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Speaker 2: Anything that's in front of you. You are Grace to Go.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy today's message. Well, God bless you. It's always a

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Speaker 1: We know God has great things in store for each

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Speaker 1: If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop

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Speaker 1: in today. I like to start with something funny each week.

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Speaker 2: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about living the

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Speaker 1: That means an abundance of joy, an abundance of peace,

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Speaker 1: Well, you say, Joel, my family and I we've always struggled.

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Speaker 2: I don't see how it could happen for me. No,

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Speaker 2: They have a skinny goat mentality.

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Speaker 1: And you think about during a time of famine, there

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Speaker 1: was nowhere to get food, the people didn't have it.

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Speaker 1: How much less likely would this bird be able to

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Speaker 1: do it? But God caused that raven to supernaturally find food.

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Speaker 2: He would come with bread in one claw.

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Speaker 1: And meet in the other claw, and just like clockwork,

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Speaker 1: at breakfast and at dinner, he would swoop in and

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Speaker 1: just drop it on Elijah's plate. Isn't it funny God

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Speaker 1: thought of home delivery before pizza hut. But some of

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Speaker 1: you are wondering how God can supply your needs?

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Speaker 2: How can I ever get out of debt? Joel?

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Speaker 1: How can I be well? How can I write higher?

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Speaker 1: God is a supernatural God. He supersedes the laws of nature.

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Speaker 1: He supersedes the laws.

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Speaker 2: Of medicine, the laws of finance.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting is the raven that brought Elijah food every

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Speaker 1: day was called a fowl of the air.

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Speaker 2: It was an unclean bird.

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Speaker 1: You remember in the Parable of the Sower, Jesus talked

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Speaker 1: about when the seed was sown on a certain kind

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Speaker 1: of soil, the fowls.

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Speaker 2: Of the air came immediately to try to steal it.

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Speaker 1: The fowl represented the enemy. And what God was saying

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Speaker 1: to Elijah by having this raven, this fowl bring him

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Speaker 1: food every day. After all, God could have chosen a

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Speaker 1: dove that represents the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 2: But God was saying, Elijah.

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Speaker 1: If you will be obedient and go where I tell

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Speaker 1: you to go, I'll cause even your.

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Speaker 2: Enemies to bless you.

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Speaker 1: I'll cause your enemies to supply your needs. Friends, God

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Speaker 1: controls it all. He can cause your biggest enemy to

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Speaker 1: be your biggest blessing. He can cause the people that

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Speaker 1: are trying to push you down to be the very

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Speaker 1: ones that lift you up.

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Speaker 2: He can take that sickness that's meant for.

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Speaker 1: Your harm and turn it around and use it to

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Speaker 1: make you stronger. When you stay in faith, God will

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Speaker 1: use your enemies to increase you.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: Eventually the brook dried up and the ravens quit coming,

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Speaker 1: and God spoke to Elijah and told him to go

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Speaker 1: to a widow's home and she would take care of him.

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Speaker 2: He did, and when he got there, he asked her

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Speaker 2: for something to eat.

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Speaker 1: She agreed, but she said, this is my last little

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Speaker 1: bit of meal. She was planning on making him dinner,

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Speaker 1: and then she and her baby would probably die, probably

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Speaker 1: just starve to death. So she reached down into that

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Speaker 1: big barrel and scooped out the last cupful of meal.

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Speaker 2: But then she just looked down and passing, and she

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Speaker 2: saw some more. She thought, well, I must have missed son.

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Speaker 1: She reached down and scooped up another cupful, look back down,

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Speaker 1: she saw more meal.

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Speaker 2: This happened again and again.

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Speaker 1: God caused that meal to supernaturally keep multiplying, and instead

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Speaker 1: of going through seven years of famine, she went through

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Speaker 1: seven years of increase. What happened she hit one of

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Speaker 1: those seventh years where she was released into increase.

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Speaker 2: I believe God is saying.

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Speaker 1: That to each one of you, it's your seventh year.

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Speaker 1: It's your time to be released from debt into increase,

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Speaker 1: from sickness into hell, from bondages into freedom. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you get this down into your spirit have the attitude. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this is my seventh year. I am coming out of debt.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna break this addiction. I'm gonna defeat this sickness.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna overcome these obstacles, the chains of lack, defeat

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Speaker 1: mediocrity or broken off of me. I'm coming into new

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Speaker 1: seasons of increase. I know some of you, like that widow,

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Speaker 1: you kind of feel like you've been in a famine.

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Speaker 1: You haven't seen a lot of increase in the natural.

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Speaker 1: The future doesn't look very bright. But God is saying

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Speaker 1: to us, if you'll stay in faith, that famine is

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Speaker 1: going to come to an end, and you're going to

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Speaker 1: come in to supernatural increase, supernatural blessings, supernatural opportunities.

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Speaker 2: If God can cause a bird.

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Speaker 1: To take care of Elijah for three and a half years,

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Speaker 1: he can surely take care of you and me. Why

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Speaker 1: don't you get rid of that skinny goat mentality and

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Speaker 1: start thinking fatted calf. God wants you to live his

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Speaker 1: abundant life. He's already paid the price.

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Speaker 2: When you walk in obedience. You have a big vision.

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Speaker 1: He's promised his blessings are going to chase you down

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Speaker 1: and overtake you. And that's my prayer for each one

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Speaker 1: of you, that you will come into this overflow annoying,

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Speaker 1: that you will see God pour out blessings that you

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Speaker 1: can't even contain. I believe something supernatural happens when.

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Speaker 2: It's spoken over us. So I speak over you.

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Speaker 1: An abundance of health, an abundance of joy, and abundance

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Speaker 1: in your finances. You are being released into increase. The

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Speaker 1: tide of the battle is turning. God is accelerating his

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Speaker 1: blessings in your life. The chains that have tried to

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Speaker 1: hold you back in your mind, in your health, in

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Speaker 1: your relationships, in your business, they are being broken off

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Speaker 1: of you. God is releasing favor into your future. The

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Speaker 1: right people, the right opportunities are coming across your path.

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Speaker 1: You will be blessed in the city, blessed in the country,

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Speaker 1: blessed when you come in, blessed when you go out.

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Speaker 1: Your seed will be mighty on the land, and abundance

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Speaker 1: of good things are coming your way.

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Speaker 2: I declare it in the name of Jesus. And if

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Speaker 2: you receive it. Can you say amen? We never like

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