the things that we don't like
Speaker 5: were asked God to get rid of. If he removed
Speaker 5: them right now, we wouldn't reach our highest potential. That
Speaker 5: opposition is making you stronger. Those people trying to stop you,
Speaker 5: the betrayal, the disappointment that cannot.
Speaker 6: Keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 5: God has the final say, and if he hasn't removed
Speaker 5: it yet, that means.
Speaker 6: He's going to use it for your good.
Speaker 5: He strategically places the Goliath, the judases the opposition. Without Goliath,
Speaker 5: you can't take your throne Without Judas, you won't reach
Speaker 5: your highest potential. Without the naysayers, you wouldn't become all
Speaker 5: you were created to be. In the Book of Luke,
Speaker 5: there's a familiar story. Four men carried this paralyzed man
Speaker 5: to see Jesus. When they arrived at the house was
Speaker 5: too crowded that had to take him up on the
Speaker 5: roof let him down through the ceiling. At one point,
Speaker 5: Jesus said to the paralyzed man, your sins have been forgiven.
Speaker 5: Some of the religious leaders were offended. They begin to
Speaker 5: murmur under their breast, saying, who does he think he is?
Speaker 5: This guy can't forgive sins. Only God can do that.
Speaker 5: The scripture says Jesus heard their murmuring. They were trying
Speaker 5: to do it quietly under his breath. But Jesus heard
Speaker 5: what they were saying. He said to the men, which
Speaker 5: is easier for me to say your sins are forgiven?
Speaker 5: Or for me to say, rise, take up your bed
Speaker 5: and walk.
Speaker 6: To prove to.
Speaker 5: Them that he was the son of God, he told
Speaker 5: the man stand up. The man stood up perfectly healthy.
Speaker 5: I'm sure those naysayers when they saw him standing there,
Speaker 5: they nearly passed out.
Speaker 6: Here's my point.
Speaker 5: If they had not been murmuring, complaining, criticizing, this man
Speaker 5: may not have been healed. Jesus could have just forgiven
Speaker 5: his sins and moved on. But because of they're.
Speaker 6: Murmuring, Jesus healed the man.
Speaker 5: So when people are talking about you, trying to make
Speaker 5: you look bad, trying.
Speaker 6: To push you down. Don't worry. God hears them.
Speaker 5: They are putting you in position for God to bless
Speaker 5: you in a greater way. You don't have to straighten
Speaker 5: them out. Don't fight battles that don't matter. Stay in peace,
Speaker 5: and like this man, God will use your enemies to
Speaker 5: bless you. Some of the favor that you're seeing, some
Speaker 5: of the good breaks you've had. It didn't happen because
Speaker 5: of you. It happened because of those people that tried
Speaker 5: to stop you. They put you in position for promotion.
Speaker 5: Now I always thank God for my friends, but I've
Speaker 5: learned to thank God from my enemies as well. Without
Speaker 5: the murmuring that man may not have been healed without Goliath,
Speaker 5: David would have never taken his throne without Judas Jesus
Speaker 5: wouldn't have resurrected it from the grave. You need to
Speaker 5: see every enemy, so to speak, every disappointment, every betrayal,
Speaker 5: in this new light.
Speaker 6: It's not sent to defeat you. It's sent to increase you.
Speaker 5: A friend of mine told me out in the lobby
Speaker 5: a few years back how his business had gone down
Speaker 5: to nothing.
Speaker 6: He didn't think he could survive.
Speaker 5: To make matters worse, one of his main competitors talked
Speaker 5: about him.
Speaker 6: On the radio in a very unfavorable light.
Speaker 5: They were extremely critical of him, talked about how he
Speaker 5: wasn't up to part, that's why his business was going down.
Speaker 5: It looked like that would be the final blow to
Speaker 5: put him under, but just the opposite happened. When they
Speaker 5: mentioned him. It drew new attention to his business. New
Speaker 5: clients started calling out of the blue, the business grew
Speaker 5: and grew. Today it's stronger than ever. In fact, he
Speaker 5: surpassed that competitor that tried to talk him down. What
Speaker 5: am I saying? God can use your to promote you.
Speaker 5: God has all kinds of ways to get you to
Speaker 5: where you're supposed to be. He knows how to take
Speaker 5: what was meant for your harm and turn it around
Speaker 5: and use it to your advantage. In the early nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 5: farmers in Alabama were facing a major challenge. A tiny
Speaker 5: insect called the bull weavil had migrated from South America
Speaker 5: was now quickly destroying their crops. They tried everything they
Speaker 5: could to stop it. They exterminated using all kinds of chemicals,
Speaker 5: even came up with special formulas, still to no avail. Eventually,
Speaker 5: all they could do is sit back and watch their
Speaker 5: livelihood be eaten away. One day, a farmer had an idea.
Speaker 5: He said to his farmer buddies, instead of planting our
Speaker 5: normal cotton crops, why don't we try peanuts. They looked
Speaker 5: at him like he had lost his mind.
Speaker 6: Peanuts.
Speaker 5: We can't make a living off of peanuts. Over time
Speaker 5: he talked them into it. They discovered that the bowl
Speaker 5: weevil didn't like the taste of peanuts. Their crops took
Speaker 5: off like nothing they had ever seen. They made more
Speaker 5: money in a few months off of peanuts than they
Speaker 5: normally made the whole year off of cotton crops. In fact,
Speaker 5: when the bowl weavils finally left, they never did go
Speaker 5: back to cotton. They stuck with peanuts. Friends, God works
Speaker 5: in mysterious ways. You may be dealing with some bul
Speaker 5: weavils right now. My encouragement, stay in faith. Peanuts are coming.
Speaker 5: What you think is a setback is really God.
Speaker 6: Setting you up to do something new.
Speaker 5: Don't complain about the coworker that did you wrong, what
Speaker 5: didn't work out? You know what that was a bowl weavil,
Speaker 5: something that looks like it was meant to destroy you,
Speaker 5: but in fact God's going to use it to take
Speaker 5: you to the next level. That person at worked, it's
Speaker 5: always trying to push you down, always trying to make
Speaker 5: you look bad. When you see them this week, have
Speaker 5: a new attitude. You're just a bull weavil. You're trying
Speaker 5: to stop me. But I know a secret. God's gonna
Speaker 5: use you to push me forward. See the scripture says
Speaker 5: God will.
Speaker 6: Make your enemies your footstool.
Speaker 5: That means anything that comes against you, the persecution, the betrayal.
Speaker 6: The disappointment.
Speaker 5: If you'll stay in faith, instead of being a stumbling
Speaker 5: block to take you down, God will use it as
Speaker 5: a stepping stone to take you higher. When I was
Speaker 5: ten years old, I was playing Little league baseball. I
Speaker 5: was very small growing up. In fact, people called me peanut.
Speaker 5: I was always the smallest one on the team. I
Speaker 5: was in the middle of this important game. The stands
Speaker 5: were full, everybody was watching. I stepped out to the
Speaker 5: plate to bat. When the opposing coach saw how how
Speaker 5: small I was, he came out of the dugout and
Speaker 5: started hollering to his players in the outfield, come in closer,
Speaker 5: Come in closer. He was waving both of his arms,
Speaker 5: making this big scene. He might as well have said,
Speaker 5: this kid is a loser. Look how little he is.
Speaker 6: He can't hit, he's not up to part. And all
Speaker 6: the stands were watching. I standing there so embarrassed. I
Speaker 6: felt like hiding.
Speaker 5: The outfielders came in right behind the infield.
Speaker 6: Nobody was in the outfield.
Speaker 5: All I could think of is that coach must have
Speaker 5: seen my brother Paul play before. But when I saw that,
Speaker 5: something came all over me.
Speaker 6: I thought, he doesn't know who I am.
Speaker 5: He didn't breathe life into me. He doesn't determine my destiny.
Speaker 5: I am a child of the most Time God. I
Speaker 5: can do all things through Christ. The picture threw the ball.
Speaker 5: I may have been small, but I swung like I
Speaker 5: was ten feet tall.
Speaker 6: I gave it everything I.
Speaker 5: Had, and God helped me to connect perfectly with that.
Speaker 5: Ball went well over their heads, took two bounces, hit
Speaker 5: the back fence. Nobody was in the outfield. I had
Speaker 5: an inside the park home run.
Speaker 6: But here's what I want you to see.
Speaker 5: The next time I got up to bat, the coach
Speaker 5: came out with the same fanfare, the same enthusiasm, But
Speaker 5: this time he shouted.
Speaker 6: Back up, back up, back up.
Speaker 5: In the same way, the enemy will come against you
Speaker 5: in your thoughts. He'll tell you things like you'll never
Speaker 5: get well, you'll never break the addiction.
Speaker 6: You can't accomplish your dreams. You're too small, you don't
Speaker 6: have what it takes.
Speaker 5: You can either believe those lies and let him talk
Speaker 5: you into mediocrity, or you can do like I did
Speaker 5: as a ten year old boy and say no, I
Speaker 5: don't think so. You don't set the limits for my life.
Speaker 5: You don't determine my destiny. You didn't give me breath.
Speaker 5: I may look small, but I know I'm full of
Speaker 5: resurrection power. The same spirit raise Christ from the dead
Speaker 5: lives on the inside of us. When you rise up
Speaker 5: in faith like that, those enemies won't defeat you. Those
Speaker 5: enemies will promote you. You do that a few times,
Speaker 5: he'll tell his forces back up, back up, they're more
Speaker 5: powerful than they look.
Speaker 6: Don't mess with them. They go to Lakewood. They know
Speaker 6: they're highly favored.
Speaker 5: They know they're victories, not victim The scripture says, don't.
Speaker 6: Be intimidated by your enemies.
Speaker 5: Don't be intimidated by what somebody said, don't be intimidated
Speaker 5: by a negative medical report.
Speaker 6: You and God are a majority.
Speaker 5: When Jesus came out of the grave, he took the
Speaker 5: keys of death and hell. He said, all power has
Speaker 5: been given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Speaker 6: Now I'm giving you that power. You are not.
Speaker 5: Weak, you are not lacking. You are full of can
Speaker 5: do power. The greatest force in the.
Speaker 6: Universe is on your side.
Speaker 5: When the Israelites were in slavery, Farroh got upset and
Speaker 5: decided to make it harder on them. He told their
Speaker 5: supervisors to take away their materials, but to force them
Speaker 5: to make the same amount of bricks each day. They
Speaker 5: took away their straw and sand. Now they had to
Speaker 5: go find their supplies on their own, work twice as hard.
Speaker 5: It's very unfair, But something interesting happened. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: the more Pharaoh afflicted them, the more the Israelites multiplied.
Speaker 5: Farroh thought he was stopping them, but in fact he
Speaker 5: was increasing them. Sometimes when God wants to promote you,
Speaker 5: he doesn't send you a good break.
Speaker 6: He sends you an enemy.
Speaker 5: He'll cause a faith a supervisor to turn up the heat,
Speaker 5: make things more difficult, but don't worry. The more the opposition,
Speaker 5: the more you're going to increase. The truth is we
Speaker 5: grow in the difficult times. That's when our character is developed.
Speaker 5: That's when we discover talent, confidence, courage that we didn't
Speaker 5: even know we had, and fro When he took away
Speaker 5: those supplies, he was trying to restrict the people, trying
Speaker 5: to squeeze them, put them under pressure. Have you ever
Speaker 5: been washing your car at home and you have your
Speaker 5: water hose. You turn the valve on and the water
Speaker 5: comes out maybe three or four feet, But when you
Speaker 5: really want to spray your car off, you need it
Speaker 5: to go further. If you're like me and you don't
Speaker 5: have a nozzle on the end, then you put your
Speaker 5: thumb on the end of the hose and.
Speaker 6: You restrict the water.
Speaker 5: You would think when you restrict it it would come
Speaker 5: out less.
Speaker 6: But it's just the opposite.
Speaker 5: When you restrict that water, because it's under more pressure,
Speaker 5: it shoots out.
Speaker 6: Fifteen or twenty feet.
Speaker 5: It goes many times further than when it had no pressure.
Speaker 5: In the same way, when the enemy puts you under pressure,
Speaker 5: he thinks that's going to stop you. What he doesn't
Speaker 5: realize is. All that's going to do is cause you
Speaker 5: to shoot out further. When you feel restricted, when you
Speaker 5: face opposition, don't be discouraged. Get ready to shoot out,
Speaker 5: Get ready for new levels, get ready for promotion.
Speaker 6: That pressure is not going to stop you. It's going
Speaker 6: to increase you.
Speaker 5: When Jesus was about to be crucified, he stopped by
Speaker 5: the garden of gasimine. Literally translated that means the place
Speaker 5: of pressing.
Speaker 6: It was an olive garden.
Speaker 5: The only way you can get the oil out of
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Speaker 5: never get the valuable oil. If you're never under pressure,
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Speaker 5: the inside. On Friday, they nailed Jesus to the cross,
Speaker 5: incredible pressure. On Saturday, he went down to the grave
Speaker 5: and fought the forces of darkness restricted. But on Sunday
Speaker 5: morning he came shooting up out of that grave. Death
Speaker 5: couldn't hold him down. One message of the resurrection, God.
Speaker 6: Will use your enemies to bless you.
Speaker 5: Maybe today you feel restricted, under pressure, like you're being squeezed.
Speaker 6: It's Friday, don't worry. Sunday is coming. You're about to
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Speaker 5: When you see where God takes you, the favor, the promotion,
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Speaker 5: the Psalmist, it was good that I was afflicted. See
Speaker 5: if David were here, he was tell you it was
Speaker 5: good that Golias showed up. Jesus would say it was
Speaker 5: good that Judas betrayed me. I can tell you it
Speaker 5: was good that executive was against us.
Speaker 6: It may have been.
Speaker 5: Uncomfortable at the time, but one day you'll say this
Speaker 5: enemy didn't defeat me, this enemy promoted me.
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Speaker 5: He wouldn't have allowed the pressure unless he's going to
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Speaker 5: but I believe and declare Sunday is coming. You're about
Speaker 5: to shoot out, stronger, healthier, promoted, vindicated, the fullness of
Speaker 5: your destiny in Jesus's name, if you receive it.
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