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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny in one day

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Speaker 5: up in heaven, God said to the men, I want

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Speaker 5: you to form two lines. One line is for the

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Speaker 5: men who were the head of the house, and the

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Speaker 5: woman ran the house was one hundred miles long. There

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Speaker 5: was only one man in the other line. God said, men,

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Speaker 5: I'm ashamed of you. I created you to be the head,

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Speaker 5: He looked at him and said, son, tell them, how

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Speaker 5: but she's the neck that turns the head. So hold

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Speaker 5: up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 5: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 4: God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about the God

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Speaker 4: We all know that God opens doors.

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Speaker 5: We've seen him give us favor, good breaks, promotion. That's

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Speaker 4: Doors will close doors. You prayed, but you didn't get the.

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Speaker 5: God knows where every road is leading, He knows the

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Speaker 5: God may close the door because you're believing too small.

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Speaker 5: The reason the door closed is because God has something

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Speaker 4: To stay that left you, they would have stayed. Shake

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Speaker 5: I used to get excited about my open doors and

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Speaker 5: He can see what I can't see. God not my will,

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Speaker 5: A few years ago, this man flew to Houston for

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Speaker 5: If we're really going to trust God, we have to

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Speaker 5: But trust God with your life. He knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 5: She said, Joel, all those prayers we prayed, I quoted

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Speaker 4: I didn't want you to be contaminated.

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Speaker 5: And oh yeah, that foot massager'd had a short in it.

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Speaker 5: If it would have turned on, it would have blown

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Speaker 5: out power to the whole house. And I didn't think

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Speaker 5: you'd want to sit around in the dark all evening,

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Speaker 5: so I caused it to not turn on.

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Speaker 4: What's my point. God knows exactly what he's doing.

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Speaker 5: Everything about your life is calculated.

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Speaker 4: Take this in the right way.

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Speaker 5: You may not understand it, but it's because you're not God.

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Speaker 5: God has a reason. Every door that's closed. God had

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Speaker 5: a purpose for it closing. Since the Lord is directing

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Speaker 5: our steps, let's don't try to figure out everything that

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Speaker 5: happens along the way.

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Speaker 4: Let's just trust him. I have a good friend that's

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Speaker 4: a minister.

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Speaker 5: He and his team had this big outdoor event planned

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Speaker 5: in another country.

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Speaker 4: They had spent over two years working on it.

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Speaker 5: They had government officials, business leaders, pastors, all kinds of

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Speaker 5: organizations involved. It was a huge undertaking, costing thousands and

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Speaker 5: thousands of dollars. Finally came down to the week of

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Speaker 5: the big event. They had the staging out, the sound

466
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Speaker 5: system was up, all the advertising.

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Speaker 4: Was going through the airways.

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Speaker 5: It was just about to happen when they got word

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Speaker 5: from the government that because of the swine flu outbreak,

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Speaker 5: all public meetings had been indefinitely canceled. My friend was

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Speaker 5: so disappointed. Two years of hard work seemed like the

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Speaker 5: biggest waste of time, energy, money. He and his team

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Speaker 5: got on the plane came back home. That's all they

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Speaker 5: could do. But that weekend, right when their event was

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Speaker 5: supposed to take place, the military overthrew the government a coup.

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Speaker 4: It was total chaos.

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Speaker 5: People panicked, no law, no order, shooting in the street,

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Speaker 5: all kinds of mayhem. If his event had not been canceled,

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Speaker 5: he would have been right in the middle of it.

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Speaker 4: No telling what would have happened.

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Speaker 5: He said, I know this sounds odd, but I thank

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Speaker 5: God for the swine flu. We lost some time, energy, money,

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Speaker 5: but we could have lost our lives. See, there may

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Speaker 5: be things that you cannot figure out why it happened.

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Speaker 4: Right now seems.

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Speaker 5: Like a big disappointment. But like him, one day you'll

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Speaker 5: thank God the door closed. You'll be grateful that it

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Speaker 5: didn't work out. Scripture says in Corinthians. Now we see

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Speaker 5: in part, like looking through a glass dimly, but one

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Speaker 5: day we will see clearly, face to face. Right now,

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Speaker 5: notice you can't see it all clearly. You're only looking

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Speaker 5: at it in part. But one day it will come

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Speaker 5: into focus and you'll look back and say, wow, God,

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Speaker 5: you are amazing. You had it all figured out, all

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Speaker 5: lined up. You closed the door on purpose so your

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Speaker 5: perfect will would be done. That's what happened to this

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Speaker 5: one young man. He's a straight A student in high school.

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Speaker 5: He loves to study academically. He's in the top five

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Speaker 5: percent of the nation. His dream was to become an engineer.

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Speaker 5: It's always what he wanted to do. He applied to

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Speaker 5: about a dozen or so of the best engineering schools

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Speaker 5: in the nation, but he got turned down again and again.

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Speaker 4: Didn't make sense.

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Speaker 5: Some of his friends were being accepted that didn't have

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Speaker 5: as good a grace as he did.

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Speaker 4: He didn't understand it.

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Speaker 5: While he was waiting to hear back from other schools,

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Speaker 5: he went on a missions trip with a group of

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Speaker 5: doctors from his church. He was there to just run

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Speaker 5: errands and to help out. They were in a very

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Speaker 5: poor nation. When he saw the doctors taking care.

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Speaker 4: Of the people, treating their diseases.

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Speaker 5: Helping them get better, something new was birthed on the inside.

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Speaker 5: He thought, I don't want to be an engineer. This

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Speaker 5: is what I want to do with my life. I

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Speaker 5: want to become a doctor and help to take care

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Speaker 5: of people. He went back home and he applied to

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Speaker 5: medical school and he was immediately accepted.

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Speaker 4: In fact, he had several schools to choose from.

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Speaker 5: What's interesting is the first engineering school he applied to

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Speaker 5: then sent him a letter of acceptance.

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Speaker 4: If he were to received that letter.

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Speaker 5: Months earlier, he would have never gone on the mission's trip,

524
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Speaker 5: never been open to that call to go into medicine.

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Speaker 5: God closed the doors on purpose to the engineering school

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Speaker 5: to push him.

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Speaker 4: Into his divine destiny. What am I saying?

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Speaker 5: Don't fight your closed doors. God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 5: He can see the big picture for your life. Some

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Speaker 5: of you are discouraged because your plans have not worked out.

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Speaker 5: Those closed doors were not an accident. That was God

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Speaker 5: directing your steps. The reason God closed them is because

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Speaker 5: he has something better in store.

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Speaker 4: Will you trust him?

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Speaker 5: It may not make sense now, but one day it

536
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Speaker 5: will make sense. Remember you're not really trusting if you're

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Speaker 5: only going to be happy if it happens your way.

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Speaker 4: Put it on the altar. God, this is what I want,

539
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Speaker 4: but not my will. Let your will be done.

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Speaker 5: If you'll have this perspective and not only thank God

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Speaker 5: for your open doors, but thank him just as much

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Speaker 5: for your closed doors, then like Abraham, you'll pass the test.

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare you will see the exceedingly abundantly

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Speaker 5: above and beyond future that God has in store in

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Speaker 5: Jesus's name.

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

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