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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan's Victorium. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you, and thanks for letting us come into

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Speaker 1: your homes today. If you're ever in our area, I

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Speaker 1: of our services, finest people in all of Houston, Texas,

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Speaker 1: right here at Lakewood. But thanks for tuning in today,

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Speaker 1: and thank you again for coming out. I like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this man

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Speaker 1: that died and went to heaven. Saint Peter escorted him

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Speaker 1: down this long hallway filled with many clocks.

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Speaker 2: The hands on the clocks were all ticking.

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Speaker 1: At different speeds. Peter explained that every person has a clock.

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Speaker 1: When they send the clock ticks. One clock was barely moving.

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Speaker 1: That was Billy Graham's clock. Another clock was creeping along

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Speaker 2: The men said, curiously, can I see my clock?

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Speaker 1: Peter said, yeah, we keep yours in the office and

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Speaker 1: use it as a fan. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about the God who crosses

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Speaker 1: his arms. God has things in store for you that

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Speaker 1: you don't see coming. It may seem like you've reached

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Speaker 1: your limits. You've gone as far as you can. But

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Speaker 1: God is going to open doors you never thought would open.

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Speaker 1: You didn't have the training, you weren't next in line,

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Speaker 1: but somehow you were chosen for the promotion. God has

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Speaker 1: unexpected favor. He's going to do things that we didn't deserve.

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened. In Genesis forty eight, Jacob was

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Speaker 1: the Pharaoh. Joseph was Jacob's youngest son and his favorite.

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Speaker 1: He'd given Joseph his coat of many colors and was

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Speaker 1: so proud of him. But for many years Jacob thought

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Speaker 1: Joseph was dead. His brothers told their father that Joseph

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Speaker 1: had been eaten by a wild animal. Jacob was heartbroken

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Speaker 1: and lived with all this pain. Some thirteen years later,

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Speaker 1: Jacob found out that Joseph was still alive, and in

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Speaker 1: this position of great honor, Joseph eventually brought his father

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Speaker 1: and forty years old and about to pass Joseph went

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Speaker 1: Manassa and Ephrium. When Jacob saw the boys, he asked

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Speaker 1: who they were. Joseph said, Dad, these are my sons,

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Speaker 1: your grandsons. Imagine how Jacob must have felt. He never

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Speaker 1: thought he would see Joseph again. He'd already accepted that

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Speaker 1: Like Jacob, you may have given up on a dream.

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Speaker 1: You think it's been too long. Now you've accepted that

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Speaker 1: you'll never get well. You never meet the right person,

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Speaker 1: never start that business. But what God put in your heart,

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Speaker 1: He's not only still going to bring it to pass,

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Speaker 1: but it's going to turn out better than you thought.

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Speaker 1: what you're thinking. Jacob called Manassa an Ephrium over and

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Speaker 1: They will inherit the same thing as you and your brothers.

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Speaker 1: What's interesting is these boys were born from an Egyptian mother.

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Speaker 1: Back then, the Egyptians worshiped idols. They didn't believe in Jehovah.

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Speaker 1: She didn't have a heritage of faith. You would think

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Speaker 1: God would say, not gonna have anything to do with

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Speaker 1: that doesn't worship Me. But God doesn't disqualify you because

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Speaker 1: The good news that doesn't have to stop you. Like

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Speaker 1: feel like you've been under a generational curse because of

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Speaker 1: a generational blessing. You're the difference maker. You can be

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Speaker 1: It was extremely significant that these boys were adopted by Jacob.

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Speaker 1: Not only did he overlook who their mother was, but

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Speaker 1: Forty years to receive what Jacob was giving them. Normally,

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Speaker 1: This was showing us the character of God. There are

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Speaker 1: things that we don't deserve. We were, off course, doing

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Speaker 1: family didn't do, and I'm going to adopt you anyway.

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Speaker 1: Paul said in Ephesians, God has adopted us into his

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Speaker 1: in to blessings that you didn't earn, favor that you

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Speaker 1: didn't deserve, houses that you didn't build. The scripture says

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Speaker 1: vineyards that you didn't plant. Your past is not going

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Speaker 1: to limit you. How you were raised is not going

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Speaker 1: to keep God from blessing you like these boys. Mother.

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Speaker 1: There may have been people that didn't honor God, didn't

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Speaker 1: make good choices. God is not holding that against you.

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Speaker 1: He's saying, I'm adopting you anyway, not as my grandchild,

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Speaker 2: As my own son, my own daughter.

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Speaker 1: Joseph's sons shouldn't have been heirs for another generation, but

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Speaker 1: because of what Jacob did, they were thrust forty years

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Speaker 1: years to accomplish, years to get out of debt, years

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Speaker 1: But God is going to do for you what he

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Speaker 1: did for these boys. He's going to catapult you ahead.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see things happen faster than you thought.

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Speaker 1: It should have taken you a generation, but God's going

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Speaker 1: to do a quick work because you're honoring him, because

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Speaker 1: you say as for me and my house. We will

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Speaker 1: serve the Lord. God is feeding things up. What should

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Speaker 1: have taken you your whole life is going to happen

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Speaker 1: in a fraction of the time. But I can imagine

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Speaker 1: Joseph's brothers when they saw the grandsons getting the same

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Speaker 1: blessing that belonged to the brothers. They didn't understand it.

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Speaker 1: They said, Dad, that's not fair. They're sons, not grandsons.

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Speaker 1: You're giving them the same thing that you're giving us.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you favor is not fair. It's just

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Speaker 1: the goodness of God. When God blesses you, don't be

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Speaker 1: surprised if some people get jealous when He speeds things

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Speaker 1: up when you break barriers, some people won't understand it.

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Speaker 1: They'll start talking about you. You don't deserve it. You're

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Speaker 1: not talented, you're just lucky. It's not luck, it's favor.

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Speaker 1: It's God shining down on you, making things happen that

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Speaker 1: you could not make happen. Now, stay on the high road.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to convince people to like you. Some

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Speaker 1: people can't handle your success. If they walk away, let

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Speaker 1: they're not a part of your destiny. Don't waste your

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Speaker 1: God put on your life. Don't apologize for it, don't

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Speaker 1: try to downplay it. You didn't choose it. God chose you.

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Speaker 1: You were a grandson. He's the one that said, I'm

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Speaker 1: adopting you. I'm giving you what you don't deserve. I'm

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Speaker 1: taking you to a new level where your blessings well,

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Speaker 1: it's the favor of God on your life. After Jacob

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Speaker 1: over to give them his blessing. In the Old Testament,

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Speaker 1: the blessing from the father was very significant and very revered.

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Speaker 1: What the father spoke over the sons in his final

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Speaker 1: double portion. That was the tradition. The blessing the father

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Speaker 1: So Joseph brought his oldest son, his firstborn Manassa, and

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Speaker 1: easily reach out and touch him. Ephrium stood on his left.

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Speaker 1: When Joseph eventually looked up and saw it, he was upset.

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Speaker 1: He got up in a hurry and said, Dad, what

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Speaker 1: are you doing. You've got it backwards. Manassa is my oldest.

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Speaker 1: He took Jacob's right hand and was going to place

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Speaker 1: Multitudes of nations will come out of him. God was

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Speaker 1: showing us that he doesn't always bless the way we expect.

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Speaker 1: Ephrium wasn't next in line, he didn't deserve it, he

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Speaker 1: wasn't born in the right position. But God bypassed all

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Speaker 1: was born second. I know this doesn't belong to him,

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Speaker 1: show him favor that he doesn't deserve. And this story

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Speaker 1: God loves to choose people that others say are not qualified.

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Speaker 1: They don't have the talent, they don't come from the

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Speaker 1: right family, they've made too many mistakes. Don't believe those lives.

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Speaker 1: God is about to cross his arms. He's going to

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Speaker 1: put you in a position that you didn't earn. You

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Speaker 1: didn't qualify for it.

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Speaker 2: You weren't next in line.

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Speaker 1: God's going to make things happen that you didn't see coming.

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Speaker 2: And you may think, like I.

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Speaker 1: Did, that where you are now is where you're always

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Speaker 1: going to be. You've reached your limits. That would all

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Speaker 1: be true except for one thing. God is going to

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Speaker 1: cross his arms. You keep honoring God being her best.

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Speaker 1: He will open doors you never dreamed would open. He's

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Speaker 1: going to promote you even though you weren't next in line.

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Speaker 2: You'll think, how did I get here?

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Speaker 1: I didn't have the training, the experience, the connections. Here's

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Speaker 1: how God crossed his arms. I think, how did I

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Speaker 1: end up in front of so many people? Eighteen years ago?

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Speaker 2: I was running the cameras, I was doing the production.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't next in line necessarily, I wasn't the most qualified.

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Speaker 1: But God cost his arms and here I am. How

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Speaker 1: did we get the compact center. We weren't the most

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Speaker 2: But God crossed his arms.

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Speaker 1: He took us from the back and put us in

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Speaker 1: years after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. God crossed his arms.

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Speaker 1: We all face difficulties and people that are hard to

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