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Speaker 1: Praying for you guys every day, and thanks for being

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Speaker 1: with us today. Hey, I'm excited. Victoria's got a new

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Speaker 1: book you will see how you are strengthened, that you

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Speaker 1: front of you. You are Grace to Go. Enjoy today's message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we will make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this positive farmer and negative farmer. When it would rain,

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Speaker 1: and our crops. The negative farmer would say, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: if it keeps us up, it's going to rock the roots.

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Speaker 1: When the sun came out, the positive farmer, Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for giving our plants valuable nutrients. The negative farmer, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but if it keeps it up, it's going to towards

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Speaker 1: the crops. One day they went bird hunting together in

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Speaker 1: He was so proud of him. He shot a bird,

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Speaker 1: fell in the water, said to the negative farmer. Watched this.

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Speaker 1: The dog jumped out of the boat, ran on top

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Speaker 1: known it. That dog can't even swim. Say it like

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

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about it's worth

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Speaker 1: the weight. We all have things that were waiting for

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Speaker 1: or to meet the right person. When it's taking longer

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Speaker 1: than we thought, it's easy to get discouraged, to become

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Speaker 1: But sometimes it's not happening because we're not prepared for

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Speaker 1: what God has prepared. You're ready for what you have

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Speaker 1: in mind, you would realize you couldn't handle it right now.

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Speaker 1: You need more time to grow, to develop, to gain experience,

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Speaker 1: and the scripture says let patients have its perfect work.

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Speaker 1: Patience is developed in the weight room. When I was

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Speaker 1: like a waste of time. But in that weight room

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Speaker 1: we were getting stronger, building endurance so we could succeed

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Speaker 1: on the court. You see what God promised before you

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Speaker 1: weight room. Wait. You may not like it. You don't

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Speaker 1: see anything happening. Other people are in the game making progress.

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Speaker 1: Your stuff waiting, but that time in the weight room

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Speaker 1: is critical. You may not see anything changing, but something

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Speaker 1: is happening. Patience is working. Your spiritual muscles are getting stronger,

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Speaker 1: You're growing developing. Patience is building you, getting you prepared

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Speaker 1: so you can sustain what God has coming. Don't discount

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Speaker 1: the waiting periods. Don't get discouraged because it's not happening

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Speaker 1: that means the more God has in store when it's

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Speaker 1: your time, when he knows you're ready, what you give

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Speaker 1: birth to is going to be much bigger than you've imagined.

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Speaker 1: Hebrews says you have need of patience so you can

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Speaker 1: God has you right where he wants you. That promise

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Speaker 1: David waited thirteen years to take the throne after the

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Speaker 1: If what you're praying about isn't changing, then God is

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Speaker 1: using that situation to change you. If it's not working out,

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Speaker 1: then it's working out something in you. All things are

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Speaker 1: working for your good. When we acquired the Compact Center,

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Speaker 1: Now there was a chance it wasn't going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Thoughts told me, Joel, you're going to look like a fool.

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Speaker 1: Joseph was in prison unfairly all those years, says in Psalms,

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Speaker 1: We live in a microwave society, but we serve a

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Speaker 1: When our daughter Alexandra turned eighteen, we got her a car.

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