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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan 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, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 1: and be a part of one of our services. I

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Speaker 1: promise it will make you feel right at home. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in, and thank you again for

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Speaker 1: coming out today. And I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 1: and I heard about this minister. He was finishing up

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Speaker 1: a fiery sermon on self control. He said, with great passion,

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Speaker 1: would throw it into the river. With a greater fervor,

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Speaker 1: he said, if I had all the wine in the world,

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Speaker 1: top of his lungs. If I had all the whiskey

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Speaker 1: in the world, I would throw it into the river.

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Speaker 1: Sat down. Song leader stepped up said for our closing song,

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Speaker 1: let's sing him three six. Shall we gather at the river?

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Speaker 1: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about your coming out. We

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Speaker 1: all face situations that look permanent in our health, our relationships,

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Speaker 1: our career. It's easy to think that that's the way

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Speaker 1: I'll always have to deal with this depression. I'll always

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Speaker 1: be at this same level. I'll never break out of

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Speaker 1: the rut do something great. But just because it seems

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Speaker 1: permanent to us doesn't mean that it is permanent to God.

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Speaker 1: God doesn't allow you to get into anything that he

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Speaker 1: can't bring you out of. Even if it was your

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Speaker 1: own fault. You brought the trouble on yourself. God wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have allowed it if he didn't have a way out.

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Speaker 1: He knew how to get you out of the trouble

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Speaker 1: before you got in the trouble. He knows the end

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Speaker 1: from the beginning. He had the solution even before you

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Speaker 1: had the problem. And it may look to you like

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Speaker 1: it's never going to change, but God is saying it's temporary.

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Speaker 1: You're coming out of that sickness. You're coming out of

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Speaker 1: chronic pain. You're coming out of loneliness, that debt, that addiction,

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Speaker 1: that legal trouble is not going to last forever. It

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Speaker 1: didn't come to stay, it came to pass. God has

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Speaker 1: already made a way of escape. He's already planned your

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Speaker 1: you see the breakthrough, the healing, the abundance, the restoration,

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Speaker 1: the new level. The scripture says in job that God

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Speaker 1: has set an end to the difficulty. He has set

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Speaker 1: an end to that trouble. God is the Alpha and

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Speaker 1: the omega, the beginning and the end. He's already set

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Speaker 1: and end to that injustice at work. Your coming out

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Speaker 1: date has already been established. Now, when thoughts tell you

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Speaker 1: this is as good as it gets. Now you have

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Speaker 1: to remind yourself, I will not always be lonely. God

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Speaker 1: has set an end to this loneliness. He's bringing somebody

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Speaker 1: great into my life. I will not always struggle in

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Speaker 1: my finances. God has set an end to this lack.

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Speaker 1: He has promotion, increase, abundance come in my way. Or

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Speaker 1: the end on his calendar. My time is coming, Freedom, wholeness,

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Speaker 1: I need you simply acknowledging God. The scripture says, call

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Speaker 1: come a point where God says enough is enough. That's

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Speaker 1: to be free to lend and not borrow. God may

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Speaker 1: He's already set the end to the sickness, to the

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Speaker 1: legal problem, to the family situation, to the struggle. You

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Speaker 1: be this week, It could happen this month. What if

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Speaker 1: you knew that on August twenty second of this year

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't drag around discouraged, thinking, oh man, I never

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Speaker 1: you'd go out each morning with a spring in your step,

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Speaker 1: what faith is all about. You've got to believe it

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Speaker 1: ask you, are you still dealing with that sickness? Are

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Speaker 1: you still under the weather. Don't give them a twenty

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Speaker 1: medical report was. Your answer should be yes, I'm still

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Speaker 1: number of my days he will fulfill. Well. Are you

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Speaker 1: still struggling in your finances? You're still in debt? Yes,

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Speaker 1: but don't believe those lies. The end date has already

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Speaker 1: been said. David put it this way, though, I walk

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to go through it. That is not your

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Speaker 1: We put our stakes down, build our house in the valley.

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Speaker 1: already purchased your ticket. Now. You may be in the

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Speaker 1: valley of sickness. Right now the medical report does don't

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Speaker 1: Stay encouraged. Your ticket says, divine connections are coming, new friendships,

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Speaker 1: not your final destination. Your ticket says beauty for ashes.

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Speaker 1: when you're in the valley, if you'll stay in faith,

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Speaker 1: but God wouldn't have allowed it, not only if he

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Speaker 1: going to be a living testimony of God's goodness. Now

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Speaker 1: remember the end of the difficulty has already been said.

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Speaker 1: The end of the trouble, the lack, the addiction, the

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Speaker 1: final date has already been established. The good news is

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Speaker 1: it could happen this week. Get up every morning thanking

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Speaker 1: God that is on the way. If you'll do this,

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Speaker 1: I believe and declare. You're coming out of sickness. You're

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Speaker 1: coming out of depression, You're coming out of addictions. You're

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Speaker 1: coming out of lack and struggle. The tide of the

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Speaker 1: battle is turning. You might as well start planning. You're

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Speaker 1: coming out party like the Israelites. God is going to

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Speaker 1: bring you out with great abundance, great joy, great peace,

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Speaker 1: great victories are in your future in Jesus' name. If

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Speaker 1: you receive it, Can you say it in today? We

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Speaker 1: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would

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Speaker 1: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent

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Speaker 1: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you

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Speaker 1: my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer,

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Speaker 1: we believe you got born again. Get in a good

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Speaker 1: Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's going to

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Speaker 1: take you places that you've never dreamed of,