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

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for.

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Speaker 2: Supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have an.

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Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come

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Speaker 1: into your homes. And if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 1: please stop by and be a part of one of

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Speaker 1: our services. I promise you we'll make you feel right

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Speaker 1: at home. But thanks so much for tuning in and

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Speaker 1: thank you again for coming out today. And I like

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Speaker 1: to start with something funny. I heard about this eighty

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Speaker 1: five year old man. He was out fishing one morning

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Speaker 1: and he heard this voice saying, pick me up. Looked around,

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Speaker 1: didn't see anybody, thought he was dreaming. Heard it again,

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Speaker 1: pick me up. He looked down and saw a frog.

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Speaker 1: He said in amazement, are you talking to me? The

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Speaker 1: frog said yes, pick me up and kiss me and

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Speaker 1: I'll turn.

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Speaker 2: Into a beautiful bride.

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Speaker 1: The man quickly picked the frog up and put him

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Speaker 1: in his front pocket. The frog said, hey, what are

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Speaker 1: you doing. I said, kiss me and turn into a

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Speaker 1: beautiful bride. The man said no, thanks At my age.

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Speaker 1: I'd rather have a talking frog. Hold your bibles up,

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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 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. 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 prepared blessings. When God laid out the plan for

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Speaker 1: your life, he lined up the right people, the right breaks,

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Speaker 1: the right opportunities. He has blessings that have your name

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Speaker 1: on them. There is promotion, contracts, a business, a spouse.

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Speaker 1: He's already destined them to be yours. And if you

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Speaker 1: will stay in faith and keep honoring God, one day

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Speaker 1: you will come in to what already belongs to you.

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Speaker 1: It's a prepared blessing. This is what happened way back

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Speaker 1: with Adam and Eve. In the Book of Genesis, it

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Speaker 1: talks about how the first five days God created the heavens,

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Speaker 1: finished the big things, he didn't stop there. He started

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Speaker 1: on the small things. The details, and God planted a garden.

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Speaker 1: He put beautiful flowers in it, luscious fruit. He designed

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Speaker 1: down to the smallest details. When he got finished with it,

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Speaker 1: he put the last touches on this magnificent garden. The

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Speaker 1: scripture says he took Adam, whom he had just breathed

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Speaker 1: life into, and put him in the garden. Notice Adam

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Speaker 1: came in to a prepared blessing, something that God had

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Speaker 1: already finished for him. He didn't get them and have

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Speaker 1: everywhere he looked. He didn't have to live worried, thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: There were resources at his disposal, onyx, gold, silver. Everything

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Speaker 1: he needed to live a victorious, abundant life was right

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Speaker 1: there in the garden. God had put it there specifically

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Speaker 1: prepared for him. In the same way, God has some

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Speaker 1: prepared blessings in store for you. He's working behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: arranging things in your favor, getting it all perfectly in place,

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Speaker 1: you didn't earn it. It's just the goodness of God

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Speaker 1: bringing you into a prepared blessing. When I was twenty

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Speaker 1: two years old, I walked into a jewelry store and

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Speaker 1: met Victoria for the first time. You know what, she

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Speaker 1: was a prepared blessing. I looked up and said, God,

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Speaker 1: But God controls the universe. He knows how to bring

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Speaker 1: you into your garden. God said, in effect, Joel, I've

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Speaker 1: got something finished for you. You've been faithful, you've honored me.

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Speaker 2: God directed my steps.

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Speaker 1: I met Victoria that day, and my life and my

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Speaker 1: checkbook have never been the same well, Joel, I've been

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Speaker 1: single so long, I don't think I'll ever meet the

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Speaker 1: prepared and at the right time, God will say, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this was worth waiting for it. You outdid yourself. Don't

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Speaker 1: get discouraged. You may not see anything happening, but God

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Speaker 1: is working getting your garden prepared.

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Speaker 2: When it's finished, he's going to bring you into it.

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Speaker 1: You know what this building is, the former Compact Center,

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Speaker 1: a prepared blessing. We couldn't make this happen on our own.

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Speaker 1: God had been working on it for over thirty years.

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Speaker 1: When we needed it, God said, all right, Lakewood, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to bring you into what I've already finished for you.

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Speaker 1: We came into this beautiful garden, the premier facility in

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Speaker 1: nine thousand covered parking spaces. We showed up and said, Wow, God,

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Speaker 1: You've done more than we can ask or think. What

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Speaker 1: God has in store for you will boggle you a mind.

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Speaker 2: And when it's fully in bloom, when.

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Speaker 1: God gets it exactly like he wants it, he's going

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Speaker 1: to bring you into it. Suddenly you'll be promoted, Suddenly

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Speaker 1: you get the contract, Suddenly your health improves, Suddenly the

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Speaker 2: When you come into.

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Speaker 1: Your garden, it's going to be bigger, better, more rewarding

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Speaker 1: than you ever imagine. This is what God said in

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Speaker 1: Deuteronomy chapter eight. I am bringing you into a good land,

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Speaker 1: land with no shortage, where you will not lack.

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Speaker 1: Notice, in the garden God has prepared for you, there

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Speaker 1: is no shortage, no shortage of resources, no shortage of opportunities,

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Speaker 1: no shortage of creativity, of friendships, of joy and peace.

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Speaker 2: In your garden. You will not lack any good thing.

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Speaker 1: When you're attempting to get down or look at what

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Speaker 1: you don't have, no turn it around. Lord, I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you that you're bringing me into my garden,

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Speaker 1: a land of no shortage, a land where my gifts

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Speaker 1: and talents will come out.

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Speaker 2: Land where my whole house will honor you.

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Speaker 1: A friend of mine comes from a large family, and

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Speaker 1: they immigrated here from another country. They were very poor

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Speaker 1: They had a defeated mindset. He started coming out to

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Speaker 2: Are victors and not victims.

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Speaker 1: One day a friend told him about a job opportunity

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Speaker 1: at the medical center cleaning equipment. He went and interviewed

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Speaker 1: making minimum wage, barely getting by, but every once in

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Speaker 1: and study how the technicians did it. At one point,

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Speaker 1: one of the technicians took another job. His supervisor had

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Speaker 1: hospital and do this on my own. One afternoon, playing

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Speaker 2: That was a banker.

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Speaker 1: He shared his story how he wanted to start his

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Speaker 1: own business out of nowhere. The banker said, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: will loan you the money. Things kept falling into place. Today,

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Speaker 1: he came into a prepared blessing. God had been getting

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Speaker 2: After years of being.

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Speaker 1: going to bring you into what I've already prepared, into

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Speaker 2: Not where you're.

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Speaker 1: Cleaning the equipment, but where you own the equipment. Not

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Speaker 1: That's God's dream for your life, to bring you into

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Speaker 1: with good health, with great relationships. You may not be

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Speaker 1: there yet, but don't worry. Your garden is on the way,

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Speaker 1: David said in Psalm thirty one. God has blessings stored

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Speaker 1: my friend, you've honored God, you've been faithful. Now you're

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Speaker 1: not going to have to go find the blessings. The

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Speaker 1: blessings are going to find you. Something is looking.

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Speaker 2: For you right now. Not defeat, not like not.

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Speaker 1: Bad breaks, favors looking for you. Contracts are looking for you.

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Speaker 1: into your garden a prepared blessing, something like you've never seen.

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Speaker 1: Pastor I know was about to build a new sanctuary.

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Speaker 1: They were starting to draw the plans and raise the funds.

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Speaker 1: One day, out of the blue, the mayor of his

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Speaker 1: of parking the building. You could put four football fields inside.

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Speaker 2: It was just a few miles from his church.

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Speaker 1: The mayor asked if he would be interested in purchasing

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Speaker 1: the facility. A pastor thought it would cost forty fifty

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Speaker 1: The mayor said, no, you can purchase it for under

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Speaker 1: two million dollars. A man that owned a production company

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Speaker 1: heard that the pastor was interested. He called and said,

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Speaker 1: I've got a big video screen one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: million dollars for it new, but I'll sell it to

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Speaker 1: you for fifty thousand dollars. Things kept falling into place.

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Speaker 1: Instead of having to build a new sanctuary, God dropped

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Speaker 1: what God has stored up for you, the people you're

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Speaker 1: Prepared blessings, but you gotta be willing to step into it.

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Speaker 1: This is what a lady did in the scripture by

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Speaker 1: the name of Ruth. After her husband and his brother

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Speaker 1: were killed, her mother in law, Naomi, decided to move

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Speaker 1: now that both of her sons had died, and she

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Speaker 1: told Ruth and the other daughter in law, don't worry

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Speaker 1: about me. Do your own thing, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go back to my original hometown. The other daughter in

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Speaker 1: law left, but Ruth knew deep down she was supposed

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Speaker 1: to go with Naomi and help take care of her.

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Speaker 1: Naomi was an older woman, so Ruth moved to Naomi's hometown.

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Speaker 2: They lived together.

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Speaker 1: Every morning, Ruth would go out into the fields and

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Speaker 1: pick up the leftover wheat that the workers had missed.

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Speaker 1: That's how they survived. One day, the owner of the

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Speaker 1: field saw Ruth. He didn't know who she was, but

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Speaker 1: on purpose for Ruth. Now, when she went out, the

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Speaker 1: wheat was already there waiting for her a prepared blessing.

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Speaker 2: Later, that owner ended up marrying Ruth.

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Speaker 1: Now Ruth didn't have to work in the field anymore

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Speaker 1: she owned the field. Here's what I'm saying. When you

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Speaker 1: do what God asked you to do, you move when

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Speaker 1: he asked you to move, You're willing to get out

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Speaker 1: of your comfort zone. When you get to your place

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Speaker 1: of blessing, God will speak to people to be good

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Speaker 1: to you that have never even met you.

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Speaker 2: He will command his ravens to feed you.

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Speaker 1: In other words, good breaks will find you, provision divine

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Speaker 1: connections supply.

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Speaker 2: When you're in that place where you're.

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Speaker 1: Commanded to be blessed, you won't be able to outrun the.

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Speaker 2: Good things of God.

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Speaker 1: Friends, there is a garden God has prepared specifically for you,

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Speaker 1: just like with Adam. He's put resources in it, provision

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Speaker 1: opportunity the right Friends, you.

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Speaker 2: Need to get ready.

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Speaker 1: God's about to bring you into what He's already finished

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 2: It has your name on it.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be bigger, better, more rewarding than you

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Speaker 1: ever imagine. Stay in faith, keep doing what God's asking

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Speaker 1: you to do. Be willing to leave when he asks

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Speaker 1: you to leave. If you'll do this, I believe and

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Speaker 1: declare you're coming into your garden favor that you didn't deserve.

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Speaker 2: Good breaks that you didn't earn, provision.

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Speaker 1: Abundance, healing, restoration, the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name.

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Speaker 2: If you receive it, can you say amen? Today?

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Speaker 1: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 3: It's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year, time to forget the struggles of

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Speaker 1: The beginning of the year is a great time to

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Speaker 1: day and a victorious year. This devotional calendar will help

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