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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jordan Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks.

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Speaker 1: For supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: We believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 2: and favor filled.

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message. Ay Men

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Speaker 1: and amen, you may be seated.

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Speaker 2: God wants us to go from strength to strength. He

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Speaker 2: wants us to go from glory to glory. We sang

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Speaker 2: about it a few minutes ago, how he wants to

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Speaker 2: take us from glory to glory. He wants us to

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Speaker 2: go higher and higher. But sometimes when we're trying to

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Speaker 2: get higher, we're trying to go to more strength, we're

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Speaker 2: trying to get through we find that we're going from

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Speaker 2: struggle to struggle. See, God doesn't want us to go

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Speaker 2: from struggle to struggle. His intention is for us to

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Speaker 2: go from strength to strength. And can I tell you today,

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Speaker 2: we all face this challenge. Day, Hey, we're doing good,

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Speaker 2: the next day we're struggling. We're trying to get out

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Speaker 2: of a situation. We're trying to get to another situation.

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Speaker 2: Maybe if you're struggling today, you need to hear this

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Speaker 2: one word rest, just rest. See the truth is we're

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Speaker 2: going to get to where God wants us to be

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Speaker 2: if we're honoring him, if we put him first place,

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Speaker 2: if we take time to get his plans and his

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Speaker 2: words in our heart and in our life, We're not

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Speaker 2: going to get to where we need to be any

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Speaker 2: quicker if we worry, if we struggle, or if we're frustrated.

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Speaker 2: So today I just want to say, if you find

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Speaker 2: yourself struggling, rest, rest in God's peace, Abide in his joy.

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Speaker 1: That's where you're going to find your strength.

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Speaker 2: That is where you are going to endure and find

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Speaker 2: great persistence. God is always trying to get us higher,

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Speaker 2: so we're always going to be faith We've seen something

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Speaker 2: in our life.

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Speaker 1: Listen to what it says in James one four.

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Speaker 2: It says, consider it all joy when you go through

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Speaker 2: trials of.

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Speaker 1: Many kinds, many kinds.

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Speaker 2: A variety of trials coming from different places. Where to

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Speaker 2: count it all joy? When we face trials? See trials

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Speaker 2: is what causes us to struggle. But God is saying

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Speaker 2: count it all joy. In this version that I'm reading,

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Speaker 2: it says, consider.

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Speaker 1: It all joy.

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Speaker 2: See, our trials were never meant to decrease us. They

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Speaker 2: were meant to increase us. They were not meant to

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Speaker 2: tear our faith down. They were meant to build our

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Speaker 2: faith up. Trials were meant.

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Speaker 1: To produce.

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Speaker 2: Perseverance in us. See that scripture goes on to say

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Speaker 1: Won't be lacking anything.

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Speaker 2: That there may be a trial of our faith, but

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Speaker 2: it's gonna lead eat us to good, it's not going

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Speaker 2: joy is joy. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

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Speaker 2: We don't find the joy in the trial. We don't

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Speaker 2: find the joy and the pain. We are supposed to

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Speaker 2: find the joy in the God who is the source

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Speaker 2: it all. When we are walking through a difficulty, we

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Speaker 2: are supposed to look for God, not look at the difficulty.

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Speaker 1: We're to count it all joy.

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Speaker 2: Happiness comes and goes, Excitement is here, vacations come, they go.

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Speaker 1: But joy is supposed to abide in us. Joy lives

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Speaker 1: in us. Joy is a gift from Almighty God.

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Speaker 2: You know, sometimes when we're going through a trial or

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Speaker 2: Right now, I think the scripture should say when you

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Speaker 2: But see, the scripture doesn't say that, it says we

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Speaker 1: And if we're gonna count it all God, we got

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Speaker 2: There is good in this trial. The decision is to

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Speaker 2: I've discovered. I've discovered that most of the time God

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Speaker 1: It says that he wants us to.

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Speaker 1: You see, if we're gonna go higher and hire, we're always.

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Speaker 2: Gonna be facing something because the only way to go

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Speaker 2: See what are you stepping over or stepping up to today?

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Speaker 2: Are you saying, God, help me find your strength, be

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Speaker 1: See when we do it on our own, that's when

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Speaker 2: But when we realize, when we tap into this joy,

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Speaker 1: We find our source of strength.

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Speaker 2: See, there is something called willpower, and we all like

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Speaker 2: You're facing a difficulty and God's got you on an

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Speaker 2: Don't struggle on your own realize the joy of the

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Speaker 1: In him, it's the peace in him. Do you know?

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Speaker 2: It's very interesting what we believe about our circumstance will

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Speaker 2: See, God wants us to pass the test. That is,

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Speaker 2: any good teacher wants you to pass the test. They

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Speaker 2: have perseverance. That's what the intention of these true are.

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Speaker 2: To give us perseverance, to train us to bring out

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Speaker 2: the good in us, the God in us. See, that's

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Speaker 2: why the enemy works so hard to steal our joy,

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Speaker 2: because he knows if we're looking everywhere else, if we're

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Speaker 2: We're chasing the problem instead of chasing the promise.

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Speaker 2: God has put everything we need to accomplish on the

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Speaker 1: We just got to dig it out. We got to

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Speaker 2: What you're believing about the difficulty you're going through right now,

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Speaker 2: it's going to make all the difference in the world

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Speaker 2: on how you come out of this difficulty and what

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Speaker 2: you learn through this difficulty, what you learn.

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Speaker 1: Through any challenge. See, if you're going to go through it,

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Speaker 2: That's what God's saying, Grow through it.

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Speaker 1: It says in Romans fifteen thirteen.

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Speaker 2: It says, the God of all hope will fill you

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Speaker 2: with joy and peace in believing.

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Speaker 1: What are you believing today?

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Speaker 2: Are you believing you're unworthy, are believing you can't make it? See,

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Speaker 2: with those kind of thoughts, are.

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Speaker 1: You believing God?

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Speaker 2: I am believing as I face this trial, I'm learning something.

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Speaker 2: that I can repent, I can turn away. God. I

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Speaker 2: believing that I have all power to overcome, being built

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Speaker 2: up because of Jesus Christ. See, it's what you're believing

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Speaker 1: I don't give up your joy. Don't let it elude you.

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Speaker 1: Don't think it's happiness. Happiness is good. We all want

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Speaker 1: to be happy. We all want things to be going

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Speaker 2: The true test of our faith, the test that's gonna

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Speaker 2: build us, build our character, build our perseverance as sounds

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Speaker 2: in the trials of life. God doesn't want you to

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Speaker 1: We wants you to be built up.