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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. We appreciate you and pray

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

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop by be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this little girl.

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Speaker 1: She asked her mother how the human race got started.

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Speaker 1: Her mother explained how God created Adam and Eve and

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Speaker 1: they had children and on and on. Here we are today.

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Speaker 1: A few days later, she asked her father the same question.

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Speaker 1: He explained, how many years ago there were a bunch

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Speaker 1: of monkeys, and over time they became more and more

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Speaker 1: like people, and here we are confused. She went back

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Speaker 1: to her mother, said, Mom, you said God created people.

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Speaker 1: Dad said we came from monkeys. How could that be?

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Speaker 1: She said, Oh, honey, it's I told you about my

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Speaker 1: side of the family. He told you about his Say

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Speaker 1: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 1: am what it says I am. I have what it

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Speaker 1: says I have. I can do what it says I

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Speaker 1: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 1: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: how trouble is transportation. We all go through difficulties in

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Speaker 1: life and things that we don't understand, and it's easy

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Speaker 1: to get discouraged and think why is this happening to me?

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Speaker 1: But God uses difficulties to move us toward our destiny.

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Speaker 1: Nothing happens by accident. You may not understand it, but

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Speaker 1: God wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: work to your advantage. Looking back in my own life,

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Speaker 1: the times I was uncomfortable, went through a disappointment, somebody

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Speaker 1: but years later I realized if that hadn't have happened,

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Speaker 1: I would have never met this person. If that door

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have closed, this bigger door would have never opened.

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Speaker 1: If those people hadn't have done me wrong, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have the experience I need for this new challenge. Now

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Speaker 1: I can see the whole time God was directed my steps.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was going backwards, but he was setting

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Speaker 1: me up to go forward. I didn't like it. I

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Speaker 1: felt like I was stuck. The truth is that trouble

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Speaker 1: was transportation. It was moving me into my destiny. You

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Speaker 1: won't become all you were created to be without difficulties.

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Speaker 1: You don't grow in the good times. You grow in

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Speaker 1: the tough times. Trouble prepares you for the next level.

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Speaker 1: Trouble deposited something in you that you can't get when

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Speaker 1: it's easy and everything's going your way. In the difficult times,

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Speaker 1: your spiritual muscles are developed. You gain strength, endurance, wisdom.

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Speaker 1: Every challenge you've been through has deposited something in you.

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Speaker 1: Every relationship that didn't work out, you gained experience, something

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Speaker 1: that will help you in the future. The times you failed,

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Speaker 1: you blew it, They weren't wasted. You gained insight. It

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Speaker 1: was all a part of God's plan. Don't complain about

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Speaker 1: the trouble. Don't be upset because life dealt you a

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Speaker 1: tough hand. The reason you have big challenges is because

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Speaker 1: you have a big destiny. Average people have average problems.

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Speaker 1: Ordinary people have ordinary problems. Here's the key. You're not average.

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Speaker 1: You're not ordinary. You're a child of the most tied God,

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Speaker 1: the creator of the universe, breeds his life into you.

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Speaker 1: He's crowned you with favor. He put seeds of greatness

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Speaker 1: on the inside. You're not ordinary, You're extraordinary. Don't be

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Speaker 1: surprised if you face extraordinary challenges. It's because you have

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Speaker 1: an extraordinary destiny. God is getting you prepared for something

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Speaker 1: greater than you've ever imagined. Think about Moses. He was

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Speaker 1: born into trouble. It was no fault of his own.

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Speaker 1: As a young baby, when he was the most vulnerable,

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Speaker 1: he was dealt on unfair hand. The king ordered all

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Speaker 1: He was born at the wrong time. But Moses had

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Speaker 1: But that trouble wasn't a surprise to God. The king

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Speaker 1: does it. Just so happened Pharaoh's daughter, this princess, decided

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Speaker 1: God could have stopped the trouble. He could have caused

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Speaker 1: the king to change his mind and not issue the

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Speaker 1: decree that would have spared Moses' life. But God used

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Speaker 1: for his destiny. Being raised in that limited environment in

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Speaker 1: how to conduct meetings, how to speak to people. The

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Speaker 1: at the time, I'm sure Moses and his mother couldn't understand.

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Speaker 1: It seemed like a setback, having to put your baby

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Speaker 1: Moses could go in there with authority, with his shoulders

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Speaker 1: the trouble, being born into dysfunction, having the odds against him.

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Speaker 1: have never become all he was created to be. You

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Speaker 1: may not like the trouble. You're uncomfortable. It's not fair,

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Speaker 1: but God knows what he's doing. That trouble is transportation,

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Speaker 1: like Moses, it's taking you to the next level. It's

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Speaker 1: getting you prepared. You wouldn't be who you are today

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Speaker 1: without the things you've been through. The scripture says God

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Speaker 1: didn't take the Israelites the shortest route to the Promised

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Speaker 1: toughen them up and get them ready. Don't complain about

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Speaker 1: the trouble. It's not hindering you. It's preparing you. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to defeat you. It's going to promote you.

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Speaker 1: And you may not see how your situation could work out,

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Speaker 1: a pharaoh's daughter that will be there to help you.

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Speaker 1: And you trust God when everything is good. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you trust him in the trouble. Why don't you believe

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Speaker 1: that even when you don't understand it, he's directing your steps.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to live frustrated because you had a

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Speaker 1: bad break. That trouble means you're headed somewhere. You're on

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Speaker 1: you'll see God begin to connect the dots. You'll see

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Speaker 1: there was a reason that door closed, a reason that

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Speaker 1: person walked away, a reason it didn't happen the way

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Speaker 1: you had planned. Because God had something better in store.

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Speaker 1: He was using that trouble to move you into your

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Speaker 1: divine destiny. I heard about a young man that grew

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Speaker 1: kept getting better and better, believing that he would make

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Speaker 1: was forced to stop playing. So disappointed, everything he had

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Speaker 1: father had already told him he would never make it

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Speaker 1: His friend said, we don't have any positions available, but

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Speaker 1: them make pizzas, you can do that. He started working

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Speaker 1: for free making pizzas. He was very good at making

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Speaker 1: those pizzas, so good that he started his own pizza restaurant.

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Speaker 1: It was very successful. People loved it, so he opened

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Speaker 1: up another one, and another and another. Today almost all

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Speaker 1: the restaurant that he started. Yes, that knee injury was

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Speaker 1: wasn't the end. It was transportation. It moved him toward

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Speaker 1: his destiny. Joel, something like that would never happen to me.

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Speaker 1: How do you know your story is not over? God

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Speaker 1: is not finished with you. The setback, the disappointment, the loss,

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Speaker 1: the divorce, That is not your final chapter. You do

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Speaker 1: like this man and keep being your best, keep believing,

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Speaker 1: keep honoring God. That trouble won't stop you. It will

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Speaker 1: become transportation. It will move you toward the new thing

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Speaker 1: God has in store. This man's dream of playing for

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers never came to pass. But do you

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Speaker 1: know today he owns the Detroit Tigers. It didn't happen

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Speaker 1: his way, but God had a better way. What you're

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Speaker 1: own company. You're believing to manage the addiction. God is

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Speaker 1: going to free you from the addiction. You'll content to

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Speaker 1: bring somebody better than you ever imagine. Don't be discouraged

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Speaker 1: by the trouble. It's not the end. You trust God

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Speaker 1: when everything's going your way. I'm asking you to trust

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Speaker 1: you're uncomfortable. Dare to believe that he's in control, that

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Speaker 1: he knows what's best, that your steps and your stops

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Speaker 1: are ordered by the Lord. It's a powerful attitude to say,

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Speaker 1: God feels like I'm going the wrong direction, but I

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Speaker 1: trust you God. It's not working the way I thought,

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Speaker 1: But God, I still trust you. See a lot of

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Speaker 1: times we're trying to pray away the trouble, pray away

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Speaker 1: the difficulties, pray away the bad breaks. Here's the key.

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Speaker 1: You're anointed not from trouble, You're anointed for trouble. The

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Speaker 1: scripture says God is a present help in trouble. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to stop every day disappointment, every bad break,

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Speaker 1: but He will give you the grace, the strength, the

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Speaker 1: power to go through it with a good attitude. So

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Speaker 1: all maybe nine says I have anointed David. I will

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Speaker 1: steady him and make him strong. His enemies won't get

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Speaker 1: the best of him. I will push down his adversaries

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Speaker 1: and defeat his haters. He will rise to power because

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Speaker 1: doesn't have problems, so he doesn't have opposition. It says

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Speaker 1: I'm anointing him for the trouble, for the sickness, for

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