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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jorlan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy,

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Speaker 1: productive and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy

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Speaker 1: the message. You know. It was a little girl.

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Speaker 2: I love to go to the beach with my family.

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Speaker 2: We would get to the beach and I remember so well.

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Speaker 2: We had this huge red umbrella that we drilled down

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Speaker 2: in the sand. We'd put our beach blanket out, get

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Speaker 2: our ice chest, get our spot ready for a day

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Speaker 2: at the beach, and as soon as it was set,

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Speaker 2: I'd take off to the water. I could spend hours

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Speaker 2: out in the waves just having such a good time.

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Speaker 2: And one day I had been out there seems like

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Speaker 2: for several hours. In fact, I had made it to

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Speaker 2: the second sandbar. Now, if you know what those sandbars are,

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Speaker 2: they're deep spots and then you get on the sandbar

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Speaker 2: and it's like you're on the shore. You can be

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Speaker 2: way out and you can be just up to your knees.

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Speaker 2: So I had made my way all the way out

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Speaker 2: to the second sandbar. I wanted my family to see

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Speaker 2: me from shore because I thought, I am really done

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Speaker 2: well today. So I stood up and I began to

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Speaker 2: wave my hands looking for my family. I was searching

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Speaker 2: everywhere for where our spot was, where we had set

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Speaker 2: that red umbrella. When I realized I could see a

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Speaker 2: lot of people, I could see a lot of things,

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Speaker 2: but I couldn't spot my family. Well, I got kind

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Speaker 2: of panicking. As a little girl, I thought, I got

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Speaker 2: to find my family. Where did they go? So I

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Speaker 2: swam as quick as I could, worked really hard to

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Speaker 2: make it to shore looking for my family, or walk

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Speaker 2: to the left all the way as far as I could,

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Speaker 2: couldn't find them, turned around, walked to the right, looking

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Speaker 2: and looking for my family. When at a distance I

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Speaker 2: spotted that red umbrella. And can I tell you, as

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Speaker 2: a little girl, that was a happy moment for me.

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Speaker 2: I thought, there they are, I'm safe, and everything is okay.

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Speaker 2: You see, what I didn't realize was when I was

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Speaker 2: out in that water, those undercurrents were slowly taking me

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Speaker 2: down the beach. It was so subtle. I was playing,

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Speaker 2: minding my own business, but they just drug me all

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Speaker 2: the way down the beach, about two to three hundred

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Speaker 2: maybe more feet down the beach. I didn't even realize

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Speaker 2: what was happening to me. You know, in life, it

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Speaker 2: can mean much like that. There are undercurrents in life

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Speaker 2: trying to drag us off, get us off course from

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Speaker 2: where we are supposed to be. I hear these comments

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Speaker 2: a lot. I was raised in church, my whole life.

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Speaker 2: I went to church. I don't know how I got

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Speaker 2: so far away from God. Spoke to a woman the

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Speaker 2: other day. She was telling me how happy her marriage

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Speaker 2: was until they began to argue, until they begin to

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Speaker 2: not be able to see eye to eye. She said.

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Speaker 2: We were so happy at first, she said, but now

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Speaker 2: we've drifted apart, we've separated. Things just aren't the same.

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Speaker 2: You see, those are the results of the undercurrents that

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Speaker 2: are trying to destroy our life, to get us off course.

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Speaker 2: And those are the things that we need to pay

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Speaker 2: attention to because they can be so subtle we don't

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Speaker 2: even realize that they're happening. Undercurrents can be many different things.

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Speaker 2: Can be hanging around with the wrong people, the wrong friends,

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Speaker 2: go in places and being with people that don't have

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Speaker 2: the same values that you do. This is what the

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Speaker 2: Bible says about that. It says bad company corrupts good character.

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Speaker 2: It actually says, don't be misled. Don't be misled. Undercurrents

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Speaker 2: can be bad attitudes, can be selfishness, laziness, anger. See,

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Speaker 2: these are the things that can separate families. These are

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Speaker 2: the things that can cause us to lose good jobs,

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Speaker 2: attention to where I was in relation to where that

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Speaker 2: See the undercurrents were there and they were dragging me off,

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Speaker 2: because undercurrents will always have that tendency to drag us.

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Speaker 2: But I could have made the necessary adjustments to get

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Speaker 2: to where I needed to be. I think about Sampson

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Speaker 2: in the Bible. Many of you know his story. The

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Speaker 2: prophets predicted his birth. He was a man that had

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Speaker 2: an amazing destiny lined out for him. He had this

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Speaker 2: supernatural strength that God had given him. He was talented.

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Speaker 2: God had positioned him in an amazing position. But he

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Speaker 2: was weak in his morality. He got his eyes on

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Speaker 2: the wrong things. He let his guard down. You see,

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Speaker 2: he didn't keep the position that he had. Those undercurrents

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Speaker 2: in life dragged him off and he never was everything

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Speaker 2: he could have been. Can you imagine if he would

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Speaker 2: if he would have just said to himself, am I

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Speaker 2: respecting what God has given me? And am I walking

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Speaker 2: humbly before him, honoring him with what I do? Can

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Speaker 2: you imagine if he would have done that, the life

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Speaker 2: he could have lived. See, he would not have had

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Speaker 2: up in the hands of his enemy. You see, we

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Speaker 2: all need to deal with these undercurrents. See, they don't

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Speaker 2: go away. Life is full of undercurrents. Life is full

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Speaker 2: of distractions, temptations.

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Speaker 1: You see.

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Speaker 2: We all make mistakes, we all fall down sometimes, but

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Speaker 2: we don't have to stay down. We can realign and

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Speaker 2: readjust ourself. We just got to be willing to ask

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Speaker 2: ourselves the questions every day. Am I fulfilling my destiny?

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Speaker 2: Am I honoring God? You know it's kind of like

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Speaker 2: getting off your diet and eating some ice cream and

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Speaker 2: then you go, well, I'm so off my diat I'll

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Speaker 2: just go get the whole gallon. You know we do

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Speaker 2: this sometime. In fact, they say that most of life

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Speaker 2: is just habits. Can I tell you, we've got to

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Speaker 2: look at our habits. We've got to see if these

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Speaker 2: habits are serving us, serving our family, creating the life

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Speaker 2: that we were intended to have. You know, sometimes these

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Speaker 2: things just seem small and insignificant. But can I tell

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Speaker 2: you it's so small things that aren't taken care of

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Speaker 2: that can do damage. Throwing our words around, being disrespectful

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Speaker 2: you could say to yourself, look, I'm just letting off

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Speaker 2: a little steam. They know I love them, They deserve it.

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Speaker 2: They shouldn't have done that. See, we can make excuses

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Speaker 2: for these little things all day long, showing up to

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Speaker 2: work late, thinking, you know why boss isn't here. He

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Speaker 2: doesn't even come till eight point thirty. I don't know

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Speaker 2: why he expects me to be here at eight o'clock

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Speaker 2: surfing the internet when the company is paying you, not

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Speaker 2: being your best. See these seem small, but these are

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Speaker 2: the small things that can turn into big issues in

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Speaker 2: our life if we're not careful. The scripture says, it's

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Speaker 2: the small foxes that spoil the vine. See, it's those

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Speaker 2: things that we don't always pay attention to. They're subtle.

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Speaker 2: They like to cause us to move from the position

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Speaker 2: that we are supposed to be. You see, if you

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Speaker 2: find yourself drifting in areas today, I want to tell

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Speaker 2: you you can refocus. You can realign yourself. It's not

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Speaker 2: too late to correct. You can start today. Listen to

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Speaker 2: what it says in Colossians three to two. It says,

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Speaker 2: set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.

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Speaker 2: You know what that means. It means set your mind

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Speaker 2: on the higher thing. Set your mind on the things

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Speaker 2: God given destiny. You are full of gifts and talents.

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Speaker 2: You got to set your mind on where you want

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Speaker 2: to go with those gifts and talents, creating an atmosphere

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Speaker 2: that brings joy and love and forgiveness. You see, Just

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Speaker 2: like that red umbrella marked my spot. If I would

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Speaker 2: have just set my mind on it, I could have

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Speaker 2: kept my position. We've got to set our mind on

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Speaker 2: honoring God, set our mind on living a life of integrity.

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Speaker 2: Set our mind on fulfilling the dreams that God has

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Speaker 2: put in our heart. Don't think they're too big. You've

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Speaker 2: just got to set your mind on them and they'll

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Speaker 2: come out of you. You know. Today, let me just

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Speaker 2: say this, The Bible says, lay aside those weights, those

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Speaker 2: sins that's so easily come against us to get us

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Speaker 2: off course. Listen, God knows how easy it is. You

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Speaker 2: are not a failure. If you have sinned, you are

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Speaker 2: not a failure. If you've moved out of your direction.

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Speaker 2: There is no mistake that you've made today that will

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Speaker 2: take you from your destiny. God loves you with an

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Speaker 2: everlasting love, and he's saying it is easy. So you

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Speaker 2: have to set your mind. Maybe you need to ask

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Speaker 2: for forgiveness today. Maybe you need to go to a

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Speaker 2: family member and say, hey, listen, I have messed up.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna set my mind, set my heart on being

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Speaker 2: a good husband, wife, father, whatever it is today, you

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Speaker 2: can start and begin again. I believe that you've got

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Speaker 2: an amazing future in store for you. I believe that

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Speaker 2: God is saying to you, I know it's easy, but

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Speaker 2: I've given you the power to overcome the current life.

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Speaker 2: You may have to wait in these currents, but you

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Speaker 2: can control your life in these currents. I believe and

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Speaker 2: declare today that God has a bright future in store

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Speaker 2: for you, bigger than you can ever ask, think, or imagine.

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Speaker 2: He's going to open new doors of opportunities for you.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna make up lost time for you. He's going

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Speaker 2: to get you to where you need to be in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: And if you believe that, shot a great big amen,

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Speaker 2: Same man and Amen.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you

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Speaker 3: feel like you're stumbling around in the dark. Things are

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Speaker 3: so bad you would need a miracle to change your situation.

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Speaker 3: But as a miracle even possible.

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Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see a way out.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what

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Speaker 1: we're believing. For that's how we felt. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a

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Speaker 1: few weeks to live. Nothing could be done medically speaking,

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Speaker 1: but she chose to believe that God is a miracle worker. Today,

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Speaker 1: forty three years later, by the grace of God, she's

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Speaker 1: still healthy and strong. I'm so grateful to be alive.

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Speaker 2: I'm ninety years young.

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Speaker 1: I thank God every day that he still does miracles.

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Speaker 1: seen the hand of God. It'll help build your faith

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Speaker 1: so you can believe what seems impossible. God did it

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Speaker 1: for my mother. Yes, He'll do it for you.

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Speaker 3: God has miracles stored up for you, healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 1: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: see the hand of God do supernatural things in your line.

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