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Speaker 6: something funny heard about these two professional baseball players. They
Speaker 6: were discussing whether or not there would be baseball up
Speaker 6: in heaven. They made an agreement that whoever died first
Speaker 6: would come back and tell the other one if indeed
Speaker 6: there was baseball in heaven. A few months later, one
Speaker 6: of the men died, and just like he promised, he
Speaker 6: came back.
Speaker 5: He said to his friend.
Speaker 6: I've got good news and I've got bad news. The
Speaker 6: good news is there is baseball up in heaven. The
Speaker 6: bad news is you're scheduled to pitch next Thursday. Hold
Speaker 6: up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This
Speaker 6: is my Bible.
Speaker 5: I am what it says. I am.
Speaker 6: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 6: what it says I can do. Today, Hey, I will
Speaker 6: be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My
Speaker 6: mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never
Speaker 6: be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I
Speaker 6: want to talk to you today about unexpected sunshine. A
Speaker 6: few months ago, it had been cloudy in Houston for
Speaker 6: a long time, gray, gloomy, overcast.
Speaker 5: Every morning.
Speaker 6: When I woke up, I thought, surely it's going to
Speaker 6: be sunny today. I looked outside eagerly, but nothing had changed.
Speaker 6: I watched the weather reports on the news, but as
Speaker 6: far out as they predicted, it was all cloudy. Checked
Speaker 6: the ten day report on my phone. Nothing had changed,
Speaker 6: no end in sight. It had been that way so
Speaker 6: long people started asking the question, when are we ever
Speaker 6: going to see the sun again. Sometimes it can be
Speaker 6: that way in life. Gets cloudy in our health, cloudy
Speaker 6: in our finances, cloudy in a relationship.
Speaker 5: Day after day goes by, it doesn't look like it's
Speaker 5: ever going to change.
Speaker 6: A gentleman told recently how he struggled with an addiction
Speaker 6: since high school those dark clouds rolled in.
Speaker 5: Now thirty years later, he's still dealing with it.
Speaker 6: Hasn't seen the sun, And when it's been dark for
Speaker 6: a long time, it's easy to get discouraged and think
Speaker 6: that it's never going to change. But one morning I
Speaker 6: was in my office looking out the window was another gray,
Speaker 6: gloomy day, like it had been again and again. But
Speaker 6: all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the clouds broke open,
Speaker 6: and this bright ray of sunlight came shining down.
Speaker 5: It looked like a postcard.
Speaker 6: Was so beautiful, the sun shining through the trees, the
Speaker 6: ground was glistening.
Speaker 5: I sat there and took it all in.
Speaker 6: For such a welcome sight, I could feel my spirits lifting,
Speaker 6: and in a few minutes as I watched, all the
Speaker 6: clouds dissipated. They didn't blow away, they just went away
Speaker 6: like fog burning off. I heard these two words in
Speaker 6: my spirit, unexpected sunshine. Maybe it's been cloudy in your
Speaker 6: life for a long time. Those clouds of loneliness don't
Speaker 6: look like they'll ever leave.
Speaker 5: You don't think you'd ever meet the right person.
Speaker 6: But can I tell you God has unexpected sunshine. He's
Speaker 6: already lined up the person of your dreams, just a
Speaker 6: matter of time before those clouds open up.
Speaker 5: The medical report may say you'll never get well, Just
Speaker 5: learn to live with it. It's cloudy in your health,
Speaker 5: Stay encouraged.
Speaker 6: Unexpected sunshine is coming your way. Or those clouds of
Speaker 6: struggle lack, can't get ahead may have followed you around
Speaker 6: for years. You could easily accept mediocrity, think you've reached
Speaker 6: your limits. No, get ready for unexpected sunshine. One touch
Speaker 6: of God's favor can thrust you to the next level.
Speaker 6: It may be overcast right now, gloomy in some area
Speaker 6: of your life. The good news is those clouds don't
Speaker 6: stop our God. He controls the clouds in a split second.
Speaker 6: He can cause them to open up. Suddenly you get well,
Speaker 6: Suddenly you meet the right person, Suddenly you're out of debt.
Speaker 6: Don't be discouraged by the clouds.
Speaker 5: They're only temporary.
Speaker 6: It was cloudy in our life in nineteen eighty one
Speaker 6: when my mother was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Those
Speaker 6: clouds came storming in and everywhere we looked it was dark, gloomy, depressing.
Speaker 6: The forecast said a few weeks to live. But people
Speaker 6: don't have the final say.
Speaker 5: God does.
Speaker 6: He said, I have unexpected sunshine. I'm going to cause
Speaker 6: those clouds to open up. Shine down, healing, shine down, restoration.
Speaker 6: That's what happened in my mother's life. Unexpectedly the sun
Speaker 6: came out. Thirty four years later, she's still healthy and hall.
Speaker 5: But when it's cloudy, every voice will tell you it's
Speaker 5: never gonna change.
Speaker 6: You'll always be addicted, always be discouraged, always struggle in
Speaker 6: your career.
Speaker 5: Don't believe those lies.
Speaker 6: God is saying, I have unexpected sunshine come in your way.
Speaker 6: It's going to be unusual, out of the ordinary, and
Speaker 6: it's going to happen Suddenly.
Speaker 5: Those clouds are going to break open.
Speaker 6: You're going to see rays of healing, raise of favor,
Speaker 6: raise of promotion.
Speaker 5: Now do your part and get in agreement with God.
Speaker 6: Start acting like it's gonna happen, thinking like it's gonna happen,
Speaker 6: talking like it's gonna happen. No more, I'll never get well, Joel,
Speaker 6: I've had this too long. No, God is restoring health
Speaker 6: back into me. The number of my days he will fulfill.
Speaker 4: No more.
Speaker 6: I never get any good breaks. I'll never accomplish my dreams. No,
Speaker 6: I have the favor of God. Blessings are chasing me down.
Speaker 6: I'm the head and not the tail.
Speaker 5: No more. This problem is too big. I don't see
Speaker 5: a way out.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: It may be big, but I know my God is bigger.
Speaker 6: May be a little cloudy right now, but I know
Speaker 6: a secret unexpected sunshine is coming my way, Jesus said
Speaker 6: in Matthew six point twenty two. A pure eye, let
Speaker 6: sunshine into your soul.
Speaker 5: When you have this attitude.
Speaker 6: Of faith, positive, hopeful, expecting good things. That pure eye
Speaker 6: is letting sunshine into your life. But when we go
Speaker 6: around stressed out, worried, thinking it's never going to change,
Speaker 6: that's stopping the sun It's causing more clouds to roll in,
Speaker 6: more defeat, more mediocrity. You have to start letting some
Speaker 6: sun shine into your life. It doesn't start with God,
Speaker 6: it starts with us. Instead of being discouraged by the
Speaker 6: dark clouds. Our attitude should be any moment this can change.
Speaker 6: Healing is coming, promotion is coming, the right person is coming,
Speaker 6: breakthroughs are coming. If you want to see the clouds
Speaker 6: open up, you have to have this expectancy. Shake off
Speaker 6: the negativity, quit talking about what's not working out.
Speaker 5: Turn it around. God.
Speaker 6: I know you're in control of these clouds. They didn't
Speaker 6: come to stay, they came to pass. I believe at
Speaker 6: any moment, I'm going to see that unexpected sunshine. A
Speaker 6: friend of mine had a supervisor at work that was
Speaker 6: very condescending and hard to get along with.
Speaker 5: Nobody liked the man.
Speaker 6: This supervisor had been a constant source of frustration year
Speaker 6: after year.
Speaker 5: He was a young man.
Speaker 6: He could have easily been there for another twenty or
Speaker 6: thirty years, and my friend had a good attitude.
Speaker 5: He was determined to be his best right where he was.
Speaker 6: But in the back of his mind he thought, this
Speaker 6: is going to be a to have to put up with.
Speaker 5: This man the rest of my life. One morning he
Speaker 5: came to work.
Speaker 6: Everything seemed like normal, but the management called a special
Speaker 6: staff meeting and they told how this supervisor's wife had
Speaker 6: been transferred to another state, and just without any warning,
Speaker 6: he resigned.
Speaker 5: And was no longer with the company.
Speaker 6: Half of the staff fell down on their knees begin
Speaker 6: to thank God. What was that unexpected sunshine?
Speaker 5: He didn't see it coming. The forecast was cloudy.
Speaker 6: All the reports said this problem is permanent. But God
Speaker 6: controls the universe. He knows how to suddenly change things.
Speaker 6: He can suddenly move the wrong people out. He can
Speaker 6: suddenly open doors you never dreamed would open. That's why
Speaker 6: you can't just go by what you see. What you
Speaker 6: see is temporary, like those weather forecasts. It may tell
Speaker 6: you it's going to be the same month after month,
Speaker 6: year after year, gloomy, depressing, it's never going to change.
Speaker 5: In the natural.
Speaker 6: That may be true, But the good news is we
Speaker 6: serve a supernatural god on your own. You may be stuck,
Speaker 6: but you're not on your own. The creator of the universe,
Speaker 6: the god who spoke worlds into existence, has you in
Speaker 6: the palm of his hand. He's directing your steps. He
Speaker 6: controls the clouds, he controls the winds. He doesn't have
Speaker 6: to wait for the weather to get better, doesn't have
Speaker 6: to wait for the medical report to improve, doesn't have
Speaker 6: to wait for the situation to turn around. No, when
Speaker 6: it's your time for promotion, for healing, for abundance, all
Speaker 6: the forces of darkness cannot stop our God. Don't get
Speaker 6: discouraged and give up on what you're believing for you
Speaker 6: need to get ready.
Speaker 5: Those clouds are about to open up.
Speaker 6: The sun is about to break through, Just like I
Speaker 6: saw in my office that day. In fifteen minutes, all
Speaker 6: the clouds went out of the sky.
Speaker 5: Totally cleared up.
Speaker 6: God knows how to make what should have taken years
Speaker 6: happen in a fraction of the time. You're gonna look
Speaker 6: up and say, like my friend, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 6: I didn't see my supervisor resigning that quickly. I didn't
Speaker 6: see my health improving this fast. I didn't see that
Speaker 6: new house on the radar.
Speaker 5: I didn't see that favor coming.
Speaker 6: A gentleman that's attended Lakewood for many years had a
Speaker 6: major stroke. He was told by the medical professionals that
Speaker 6: he would probably never be able to walk or talk again.
Speaker 5: Even if he did relearn how to.
Speaker 6: Do it, it would take years of rehabilitation. It looked cloudy,
Speaker 6: the forecast was very depressing. But this man understood this
Speaker 6: principle that God has unexpected sunshine. He didn't sit around
Speaker 6: in self pity. He knew he was a victor, not
Speaker 6: a victim. He went to therapy every day, and he
Speaker 6: amazed the therapist. They had never seen anyone like him.
Speaker 6: Sixteen months after he had the stroke, he came back
Speaker 6: to Lakewood for the first time. He came back not
Speaker 6: in a wheelchair, not on a walker.
Speaker 5: He walked in on his own two feet.
Speaker 6: He was told that he would never be able to
Speaker 6: lift this left arm. But when I saw him in
Speaker 6: the lobby and our eyes met, he lifted that arm,
Speaker 6: both arms raised in the air, raised in victory. I'll
Speaker 6: never forget that image. He wasn't disabled, he wasn't limping.
Speaker 6: What should have taken years, God made happen in a
Speaker 6: fraction of the time, unexpected sunshine.
Speaker 5: The scripture puts it this way.
Speaker 6: When darkness overtakes the righteous, light will come bursting in.
Speaker 6: Doesn't say it'll trickle in barely get there, hopefully make
Speaker 6: it one day. No, suddenly, unexpectedly, it will come bursting in.
Speaker 5: That means it wasn't on the radar.
Speaker 6: You didn't see it coming, but God in his goodness,
Speaker 6: turned it all around. It may be dark in your
Speaker 6: life right now, cloudy in some area. You don't see
Speaker 6: how you'd ever get well, ever get out of dead,
Speaker 6: ever see the legal situation resolve.
Speaker 5: Here's the key. You are the righteous, You.
Speaker 6: Are a child of the most High God. You have
Speaker 6: royal blood flowing through your veins. That means you have
Speaker 6: a promise from your creator. When it gets dark, when
Speaker 6: you could easily be discouraged, when you feel like giving up,
Speaker 6: God says you need to get ready.
Speaker 5: Light is about to burst in.
Speaker 6: Healing is going to burst in, favor is going to
Speaker 6: burst in vindication, Restoration is.
Speaker 5: Going to suddenly show up.
Speaker 6: A man that knew the Lord as a child, but
Speaker 6: when he was a teenager he got off course, started
Speaker 6: running with the wrong crowd. He was living a very
Speaker 6: violent life, selling drugs, involved in crime. He was a
Speaker 6: disaster waiting to happen. Most of his life he was high.
Speaker 6: Surely God wouldn't have anything to do with him.
Speaker 5: It was his own fault. He brought the trouble on himself.
Speaker 5: But God is so merciful.
Speaker 6: Even though he was making poor choices, even though he
Speaker 6: turned away from God, God didn't turn away from him.
Speaker 6: God still saw him as the righteous. In the midst
Speaker 6: of all that trouble, God said, that's my son.
Speaker 5: He belongs to me.
Speaker 6: He is overcome by darkness, so my light is about
Speaker 6: to come bursting in. He was in a hotel room,
Speaker 6: been there for four days doing drugs with some very
Speaker 6: violent people.
Speaker 5: Something happened to where.
Speaker 6: He couldn't make his payment, became very angry and were
Speaker 6: about to take his life. He ran and barricaded himself
Speaker 6: in the bathroom. High on drugs, he said, this is
Speaker 6: it God, I'm sorry, my life is over. In a
Speaker 6: few minutes, the door was violently kicked in. He braced himself,
Speaker 6: expecting the worst. When he looked up, it wasn't who
Speaker 6: he thought. It was a group of young people from
Speaker 6: Teen Challenge. He had been involved with that ministry as
Speaker 6: a teenager. Now years later they heard that he was
Speaker 6: in trouble. Somehow they found him in the middle of
Speaker 6: the night in this drug infested run down hotel, just
Speaker 6: in the nick of time. They burst in there like
Speaker 6: navy seals. The other people thought they were the police
Speaker 6: and took off running. They picked him up off the ground, said,
Speaker 6: God sent us here to rescue you because you belonged
Speaker 6: to him. That night was the turning point in his life.
Speaker 6: He never did another drug God out of that violent lifestyle.
Speaker 6: Today he goes around to schools and churches telling people
Speaker 6: what God has done for him.
Speaker 5: Maybe, like this young man, you have.
Speaker 6: A son, a daughter, a family member that's off course,
Speaker 6: running with the wrong crowd. They've been overcome by darkness.
Speaker 6: You could easily be discouraged, but stay in faith. Your
Speaker 6: child belongs to God. There's nothing that can snatch them
Speaker 6: out of his hand. They may be in darkness, but
Speaker 6: light is coming, Deliverance is coming, Freedom is coming. God
Speaker 6: is not judging them by where they are right now.
Speaker 5: God is not.
Speaker 6: Abandoning them because they turn their back. God still sees
Speaker 6: them as the righteous. Light is still about to burst in.
Speaker 6: Or maybe You've made poor choices.
Speaker 5: You don't think you could expect anything.
Speaker 6: Good, Joel, God would never help me. You don't know
Speaker 6: the life that I've lived. It doesn't say God will
Speaker 6: help the righteous as long as you don't make any mistakes.
Speaker 5: Have a new perspective. You belong to God. You are
Speaker 5: his child. Now you have to have this attitude God.
Speaker 5: I made this mess.
Speaker 6: I brought this trouble on myself. But I know You're
Speaker 6: a God of mercy. I believe you still have unexpected
Speaker 6: sunshine come in my way. In other words, I'm struggling
Speaker 6: with this addiction, but I believe deliverance is on the way. Restoration,
Speaker 6: vindication is going to suddenly show up numbers. Chapter seventeen,
Speaker 6: there had been a power struggle over who would become
Speaker 6: the next priest. The people were questioning moses authority. God
Speaker 6: told Moses he was going to show them who the
Speaker 6: priest should be, and God instructed Moses to take the
Speaker 6: stabs the walking sticks from the leaders of each of
Speaker 6: the tribes of Israel. He placed these walking sticks in
Speaker 6: a tear next to the ark of the Covenant.
Speaker 5: That's where God lived.
Speaker 6: Back there, these staffs were just old, dried up dead
Speaker 6: pieces of wood, just basically a stick that they had
Speaker 6: used for years. The next morning, the staff of Erin
Speaker 6: had sprouted branches, grown leaves, and even produced almonds. Here
Speaker 6: this old piece of dead wood was now blooming and blossoming.
Speaker 5: They knew Erin was supposed to be the priest.
Speaker 6: One lesson we can learn from this story is that
Speaker 6: God can change things overnight.
Speaker 5: He can take a situation that.
Speaker 6: Should take years to resolve and accelerat it. You may
Speaker 6: think it's going to take years to get well, years
Speaker 6: to get out of debt, years to accomplish your dreams.
Speaker 5: God knows how to speed it up.
Speaker 6: One good break, one phone call, one idea, Suddenly, unexpectedly overnight,
Speaker 6: God can change it now.
Speaker 5: Don't believe the lies. It's never going to get better, Joel.
Speaker 6: My marriage situation it looks dead, my dreams, my financial situation.
Speaker 5: It all looks dead. That's okay.
Speaker 6: God took a stick that it had been dead for
Speaker 6: years and caused it to produce new fruit. What you
Speaker 6: think is dead, God is saying I can still cause
Speaker 6: it to bloom, to blossom.
Speaker 5: I can breathe new life in it.
Speaker 6: You can still become who you were created to be.
Speaker 6: You can still overcome that obstacle. You can still accomplish
Speaker 6: your dreams. I received a letter from a lady that
Speaker 6: had been married for forty seven years, but because of
Speaker 6: some hurtful things in the relationship, she and her husband
Speaker 6: had recently gotten a divorce. Somebody invited her to Lakewood.
Speaker 6: Her ex husband heard and asked if he could come.
Speaker 6: The Saturday night before the service, they had a big
Speaker 6: disagreement on the phone.
Speaker 5: Nothing had changed.
Speaker 6: Sunday morning, he went and picked her up, and on
Speaker 6: the way over in the car, they had another major argument.
Speaker 6: She was so upset she almost got out and wouldn't
Speaker 6: come in. They finally arrived and went way up to
Speaker 6: the top to sit. She mentioned to an usher that
Speaker 6: it was their first time they were visiting.
Speaker 5: He said, oh, follow me.
Speaker 6: He took them from the very top to the front
Speaker 6: section and sat them on the second road.
Speaker 5: They were very moved by the service.
Speaker 6: During the prayer time, they came up and prayed with
Speaker 6: one of our volunteer prayer partners, a young lady. After
Speaker 6: the service, being new, they didn't really know where to go,
Speaker 6: so they walked out this exit right over here by
Speaker 6: my left I was coming out of a small room.
Speaker 6: She was coming around a corner and we literally bumped
Speaker 6: into each other.
Speaker 5: I said, oh, I'm.
Speaker 6: Sorry, I didn't see you out of all the people here.
Speaker 6: She was surprised that she bumped into me. Her husband
Speaker 6: spoke up and said, we just got divorced after forty
Speaker 6: seven years.
Speaker 5: We came to church because we're hurting.
Speaker 6: I told them it wasn't a coincidence that we had
Speaker 6: bumped into each other. It was the hand of God
Speaker 6: directing their steps. I had a new book that was
Speaker 6: out and asked them if they'd come upstairs with me,
Speaker 6: and I gave them a copy of my book, and
Speaker 6: we prayed together. And as they were leaving through that lobby,
Speaker 6: thousands of people walking in and out, it just so happened,
Speaker 6: they bumped in to the young lady that had prayed
Speaker 6: with them during the service, that volunteer prayer partner. She
Speaker 6: asked if this couple had a moment that they could
Speaker 6: talk together.
Speaker 5: She spoke to them.
Speaker 6: About forgiveness, restoration, new beginnings.
Speaker 5: The wife was having a hard time forgiving.
Speaker 6: She looked her in the eyes and said, your husband
Speaker 6: is a good man. He deserves your forgiveness. That moment
Speaker 6: she released the hurt, their marriage was restored.
Speaker 5: That was six years ago.
Speaker 6: Today they are happily remarried right here on the front road.
Speaker 6: John and Anne some of our most faithful volunteers, really
Speaker 6: great people, And wrote at the end of the letter Joel,
Speaker 6: we were both stunned at how quickly God turned things around.
Speaker 5: Friends.
Speaker 6: God knows how to change things overnight, even situations that
Speaker 6: look impossible, you think it's way too far gone. God
Speaker 6: knows how to break through those dark clouds Suddenly the
Speaker 6: relationship is restored. Suddenly you get healthy again. Suddenly you
Speaker 6: get that break you need. God is going to accelerate what.
Speaker 5: You think should take years.
Speaker 6: You know what that usher was that brought them from
Speaker 6: the top down to the front.
Speaker 5: Unexpected sunshine.
Speaker 6: You know what that volunteer prayer partner was that took
Speaker 6: time to speak faith into their life, that prayed within
Speaker 6: that day. Unexpected sunshine. What am I saying? God has
Speaker 6: the right people lined up for you. He knows how
Speaker 6: to put you at the right place at the right time.
Speaker 5: What are the chances, says all.
Speaker 6: The people here that we would bump into each other.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a coincidence.
Speaker 5: It was unexpected sunshine.
Speaker 6: You may think, Joe, in my situation, I don't see
Speaker 6: how it could ever work out. Here's the beauty. You
Speaker 6: don't have to figure it out. All you have to
Speaker 6: do is believe. Just because you don't see a way
Speaker 6: doesn't mean that God doesn't have a way. He already
Speaker 6: has the solution. Our attitude should be God, my life
Speaker 6: is in your hands. It's a little cloudy right now.
Speaker 6: I don't see how I could accomplish my dreams. But God,
Speaker 6: I believe you have unexpected sunshine come in my way.
Speaker 6: I believe you'll get me to where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 6: The Psalmists put it this way. Weeping may endure for
Speaker 6: a night, but joy is coming in the morning. Think
Speaker 6: about this, Morning starts at midnight. At midnight, it's still dark,
Speaker 6: but it's a new day. When a few hours, light
Speaker 6: is coming, the sun's going to break forth. But too
Speaker 6: often when it's dark in our life, we think, oh, man,
Speaker 6: nothing's changing, Joe, that's never going to get any better. No,
Speaker 6: you have to believe that you pass midnight. You have
Speaker 6: to believe that you've entered into a new day.
Speaker 5: And here's the key.
Speaker 6: Don't wait to thank God until you see the sunshine.
Speaker 6: Dare to thank him while it's still dark. Dare to
Speaker 6: have a good attitude while it's still cloudy. This is
Speaker 6: what faith is all about. We think, when I see it,
Speaker 6: I'll believe it. But faith says you have to believe
Speaker 6: it and then you'll see it.
Speaker 5: But when things.
Speaker 6: Aren't going our way, it's easy to do just the opposite,
Speaker 6: get negative, complain Why can't I get any good breaks?
Speaker 5: When is this ever going to change? There's no turn
Speaker 5: it around.
Speaker 6: It may be dark right now, but Lord, I believe
Speaker 6: I've entered into a new day.
Speaker 5: I believe I've passed midnight.
Speaker 6: So I want to thank you that joy is healing
Speaker 6: is coming, the right person is coming, The breakthrough is coming. Lord,
Speaker 6: thank you for your unexpected sunshine. You live like that,
Speaker 6: You're going to see some sudden leaves. Those clouds are
Speaker 6: going to break open. God will amaze you with his goodness.
Speaker 6: This couple I know were at the beach. They were
Speaker 6: in the water, playing in the waves, having a lot
Speaker 6: of fun, and at one point the lady felt her
Speaker 6: expensive diamond necklace slip off of her neck into the water,
Speaker 6: and they were right at the place where the waves
Speaker 6: were breaking. The water was all stirred up like a
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Speaker 6: had no chance of finding it.
Speaker 5: And even though she was disappointed.
Speaker 6: That she lost it, she didn't let it steal her
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Speaker 6: she went out to the beach very early to enjoy
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Speaker 6: for what he had done, not even thinking about her
Speaker 6: necklace under her foot. As the waves retreated, it pulled
Speaker 6: more and more sand out, little by little. In a
Speaker 6: few minutes, she felt something sharp poking her foot.
Speaker 5: She thought it was a rock, a seashell. She looked down.
Speaker 5: It was her diamond necklace. Unexpected sunshine.
Speaker 6: Only God could make that happen. That's like finding a
Speaker 6: needle in the haystack. The good news. God created the haystack.
Speaker 6: He knows where everything is. He tells every grain of
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Speaker 6: in the ocean, he can bring your dreams to pass.
Speaker 6: He can help you overcome that problem. He has it
Speaker 6: all figured out well, Joel. I don't have the connections.
Speaker 5: That's okay. He does. I don't have the resources. That's
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Speaker 6: He owns it all well. The medical report says no way.
Speaker 6: God has the final say. He says, yes way. It
Speaker 6: may be cloudy in your life, but I can sense
Speaker 6: in my spirit those clouds are about to open up.
Speaker 5: You need to get ready.
Speaker 6: You are close to a breakthrough. It's going to happen
Speaker 6: sooner than you think. You're about to see some suddenlyaes. Now,
Speaker 6: do your part, let the sun shine into your life.
Speaker 6: Have this attitude of faith, go out each day with expectancy.
Speaker 6: If you do this, I believe and declare, light is
Speaker 6: about to come, bursting in healing, favor, promotion, breakthroughs, unexpected
Speaker 6: sunshine is come in your way in Jesus' name. If
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Speaker 6: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an
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