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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Juel and Victoria. We are so glad

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Speaker 1: that you are a part of this podcast. We believe

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Speaker 1: that it's going to make a huge difference in your life.

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Speaker 1: Know that we are praying for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we love you, guys, and.

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Speaker 3: Just appreciate you taking the time.

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Speaker 2: We're believing it's going to be a beautiful spring for

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Speaker 2: you and an awesome twenty twenty four. Enjoy the message today.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us. This is a special

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Speaker 2: service of healing and unity and we're honored to have

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Speaker 2: you with us. Cand like to hold a few Bibles.

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Speaker 2: Let's say it like we mean it. This is my Bible.

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

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

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about I will not fear. There are so many opportunities

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Speaker 2: to live anxious and afraid. You watch the news and

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Speaker 2: see accidents, threats, and violence. There's war in the Middle East, viruses,

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Speaker 2: the pandemic, even what happened here at Lakewood. These times

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Speaker 2: that shake us to the core, they can strike panic

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Speaker 2: and uncertainty. There are certain forces that would love for

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Speaker 2: us to shrink back and change who we are, from

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Speaker 2: peaceful to panic, from trusting to trouble, from knowing that

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Speaker 2: God's on the throne, to wondering what's going to happen?

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Speaker 2: Are my children safe at school? Or what if I

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Speaker 2: come down with the virus? What if there's another incident

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Speaker 2: at work? David said in Psalm twenty three, though I

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Speaker 2: walk through the valley of the shadow of death. God

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Speaker 2: knew there would be some shadowy days, some dark valleys.

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Speaker 2: Well we don't understand what's happened for people have done

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Speaker 2: us wrong and we feel violated, or a medical report

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Speaker 2: is not good, a child is off course, it's causing

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Speaker 2: so much heartache. These shadowy times come to us all.

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Speaker 2: But David didn't stop there. He didn't just talk about

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Speaker 2: walk through the dark valleys, I will fear no evil.

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Speaker 2: He was making a statement of faith. Yes, darkness may come,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not giving in to fear. There may be

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Speaker 2: trouble all around me, the opposition bigger, the sickness stronger,

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Speaker 2: going to stay in faith and not let life change

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Speaker 2: who you are, you're going to have to put your

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Speaker 2: Because fear is gonna keep knocking at the door. What

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Speaker 2: father had. When fear knocks, you have to answer with faith,

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Speaker 2: I will not fear. Now. I'm not saying that we

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Speaker 2: shrink back and you quit living, You quit going after

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Speaker 2: on edge of what might happen, what could go wrong.

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Speaker 2: That's a spirit of fear trying to keep you from

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Speaker 3: And the scripture says.

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Speaker 2: God hasn't given us that spirit of fear, but of

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Speaker 3: You can't be weak and passive.

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Speaker 2: I wist see if I feel better tomorrow, Joel.

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Speaker 3: I hope this goes away. Know when it comes to fear, you.

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Speaker 2: in the palm of God's hands. Nothing can snatch you

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Speaker 2: through life. That's where we are at at Lakewood. This

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Speaker 2: That man is dangerous. Let's hide our light, Let's just

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Speaker 3: Our God is greater. Our God is more powerful.

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Speaker 2: who God created you to be. Let this be a

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Speaker 3: He knew what we would face.

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Speaker 2: Nothing that's happened is too much for you.

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Speaker 2: There is a hedge of protection around you and your

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Speaker 2: nothing happens without God's permission. When Satan wanted to test job,

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Speaker 2: Happenstance. I hope I don't get harmed. It's dangerous. I

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Speaker 2: If it didn't take you out, it wasn't a lucky break.

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Speaker 2: It was the hand of God pushing back darkness. Say

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Speaker 2: has God protected you that you didn't even know about.

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Speaker 2: He stopped that car that should have hit you, Stop

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Speaker 2: But when you understand who's watching after you, who's ordering

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Speaker 2: then you can say with confidence, I will not fear

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Speaker 2: listen to day. That's attitude Psalm twenty seven. The Lord

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Speaker 2: remain confident, for in my time of trouble, God will

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Speaker 2: hide me. That's what God did for us last Sunday

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Speaker 2: enough for what could have happened? For we have seen

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Speaker 2: the goodness of God sparing us from all kinds of

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Speaker 2: having greater faith and greater confidence.

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Speaker 3: And really, this is the biggest challenge.

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Speaker 2: In Lakewood sixty five year history. This tells me that

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Speaker 2: God is up to something big. He's about to do

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Speaker 2: but in your life. You're about to step into greater influence,

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Speaker 2: greater favor, greater wisdom, greater confidence, greater resources. David said,

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Speaker 2: bitter stress. God said he would give you beauty for

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Speaker 2: the unfair things. But you have to do your part

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Speaker 2: and keep walking through the valley. The enemy would love

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Speaker 2: for us to get stuck, stuck in fear, stuck in anxiety,

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Speaker 2: wrong imaginations, don't let them keep playing. Just like the

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Speaker 2: When negative memories come up, wanting to remind you of

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Speaker 2: It's significant that a sheep has no way to protect itself.

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Speaker 2: they don't growl and at least threaten their opponent. Seems

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Speaker 2: The Victoria and I were riding four wheler's one time

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Speaker 2: that David was a shepherd. He had spent years taking

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Speaker 2: David wrote three before he pinned though I walked through

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Speaker 2: He started off the song by saying, the Lord is

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Speaker 2: You may be in a dark valley today, dealing with

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Speaker 3: God sees what you're going through. He knows the hurt.

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Speaker 2: Who did you wrong? What wasn't fair? That's not how

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Speaker 2: He makes the enemy pay for bringing the trouble. Now

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Speaker 2: Quit living, worry, afraid, quiet and calm your soul.

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Speaker 3: The Lord, your.

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Speaker 2: Surely you're gonna see beauty for these ashes. Surely that

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Speaker 2: about to turn around. God is saying to us, do

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Speaker 3: Our greatest days are still in front of us.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you, this setback is setting us up

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Speaker 2: We're still standing victors and never victims. We will not

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