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Speaker 1: Hi, this is joelan Victorium. 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 great to be with you today,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the

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Speaker 1: week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I'd like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny and I heard about this teenager. He

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Speaker 1: had just gotten his driver's license. He asked his father

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Speaker 1: about borrowing the car. His father said, son, I'll make

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Speaker 1: a deal with you. If you'll bring your grades up,

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Speaker 1: read your Bible every day, and cut your hair, I'll

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Speaker 1: let you borrow it. He came back a few weeks

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Speaker 1: later ask about it again. Father said, son, you've brought

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Speaker 1: your grades up, you've been reading your Bible, but you

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Speaker 1: still haven't cut your hair. The son said, Dad, I've

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Speaker 1: been thinking Moses had long hair, Samson had long hair,

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Speaker 1: even Jesus had long hair. The father said yes, son,

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Speaker 1: and they walked everywhere they went, say it like you

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

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Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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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 freedom. In

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Speaker 1: the fire in the National Park in California, there are

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Speaker 1: these huge sequoia trees. They stand over three hundred feet tall.

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Speaker 1: They can live over two thousand years. They're magnificent trees.

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Speaker 1: On the branches, they develop a cone. Inside that cone

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Speaker 1: are the seeds to produce new Sequoia trees. What's significant

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Speaker 1: is those seeds are locked up in the cone. They

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Speaker 1: don't just naturally come out over time. The seeds can

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Speaker 1: be in the cone hundreds of years never produce a tree.

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Speaker 1: The only way the cone will open is through fire.

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Speaker 1: Lightning will strike, the heat from the fire will cause

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Speaker 1: the cone to open. The seeds are able to germinate

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Speaker 1: and become what they were created to be. But I

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Speaker 1: always saw fire as a bad thing. Oh man, there's

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Speaker 1: another fire in the forest. Not realizing the fire was

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Speaker 1: all a part of God's plan. It's how he designed

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Speaker 1: nature to work. One article talked about how people tried

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Speaker 1: to put out these natural fires for years as quickly

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Speaker 1: as possible, not realizing that was doing more damage to

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Speaker 1: the forest. Now there were no new trees, the fire

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Speaker 1: was necessary for new growth. In the same way, there

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Speaker 1: are seeds that are locked up in you, seeds of favor,

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Speaker 1: seeds of greatness, seeds of purpose. The only way they'll

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Speaker 1: come out is through fire. We don't like the fire,

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Speaker 1: being un comfortable going through things you don't understand. Business slowed,

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Speaker 1: friend walked away, medical report wasn't good. It's easy to

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Speaker 1: get discouraged, water down your dreams, but God won't allow

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Speaker 1: a difficulty unless he has a purpose for it. There

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Speaker 1: is potential locked up in you that will only come

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Speaker 1: out through adversity. There are gifts and talents that you

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Speaker 1: want discover without going through times when it's uncomfortable. David said,

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Speaker 1: God enlarged me in my distress. He didn't say God

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Speaker 1: enlarged me in my good times, enlarged me when everyone

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Speaker 1: was celebrating me. He said, God enlarged me when I

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Speaker 1: faced a giant twice my size. God enlarged me when

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Speaker 1: King Saul was trying to kill me. God enlarged me

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Speaker 1: when my own father didn't believe in me. It was

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Speaker 1: in that fire that David discovered talent that he didn't

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Speaker 1: know he had. In the fire, he stepped into courage, favor,

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Speaker 1: greatness that he would have never known had he not

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Speaker 1: felt the heat, the pressure, the adversity. You may be

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Speaker 1: in the fire now thinking, God, what's going on in

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Speaker 1: my life? This trouble, this child that's off course, this

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Speaker 1: medical situation, it's setting me back. Now. The truth is

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Speaker 1: it's setting you up. What you can't see is God

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Speaker 1: is enlarging you. You're about to step into new levels

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Speaker 1: of your destiny. You're going to see new growth, new opportunity,

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Speaker 1: new talent. It couldn't happen without the fire. You may

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Speaker 1: not see it yet, but there's favor in that fire.

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Speaker 1: There's promotion in that fire. There's freedom in that fire.

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Speaker 1: The fire is opening up things that you would have

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Speaker 1: never seen. Don't fight the fire. Stay faithful in the fire.

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Speaker 1: I've learned. God will not mismanage your life. He knows

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Speaker 1: how much fire, how much heat, how much pressure, you

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Speaker 1: can handle. He controls the thermostaff If that fire was

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Speaker 1: going to take you out, he wouldn't have allowed it.

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Speaker 1: You are well able, you are strong in the Lord,

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Speaker 1: you are full of can do power. Keep the right perspective.

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Speaker 1: That fire is not going to burn you up. It's

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Speaker 1: releasing you into new levels. The fire is all a

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Speaker 1: part of God's plan so you can become everything you

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Speaker 1: were created to be. That's why Peter said, don't think

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Speaker 1: it's strange when you face fiery trials. He could have

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Speaker 1: said when you face difficulties adversities, but he used the

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Speaker 1: word fiery. God was saying, sometimes I'm going to let

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Speaker 1: you go through the fire, through things you don't understand,

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Speaker 1: things that are not fair. You'll be tempted to get bitter, upset.

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Speaker 1: But trust him. In the fire, he's ordering your steps.

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Speaker 1: He's still in control. He wouldn't have allowed it if

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Speaker 1: it was going to stop you. That fire is opening

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Speaker 1: up seeds to your destiny levels you could never reach

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Speaker 1: without the fire. Sometimes forest rangers will do what's called

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Speaker 1: a controlled burn. They'll set a fire on purpose to

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Speaker 1: burn off the underbrush. They carefully study and plan exactly

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Speaker 1: what needs to be burned. When difficulties come against us,

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Speaker 1: can seem like things are out of control. I lost

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Speaker 1: my main client diagnosed with this illness, the pandemic, inflation,

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Speaker 1: gas prices. It feels like a wildfire. But can I

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Speaker 1: encourage you? You're in a controlled burn. God has you

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Speaker 1: in the palm of his hand. He sees what you're

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Speaker 1: going through. He knows who hurts you, what you didn't get,

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Speaker 1: what wasn't fair. He wouldn't have let you get in

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Speaker 1: of the fire. The good news is you're not going

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Speaker 1: to come out the same. The enemy minute to stop you,

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Speaker 1: but God only allowed it so he can promote you.

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Speaker 1: The fire is a sign that you're about to bloom.

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Speaker 1: You're about to blossom. You're going to discover talent, potential,

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Speaker 1: favor that you've never seen. Don't believe the lies that

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Speaker 1: you'll never meet the right person, never get out of

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Speaker 1: this trouble. That fire is coming to an end. Before

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Speaker 1: how long, how much, how hot, the strategy. That's not

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Speaker 1: a random fire, that's a control fire. The enemy is

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Speaker 1: not in charge of your life. He cannot do whatever

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Speaker 1: he wants. You are God's property. You belong to the

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Speaker 1: most High. He created you, He breathed life into you.

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Speaker 1: He planned your days for good and yes, we all

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Speaker 1: go through the fire. But God has a comeback for

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Speaker 1: every setback, healing, for every hurt, mercy for every mistake.

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Speaker 1: You're not doing life on your own. In the scripture,

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Speaker 1: Satan wanted to test Job, but God had a hedge

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Speaker 1: This shows us that everything is a controlled burn. The

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Speaker 1: enemy can't touch you without God's permission. Job was a

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Speaker 1: good man, he honored God. But he went through all

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Speaker 1: His wife said, Job, just curse God and die. She

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Speaker 1: is very encouraging. At one point, Job got his passion back.

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Speaker 1: He looked up to the heavens and said, I know

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Speaker 1: my redeemer lives. He was saying, God, I trust you.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand it. It doesn't seem fair, but I

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Speaker 1: know You're still in control. Only restored Job gave him

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Speaker 1: Job had twice the sheep, twice, the cattle, twice the joy.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says Job went on to live one hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty years and enjoyed his children and grandchildren. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: like Job, you're sitting in the ashes, looking at what

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Speaker 1: you could easily live. Discouraged feels like a wildfire. The

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Speaker 1: truth is it's a controlled burn. God wouldn't have allowed

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Speaker 1: it if you weren't going to come out better. There

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Speaker 1: are seeds of increase, seeds of healing, seeds of destiny

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Speaker 1: But when you come out on the other side, like Job, stronger, healthier,

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Speaker 1: more confident, you're going to say, look what the Lord

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Speaker 1: has done. There was freedom in the fire. There were

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Speaker 1: new levels in that fire. David said, we went through

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Speaker 1: the breakup. The loss is an abundance of joy, an

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Speaker 1: abundance of strength, and abundance of resources. The fire is

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Speaker 1: necessary to see the fullness of your destiny. When my

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Speaker 1: it was out of control. But looking back now, I

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Speaker 1: But that's not reality. God uses closed doors, disappointments, betrayals,

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Speaker 1: even loss. In one sense, we all been in the

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Speaker 1: fire the pandemic. People have lost loved ones, couldn't be together,

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Speaker 1: is a sign that new growth is coming. You're about

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Speaker 1: to bloom to see favor. You haven't seen doors open

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Speaker 1: that you could never open, to go places that you've

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Speaker 1: never dreamed. Jorlie, it didn't happen for me. I've been

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Speaker 1: in the fire a long time. Nothing has worked out.

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Speaker 1: Don't judge your situation too soon. Your time is coming.

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Speaker 1: God has not forgotten about you. He sees you doing

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Speaker 1: nobody thanking you. There's about to be a shift, a turnaround.

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Speaker 1: see favor in the fire. You'll come in into great abundance,

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Speaker 1: great opportunities, great relationshifts, great fulfillment. I was eight years

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Speaker 1: He may not keep you from the fire, but he

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Speaker 1: will make you fire proof. My challenge is stay faithful

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Speaker 1: He's not going to start now. I believe and declare

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Speaker 1: with double Like David said, into great abundance. New doors

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Speaker 1: and if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd

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Speaker 2: It's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start.

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Speaker 2: It's a new year, time to forget the struggles of

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