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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joeln Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: podcast and thanks for supporting The Minute Strength. 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. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes and if

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

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

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Speaker 1: will make you feel right at home. I like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this professor.

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Speaker 1: He was going to prove to his students that there

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Speaker 1: is no God. He said, God, if you're real, knock

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Speaker 1: me off this platform. I'm giving you fifteen minutes to

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Speaker 1: do it. With every minute that went by, he taunted God, God,

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Speaker 1: I'm still waiting. I'm still here the last minute. Three

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Speaker 1: hundred pound football player walking down the hallway overheard what

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Speaker 1: he was saying. He took off, running toward him full blast,

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Speaker 1: The professor got up in a day said what in

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Speaker 1: the world you do that for? Football player replied, God

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Speaker 1: said he was busy, so he sent me say it

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

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

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Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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

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

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: your destiny is calling. In the scripture, God called Abraham

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Speaker 1: a father of many nations. At that time, he didn't

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Speaker 1: old to have kids. It looked like God made a mistake.

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Speaker 1: Abraham could have thought, God, what do you mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: not a father of many nations. I'm childless. My wife

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Speaker 1: is barn. Here's the principle. God calls you what you

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Speaker 1: are before where you become it. People call you what

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Speaker 1: are before it happens. When God rejected Saul as the

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Speaker 1: king of Israel, he told Samuel, I have found a

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Speaker 1: man after my own heart. David will be the next king.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting is David wasn't a man. He was a teenager.

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Speaker 1: He was out taking care of his father's sheep. He

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Speaker 1: was a boy, yet God called him what he would

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Speaker 1: become in the same way God calls you blessed, successful, strong, healthy, talented.

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Speaker 1: That may not all be true Right now. You could say,

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Speaker 1: like Abraham, God, what do you mean. I'm not blessed,

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Speaker 1: I'm struggling in my finances, I'm not healthy, I'm dealing

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Speaker 1: calls things that are not as if they already were.

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Speaker 1: There are promises that God is spoken over you, dreams

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Speaker 1: up with them on your own. Those aren't just your ideas.

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Speaker 1: God put them there. The scripture talks about the secret

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Speaker 1: petitions of your heart. That means the things you're dreaming

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Speaker 1: That's your destiny calling. That's God telling you what you

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Speaker 1: can become. You may not see how it can happen.

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Speaker 1: Every circumstance may say you don't have the talent, you

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Speaker 1: don't come from the right family. You tried last time,

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Speaker 1: it didn't work out. Don't talk yourself out of it.

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Speaker 1: God has spoken it. He controls the universe. All he's

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Speaker 1: looking for is someone who will agree with him, someone

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Speaker 1: can hear my destiny calling. I may not see a way,

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Speaker 1: but God, I know you have a way. If you speak,

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Speaker 1: I believe I can become it. Human nature says, when

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Speaker 1: Then I'll see it. God will speak things over you

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Speaker 1: that don't seem logical. When you're sick, the medical report

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Speaker 1: He calls you healthy, whole, strong. When the odds are

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Speaker 1: God calls you successful, prosperous, the head and not the tale.

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Speaker 1: When you're struggling with an addiction, everybody in your family

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Speaker 1: has had it. If you'll listen, you'll hear your destiny

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Speaker 1: saying you are free. This addiction is temporary. The buck

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Speaker 1: He calls you what you can become. This is what

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Speaker 1: happened with my father. He was raised on a cotton farm,

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Speaker 1: much of a future. Limited education, poverty defeated mindset. But

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Speaker 1: Notice the principal God called him a pastor before he

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Speaker 1: Instead he let the seed take root. He believed what

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Speaker 1: God had spoken over him. He started telling people, I'm

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Speaker 1: he wasn't all there. Even his family told him, John,

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Speaker 1: God sees your potential. He knows what you're capable of.

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Speaker 1: He's the one that breathe life into you. Don't let

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Speaker 1: They may think you're far out and try to talk

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Speaker 1: have other people. When you hear your destiny calling, that's

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Speaker 1: between you and God. Some things you have to go alone.

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Speaker 1: You have to say God, they may not be for me,

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Speaker 1: but I know you are for me. You put this

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Speaker 1: up because nobody's encouraging me. I know you being for

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Speaker 1: That promise is not dependent on your family, your friends,

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Speaker 1: your neighbors, your coworkers, your boss, the critics, the naysayers.

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Speaker 1: It's dependent on you. When you're tempted to get discouraged

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Speaker 1: to settle for mediocrity, you have to dig your heels

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Speaker 1: it to win it. Keep pressing forward, keep honoring God.

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Speaker 1: Your destiny is calling, Luke. Chapter one, angel appeared to

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Speaker 1: Zachariah and told him that he was going to have

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Speaker 1: a son that they were to name John. Zachariah's wife, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: had been bearing for many years. They had been praying,

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Speaker 1: Like Abraham and Sarah, they too were way too old.

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Speaker 1: Zachariah said to the angel, how can I be sure

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Speaker 1: my wife is well along in years. Was saying, in effect,

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Speaker 1: how it can happen. We're too old. God was telling

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Speaker 1: childless for so many years, he couldn't conceive it. When

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Speaker 1: You've been a certain way for a long time. You

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Speaker 1: prayed and believed, and it hasn't happened. It's easy to

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Speaker 1: who you can become. Too often we get comfortable with mediocrity.

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Speaker 1: I talked to a gentleman recently. He struggled with an

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Speaker 1: addiction since high school. He's in his forties. He said, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I've done everything I can. I've gone through treatment, rehab, counseling.

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Speaker 1: He was saying, this is who I am. Yes, that

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Speaker 1: may be who you are, but you don't have to

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Speaker 1: stay that way. God is telling you what you can become.

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Speaker 1: Freedom is in your future. Wholeness is in your future.

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Speaker 1: Breakthroughs are headed your way. Maybe you've been single a

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Speaker 1: long time. You don't think you'll ever meet the right person.

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Speaker 1: That is not the end, that's a season. God has

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Speaker 1: already lined up a divine connection for you, somebody better

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Speaker 1: than you can imagine. Perhaps you feel stuck in your career,

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Speaker 1: you can't seem to get good. Break that's not permanent,

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Speaker 1: it's only temporary. There is promotion in your future. There

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Speaker 1: are new levels up ahead. Now, don't do like Zachariah Joel,

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Speaker 1: how let the seed take root. That's your destiny calling.

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Speaker 1: Zachariah said to the angel. Are you sure this is

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Speaker 1: going to happen? The angel said, Zachariah, I am Gabriel.

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Speaker 1: to tell you this good news. But because you didn't

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Speaker 1: But if Gabriel were standing here today, he would say

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Speaker 1: I stand in the presence of Almighty God. What he

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Speaker 1: He'll turn situations around that look impossible. When there are

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Speaker 1: That means if you can't get through it, God will

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Speaker 1: cause you to go over it. Bottom line is God

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Speaker 1: can't stop you. Bad breaks can't stop you. Sickness can't

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Speaker 1: supposed to get stuck in one level. Be grateful for

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Speaker 1: keep your faith stirred up. God wants to take you

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Speaker 1: but God is saying you can become something greater. Nine

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Speaker 1: months later, Elizabeth gave birth to a baby boy. The

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Speaker 1: and family came up with the name, but Elizabeth, the mother,

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Speaker 1: spoke up and said, no, his name will not be Zachariah.

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Speaker 1: His name will be John. They looked at her strangely, Elizabeth,

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