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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm coming to you now from the basin.

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Speaker 2: This is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just

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Speaker 2: for you to break it down a little more, to

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Speaker 2: take it a little deeper.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this overflow message.

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Speaker 2: Let me know, let's go. Got something today that was

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a mind shift for me reading

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Speaker 2: about the story of Hannah and when she was unable

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Speaker 2: to conceive and her rival Panigna would provoke her every day.

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Speaker 2: In first tun of chapter one, it says that she

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Speaker 2: would refuse to eat, and her husband Elkina, he kept

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Speaker 2: trying to feed her. Lie you know, I am gonna

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Speaker 2: bring you a double portion, because the Bible says that

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Speaker 2: the Lord had closed Hannah's womb, and in this time

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Speaker 2: they saw things pretty clearly. They saw a closed womb

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Speaker 2: from the Lord. And typically this particular Israelite conception of

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Speaker 2: If you're not able to conceive, that's a curse. And

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Speaker 2: they associated all kinds of things with the ability to

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Speaker 2: bring life was a sign of a righteous relationship with God,

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Speaker 2: was a sign of God's favor was a sign of

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Speaker 2: God's pleasure, and the inability to produce life, whether that

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Speaker 2: was the land or whether that was human life, would

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Speaker 2: be seen as a sign of God's displeasure, God's punishment

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Speaker 2: consequence of sin. And so you see that show up

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Speaker 2: a lot in the different writings, not only of the prophets,

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Speaker 2: Old Testament. And then when we come into the New Testament,

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Speaker 2: we find out that Jesus has come that we might

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Speaker 1: That's what the thief does.

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Speaker 2: And so we see kind of this progression of the

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Speaker 2: with God. So I was reading Hannah's story today about

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Speaker 2: things for the nation of Israel. In the nation of Israel,

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Speaker 2: none of his words fell to the ground, the Bible say,

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Speaker 2: but he started out as the product of a woman's

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Speaker 2: And the longer it went on that she was barren,

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Speaker 2: the more she became distressed and disappointed, until it got

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Speaker 2: it wasn't him that she was unhappy with. It was

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Speaker 2: the inability inside of herself to produce something that she

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Speaker 2: when we want something, when we want to get above

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Speaker 1: Sometimes our desires are not all that noble, you know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we want something that we can't afford, or we

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Speaker 2: And I've met people before who wanted to be married

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Speaker 2: Waiting on the moment for God to speak the word

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Speaker 2: She doesn't know that, though, And that's the hardest thing

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Speaker 2: it becomes more difficult for the devil to disappoint you

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Speaker 2: because you can show up and know like, Okay, I

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Speaker 2: Say that out loud. God is the Lord of the harvest.

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Speaker 2: It's on his timetable. I trust him with the timing.

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Speaker 2: He has trusted me with this task. I trust him

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Speaker 2: leads to a lot of freedom. That mentality leads to

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Speaker 2: greater faith. Okay, it may be today, Okay, it may

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Speaker 2: he didn't do. Yet that will actually become more important

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Speaker 2: a whole devotion on the God of Also. I'll teach

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Speaker 2: the God of Also. Many times what we call Also

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Speaker 2: is God's top priority. Like Boas said, if you redeem

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Speaker 2: You're watching my actions, but you don't understand my anguish.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times people judge you by your actions.

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Speaker 2: They have no clue the anguish that produced those actions.

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Speaker 2: You even judge yourself by your actions. Man, Why am

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Speaker 2: where after Hannah says, I'm praying out of great anguish

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Speaker 2: remembered her. So in the course of time, what a phrase.

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Speaker 2: go man, I right now am believing God. In the

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Speaker 2: The Bible says she did something after Samuel said, or

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Speaker 1: Go in peace. The Lord will grant your request.

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Speaker 2: She did something after Eli said that that she didn't do.

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Speaker 2: Other times, other years, she'd did something that she didn't

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Speaker 1: Then she went her way and ate something. Then she

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Speaker 2: So I wrote down this phrase. I ate because I asked,

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Speaker 2: but she didn't eat. The other times she prayed, she

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Speaker 2: And then Eli said, are you drunk? She's like, no,

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Speaker 2: her face was no longer downcast. She ate, She ate,

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Speaker 1: I say it again.

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Speaker 2: She did the thing that she would do if she

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Speaker 2: believed God's word was true. The word of God said,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. She got up, even before being intimate

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Speaker 2: that she had found favor. She asked for favor. The

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Speaker 2: then she ate. A lot of times, we're like in

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Speaker 2: the devil can use it to discourage us to an

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Speaker 1: But the first thing she did was got up and ate.

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Speaker 2: So you're asking God for some things, right, or maybe

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Speaker 2: one is eat or be eaten? Eat or be eaten?

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Speaker 2: Eat God's word, which is living and active.

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Speaker 1: Eat or be eaten? You got a choice to make today.

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Speaker 2: Right now, Are you gonna let disappointment chew through your

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Speaker 2: I want you to see that picture today. You like that,

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Speaker 2: and God wants to bring forth awesome things. And God

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Speaker 2: Worry, worry, worry, worry, worry, your womb won't open. If

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Speaker 2: be eaten. Take God's word, take this scroll, eat it

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Speaker 2: it was like, Honey, God wants to give you something

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Speaker 1: Eat Eat Eat, Eat this bread of life, Eat this

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Speaker 2: You're not you when you're hungry, and you're not you

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Speaker 1: How about you.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to see it. I'm gonna eat today. I'm

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna live this day, blessed. All right, go

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Speaker 2: get you something to eat. Hey, I hope you enjoyed

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