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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Oh God, bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. And I'd

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 1: this groom during the wedding rehearsal. He said to the minister,

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Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you. If you'll leave out

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Speaker 1: all that honor, obey and love stuff, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. He's lifted one hundred dollar bill into

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Speaker 1: the minister's hand walked away with a smile. The next day,

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Speaker 1: during the ceremony, the minister said to him, do you

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Speaker 1: promise to bow down before your wife and take her

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Speaker 1: breakfast in bed, fulfill her every desire? And he gulped

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Speaker 1: in astonishment, said, in a weak voice, I do. He

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Speaker 1: then whispered in the minister's ear and said, I thought

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Speaker 1: we had a deal. The minister handed him his money

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Speaker 1: back and said, your wife made me a much better

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Speaker 1: offer of you. All Right, y'all 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 talked the word of God. I'll 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 wake up

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Speaker 1: your dreams. All of us have things that God has

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Speaker 1: put in our hearts. Promises, he's spoken, dreams, he's whispered

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Speaker 1: in the night, and maybe to have a baby, or

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Speaker 1: to start a business, to see your marriage restored. And

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Speaker 1: at one time we were excited about it. We prayed

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Speaker 1: and believe, we knew it was a part of our destiny.

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Speaker 1: But when things don't happen the way we thought, we

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Speaker 1: go through delay, ease and closed doors, and people didn't

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Speaker 1: support us, it's easy to get discouraged and give up

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Speaker 1: on what we're believing. For But just because we gave

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Speaker 1: up doesn't mean God gave up. God doesn't abort dreams.

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Speaker 1: Nothing that's happened to you has canceled what God has

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Speaker 1: spoken over your life, no length of time, no disappointment,

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Speaker 1: no bad break. It may seem like the dream is

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Speaker 1: dead and there's no sign that that promise will come

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Speaker 1: to life, and you've already accepted it's not meant to be.

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Speaker 1: It's not dead, it's just a sleep. The good news

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Speaker 1: is God knows how to wake up your dream. He

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Speaker 1: knows how to breathe new life into what looks dead.

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Speaker 1: He'll send people across your path to speak a word

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Speaker 1: to ignite your faith like he's doing today, to light

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Speaker 1: a new fire on the inside. When it looks the

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Speaker 1: least likely, you've already made peace that it can't happen. Joel,

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Speaker 1: that ship has already sailed. Know what God started He's

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Speaker 1: going to finish. You're not too old, it's not too late.

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Speaker 1: The odds may be against you, but God is for you.

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Speaker 1: That's when he'll step in and do what only he

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Speaker 1: can do. Suddenly your health turns around, or a door opens,

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Speaker 1: or you're free from that addiction. God's about to wake

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Speaker 1: up some dreams. What you thought was dead, it's just

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Speaker 1: lying their dormant. It hasn't happened yet. Maybe it wasn't

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Speaker 1: the right time. You prayed, you worked hard, you did

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: God saw your effort, He saw the disappointment, the frustration.

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Speaker 1: That's not how your story ends. That's one chapter. Another

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Speaker 1: chapter is coming. Why don't you get your hopes up?

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Speaker 1: Why don't you take some steps of faith? Joel? I

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Speaker 1: tried before, but the door closed. Try again. God knows

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Speaker 1: how to open doors. I'm just gonna endure my marriage.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're ever gonna be able to get along,

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Speaker 1: ever be happy. The enemy would love for you to

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Speaker 1: lower your exit expectations, to lose your passion. When we've

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Speaker 1: gone through disappointments. Human nature has a defense mechanism that says,

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Speaker 1: don't get your hopes up. That way you won't be

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Speaker 1: But this is a new day. You need to wake

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Speaker 1: to happen. It's too late. You don't deserve it. Look

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Speaker 1: what you've been through. Tune all that out and declare

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Speaker 1: what God says about you. You need to speak life

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Speaker 1: over what you're dreaming about. If it's your health, God,

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Speaker 1: I thank you that you're restoring health back into me.

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Speaker 1: the happy mother of children. Or as for me and

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Speaker 1: my house, we will serve the Lord. What God promised

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Speaker 1: you is still alive. And is still on the schedule.

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Speaker 1: Second King, Chapter four. There was a woman that was

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Speaker 1: friends with the prophet Elisha. She saw him traveling through

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Speaker 1: so she and her husband built an extra room on

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Speaker 1: and her family was wealthy and influential, had plenty of resources,

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Speaker 1: Elisha was staying at her house, and he was so

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Speaker 1: grateful for the hospitality wanted to do something nice for him.

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Speaker 1: a good word about her to the King. She said, no, Elisha,

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Speaker 1: don't play games with me. This struck a nerve. This

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Speaker 1: was too late. She'd already buried that dream, already grieved

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Speaker 1: the laws. When Elisha made this promise, her response was

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Speaker 1: You don't know what it's like to see my sister's

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Speaker 1: be happy for them, but I'm so discouraged. As a

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Speaker 1: she kept praying and believing still nothing. She'd dry her

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Speaker 1: She got so discouraged, so worn down. She was tired,

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Speaker 1: not tired of life, but tired of believing for her dream.

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Speaker 1: She got to the point where she accepted it, she's

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Speaker 1: too old. Didn't work out, and rather than keep being disappointed,

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Speaker 1: wasn't taking the easy way out. She was a faithful lady,

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Speaker 1: honoring God. When Elisha said you're going to have a

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Speaker 1: Her defense mechanism kicked in. She said, no, Elisha, don't

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Speaker 1: She had gotten past it. She was content knowing that

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Speaker 1: She was too old now. If it had happened thirty

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Speaker 1: down in her heart something came alive, a faith, a knowing,

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Speaker 1: a confidence. She dared to believe. She had to risk

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Speaker 1: had already accepted that it couldn't happen. But she took

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Speaker 1: that chance. Verse seventeen says, and sure enough, soon the

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Speaker 1: woman became pregnant. At that time. The following year she

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Speaker 1: had a son. There may be things that you buried,

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Speaker 1: dreams that didn't work out, promises you once stood strong

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Speaker 1: and believe, But like this woman, you couldn't conceive. Doors closed,

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Speaker 1: people walked away, and you kept a good attitude, celebrated others,

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Speaker 1: I encourage you? God remembers what you've given up on.

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Speaker 1: fact that God didn't ask the woman, do you want

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Speaker 1: God didn't ask for permission. He knew she would come

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Speaker 1: Time didn't cancel it. Bad breaks didn't cancel it. People

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Speaker 1: didn't stop it. Mistakes didn't override it. What you thought

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Speaker 1: was dead, too late, too far gone, It's only a sleep.

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Speaker 1: God is saying to you what he said to this woman.

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Speaker 1: By this time next year, you're gonna see some things

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Speaker 1: you thought were dead to come back to life. Now

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Speaker 1: here's the whole keyp don't let the pain of what

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Speaker 1: hasn't happened keep you from believing again. Like this lady,

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Speaker 1: you may have already grieved the loss and accepted. You

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Speaker 1: can't get along in your marriage, or you can't get well,

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Speaker 1: can't get out of debt. No, God is about to

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Speaker 1: breathe on your life. He's about to resurrect dead dreams

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Speaker 1: some resurrections, things coming back to life. You couldn't make

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Speaker 1: God waking up your dreams and pushing you into your purpose.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Joe, if I have enough faith for

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Speaker 1: believe for what I've already given up on. This lady

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Speaker 1: far past it that when Elisha asked what she wanted,

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Speaker 1: she didn't even bring it up anymore. Didn't even enter

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Speaker 1: could perform miracles, but she still didn't believe. She said, Elisha,

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