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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.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Will God bless you? It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. And if you're ever in our area, please

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Speaker 1: stop buying. Be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll 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 lady. She just got out of choir practice

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Speaker 1: and she was so fired up. She put a honk

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Speaker 1: if you love Jesus bumper sticker on her car. At

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Speaker 1: the intersection, she was digging in her purse and didn't

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Speaker 1: notice that the light changed. She said, I was so

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Speaker 1: excited to find out the god behind me loved Jesus.

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Speaker 1: He started honking, so I rolled my window down wave

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Speaker 1: real big told him I love Jesus too. She said.

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Speaker 1: I found out a whole lot of people love Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Everyone started honking. One man even screamed Jesus Christ. She said.

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Speaker 1: After we shared all that love together, I was the

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Speaker 1: only one that made it through the intersection. Here we go.

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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: taught 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 be comfortable not knowing.

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Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see how they're

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Speaker 1: going to work out. We look at the facts, the figures,

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Speaker 1: the reports, the odds are against us. We do our

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Speaker 1: best to come up with a plan to find some

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Speaker 1: kind of solution. We think we have to have the

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Speaker 1: answer or it's not going to happen. But there are

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Speaker 1: some things God doesn't want us to know. He has

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Speaker 1: the solution. But if he showed you right now, it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't take any faith. If you could see how your

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Speaker 1: child is going to turn out, the doors God's going

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Speaker 1: to open for you, the favor, the provision, the healing,

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Speaker 1: it would be easy to believe. The test comes when

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Speaker 1: we don't know the answer, when we don't see how

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen. Thoughts tell us, how are you

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Speaker 1: going to make it after you retire? What if you

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Speaker 1: don't get that scholarship? What if your health doesn't improve

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Speaker 1: the problem is sometimes there is no logical solution. The

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Speaker 1: more we try to reason it out, the more discourage

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Speaker 1: we get, thinking what am I going to do? But

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Speaker 1: this is what faith is all about. You have to

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Speaker 1: be comfortable not knowing. You don't have to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to come up with the plan. It's

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Speaker 1: okay not to know. When Moses led the two million

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Speaker 1: Israelites out of slavery into the desert, they were headed

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Speaker 1: toward the Promised Land, very excited God had just brought

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Speaker 1: them out of years of captivity. I can imagine someone

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Speaker 1: asking Moses, where are we going to camp in the desert?

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Speaker 1: Moses said, I don't know. Where are we going to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Moses, what route are we going to take?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. They could have thought, Moses, what kind

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Speaker 1: of leader are you? But just because you don't know

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean God doesn't have a plan. Moses was comfortable

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Speaker 1: not knowing. He had such a trust in God. He

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Speaker 1: didn't have to understand how everything was going to work out.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have to have all the details. He took

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Speaker 1: it one step at a time. And sometimes we think

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Speaker 1: it's a lack of faith to say I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We think we have to have it all figured out.

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Speaker 1: Take the pressure off. You have to know. God knows

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Speaker 1: He has you in the palm of his hand. He's

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Speaker 1: directing your steps. The scripture says God has planned out

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Speaker 1: all of your days. He has a blueprint for your life.

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Speaker 1: Here's the catch. God doesn't give us the details. If

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Speaker 1: he showed you all he has in store, you'd not

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Speaker 1: only be amazed, it would not only excite you, but

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Speaker 1: the giants you're going to face, the closed doors, the

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Speaker 1: times you have to stretch, you might say, that's okay, God,

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Speaker 1: God doesn't want you to know. You have to be

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Speaker 1: comfortable not knowing. When you say, God, I don't see

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to live stressed worried. God, I trust

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Speaker 1: when I don't have the answer. I realize I don't

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Speaker 1: have to know because you know and you control the universe.

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Speaker 1: That attitude of faith is what allows God to do

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Speaker 1: amazing things. See. The truth is God had the solution

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Speaker 1: before you had the problem. He could show you the details.

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Speaker 1: He could show you how it's going to resolve. If

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Speaker 1: he's not, then it's a test. He doesn't want you

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Speaker 1: to know right now. Will you trust him even when

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Speaker 1: of person that wants to know. I like to have

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Speaker 1: a plan. I'm detailed organized. I'm always trying to figure

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Speaker 1: things out when I don't see a way. I used

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Speaker 1: principle that there are some things we're not supposed to know.

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Speaker 1: It's okay to say, like Moses, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: it's going to work out, but I'm at peace. That's

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Speaker 1: not a lack of faith, it's just the opposite. You're

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Speaker 1: taking yourself off the throne and putting God back on

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Speaker 1: the throne. But when we're trying to figure everything out,

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Speaker 1: come up with our plan. If I can make this

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Speaker 1: happen and manipulate this situation, convince this person to like me. Really,

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Speaker 1: we're being God. As long as you're on the throne,

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Speaker 1: God will step back. But when you say, God, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how this is going to work out, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to worry. I'm not going to keep

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Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. God. I trust you. I

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Speaker 1: know your plans for me are for good. When you're

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Speaker 1: comfortable not knowing, God will make things happen that you

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Speaker 1: couldn't make happen. When we acquired this building, the former

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Speaker 1: Compact Center, it was going to cost one hundred million

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Speaker 1: power plant, air conditioning system, and when I looked at

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Speaker 1: the numbers on paper, there was no way we could

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Speaker 1: We were still millions short. Every day I was tempted

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Speaker 1: already signed the loan, construction had already started on a

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Speaker 1: certain date right before we moved in. We had to

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Speaker 1: There wasn't any sign we would get it. The closer

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Speaker 1: But when I was tempted to be stressed, I would

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Speaker 1: always come back to this fact. God, I know you

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Speaker 1: gave us this building. I saw you change council members

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Speaker 1: I know it was your favor that opened the door.

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Speaker 1: And I know you didn't bring us this far to

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Speaker 1: leave us now. I don't know how it's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: but I'm okay not knowing how, because I know you

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Speaker 1: are still on the throne. Two weeks before the big

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Speaker 1: payment was due, we unexpectedly sold a piece of property.

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Speaker 1: We were told it would sell for a certain price.

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Speaker 1: It sold for almost twice that amount. It was the

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Speaker 1: hand of God stepping in at just the right time,

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Speaker 1: making a way well, we didn't see away. You may

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Speaker 1: you don't see the answer. That's okay, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to see it. Don't get discouraged. Don't start com planing.

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Speaker 1: God is working behind the scenes. He's about to make

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

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Speaker 1: be unusual, out of the ordinary. You're going to know

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Speaker 1: it's the goodness of God. Moses didn't have all the answers.

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Speaker 1: He didn't know how the Israelites would make it through

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Speaker 1: the desert. But God gave them manna to eat each morning,

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Speaker 1: them simply marching around them. Supernatural provision, supernatural protection. What

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Speaker 1: am I saying, just because you don't have the answers

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean God is not going to show up and

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Speaker 1: do something amazing in your life. Now, my challenge is

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Speaker 1: trust him when you don't understand. Be comfortable not knowing.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says, lean not to your own understanding. Take

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Speaker 1: this in the right sense. But sometimes you have to

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Speaker 1: turn your mind off, don't try to figure everything out. Yes,

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Speaker 1: use wisdom, use common sense, but when you start getting

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Speaker 1: frustrated you can't find a solution. You attempted to live worried.

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Speaker 1: That's a sign God doesn't want you to know. My

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Speaker 1: father pastored Lakewood for forty years. He never raised up

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Speaker 1: a successor like most churches do. He didn't have a

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Speaker 1: I believe he knew what was going to happen. He

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Speaker 1: people would ask him, who's going to take Lakewood? What's

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Speaker 1: going to happen when you're gone. My father would always

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Speaker 1: go down. He would tell people, it's not my church,

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Speaker 1: wondering if it's ever going to work out. When my

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Speaker 1: but suddenly God put that desire in me. Had my

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done it. What may be the normal

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Speaker 1: way may not be the way God does it for you.

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Speaker 1: God didn't show my father who the next pastor was.

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Speaker 1: He could have lived frustrated, tried to make things happen,

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Speaker 1: but my father was comfortable not knowing. He knew God

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Speaker 1: was in control. He trusted his plan. God may not

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Speaker 1: be showing you the future, but that doesn't mean it's

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Speaker 1: not going to turn out better than you've imagined. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure my father is looking down from heaven now with

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Speaker 1: a big smile, saying, look what the Lord has done.

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Speaker 1: It's more than he ever dreamed. When you're comfortable not knowing,

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Speaker 1: it saves you so much stress when you understand, if

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Speaker 1: you can't figure something out, it's because God doesn't want

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Speaker 1: you to figure it out. Right. Now you can analyze

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Speaker 1: the situation, reason it out. Worry for six months nothing's

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Speaker 1: going to change. It's much better to say I don't

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Speaker 1: you have the answer. Paul said in Romans eight to

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