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Speaker 5: room enough. We all have things in life that come

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Speaker 5: purpose was to establish David. Don't complain about your giants.

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Speaker 5: He sees the medical report, he sees who's not treating

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Speaker 5: Instead of getting discouraged, remember that opposition is a.

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Speaker 5: You're blessed now, but God has something greater, something that

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Speaker 3: You better than you can vindicate yourself. We're not called

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Speaker 3: Be a egle and rise above it.

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Speaker 3: You're an eagle. Quit wasting time with that crow.

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Speaker 5: The scripture says God opposes the people that oppose you.

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Speaker 3: When he paused, I said it again. I believe what

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Speaker 5: He looked at me, puzzled, started up all over here.

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Speaker 3: He'll take you where you could not go on your own.

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Speaker 3: No, that's just one well. You can't see where God

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Speaker 5: All those clogged up wells, those wells of opposition, they

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Speaker 5: are leading you to the well of room enough. Don't

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Speaker 5: is not your final destination.

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Speaker 3: It's just a season.

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Speaker 5: Job understood this. He didn't get discouraged. He didn't give up.

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Speaker 5: He could have stopped at Well number one, could have

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Speaker 5: stayed at Well number two. Instead, he kept moving forward.

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Speaker 5: He stayed on the high road, overlooked some things. He

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Speaker 5: came to Well number three, to that place of abundance.

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Speaker 5: He not only saw his health restored, but he came

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Speaker 5: out with twice what he had before. A man told

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Speaker 5: me recently how God had failed him. He prayed and believed,

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Speaker 5: but his business didn't make it. He was judging his

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Speaker 5: future on that one bad break. I told him what

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Speaker 5: I'm telling you. God didn't fail you.

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Speaker 3: That's just well. Number one, room en up is up ahead.

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Speaker 5: Abundance is in your future, but you'll never see it

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Speaker 5: if you stop where you are.

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Speaker 3: Like him, you may have had some clogged up wells.

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Speaker 3: He did the right thing.

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Speaker 5: You worked hard, but you had a setback, a disappointment.

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Speaker 5: God is saying, keep digging. Those clogged up wells are

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Speaker 5: not the end. When we were trying to buy property

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Speaker 5: land that we really liked. It seemed perfect. We were

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Speaker 5: making plans. Then the owner sold it out from under us.

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Speaker 5: He didn't keep his word. It was like he clogged

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Speaker 5: up our well. I was so disappointed. A few months

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Speaker 5: later we found another large piece of property.

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Speaker 3: It seemed better than the one before.

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Speaker 5: We knew God was saving that for us, but the

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Speaker 5: same thing happened.

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Speaker 3: It was sold out from under us. It was like

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Speaker 3: the enemy clogged up another well.

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Speaker 5: We could have made a judgment based on those two

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Speaker 5: bad breaks. Instead, we believed that God was still in control,

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Speaker 5: that he was directing our steps.

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Speaker 3: So we kept digging.

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Speaker 5: We kept believing, thanking God, that the right doors would open.

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Speaker 5: Six months later we received word that this place, the

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Speaker 5: former Compact Center, was coming available. Things begin to fall

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Speaker 5: into place. Here we are today in room enough, in

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Speaker 5: a wide open space, in an abundant place. The first

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Speaker 5: two wells were discouraging, but Well number three was the charm.

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Speaker 5: What am I saying? In God's will? You will have

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Speaker 5: stuff up wells. You can't pray away all the opposition,

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Speaker 5: pray away all the people that do you wrong.

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Speaker 3: That's all a part of the process.

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Speaker 5: You may have dug a well and it didn't work out.

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Speaker 5: You dug another well and something clogged it up, a

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Speaker 5: person walked away.

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Speaker 3: Stay in faith. Well number three is coming.

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Speaker 5: The third well is when opportunity freely flows. It's when

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Speaker 5: good breaks chase you down, when the right people come

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Speaker 5: looking for you. Well number three is more than you

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Speaker 5: can ask or think. It's where God will pay you back.

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Speaker 5: He'll make up for those two wells that.

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Speaker 3: Didn't work out.

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Speaker 5: Now you may be at well number one, a difficult place.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you're at well number two. Life hasn't made sense.

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Speaker 5: My challenge is keep digging. Don't make a judgment based

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Speaker 5: on that moment. That opposition was never sent to stop you.

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Speaker 5: It was sent, like David, to establish you. It's going

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Speaker 5: to prove the anointing on your life. If you'll do this,

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare you'll coming into room enough to

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Speaker 5: a place of an abundance, to health, wholeness, the fullness

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Speaker 5: of your destiny in Jesus's name, if you receive.

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Speaker 3: It, can you say him in today?

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Speaker 5: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 5: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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

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Speaker 5: into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior.

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