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Speaker 4: like to start with something funny each week and I

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Speaker 4: heard about this man. He got caught shoplifting at the

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Speaker 4: hold up your bible. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: give in. Well, Joel, I'd love to believe what you're saying,

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Speaker 4: when you dwell on thoughts like that, you are tying

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Speaker 4: But all of a sudden, God says to the angels,

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Speaker 4: just like my father, you're a foreigner in that land.

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Speaker 4: You may have settled there, but something on the inside

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Speaker 4: was made to rise higher. I was made to be free,

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Speaker 4: I was made to live healthy, I was made to

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Speaker 4: have good relationships. I was made to do something great

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Speaker 4: with my life. You need to rise up and say

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Speaker 4: I am not settling here. I've been here long enough,

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Speaker 4: but I don't fit in mediocrity. I don't fit in defeat.

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Speaker 4: I don't fit in poverty. I don't fit in poor health.

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Speaker 4: That's not who I really am. I am a foreigner

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Speaker 4: to those things. That may be the way it's been

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Speaker 4: in the past, but that's not the way it's going

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Speaker 4: to be in the future. I'm packing up my goods

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Speaker 4: and moving where I belong, to the land of victory,

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Speaker 4: the land of more than enough, the land of health

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Speaker 4: and wholeness, the land of blessing and favor. How you say, Joel,

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Speaker 4: I don't see how that can happen. My obstacles are

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Speaker 4: No recognize. In difficult times, human nature tends to exagger

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Speaker 4: the negative. We get so focused on our problems we

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Speaker 4: make them bigger than they really are. And that's what

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Speaker 4: happened to the Israelites heading toward the Promised Land. They said, Moses,

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Speaker 4: we're never gonna survive out here. We don't have anything

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Speaker 4: to eat, nothing to drink. What are we gonna do? Really,

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Speaker 4: that was not true. God had provided them manna every day,

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Speaker 4: He had given them water out of a rock. The

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Speaker 4: fact is they had not missed a single meal. But

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Speaker 4: in their mind it was so hard, and they were

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Speaker 4: so worried. They exaggerated their problems. When times get tough,

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Speaker 4: you need to step back and get the proper view.

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Speaker 4: You'll hear those thoughts saying it's never gonna change, But

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Speaker 4: the fact is it is gonna change. Well, it's never

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Speaker 4: gonna get any better. No, Can I give you some

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Speaker 4: good news? It is gonna get better. Well, it's been

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Speaker 4: like this forever, Joel. No, most likely it's just been

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Speaker 4: like that for a season. Get a new perspective. Don't

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Speaker 4: believe the never lies. They are exaggerations. I'll never get well,

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Speaker 4: I'll never get out of debt, I'll never overcome this obstacle. No,

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Speaker 4: those are exaggerated points of view. You've got to reprogram

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Speaker 4: your thinking. I'm trying to put some new software in

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Speaker 4: your computer today. This is the latest, greatest version available.

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Speaker 4: It says every problem is temporary, that sickness is not permanent,

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Speaker 4: that financial difficulty is not going to last forever. This

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Speaker 4: too shall pass. God is supplying all of your needs.

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Speaker 4: He's going to prosper you even in the desert. What

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Speaker 4: was meant for your harm, God's going to use to

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Speaker 4: your advantage. It may be taking a long time, but

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Speaker 4: you don't know. You may be camped right next door

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Speaker 4: to your promised land. The good news is God will

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Speaker 4: finish what he started. If you're going to exaggerate anything,

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Speaker 4: exaggerate the goodness of God in your life, magnify his promises.

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Speaker 4: Recognize every adversity is only temporary. It may have been

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Speaker 4: there for years, but it is not permanent. Let me

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Speaker 4: tell you what is permanent. Psalm thirty, verse five. God's

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Speaker 4: favor will last for a lifetime. Friends. Challenges are temporary.

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Speaker 4: Favor is permanent. David said, goodness and mercy will follow me,

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Speaker 4: not a little while, not six days a week, all

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Speaker 4: the days of my life. I want you to have

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Speaker 4: a new attitude. Those problems didn't come to stay. Favor

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Speaker 4: came to stay. That sickness is not going to last forever.

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Speaker 4: Favor is going to last forever. That financial difficulty is

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Speaker 4: not permanent. Favor is what's permanent. Because you honor God,

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Speaker 4: he has promised his blessings are going to chase you

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Speaker 4: down and overtake you. That means trouble is not going

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Speaker 4: to overtake you. Blessings are going to overtake you. When

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Speaker 4: you look back, don't look for heartache, disappointments, failure. Look

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Speaker 4: for promotion, increase, blessings, favor. Remember, everything you're facing is

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Speaker 4: subject to change right now. The creator of the universe

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Speaker 4: is at work in your life. Those light afflictions are

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Speaker 4: for a moment, but favor is permanent. If you'll have

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Speaker 4: this perspective and view everything negative as temporary, here's what's

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Speaker 4: gonna happen. You're gonna step into a new freedom. You're

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Speaker 4: gonna enjoy each day more. You're gonna overcome every obstacle,

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Speaker 4: defeat every enemy, and you're gonna live that life of

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Speaker 4: victory God has in story. Amen, do you receive it today?

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