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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. Reappreciate

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

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Speaker 2: Will God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 2: your homes. And if you're ever in our area, please

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Speaker 2: stop buying. Be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 2: I promise you we will make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this pastor. He was new in town and he

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Speaker 2: was going door to door inviting people to his church.

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Speaker 2: He knocked on this one door he could tell someone

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Speaker 2: was home, but no one would answer. So he took

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Speaker 2: his business card out and he wrote on the back

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Speaker 2: the scripture reference Revelation three twenty. The next Sunday, after service,

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Speaker 2: someone handed him the same card. Under what he had

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Speaker 2: written was the scripture reference Genesis three ten. Here's what

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Speaker 2: they say, Revelation three twenty. The pastor's words behold, I

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Speaker 2: stand at the door and knock. If anyone answers, I

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Speaker 2: will come in. The reply was Genesis three ten. It said,

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Speaker 2: I heard your voice, and I was afraid because I

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Speaker 2: was naked. Say it like you mean it. This is

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 2: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, God, bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 2: to you today about you promised. When we face difficulties,

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Speaker 2: one of the best things we can do is find

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Speaker 2: a promise in the scripture and remind God what he

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Speaker 2: said about us. God, you promised I would lend and

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Speaker 2: not borrow. You promised my children will be mighty in

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Speaker 2: the land. You promised with long life you would satisfy me.

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Speaker 2: Isaiah said, put God in remembrance of his promises. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't say, put God in remembrance of our problems.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to complain God.

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Speaker 2: These people at work aren't treating me right. God, my

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Speaker 2: back's been hurting. God, these kids get on my nerves.

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Speaker 2: It's okay to be honest with God, but don't just

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Speaker 2: pray the problems.

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Speaker 1: Pray the promises.

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Speaker 2: If you're only telling God what's wrong, it's limiting.

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Speaker 1: What he can do. Follow up the problem with a promise.

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Speaker 2: God, my back has been hurting, but you promised you

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Speaker 2: would restore health unto me.

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Speaker 1: So thank you that healing is coming. God.

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Speaker 2: These people at work are leaving me out, not giving

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Speaker 2: me credit. But you promised you would be my vindicator.

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Speaker 2: You promised the trap the enemy set for me, they

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Speaker 2: will fall in themselves. So I'm going to stay in

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Speaker 2: peace and let you fight my battles. Or God, my

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Speaker 2: dream seems impossible. I don't have the connection, the resources,

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Speaker 1: If you stop there, you'll get stuck.

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Speaker 2: Follow it up with a promise. But God, you promised

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Speaker 2: your favor surrounds me like a shield. You promise whatever

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Speaker 2: I touch would prosper and succeed. You promised you would

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Speaker 2: open doors.

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Speaker 1: That no man can shut. See.

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Speaker 2: God is not obligated to bring to past what we say,

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Speaker 2: but he is obligated to bring to past.

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Speaker 1: What he says.

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Speaker 2: When he hears his promises coming out of your mouth, angels.

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Speaker 2: Are set into motion when it says put God in

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Speaker 2: remembrance of his promises, it's not because God has forgotten

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Speaker 2: what he said. It's not for his sake, it's for

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Speaker 2: our sake. God knows when you start declaring his promises.

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Speaker 2: When you start speaking what He said about you, not

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Speaker 2: only will faith rise in your heart, but it will

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Speaker 2: change your perspective. You won't have a victim mentality. You

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Speaker 2: will have a victoria mentality. You'll know this sickness is

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Speaker 2: no match for my God. This trouble at work cannot

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Speaker 2: more than the world being against you.

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Speaker 1: But most of us we have the first part down.

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Speaker 2: We're good at telling God our problems, but you have

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Speaker 2: your problems. Now I start off every day simply thanking

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Speaker 2: Thank you that you promised. No good thing? Will you withhold?

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Speaker 2: Because I walk up rightly. Father, you promised the path

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Speaker 2: not not seeing things turn around. You're not seeing healing, promotion,

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Speaker 2: vindication because you're reminding God of the wrong things. You're

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Speaker 2: telling him what didn't work out, how bad the medical

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Speaker 1: Try a different approach.

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Speaker 2: Take a break from telling God everything that's wrong. And

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Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with asking. But God already knows your needs.

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Speaker 2: He knows our thoughts before we think them. At some

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Speaker 2: point you have to switch over to thanking God for

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Speaker 2: what he's already promised. My sister Lisa and her husband Kevin,

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Speaker 2: tried for years to have a baby. Lisa went through

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Speaker 2: all the fertility treatments, had a couple of surgeries, did.

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Speaker 1: Everything she could.

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Speaker 2: Finally, the doctor said there was nothing more they could do.

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Speaker 2: They wouldn't be able to have children. Lisa could have

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Speaker 2: been depressed and told God how bad it was. Instead,

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Speaker 2: she made a list of all the promises she could

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Speaker 2: her bathroom mirror. It says in Psalms, God will make

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Speaker 2: the baron woman a happy mother of children. Isaiah said,

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Speaker 2: Deuteronomy said the fruit of your womb is blessed all

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Speaker 2: through the day. Instead of complaining, God is not fair,

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Speaker 2: why can't I have children? Lisa didn't pray the problem.

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Speaker 1: She prayed the promises.

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Speaker 2: Lord, you promised you would make me the happy mother

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Speaker 2: of what you want and put it back on what

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Speaker 2: God said. God, you promised the fruit of my womb

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Speaker 2: is blessed. You promised children are a heritage from the Lord.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says God watches over his word to perform it.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't say God watches over our complaints. He watches

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Speaker 2: over our begging. Please, God, you got to turn this around. Yes,

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Speaker 2: God is concerned, he sees the wrongs, but what moves

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Speaker 2: him to act is when he hears his promises. Seven

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Speaker 2: years later, Lisa received a phone call from a friend

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Speaker 2: don't really know why I'm calling you, but we have

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Speaker 2: In adopting them. Well, Lisa's husband, Kevin, is a twin.

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Speaker 2: It's always been his dream that he would have twins.

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Speaker 2: They adopted those girls at birth, then adopted another son today,

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Speaker 2: just like God promised. Lisa is the happy mother of children.

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Speaker 2: Lisa says, God is so good. I have three children

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Speaker 2: the promises, children will find you good. Breaks will track

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Speaker 2: you down whatever you're believing for.

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Speaker 1: Do like Lisa and make a list of the promises.

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Speaker 2: Put it on your phone, your computer, your bathroom mirror

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Speaker 2: all through the day.

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Speaker 1: Remind God what he promised.

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Speaker 2: If you're fighting an illness, it's easy to talk about

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Speaker 2: the sickness, what the doctor said, how it doesn't look good.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we know more about the problem than we do

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Speaker 2: the promises. We spend hours researching it on the internet,

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Speaker 1: That could possibly go wrong.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you take fifteen minutes and google scriptures concerning

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Speaker 2: about what you're facing.

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Speaker 1: God, you promised I would live and not die.

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Speaker 2: And declare the works of the Lord you promised. You

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Speaker 2: are Jehovah Raphah, the Lord, my healer, you promised by

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Speaker 2: the stripes of your son, Jesus, I am healed. If

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Speaker 2: you're struggling with an addiction, you've had it a long time.

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Speaker 2: You don't think it'll ever change. Of God's You promised

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Speaker 2: that you have destroyed every yoke. You have broken every

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Speaker 1: Indeed, so Lord, thank you that I am free.

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Speaker 2: That's not just being positive, that's reminding God what he said.

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Speaker 1: I talked to a lady.

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Speaker 2: She was at odds with her teenage daughter, and this

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Speaker 2: lady would come down to the for prayer very often.

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Speaker 2: She was always upset and discouraged. I did my best

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Speaker 2: Just wanted to tell me how bad it was, how

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Speaker 2: her daughter was being disrespectful. I told her what I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you, Constantly talking about the problem is not doing

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Speaker 2: anything productive. You need to find a promise and remind

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Speaker 2: God what he said about you. I gave her the

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Speaker 2: promise from Proverbs thirty one. It says children and will

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Speaker 2: rise up and call their mother blessed. Well, at that time,

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Speaker 2: her daughter was calling her every name except blessed. But

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Speaker 2: this mother started going through the day, Father, you promised

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Speaker 2: that my children will rise up and call me blessed.

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Speaker 2: She found other promises. Children are a gift from the

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Speaker 2: Lord to be enjoyed. Father, thank you, you promised that

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Speaker 2: I would enjoy my children, that I would have fun

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Speaker 2: see any sign of things changing. That's what faith is

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Speaker 1: If you can see it, it doesn't take faith.

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Speaker 2: Two years later, this daughter had a complete turnaround. It

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Speaker 2: Today she and her mother are the best of friends.

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Speaker 2: They do everything together. Now when this mother says, God,

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Speaker 2: she's not by faith anymore. It's become a reality. God

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Speaker 1: The scripture says God is not a man.

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Speaker 2: That he should lie. Has he ever spoken and failed

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Speaker 2: God has never failed in the past. The good news

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Speaker 2: is he's not going to start with you. Stay in

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Speaker 2: faith and stay open. It may not happen your way

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Speaker 2: or on your timetable, but God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: He is faithful to his word. I talked to a

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Speaker 2: well known actor. He's an elderly gentleman, and he was

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Speaker 2: very down on himself, he said, joel Ima has been

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Speaker 2: I never get any good roles anymore. I've peaked and

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Speaker 2: it's all downhill from here. When you speak defeat over

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Speaker 2: your life like that, you are inviting bad breaks, disappointments, lack.

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Speaker 2: Zip it up and find that You promised God. You

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Speaker 2: promised my latter days will be better than my former days.

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Speaker 2: You promised your favor is not for a season, but

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Speaker 2: for a lifetime. You promised you would bring me to

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Speaker 2: a flourishing finish. We need you not just alive, but passionate,

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Speaker 2: doing great things your whole life.

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Speaker 1: You may have had some bad breaks.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you went through a loss or somebody walked out

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Speaker 2: of a relationship. You could go around with a chip

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Speaker 2: on your shoulder him self pity God, why.

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Speaker 1: Did this happen? That's going to keep you defeated? Turn

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Speaker 1: it around. Father. You promised you would give me beauty

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Speaker 1: for these ashes.

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Speaker 2: You promised weeping endures for a night, but joy comes

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Speaker 2: Scripture tells us we need to have childlike faith. Children.

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Speaker 3: She said, Daddy, when are we going to Disneyland? It

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Speaker 2: She knew I wouldn't break my promise. She knew it

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Speaker 2: He wouldn't have promised it if he wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: He's about to see this brother whom he's wronged and

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Speaker 2: He went back to a promise God made to him

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Speaker 2: What if we had this same boldness like Jacob, in

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Speaker 2: God is not holding your mistakes against you. Don't go

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