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

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. And I'd

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 1: this pastor. He was raising funds for a new auditorium,

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Speaker 1: said to the congregation, anyone who will give a thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars can pick out the next three hymns. Little old

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Speaker 1: lady in the back raise her hand. Pastor, I'll do it.

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Speaker 1: He was so excited. He said, thank you so much. Now,

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Speaker 1: which three hymns would you like? She looked over the

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Speaker 1: congregation said I'll take him and him and him. All right, Joe,

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Speaker 1: stay like you mean it. This is my I am

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

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Speaker 1: I have, I can do what it says I can

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Speaker 1: do today. I will be taught the word of God.

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

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: seeing from a distance. We all have promises in our

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Speaker 1: heart and dreams were believing for, but sometimes they seem

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Speaker 1: so far off and so unlikely. We don't see how

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Speaker 1: we could get well, or how we'll meet the right person.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't look like our child will ever get back on course.

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Speaker 1: It's such a long way off that it's easy to

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Speaker 1: get discouraged and think that it's never going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Hebrews eleven talks about the heroes of faith and all

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Speaker 1: the amazing things they accomplished, and how God showed up

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Speaker 1: and did what only he could do. Parted the Red

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Speaker 1: Sea for mosesm brought down the walls of Jerald, Hope

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Speaker 1: for Joshua, was close the mouths of lions for Daniel.

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Speaker 1: They were all in situations that looked impossible no way out.

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Speaker 1: Verse thirteen gives us a secret of how they saw

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Speaker 1: the promises come to pass. It says they had not

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Speaker 1: yet received what God promised. But they saw it from

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Speaker 1: a distance and welcomed the promises of God when every

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Speaker 1: the our position's too big. They just kept seeing it

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Speaker 1: in the distance. Their attitude was may be a long

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Speaker 1: way off, but I still believe what God promised. I

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Speaker 1: still believe what he started he'll finish. I still believe

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Speaker 1: he can make a way where I don't see away.

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Speaker 1: They welcomed it by faith. When the promise is far off,

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Speaker 1: doubt will try to fill your mind. You can't have

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Speaker 1: the baby you saw the report. You'll always have this addiction.

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Speaker 1: Everyone in your family struggles with it. You can't start

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Speaker 1: your business, you can barely pay your own bills. If

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Speaker 1: you agree with the doubt, it's going to push the

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Speaker 1: promise away. You have to welcome it by faith. Lord,

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Speaker 1: I thank you that my healing is on the way.

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Speaker 1: Thank you that freedom is coming, thank you that my

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Speaker 1: child is turning around. Thank you that abundance is in

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Speaker 1: my future. Maybe way off in the distance, but you're saying,

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Speaker 1: come on in healing. You're welcome here, Abundance. You'll welcome

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Speaker 1: here freedom. You're welcome in my house. The more you

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Speaker 1: welcome it, the more you thank God and believe it's

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Speaker 1: going to happen, the closer it's getting the message. Translation

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Speaker 1: of verse thirteen says, each of these heroes of faith

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Speaker 1: did not yet have what was promised. How did they

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Speaker 1: do it? They saw it way off in the distance,

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Speaker 1: When it was way off, they waved at it. We

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Speaker 1: were welcoming it, expecting it, giving it permission to come.

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Speaker 1: I was at the airport one time waiting for some

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Speaker 1: friends who were coming in from overseas, and we hadn't

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Speaker 1: seen him in a long time, and we were so excited,

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Speaker 1: and we were standing in the lobby in this restricted

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Speaker 1: area they had to come through customs. There was a

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Speaker 1: glass wall and you could see the people through the

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Speaker 1: JetWave about fifty yards away, and we were hoping to

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Speaker 1: get a glimpse of them. And hundreds of people were

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Speaker 1: at one point we saw them. Of course, we all

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Speaker 1: started waving and waving, trying to get their attention. They

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Speaker 1: We wanted to make sure they felt welcoming, that they

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Speaker 1: the promises God puts in our heart start far off.

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Speaker 1: The dreams, the healing, the breakthroughs. They start in the distance.

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Speaker 1: Seems unlikely. We don't have the resources, We don't know

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Speaker 1: That's the way it was with the heroes of faith.

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Speaker 1: Every thought said, the giant is too big, David, the

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Speaker 1: fire too hot, shadrack Niejak of Bendigune, you've been sick

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Speaker 1: twelve years, woman with the issue of blood. They had

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Speaker 1: every reason to get discouraged, think that it could never happen.

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Speaker 1: But they understood this principle. They saw it in the

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Speaker 1: distance and welcomed it by faith. Your healing may look

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Speaker 1: far away, Your freedom, your abundance, meeting the right person

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Speaker 1: may look a long way off. What am I saying,

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Speaker 1: don't get discouraged by the distance. Get up every morning

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Speaker 1: and wave at your healing, Wave at your family's salvation,

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Speaker 1: Wave at your freedom, Wave at that spouse you've been

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Speaker 1: dreaming about, Wave at your abundance. We have to give

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Speaker 1: it permission to become a reality. Let it know that

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Speaker 1: it's welcome when you believe, expect, Thank God, it's getting closer.

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Speaker 1: You're drawing it in. But too often we let the

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Speaker 1: distance cause us to quit believing. There's no way I

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Speaker 1: can get well, Joel, you should see the reporter. My

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Speaker 1: family can't be restored. There's so much strife. The distance

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Speaker 1: is a test. How you respond when things are far

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Speaker 1: a reality. Maybe a long way off, but that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean it's not going to happen. Promises start in the distance.

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Speaker 1: Healing starts in the distance, Dreams start in the distance.

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Speaker 1: The enemy would love for you to let the distance

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Speaker 1: He'll whisper it's too far away, it's not possible what

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Speaker 1: had happened by now. Don't believe those lies. God wouldn't

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Speaker 1: bring it to pass. You have to keep seeing it

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Speaker 1: in the distance, calling it in by faith, thanking God

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Speaker 1: that is coming, expecting things to change in your favor.

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Speaker 1: Just like I waved at my friends at the airport

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Speaker 1: that were far away. Wave it to healing. Wave it

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Speaker 1: your new business, wave it your dream, make it feel welcome,

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Speaker 1: give it permission to become a reality. That's when God

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Speaker 1: will step in and take what looks far away, what's unlikely,

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Speaker 1: This is what Abraham had to do. He didn't have

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Speaker 1: he was very discouraged. He said, God, you blessed me

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Speaker 1: gonna have to leave my inheritance to my staff. God said, no, Abraham,

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Speaker 1: the father of many nations. The problem was Abraham and

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Speaker 1: his wife Sarah were way too old. Sarah was seventy,

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Speaker 1: she had already gone through the change of life. On

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Speaker 1: top of that, she was barren, never able to have children.

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Speaker 1: You talk about the promise being in the distance, far away,

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Speaker 1: this one was in another universe. No one had ever

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Speaker 1: she laughed. She said, how can an old woman like

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Speaker 1: me and a worn out man like Abraham ever have

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Speaker 1: a baby? She told it like it was. Abraham was

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Speaker 1: to have. God wanted him to have this picture. But

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Speaker 1: think about the stars, they're a long way off, millions

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Speaker 1: of miles far in the distance. God could have had

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Speaker 1: you could touch them. But on purpose, he gave him

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Speaker 1: this image of a promise far away. When God puts

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Speaker 1: things in your heart that seem a long way off,

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Speaker 1: that's when you have to show God what you're made of.

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Speaker 1: You'll either dismiss it is never gonna happen, or you'll

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Speaker 1: wave at it. God, I thank you that it's on

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Speaker 1: the way. I believe what you promise. You'll either push

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Speaker 1: with faith and expectancy. Sarah laughed in unbelief. She just

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Speaker 1: looked at it in the natural, but Abraham knew God

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Speaker 1: is supernatural. Romans Force says, even though this promise seemed

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Speaker 1: praise to God. I can imagine Abraham at night looking

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Speaker 1: know you are faithful to what you promised. I thank

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Speaker 1: you that my son is on the way. He stayed

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Speaker 1: strong in faith by continuing to thank God that it

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Speaker 1: you're going to have plenty of opportunities to get discouraged,

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Speaker 1: The distance doesn't mean God is not going to do it.

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Speaker 1: Most of his promises start far away. If it was

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Speaker 1: you need. Then it wouldn't take faith. God is going

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Speaker 1: to put things in your heart that seem unlikely never

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Speaker 1: That's when you have to do like Abraham, against all hope,

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Speaker 1: God that He's working, keep believing that is coming. Abraham

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Speaker 1: each year that goes by, it becomes more unlikely. What

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Speaker 1: that God is not working. You have to keep seeing

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Speaker 1: it's coming, keep expecting things to change, not move by

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Speaker 1: how far off it is, but fully persuaded that God

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Speaker 1: will do what he promised. Twenty years later, Sarah conceived

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Speaker 1: be things you're believing for that seem far off, no

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Speaker 1: sign of it in the natural, thoughts telling you it's

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Speaker 1: never gonna work out. But like Abraham, you keep seeing

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Speaker 1: God is going to do for you what he did

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Speaker 1: for him. It may have been years, but get ready.

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Speaker 1: Breakthroughs are coming, healing is coming, that baby is coming,

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Speaker 1: your promotion is coming. Suddenly things are going to change.

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Speaker 1: You can't explain it. It seems like he is far away.

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Speaker 1: But here's the key. God knows how to accelerate things.

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Speaker 1: He can speed up what should take years. One touch

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Speaker 1: in his favor, and what you see in the distance

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Speaker 1: will suddenly become a reality. If Abraham were here today,

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Speaker 1: he would tell you, don't get discouraged by the distance.

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Speaker 1: Don't quit believing because it seems far away. You are

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Speaker 1: closer than you think. You are, on the verge of

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Speaker 1: seeing God do something you've never seen. When I was

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