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Thanks for listening to 36 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 4: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 37 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 5: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 38 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 5: blessing and share it with a friend. 39 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 4: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 40 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 4: your life. God bless you. It's great to be with 41 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 4: you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us 42 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 4: during the week through our daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media, 43 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 4: and you can come visit us in person we'd love 44 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 4: to have you be a part of one of our services. 45 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 46 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 4: about this lady. She was on an airplane reading her Bible. 47 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 4: The guy next to her said, you don't believe all 48 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 4: that stuff in there. 49 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 5: Do you? 50 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 4: She said, of course I do. It's the Bible. He said, well, 51 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 4: what about that God that got swallowed by a well? 52 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 4: She said, you mean Jonah? Yes, I believe that too. 53 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 4: He said, well, how could he possibly survive all that 54 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 4: time inside of a well? She thought about it in 55 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 4: a moment, said I don't know. When I get to Heaven, 56 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 4: I'll have to ask him. He laughed and said, what 57 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 4: if he's not in heaven. She said, then you'll have 58 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 4: to ask him. Say it like you mean it. This 59 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 4: is my Bible. I am what it says. I am. 60 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do 61 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be 62 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind 63 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 64 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want 65 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 4: to talk to you today about expecting a favor filled future. 66 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 4: It's easy to lose our passion in life. When we've 67 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 4: been through disappointments, dreams are taken longer than we thought, 68 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 4: we're dealing with a challenge. If we're not careful, will 69 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 4: become complacent, or we're not believing for things to turn 70 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 4: around and not expecting good breaks. But Paul said in Romans, 71 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,399 Speaker 4: be glad for all that God is planning for you. 72 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 4: If you could see what God has planned for you, 73 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 4: if you knew the doors he's going to open, the 74 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 4: people you're going to meet, the giants you're going to defeat, 75 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: then you'd go out each day with a spring in 76 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 4: your steps, excited about your future, expecting God to show 77 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 4: out in your life. That expectancy is what allows God 78 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 4: to do great things. That's your faith at work. You 79 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 4: may be in a difficult time and thoughts will whisper 80 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 4: it's never going to change. You've seen your best days. 81 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 4: Don't believe those lies. God has a comeback for reset back, 82 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 4: a new beginning for every loss, mercy for every mistake. 83 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 4: He's already planned to bring you out better, to promote 84 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 4: you in front of those that did you wrong, to 85 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 4: heal you. Despite that diagnosis, there are good breaks in 86 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 4: your future. That will catapult you ahead. When you realize this, 87 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,880 Speaker 4: it changes your perspective. You won't get discouraged over problems 88 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 4: thinking a dream is too big, these people are too powerful. 89 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 4: There'll be a passion and an expectancy. You know God 90 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 4: is on the throne. You know his plans for you 91 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 4: are for good. That He's already lined up the right people, 92 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 4: the breaks you need, the favor. There's not a problem 93 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 4: you'll face that God hasn't already lined up a solution. 94 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 4: It's not a goliath that will try to stop you. 95 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 4: That God hasn't already lined up a slingshot in a 96 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 4: smooth stone, not a dream in your heart, that God 97 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 4: hasn't already arranged the wisdom, the creativity, the funding. When 98 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 4: you know God has good plans, you'll live out of 99 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 4: a place of rest, not uptight wondered how it's going 100 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 4: to work out. You know it's already been planned. The 101 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 4: schedule has already been set, not by people, not by oppositions, 102 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 4: not by the enemy. The Most High God has planned 103 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 4: out your days. Psalm thirties says that God's favor is 104 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 4: not for a season, but it's for a lifetime, not 105 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,679 Speaker 4: for a few years. Maybe in your twenties, your thirties, 106 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 4: you have a few good breaks. No, as long as 107 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 4: you're breathing, there's favor on your life. And we can 108 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 4: all look back and see these moments of favor where 109 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,839 Speaker 4: God opened a door we could have never opened. He 110 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 4: had you at the right place and you met that 111 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 4: person and fell in love. He promoted you when you 112 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 4: weren't next in line. He healed you when the expert 113 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 4: said there was no way. You've seen God's favor in 114 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 4: the past. The good news is God never does his 115 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 4: greatest feats in your yesterdays. They're always in your tomorrows. 116 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,799 Speaker 4: God doesn't want us to live off of old victories. 117 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 4: Yes we can celebrate, Yes we should be grateful for 118 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 4: what God has done. But He has some new victories 119 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 4: for you. He's taken you from glory to glory. What's 120 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 4: in your future is going to supersede anything you've seen 121 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 4: in the past. That's why we can live with expectancy, 122 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 4: excited when others are down, hopeful when others are discouraged, 123 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 4: praising when others are complaining. We know His favor is 124 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 4: for a lifetime that we haven't seen our best days. 125 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 4: I'm sure you can say like me that God's been 126 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 4: good to you. You've been blessed, but the scripture says 127 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 4: you haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in 128 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 4: store for those that love him. You've seen favor, but 129 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 4: you haven't seen the favor that's coming. You've seen breakthroughs 130 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:00,280 Speaker 4: God turned things around, but you haven't seen the great 131 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 4: throughs that are coming. You've seen promotion, but you haven't 132 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 4: seen the levels that God is about to take you to. 133 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 4: Paul said, to be glad for all God is planning 134 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 4: for you. He's inferring. If you're not glad, you're not hopeful, 135 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 4: not expecting, then you're not going to see it. You'll 136 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 4: miss the favor, the blessing that belongs to you. Well, Joel, 137 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:27,239 Speaker 4: I've seen God's goodness in the past, but this problem 138 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 4: with my health, this child, my finances, I don't see 139 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 4: how it can work out. Don't talk yourself out of it. 140 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 4: If you could see what God has planned, if you 141 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 4: could see what He's about to do, you'd get your 142 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 4: passion back. God sent me to relight that fire. Yes, 143 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 4: he's been good to you in the past, but there 144 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 4: are new victories coming. Just because you haven't seen anything 145 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 4: in a long time doesn't mean God is not going 146 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 4: to do it. The scripture says, there is a set 147 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,440 Speaker 4: time for God to favor you. There are marked moments 148 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 4: where God has already planned to suddenly promote you, suddenly 149 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 4: turn it around, suddenly open a door. David said, what 150 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 4: would have happened to me? If I had not believed 151 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 4: that I would see the goodness of God? He was saying, 152 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 4: I wouldn't be where I am. I wouldn't have defeated 153 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 4: the Goliath. I wouldn't have outlasted King Saul. I wouldn't 154 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 4: have taken the throne if I had not believed that 155 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 4: the favor of God was on my life, that he 156 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 4: had already lined up the breaks, the protection, the promotion 157 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 4: that would take me into my destiny. See when David 158 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 4: was a teenager, he was out in the shepherd's fields 159 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 4: taking care of his father's sheep. He had a big 160 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 4: dream for his life, but nobody paid attention to him. 161 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 4: He was stuck out there cleaning up after sheep, protecting them, 162 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 4: feeding them. His brothers were in the army. They had 163 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 4: a prestigious position. It seemed like David had been left out. 164 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 4: He was at a disadvantage almost like God had forgotten 165 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 4: about him. He could have been discouraged. This isn't fair. 166 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 4: Why did I get stuck out here? But out there 167 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 4: in the lonely shepherd's fields when he could have been complaining. 168 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 4: Maybe that's where he wrote. Surely goodness and mercy will 169 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 4: follow me all the days of my life. He was saying, 170 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 4: the odds may be against me, doesn't look like I 171 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 4: can accomplish my dreams. But surely goodness is coming. Surely 172 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 4: new doors are going to open. Surely the right people 173 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 4: will show up. He had such a confidence in God. 174 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 4: He believed, despite the circumstances, despite how long it had been, 175 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 4: despite who didn't believe in him, that he would leave 176 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 4: his mark. One day, unexpectedly, the prophet Samuel came to 177 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 4: his father's house to anoint one of the sons as 178 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 4: the next king of Israel. His father, Jesse didn't even 179 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 4: bother call David in from the shepherd's fields. He thought, 180 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 4: David's too young, too small, He's not that talented. He'll 181 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 4: never do anything great. People may overlook you, but God 182 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 4: sees you. They may judge you, discount you, leave you out. 183 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 4: They can't see the greatness God put in you. He 184 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 4: loves to take what some consider weak and cause them 185 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 4: to confound the wives. Samuel said to Jesse, it's none 186 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 4: of these sons. Do you have any other? He said, yes, 187 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 4: I have a son named David, but I'm sure it's 188 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 4: not him. They brought David in. Samuel took one look 189 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 4: at him and said, that's the one. God had already 190 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 4: planned for David to be the king. What God has 191 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 4: planned for you, people cannot stop. Betrayals, can't stop, rejection, 192 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 4: can't stop. God's plan will override what other people want. 193 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 4: His plan will supersede those that try to push you down, 194 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 4: leave you out, tell you that you're not qualified. And 195 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 4: it's significant that David didn't go after Samuel. Samuel came 196 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:10,439 Speaker 4: to him. David didn't have to campaign, try to convince 197 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 4: Samuel to be for him, play up to him. Samuel 198 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 4: came knocking on his doors. There are blessings in your future, 199 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 4: good breaks, the right people that are going to come 200 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 4: looking for you. You don't have to go after them. 201 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 4: God's going to cause them to find you. These moments 202 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 4: of favor that God has already lined up to thrust 203 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 4: you into your destiny. And I know you've seen some 204 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 4: in the past. The good news is His favor is 205 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 4: for a life round. There are more favor moments come 206 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 4: in your way. There are more Samuel's blessings, promotion, healing 207 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 4: still on your schedule. Now do your part and be 208 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 4: glad for all God has planned for you. Live with expectancy, 209 00:11:55,040 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 4: excited about your future, thanking God for what's in store. Pastor, 210 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:02,959 Speaker 4: a friend of mine, wanted to build a new sanctuary, 211 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 4: and he'd tried for several years but couldn't find any property. 212 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 4: And a couple of times he found a place, but 213 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 4: it was way too expensive. He didn't have the funds, 214 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 4: and nothing was coming together. He could have been discouraged 215 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 4: and to all ell it's not meant to be. But 216 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 4: his attitude was, God, I know you already have the 217 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 4: right place for us. God, I trust you. One day, 218 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 4: the mayor of his city unexpectedly called. He had never 219 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 4: met this pastor, but he'd heard that they were looking 220 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 4: for a building. He told about this group that built 221 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 4: a huge building for a casino. It was just a 222 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 4: few miles from his church. Before they moved in, they 223 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 4: went bankrupt. It had over forty acres of parking. The 224 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 4: building could fit four football Fiells inside. The mayor asked 225 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 4: the pastor if he was interested in purchasing the building. 226 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 4: Pastor thought it'd cost fifty million dollars. They couldn't afford that. 227 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 4: The mayor said, no, we can sell it to you 228 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 4: for under two million dollars. Pastor never dreamed he would 229 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,720 Speaker 4: have a facility like that. This was one of those 230 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 4: favor moments that God had already planned. Now, God has 231 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 4: some of these explosive blessings in your future moments that 232 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 4: will catapult you further. You couldn't make it happen. You 233 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 4: didn't have the resources, the funding, the connections. But the 234 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 4: favor of God will open the door. The favor of 235 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 4: God will bring the right people. The favor of God 236 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 4: will turn that problem around. Instead of living worried, frustrated, 237 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 4: let's do like David. Surely goodness is coming. He didn't say, 238 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 4: I hope it comes, Maybe it comes. There's a chance 239 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,959 Speaker 4: it may show up. He said, Surely it's coming. Our 240 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 4: attitude should be. Surely breakthroughs are coming. Surely promotion is 241 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 4: on the way. Surely, healing, restoration, new levels are in 242 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 4: front of me. David said in Psalm twenty seven. I 243 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 4: am confident will see the goodness of God. Look at 244 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 4: his attitude in the midst of trouble, people coming against him, 245 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 4: left out in the shepherd's fields. You would think he'd 246 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 4: be discouraged, giving up on his dreams. Yet he said, 247 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 4: I am confident God will turn this around. I am 248 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 4: confident good things are ahead of me. I am confident 249 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 4: my latter days will be better than my former days. 250 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 4: He was convinced that God had good things planned for him, 251 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 4: that he wasn't at the mercy of other people, his environment. 252 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 4: What he didn't get, he knew that God had the 253 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 4: final say. What would happen if we would live with 254 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 4: that same attitude. I am confident I will see God's goodness. 255 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 4: How much further will we go if we had this mindset? 256 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 4: Surely good things are in my future. Yes, business may 257 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 4: be slow now, struggling with my finances, but I am 258 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 4: confident Jehovah Jihrah, the Lord my provider, will bring increase, promotion, 259 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 4: new clients, abundance. I'm still single, haven't met anyone yet, 260 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 4: but I am confident the right person is on the way. 261 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 4: I'm still fighting this battle in my health, but I 262 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 4: am confident Jehovah Rapha, the Lord, my healer, is restoring 263 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 4: health back into me. I am confident I will live 264 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 4: and not die. Or maybe this addiction has been in 265 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 4: my family for years, but I am confident freedom is coming. 266 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 4: This is not how my story ends. I am confident 267 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 4: this generational curse is being broken and a generational blessing 268 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 4: is beginning. Proverb thirteen puts it this way. Trouble chases 269 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 4: the wicked, but blessings chase the righteous. When you honor 270 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 4: God with your life, you keep in first place. Something 271 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 4: is chasing you, not defeat, bad, break, sickness, depression, No, 272 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 4: you're the righteous. Blessings are chasing you. Healing, promotion, the 273 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 4: right people, breakthroughs. When you look in your rear view mirror, 274 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 4: you have a tailgater. Favor is about to overtake you. 275 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 4: Samuel is about to show up. That baby you've been 276 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 4: dreaming about is headed your way. Healing is tracking you 277 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 4: down right now, Freedom has almost caught up with you. 278 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 4: Just a matter of time before you see the goodness 279 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 4: of God. Now do your part and be glad for 280 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 4: what God is planning for you. Every day. Live with expectancy. Lord, 281 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 4: I believe something good is going to happen to me. Father, 282 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 4: thank you that my best days are not behind me, 283 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 4: but they're still out in front of me. See Isaiah said, 284 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 4: God is longing to be good to those who look 285 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 4: for who expect his goodness, his favor, and his blessing. No, 286 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 4: this God wants to be good to you. He wants 287 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 4: to show you his favor, but there's a condition. He's 288 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 4: looking for people that are expecting his goodness, expecting his favor. 289 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 4: People who will believe that healing is coming, are on 290 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 4: the way that their future will be brighter than their past. 291 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 4: Could it be that God is longing to be good 292 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 4: to you, but you're not seeing it because you're not 293 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 4: looking for his goodness. You become passive, complacent. Joe's been 294 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 4: this way a long time. I think I'm stuck out 295 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 4: here in the shepherd's fields. These people didn't treat me 296 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 4: right either. No, God has an awesome future planned for you. 297 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 4: His favor is for a lifetime. Here's the whole key. 298 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 4: You have to be looking for it. You have to 299 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 4: be expecting things to turn around, believing that good breaks 300 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 4: are coming, thanking him that the best is still ahead. 301 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 4: A passive attitude will keep you from the fullness of 302 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 4: your destiny. It's easy to become complacent. I've seen God's goodness. 303 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 4: I have no complaints. I've been blessed. Don't put your 304 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,239 Speaker 4: faith on autopilot. God didn't create you to reach a 305 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 4: certain level and get stuck. He said, your path will 306 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 4: get brighter and brighter. That you're allowed will be better 307 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 4: than your former days. Now, you may have had some 308 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 4: great former days, that's awesome, but God has some greater 309 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 4: days of ahead. There are moments of favor you're about 310 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 4: to come into that are going to catapult you ahead. 311 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 4: Something you can't explain. You didn't work for it, you 312 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 4: weren't qualified. It's never happened in your family. It's just 313 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 4: the goodness of God. It's Samuel showing up. It's the 314 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,679 Speaker 4: mayor calling, it's the building finding you. It's favor on 315 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 4: that slingshot to where God thrust you into influence, resources, 316 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:41,439 Speaker 4: leadership that you've never imagined. Paul prayed in Ephesians that 317 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 4: the eyes of our heart would be flooded with light 318 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 4: so that we would know the awesome future God has 319 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 4: in store. Paul knew our mind would try to talk 320 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 4: us out of it, and we'd get passive. Let disappointments, 321 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 4: setbacks cause us to quit believing, settle where we are. 322 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 4: That's why he prayed that we would be flooded with light. 323 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 4: Flooded means overwhelmed, not overwhelmed with dow trouble. Look what 324 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 4: I'm up against. I've reached my limits. No flooded with light, 325 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 4: flooded with hope, flooded with faith, flooded with expectancy. Like David, 326 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 4: I am confident I will see the goodness of God. 327 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 4: When Moses was at the end of his life one 328 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 4: hundred and twenty years old, he was about to pass 329 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 4: the scripture says his eye was not dim and his 330 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,479 Speaker 4: natural force was not abated. This was talking about his 331 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 4: physical eyes, but I believe it's symbolic his eyes of faith, 332 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 4: the eyes of his heart, were still flooded with light. 333 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 4: One hundred and twenty years old, and he was still 334 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 4: expecting God's goodness. This was significant because Moses, as a baby, 335 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 4: had seen God's favor. The king had issued a decree 336 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 4: that all the male Hebrew boys two years of agent 337 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 4: under were supposed to be killed, but Moses's mother put 338 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 4: him in that basket and sent him down the Nile river. 339 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 4: Just so happened. The pharaoh's daughter was there taking a bath. 340 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 4: She saw him and took him in. She raised Moses 341 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 4: as her own child. Now Moses knew he was supposed 342 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 4: to deliver the Israelites out of slavery, but he got 343 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 4: out of God's timing. He saw an Egyptian foreman mistreating 344 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,760 Speaker 4: a Hebrew slave, and he didn't think anyone was watching, 345 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 4: and he killed that foreman. He had to flee for 346 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 4: his life, spent forty years hiding in the desert. I'm 347 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 4: sure he felt forgotten alone, like he had missed God's plan. 348 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 4: It his own fault, he blew it. But God's favor 349 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 4: is not for a season, It's for a lifetime. God 350 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 4: has mercy for every mistake. He's already planned to come back. 351 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 4: Forty years later, at eighty years old, God showed up 352 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 4: in a burning bush, said Moses, now to go and 353 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:05,719 Speaker 4: deliver the Israelites after his mistake. After he thought he 354 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 4: was done, he went on to part the Red Sea 355 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 4: to bring water out of a rock, to see all 356 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 4: these supernatural signs. Now, at one hundred and twenty years old, 357 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 4: his eye was not dim. He was still confident he 358 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 4: would see the goodness of God. If Moses were here today, 359 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 4: he would tell you God's favor is not for a season, 360 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 4: It's for your lifetime. You haven't made too many mistakes. 361 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 4: The obstacles are not too big. What God promised you 362 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 4: he's still going to bring to pass. Now get your fireback, 363 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 4: start expecting his favor. He's longing to be good to you, 364 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 4: but you have to be looking for his goodness. I 365 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 4: talked to a young lady after the service. She had 366 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 4: lost her arm in an accident. She became very depressed, 367 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 4: wouldn't leave the house, and many days she wouldn't get 368 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 4: out of bed. Her mother got her lists listening to 369 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 4: our messages, and she heard me talking about how God 370 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,160 Speaker 4: has good things in store and how what was meant 371 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 4: for harm he can turn to your advantage. Little by 372 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 4: little she got her passion back. She told me how, 373 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 4: she said, God, I'm disappointed. I don't have any plans 374 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 4: for my life. But God, I know you have good 375 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 4: plans for me. You may not see anything good in 376 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 4: your future. That's okay. Like her, you can thank God 377 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:31,199 Speaker 4: for what he has planned for you. His plans are bigger, better, 378 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:36,439 Speaker 4: more rewarding than you could ever imagine. Proverbs says hope 379 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 4: deferred makes the heart sick. One definition of hope is 380 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 4: happy anticipation of something good. If you're anticipating something good, 381 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 4: brings you joy, gives you passion. When you believe the 382 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 4: best is in front of you, God is arranging things 383 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 4: in your favor, lining up the samuels, the property, the solution. 384 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 4: You believe he has ex Josh blessings on your schedule, 385 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 4: then you're going to be excited about life. It'll affect 386 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 4: your attitude, your relationships, your productivity. But if you're not 387 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 4: anticipating anything good, if you think you're stuck, the problems permanent, 388 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 4: you've reached your limits. That will drain your energy, stifle 389 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 4: your creativity, take your joy, and you'll just drag through 390 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 4: the day, endure life. No. God created you to have 391 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 4: something to look forward to. This is what faith is 392 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 4: all about. God. I believe you have good plans for me, 393 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 4: that you're taking me where I've never been. That the 394 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 4: best days in my health, my family, my relationships are 395 00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 4: still in front of me. That's not just being positive, 396 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 4: that's getting in agreement with God. That's what allows him 397 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,720 Speaker 4: to do amazing things. My prayer is that you will 398 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 4: be like Moses, that your eyes will not become dim, 399 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,479 Speaker 4: that you will not lose sight of the awesome future 400 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 4: God has in store. That you will keep your faith 401 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 4: stirred up to live with expectancy looking for God's goodness. 402 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,239 Speaker 4: Paul said, be glad for all God has planned for you. 403 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 4: The next part of that same verse says, be patient 404 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 4: in trouble. It's not a coincidence that God connected the 405 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 4: two because in trouble, in difficulties, you'll be tempted to 406 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 4: get discouraged. Think it's never going to work out, medical 407 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 4: reports too bad, had this set back in my career. 408 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 4: None of that is a surprise to God. He's already 409 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 4: planned the solution. Be patient in trouble. The trouble is 410 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 4: not permanent. The trouble is not how your story ends. 411 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 4: God wouldn't have allowed the difficulty if he wasn't going 412 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 4: to bring you out better. The scripture says, God makes 413 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 4: all things beautiful in its time. Give God time to 414 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 4: work it out. Just because you don't see anything happening 415 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 4: doesn't mean God is not working behind the scenes. Right now. 416 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,479 Speaker 4: He's lining up everything that you need. He's not going 417 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 4: to bring you out the same He's going to bring 418 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 4: you out better. But while you're waiting, negative thoughts will 419 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 4: come try to talk you out of it. That's when 420 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 4: you have to dig down deep and say, like David, 421 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 4: I am confident I will see the goodness of God. 422 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:28,040 Speaker 4: Surely favor is coming, Surely healing is coming. Surely breakthroughs 423 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 4: are on the way. Instead of dwelling on all the 424 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 4: reasons it's not going to work out, start thanking God 425 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 4: that he's turning it around. Lord, you said, many are 426 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 4: the afflictions of the righteous, but you deliver me out 427 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,959 Speaker 4: of them all. You said you will lift me out 428 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 4: of this pit, set my feet on a rock, put 429 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,000 Speaker 4: a new song in my heart. Lord, I think you 430 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 4: that I'm coming out better, promoted at a new level 431 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 4: of my destiny. In the scripture, Ruth went through a 432 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 4: great disappointment. Her husband un ex effectively passed. She was 433 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 4: a young woman. She never dreamed she would be a 434 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 4: widow at this age, and her whole life was turned 435 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,320 Speaker 4: upside down. Didn't seem like God had good plans for her. 436 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 4: Call that heartache and pain. But being a believer doesn't 437 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,199 Speaker 4: exempt us from difficulties. There will be things that are 438 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 4: not fair. We don't understand. This is when you have 439 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 4: to trust that God is still in control. If you'll 440 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 4: be patient not get bitter, God will give you beauty 441 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 4: for those ashes. Ruth and her mother in law, Naomi, 442 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 4: they moved back to Naomi's hometown. They were both widows, 443 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 4: very poor, heartbroken. Ruth would go out in the fields 444 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,680 Speaker 4: each morning and pick up left over wheat. One day, 445 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 4: the owner of all those fields noticed Ruth, a man 446 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 4: named bo Has long story short. They ended up falling 447 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 4: in love and getting married. They had a little baby boy. 448 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 4: I can see Ruth holding that baby, imagining she would 449 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 4: be that happy, that fulfilled. She didn't have to work 450 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 4: in the fields anymore. Now she owned the field. They 451 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 4: named their son Obed. Obed had a son named Jesse. 452 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 4: Jesse had a son named David. Now Ruth was in 453 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 4: the family line of Jesus. Be patient in trouble. You 454 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 4: don't know what God has planned. You don't know where 455 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 4: He's taking you. The enemy would love for your eyes 456 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 4: to become dim where you live discouraged look at all 457 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 4: these bad breaks. No, there are boases out there for you. 458 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 4: There is restoration, healing, abundance. God has things in your 459 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 4: future that you can't conceive right now. Sometimes you have 460 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,479 Speaker 4: to go through the disappointment, through the hardship. But on 461 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 4: the other side, you're going to see favor that you 462 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 4: would have never seen. My question for you today is 463 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 4: are you expecting a favor filled future? Are you anticipating 464 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 4: anything good? Are the eyes of your flooded with life 465 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 4: or had they become dim? You think you've seen your 466 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 4: best days. The only thing that's stopping some people is 467 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 4: what they're expecting. I'm asking you to be a David. 468 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 4: Have that attitude. I am confident I will see the 469 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 4: goodness of God. Surely favor is come in my way. 470 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,800 Speaker 4: If you'll do this, I believe and declare you're about 471 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,479 Speaker 4: to step in to one of those moments of favor. 472 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 4: God's about to do something unusual. Blessings chasing you down, 473 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,359 Speaker 4: healing about to overtake you. Samuel's about to show up 474 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 4: good breaks that catapult you ahead a new level of 475 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 4: your destiny in Jesus's name, And if you receive it, 476 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 4: well you say amen. I'd like to give you an 477 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 4: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would 478 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:54,719 Speaker 4: you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I repent 479 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 4: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you 480 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 4: my Lord and Savior. If you've prayed that simple prayer, 481 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 4: we believe you got born again. We'd love to send 482 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 4: you some information on your walk with the Lord. 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