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Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for

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Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take

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Speaker 1: it a little deeper. I hope you enjoy this overflow message.

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Speaker 1: Let me know, let's go. Sometimes God uses the wrong

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Speaker 1: things from our perspective to accomplish his purpose in our life.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes God uses something that we would never see coming,

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Speaker 1: or to instruct us, or to challenge us, or to

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Speaker 1: grow us. So watch the left hand. I went out

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Speaker 1: got these these injured shoulders, these forty three year old

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Speaker 1: me the boxing stuff, he said, I'm glad you know

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Speaker 1: I don't want to stand up right now and demonstrate this,

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Speaker 1: because I might scare you, but your left leg leads

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Speaker 1: this principle publicly. But between me and you, I think

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Speaker 1: fact that sometimes God will lead with something that looks

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Speaker 1: like weakness, left leg, weak side, because the power is

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Speaker 1: in the pivot. So that his power. Watch this, his

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Speaker 1: right hand can do the work. God sent a left

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Speaker 1: the military, some commentators say that it was unusual for

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Speaker 1: we're going to see all through the Book of Judges

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Speaker 1: as I come back to these devotions while we're doing

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Speaker 1: our personal family reading from the Book of Judges, We're

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Speaker 1: don't expect. And many times in your life you are

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Speaker 1: do it the right way. They got the right stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, the new kids on the block weren't the

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Speaker 1: only ones singing about you got the right stuff. We

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Speaker 1: use them. Now smart they are? Wow, I guess God

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Speaker 1: Isaiah said, I am like an arrow. My mouth is

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Speaker 1: really important things You put away where thieves can't break in,

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Speaker 1: He's locked them because they are valuable. He has locked

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Speaker 1: so the idea that he locked the door, what's the

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Speaker 1: And many times in my life I have limited myself

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Speaker 1: I will display my splendor. Well, Isaiah comes long after

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Speaker 1: Yet what is do me is in the lord hand?

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Speaker 1: Excuse me? What is powerful? I messed it up? Yet?

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Speaker 1: reward is with my God? What is do me? Say

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Speaker 1: like one creative put it. Each personality is a prism,

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Speaker 3: I'm right handed, but my left hand is fretting. Your

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Speaker 3: left hand has a job too. In your weakness he

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Speaker 3: strength in man. But the Lord said, I have hidden

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Speaker 3: certain gifts in weaknesses. Not as an excuse not to

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Speaker 1: You can see God using an apparent limitation to unlock

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Speaker 1: That's a limitation if your hand is shriveled and you

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Speaker 1: the left hand, son of my right hand. That means blessing.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes God blesses you on the left hand. And

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Speaker 1: sometimes we're caught up on people who have left us.

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