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

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you, and it's great to be with you today.

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Speaker 1: And I hope you'll stay connected with us during the

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Speaker 1: week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media,

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Speaker 1: and you can come visit us in person. Now, I

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Speaker 1: let you start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 1: this college professor. He was going to prove to his

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Speaker 1: students that there is no God. He said, God, if

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Speaker 1: you're real, then knock me off this platform. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you fifteen minutes to do it. With every minute that

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Speaker 1: went by, he taunted God, God, I'm still here. I'm

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Speaker 1: still waiting the last minute. Three hundred pound football player

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Speaker 1: walking down the hall over herning. He took off, running

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Speaker 1: full speed toward and put his shoulder down, send him

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Speaker 1: flying off the platforms. The professor woke up in a

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Speaker 1: said what in the world do you do that for?

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Speaker 1: The football player replied, God said he was busy, so

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Speaker 1: he sent me all right. Y'all say it like you

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about peace with

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Speaker 1: the plan. What causes a lot of frustration is when

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Speaker 1: our plans don't work out. We thought by this time

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Speaker 1: we'd be further in our career, we would have met

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Speaker 1: someone by now, we still wouldn't be dealing with this

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Speaker 1: trouble at work. It's easy to get discouraged because things

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Speaker 1: haven't turned out the way we plan. But the scripture

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Speaker 1: says God's ways are not our ways. They are higher

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Speaker 1: and better than our ways. If you're going to stay

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Speaker 1: in peace, you have to let go of what you

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Speaker 1: had in mind as long as you're set on it

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Speaker 1: happening one way. And here's how it's going to work out.

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Speaker 1: And this door has to open, and this person has

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Speaker 1: to come, and I've got to be there. By this age,

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Speaker 1: you have God in a box telling him what to do,

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Speaker 1: how to do it, when to do it. The problem

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Speaker 1: is that's your plan, but it's not his plan. His

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Speaker 1: plan is better. His plan is more rewarding and more fulfilling.

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Speaker 1: But here's the key. You're not always going to understand

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Speaker 1: his plan. It may not make sense. God doesn't take

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Speaker 1: you in a straight line to your destiny. There will

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Speaker 1: be twist and turns and detours. Times where it looks

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Speaker 1: like you had a dead end, obstacles too big, times

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Speaker 1: where you feel like you're going the wrong way. This

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Speaker 1: is when you have to trust God. This is not

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Speaker 1: what I had in mind, doesn't make sense to me,

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Speaker 1: but I know you're in control. I talked to a

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Speaker 1: man that was upset with God. He was new to

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Speaker 1: the faith and he was in this problem and he

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Speaker 1: had his plan, his idea, his strategies. He had prayed

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Speaker 1: and believed, and he was very passionate, but it hadn't

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Speaker 1: worked out the way he wanted, didn't happen on his timetable.

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Speaker 1: He said, Joel, God didn't come through for me. He

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Speaker 1: let me down. But if you're only going to be

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Speaker 1: happy if God does what you want, then you're setting

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Speaker 1: yourself up for disappointment. It's not our plan, is God's plan.

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Speaker 1: It's not what we want, It's what he wants. The

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Speaker 1: beauty is God's way is the best way. If he

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Speaker 1: followed our plan, always did what we had in mind,

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Speaker 1: we wouldn't see the fullness of our destinies. And the

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Speaker 1: scripture says that nothing can stop his plan. Things may

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Speaker 1: to pass. You have to be still and know that

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Speaker 1: he is God, not living. Upset and man, why is

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Speaker 1: this taken so long? And I can't believe that I'm

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Speaker 1: still here? No, turn it around. God, I'm at peace

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Speaker 1: with your plan. I know you're ordering my steps. You

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Speaker 1: will get me to where I'm supposed to be when

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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be there. See we see that hymn.

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Speaker 1: I surrender all all to Jesus. I surrender. One of

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Speaker 1: the hardest things to surrender is what you had in mind.

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Speaker 1: don't understand this like that, Man, you get upset. God,

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Speaker 1: where were you? I thought we'd have a baby by now.

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Speaker 1: over this illness. This can save you a lot of frustration.

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Speaker 1: Put how you thought it was going to happen on

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Speaker 1: the altar. Release what you had in mind. There's a

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Speaker 1: freedom when you realize God is ordering your steps. He's

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Speaker 1: laid out every day of You're alive. He said, His

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Speaker 1: plans for you are for good. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: trust his plan. Jesus was in the garden of Ysseimine,

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Speaker 1: under so much pressure that he sweat great drops of blood,

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Speaker 1: and he knew his father could deliver him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he had raised the dead, calm the storm, healed the lepers.

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Speaker 1: He fell to his knees and said, Father, if you're willing,

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Speaker 1: take this cup from me. He was saying, in effect,

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Speaker 1: this is not what I want. This is not fair.

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Speaker 1: I'm uncomfortable. If he had stopped there, he could have

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Speaker 1: missed his purpose. He went on to say, but not

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Speaker 1: my will. Let your will be done. He was saying, God,

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Speaker 1: I release what I had in mind. I trust your plan.

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Speaker 1: There will be these times that you don't understand things

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Speaker 1: have come against you. You know God could have delivered

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Speaker 1: you could have turned it around, but it's not changing.

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Speaker 1: This is when you have to surrender your will and

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Speaker 1: surrender how you thought it would happen. God hasn't delivered

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Speaker 1: you yet because he has something better coming. That difficulty

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Speaker 1: is a part of his plan. You have to go

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Speaker 1: through it to get to the greater things he has

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Speaker 1: in store. Thissalmas said they went through the fire, through

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Speaker 1: the flood to great abundance. We don't like the fires,

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Speaker 1: the challenges, the people that do us wrong. But on

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Speaker 1: the other side of that difficulty is a new level

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Speaker 1: of your destiny. Jesus had to go through the garden,

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Speaker 1: through the betrayal, through the rejection, but now he's seated

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Speaker 1: at the right hand of the Father. When we're in

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Speaker 1: the garden dealing with things we don't understand, it's a test.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to get frustrated? God? Why how did

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Speaker 1: this happen? Lose our passion, quit believing, try a different approach,

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Speaker 1: release what you had in mind. Maybe Gasimine is leading

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Speaker 1: you to a resurrection. Maybe the betrayal was necessary to

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Speaker 1: take your throne. Maybe the delay is a part of

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Speaker 1: God's plan, taking you somewhere that you never dreamed. Let

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Speaker 1: go of how you thought it would happen may not

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Speaker 1: be by your strategy, your timing. God's ways are not

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Speaker 1: our ways. We don't know what He's about to do.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't always tell us in advance. That's why we

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Speaker 1: have to walk by faith and not by sciens. Think

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Speaker 1: about the three Hebrew teenagers. They wouldn't bow down to

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Speaker 1: the king's golden idling. He was so angry he said,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have you thrown into a fiery furnace. These

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Speaker 1: planned on going to school, being leader, getting married, raising children. Now,

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Speaker 1: unless they compromise, they're going to be killed. They understood

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Speaker 1: this principle that nothing can stop God's plan for your life.

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Speaker 1: People can't stop it. Bad breaks can't stop it, betrayals,

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Speaker 1: delays injustice. They said to the king, we're not going

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Speaker 1: They had great faith, but their next statement is the key.

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Speaker 1: bow They were saying, we trust his plan. Our life

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Speaker 1: is in his hands. They could have been complaining God

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Speaker 1: this is not fair. We were doing the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Why did it happen? They surrendered their will to God's will.

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Speaker 1: The king had their hands and feet bound with cords

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Speaker 1: and threw them into the fire. Sometimes God's plan will

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Speaker 1: take you into a furnace. Just because you're in something

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Speaker 1: that feels over your head, you're outnumbered, the opposition is stronger.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're not where you're supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: God is still in control. He wouldn't have allowed the

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Speaker 1: difficulty if it wasn't a part of your purpose. A

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Speaker 1: lot of times we think, God, get me out of

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Speaker 1: this fire, and I'll give you praise. God, move this

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Speaker 1: God's plan doesn't always deliver you from the fire. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: he'll take you through the fire. If you're set on

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Speaker 1: happening one way, God, you have to change this person,

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Speaker 1: turn this problem around, make my business growth. That's telling

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Speaker 1: God to fit into your plan. Do it my way.

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Speaker 1: God has ways you've never thought of. That's not only

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Speaker 1: limiting what he can do, but it'll cause you to

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Speaker 1: be frustrated because things aren't going according to your plan.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you let go of what you had in mind.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you release how you thought everything would happen.

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Speaker 1: Heard about a man out hiking through the mountains and

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Speaker 1: he was on this high cliff overlooking a huge canyon,

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Speaker 1: the air, he cried out, God, please save me. A

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Speaker 1: man said, is there anyone else up there? And we

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Speaker 1: we have our strategy, how it's going to happen, when

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Speaker 1: good to have a vision for your life, but don't

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Speaker 1: God has you right where you're supposed to be. The

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Speaker 1: because what God has in mind is much better than

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Speaker 1: what you have in mind. His dream for your life

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Speaker 1: is much greater than your dream. But the way it's

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Speaker 1: going to happen probably won't be the way you thought.

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Speaker 1: God will open doors you never imagine would open. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: he'll take you backwards so he can thrust you forward.

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Speaker 1: You'll go through the fire so he can show out

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Speaker 1: in your life. The giants aren't there to kill you.

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Speaker 1: They're there to reveal you, to show people who you are,

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Speaker 1: to establish you, give your credibility and influence. None of

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Speaker 1: us plan on having a Goliath. We don't plan on

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Speaker 1: being thrown into a furnace. If you're set on how

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Speaker 1: you think it's gonna happen, you'll get sour. Joel, this

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Speaker 1: special needs child, having to take this treatment. These teenagers

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Speaker 1: didn't plan on facing death at an early age. They

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Speaker 1: had all kinds of dreams and goals, but they surrendered

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Speaker 1: their will to God's will. God didn't keep them out

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Speaker 1: But the reason some people are frustrated is not because

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Speaker 1: God is not going to give you an Isaac. Not

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Speaker 1: it's not going to happen the way you think. When

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Speaker 1: you think with whom you think you have to be

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Speaker 1: at peace with his plan. God has not forgotten about you.

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Speaker 1: He sees the lonely nights, he sees the closed doors,

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Speaker 1: it's all working for your good. Isaac is not only

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Speaker 1: is ordering your steps. He's fighting your battles. He has

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Speaker 1: not brought you this far to leave you. Trust him

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Speaker 1: when you don't understand. Hold tightly to your dreams, but

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Speaker 1: hold loosely to how it's going to happen. If you'll

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Speaker 1: do this, I believe and declare, God's about to turn

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Speaker 1: your question marks into exclamation points. Things you didn't see coming,

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Speaker 1: the right people, restoration, promotion, new levels of your destiny

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Speaker 1: in Jesus's name, and if you receive it. Can you

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Speaker 1: say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray

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Speaker 1: with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my lord and savior.

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Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you

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Speaker 3: feel like you're stumbling around in the dark. Things are

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Speaker 3: so bad you would need a miracle to change your situation.

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Speaker 3: But as a miracle even possible.

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Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see a way out.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what

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Speaker 1: we're believing. For that's how we felt. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a

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Speaker 1: but she chose to believe that God is a miracle worker. Today,

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Speaker 1: forty three years later, by the grace of God, she's

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Speaker 1: God did it for my mother. Yes, He'll do it

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: God has miracles stored up for you, healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 1: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: see the hand of God do supernatural things in your life.

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Speaker 2: Standing in faith with you. We pray for you every day.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate your prayer and support. Your generosity is impacting

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Speaker 1: Listen on Serious XM. Until we meet again. May the

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