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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 5: about this old country farmer. He was taking his nephew

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Speaker 5: camping for the first time. His nephew had five degrees,

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Speaker 5: was one of the smartest men alive. They set up

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Speaker 5: their tent and quickly fell asleep. The middle of the night,

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Speaker 5: the farmer woke up his nephew and said, look up.

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Speaker 5: The nephew said, I see millions of stars. Farmer said,

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Speaker 5: I know that, But what does it tell you?

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Speaker 5: Astronomically, it tells me there are billions of galaxies. Meteorologically

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Speaker 5: tells me it's going to be a beautiful day. Theologically,

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Speaker 5: it tells me God is a great creator. What does

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Speaker 5: it tell you the whole Farmer shook his head, said,

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Speaker 5: it tells me somebody stole our tent. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 5: of God. I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my

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Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 5: God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to.

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Speaker 5: Talk to you today about coming out better. We all

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Speaker 5: go through disappointments and things we don't understand. Sometimes life

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Speaker 5: is not fair, and it's one thing to come through

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Speaker 5: a difficulty, beat up, bedraggled, where you look worn and tired.

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Speaker 5: But when God restores, you're not going to look like

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Speaker 4: Nobody is going to be able to tell that.

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Speaker 5: You went through the sickness, through the divorce, through the

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Speaker 5: unfair childhood. He's going to restore you back to your

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Speaker 5: original condition, who you were created to be, before the heartache,

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Speaker 5: before the bad break. Some people made it out, but

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Speaker 5: they aged ten years. The challenge took so much out

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Speaker 5: God is not going to just bring you through. He's

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Speaker 5: She handed me a copy of her book. It's called

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Speaker 5: Beauty for Ashes. I asked what it was about and

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Speaker 5: she said it was her life story. She told how

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Speaker 5: She was passed from foster home to foster home and

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Speaker 5: All the odds were against her, but she had her

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Speaker 4: Successful career. That's how God restores.

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Speaker 5: He brings you through with no sign of the difficulty,

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Speaker 5: It feels like it's taken something out of you that

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Speaker 4: You've lost that spring in your step. Get ready.

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Speaker 5: God is about to breathe new life into your spirit.

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Speaker 4: He is going to renew your strength and renew your

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Speaker 4: youth like the eagles. What that challenge took out of you?

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Speaker 5: God is about to put back in health, vitality, freshness, vision, passion.

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Speaker 5: He's going to bring new opportunities, the right people favor.

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Speaker 5: He is not going to just bring you through. He's

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Speaker 5: going to make up for what was unfair. The scripture says,

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Speaker 5: because you've got a double dose of trouble, your inheritance

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Speaker 4: When you come into double nobody's going to know that

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Speaker 5: Nobody will know you went through an unfair childhood. Nobody

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Speaker 5: the Book of Daniel, three Hebrew teenagers wouldn't bow down

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Speaker 5: We would rejoice if they had just made it out alive,

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Speaker 5: Sign of the trouble, no sign of the injustice, no

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Speaker 4: Going to smell like what you've been through.

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Speaker 5: Isaiah said, when you go through the fire, you will

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Speaker 5: not be burned. The flames will not harm you. It

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Speaker 5: have to remind yourself these flames are not going to

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Speaker 5: When people met these three teenagers years later, some of

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Speaker 5: My mother went through terminal cancer in nineteen eighty one.

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Speaker 5: She was very sick. She weighed eighty nine pounds. When

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Speaker 5: She didn't look like she had to raise my brother, Paul.

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Speaker 5: Don't believe those thoughts that it's all downhill from here.

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Speaker 5: When people see you, they are not going to see

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Speaker 5: They're going to see who you are and not what

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Speaker 5: you've been through. The Israelites were in slavery for four

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Speaker 5: looked like that was their destiny. But God supernaturally brought

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Speaker 5: them captive all those years gave them their gold, their silver,

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Speaker 5: many years healthy in hall. I can imagine when people

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Speaker 5: to him say, are you really that same man that

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Speaker 4: Are you really that guy we were all afraid of

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Speaker 5: What they were saying was, you don't look like what

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Speaker 4: We've seen you for years one way.

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Speaker 5: Now you're blessed, healthy, free. As this man was playing

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Speaker 5: with his grandchildren down through the years, enjoying life, I'm

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Speaker 5: sure many times he paused and said, God, thank you

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Speaker 5: for crossing the lake. Thank you for coming to me

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Speaker 5: when I couldn't get to you. How many times has

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Speaker 5: got ourselves into, turned a family member around that didn't

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Speaker 5: deserve it, healed us when the medical report said we

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Speaker 5: were done. That's the mercy of God. It's from everlasting

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Speaker 5: to everlasting. That means God will never stop crossing the

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Speaker 5: Prodigal Son, the young man took his inheritance, left home,

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Speaker 5: and wasted all of his money. Eventually he ran out

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Speaker 5: of funds. The only job he could find was working

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Speaker 5: he had to eat hogfood to survive. Finally he decided

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Speaker 5: to go back home. He thought, my father has staff

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Speaker 5: members that lived better than me. Maybe he'll give me

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Speaker 5: a job. When he went home, his father was out

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Speaker 5: looking for him. He saw the sun a great distanced

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Speaker 5: all took off, running toward him.

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Speaker 4: Hugged his son and kissed him. The son went into

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Speaker 4: his feet. Dad, I've blown it, Dad, I know I

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Speaker 5: His father didn't even let him finish. He said to

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Speaker 5: his assistant, quick, go get the best robe in the

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Speaker 5: house and put it on him. Go get new shoes

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Speaker 5: for his feet, put a ring on his finger.

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Speaker 4: Kill the fatted calf. We're going to have a party.

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Speaker 5: Now, wearing his new robe, his new shoes, his ring

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Speaker 5: of honor. He didn't look like the guy from the

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Speaker 5: hog pen. He didn't look like the son that blew

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Speaker 5: his inheritance. This shows us the heart of God, even

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Speaker 5: when it's our fault, even when we bring trouble on ourselves.

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Speaker 5: God doesn't want us to look like what we've been through.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't want you to be in constant memory of

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Speaker 5: trying to stop you.

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Speaker 4: God still crosses.

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Speaker 5: Legs, He still says, go get the best robe. He

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Speaker 5: still restores back to honor. You would think this father

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Speaker 5: would say, all right, you can come back home, but

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Speaker 5: you need to be guilty. You need to know how

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Speaker 5: wrong you were. The father didn't even bring up his past.

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Speaker 5: You may have blown it, done things that you're not

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Speaker 5: proud of. You think you'll always be hindered by the past.

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Speaker 5: Quit listening to the accusing voices. You are forgiven, You

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Speaker 5: are redeemed. Now do your part. Put on your robe

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Speaker 5: of honor, start receiving the mercy that your heavenly father

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Speaker 5: is offering you.

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Speaker 4: If you will shake off the guilt and keep moving forward.

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Speaker 5: Nobody will be able to tell what you've been through.

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Speaker 5: You mean, you struggled for years with an addiction. You

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Speaker 5: don't look like it. You're free, clean, helping others. You

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Speaker 5: don't look like you've had cancer, healthy and home. You

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Speaker 5: have a great spouse. That's God's dream to bring you

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Speaker 5: out better. You may have had unfair things happen. Seems

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Speaker 5: like you're at a disadvantage. Or get ready, God is

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Speaker 5: about to do a new thing. He is crossing that

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Speaker 4: I believe and declare.

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Speaker 5: God is going to restore you to greater honor. You

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Speaker 5: changing in your favor. Freedom, healing, vindication, promotion, the fullness

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Speaker 5: of your destinies in Jesus' name, and if you receive it,

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