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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.

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Speaker 2: God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 1: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. But I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 2: And I heard about these two brothers.

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Speaker 1: They were known for being very dishonest and having no integrity.

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Speaker 2: They were also very wealthy.

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Speaker 1: And one of them died and his brother said to

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Speaker 1: the pastor, I'll make a deal with you. If you'll

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Speaker 1: say at the funeral that my brother was a saint,

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Speaker 1: I'll make a large donation to your church. The pastor agreed,

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Speaker 1: and the man made the donation. At the funeral, the

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Speaker 1: pastor said, this man was dishonest, he cheated, lied, stole,

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Speaker 1: but compare to his brother, he was a saint. All right,

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: of God.

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Speaker 2: 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 God wastes nothing. We all go through things that

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Speaker 1: we don't understand, things that are not fair, dealing with

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Speaker 1: an illness, had a rough childhood, or a relationship didn't

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Speaker 1: work out. There are seasons we're not making progress, No

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Speaker 1: good breaks. Everything is routine. Sometimes we make mistakes and

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Speaker 1: bring heartache and trouble on ourselves, and it's easy to

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Speaker 1: get discourage and lose our passion for life. But the

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Speaker 1: beauty of our God is he doesn't waste any that

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Speaker 1: we go through. He doesn't waste the pain, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: waste the struggle, he doesn't waste the failures. You may

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Speaker 1: have blown it and done things you regret, but God

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Speaker 1: knows how to bring good out of it. He wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have allowed it if it was going to keep you

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Speaker 1: from your purpose. Everything that you've been through is preparing

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Speaker 1: you for where God is taking you. May not be comfortable,

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Speaker 1: may not be fair, but God is going to use

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Speaker 1: it to position you for the assignment that He's placed

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Speaker 1: on your life. Now, thoughts you a whisper, it's too late,

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Speaker 1: didn't work out, You had your chance, just to accept it. No,

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Speaker 1: God is not finished with you. The struggle wasn't a waste.

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Speaker 1: It's making you stronger. The delay is not a waste.

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Speaker 1: It's positioning you for greater things. The betrayal, the breakup,

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Speaker 1: the loss. Yes, it was painful, but it wasn't wasted.

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Speaker 1: You gained experience with insight. The miracle is not in

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Speaker 1: what you lost. The miracle is in what you have left.

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Speaker 1: The depth of your pain is an indication of the

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Speaker 1: height of your future. When you've been through a great disappointment,

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Speaker 1: great heart ache, great struggle, that tells me you have

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Speaker 1: a great future. The enemy minute for harm, but God

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Speaker 1: knows how to turn it to your advantage. You're not

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Speaker 1: going to come out the same, You're going to come

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Speaker 1: out stronger, with more faith, more courage, greater character, greater passion.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't understand that God doesn't waste anything.

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Speaker 1: Tempting to get bitter live.

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Speaker 2: Discouraged joy.

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Speaker 1: They ruined my life, they walked out on mayor I

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Speaker 1: didn't have a good childhood, I came down with this illness,

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Speaker 1: or I lost a loved one, broke my heart. You

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Speaker 1: can't control all that life is going to happen. This

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Speaker 1: is when you have to remind yourself that God is

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Speaker 1: didn't have a purpose for us. Nothing in your life

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Speaker 1: is going to be wasted. I can't promise you there

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Speaker 1: won't be seasons of struggle, seasons that are not fair.

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Speaker 1: But I can promise you if you'll keep the right attitude,

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Speaker 1: you'll come out better. We don't grow so much in

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Speaker 1: the good times. We grow in the difficult times where

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Speaker 1: we're being stressed and pressed and we have to dig

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Speaker 1: down deep and pass the test. That's where God is

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Speaker 1: getting us prepared for our destiny. Without that adversity, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't step into the fullness of what He has in store.

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Speaker 1: John chapter six, Jesus prayed over a little boy's lunch

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Speaker 1: five loaves of bread and two fish, and God multiplied

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Speaker 2: People, a great miracle. After they had all eaten.

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Speaker 1: Jesus said to the disciples, gather up the fragments, so

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Speaker 1: that nothing will be wasted. Why would Jesus be concerned

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Speaker 1: about the fragments, the leftovers. He's God.

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Speaker 2: He just multiplied the food.

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Speaker 1: If he wanted more, he could make more fresh and new,

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Speaker 1: not this leftover stopped now. He was showing us this

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Speaker 2: The fragments represent.

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Speaker 1: The broken pieces of our lives. What's left over, what's

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Speaker 1: not useful, seems unnecessary, have relationship that didn't work out,

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Speaker 1: contract that didn't go through, the child that got off course.

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Speaker 2: We feel broken, hurting, discouraged.

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Speaker 1: God says to the angels, gather up those fragments. He's

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Speaker 1: not going to waste anything you've been through. He's going

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Speaker 1: to turn that pain into power. He's going to take

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Speaker 1: that struggle and turn it into strength where you get stronger.

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Speaker 2: And you grow through it.

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Speaker 1: He'll take that loss where you feel discouraged and alone,

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Speaker 1: and cause you to blossom. Bring beauty out of the ashes,

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Speaker 1: joy out of the morning, victory out of the defeat.

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Speaker 1: You may have things in your life that feel like leftovers.

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Speaker 1: You'd rather forget about it, the mistake you made, how

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Speaker 1: someone treated you, the business that didn't work out. That's painful.

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Speaker 1: There were lonely lines. You think, Man, leave those fragments,

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Speaker 1: leave that broken piece, leave that struggling season you. No,

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Speaker 1: God says, I'm not going to let you go through

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Speaker 2: Gather up those fragments.

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Speaker 1: It looks unnecessary, not useful. But God can make miracles

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Speaker 1: out of a mistake. He can take broken pieces and

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Speaker 1: bring beauty. He can take that pain and use it

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Speaker 1: to propel you into your purpose. I can imagine the

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Speaker 1: disciples picking up the fragments and old pieces of bread

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Speaker 1: and parts of the fish, and here's the tail, because

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Speaker 1: messy and stinky. They're thinking, what does Jesus want with

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Speaker 1: all these scraps. Doesn't he know these are the leftovers,

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Speaker 1: the broken pieces, things that nobody wants. That's the way

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Speaker 1: our God is. Things we go through that seem like

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Speaker 1: there's no good in it. No good in this sickness Joel,

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Speaker 1: no good in the loss of my loved one, no

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Speaker 1: good in this storm that damaged my house.

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Speaker 2: Our God specializes.

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Speaker 1: In the fragments, in taking the scraps and bringing good

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Speaker 1: out of it. You may be in a season that's unfair. Today,

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Speaker 1: it's uncomfortable, slnely. You're not making any progress. You can't

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Speaker 1: see it right now, but it's doing something in you.

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Speaker 1: You're getting stronger, you're growing, developing greater faith, trust and endurance.

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Speaker 1: It's getting you prepared for where God is taking you. Now,

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Speaker 1: do the right thing when it's hard. Forgive when they

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Speaker 1: don't deserve it. Smile when you could be, sound, praise

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Speaker 2: That's passing the test.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see the hand of God take the

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Speaker 1: fragments of your life and do more than you can imagine.

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Speaker 1: He'll take the broken pieces and make something beautiful. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't waste anything. The pain is real, but it's not

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Speaker 1: going to be wasted. The struggle is difficult, but there's

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Speaker 1: good coming out of it. The betrayal, the loss, the sickness,

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Speaker 1: that's difficult, but that's not how your story ends. God

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Speaker 1: is gathering up the fragments right now. Healing is coming,

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Speaker 1: Breakthroughs are coming, new beginnings the right people. Victory is coming.

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Speaker 1: Moses was born into a difficult environment. The Israelites were

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Speaker 1: slaves in Egypt. The Fawor was concerned that they were

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Speaker 1: getting too big and too powerful, so he ordered all.

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Speaker 2: The Hebrew baby boys under the age.

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Speaker 1: Of two to be killed. But what God has purpose

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Speaker 1: for your life cannot be stopped by people, by bad breaks.

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Speaker 1: God has the final saying. Moses' mother knew there was

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Speaker 1: something special about him. For three months, she hid baby Moses,

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Speaker 1: but when he got too big, she put him in

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Speaker 2: There were snakes, alligators, all.

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Speaker 1: Kinds of danger. But when you commit your children into

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Speaker 1: God's hands, he knows how to protect them, how to

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Speaker 1: It just so happened. Bero's daughter was out taking a

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Speaker 1: at first sight. She said to her assistant, this must

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Speaker 1: be one of the Hebrew babies. Well, her father was

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Speaker 2: Moses grew up in royalty. He had the finest education

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Speaker 2: of that day. The Egyptians were leaders in science and technology.

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Speaker 1: The huge pyramids. They built, the engineering, the design without

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Speaker 1: amazing upbringing. What made it even more unusual was he

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Speaker 1: Deep down. He knew he was supposed to deliver his

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Speaker 1: Word got out about what had happened. Moses had to

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Speaker 2: Well, Moses had no training to be out in the wilderness.

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Speaker 1: He had no survival skills. He grew up in the palace.

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Speaker 1: He never had to find food. Food was brought to him.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have to worry about shelter, where to sleep.

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Speaker 1: He lived in a private bedroom with maids to keep

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Speaker 1: But now in the desert, he had to learn what

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Speaker 1: Where he could find water, how to build a shelter,

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Speaker 2: From a storm. He lived in the desert for forty years.

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Speaker 1: He became an expert at surviving in the wilderness. He

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Speaker 1: knew to how to handle the terrain, the climate, the

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Speaker 1: out there in the desert. Many times he thought, men,

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Speaker 1: I miss my calling. God's hand was on my life.

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Speaker 1: and now I'm stuck out here. The scripture says God's

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Speaker 1: calling on your life is irrevocable. God doesn't change his mind.

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Speaker 1: We may make mistakes, we get off course, people do

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Speaker 1: us wrong, But every step of the way you are

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Speaker 1: learning something. You're going to need for your destiny. It

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Speaker 1: looks random, like it's just another delay, another wrong turn,

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