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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 1: of our services. I'd like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 1: and I.

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Speaker 2: Heard about these three men, a Baptist, a Catholic, and

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Speaker 2: a Charismatic. They died on the same day and went

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Speaker 2: to heaven. Saint Peter met him at the pearly gates

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Speaker 2: said I'm so sorry men, but your rooms are not

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Speaker 2: available yet.

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Speaker 1: He didn't know what to.

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Speaker 2: Do, so he decided to call Satan and see if

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Speaker 2: he would keep them for a little while.

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Speaker 1: Satan reluctantly agreed.

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Speaker 2: A few hours later, Satan called back, said, Peter, you

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Speaker 2: have to come get these guys. The Baptist men is

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Speaker 2: saving everyone, man is forgiven everyone, and the charismatic has

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Speaker 2: already raised enough money for air conditioning. Say it like

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Speaker 2: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 2: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 2: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God, bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about you're going

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Speaker 2: to laugh again. We all go through seasons of struggle

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Speaker 2: and seasons where we're dealing with an illness, the loss

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Speaker 2: of a loved one, relationship didn't work out, we don't understand,

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Speaker 2: doesn't seem fair. It's easy to think that the suffering,

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Speaker 2: the struggle, the weeping is the way it's always going

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Speaker 2: to be. I met a young couple. They were in

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Speaker 2: town for treatment at the medical center, and he had

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Speaker 2: just been diagnosed with a very serious illness. As they

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Speaker 2: held their little children, they wept and wept so devastated.

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Speaker 1: But God never promised that we wouldn't have seasons of

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Speaker 1: weeping and seasons of struggle.

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Speaker 2: But Jesus said in Luke six, Blessed are those who

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Speaker 2: weep now, for in due time you will laugh. The

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Speaker 2: promise God makes us is the suffering is only a season.

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Speaker 2: The weeping is not how your story ends.

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Speaker 1: You're going to laugh again. God sees what you're going through.

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Speaker 2: He knows what wasn't fair, the lonely nights, the pain,

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Speaker 2: the heart ache. The scripture says He's collected all of

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Speaker 2: your tears. You may have felt alone, but he's been

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Speaker 2: right there with you. And the good news is he's

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Speaker 2: not going to leave you in suffering. It's not going

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Speaker 2: to leave you broken hearted, weighed down with burdens. First

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Speaker 2: Peter says, after you have suffered a little while, not

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Speaker 2: your whole life, not the next twenty years, but after

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Speaker 1: It goes on to say, God himself will.

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Speaker 2: Strengthen you, establish you, and put you back on your feet.

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Speaker 2: You may be in a season of suffering, season of struggle.

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Speaker 2: You feel stuck in your health, your marriage, your finances,

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Speaker 2: seems like it's never going to get better. No, God

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Speaker 2: himself is about to step in and do what only

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Speaker 2: he can do. And when you see how he restores you,

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Speaker 2: how he pays you back for what was unfair, how

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Speaker 2: he brings you out better.

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Speaker 1: Your mourning is going to be turned to dancing.

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Speaker 2: Your sorrow turned to joy, that weeping turned to laughter.

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Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies that.

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Speaker 2: You'll always be lonely, you'll always mourn that loss, always

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Speaker 2: be broken hearted over that child. No, your time is coming,

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Speaker 2: the Psalmist said, weeping may endure for a night, but

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Speaker 2: joy is coming in the morning. No, this weeping may endure,

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Speaker 1: This is what happened to the Israelites.

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Speaker 2: They had been living in Jerusalem when King Nebuka Nezar

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Speaker 2: Year went by, they prayed for freedom, believed they'd be released,

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Speaker 2: The Babylonians asked them to sing the songs of Jerusalem.

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Speaker 2: Our hearts are heavy, the pain is too real, the

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Speaker 2: Weeping may endure for a night. You may go through

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Speaker 2: too much to carry. Weeping is not a lack of faith.

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Speaker 2: David was a warrior. He'd killed a lion and a

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Speaker 2: But there were times he felt so overcome, so heavy,

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Speaker 1: That's the way the Israelites were.

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Speaker 2: There was nothing they could do. They were slaves. The

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Speaker 2: like the suffering, the heartache, the weeping was permanent.

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Speaker 2: But here's the key. God has already scheduled a time

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Speaker 2: through that season of weeping, God himself said, I'm coming

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Speaker 2: Where that burden, that heaviness becomes permanent. You may not

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Speaker 2: One touch of his favor and things will shift. Chains

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Speaker 2: will break, that child will turn around, that addiction will

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Speaker 2: scripture says, God turn the captivity of the Israelites. God

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Speaker 2: your life. Turn problems around, turn loneliness around, turn finances around,

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Speaker 1: The Israelites were weeping.

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Speaker 2: It's not like they had this great faith, they were

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Speaker 1: They were discouraged.

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Speaker 2: They had accepted the suffering, the struggle, the hardship was

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Speaker 2: their destiny. But God is so merciful He's not going

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Speaker 2: to let the suffering continue. You may go through seasons

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Speaker 2: of weeping seasons of sorrow. It's not fair, you don't understand.

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Speaker 2: But it's only a season, it's not permanent. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 2: how could I ever be happy again? You're looking at

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Speaker 2: not going to leave you in a broken place, a

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Speaker 2: Suffering is a setup for God to show out in

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Speaker 2: The greater the adversity, the greater the joy, The greater

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Speaker 2: the suffering, the greater the blessing. The message translation says,

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Speaker 2: It won't be long before our great God will have

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Speaker 2: the final say, yes, he does. You may be in

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Speaker 2: Till your health turns around. Won't belong till that child

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Speaker 2: Now it may look like the enemy has won.

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Speaker 1: Like with the Israelites, he has you captive. It seems permanent.

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Speaker 2: Imagine the Israelites back home in Jerusalem laughing with their families,

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Speaker 2: thinking they had seen their best days. Now they're not

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Speaker 2: God's going to pay you back with more joy. You're

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Speaker 2: You see what God does is gonna be like a dream.

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Speaker 2: Many nights I'd get up at three in the morning

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