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Speaker 5: I want to share from the thought it's as good

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Speaker 5: as done. There are times we find ourselves in uncertain situations,

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Speaker 5: days when life can feel so out of our control.

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Speaker 5: Moments when we're not sure if it's ever going to

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Speaker 5: work out, Are we going to meet the right person?

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Speaker 5: Do we have what it takes? Will we make it

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Speaker 5: through this challenge? We can let the uncertainty of tomorrow

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Speaker 5: keep us from making the most of today. But the

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Speaker 5: good news is God has already gone ahead of us.

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Speaker 5: He's already lined up the right people, the right opportunities,

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Speaker 5: the right resources in your future. He's already worked out

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Speaker 5: what we're worried about. He had the solution before we

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Speaker 5: even have the problem. He's not dealing with uncertainty. He's

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Speaker 5: not trying to figure it out. He said in Isaiah,

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Speaker 5: I am God from the very beginning, telling you what

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Speaker 5: the ending will be.

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Speaker 6: I've said it, and I'll certainly do it.

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Speaker 5: I've planned it, so it's as good as done. What

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Speaker 5: God has spoken over your life is not an if,

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Speaker 5: it's not a made. It's as good as done. From

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Speaker 5: the very beginning, He set the end in place. He

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Speaker 5: ordered your days, worked out the details, orchestrated everything that

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Speaker 5: you need to come to pass at exactly the right time.

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Speaker 5: When you live from the perspective that what God planned

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Speaker 5: is as good as done, you won't worry about whether

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Speaker 5: you're enough. You won't stress about the things you don't have.

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Speaker 5: You won't fight for victory. You'll fight from it, knowing

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Speaker 5: God has already won that battle. He's already made away.

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Speaker 5: He's already seen you through. Every enemy has been defeated,

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Speaker 5: every obstacle has been overcome, every stronghold has been broken.

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Speaker 5: You may not see it yet, but if God said it,

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Speaker 5: we can know deep down it's as good as done.

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Speaker 5: In Genesis, God said to Abraham, I have made you

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Speaker 5: But in the moment it looks like the furthest thing

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Speaker 5: He designed your destiny before you were ever born. He

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Speaker 5: That provision you're praying for, it's as good as done.

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Speaker 5: That promise that you're standing on, it's as good as done.

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Speaker 5: That's the kind of God that we serve. His word

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Speaker 5: he'll certainly do it. We don't have to beg God

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Speaker 6: What he ordained is not an option. Your future is

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Speaker 5: It doesn't have to make sense right now. God will

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Speaker 5: You're not going to come to some random end. God

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Speaker 5: When the creator of the universe sets the end, there

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Speaker 5: is nothing that could stand in the way. Not sickness,

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Speaker 5: the story was just right. He talked about how the

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Speaker 5: He said, Oh, that's the easy part. There's this phrase

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Speaker 5: in the movie industry that says, know your ending. You

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Speaker 5: he said. In fact, most movies don't even shoot in sequence.

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Speaker 6: That phrase, know.

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Speaker 5: Your ending has always stuck with me. I thought that

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Speaker 5: was so fascinating. What if we knew our ending? What

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Speaker 5: if we knew there was victory ahead? What if we

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Speaker 5: knew that situation that we were so worried about was

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Speaker 5: going to be okay? What if we knew that struggle

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Speaker 6: Wouldn't it change the way we live? Wouldn't we have

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Speaker 5: The truth is long before Hollywood ever said it. God said,

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Speaker 6: My purpose will stand.

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Speaker 5: He was saying, I wrote your story, and I know

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Speaker 5: with your final scene. Your ending has already been established.

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Speaker 5: And the good news is.

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Speaker 6: You don't end in defeat.

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Speaker 5: You don't end in heartache, you don't end in failure.

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Speaker 6: Your story ends in victory.

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Speaker 5: God said, he always causes us to triumph. You end

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Speaker 5: as more than a conqueror, as the head and not

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Speaker 6: We don't have to go.

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Speaker 5: Through life wondering if we've seen our best days, questioning

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Speaker 5: Like in any movie, a single scene on its own

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Speaker 5: How could Nemo make it home? He doesn't even know

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Speaker 5: God gave him the dream that he would rule a nation,

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Speaker 5: That scene on its own doesn't make sense. It doesn't

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Speaker 6: As soon as I get home, I turn.

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Speaker 5: I might get frustrated at a certain call, but he

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Speaker 6: He knows the end is set. He's convinced of the outcome.

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Speaker 5: We could be down forty points, but all he's thinking

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Speaker 6: He's just enjoying the journey. And that's how we can live.

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Speaker 5: I'm not saying we have to have the exact score

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Speaker 5: who does. God has declared.

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Speaker 6: The end from the beginning.

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Speaker 5: He's authored each day, your future has been written. He's

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Speaker 5: already orchestrated every solution, every opportunity, every person to come

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Speaker 5: figure it all out. Live from that place of peace.

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Speaker 5: We can't focus on what God has called us to

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Speaker 5: I'm asking us to live from that place of peace,

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Speaker 5: to trust that he's already worked it out, that he's

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Speaker 5: thank you that you are here with us tonight. Lord,

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Speaker 5: just how much the details of our lives matter to you. God.

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Speaker 5: you that you are fighting our battles. Thank you that

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Speaker 5: you're making a way. Thank you in advance for what

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