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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, reappreciate you, and pray for

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

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Speaker 1: Thanks for letting us come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop buy be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. These are the finest

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Speaker 1: people in all of Houston, Texas right here at Lakewood.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you. But thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: tuning in. I like to start with something funny, and

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Speaker 1: I heard about this elderly minister. He was close to death.

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Speaker 1: He sent word for two of his members, an ours

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Speaker 1: agent and a lawyer to come to his house. Upon arrival,

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Speaker 1: he motioned for them to sit on each side of

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Speaker 1: the bed. The men were very moved that they could

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Speaker 1: be with the minister in his final moments. One point,

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Speaker 1: the lawyer asked, very sincerely, sir, why did you choose

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Speaker 1: both of us? The minister mustered up some strength and said,

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Speaker 1: Jesus died between two sinners. That's the way I want

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Speaker 1: to go 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 miracles out of mistakes. We've all

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Speaker 1: made wrong choices and done things that we knew were

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Speaker 1: not the best. It's one thing when other people do

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Speaker 1: us wrong. We had a bad break, it wasn't our fault.

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Speaker 1: We can have faith that God will restore. He'll pay

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Speaker 1: us back. But when we bring the trouble on ourselves,

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Speaker 1: when we blow it, it's easy to live in regrets,

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Speaker 1: thinking that God's not going to help us. We made

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Speaker 1: the mess. But here's the beauty. God knew you would

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Speaker 1: mess up before he called you. He knew we would

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Speaker 1: get off course at times given to temptation. He didn't

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Speaker 1: baste his plan for your life on you making perfect decisions.

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Speaker 1: God has a plan even for your mistakes. What you

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Speaker 1: think is a failure, you blew it. Nothing good could

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Speaker 1: come out of that, God has a way of making

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Speaker 1: miracles out of mistakes. He can take what should have

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Speaker 1: left you lonely disappointed, what should have limited your career,

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Speaker 1: instead of setting you back. God knows how to turn

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Speaker 1: it around and set you up, to move you towards

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Speaker 1: your destiny. But too often, when we make mistakes, we

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Speaker 1: go around down on ourselves, guilty, not expecting anything good.

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Speaker 1: Voices tell us too bad, Just live with the consequences.

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Speaker 1: It's all downhill from here. But be encouraged. God is

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Speaker 1: full of mercy. He doesn't turn his back when we

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Speaker 1: make mistakes. He doesn't say I'm done with you, forget

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Speaker 1: it right. Just the opposite. He comes running to us.

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Speaker 1: He'll not only help you clean up the mess you made,

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Speaker 1: he'll take it one step further and make miracles out

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Speaker 1: of those mistakes. Paul said it this way, All things

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Speaker 1: things means, even our mistakes, the times we blew it God,

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Speaker 1: of course, God knows how to work it for our good.

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Speaker 1: You may be in a complicated situation, a problem that

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Speaker 1: seems like it'll never work out. There are other people involved,

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Speaker 1: hasn't all figured out. He can see things you can't see.

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Speaker 1: His ways are better than our ways. You may have

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Speaker 1: to correct those complications. I'm going to resolve complex issues.

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Speaker 1: have never made work on your own. That's what he

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Speaker 1: They decided to try to help God out. Sarah told

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Speaker 1: they had a baby boy that they named Ishmael. They

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Speaker 1: Looked like that would be the end of Ishmael. The

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Speaker 1: How did I get myself into this mess? God could

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Speaker 1: I didn't know how to bring you out of this mess.

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Speaker 1: God told Abraham, I'm going to bring out of your

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Speaker 1: works of the flesh, trying to make it happen on

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Speaker 1: our own, God in his mercy said, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: bring something significant out of him, Abraham, in spite of

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Speaker 1: we all have some Ishmaels. Times we blew it, tried

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Speaker 1: things we should and have. Now it's a mess. The

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Speaker 1: accuser constantly whispers, God's not gonna bless you. You knew better.

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Speaker 1: God has mercy for every mistake. God loves to make

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Speaker 1: bring you out better. Abraham had a son named Isaac.

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Speaker 1: named Joseph. Abraham was Joseph's great great grandfather. You remember

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Speaker 1: as a teenager, Joseph's brothers were jealous of him and

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Speaker 1: threw him into a pit. They were going to leave

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Speaker 1: of Ishmaelites came passing by. These were the descendants of Ishmael,

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Speaker 1: The Israelites years later wouldn't have had what they needed

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Speaker 1: became the miracle of his great great grandson Joseph. This

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Speaker 1: He cannot only correct a complicated situation, but he can

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Speaker 1: somehow use it years later to bless your descendants. Some

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Speaker 1: of you are thinking, my descendants are going to really

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Speaker 1: be blessed all the mistakes I've made. But sometimes we

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Speaker 1: make mistakes, like Abrahim, when we're trying to do the

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Speaker 1: we miss it. We believe God will help us because

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Speaker 1: He's merciful and we were doing our best. Other times,

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Speaker 1: we know what the right thing is, we know what

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Speaker 1: we should do, but we do just the opposite. This

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Speaker 1: is when we think I don't deserve God's goodness. Joel,

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Speaker 1: I made the mess. I knew I shouldn't hang around

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Speaker 1: Now I had this addiction. I knew I should control

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Speaker 1: Now I lost a relationship. When we bring trouble on ourselves,

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Speaker 1: thoughts of guilt and condemnation bombard our mind, saying God's

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines of life. This is how Jonah felt.

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Speaker 1: In the scripture. God told him to go to the

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Speaker 1: boat apart. It's interesting that the Lord sent the storm.

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Speaker 1: God knows how to get our attention. And when you

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Speaker 1: away all the winds. You can say peace be still

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Speaker 1: It is because you're causing the trouble. God loves you

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Speaker 1: too much to let you miss your destiny. He's not

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Speaker 1: wrong course and never get your attention. And sometimes it's

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Speaker 1: the enemy fighting us, trying to keep us from our destiny.

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Speaker 1: those winds would calm down. The people sailing with Jonah said,

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Speaker 1: who's responsible for causing all this trouble? Jonah said, it's me.

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Speaker 1: I'm a Hebrew, I worship God. I know where I'm

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Speaker 1: It's not only going to cause you trouble, it's going

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Speaker 1: to bring trouble to the people around you. When they

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Speaker 1: threw Jonah overboard, the winds died down, the storms stopped.

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Speaker 1: Our decisions don't just affect us, they affect our family.

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Speaker 1: At least do it for your family. Jonah was big

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Speaker 1: enough to admit I'm the cause. That's the first step

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter than the winds, the storms, the difficulty are

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Speaker 1: going to continue. Jonah was out in the ocean, thrown overboard.

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Speaker 1: a huge fish swallowed Jonah. God in his great mercy,

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Speaker 1: I'm not finished with you. I have a destiny for

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Speaker 1: you to fulfill. The psalm Iss said, if you go

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Speaker 1: in the heavens, God will be right there. You can't

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Speaker 1: get away from him. You haven't made too many mistakes,

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Speaker 1: you haven't blown it too many times. God's calling on

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Speaker 1: your life is irrevocable. That means God is not going

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Speaker 1: to change his mind because you got of course, He's

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Speaker 1: not going to leave you alone until you get back

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Speaker 1: better off you're going to be. Jonah was sitting in

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