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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 4: about this man. He called the church office and said,
Speaker 4: I want to speak.
Speaker 5: To the head hog at the trough. The secretary was offended.
Speaker 5: She said, if you mean the pastor, you're going to
Speaker 5: have to call him pastor, but you may not call
Speaker 5: him the head hog at the trough. He said, well, fine,
Speaker 5: I was thinking about making a ten thousand dollars donation
Speaker 5: to your church.
Speaker 4: She said, hang on, Porky just walked in.
Speaker 5: Hold up your bible. Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 5: the same, never, never, never, I'll never be the same.
Speaker 4: In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you tonight about nothing is wasted.
Speaker 5: Victoria and I have some flower beds at home, and
Speaker 5: several times a year we put mulch in those beds.
Speaker 5: Mulch is a fertilizer that helps the plants to grow.
Speaker 4: One of the main ingredients of mulch is manure.
Speaker 5: It's waste. It smells lily bad. For a couple of days,
Speaker 5: you can hardly walk outside. Our kids say, Dad, what
Speaker 5: happened out here?
Speaker 4: It's stinks. The smell is so strong.
Speaker 5: But if you come back in a month or two,
Speaker 5: the smell is gone and the plants are blooming.
Speaker 4: They're blossoming, they're seeing new growth. The fertilizer, as bad as.
Speaker 5: It smells, it's giving the plants valuable nutrients and minerals
Speaker 5: that they could not get otherwise. In the same way,
Speaker 5: we all go through some things in life that stink.
Speaker 4: We don't like.
Speaker 5: It wasn't fair. Why did my relationship not make it?
Speaker 5: Why did I come down with this sickness? Why did
Speaker 5: I lose my main client?
Speaker 4: That stinks?
Speaker 5: Now you need to have a new perspective. That's fertilizer.
Speaker 5: It may smell bad right now, may seem like a
Speaker 5: bunch of manure got dumped on you, but if you
Speaker 5: will stay in faith, that's not going to hinder you.
Speaker 4: It's going to strengthen you.
Speaker 5: The stinky stuff, the loss, the disappointments, the betrayals, it's
Speaker 5: preparing you for new growth to bloom, to blossom, to
Speaker 5: become all you were created to be. The truth is,
Speaker 5: you cannot reach your highest potential without fertilizer. The stinky
Speaker 5: stuff is not working against you.
Speaker 4: It's working for you.
Speaker 5: It may smell bad right now, but if you'll keep
Speaker 5: doing the right thing, you will come into.
Speaker 4: A new season of growth.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: I would love to tell you, if you have faith,
Speaker 5: you trust God, you'll be your best. You'll sell through
Speaker 5: life with no difficult But that's not reality.
Speaker 4: You're going to have some manure. There's going to be
Speaker 4: some stinky stuff.
Speaker 5: What I want us to see is God wouldn't have
Speaker 5: allowed it unless he was ultimately going to.
Speaker 4: Use it for your good.
Speaker 5: Instead of complaining thinking, oh man, this stinks.
Speaker 4: I can't believe this happened. No, have the attitude.
Speaker 5: It's just more fertilizer. God's getting me prepared for something greater.
Speaker 5: If you'll go through the stink with the right attitude,
Speaker 5: God will take what was meant for your harm and
Speaker 5: he'll use it to your advantage. You may feel like
Speaker 5: you've had more than your share of stinky stuff, bad breaks, disappointments,
Speaker 5: broken dreams.
Speaker 4: Be encouraged.
Speaker 5: That just means you have a lot of fertilizer. God's
Speaker 5: getting you ready to go where you've never been, and
Speaker 5: this is not the time to be discouraged.
Speaker 4: Have a chip on your shoulder. This is the time
Speaker 4: to get ready.
Speaker 5: God allowed that fertilizer to get you prepared for where
Speaker 5: you could not go on your own.
Speaker 4: You may not have liked it, but.
Speaker 5: It deposited something in you that you could only gain
Speaker 5: by going through it.
Speaker 4: You couldn't learn it by reading a book, by listening
Speaker 4: to a message, by taking a class.
Speaker 5: You could only learn it through experience, through the trial
Speaker 5: of your faith.
Speaker 4: That's where we're really developed. David said.
Speaker 5: God enlarged me in my time of distress. He didn't
Speaker 5: get enlarged in the good times. He got enlarged in
Speaker 5: the tough times. That difficulty is strengthening you. It's getting
Speaker 5: you prepared. Now you're in position to go to a
Speaker 5: new level. Quit complaining about the fertilizer. Quit talking about
Speaker 5: who hurts you, what didn't work out, all the manure that.
Speaker 4: Got dumped on you.
Speaker 5: Without the stinky stuff, you couldn't reach the fullness of
Speaker 5: your destiny. It's not hindering you, it's helping you. If
Speaker 5: it was too much, God would have never allowed it.
Speaker 5: To dig your heels in and say I am in
Speaker 5: it to win it. I am not going to let
Speaker 5: this stinky stuff this stuff I don't understand caused me
Speaker 5: to give up.
Speaker 4: On my dreams. I know it's fertilizer. It's strengthening me,
Speaker 4: it's enlarging me, it's getting me prepared for new levels.
Speaker 5: That's what a friend of mine did that grew up
Speaker 5: in a very difficult situation. Her father died when she
Speaker 5: was six years old. Her mother had to go on
Speaker 5: dialysis shortly after that.
Speaker 4: When other children.
Speaker 5: Were out cheerleading and having fun, she was having to
Speaker 5: take care of her mother. Twelve years old, She'd have
Speaker 5: to go to the grocery store and cook for the family.
Speaker 5: She had to get her little brother dressed and ready
Speaker 5: for school each day. It looked like she was at
Speaker 5: a disadvantage, like that hardship would keep her from her destiny.
Speaker 4: But just because.
Speaker 5: Something unfair has happened doesn't mean God doesn't have an
Speaker 5: amazing future still in front of you. It may stink
Speaker 5: right now, but remember her manure has.
Speaker 4: A lot of helpful ingredients.
Speaker 5: It's fertilizer used the right way, it gives you an advantage.
Speaker 4: It causes growth.
Speaker 5: And this young lady, she didn't have a victim mentality.
Speaker 5: She had a victor mentality.
Speaker 4: She didn't go around complaining. She kept being her best.
Speaker 5: Taking the high road, not letting negative.
Speaker 4: Thoughts talk her out of her dreams.
Speaker 5: In spite of all the odds being against her, she
Speaker 5: excelled in high school. She got a full scholarship to
Speaker 5: a major university. She went on to get her master's degree.
Speaker 5: Today she has her doctorate degree. She's extremely successful in
Speaker 5: the corporate world, happily married three beautiful children.
Speaker 4: Here's my question, why.
Speaker 5: Does some people in that same type situation struggle through life, defeated, discourage,
Speaker 5: always overcome by problems, and yet others like her overcome
Speaker 5: the odds and see.
Speaker 4: God's blessing and favor in great way As.
Speaker 5: It's in our approach to life. We all have stinky stuff,
Speaker 5: unfair things that we don't like. We can get bitter, sour, discouraged,
Speaker 5: or we can see it as fertilizer and say, this
Speaker 5: difficulty is not going to defeat me, it's going to
Speaker 5: promote me. God wouldn't have allowed it unless he had
Speaker 5: a purpose. Don't just go through it, grow through it.
Speaker 5: Recognize it's making you stronger. You're developing trust, confidence, determination,
Speaker 5: You are well able. If God be for you, who
Speaker 5: dare be against you. You got to put your shoulders back,
Speaker 5: hold your head up high.
Speaker 4: You were never created to live.
Speaker 5: Defeated, overcome by problems, always having bad breaks. You were
Speaker 5: created to be the overcomer, not the victim, but the victor.
Speaker 4: You have the most powerful force in the universe on
Speaker 4: the inside. Winning is in DNA.
Speaker 5: And life may not have treated you fair, but God
Speaker 5: is fair. In those stinky situations, you have to remember
Speaker 5: its fertilizer. That's an opportunity to grow. Doesn't have to
Speaker 5: keep you from your destiny, just the opposite. It can
Speaker 5: propel you into your destiny. And what stinks in your
Speaker 5: life right now, what you don't like, can be the
Speaker 5: very thing that promotes you and.
Speaker 4: Causes you to blossom.
Speaker 5: Don't complain about the stink. There's promotion in that stink.
Speaker 5: Don't be discouraged by the sour stuff, the stinky situations.
Speaker 4: There's a new level in that sinky situation.
Speaker 5: Don't be put out by the fertilizer, by the manure.
Speaker 5: It may not smell good, but it's helping you to grow.
Speaker 5: It's developing something on the inside. When I look back
Speaker 5: in my life, I realized I didn't grow much in
Speaker 5: the good times.
Speaker 4: I grew in the difficult times.
Speaker 5: That's what's getting us prepared for the amazing future God
Speaker 5: has in store. You may feel like you've had more
Speaker 5: than your share of fertilizer of stinky stuff. Here's why,
Speaker 5: because God has a big destiny in front of you.
Speaker 5: He's about to take you someplace that you've never dreamed.
Speaker 5: He's getting you prepared. Your roots are going down deeper.
Speaker 5: The manure doesn't smell good, but it's giving you valuable
Speaker 5: nutrients that you could not get otherwise.
Speaker 4: That person at the office that.
Speaker 5: Gets on your nerves doesn't treat you respectfully. Next time
Speaker 5: you see them, just smile and say to yourself, you're
Speaker 5: just fertilizer.
Speaker 4: You're you stink, but you're helping me to grow. You
Speaker 4: think you're.
Speaker 5: Pushing me down, but really you're pushing me up.
Speaker 4: I don't say it to their face now, I'm not
Speaker 4: telling you that.
Speaker 5: When you go through a bad break, a disappointment, the
Speaker 5: medical report wasn't good, It's okay to be honest.
Speaker 4: This stinks.
Speaker 5: I don't like it, but I know a secret. It's fertilizer.
Speaker 5: It's going to cause me to grow, to bloom, of blossom,
Speaker 5: to flourish. This is what Joseph did in the scripture.
Speaker 5: His brothers were jealous of him, and they threw him
Speaker 5: into a pit. He could have gotten discouraged. God, I'm
Speaker 5: a good person. Why did this happen to me? No,
Speaker 5: he realized, it's just fertilizer. They're trying to stop me,
Speaker 5: but God's going to use it to increase me. One
Speaker 5: bad thing after another happened to him.
Speaker 4: They sold him into slavery.
Speaker 5: Potterford's wife, his boss, his wife lied about him, and
Speaker 5: he got put in prison, falsely accused. He spent thirteen
Speaker 5: years in prison for something that he didn't do.
Speaker 4: They were trying to hold him back.
Speaker 5: They didn't realize they were putting fertilizer on him. Joseph
Speaker 5: was getting stronger, he was growing, His roots were going
Speaker 5: down deeper. They thought they were stopping him. The truth
Speaker 5: is they were strengthening him. That injustice, that stinky situation
Speaker 5: looked like it wasted years of his life. But just
Speaker 5: like fertilize gives plants valuable nutrients, that difficulty was doing
Speaker 5: a work in Joseph, getting him prepared for the next
Speaker 5: level of his destiny. He interpreted a dream for the
Speaker 5: Pharaoh Pharah was so impressed with Joseph he got him
Speaker 5: out of prison and put him in charge of the
Speaker 5: whole nation. If you will stay in faith in the
Speaker 5: stinky times, the times you don't understand it. You're doing
Speaker 5: the right thing, but the wrong thing keeps happening, then
Speaker 5: when it's your time to be promoted, to be vindicated,
Speaker 5: to bloom, to blossom, all the forces of darkness cannot
Speaker 5: stop you. People don't have the final say. God has
Speaker 5: the final says. He will get you to where he
Speaker 5: wants you to be. Joseph went from the pit to
Speaker 5: the prison, all the way to the palace. You may
Speaker 5: kind of feel like you're in a pit tonight. Had
Speaker 5: some bad breaks dealing with the sickness, lost a loved one,
Speaker 5: a dream, died life. Joseph, that pit is not the
Speaker 5: end of your story. The prison is not your final chapter.
Speaker 5: Your story ends in the palace. You are destined to
Speaker 5: live a victorious life. David said, God lifted me out
Speaker 5: of the pit and put a new song in my heart.
Speaker 5: You may be in the pit, so you need to
Speaker 5: get ready. You're about to come out. That sickness is
Speaker 5: not the end. That depression is not the end. That
Speaker 5: person that left you, the one that broke your heart,
Speaker 5: is not the end of your story.
Speaker 4: If they left you, you didn't need them.
Speaker 5: If they walked away, they were not a part of
Speaker 5: your destiny. God has somebody better now. Don't get comfortable
Speaker 5: in the pit. Don't let self pity and discouragement steal
Speaker 5: your passion.
Speaker 4: You got to get your fire back.
Speaker 5: Everything God promised you. He still has every intention of
Speaker 5: bringing it to pass. The palace is in your future
Speaker 5: dreams coming to pass, or in your future victory, restoration, health,
Speaker 5: and wholeness. That's what's up in front of you. That's
Speaker 5: how your story ends. I talked to a gentleman. He's
Speaker 5: very upset because his boss was against him and always
Speaker 5: trying to make him look bad. This boss was jealous
Speaker 5: of him, would never give him any credit or recognition.
Speaker 4: I told him what I'm telling you. It's just fertilizer.
Speaker 5: It may stink right now, but don't worry. Fertilizer stinks,
Speaker 5: that just means you're about to see new growth. He
Speaker 5: got his passion back, started going to the office, being
Speaker 5: his best, being productive, working under God and not under man.
Speaker 5: Several occasions he should have been promoted, but because of
Speaker 5: his unfair boss, he got passed over. One day, the
Speaker 5: CEO of the whole company was in town from out
Speaker 5: of state. This man had to make a presentation. The
Speaker 5: CEO was very impressed with his work. About a year later,
Speaker 5: a position became available that should have gone to this
Speaker 5: unfair boss, but the CEO bypassed that boss and went
Speaker 5: directly to this man and offered him the position. Now,
Speaker 5: instead of having to work for the unfair boss, the
Speaker 5: tables have turned.
Speaker 4: The boss is working for him.
Speaker 5: You stay in faith, one touch of God's favor, you'll
Speaker 5: go from the back to the front, from the employee
Speaker 5: to the employer, earth, from the pit to the palace.
Speaker 5: We all have stinky situations, things that are unfair.
Speaker 4: People are not treating us right.
Speaker 5: You have to see it like Joseph as fertilizer. They're
Speaker 5: not going to stop you. That's going to promote you.
Speaker 5: That person that lied about you, tried to make you
Speaker 5: look bad.
Speaker 4: Don't get upset.
Speaker 5: They just put fertilizer on you. They think they're pushing
Speaker 5: you down. Really they're pushing you up. You're one step
Speaker 5: closer to your palace. Or that mistake you made you
Speaker 5: feel like you blew it. You're all washed up, Joel,
Speaker 5: I had my chance. No, God uses the stinky stuff.
Speaker 5: You can't blossom into all you were created to be
Speaker 5: without some fertilizer. Sometimes we bring trouble on ourselves.
Speaker 4: We made poor choices.
Speaker 5: The accuser constantly whispers in our ear. God's not gonna
Speaker 5: bless you.
Speaker 4: You had your chance, you blew it.
Speaker 5: No, God doesn't waste anything that you go through. It
Speaker 5: may not have been good, but God knows how to
Speaker 5: bring good out of it.
Speaker 4: John chapter four.
Speaker 5: Jesus met this woman at a well. He told her
Speaker 5: that he would give her living water. She said, please
Speaker 5: give it to me. He said, go call your husband.
Speaker 5: She said, I don't have a husband.
Speaker 4: Jesus said, you're right.
Speaker 5: You've had five, and the men you're living with now
Speaker 5: is not your husband. She was amazed at how this
Speaker 5: man that you just met knew everything about her. She
Speaker 5: got kind of spiritual and said, I know one day
Speaker 5: the Messiah will come. Jesus looked at her and said,
Speaker 5: I am the Messiah. The first person Jesus ever told
Speaker 5: he was the Messiah was this woman.
Speaker 4: A woman that had had a rough past, made mistakes,
Speaker 4: that had some stinky stuff. She went back and told
Speaker 4: the whole town, come see this man. He must be
Speaker 4: the messiah. God used her as the.
Speaker 5: First evangelist to get the word out.
Speaker 4: And here's my point.
Speaker 5: This woman was comfortable around men, married five times. If
Speaker 5: she would have been intimidated, insecure, quiet, reserved, she wouldn't
Speaker 5: have told many people. But God took what the enemy
Speaker 5: had used against her, her boldness, her straightforwardness not only
Speaker 5: turned it around, but God said, in effact, this has
Speaker 5: gotten you into trouble in the past, I'm gonna make
Speaker 5: the enemy pay. I'm gonna use this to advance my kingdom.
Speaker 5: It had worked against her, now it was working for her. Fringey,
Speaker 5: God knows how to use what you've been through. He
Speaker 5: doesn't waste any experiences. You may have made poor choices,
Speaker 5: but God can take your mess and turn it into
Speaker 5: your message. I have a friend that grew up for
Speaker 5: many years in an outlaw motorcycle game.
Speaker 4: He was always on drugs.
Speaker 5: Breaking the law in and out of prison, living a
Speaker 5: very violent life. Didn't look like he'd ever get on
Speaker 5: the right course. But this young man had a praying
Speaker 5: mother at home.
Speaker 4: Every day. She would say, Lord, you said as for
Speaker 4: me and my house.
Speaker 5: We will serve the Lord. Thank you for turning my
Speaker 5: son around. One Sunday morning, this young man was so
Speaker 5: depressed and so high on drugs he decided to end
Speaker 5: his life. Just before he took this whole bottle of pills.
Speaker 5: For some reason, he turned on the television and saw
Speaker 5: my Father ministry. He got on his motorcycle, still high
Speaker 5: as a kite, and drove to Lakewood. He walked into
Speaker 5: service as mean as can be, rough tattooed the beer.
Speaker 5: The ushers took him all the way down to the
Speaker 5: front and sat him on the second road. That day,
Speaker 5: he felt the love that he had never felt. He
Speaker 5: left the service, went out to the parking lot. Nobody
Speaker 5: asked him to do it. He got down on his
Speaker 5: knees beside his motorcycle and said, God, if you're real,
Speaker 5: help me to change. I'm giving my life to you today.
Speaker 5: This man is a pastor of a church. He has
Speaker 5: a major motorcycle ministry. He goes back to the Outlaw
Speaker 5: gang members and shares his story of how God changed
Speaker 5: his life. God doesn't waste any experiences. He can use
Speaker 5: what you've been through to.
Speaker 4: Help others that are going through the same situation.
Speaker 5: Last year, there was a story on the news about
Speaker 5: a nineteen year old student. He walked into a high
Speaker 5: school with an assault rifle and started shooting. He didn't
Speaker 5: hit any people, only windows. After everyone scattered, he barricaded himself.
Speaker 4: In this small room.
Speaker 5: There was a woman hiding behind the counter, the high
Speaker 5: school accountant, a middle aged woman named Miss Tough. At
Speaker 5: one point she stood up, their eyes met, he drew
Speaker 5: the rifle. She began to talk to him. She's very kind,
Speaker 5: calm as can be.
Speaker 4: You could tell.
Speaker 5: She won him over and he was comfortable and began
Speaker 5: to open up. He told how he was off of
Speaker 5: his medicine. He felt hopeless, like he had no purpose
Speaker 5: in life. Miss Tuff said, I know how you feel.
Speaker 5: My husband of thirty three years left me and last
Speaker 5: year I tried to commit suicide, but by the grace of.
Speaker 4: God, it didn't happen.
Speaker 5: She went on to tell how God had given her
Speaker 5: a new beginning. Now she was restored and started a
Speaker 5: new business. Excited about her life, She looked him in
Speaker 5: the eyes and said, if God did it for me,
Speaker 5: he could do it for you. Standing there with the
Speaker 5: assault rifle, helicopters overhead, swat teams surrounding the building. The
Speaker 5: young man put the rifle down, walked out peacefully.
Speaker 4: Nobody was harmed. Mis Tuff said afterwards.
Speaker 5: I know God put me there because I've.
Speaker 4: Been through what he's going through.
Speaker 5: Nothing is wasted, the good, the bad, the painful.
Speaker 4: God knows how to use it. If you will say
Speaker 4: in faith, it will.
Speaker 5: Not only act like fertilizer and make you stronger, but
Speaker 5: somewhere down the road you will be instrumental in helping
Speaker 5: somebody else.
Speaker 4: One time in the scripture, David was on the run.
Speaker 5: King Saul was jealous of him and trying to kill him.
Speaker 5: He left in such a hurry he forgot to get
Speaker 5: his sword. He got to the next town and told
Speaker 5: the leaders that he was on assignment from the king,
Speaker 5: and it was so urgent that he didn't have time
Speaker 5: to get his weapon. He asked if they had a
Speaker 5: sword or a spirit they could borrow. They said, all
Speaker 5: we have is the sword of Goliath, whom you.
Speaker 4: Defeated in the valley. David's face lit up. He thought,
Speaker 4: there's no sword like that sword. Let me have it.
Speaker 4: I'll take that.
Speaker 5: He left that day with the sword that was meant
Speaker 5: to defeat him. Now he's using the same sword to
Speaker 5: defeat others, the enemies that have tried to defeat you,
Speaker 5: the sickness, the depression, the bad break, the injustice.
Speaker 4: You're not only going.
Speaker 5: To defeat them, but you're going to use those.
Speaker 4: Same experiences to defeat others.
Speaker 5: You have some swords in your future, battles you've won, enemies,
Speaker 5: you've defeated challenges, you've outlasted.
Speaker 4: Those victories are going to be there.
Speaker 5: But when you need them, they were meant to defeat you,
Speaker 5: to harm you, to keep you from your destiny. God
Speaker 5: knows how to not only turn it around, not only
Speaker 5: give you the victory, but he'll put that same sword
Speaker 5: in your future that will help you overcome other obstacles.
Speaker 5: I saw a report on the news about a small
Speaker 5: city in South America that was.
Speaker 4: Built on a garbage dump.
Speaker 5: Everywhere you looked, there was trash, trash in the streets,
Speaker 5: in the rivers, in the yards.
Speaker 4: All you could see was waste.
Speaker 5: Very poor people lived there, barely any electricity or running water.
Speaker 5: They make their living by searching through the trash, trying
Speaker 5: to find something that they can sell. Hours and hours
Speaker 5: a day, they rummaged through it hoping to make a
Speaker 5: few cents. Didn't look like anything good could come out
Speaker 5: of a garbage dump, but a gentleman showed up by
Speaker 5: the name of Fabio Chavez saw the children playing in
Speaker 5: the garbage and it broke his heart.
Speaker 4: He wanted to help.
Speaker 5: He decided to start a music school right there.
Speaker 4: In the trash heap.
Speaker 5: He didn't have money for new instruments, so he found
Speaker 5: a carpenter friend that lived in the same city. They
Speaker 5: started going through the trash looking for materials they could
Speaker 5: use to make instruments. Old piece of pipe would become part.
Speaker 4: Of a saxophone.
Speaker 5: Discarded wooden boxes, parts of guitars, different sized buckets and
Speaker 5: barrels would become drums. In a few months, he had violins, cellos, guitars, drums, all.
Speaker 4: Made from trash. He taught the children how to play.
Speaker 4: They were so excited.
Speaker 5: Now they have a full orchestra made up of dozens
Speaker 5: and dozens of children playing these instruments made from the
Speaker 5: garbage dump. They put a clip on YouTube and it
Speaker 5: went viral. They started getting invitations from around the world. Today,
Speaker 5: they play in concert halls everywhere they go before tens
Speaker 5: of thousands people were not only so moved by their
Speaker 5: story that they started donating new instruments, but they started
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Speaker 4: The children improve their lives.
Speaker 5: They talked to a noted musician at the end of
Speaker 5: the story and she made a statement that stuck with me.
Speaker 5: She said, I couldn't believe you could make music out
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Speaker 4: That's the way our God is.
Speaker 5: He can take the broken dreams, the mistakes, the injustice.
Speaker 5: Doesn't look like any good can come out of it,
Speaker 5: looks like this is waste.
Speaker 4: No God knows how to make music out of your mess.
Speaker 5: He's got you in the palm of his hand. Nothing
Speaker 5: that's happened to you has been wasted. It's all been
Speaker 5: a part of making you into who you were created
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Speaker 5: take the very thing that was meant to defeat you
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Speaker 4: It to propel you.
Speaker 5: No obstacle is too big, no enemy is too powerful.
Speaker 5: The forces that are for you are greater than the
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Speaker 5: People can't stop it. Bad breaks can't stop it. Trash
Speaker 5: can't stop it. Injustice can't stop it. Like Joseph, You're
Speaker 5: about to rise to the top. You may be in
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Speaker 5: that palace. Shake off the disappointments, shake off the self pity.
Speaker 4: This is a new day.
Speaker 5: Your best days are not your yesterdays.
Speaker 4: They are still out in front of you.
Speaker 5: The enemy would not be fighting you so hard unless
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Speaker 4: It may be.
Speaker 5: Difficult, it may smell bad right now, but remember it's fertilizer.
Speaker 5: It's working to your advantage. You're getting stronger, You'll grow it.
Speaker 5: I believe and declare you're going to flourish. You're going
Speaker 5: to bloom. You're going to blossom. I speak victory over you.
Speaker 5: I speak abundance over you. I speak restoration, vindication, health, wholeness,
Speaker 5: increase the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, If
Speaker 5: you receive it, can you say it?
Speaker 4: Men tonight?
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