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Speaker 3: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading

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Speaker 3: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.

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Speaker 3: I hope you enjoy this message. God wants us to

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Speaker 3: go from strength to strength. He wants us to go

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Speaker 4: He wants us to go higher and higher.

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Speaker 3: But sometimes when we're trying to get higher, we're trying

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Speaker 3: we find that we're going from struggle to struggle. See,

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Speaker 3: God doesn't want us to go from struggle to struggle.

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Speaker 3: His intention is for us to go from strength to strength.

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Speaker 3: And can I tell you today, we all.

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Speaker 3: One day we're doing good, the next day we're struggling.

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Speaker 3: We're trying to get out of a situation. We're trying

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Speaker 3: to get to another situation. Maybe if you're struggling today,

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Speaker 3: you need to hear this one word rest, just rest.

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Speaker 3: The truth is we're gonna get to where God wants

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Speaker 3: us to be if we're honoring him.

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Speaker 4: If we put him first place.

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Speaker 3: If we take time to get his plans and his

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Speaker 3: So today I just want to say, if you find

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Speaker 4: That's where you're going to find your strength.

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Speaker 3: That is where you are going to endure and find

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Speaker 3: great persistence. God is always trying to get us higher,

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Speaker 3: so we're always going to be facing something in our life.

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Speaker 4: Listen to what it says in James one four.

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Speaker 3: It says, consider it all joy when you go through

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Speaker 3: coming from different places. Where to count it all joy?

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Speaker 3: When we face trials? See trials is what causes us

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Speaker 3: to struggle. But God is saying count it all joy.

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Speaker 3: In this version that I'm reading, it says, consider.

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Speaker 3: See, our trials were never meant to decrease us. They

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Speaker 3: tear our faith down. They were meant to build our

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Speaker 3: See that scripture goes on to say that we won't

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Speaker 3: It's not going to tear us down. The key to

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Speaker 3: counting it all joy is joy. The joy of the

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Speaker 3: Lord is our strength. We don't find the joy in

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Speaker 3: the trial. We don't find the joy and the pain.

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Speaker 3: We are supposed to find the joy in the God

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Speaker 3: who is the source of all strength.

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Speaker 3: When we are walking through a difficulty, we are supposed

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Speaker 3: to count it all joy. Happiness comes and goes, Excitement

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Speaker 3: a gift from Almighty God. You know, sometimes when we're

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Speaker 3: Consider the God, the God who has all power, the

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Speaker 3: And if we're gonna count it all God, we got

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Speaker 3: to know there is good in this trial. The decision

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Speaker 3: know what I've discovered. I've discovered that most of the

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Speaker 3: Are you taking those difficulties to God? Are you saying, God,

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Speaker 3: help me find your strength, be my source. Are you

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Speaker 3: It's the rest in him. It's the peace in him.

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Speaker 3: Do you know it's very interesting what we believe about

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Speaker 3: our circumstance will ultimately cause us to either come out

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Speaker 4: Because see, we just want to get through those difficulties.

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Speaker 3: But God is looking at what we are like when

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Speaker 4: He is saying, how did they develop? How did they grow?

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Speaker 4: What's their attitude? Where can I take them? Now?

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Speaker 3: See, God wants us to pass the test. That is,

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Speaker 3: any good teacher wants you to pass the test. They

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Speaker 3: don't give you a test to fail. They give you

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Speaker 3: a test to see what you've learned from them. And

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Speaker 3: I want you to wise up. I want you to

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Speaker 3: To give us perseverance, to train us to bring out

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Speaker 4: See, that's why the enemy.

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Speaker 3: if we're looking everywhere else, if we're blaming our friends,

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Speaker 4: We forget to look within us. We look at the problem.

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Speaker 3: We're chasing the problem instead of chasing the promise. The

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Speaker 4: We just got to dig it out. We got to

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Speaker 3: What you're believing about the difficulty you're going through right now,

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Speaker 3: on how you come out of this difficult and what

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Speaker 3: you learn through this difficulty. What you learn through any challenge. See,

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Speaker 3: if you're going to go through it, grow through it.

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Speaker 3: That's what God's saying, Grow through it.

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Speaker 4: It says in Romans fifteen thirteen.

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Speaker 3: It says, the God of all hope will fill you

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Speaker 4: What are you believing today? Are you believing you're unworthy?

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Speaker 3: I am believing as I faced this trial, I'm learning something.

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Speaker 3: I am believing that you are proud of me. And

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Speaker 3: I'm believing that I have all power to overcome, being

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Speaker 3: Don't think it's happiness. Happiness is good. We all want

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Speaker 4: It sounds in the trials of life. God doesn't want

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Speaker 3: It's a gift that'll take you from strength to strength.

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