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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. 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: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. But 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 group of school children. They were in the cafeteria

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Speaker 1: line at their Catholic elementary school. The start of the line,

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Speaker 1: there was a big bowl of apples. A nun had

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Speaker 1: written a note. It said, take only one. God is watching.

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Speaker 1: At the end of the line there was a big

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Speaker 1: bowl of chocolate chip cookies. One of the children had

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Speaker 1: written a note. It said take all you want. God

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Speaker 1: is watching. The apples. Say it like you mean it.

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

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

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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 blessings finding you. It's

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Speaker 1: easy to worry about the future. How can I accomplish

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Speaker 1: my dreams? And what if I don't get that good breaker,

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Speaker 1: what if my health goes down or I don't meet

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Speaker 1: the right person. Creates all this pressure where we have

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Speaker 1: to make things happening. We live striving and straining, trying

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Speaker 1: to force this door to open, make this person like

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Speaker 1: us turn this problem around. When Jesus was talking to

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Speaker 1: people like this in Matthew chapter six, they were very

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Speaker 1: worried about the food, the clothing, how they were going

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Speaker 1: to make it. He said to them in verse thirty three,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about those things. Your heavenly Father knows all

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Speaker 1: that you need. He was saying, God has already planned

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Speaker 1: your future. He knows what it's going to take to

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Speaker 1: get you to your destiny. You're not doing life on

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Speaker 1: your own. It's not just up to you. The most time,

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Speaker 1: God is ordering your steps. And Jesus gave us the key.

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Speaker 1: In verse thirty three, he said, seek first the Kingdom

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Speaker 1: of God and his righteousness, and all these things will

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Speaker 1: be added unto you. He was saying, in effect, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to spend your life seeking the blessing, seeking provision,

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Speaker 1: seeking approval, seeking the right people. That's going to lead

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Speaker 1: to frustration. There's a better way to live. If you'll

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Speaker 1: seek God, then the blessings will seek you. There's a

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Speaker 1: reversal when you keep God first place. That takes the

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Speaker 1: pressure off. Now it's not up to you to make

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Speaker 1: it all happen. That's God's responsibility. He will add all

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Speaker 1: these things. But if we don't understand this, it brings stress, tension.

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Speaker 1: Hey man, I got to get his promotion and I

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Speaker 1: got to win over this cowork. I got to fix

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Speaker 1: this problem. And sure, we have to use our gifts,

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Speaker 1: be determined, take steps of faith. But you don't have

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Speaker 1: to live with that pressure. You can stay in peace

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Speaker 1: knowing that because you're honoring God, he's arranging the good breaks,

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Speaker 1: he's lining up the right people. He's scheduling the healing,

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Speaker 1: the turnaround. You don't have to find it, it's gonna find.

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Speaker 1: You don't spend your life chasing the blessing. Chase God,

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Speaker 1: and the blessings will chase you. But I wonder how

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Speaker 1: many of us are trying to do God's job. We're striving, straining, manipulating,

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Speaker 1: or take the pressure off. Let God be God. He

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Speaker 1: knows what's best for you. He's already written every day

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Speaker 1: of your life in his book. He knows what you need,

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Speaker 1: get it to you. He'll open doors that you could

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Speaker 1: never open. He'll bring people you never imagine. He'll put

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Speaker 1: you in rooms where you weren't qualified, opportunity, resources, influences

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Speaker 1: far beyond what you had in mind. God's dream for

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Speaker 1: your life is much bigger than your own. Where He's

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Speaker 1: taken you you could never accomplish by yourself. Just your

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Speaker 1: own efforts, your talent, your hard work. That's all good.

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Speaker 1: But God is going to add things that exceed your expectations,

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Speaker 1: that boggle your mind, that thrust you where no one

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Speaker 1: the Kingdom and his righteousness. That means his way of

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Speaker 1: doing things. God's kingdom, in one sense, is opposite of

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Speaker 1: what we naturally think. He said to bless your enemies,

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Speaker 1: those that hurt you. I don't want to forgive. I

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Speaker 1: want to hold a gridge. No, seek first the kingdom.

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Speaker 1: If you want God to add, you have to do

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Speaker 1: it his way. It means walking by faith and not

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Speaker 1: by sight. You may have a situation where you don't

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Speaker 1: see how it could work out. The odds are against you.

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Speaker 1: You could be worried, discouraged. Instead, God, I don't see

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Speaker 1: a way, but I know you have a way. You

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Speaker 1: being for me is more than what's trying to stop me.

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Speaker 1: That's seeking the kingdom. Being faithful at work, doing the

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Speaker 1: right thing when no one is watching, Integrity, excellence, that's

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Speaker 1: God's way. Trusting when you don't understand a good attitude

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Speaker 1: when life's not fair, biting your tongue when you want

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Speaker 1: not just being disciplined. That's seeking the kingdom. That's doing

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Speaker 1: it God's way. That's what puts you in position for

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Speaker 1: God to add all these things. But sometimes we hear

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Speaker 1: we need to seek God. We think, Okay, I got

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Speaker 1: got to read my Bible more. I got come to

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Speaker 1: church more. And that's all good. That's part of it.

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Speaker 1: But you can honor God in your everyday life, having

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Speaker 1: a faith filled attitude, treating people with respect, kind to

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Speaker 1: your family, being excellent at work. That's his righteousness. That's

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Speaker 1: God's way of doing things. When you live like that,

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Speaker 1: you are seeking God. That means blessings are seeking you.

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Speaker 1: We see this in the life of David. He was

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Speaker 1: a teenager out in the shepherd's fields taking care of

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Speaker 1: and he got stuck with the leftover job out there

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Speaker 1: And David had big dreams. He could sense the greatness

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Speaker 1: that God put in him. But he was at a disadvantage.

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Speaker 1: Some of his brothers were in the military, they had

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Speaker 1: prestigious positions. Well, David could have slacked off and taken

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Speaker 1: David was a person of excellence. He did the right

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Speaker 1: thing when no one was watching. He cared for those

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Speaker 1: He'd fight off wild animals, killed a lion and a

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Speaker 1: All that time that David was going to extra mile

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Speaker 1: when he wasn't getting any credit. He wasn't just being

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Speaker 1: That was a time of testing, a time of proving.

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Speaker 1: People may not be watching, but God is watching. Maybe

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Speaker 1: nobody is telling you. Thank you. You're not getting the

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Speaker 1: credit you deserve, but you keep doing the right thing.

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Speaker 1: You keep showing up on time, doing more than you

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Speaker 1: have to. People may not see it, but God sees it.

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Speaker 1: He's the one that matters. He's keeping the records. You're

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Speaker 1: not just being faithful, you're seeking God. You're doing things

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Speaker 1: It comes from the Lord. David kept a good attitude

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Speaker 1: in a difficult situation. He didn't complain. Get better. Out

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Speaker 1: in the fields is where he wrote some of the psalms.

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Speaker 1: When he got up in the morning. He could have thought, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: another day with the stinking sheep. I'm so tired of

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Speaker 1: feeding them, cleaning up their ways. Why don't my brothers

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Speaker 1: have to help me. He had plenty of reasons to

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Speaker 1: complain and live sour, but David made the decision he

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Speaker 1: was going to do things God's way. Maybe that's where

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Speaker 1: he wrote song one eighteen, This is the day the

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Speaker 1: Lord has made. I'm all rejoice and be glad in it.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps he wrote song five out there early in the morning,

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Speaker 1: you will hear my song of praise. Maybe it was Songs'

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Speaker 1: sixty three. Oh God, you are my God, and earnestly

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Speaker 1: I seek after you. He had this attitude of praise,

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Speaker 1: thanksgiving right out in the desert when it was lonely, unfair,

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Speaker 1: when he didn't see a way out. But he's still

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Speaker 1: full of praise. He's still caring for the sheep with excellence.

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Speaker 1: He's still being faithful and consistent. Well, David thought that

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Speaker 1: the shepherds feels were his destiny. In the natural, there

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Speaker 1: wasn't any way out. But when you seek God, blessings

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Speaker 1: start seeking you. God will add things that you couldn't add.

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Speaker 1: He'll speak to people to be good to you that

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Speaker 1: you've never met. God told the prophet Samuel traveled to

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Speaker 1: the city of Bethlehem to the house of a man

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Speaker 1: named Jesse, for I've chosen one of his sons to

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Speaker 1: be the next king of Israel. Here David is out

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Speaker 1: in the fields, just minding his own business, another ordinary day,

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Speaker 1: being faithful, serving with excellence, doing more than what was required.

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Speaker 1: But as he was seeking God, what he couldn't see

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Speaker 1: that would change the course of his life. Many of

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Speaker 1: you are like David. You go the extra mile. You

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Speaker 1: take care of your family with kindness and compassion. Even

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Speaker 1: when you're tired, you still shine at work. You give

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Speaker 1: it your best. You serve at church, in your community,

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Speaker 1: always being a blessing. It may seem like your stock

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Speaker 1: reached limits, no way to go higher. But God has

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Speaker 1: some blessings seeking you right now. Things you can't see,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't plan. There was no sign of it. But

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Speaker 1: You couldn't find it. It's going to find you. Something

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Speaker 1: better than you ever dream. God sees you doing the

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Speaker 1: right thing when it's hard. He sees your consistency day

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Speaker 1: after day, being good to people, sacrificing your time and energy.

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Speaker 1: He sees you being excellent, staying holy and pure, refusing

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Speaker 1: to compromise. God has a Samuel come in a surprise,

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Speaker 1: something unexpected. Suddenly, the right person is knocking on your door.

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Speaker 1: That's not a lucky break, that's the blessing seeking you.

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Speaker 1: Because you're doing things God's way, his favor is going

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Speaker 1: to find you. Samuel showed up at Jesse's house, David's father,

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Speaker 1: and asked to see the sons, and Jesse brought seven

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Speaker 1: of them out. Sam You'll looked at them, studied, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not any of these. Can imagine. He's a little confused, thought,

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Speaker 1: did I come to the right house? Did I hear

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Speaker 1: more son, but he's the youngest, he's small, he didn't

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Speaker 1: have any experience. I'm sure it's not him. People may

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Speaker 1: The good news is you're not dependent on what people

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Speaker 1: think about you. They don't determine your destiny. They may

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Speaker 1: push you down, but God knows how to lift you up.

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Speaker 1: They may overlook you, but God knows how to make

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Speaker 1: you be seen. He'll promote you in front of the

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Speaker 1: people that are trying to discredit you. He'll prepare a

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Speaker 1: table in the presence of your enemies. Now quite worrying

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Speaker 1: about who's not for you? Who looks down on you?

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Speaker 1: Why won't they give me any credit? No, your time

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Speaker 1: is coming, Samuel is on the way. You keep pursuing God,

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