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

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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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. Oh God, bless

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Speaker 1: you always a joy to come into your homes. We

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Speaker 1: love you and we know God rewards the people that

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Speaker 1: seek after him. That's you, or you wouldn't be viewing.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be here today. But just so glad to

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Speaker 1: have you. And if you're ever in our area, stop

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Speaker 1: buying see us. I promise you it will make you

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Speaker 1: feel right at home. But thanks again for tuning in

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Speaker 1: and coming out. And I like to start with something

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Speaker 1: funny each week. And I heard about this elderly lady.

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Speaker 1: She came into church one Sunday morning and the friendly

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Speaker 1: usher greeted her and said, ma'am, where would you like

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Speaker 1: to sit? She said, I would like to sit on

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Speaker 1: the very front row. He said, oh no, ma'am, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to do that. Our pastor is very boring.

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Speaker 1: He'll put you to sleep. Let me seek you somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: She was appalled. She said sir, do you know who

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Speaker 1: I am? He said no. She said, I am the

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Speaker 1: pastor's He hung his head in embarrassment. Finally he looked

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Speaker 1: up and said, ma'am, do you know who I am?

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Speaker 1: She said no? He said, thank God. All right, hold

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Speaker 1: up your bibles. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about getting up so God

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Speaker 1: can bring you out. Life has a way of pushing

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Speaker 1: people down. We all go through disappointments and set backs,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes unfair things happen. A relationship doesn't work out,

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Speaker 1: a friend betrays us, or maybe you worked real hard

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Speaker 1: but you didn't get the position you deserved. Life is

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Speaker 1: not always fair. It's easy to get to discouraged and

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Speaker 1: lose our joy, lose our enthusiasm, and if we're not careful,

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Speaker 1: we'll develop the wrong mindset. We'll think we'll never rise

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Speaker 1: any higher. We'll never get out of this problem. We've

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Speaker 1: had so many unfair things happen to us. But we

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Speaker 1: have to realize even though life is not always fair,

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Speaker 1: God is fair. He is a god of justice. He

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Speaker 1: sees every wrong that's ever been done to you. He

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Speaker 1: sees every person that's ever hurt you, every unfair situation.

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Speaker 1: And the good news is if you will stay in

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Speaker 1: faith and not get bitter, God has promised he will

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Speaker 1: pay you back for every injustice that's ever been done

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Speaker 1: to you. He said he would take what was meant

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Speaker 1: for your harm and he'll turn it around and use

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Speaker 1: it to your advantage. And the great thing about God

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Speaker 1: is if you keep the right attitude, he'll not only

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Speaker 1: bring you out, he'll bring you out better off than

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Speaker 1: you were before. He wants to make the enemy pay

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Speaker 1: for bringing that trouble into your life. Now. I know

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Speaker 1: some of you have had unfair things happen in your finances,

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Speaker 1: in your health, in the way you were raised. And

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Speaker 1: it's easy to get that chip on your shoulder and think, man,

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Speaker 1: why has this happened to me? But instead of dwelling

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Speaker 1: on your disappointments and what didn't work out and who

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Speaker 1: hurts you. You need to draw the line in the

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Speaker 1: sand and say it's payback time. I have rights and

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Speaker 1: privileges because of who I am. I am a child

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Speaker 1: of the Most High God, and I may have had

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Speaker 1: unfair things happen, but I'm not going to live my

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Speaker 1: life negative and defeated. This is a new day and

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Speaker 1: I'm taken back what belongs to me. See, we have

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Speaker 1: to have this war your mentality. We have to dig

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Speaker 1: Too many people get stuck in a rut. They went

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Speaker 1: through a broken relationship, they weren't raised in a healthy environment.

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Speaker 1: One of their dreams has died. Now they've just settled

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Speaker 1: where they are. It's taken the wind out of their

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Speaker 1: cell and they think, well, Joel, I had my chance,

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Speaker 1: But no, God wants to restore everything that's been stolen.

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Speaker 1: He wants to restore your joy, restore your peace, restore

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Speaker 1: have to get a vision for it. You have to

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. We can't just sit back and

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Speaker 1: That means we get up every morning, hoping, expecting, believing.

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Speaker 1: good things are in store. I talked to a young

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Speaker 1: family atmosphere. Now he was bitter, negative, blaming God, blaming

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Speaker 1: other people. And I told him what I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: God wants to pay you back for that injustice. He

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Speaker 1: still has a great plan for your life, but you

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Speaker 1: will never see it as long as you're going around negative, bitter,

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Speaker 1: see yourself as a victim rather than a victor. You

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Speaker 1: may have had unfair things happen, people may not have

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Speaker 1: treated you fair, but know this, you are still the

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Speaker 1: apple of God's eye. You are still his most prized possession.

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Speaker 1: And no person, no circumstance, no unfair situation, can keep

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Speaker 1: you from fulfilling your God given destiny. In fact, God

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Speaker 1: said in the Book of Joel, I will restore the

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Speaker 1: years that have been stolen. You may have lost years

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Speaker 1: years in a negative childhood. Well, God wants to restore

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Speaker 1: those years. He wants to make that up to you.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you get a vision for it instead of

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Speaker 1: up and say, I know God has good things in store.

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Speaker 1: He is a God of justice, and I believe my

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Speaker 1: payday is on its way. That's how we activate God's

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Speaker 1: power by believing, by staying full of expectancy. Some of

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Speaker 1: you today, you need to get your fire back. Don't

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Speaker 1: have a weak, defeated mentality when trouble comes. Be a warrior.

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Speaker 1: You may have been through a lot, but that's the

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Speaker 1: way you need to see it. I've been through it.

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Speaker 1: I'm not staying here. It's not going to change my

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Speaker 1: child of Almighty God. I am a victor, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not a victim. This is what God told the children

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Speaker 1: of israelm They've been in slavery for years years. They

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Speaker 1: and God said to them, they're in Exodus three seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I have promised to bring you up out of your misery. Now.

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Speaker 1: I believe there are two keys to this promise, two

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Speaker 1: words up and out. In other words, you have to

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Speaker 1: get up before God can bring you out. Change always

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Speaker 1: starts on the inside. And if you don't do your

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Speaker 1: your hopes, in your expectations, in your visions, then God

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Speaker 1: can't turn things around. There's an order to it. God says,

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Speaker 1: get up, expect good things, stay full of hope. Then

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Speaker 1: I can turn things around. And understand. Getting up is

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Speaker 1: I have the favor of God. God and something good

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Speaker 1: that's when God can turn around negative situations. But how

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Speaker 1: we approach life is totally up to us. One man

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Speaker 1: wakes up and says, good morning, Lord. Another man gets

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Speaker 1: up and says, good Lord this morning. And some of you.

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Speaker 1: The only thing that's keeping God from doing something new

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Speaker 1: be healthy. And you didn't get the break you wanted,

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Speaker 1: and you don't think you'll ever get out of debt.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got to get up on the inside. You're

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Speaker 1: waiting on God, but God's waiting on you. Hey, you said, Joe,

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Speaker 1: you just don't know my situation. Maybe not, but I

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Speaker 1: do know our God. He flung the stars into space,

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Speaker 1: he spoke the worlds into existence. Surely he can give

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Speaker 1: us three dollars for a gallon of gas. Anything you're

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Speaker 1: facing is subject to change. God can turn that situation

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Speaker 1: around one touch of his favor. Why don't you be

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Speaker 1: chapter five, this lady had been sick for twelve years

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Speaker 1: with a bleeding disorder. She'd gone to many doctors, spend

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Speaker 1: One day she heard that Jesus was coming through her city.

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Speaker 1: You know what she did. She got up on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Her circumstances had pushed her down on the outside. Physically,

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Speaker 1: I tried, but nothing worked. No, she understood this simple principle.

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Speaker 1: kept saying to herself. What was she saying? I'll never

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Speaker 1: my time. Nothing good ever happens to me. No, she

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Speaker 1: kept saying to herself, I know when I get to Jesus,

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Speaker 1: of me. She was full of hope and expectancy. She

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Speaker 1: had this restoration mentality. Let me ask you today, what

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Speaker 1: are you saying to yourself? Well, I don't think I'll

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Speaker 1: ever get out of this problem, Joel. I seem to

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Speaker 1: always get the short end of the stick. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I'll ever be healthy again. You know, you

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Speaker 1: have to change what you're saying. Stop talking about the

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Speaker 1: problem and start talking about the solution. Life may have

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Speaker 1: dealt you some tough things to deal with, but your

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Speaker 1: attitude should be I know God is gonna pay me back.

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Speaker 1: My health may be going downhill, but I know God

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Speaker 1: can do what men can't do. My finances may be

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Speaker 1: kind of low today, but God is supplying all of

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Speaker 1: my needs or my child. It may not be doing right,

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Speaker 1: but as for me and my house, we will serve

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Speaker 1: the Lord. You got to quit letting yourself talk to

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Speaker 1: you and instead start talking to yourself. When this lady

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Speaker 1: could have easily had that defeated mindset thought, just my luck,

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Speaker 1: come all this way, can't even get to him. No,

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Speaker 1: she was more determined than that she wouldn't take no

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Speaker 1: for an answer. She started pushing her way through the crowd. Here.

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Speaker 1: She's tired, she's weak, she doesn't feel well, but she

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Speaker 1: When she gets to Jesus, all she can do is

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Speaker 1: They didn't think they could defeat their giants. But these children,

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Speaker 1: ones that went into the Promised Land. Some of you

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Speaker 1: like them. You've come from generations of lack, mediocrity, limited vision.

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Speaker 1: Your parents, relatives, they were good people, they were loving

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Speaker 1: asking you today to be the one to make a difference,

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Speaker 1: Ten years later he built a sanctuary that held eight

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Speaker 1: is huge. Fifteen years later it was too small. God

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Speaker 1: He said, Daddy, one day, I'm going to get the

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Speaker 1: reliant stadium that holds seventy thousand people. Do you see

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Speaker 1: what happens when we get rid of defeated limited thinking.

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Speaker 1: It not only affects you, it affects your children and

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Speaker 1: your grandchildren. They'll believe for things that you never even

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Speaker 1: thought possible, and I believe today it can be a

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Speaker 1: hering point. Some of you have allowed these negative mindsets

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Speaker 1: that have been passed down to rob and steal from you.

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Speaker 1: So you need to rise up and say it's payback time.

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Speaker 1: That may have happened in the past, but it's not

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Speaker 1: going to happen in the future. I know who I

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Speaker 1: am and I know what belongs to me. The scripture

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Speaker 1: says in Isaiah, a rise, shine, for your light has come.

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Speaker 1: Does it say your light will come? Says your light

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Speaker 1: has come? You just simply have to turn it on.

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Speaker 1: In other words, you just have to believe. You just

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Speaker 1: have to expect good things. You just have to know

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Speaker 1: who you are. You know what I'm doing today. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to flip your switch. I'm trying to convince you

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Speaker 1: that God is a god of justice and he will

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Speaker 1: pay you back for every unfair thing that's happened. Don't

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Speaker 1: have that grasshopper mentality having wings but not being able

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Speaker 1: to fly. You're not a grasshopper. You're an eagle. You

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Speaker 1: were created to soar, created as a victor and not

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Speaker 1: a victim. Why don't you get up on the inside.

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Speaker 1: If you'll get up, God can bring you out. It

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Speaker 1: may not happen overnight, but God's a faithful God. If

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Speaker 1: lady with the issue of blood, just keep pressing forward.

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Speaker 1: If you'll do that, God will do for you what

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Speaker 1: he did for the children of the Israelites. He'll not

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Speaker 1: only bring you out of every bondage. He'll not only

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Speaker 1: pay you back everything you deserve, but he'll take you

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Speaker 1: in to your promised land and you'll live that life

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Speaker 1: of victory that rightfully belongs to you. Amen. Do you

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Speaker 1: receive it today? We never like to close our broadcast

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Speaker 1: without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord

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Speaker 1: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: I'll repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I

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Speaker 1: make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed

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Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get

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Speaker 1: in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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

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Speaker 1: When we face challenges, it's easy to feel like God

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Speaker 1: has forgotten about us. We don't see anything happening thoughts

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Speaker 1: tell us it's not going to work out. But God

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Speaker 1: is not called the Great I was or the Great

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Speaker 1: I will be. He's called the Great I Am. Then

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Speaker 1: I Am is always in the present, not at a

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Speaker 1: I Am means I am your healer. I am your provider.

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Speaker 1: I AM your waymaker. Whether you're facing a challenge or

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