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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 1: Friend, reappreciate you, and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: Just want to encourage you today that you have the

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Speaker 2: power of the Living God on the inside of you.

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Speaker 3: Do you ever get tired of hearing that?

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Speaker 2: I don't either, and I think we constantly need to

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Speaker 2: be reminded that God's power lives in us. You see,

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Speaker 2: you're equipped this morning, and I want to announce that

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Speaker 2: you're equipped for your unique assignment. God has left nothing

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Speaker 2: out that you're going to need for anything that He's

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Speaker 2: called you to do. And not only has he thought

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Speaker 2: about you. I liked what Cindy said that his thoughts

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Speaker 2: for you, his plans for you, are good.

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Speaker 4: See, he thought about it.

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Speaker 2: He knew our assignment, and he put everything in us

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Speaker 2: that we would need, every gift, every talent, our personalities,

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Speaker 2: our dispositions, everything is just right. And then he did

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Speaker 2: something one step greater. He put his power in us.

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Speaker 2: He put his power in us. So you have the

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Speaker 2: Living God on the inside of you if you're a

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Speaker 2: believer today.

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Speaker 3: So I don't want you to feel ordinary.

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Speaker 4: Because we all do.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just an ordinary life.

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Speaker 2: We go to work, we come home, we eat dinner,

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Speaker 2: we do it again. We get up in the morning,

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Speaker 2: we go mow the lawn, we do this, we do

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Speaker 2: it can feel ordinary. But I want to tell you something.

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Speaker 2: God didn't save you. He didn't call you. He didn't

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Speaker 2: choose you.

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Speaker 3: To be ordinary. He called you to be extraordinary.

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Speaker 2: And you got to understand, because you have the living God,

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Speaker 2: you are extraordinary. You're set apart, You're called by God

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Speaker 2: and He has assignments for you to do. You See,

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Speaker 2: it's so interesting because sometimes people don't recognize the call

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Speaker 2: of God on our life.

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Speaker 3: They don't understand the call of God.

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Speaker 2: Or like I said, we may feel ordinary, we wonder

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Speaker 2: if we're accomplishing what God even wants us to accomplish. See,

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Speaker 2: so often we determine the power of God within us

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Speaker 2: by what's going on around us. You See, if I

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Speaker 2: was maybe doing a little better, if God liked me

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Speaker 2: a little more, this wouldn't be happening.

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Speaker 3: Or maybe if I could just get a little closer.

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Speaker 2: To God, I wouldn't be going through this trial, But

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Speaker 2: can I tell you something that's the way man looks

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Speaker 2: at things. In fact, God told the prophet Samuel, he said,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna anoint the next king of Israel, and I

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Speaker 2: want you to know this one thing about this anointing.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna anoint the man that I call. But I

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Speaker 2: don't want you to begin to look for what you

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Speaker 2: think would be the king. I don't want you to

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Speaker 2: look for the man that's the right height, the man

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Speaker 2: talents that you think would make a good king.

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Speaker 3: He said, because I don't look at things that way.

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Speaker 2: That's the way you look at things. He said, you

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Speaker 2: look from the outside. You respond to life from the outside.

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Speaker 4: But see, I am a God of the inside.

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Speaker 2: Man looks on the outside, but God looks on the heart.

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Speaker 2: See you're qualified today because God chose you to be qualified.

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Speaker 3: He looked at your heart and he said, that's my child.

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Speaker 2: You know what I love about that is that God

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Speaker 2: is the god of second chances. God is always inside

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Speaker 2: of us, working from the inside out. He's working on

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Speaker 2: the time. God never sleeps. He never slumbers. He's always

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Speaker 2: at work in the heart of a believer. David said

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Speaker 2: it like this, He said, you teach me wisdom in

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Speaker 2: my inner most parts. That's where you're speaking to me God,

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Speaker 3: You see, God communicates with us.

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Speaker 4: In our inner most parts.

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Speaker 2: And I want to remind you today that you house

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Speaker 2: the greatest power in the universe.

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Speaker 3: I don't want you to neglect or not protect.

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Speaker 4: What's on the inside of you.

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Speaker 3: You're not ordinary, you're extraordinary. You walk with humility.

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Speaker 5: Because you know the God that you serve. But He

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Speaker 5: hasn't made you like anybody else. He separated you. So

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Speaker 5: I just want you to get this in your heart today.

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Speaker 2: Because I think when we realize what we carry, we'll

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Speaker 3: We'll acknowledge what we carry, will.

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Speaker 2: Allow what we carry to teach us wisdom and our

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Speaker 2: to the boss when he's putting us down, when he's

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Speaker 2: that the critics don't have to define us because God

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Speaker 2: is teaching us all the while in our inmost parts.

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Speaker 2: I want to just use one of the greatest mothers.

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Speaker 2: Since it's Mother's Day, right, I want to talk about

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest mothers in the Bible. In fact,

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Speaker 2: this mother was the first mother that God lived in,

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Speaker 4: Mother that God lived in. Her name is Mary. You

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Speaker 2: You know the story of Mary. She was the mother

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Speaker 4: They couldn't say, she's just a girl. She has a

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Speaker 2: But you see, God wasn't looking at Mary's outside. He

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Speaker 2: wasn't even looking at Mary's plans. He was looking at

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Speaker 2: Mary's heart, and he had a unique assignment for Mary.

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Speaker 2: See that's so interesting because God wasn't concerned about Mary's plans.

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Speaker 2: God wasn't concerned that she was about to get married.

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Speaker 2: The invitations were already out, the caterers were coming, the venue.

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Speaker 2: He was looking at her heart, and he had a

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Speaker 3: Have you ever been interrupted by God?

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Speaker 4: Well, Mary was interrupted.

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Speaker 2: The Angel came to her and announced that she was

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Speaker 4: To a son. She said, how can this be.

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Speaker 2: And he said, the Holy Spirit will come upon you,

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Speaker 2: and God will empower you to bring forth this sun.

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Speaker 3: You see, that's what happens when.

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Speaker 2: You know who you are. You know you got God

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Speaker 2: wants you to do, the plans that he's already established.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how it all works, but I can

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Speaker 2: tell you that God is always working.

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Speaker 3: He's always working.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Mary, instead of giving a lot of excuses,

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Speaker 4: It's kind of inconvenient.

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Speaker 2: God, I've been waiting for this man a long time.

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Speaker 4: You don't know.

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Speaker 2: All my girlfriends got the man. I've been waiting for

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Speaker 2: this man a long time. Mary said, being unto me

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Speaker 2: as you said, she literally made a decision that she

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Speaker 2: was gonna race this seed that God had just planted

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Speaker 2: the seed to promise, and that she was going to

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Speaker 2: accept it, no matter if it interrupted her plans or not,

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Speaker 2: no matter how difficult it was. She said, I'm going

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Speaker 2: And as I was reading the story about Mary, I

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Speaker 2: just want to get to some practical things that Mary did,

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Speaker 2: and I think these things can help us. We've heard

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Speaker 2: them before, but you know, we think that Mary just

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Speaker 2: had it easy. Oh Mary, you know she was chosen

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Speaker 2: sure you know she had everything she needed.

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Speaker 4: But can I tell you it was rough.

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Speaker 2: It was rough to birth the promise of God. It

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Speaker 2: was rough to do what God had called her to do.

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Speaker 2: But God said she was favored and highly blessed. So

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Speaker 2: I guarantee you she was favored and highly blessed, no

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Speaker 2: matter how difficult it was, no matter how many battles

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Speaker 2: she had to fight, no matter how many times she

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Speaker 2: had to talk herself into it, because God said she

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Speaker 2: was blessed and highly favored. And God says you are

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Speaker 2: blessed and highly favor You are blessed and highly favored.

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Speaker 2: You may be going through some difficult times right now,

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Speaker 2: your plans may be interrupted. I want you to hear

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Speaker 2: that loud and clear. God chose to live in Mary,

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Speaker 2: and God chose to live in you. God chose to

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Speaker 3: That's powerful. That's powerful.

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Speaker 2: Because Mary fulfilled her assignment and brought fulfillment to the scriptures.

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Speaker 4: God chose to live in his people.

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Speaker 2: I believe that was a foreshadowing of what God wants

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Speaker 2: his people. But as soon as Mary accepted that seed

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Speaker 2: her cousin Elizabeth's house. Now, her cousin, Elizabeth was married

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Speaker 2: to a man named Zachariah, and they were promised, even

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Speaker 2: in her very old aid age.

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Speaker 4: That she would have a baby.

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Speaker 2: She was pregnant with her baby when Elizabeth got there,

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Speaker 2: faith into Mary. Now where am I going with this,

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Speaker 2: because see that was a long time ago.

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Speaker 3: But let me tell you what I believe God.

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Speaker 4: Is showing us.

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Speaker 2: One thing He is showing us when he puts a

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Speaker 2: seed of promise.

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Speaker 4: In you, you need to protect that seed to promise.

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Speaker 2: You need to get it into an environment that it

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Speaker 2: can grow. You need to get into a good church

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Speaker 2: where the people know what God does, and they can

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Speaker 2: speak encouragement to your heart because that's exactly where.

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Speaker 3: God had Mary go.

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Speaker 2: He had her in an environment where that environment knew

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Speaker 2: the power of God.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: And this is just a side note, but I don't

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Speaker 2: know if y'all find this as interesting as I did.

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Speaker 2: But the Bible says that was at Elizabeth's house.

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Speaker 4: For three months.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting because when a woman gets pregnant,

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Speaker 2: that twelve week period is very crucial. Many times you

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Speaker 2: can miss Carrie before that twelve weeks. In fact, you know,

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Speaker 2: some people don't even like to announce that they're pregnant

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Speaker 2: until after the twelve weeks because that kind of is

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Speaker 2: a safe zone and you know, okay, it's it's probably

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Speaker 2: gonna be okay. And I get to thinking, isn't that

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Speaker 2: interesting that God had her there for twelve weeks? See,

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Speaker 2: he didn't want her to miss Carrie the seed. See,

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Speaker 2: he wanted to keep that seed in an environment that

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Speaker 2: it could grow in a strong foundation. To think about

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Speaker 2: what God said to you, Think about the dreams He's

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Speaker 2: put in your heart, Think about Him being on the

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Speaker 2: inside of you. What environment do you put yourself in?

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Speaker 2: Do you let people, we'll talk down to you. Do

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Speaker 2: you put yourself in an environment that God wouldn't want

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Speaker 3: Are you careful?

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Speaker 4: Do you protect it?

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Speaker 2: You see, there were many naysayers when Mary showed up pregnant.

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