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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny each week. And

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Speaker 5: I heard about this eighty five year old woman that

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Speaker 5: She said, no, I thought he was dead. Hold up

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Speaker 5: your Bible, say it like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 5: my Bible. I am what it says. I am. I

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 5: to you today about how God has grace for every

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Speaker 5: They live stressed out, wondering what's going to happen if

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Speaker 5: have a major opportunity. God has opened a new door

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Speaker 5: his solutions will much more abound. His grace always supersedes

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Speaker 6: She's a large woman.

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Speaker 5: And she would actually physically pick him up out of

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Speaker 5: the bed and carry him around the house month after month,

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Speaker 5: year after year.

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Speaker 6: She could have thought, God, I didn't ask for this,

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Speaker 6: This is not what I had planned.

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Speaker 5: Why me, God. Now she understood this principle, and she

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Speaker 5: tapped into that supernatural grace. She knew she was equipped,

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Speaker 5: she was empowered. She didn't go around thinking, oh, man,

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Speaker 5: I can't do this for another thirty years. No, she

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Speaker 5: took it one day at a time. Eventually, her husband

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Speaker 5: went to be with the Lord, But I still see

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Speaker 5: her today. She's beautiful, she's strong, she's healthy, she's blessed.

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Speaker 5: She's enjoying the reward. You too, may be required to

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Speaker 5: do a hard thing, but God has given you the

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Speaker 5: grace for the season that you're in, and that difficulty

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Speaker 5: is not going to last forever. And in the hard times,

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Speaker 5: you have to keep reminding yourself that a reward is coming.

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Speaker 6: God has promised he will.

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Speaker 5: Give you beauty for your ashes. He will pay you

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Speaker 5: back for the sacrifices that you've made. And some of

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Speaker 5: you are very close to your payday. You have done

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Speaker 5: the right thing month after month, year after year. You

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Speaker 5: are just around the corner from seeing God turn that

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Speaker 5: situation around. He is going to pour out his favor

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Speaker 5: in ways that you've never seen. He is going to

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Speaker 5: make sure you are well compensated. Part of receiving God's

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Speaker 5: grace is programming our mind with the right thoughts. Maybe

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Speaker 5: you have elderly parents that you're going to have to

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Speaker 5: take care of soon, Well, don't start telling yourself.

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Speaker 6: This is going to be so hard. It's just not fair.

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Speaker 5: As soon as I get my children raised, now look

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Speaker 5: what I have to do. No, take the ticket, you

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Speaker 5: are well able, have the attitude I can do what

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Speaker 5: I need to do.

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Speaker 6: God, just like Mary.

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Speaker 5: I may not have asked for this, but I know

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Speaker 5: you've given me the grace for the season that i'm in. Now,

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Speaker 5: I believe you will multiply my time, multiply my strength.

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Speaker 5: You have to make sure you're thinking the right thoughts,

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Speaker 5: because as long as you're dwelling on things like it's

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Speaker 5: too hard, it's not fair. I can't take this any longer,

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Speaker 5: then your own thoughts will defeat you. You would see

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Speaker 5: a major change in your life if you could just

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Speaker 5: get up in the morning and instead.

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Speaker 6: Of saying I can't do this another day.

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Speaker 5: I can't change another dirty diaper, I can't deal with

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Speaker 5: another grouchy customer at the office. Now get rid of

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Speaker 5: that and say, with the Apostle Paul, I can do

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Speaker 5: all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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Speaker 6: God, I know you've given me the grace for the

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Speaker 6: season i'm in.

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Speaker 5: So I'm making the decision to take the ticket that

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Speaker 5: you provided. I know a man that has chronic leukemia.

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Speaker 5: Every two years, he has to go in the hospital

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Speaker 5: and take six months worth of chemo. I saw him

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Speaker 5: the other day and invited him to come see us.

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Speaker 5: He mentioned how he couldn't anytime soon because he was

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Speaker 5: about to start on his third batch of chemo. Well,

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Speaker 5: I didn't know anything was wrong with it. But before

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Speaker 5: I could respond, he said, Now, Joel, don't feel sorry

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Speaker 5: for me. I'm getting to encourage so many people at

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Speaker 5: the hospital.

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Speaker 6: I have never felt so rewarded.

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Speaker 5: Even the chaplain has me go by different rooms and

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Speaker 5: pray for people. You know what he's doing. He's taking

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Speaker 5: the ticket. He could be sitting at home saying, poor

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Speaker 5: old me, God, this is not what I had planned.

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Speaker 6: I didn't ask for this.

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Speaker 5: No, sometimes we're asked to carry a cross that's heavier.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes life gets interrupted with disappointments and adversities. But the

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Speaker 5: good news is with the disappointments, with the things we

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Speaker 5: didn't plan, we didn't ask for, comes a new level

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Speaker 5: of God's grace, a new level of his favor, not

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Speaker 5: to just sustain us, but to help us overcome, to

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Speaker 5: be victorious even in the midst of the difficulty. And

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Speaker 5: some of you, I know, just like him, you have

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Speaker 5: gone through things that the average person would have given

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Speaker 5: up and gone under betrayals that should have caused you

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Speaker 5: to be bitter.

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Speaker 6: But what happened.

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Speaker 5: Like Corey ten Boone, you took the ticket and instead

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Speaker 5: forgave the person anyway, and God not only.

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Speaker 6: Brought you out, but look at you today, you're better

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Speaker 6: than ever.

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Speaker 5: Some of you, like my mother, you went through a sickness,

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Speaker 5: a difficult season that should have ended your life. But

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Speaker 5: instead you took the ticket, and one day at a

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Speaker 5: time you fought the good fight of faith, and now

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Speaker 5: you're a living example of God's goodness. Some of you

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00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 5: got off to a rough start in life. People tried

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Speaker 5: to push you down, tell you what you couldn't become.

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Speaker 6: You've been lied about, you've.

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Speaker 5: Been through disappointments, but instead you took the ticket, and

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Speaker 5: now you're having the last laugh. You're enjoying God's blessings

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Speaker 5: and favor as never before.

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Speaker 6: That's my prayer today that.

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Speaker 5: On a daily basis, we will all learn to take

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Speaker 5: the ticket. We'll get up in the morning and say, Father,

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Speaker 5: I receive your grace for today. I know I'm equipped

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Speaker 5: and empowered for anything that comes my way. I'm asking

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Speaker 5: you to quit worrying about tomorrow. When you get to

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Speaker 5: that day, God will have a fresh new supply of

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Speaker 5: grace waiting on you. Learn to live one day at

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Speaker 5: a time, and remember this, Nothing that you're facing now

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Speaker 5: and nothing that you're going to face in the future,

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Speaker 5: is a surprise to God. His grace will always be

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Speaker 5: sufficient in every season of your life. If you will

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Speaker 5: learn to receive that grace and not get bitter and

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Speaker 5: discouraged when your cross gets heavy, then God promises He's

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Speaker 5: not going to just bring you through, but He's going

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Speaker 5: to give you a set of eagles wings so you

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Speaker 5: can soar higher and higher, overcome your obstacles, defeat your enemies,

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Speaker 5: accomplish your dreams, and I believe in declare you will

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Speaker 5: live that life of victory he.

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Speaker 6: Has in story.

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Speaker 5: Amen, do you receive that today?

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