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Speaker 5: for coming out. And I like to start with something

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Speaker 5: funny and I heard about these three sons that left

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Speaker 5: together to talk about the gifts they had bought their

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Speaker 5: elderly mother. The first said, I built mom a big house.

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Speaker 5: The second said, I got her a fancy car. The

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Speaker 5: third said, since mother loves to read the Bible but

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Speaker 5: she can barely see, I got her a specially trained

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Speaker 5: parrot that can quote the entire Bible. A few months

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Speaker 5: they got a letter from their mother said, Milton, the

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Speaker 5: house you built me is way too big. Gerald, the

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Speaker 5: car you bought me is way too small. But my

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Speaker 5: dearest Donald, your simple gift was my favorite.

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Speaker 4: The chicken was delicious.

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Speaker 5: Up your bible, say it like you mean it. This

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

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

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Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about the rain is coming.

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Speaker 4: I was in.

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Speaker 5: Africa years ago and there was a severe drought. The

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Speaker 5: ground was so dry that it was breaking apart. The

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Speaker 5: vegetation had all dried up. The livestock couldn't survive. It

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Speaker 5: was bearing empty, no life, all because there had been

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Speaker 5: dry seasons when we don't see anything happening.

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Speaker 4: We've got big dreams, we're.

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Speaker 5: Standing on God's promises, but we just don't see anything changing.

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Speaker 5: It's dry and bearing. Be blessed in one area and

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Speaker 5: in a drought in another. Have a successful career but

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Speaker 5: you struggle in your marriage, a drought in a relationship.

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Speaker 5: Or you can have a great marriage but you just

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Speaker 5: don't feel well, a drought in your health.

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Speaker 4: I know a lady. She has everything going for she's.

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Speaker 5: Beautiful, talented, successful, but year after year she struggles with

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Speaker 5: the way it's always going to be. I'll always be lonely,

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Speaker 5: I'll always have to deal with this depression. I'll always

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Speaker 5: struggle in my finances. Now, I want to announce that

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Speaker 5: in twenty fourteen, that drought is coming to an end.

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Speaker 5: Any area of brokenness, dryness, loneliness, every empty place, if

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Speaker 5: down favor rain down, healing, rain, down restoration.

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Speaker 4: Psalm sixty eight says.

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Speaker 5: You sent an abundant reign, O God, why don't you

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Speaker 5: get that in your spirit? You're about to see an

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Speaker 5: abundant rain. Every drought is only temporary. That dry season

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Speaker 5: is not going to last forever. Why the rain is coming, That.

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Speaker 4: Addiction is not going to be with you your whole life.

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Speaker 4: Rain is coming.

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Speaker 5: Struggle and lack is not your destiny. It's temporary. Rain

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Speaker 5: is headed your way. Some of you have been in

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Speaker 5: You got passed over for the promotion. Don't get discouraged.

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Speaker 5: be a drizzle, not a sprinkle, but a downpour, an

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Speaker 5: drought is ending and the rain is coming. Think you

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Speaker 5: that in twenty fourteen, I'll see an abundance of your

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Speaker 5: goodness in my life. I have a friend that lost

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Speaker 5: his wife to cancer a while back.

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Speaker 4: They'd been married for over thirty years, been best.

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Speaker 4: For months and months.

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Speaker 5: He took care of her, treated her like a queen,

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Speaker 5: and she fought the good fight of faith.

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Speaker 5: Seasons where we feel empty, but that is not the

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Speaker 4: Rain is coming.

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Speaker 5: The scripture says, weeping may endure for a night, but

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Speaker 5: joy comes in the morning. Rain can take a dry

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Speaker 4: But when the rain comes, things that seem.

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Speaker 5: Dead begin to bloom, begin to blossom, begin to flourish.

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Speaker 4: They just needed some rain. What you may think is over.

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Speaker 5: And done, the loss of a loved one, loss of

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Speaker 5: like it could never change. No, all you need is

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Speaker 4: It's not over.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to rain down new opportunities, new relationships, new ideas.

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Speaker 5: Not long ago, my friend met a young lady, never

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Speaker 5: been married before. They hit it off and started dating,

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Speaker 5: In his death, weeping endured for a night, but joy came.

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Speaker 5: He was in a barn place, but God rained down

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Speaker 5: Things haven't turned out the way you've hoped, been through some.

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Speaker 4: Difficulties, but that is not the end. Joy is coming.

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Speaker 5: You may be in a drought, but rain is headed

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Speaker 4: It's your year to see.

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Speaker 4: Favor in a bounds.

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Speaker 5: He's going to turn your mourning into dancing, your sorrow

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Speaker 5: an end. One Kings, Chapter eighteen. The Samaritans had been

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Speaker 4: A half years. There had been no rain.

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Speaker 5: The people barely had food, barely were surviving. The prophet

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Speaker 5: Elijah showed up and said to King Ahab, I hear

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Speaker 5: going to rain. It's easy to talk yourself out of

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Speaker 5: what God wants to do. God is saying there's about

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Speaker 5: to be an abundance of favor in your life. The

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Speaker 5: drought is coming to an end. You're going to see healing, restoration,

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Speaker 5: new opportunities, new growth. Now, don't be like King Gayhab.

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Speaker 4: Look around.

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Speaker 5: I don't think so, Joel. The medical reports still bad.

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Speaker 5: My child's still acting up. I'll never meet the right person. Now,

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Speaker 5: why don't you be like Elijah and have a boldness

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Speaker 5: Why don't you start declaring the rain is coming, Favor

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Speaker 5: is coming. Twenty fourteen is my year to bloom, to blossom,

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Speaker 5: to flourish, to see new growth. Elijah went on top

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Speaker 4: He put actions behind his faith. He was expecting it

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Speaker 5: The assistant came back and said, no, Elijah, there's not

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Speaker 5: Elijah didn't get discouraged. He didn't think, well, I must

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Speaker 5: have heard God wrong. He told him to go back

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Speaker 5: same report. Nothing, no clouds. This happened six times. If

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Speaker 5: you're going to see abundance, you can't let people talk

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Speaker 5: People may tell you things like, you really think you're

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Speaker 5: going to get well, my grandmother died of that same disease.

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Speaker 5: have gotten depressed, thought, well, just my luck. I knew

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 4: At ten years old, she said doctors. God did it

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Speaker 4: for me once, He'll do it for me again.

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Speaker 5: She said, I walked in here on my own, and

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Speaker 5: I'll walk out of here on my own. She was

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Speaker 5: in a drought, but like Elijah, she heard the sound

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Speaker 5: of rain. Every circumstance said you're paralyzed. Just accept it.

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Speaker 5: Your life is limited. But on the inside she heard

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Speaker 5: God saying, this is not the end.

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Speaker 4: Of your story. You will walk again.

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Speaker 5: I've got a destiny for you to fulfill. When she

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Speaker 5: told the doctor, I walked in here and I'll walk

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Speaker 5: out right then, for the first time since the surgery,

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Speaker 5: she felt her toes begin to move. Her therapist told her,

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Speaker 5: out of all of my patients with spina bifida, you're

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Speaker 5: the only one that can walk without leg braces. Her

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Speaker 5: doctors wrote on their report, there is no scientific explanation

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Speaker 5: as to why Alana is the way she is. What

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Speaker 5: was that God making it rain without a cloud. Her

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Speaker 5: doctors are so impressed they call her God's rock star.

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Speaker 5: Alana recently graduated from an early college program and is

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Speaker 5: become a pediatric neurosurgeon to help other children in her

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Speaker 5: same condition. Here's Alana and her family right here on

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Speaker 5: for We're proud of your You may be in a

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Speaker 5: drought today, you don't see any cloud in the sky.

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Speaker 5: But remember God doesn't need a cloud. He did it

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Speaker 4: He can do it for you. Now you got to

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Speaker 5: Start saying, Father, thank you that the rain is coming,

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Speaker 5: think you that healing's coming, thank you.

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Speaker 4: That restoration is on its way. Dare to make some

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Speaker 4: declarations of faith like she did. I walked in.

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Speaker 5: Here on my own, and I will walk out Why

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Speaker 5: the God I serve is a rain making God.

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Speaker 4: This is what Abraham did when he.

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Speaker 5: Was waiting for the child that God promised him.

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Speaker 4: He was way too old.

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Speaker 5: It looked impossible, but the scripture says he grew strong.

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Speaker 4: In faith by giving praise to God.

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Speaker 5: He got up every morning and said, Lord, thank you

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Speaker 5: that your rain is coming, thinking that my baby is

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Speaker 4: You're faithful to your word.

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Speaker 5: He kept thanking God for what he heard in his spirit.

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Speaker 5: Like Abraham, God has put dreams in your heart. He's

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Speaker 5: spoken promises over you. Deep down, you know you'll get well.

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Speaker 5: You know you'll break that addiction. You know you will

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Speaker 5: accomplish your dreams. But in the natural it looks impossible.

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Speaker 5: You don't see how the odds are against you.

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Speaker 4: It's been so long.

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Speaker 5: Oh, God is saying what I started in your life,

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Speaker 5: I will finish.

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Speaker 4: Rain is coming. The clouds are starting to form.

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Speaker 5: I can hear some thunder rumbling in the distance. Now,

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Speaker 5: keep praying, keep believing, keep expecting one touch of God's favor,

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Speaker 5: one downpour, and like Atlanta, you'll be able to walk again.

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Speaker 4: Like Abraham, the baby will suddenly be conceived. The drought

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Speaker 4: will come to an end. I have a pass. Friend.

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Speaker 4: He needed a larger auditorium.

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Speaker 5: Church was really growing, but he didn't have any way

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Speaker 5: to expand.

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Speaker 4: He was landlocked.

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Speaker 5: Year after year, he kept searching, looking at the real

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Speaker 5: estate listings, driving the city, but nothing was available.

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Speaker 4: Door after door had closed.

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Speaker 5: He could have gotten discouraged, but he just kept praying,

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Speaker 5: kept believing, kept thanking God that the rain was coming.

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Speaker 5: Last fall, a large retail store about two miles from

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Speaker 5: his church unexpectedly went out of business broke their lease.

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Speaker 5: The owners of the property came to him and said,

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Speaker 5: would you like to lease our building?

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Speaker 4: For your church.

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Speaker 5: Now he has four times the space, four times the parking,

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Speaker 5: in a premier location. He said, Joel, It's better than

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Speaker 5: anything I ever imagined.

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Speaker 4: What was that?

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Speaker 5: A downpour of God's goodness? Suddenly the drought came to

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Speaker 5: an end.

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Speaker 4: You need to get ready. In twenty fourteen, rain is

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Speaker 4: going to come looking for you. You're not gonna have

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Speaker 4: to go after it. Good breaks, opportunities, restoration, divine connections

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Speaker 4: is going to track you down. Friends, I hear the

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Speaker 4: sound of an abundance of rain. You need to get

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Speaker 4: your umbrellas.

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Speaker 5: God is about to show you a downpour of his favor.

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Speaker 5: Every drought in your life is coming to an end.

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Speaker 5: The dry places, the barren spots are about to see

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Speaker 5: new life. This is your year to bloom, to blossom,

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Speaker 5: to flourish.

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Speaker 4: Now get up every morning expecting it. Lord, thank you

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Speaker 4: that your rain is coming.

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Speaker 5: If you do this, I believe and declare, you're going

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Speaker 5: to see not a trickle, not a sprinkle, but a

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Speaker 5: downpour of God's goodness, an abundance of rain in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 4: If you receive it, can you say it? Men?

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Speaker 5: Today, we never like to close our broadcast without giving

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Speaker 5: you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll make

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Speaker 4: you my Lord and save you. Friends.

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Speaker 5: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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