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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes.

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Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, please stop by and

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Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you

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Speaker 2: again for coming out. I like to start with something

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Speaker 2: funny and heard about this scientist.

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Speaker 1: He said to God, we've decided that we no longer

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Speaker 1: need you.

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Speaker 2: We can clone people, we can transplant hearts, and do

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Speaker 2: all kinds of things once considered miraculous. God said, that's fine,

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Speaker 2: But to prove you don't need me, let's have a

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Speaker 2: man making contest. The only requirement is you have to

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Speaker 2: make man out of dirt. The scientist said, great. He

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Speaker 2: quickly reached down to pick up a handful of dirt,

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Speaker 2: and God said, not so fast.

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Speaker 1: Go get your own dirt, hold.

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Speaker 2: Up your Bible, say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 2: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about there's another ingredient coming.

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Speaker 2: We all face disappointments in life and situations that we

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Speaker 2: don't understand.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and think.

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Speaker 2: Why did that happen to me? Why did that friend

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Speaker 2: betray me? Why did I get laid off? Why wasn't

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Speaker 2: I raised in a good childhood like you?

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Speaker 1: Joel.

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Speaker 2: No, life is not always fair, but God is fair.

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Speaker 2: And he said in Romans at all things work together

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Speaker 2: for good to those that love the Lord.

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Speaker 1: The key word is together.

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Speaker 2: You cannot isolate one part of your life, one divorce,

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Speaker 2: one bad childhood, one disappointment that in itself may not

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Speaker 2: be good. But God is not finished. Your life is

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Speaker 2: not over because you had a bad break.

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Speaker 1: Don't get stuck where you are.

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Speaker 2: There's another ingredient coming. That means the right people, the

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Speaker 2: right opportunities are in your future. If you'll get your

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Speaker 2: passion back and start moving forward, you'll see what God promised.

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Speaker 2: It will all come together and work out for your good.

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Speaker 2: When our children were small, one of their favorite things

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Speaker 2: to do was make chocolate chip cookies. We had done

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Speaker 2: it so much we didn't even have to look at

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Speaker 2: the recipe. We knew exactly what to put in. Jonathan,

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Speaker 2: just five or six years old, he would get the

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Speaker 1: Little Alexandra just.

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Speaker 2: Three years old, she'd get the flour, bacon, soda, vanilla,

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Speaker 2: didn't have any bacon soda. I didn't feel like going

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Speaker 1: I thought, no big deals, just a teaspoon.

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Speaker 2: We had put two and a half cups of flour.

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Speaker 2: What difference was a little tea spoonful going to make?

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Speaker 2: But when we took the cookies out of the oven,

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Speaker 2: they were as flat as could be, had not risen

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Speaker 2: Some people are bitter on life because they haven't waited.

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Speaker 1: For all the ingredients to come together. God is the

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Speaker 1: master chef.

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Speaker 2: The recipe for your life has already been established. The

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Speaker 2: scripture talks about how God has planned your days for

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Speaker 2: good from beginning to end. God knows exactly what to

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Speaker 1: You can become everything He's created you to be.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes in life it may feel like things are flat.

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Speaker 2: It's flatten your career, flatten your marriage, flatten your finances.

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Speaker 2: But don't get discouraged. There's another ingredient coming. All God

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Speaker 2: and you'll rise to a new level. You may have

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Speaker 2: seen the chef on television, Chef Emerald.

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Speaker 1: He's very animated.

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Speaker 2: Whenever he adds an ingredient, he says, bam. Just imagine

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Speaker 2: at the right time, God, bam adds a little favor

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Speaker 2: to your life.

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Speaker 1: It's not flat. Anymore, things begin to take off. BAM,

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Speaker 2: You're lonely, that person left you, BAM, a divine connection,

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Speaker 2: somebody better. Maybe your child's off course, Think Joel, I

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Speaker 2: don't know what I did wrong. I raised him in church.

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Speaker 2: I just don't understand it. No, you didn't do anything wrong. Relax,

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Speaker 2: there's a BAM coming. God knows how to get him

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Speaker 2: and fulfill his God given destiny. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 2: but I'm expecting some bams.

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Speaker 1: Listen, you have not seen your best days. You have not.

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Speaker 2: Reached your full potential. God has ingredients come in your way.

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Speaker 1: That will thrust you to a new level.

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Speaker 2: He has ingredients that are going to cause everything to

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Speaker 2: make sense. When God brings it all together and you

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Speaker 2: see the fullness of what he was doing, You're not

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Speaker 2: going to worry about who hurts you, what you lost,

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Speaker 2: how unfair it was. You're gonna look back and say, Wow, God,

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Speaker 2: you're amazing. You had it all figured out. Your plan

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Speaker 2: was better than my plan. You gave me beauty for ashes.

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Speaker 2: You made a way when I didn't see a way.

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Speaker 2: You had just the right people show.

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Speaker 1: Up at just the right time. Why don't you trust them.

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Speaker 2: You may not understand something right now, but one day

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Speaker 2: you will.

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Speaker 1: It's going to all come together.

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Speaker 2: The mistake we make too often is we isolate one incident,

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Speaker 2: and it causes us to lose our passion. I had

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Speaker 2: a lady tell me recently how her husband of many

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Speaker 2: she couldn't understand it. And I know that's hard, that's painful,

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Speaker 2: but that is not the end. If that person leaving

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Speaker 1: And this may be hard to swallow, but if they left.

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Speaker 2: You, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they

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Speaker 2: weren't a part of your destiny. There's another ingredient coming,

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Speaker 2: somebody better, somebody that God ordained, Somebody that.

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Speaker 2: Somebody that will value you, celebrates you. Somebody that cannot

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Speaker 2: They may think, they may think they did you harm,

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Speaker 1: Blow them a kiss. Don't ever look back. Just keep

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Speaker 2: Now some of you, you got to quit mourning over

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Speaker 2: what you've lost, quit being discouraged over what didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: It's not over until God says it's over.

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Speaker 2: I heard somebody say God always ends on all is well,

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Speaker 2: So if all is not well in your life, that simply.

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Speaker 1: Means it is not the end.

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Speaker 2: Keep moving forward. Another ingredient is coming. A lot of

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Speaker 2: time like this, lady. People are soured on life because

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Speaker 2: they can't understand why something has happened. But everything is

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Speaker 2: You have to remind yourself it is not yet all

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Speaker 1: It's not supposed to make sense by itself.

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Speaker 2: Imagine my children when they were smaller, wanted to make

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Speaker 2: them to Jonathan to eat separately. Jonathan, here's a cup

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Speaker 2: When you're done with that, here's two cups of flour,

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Speaker 2: and okay, here's your two sticks of butter.

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Speaker 1: Now, Jonathan, you.

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Speaker 2: Officially have chocolate chip cookies on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Somehow it doesn't work that way.

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Speaker 2: The key is it has to all be mixed together

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Speaker 2: God to bring it all together. He's got another ingredient

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Speaker 2: that he's going to add to your life. That person

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Speaker 2: God knows how to make wrongs right. He can prepare

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Speaker 2: When it all comes together and you're promoted, living your dreams, fulfilling.

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Speaker 1: Your destiny, it will taste good.

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Speaker 2: When you're facing that sickness, maybe having to take the treatment.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to think, man, God's not even concerned about me.

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Speaker 1: Look what I'm going through.

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Speaker 1: God has you in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 2: He said, no weapon formed against you will prosper. Weeping

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Speaker 2: coming in the morning. God is saying it may get tough.

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Speaker 2: You may face some situations that are bitter, but if

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Speaker 2: on the inside, God says, I'm not at a loss.

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Speaker 2: I have another ingredient that can turn the bitter into sweet.

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Speaker 2: Several years after Victoria and I were married, we received

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Speaker 2: an unexpected tax bill in the mail. The man that

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Speaker 2: wasn't familiar with a certain tax law in Texas. Now

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Speaker 2: we owed thousands and thousands of dollars to make matters worse.

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Speaker 1: Over half of what we.

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Speaker 2: Owed were in penalties. Thought, God, this is not fair.

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Speaker 2: I hired a professional. He messed up. Now I'm having

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Speaker 2: to pay for his mistakes. We were discouraged. We were

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Speaker 2: up finding this man to help us get it straightened out.

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Speaker 1: He was a tax attorney. For several weeks.

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Speaker 2: He was at our house every night going over the documents,

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Speaker 2: filling out new forms. We would eat dinner together, run

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Speaker 2: errands together. We ended up becoming very good friends. Ten

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Speaker 2: years later, I was working in the television department here

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Speaker 2: at Lakewood. A man stopped me before service and said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: some of you like my father. You've gone through disappointments.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you've made poor choices, and now you're beating yourself up.

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Speaker 2: No passion, no dreams. You've got to get back in

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Speaker 2: the game. It starts by forgiving yourself. Receive God's mercy.

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Speaker 2: Quit listening to the condemning voices. That mistake did not

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Speaker 2: stop God's plan. Shake off the self pition, move forward,

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Speaker 2: and you'll see God at another ingredient. David put it

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Speaker 2: this way, I have pitched my tent in the land

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Speaker 2: of hope. My question, where have you pitched your tent?

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Speaker 2: Do you know God has another ingredient? Do you believe

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Speaker 2: that together it's all going to worry for your good?

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Speaker 2: Or are you doing like Naomi and letting life change

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Speaker 2: your name? Can't understand why something has happened. Now you've

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Speaker 2: got your tent pitched in the wrong location. If you

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Speaker 2: want to see God's favor, if you want to see

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Speaker 2: God add new ingredients, you got to pack up your belongings.

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Speaker 2: Move out of the land of discouragement. It's time to

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Speaker 2: leave self pity estates. Move out of the nothing good

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Speaker 2: ever happens to me subdivision, and come on over to

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Speaker 2: the land of hope, the land of faith, the land

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Speaker 2: where you know bams are in your future.

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Speaker 1: When life tries to push.

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Speaker 2: You down, when you face situations you don't understand, don't

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Speaker 2: isolate them, don't try to figure it out and say,

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Speaker 2: oh man, this doesn't taste good. Remember that's not the

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Speaker 2: whole recipe. That's just one ingredient. God wouldn't have allowed

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Speaker 2: it unless he had a purpose. Like the hut on fire,

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Speaker 2: like my tax problem. It's not happening to you and

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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 1: God's going to use it to your advantage.

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Speaker 2: Many of you have been faithful, You pass the test,

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Speaker 2: done the right thing when the wrong.

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Speaker 1: Thing was happening.

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Speaker 2: You need to get ready. God's about to add an ingredient.

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Speaker 2: That person you've been waiting for.

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Speaker 1: BAM.

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Speaker 2: They're about to show up that problem this dogged you

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Speaker 2: for years BAM, a breakthrough BAM, vindication that sickness, that

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Speaker 2: chronic pain you thought you had to live with BAM,

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Speaker 2: healing BAM, a new beginning, or maybe that dream you've

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Speaker 2: been believing for BAM, A good break BAM, a divine connection.

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Speaker 2: I want you to go out expecting some bams this week. Listen, friends,

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Speaker 2: if you will keep your tent pitched in the land

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Speaker 2: of hope. God promises you will never be permanently disappointed.

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Speaker 2: At just the right time, He's going to add just

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Speaker 2: the right ingredients. I believe in declare together. It's going

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Speaker 2: to all work out for your good in Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: if you receive it can just today. We never like

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Speaker 2: to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 2: if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 2: God first place.

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Speaker 1: He's going to take your places you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to feel stuck in life, wondering why things

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Speaker 2: aren't changing, and worrying if it'll ever happen. But there's

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Speaker 1: That's what moves the hands of God.

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Speaker 2: When you see doors open, healing begins to come, breakthroughs in.

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