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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the 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 buying.

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Speaker 1: Be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll make you feel right at home. I like

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Speaker 1: to start with something funny, and I heard about this pastor.

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Speaker 1: He was asked to inform one of his members that

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Speaker 1: he had just inherited ten million dollars. They were concerned

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Speaker 1: because of the shock of it, he might have a

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Speaker 1: heart attack. The pastor said to him, what would you

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Speaker 1: do if you inherited ten million dollars? And said pastor,

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Speaker 1: first thing I do is give half of it to

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Speaker 1: the church. At that point, the pastor fell over dead.

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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. I'll boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is recepted. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about look again. We all have dreams that we've given

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Speaker 1: up on and problems we don't think will turn around.

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Speaker 1: It's been too long, we've made too many mistakes. Too

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Speaker 1: often we accept it as the way it's always going

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Speaker 1: to be. But just because you've given up doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that God has given up. He hasn't brought you this

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Speaker 1: far to leave you where you are. What he started

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Speaker 1: in your life, he's going to finish. You may have

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Speaker 1: had some disappointments. The medical report wasn't good, the business

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Speaker 1: didn't make it. You still haven't met the right person.

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Speaker 1: It may feel like it's over to you, but God

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Speaker 1: is saying, look again. That dream you've given up on,

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Speaker 1: I'm still going to bring it to pass. That child

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Speaker 1: you think will never get back on course, look again.

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Speaker 1: He's going to fulfill his destiny. You think you're going

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Speaker 1: to be single the rest of your life, Look again,

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Speaker 1: God's already lined up somebody better than you can imagine.

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Speaker 1: Now do your part and start looking again. As long

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Speaker 1: as you think it's never going to work out. It's

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Speaker 1: been this way too long. That will keep you from

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Speaker 1: the new things God has in store. Who told you

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Speaker 1: you're not going to love again. Who told you you're

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Speaker 1: not going to be healthy again. Who told you you

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Speaker 1: can't accomplish your dream that didn't come from God? Don't

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Speaker 1: believe those lies. Start looking again. Maybe the loan for

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Speaker 1: the house didn't go through. People don't have the final

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Speaker 1: say God does. Look again, you weren't able to have

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Speaker 1: the baby. Don't let that convince you that you're never

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Speaker 1: going to have it. Look again, there's a baby with

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Speaker 1: your name on them. You haven't been able to break

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Speaker 1: the addiction. Now you're learning to live with it. Look again,

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Speaker 1: Freedom belongs to you. Wholeness is in your future. Get

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Speaker 1: your passion back, Stir up your faith. What God promised

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Speaker 1: you He's still going to bring to pass. March chapter eight.

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Speaker 1: They brought a blind man to Jesus and ask him

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Speaker 1: to heal him. Jesus made mud and put it on

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Speaker 1: the blind man's eyes and prayed for him. He asked

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Speaker 1: can see, but it's not clear. I see people walking

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Speaker 1: as trees. Jesus prayed for him a second time. This

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Speaker 1: time his vision was perfectly clear. It's significant that Jesus

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Speaker 1: prayed for him the first time and he didn't get

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Speaker 1: people all the time. This was a test. When Jesus

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Speaker 1: the man would respond. The man could have said, yes,

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Speaker 1: I can see. It's not perfect, but I'm satisfied. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for doing this. He could have settled for blurred visions.

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Speaker 1: He could have walked away and thought, this is not

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Speaker 1: exactly what I was believing for, but it's better than

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Speaker 1: have a second touch. God already knew what wouldn't work

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Speaker 1: waiting to see what you're going to do. Are you

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Speaker 1: going to settle there and think I'm lonely? But it's okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm barely making it. But hey, I got a roof

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Speaker 1: doing good enough. Don't settle for blurred vision. Don't give

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Speaker 1: has a second touch. He's waiting for you to look again.

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Speaker 1: The first touch brought you to where you are. The

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Speaker 1: second touch is going to thrust you into abundance, into

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Speaker 1: great relationships, into divine health, into the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 1: I talked to a young lady that had gone through

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Speaker 1: have to look again. There's a baby that belongs to you.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the most difficult prayer is the prayer for what

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Speaker 1: look on this young lady's face. She was beaming with joy.

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Speaker 1: She said, joel My doctors are amazed. They don't understand it,

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Speaker 1: God controls the universe. He can do what medicine cannot do.

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Speaker 1: You may have had a disappointment, don't settle where you are.

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Speaker 1: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy is coming

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Speaker 1: Keep looking, keep dreaming, keep praying like this young lady.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see what God promised you. This is

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Speaker 1: what Elijah had to do. There had been a drought

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Speaker 1: There's no sign of it. Elijah understood this principle. What

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Speaker 1: young man to go back and look again. He came

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Speaker 1: back the second time, same thing. Nothing. Elijah perfectly clear.

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Speaker 1: Don't you know? Thoughts came to Elijah saying you are

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Speaker 1: wasting his time. Can't you get the message five times?

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen. This expectancy looking for it, believing

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Speaker 1: came back to sixth time and said, Elijah, still nothing.

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Speaker 1: On the seventh time, the young man came back and said,

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Speaker 1: this time I saw a little cloud starting to form.

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Speaker 1: about the size of a man's hand. Elijah sent word

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Speaker 1: I wonder if Elijah would have seen the rain, if

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Speaker 1: he'd have given up after the first time, or third time,

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Speaker 1: You have to do like Elijah and have a made

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Speaker 1: may not be good. Look again, healing is on the way.

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Speaker 1: Look again, Abundance is in your future. You haven't been

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Speaker 1: able to break the addiction, Joel. I went to rehab.

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Speaker 1: Look again, I went to counseling. Look again. I prayed

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Speaker 1: is while you're looking, God is behind the scenes lining

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Speaker 1: up the right people, arranging good breaks, healing, promotion, deliverance.

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Speaker 1: That cloud is starting to form. You may be in

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Speaker 1: a drought today. You've been looking a long time, Faithful

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Speaker 1: doing the right thing doesn't look like it's doing any good.

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Speaker 1: God is saying, you're about to come in to your

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Speaker 1: seventh time. You're about to see a sign of what

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Speaker 1: God is doing. Don't let the little cloud fool you.

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Speaker 1: out of it. Don't let negative circumstances what you don't

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Speaker 1: see changing convince you to accept what hasn't worked out.

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Speaker 1: Look again and again and again. When you keep looking,

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Speaker 1: you're saying, God, I know you're bigger than this sickness,

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Speaker 1: greater than this addiction, more powerful than this opposition. I

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Speaker 1: believe you're restoring health back into me. I believe I

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Speaker 1: will lend and not borrow. I believe as for me

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Speaker 1: and my whole house. We will serve the Lord. I'm

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Speaker 1: asking you to stir your faith out. What you've given

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Speaker 1: up on promises, you've let go of, dreams you think

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Speaker 1: going to bring them to pass. That house you tried

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Speaker 1: write one. Look again, you were turned down for that promotion.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't fair. God has something better. Look again. Somebody

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Speaker 1: walked out of a relationship. They did you wrong. That

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Speaker 1: yourself up for a blessed, victorious day.

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Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 2: of any size to the ministry. This month, Joel and

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Speaker 2: Victoria would like to send you this just released life

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Speaker 2: giving new daily devotional. Before your feet hit the ground

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Speaker 2: or go out the door, have your heart experience a

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Speaker 2: bit of heaven, set your mind on the things above

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Speaker 2: with our new three Minute Mornings devotional. With this new

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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five day devotional, Three Minute Mornings,

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Speaker 2: You'll experience God showering down his favor like never before.

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Speaker 2: You'll focus on the better that is coming and fully

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Speaker 2: realize the freedom of not worrying about tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Victory and I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. You're

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Speaker 1: making a difference all over the world. Remember you can

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Speaker 1: watch the services online every Sunday morning, download our daily podcast,

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Speaker 1: listen on Sirius XM. But until we meet again with

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Speaker 1: the Lord, bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of Three Minute Mornings today.

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Speaker 2: Visit Joelostin dot com or call eight eight eight five

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