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Speaker 5: Jesus and Satan were having a contest to see who
Speaker 5: was better with computers. After six hours of making spreadsheets
Speaker 5: and designing web pages, a thunderstorm knocked the power out.
Speaker 5: When they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming, it's all lost.
Speaker 5: All my material is gone, while Jesus quietly walked over
Speaker 5: and printed his out turned it in. Satan complained, it's
Speaker 5: not fair. He must have cheated. How come he didn't
Speaker 5: lose his material? God smiled and said, Jesus Saves, say
Speaker 5: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I
Speaker 5: am what it says I am. I have what it
Speaker 5: says I have. I can do what it says I
Speaker 5: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.
Speaker 5: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about
Speaker 5: It's a setup. Everything in your life has been carefully orchestrated.
Speaker 5: God is strategic. Before you were born, he laid out
Speaker 5: a specific plan for you. Nothing randomly happens, not just
Speaker 5: the good breaks, the promotions, the times you've seen favor,
Speaker 5: but even the closed doors, the disappointments, the betrayals. That's
Speaker 5: all a part of God's plan. It may not make sense,
Speaker 5: it wasn't fair, but God wouldn't have allowed it if
Speaker 5: it wasn't going to work for your good. And if
Speaker 5: you don't understand that nothing randomly happens, then you'll be
Speaker 5: frustrated when things don't go your way, Upset because somebody
Speaker 5: did you wrong, Bitter because a person walked away, when
Speaker 5: in reality, it was ordained by God to move you
Speaker 5: into your destiny. You are not at the mercy of luck,
Speaker 5: of fate of other people. The God who causes the
Speaker 5: earth to rotate down to the exact millisecond, has ordered
Speaker 5: your steps. Do you think another person can stop what
Speaker 5: God has ordered for you? Do you think a bad break,
Speaker 5: a closed door, a jealous coworker can change what God
Speaker 5: has spoken over your life. The people coming against you,
Speaker 5: the negative circumstances, they are pawns in the hands of God.
Speaker 5: The enemy thinks he's using them to hold you back.
Speaker 5: The truth is God is using them to push you forward.
Speaker 5: In the Scripture of Joseph's brothers threw him into a pit.
Speaker 5: They thought they were stopping his destiny, but God used
Speaker 5: them to push Joseph into his destiny. God ordained them
Speaker 5: to betray Joseph. It was a part of the plan
Speaker 5: that God laid out for his life. Without that betrayal,
Speaker 5: without Potiphar's wife falsely accusing Joseph, without him saf spending
Speaker 5: time unfairly in prison, Joseph would have never fulfilled his destiny.
Speaker 5: It wasn't random, it wasn't bad luck. It was strategic?
Speaker 5: Are you fighting what God has ordained? Frustrated because a
Speaker 5: door closed, or bitter because somebody walked away. Without that,
Speaker 5: you couldn't fulfill your purpose. The enemy didn't come in
Speaker 5: and somehow take the steering wheel, and now he's in control.
Speaker 5: He superseded God's plan. He overpowered the creator. He doesn't
Speaker 5: have that kind of authority. The God who breathed life
Speaker 5: into you, the God who has numbered your days, the
Speaker 5: God who is for you and not against you, is
Speaker 5: in complete control. You may not understand what happened. It
Speaker 5: may not have been fair, But if you'll stay in
Speaker 5: faith one day, you'll see, Like Joseph, it wasn't random.
Speaker 5: It was intentional. It was a setup. God used it
Speaker 5: to push you forward. But when we isolate a negative
Speaker 5: experience and look at it on its own, it may
Speaker 5: not make sense. If you have a large puzzle, sometimes
Speaker 5: you'll find a piece that doesn't look like it fits.
Speaker 5: You're sure the manufacturer has made a mistake. It's an
Speaker 5: odd shape, a strange color, But when the other pieces
Speaker 5: come together, there will be a perfect fit. The colors
Speaker 5: will match, the edges will line up. Without that piece,
Speaker 5: the puzzle wouldn't be complete. You may have a piece
Speaker 5: to your puzzle today that doesn't make sense. You could
Speaker 5: think God didn't ordain this. I lost my main client,
Speaker 5: a relationship didn't work out, my child got off course.
Speaker 5: This doesn't fit. You may not see it now, but
Speaker 5: God is not through working. You don't know what he's
Speaker 5: up to. You're looking at one piece like Joseph. You're
Speaker 5: looking at the betrayal. What you can't see is the
Speaker 5: throne is coming. Instead of fighting it being bitter, turn
Speaker 5: it around. God. My life is in your hands. I
Speaker 5: know your plans for me are for good. I may
Speaker 5: not understand everything, but God, I trust you. I believe
Speaker 5: you'll get me to where I'm supposed to be. The
Speaker 5: scripture says God has ordered your steps, doesn't say he
Speaker 5: has suggested them. Maybe this will happen, maybe that will happen.
Speaker 5: Your steps have been ordered. But here's what I've learned.
Speaker 5: When God ordered my steps, he didn't check with me.
Speaker 5: He didn't ask for my opinion. If he would have,
Speaker 5: I would have told him. I don't want to go
Speaker 5: through that disappointment. I don't want those people to talk
Speaker 5: about me. I don't want that company to follow lawsuit
Speaker 5: to try to keep us from moving into the compact center.
Speaker 5: I would have said no to all the difficulties because
Speaker 5: I couldn't see where they were taking me. You can't
Speaker 5: reach your destiny without opposition, without betrayal, without criticism, without
Speaker 5: things you don't understand. When my father went to be
Speaker 5: with the Lord, I didn't see anything good about that.
Speaker 5: I lost one of my best friends, somebody I admired
Speaker 5: and looked up to. I wanted him to live another
Speaker 5: twenty years. But it was that loss that pushed me
Speaker 5: into what I'm doing today. On the other side of
Speaker 5: the difficulty is a new level of your destiny. If
Speaker 5: you'll keep the right attitude, all things will work for
Speaker 5: your good, not some things, not just the good breaks,
Speaker 5: the promotion, but even the loss, the disappointment, the person
Speaker 5: that walked away. It wasn't random. It was ordained by God.
Speaker 5: John chapter eleven. Lazarus was very sick. His two sisters,
Speaker 5: Mary and Martha sent word to their friend Jesus to
Speaker 5: come to their house and pray for him. Jesus was
Speaker 5: in another city. He waited four days, and Lazarus died.
Speaker 5: There were all these people gathered at the house to
Speaker 5: pay their respects and comfort the family. Then Jesus showed up.
Speaker 5: He raised Lazarus from the dead. Most of the people
Speaker 5: there were excited, and they believed in Jesus, but some
Speaker 5: of them were cynical. They couldn't deny his power, but
Speaker 5: they weren't for him. They rushed back to tell the Pharisees,
Speaker 5: the religious leaders what happened. The main priest called the
Speaker 5: council together, said if we let Jesus continue, the whole
Speaker 5: nation will believe in him. Verse fifty three says from
Speaker 5: that time on, the religious leaders began to plot Jesus' death.
Speaker 5: Lazarus being raised was a strategic part in the plan
Speaker 5: of God, It said into motion all these other events
Speaker 5: that eventually led to Jesus being crucified. That's why Jesus
Speaker 5: waited on purpose for Lazarus to die. He could have
Speaker 5: gone there sooner and healed him, or he could have
Speaker 5: spoken healing from another city like he had done and
Speaker 5: healed other people. But he waited for Lazarus to die
Speaker 5: so all these people would be gathered. It would create
Speaker 5: such a commotion a man being raised from the dead,
Speaker 5: that the critics would go back and get the counsel
Speaker 5: all stirred up. What am I saying what may look
Speaker 5: like a crisis to us can still be the plan
Speaker 5: of God. Mary and Martha were upset, weeping. They couldn't
Speaker 5: see it at the time. That crisis was ordained by God.
Speaker 5: Jesus being delayed was in an accident. Him not coming
Speaker 5: when they asked was divinely orchestrated. Nothing randomly happens, even
Speaker 5: the crisis, the bad breaks, the things that don't make sense.
Speaker 5: We can't see it. But God is still on the throne.
Speaker 5: Thoughts will tell you it's never gonna work out. There's
Speaker 5: no purpose to this. You just have bad luck. Don't
Speaker 5: believe those lies. God is up to something. God is strategic.
Speaker 5: Things are in motion right now that you can't see.
Speaker 5: Behind the scenes. God's moving the wrong people out of
Speaker 5: the way, lining up the right people, arranging things in
Speaker 5: your favor. It's in the process of coming together. We
Speaker 5: may not understand it all, but I can assure you
Speaker 5: nothing is random. The delay was on purpose. The betrayal
Speaker 5: was ordained by God. The person that turned on you
Speaker 5: wasn't supposed to be for you. It may seem like
Speaker 5: it's out of control, but God is still in complete
Speaker 5: control the plan. He's laid out for your life is
Speaker 5: right on track. Now, keep doing the right thing when
Speaker 5: you don't understand, Stay in faith when people betray you,
Speaker 5: when the wrong thing is happening. Your time is coming.
Speaker 5: What God ordained will come to pass. No person can
Speaker 5: stop him. No bad break, no crisis, no people, all
Speaker 5: the forces of darkness cannot stop what God has purposed
Speaker 5: for your life. Now, you have to be so convinced
Speaker 5: that God is for you that you don't fall apart
Speaker 5: when life is against you. You don't get bitter because
Speaker 5: things didn't work out your way. You don't give up
Speaker 5: on a dream because you had a setback. You know,
Speaker 5: it's a setup that God has the final saying that
Speaker 5: He didn't bring you this far to leave you. That
Speaker 5: Him being for you is more than the world being
Speaker 5: against you. The High Priest wanted to get rid of Jesus.
Speaker 5: He started coming up with all these plans and all
Speaker 5: these schemes. He needed somebody that would betray him, needed
Speaker 5: people that would falsely accuse him. What's interesting is God
Speaker 5: didn't stop their plans, but he used their plans to
Speaker 5: fulfill the purpose of Christ. God is all knowing he
Speaker 5: has an advantage. He knew everything the enemy would try
Speaker 5: to do in your life. He's already taken that into
Speaker 5: consideration when he laid out your plan. Now, he may
Speaker 5: not stop every plot of the enemy against you. He
Speaker 5: won't stop every bad break, every betrayal, but he will
Speaker 5: use that to move you into your destiny. He didn't
Speaker 5: stop Joseph's brothers from throwing him into the pit. He
Speaker 5: didn't stop them from selling him as a slave. But
Speaker 5: God took that into account when he laid out Joseph's purpose.
Speaker 5: I can imagine God thinking, Okay, they want to sell him,
Speaker 5: they want to make him a slave. That's fine. I'll
Speaker 5: turn it to his advantage. I'll design Joseph's plan so
Speaker 5: that Potter for his boss will like him. I'll give
Speaker 5: Joseph the ability to interpret dreams, and then I'll give
Speaker 5: the Pharaoh a dream that only Joseph can interpret. God
Speaker 5: has designed your plan, knowing every plot against you. He
Speaker 5: knows every bad break that will happen, every closed door,
Speaker 5: every disappointment. And the good news is God's strategic plan
Speaker 5: will override every plan that was meant to stop you.
Speaker 5: That's why Isaiah said no weapon formed against you will
Speaker 5: prosper doesn't say they want form. Judas will show up,
Speaker 5: people will betray you. Injustice will come, but they want
Speaker 5: prosper Why. God has taken into account their jealousy, their malice,
Speaker 5: their hatred, what they meant for harm. God has already
Speaker 5: designed a plan to use it for your good. You
Speaker 5: don't have to live discouraged when negative things come against you,
Speaker 5: you trying to pay people back, frustrated because of a disappointment,
Speaker 5: Stay in peace. God hasn't all figured out. He wouldn't
Speaker 5: have allowed it if it was going to stop you.
Speaker 5: If Joseph's brothers throwing him into a pit was going
Speaker 5: to stop Joseph's destiny, God wouldn't have let the brothers
Speaker 5: do it. God held back the Red Sea. He could
Speaker 5: have held the brothers back. God allowed it because it
Speaker 5: was a part of Joseph's destiny. Quit fighting what God
Speaker 5: has allowed. Without that happening, you couldn't fulfill your purpose.
Speaker 5: It's a setup. You may not like it, it may
Speaker 5: be uncomfortable, but if you'll stay in faith, one day,
Speaker 5: you're going to see what God was up to. Judas
Speaker 5: went in and told the religious leaders that he would
Speaker 5: betray Jesus. They were so excited. This was the big
Speaker 5: break they were looking for. They didn't realize Judas was
Speaker 5: a palm in the hand of God. Wasn't his idea.
Speaker 5: God was using him to move Jesus into his purpose.
Speaker 5: We give our enemies too much credit. They can only
Speaker 5: do what God allows them to do. Judas couldn't stop Jesus,
Speaker 5: his betrayal, his disloyalty, couldn't keep the plan of God
Speaker 5: from unfolding. When people come against you, don't get bent
Speaker 5: out of shape. They can't stop you. They think they're
Speaker 5: hindering you. But like Judas, God is going to use
Speaker 5: them to move you further into your destiny. But sometimes
Speaker 5: we make mistakes. We bring the trouble on ourselves. We
Speaker 5: get off course and do things we know that we
Speaker 5: shouldn't do. But the beauty of our God is he
Speaker 5: not only designed your plan knowing what the enemy would
Speaker 5: try to do against you, but he designed your plan
Speaker 5: knowing the mistakes you would make. God has taken into
Speaker 5: account the times we would found, times we'd compromise given
Speaker 5: to temptations. He's so merciful. He's already designed the plan
Speaker 5: to restore us and get us back on course. God
Speaker 5: told Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh and
Speaker 5: tell the people to repent. Jonah didn't want to go there.
Speaker 5: He got on a boat going the other way. He
Speaker 5: went exactly opposite of what God told him to do.
Speaker 5: You would think he's done too bad. He stepped out
Speaker 5: of God's plan. But on the boat a huge storm arose.
Speaker 5: They were all about to die. Jonah admitted to the
Speaker 5: crew that he was the problem, that he was running
Speaker 5: from God. That's why they were having trouble. The crew
Speaker 5: was so loving. They said, Jonah, thank you for being
Speaker 5: so honest. Then they threw him overboard. This should have
Speaker 5: been the end of Jonah's story. Out in the middle
Speaker 5: of the ocean in a huge storm, but it just
Speaker 5: so happened. Big fish was swimming by at the right
Speaker 5: place at the right time, feeling hungry, and it swallowed
Speaker 5: Yonah up. He spent three days in the belly of
Speaker 5: the fish. On the third day, the fish came up
Speaker 5: from the bottom of the ocean and spit Jonah out
Speaker 5: on dry ground. Hundreds of years later, Jesus would say,
Speaker 5: as Jonah was in the belly of the fish for
Speaker 5: three days, so shall the son of Man be in
Speaker 5: the heart of the earth for three days? Jonah was
Speaker 5: a picture of Jesus. God knew that he would get
Speaker 5: off course. He had already planned how that would foreshadow
Speaker 5: what Christ would do. What am I saying? Nothing randomly happens.
Speaker 5: Your mistakes have been taken into account in God's plan
Speaker 5: for your life. And I don't say that so you
Speaker 5: can live loose good. I'm gonna do whatever I want
Speaker 5: to do, Joah said, God's got me covered. No mistakes.
Speaker 5: They cause heart, They cost pain three days in the
Speaker 5: belly of the fish. That sounds exciting now, but that
Speaker 5: was not a cruise liner. It was dark, dirty, smelly
Speaker 5: seaweed all over his head. When the fish spit Jonah out,
Speaker 5: the first thing God told him was go to Nineveh
Speaker 5: and do what I ask you to do. God didn't
Speaker 5: change his mind, but he gave him another chance. When
Speaker 5: we make mistakes. When we fell, the accuser keeps whispering,
Speaker 5: You're done. God is finished with you. You had your chance.
Speaker 5: You'll never accomplish your dreams. No, get back up, Jonah.
Speaker 5: Your mistake is not a surprise to God. He's already
Speaker 5: designed you'll come back. He's already laid out your new beginning.
Speaker 5: Why don't you get back in the game. Get your fireback,
Speaker 5: get your passion back, start dreaming again, start believing again.
Speaker 5: That mistake didn't cancel your destiny. God still has a
Speaker 5: purpose for you to fulfill. When God told Abraham that
Speaker 5: he and his wife Sarah were going to have a
Speaker 5: baby in their old age, years went by and nothing happened.
Speaker 5: So Abraham decided to help God out, and he slept
Speaker 5: with Sarah's maid. They had a son, a boy they
Speaker 5: named Ishmael. They were so excited they finally had their baby.
Speaker 5: God said, that is not the promised child. That's the
Speaker 5: arm of the flesh. That's something you made happen. Ishmael,
Speaker 5: in one sense, was considered a mistake. He was the
Speaker 5: child that Abraham had out of wedlock. Now Abraham is
Speaker 5: the father of our faith. You would think he would
Speaker 5: know better. Surely this wouldn't be in the plan of God.
Speaker 5: Four generations later, when Joseph's brothers threw him into a pit,
Speaker 5: they were going to leave him there to die, but
Speaker 5: they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming.
Speaker 5: They decided instead to sell Joseph to them. The Ishmaelites
Speaker 5: were descendants of Ishmael. What once was considered a mistake
Speaker 5: was actually a part of God's plan to save Joseph's life.
Speaker 5: Only God, in his amazing wisdom, can take what was
Speaker 5: a mistake in one generation and use it to be
Speaker 5: a blessing in another generation. Nothing randomly happens. Even your
Speaker 5: mistakes are a setup. Why don't you quit beating yourself
Speaker 5: up for past failures. Quit living in regrets. Nothing you've
Speaker 5: done is too much for the mercy of God. Let
Speaker 5: that go. Start moving forward into the new things God
Speaker 5: has in store. Few years ago, Victoria lost her ring.
Speaker 5: It was a diamond band that her mother had given her,
Speaker 5: been in their family for several generations. Sometimes when we'd
Speaker 5: go on a trip, Victoria would hide it in these
Speaker 5: So for months we searched everywhere, every drawer, every cabinet,
Speaker 5: every pocket. That ring was nowhere to be found. About
Speaker 5: three years later, we were driving home late one night
Speaker 5: from out of town. It was after midnight and I
Speaker 5: was tired and ready to get home. Victoria said, Joe,
Speaker 5: you better slow down. You're going to get a ticket.
Speaker 5: I was going about seventy five and the speed limit
Speaker 5: was sixty five maybe fifty five. But there was nobody
Speaker 5: on the highway wide open well in the country. All
Speaker 5: of a sudden, in my rearview mirror, I saw those
Speaker 5: flashing red lights. The officer came up to my window
Speaker 5: and I handed him my driver's license. He said, I'll
Speaker 5: need your insurance card as well. Victoria opened the glove
Speaker 5: compartment and started looking. She found every document except our insurance.
Speaker 5: She ended up pulling everything out of the glob compartment,
Speaker 5: digging around in the back, maneuvering our hand here and there,
Speaker 5: and it's dark you couldn't see anything. Plus having the
Speaker 5: officer standing right there was nerve wracking. At one point, Victoria,
Speaker 5: digging way back there, found something hard down in the crack.
Speaker 5: She kept digging and digging, pulled it out. It was
Speaker 5: the ring she had been looking for for three and
Speaker 5: a half years. She was so excited, so happy. She
Speaker 5: is over there rejoicing. Here I was about to go
Speaker 5: to jail. She ended up finding the insurance card right
Speaker 5: on the top. It was like God caused her to
Speaker 5: overlook it. I handed it to the officer. He said,
Speaker 5: are you that minister, I said I am. He said,
Speaker 5: if I come to your church, will you save me
Speaker 5: a seat. I said, I'll save you a whole section.
Speaker 5: He handed it back said have a great night. Sometimes
Speaker 5: what we think is a setback is really God setting
Speaker 5: us up to do something amazing. Even mistakes we may,
Speaker 5: God knows how to turn them and use them for
Speaker 5: our good. A few days before Jesus was crucified, he
Speaker 5: was in the garden of Gasimine late one night praying.
Speaker 5: He was so overwhelmed with the weight of what he
Speaker 5: was about to do, and under so much pressure that
Speaker 5: he swept great drops of blood. He said, Father, if
Speaker 5: you're willing take this cup from me but not my will,
Speaker 5: let your will be done. We celebrate what Christ did
Speaker 5: on the cross, that's the foundation of our faith. But
Speaker 5: the real battle took place in the garden. This is
Speaker 5: where he made the decision. Even though it's not fair,
Speaker 5: even though Judas is about to betray me, even though
Speaker 5: these people have mocked and ridiculed me, Father, I trust you.
Speaker 5: I know It's all a part of your praying. We
Speaker 5: all have these times when life isn't fair, somebody's come
Speaker 5: against you, you're fighting in illness, business has slowed down.
Speaker 5: This is where you have to do like him and
Speaker 5: say God, I don't understand it, but I trust you.
Speaker 5: I know you're in control. You wouldn't have allowed it
Speaker 5: if it wasn't going to work for my good. Don't
Speaker 5: get discouraged when life doesn't make sense. God is up
Speaker 5: to something. They crucified Jesus, put him in the grave.
Speaker 5: They thought he was done, but you know the story.
Speaker 5: On the third day, Jesus came out said, I am
Speaker 5: alive forevermore. God has the final say. What looks like
Speaker 5: a setback is really setting you up for the next
Speaker 5: level of your destiny. Jesus told his disciples, take up
Speaker 5: your cross and follow me. Sometimes we hear that and
Speaker 5: think that's going to be a heavy burden. People told
Speaker 5: me growing up, Joel, that's a hard thing to carry
Speaker 5: your cross. One day, my father had a dream. He
Speaker 5: was going through a difficult time in life. In this dream,
Speaker 5: he looked over and saw a large cross on the ground.
Speaker 5: It was made out of railroad ties, about fifteen feet long.
Speaker 5: It looked like it weighed hundreds of pounds. He knew
Speaker 5: that was his cross to carry, but he didn't know
Speaker 5: how he could do it. It seemed overwhelming. He walked
Speaker 5: over to pick it up, but it wasn't what he thought.
Speaker 5: When he lifted it It was like styrofoam, hardly weighed anything.
Speaker 5: He was so amazed he could easily put it on
Speaker 5: his shoulder and start walking. A few steps later, the
Speaker 5: cross started lifting him up. Instead of him carrying the cross,
Speaker 5: the cross was carrying him. When you take up your cross,
Speaker 5: it doesn't mean you're not going to have difficulties. People
Speaker 5: won't betray you, you'll never make mistakes. Life will happen.
Speaker 5: But the beauty is when you should be overwhelmed, the
Speaker 5: cross will start carrying you. God will give you joy
Speaker 5: and peace and strength that will lift you, help you
Speaker 5: make it through things that should have stopped you. We
Speaker 5: can all look back and see times where if it
Speaker 5: wasn't for the goodness of God, we wouldn't have made it.
Speaker 5: What is that the cross carrying you? It looked like
Speaker 5: it is going to be heavy, but it was a
Speaker 5: set up. His yoke is easy, His burden is life.
Speaker 5: Why don't you come back to that place of peace.
Speaker 5: Nothing in your life has randomly happened. God has ordered
Speaker 5: your steps. You may not understand it, but your life
Speaker 5: is divinely orchestrated. What God has purposed for you will
Speaker 5: come to pass. Now. I believe and declare every force
Speaker 5: that's trying to stop you is being broken. God is
Speaker 5: about to turn things in your favor. It looks like
Speaker 5: a setback, but it's setting you up for new levels
Speaker 5: for promotion, for healing, for breakthroughs, for the fullness of
Speaker 5: your destiny in Jesus's name, And if you receive it,
Speaker 5: can you say amen? Today? I'd like to give you
Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.
Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I
Speaker 5: repent of my sins, Come into my heart. I'll make
Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer,
Speaker 5: we believe you got born again. Get in a good
Speaker 5: Bible based church, keep God first place, Victor, and I'll
Speaker 5: be right back to speak a blessing over you.
Speaker 4: As a thank you for your support of our ministry
Speaker 4: this month, Joel and Victoria, I would like to send
Speaker 4: you a copy of Joel's new series, You Are Healed.
Speaker 4: This audio and video resource will challenge you to experience
Speaker 4: wholeness in your emotional, relational, spiritual, and physical health. Also
Speaker 4: included is the testimony of Joel's mother, Dody, read about
Speaker 4: her devastating cancer diagnosis in nineteen eighty one to her
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Speaker 5: I was forty eight years old when I was diagnosed
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