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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Well, no, bless you. It's great to be

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Speaker 1: with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with

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Speaker 1: us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 1: of our services. But I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 1: And I heard about this man. He was in his

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Speaker 1: bathroom and he went over to the scales to weigh himself,

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Speaker 1: and his wife was over in the corner watching, and

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Speaker 1: he's a really large man. And when he stepped on

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Speaker 1: he sucked in his stomach as much as he possibly could,

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Speaker 1: and he held his breath and his wife kind of

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Speaker 1: laughed at honey, that's not gonna help anything. He said,

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Speaker 1: sure it is. That's the only way I can see

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Speaker 1: the numbers. All right, Go, I say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says,

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Speaker 1: I am, I have what it says I have, I

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Speaker 1: can do what it says I can do. Today I

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Speaker 1: will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess

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Speaker 1: my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I'll never

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Speaker 1: be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you today about God's face is

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Speaker 1: shining on you. And we all go through situations that

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Speaker 1: seem too much for us. We're dealing with an illness

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Speaker 1: or raising a difficult child. Our dream looks out of reach,

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Speaker 1: and it's easy to get discouraged and think we're at

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Speaker 1: a disadvantage. And that's the way the Israelites felt. They

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Speaker 1: were in the desert, some two million people trying to

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Speaker 1: get to the Promised Land. They were grateful that they

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Speaker 1: were no longer slaves, but they weren't prepared to travel

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Speaker 1: At one point they said, Moses, why do you even

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Speaker 1: bring us out here to die? But in number six

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Speaker 1: God told Moses to have the priest make this declaration

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Speaker 1: over the people. May the Lord bless you and keep you,

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Speaker 1: and may His face shine on you. They were focused

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Speaker 1: on the opposition and what they didn't have. But Moses said, no,

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Speaker 1: you have to have a new perspective. You're not at

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Speaker 1: a disadvantage. God's face is shining on you. His face

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Speaker 1: represents his power, his favor, his protection. You may think,

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Speaker 1: how can I make it through this illness? The report

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Speaker 1: is not good. Well, on your own, you're not able.

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Speaker 1: The good news is you're not on your own. God's

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Speaker 1: face is shining on you, empowering you, enabling you. There's

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Speaker 1: a supernatural force working in your life. When you look

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Speaker 1: at your dreams, the odds may be against you. You

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Speaker 1: don't have the connections, the resources, the funding by yourself.

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Speaker 1: It's not possible. But you have to know you have

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Speaker 1: a secret force. Something that can't be explained, causes you

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Speaker 1: to succeed, to go beyond where you'll qualify it. What

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Speaker 1: is that a lucky break? No, that's God's face shining

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Speaker 1: on you, causing you to stand out, propelling you into

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Speaker 1: your purpose. Now, if you're going to see this happen,

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Speaker 1: you can't live thinking you're at a disadvantage. Oh, man, Joel,

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Speaker 1: My business is not gonna make it. The scripture says,

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Speaker 1: look up for your redemption Draws nine. That's where your

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Speaker 1: help comes from. And in those difficult times when you

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Speaker 1: don't see a way, you have to look up by faith.

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Speaker 1: Imagine God's face shining on you, causing good breaks to

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Speaker 1: find you and causing you to go where no one

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Speaker 1: in your family has gone. Psalm eighty. The Psalmist was

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Speaker 1: in all kinds of trouble, facing opposition, enemies that were bigger.

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Speaker 1: He didn't complain, he didn't get discouraged. He said in

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Speaker 1: verse two, God, show us your mighty power. May your

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Speaker 1: be saved. A few verses later, God, our enemies say

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Speaker 1: may your face shine down on us verse twelve. Our

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Speaker 1: oh God, let your face shine on us. Three times

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Speaker 1: in this short chapter they acknowledge God's face was shining

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Speaker 1: on them. They were saying, in effect, we look like

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Speaker 1: we're at a disadvantage, but we know a secret. God

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Speaker 1: is shining on us, protecting us, favoring us, sustaining us

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Speaker 1: that opposition you're facing can't take you out. That sickness

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Speaker 1: can't stop your purpose. That bad break didn't cancel your destiny.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have that much power. The most tied God

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Speaker 1: is in control of your life. His face is his favor.

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Speaker 1: people think, how can you be that successful with all

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Speaker 1: you've been through? God's face is shining on you, Joel.

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Speaker 1: How could you get the compact center? Or how could

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Speaker 1: with terminal cancer, Joel? How could your father go from poverty,

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Speaker 1: impacting the world. That wasn't our own ability. That was

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Speaker 1: God's face shining on us. You may not be able

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Speaker 1: God's face is shining on you. His face is his glory,

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Speaker 1: causing you to stand out, giving you influence authority to

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Speaker 1: fulfill your purpose. When Moses was leading the Israelites through

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Speaker 1: forty days along with God and that's where he received

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Speaker 1: the Ten commandments. When he came down from the mountain,

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Speaker 1: his face was so radiant, so bright, that people couldn't

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Speaker 1: look at him. They knew something supernatural to happen. His

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Speaker 1: face was glowing with the glory of God. The scripture says,

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Speaker 1: the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a

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Speaker 1: where he was right there with God. But notice what happened.

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Speaker 1: The glory of God was so bright on Moses that

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Speaker 1: people couldn't stand to look at him. There was awe

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Speaker 1: and reverence, and that's what enabled Moses to lead the

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Speaker 1: Some of the Israelites they didn't like Moses. They wanted

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Speaker 1: You may go through seasons where people discount you. Overlook,

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Speaker 1: you don't worry. Your time is coming. God knows how

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Speaker 1: to illuminate you. When his face shines on you. It's

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Speaker 1: like Moses, you'll be radiant with the glory of God.

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Speaker 1: People may not be able to put their finger on it.

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Speaker 1: It's just something about you that they like, something that

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Speaker 1: gives you respect. They want to be good to you.

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Speaker 1: That's the face of God shining on you, giving you credibility,

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Speaker 1: lifting you up when others try to push you down,

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Speaker 1: causing you to succeed when some wanted you to found,

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Speaker 1: making you shine when that one relative was trying to

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Speaker 1: Your part is to honor God, keep him first place

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Speaker 1: He didn't have to do any of that. It was

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Speaker 1: the glory of God on him. It wasn't his own efforts.

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Speaker 1: Think about the moon. We look up at night and

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Speaker 1: it's so beautiful and glowing, this big white ball shining

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Speaker 1: so brightly. But what's interesting is the moon has no

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Speaker 1: light of his own. Not a single ray of light

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Speaker 1: comes from the moon itself. All of its beauty, all

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Speaker 1: But when the sun un shines on it, the moon

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Speaker 1: becomes illuminated, takes on prominence. People all over the world

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Speaker 1: enjoy its beauty. That's the way it is with us.

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Speaker 1: We're not shining in our own strength. We don't have

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Speaker 1: by ourselves. If we try to do it on our own,

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Speaker 1: we get frustrated, trying to make people before us, trying

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Speaker 1: to force opportunities. But when you understand that God's face

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Speaker 1: You are reflecting the glory of God. When you stay

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Speaker 1: in faith, you'll reflect his favor, reflect his goodness, That

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Speaker 1: means he'll open doors you could have never opened. He'll

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Speaker 1: promote you when you weren't next in line. He'll heal

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Speaker 1: you when the report says you're not going to get well. Now,

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Speaker 1: don't live in this striving mode and straining. Just be

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Speaker 1: I know your face is shining on me. You'll get

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Speaker 1: Sun brings the illumination. The sun shines and lights up

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Speaker 1: moon could say, man, I need to create some power plants.

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Speaker 1: way we don't have to manufacture promotion favor people liking us.

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Speaker 1: He was saying, in effect, I'm reflecting the goodness of

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Speaker 1: That's what the scripture says. It's not by our might,

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Speaker 1: not by our power, but by your spirit. It's His

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Speaker 1: face shining on you, causing you to accomplish your purpose. Now,

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Speaker 1: don't talk yourself out of it, focused on what you

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Speaker 1: The moon doesn't have any light, not one ball, not

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