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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.

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Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend.

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

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Speaker 2: God bless you such a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 2: We love you, and if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: I hope you'll stop by and be a part of

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Speaker 2: one of our services. But thanks for tuning in today.

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Speaker 2: And I like to start with something funny. And I

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Speaker 2: heard about this minister that died and he was standing

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Speaker 2: at the pearly gates, and in front of him was

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Speaker 2: a man dressed in a loud shirt, blue jeans, and

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Speaker 2: wearing sunglasses. Peter said, what's your name? He said, my

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Speaker 2: name's Joe Cohen. I'm a taxi cab driver, New York City.

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Speaker 2: Peter checked his list and handed him a gold staff

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Speaker 2: and a silk rode.

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Speaker 1: And said, welcome to Heaven.

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Speaker 2: The minister stepped up and said, I'm Reverend Joseph Snow,

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Speaker 2: pastor of Saint Mary's Cathedral. Peter checked his list and

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Speaker 2: handed him a cock and robe and a wooden staff.

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Speaker 1: He said, wait a minute, that's not right.

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Speaker 2: The taxicab driver got a silk robe and a gold staff.

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Speaker 1: How could that be? Peter said, sir, up here, we

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Speaker 1: work by results.

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Speaker 2: And when you preached, people slept, But when he drove,

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Speaker 2: people prayed.

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Speaker 1: All right, hold up your bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it.

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Speaker 2: This 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 how God has equipped

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Speaker 2: you with everything you need to fulfill your destiny. The

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Speaker 2: scripture tells us we are anointed. The word anointing is

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Speaker 2: defined as courage, strength, and ability. That means you are

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Speaker 2: well able to do what God's called you to do.

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Speaker 1: You can accomplish your goals.

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Speaker 2: You have the ideas, the creativity, the talent to be successful.

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Speaker 2: You can overcome any obstacle. You've been armed with strength

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Speaker 2: for every battle. The forces that are for you are

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Speaker 2: greater than the forces that are against you. Being anointed

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Speaker 2: means that God's already lined up the right people to

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Speaker 2: come across your path.

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Speaker 1: He's already lined up the right breaks.

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Speaker 2: You have everything you need to live a victorious life,

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Speaker 2: not an average life, not a barely get by mediocre life.

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Speaker 1: You were created to excel.

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Speaker 2: You have seeds of greatness on the inside. We were

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Speaker 2: never supposed to drag around barely making it.

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Speaker 1: We're supposed to live an abundant life.

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Speaker 2: You may not have seen it in the past, but

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Speaker 2: if you'll stay in faith, it's just a matter of

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Speaker 2: time on it. Don't settle where you are. Don't have

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Speaker 2: a weak, defeated mentality. No, put your shoulders back. Have

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Speaker 2: the attitude. I am annointed. I can accomplish my dreams.

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Speaker 2: I can overcome any obstacle. I've been equipped and empowered

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Speaker 2: by the creator of the universe. Now you say, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I've had a lot of disappointments. I've tried and failed.

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Speaker 2: I think I've reached my limits. No, you may have

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Speaker 2: been through a lot, you may have had some bad

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Speaker 2: breaks in life, but it's not over until God says

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Speaker 2: it's over. The enemy always fights you the hardest when

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Speaker 2: he knows God has something great in store. You may

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Speaker 2: have been through tough times, but let me announce to

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Speaker 2: you you're coming into a new season. The winds are

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Speaker 2: changing in your favor. The breath of Almighty God is

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Speaker 2: blowing in your direction. And if you'll release your faith

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Speaker 2: and believe, then you're going to see new seasons in

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Speaker 2: your health, new seasons in your finances, new seasons in

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Speaker 2: your career. You've been faithful, You've seen it happen for others.

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Speaker 2: But God is saying, this is your time to shine.

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Speaker 2: This is your time to come up higher. Why don't

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Speaker 2: you let that seed take root? In March chapter five,

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Speaker 2: The doctors had given her no hope. She was very

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Speaker 2: But instead of dwelling on those negative can't do it thoughts,

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Speaker 1: I can imagine hearing her say, excuse me, but this

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Speaker 1: And Jesus said to her, they're in Mark five thirty four.

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Speaker 2: Daughter, your faith has made you well. Notice it's our

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Speaker 2: faith that activates God's power. And it's easy to sit

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Speaker 2: I haven't had anything good happen in three years. I've

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Speaker 2: missed all kinds of opportunities. Now you have to shake

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Speaker 2: will enter into our fiftieth year. In the scripture, the

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Speaker 2: fiftieth year is very significant. It's called the year of Jubilee.

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Speaker 2: It was the year all the debt was canceled. It

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Speaker 2: was the year that the slaves were released and all

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Speaker 1: People were set free and restored.

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Speaker 2: And I know it's just symbolic, but I'm bold enough

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Speaker 2: to believe that you and I are coming into our

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Speaker 2: year of jubileeve It's going to be a time where

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Speaker 2: you see God's favor in a greater way. You're gonna

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Speaker 2: get supernatural breaks, supernatural opportunities. The Year of Jubilee is

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Speaker 2: when you're gonna be released from debt and lack. You're

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Speaker 2: gonna be set free from bondages of addictions and wrong mindsets.

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Speaker 2: the Year of Jubilee, everything is restored.

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Speaker 2: I know some of you have had a lot of

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Speaker 2: I am coming into my year of jubilee. Every bondage,

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Speaker 2: reading about a small spider. We've all seen how spider spins.

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Speaker 2: web is so sticky. How can the spider that even

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Speaker 2: other words, the reason the spider doesn't get stuck is

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Speaker 2: the anoying is the oil that lubricates us and keeps

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Speaker 2: You should be bitter, you should be upset, but you

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Speaker 2: stay in faith and God opens up another door. And

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Speaker 2: when you look back in life, you can think, I

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Speaker 2: make it through that sickness? It was the anoying God

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Speaker 2: when you should have been discouraged.

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Speaker 1: And my friend, this young man.

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Speaker 2: Was so discouraged, said Joel, I just don't understand why

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Speaker 2: it didn't work out. I told him what I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: it's not over until God says it's over. I said,

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Speaker 2: every day you need to say Father, thank you that

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Speaker 2: you have the right people in my path, and I

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Speaker 2: have favor with everyone that I meet. Several months later,

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Speaker 2: I saw him. He was so excited. He said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I got a better scholarship. I said, really, what are

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Speaker 2: you going to school? He said, I'm going to the

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Speaker 2: same school. But he told how that man called him

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Speaker 2: back and said, I cannot get you off my mind.

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Speaker 2: I wake up in the middle of the night thinking

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Speaker 2: about you. I drive to work thinking about you. I

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Speaker 2: eat dinner thinking about you. He said, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 2: you a scholarship, but we don't have any of those left.

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Speaker 2: Like we talked about, they were partial scholarships.

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Speaker 1: So he said I'm.

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Speaker 2: Gonna go ahead and give you one of our full scholarships.

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Speaker 1: Friends.

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Speaker 2: God knows how to turn the hearts of people, and

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Speaker 2: if he doesn't turn them, he can certainly move them.

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Speaker 1: Out of the way.

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Speaker 2: But bottom line is God is in control. He's got

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Speaker 2: the right people, the right breaks, the right opportunities lined

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Speaker 2: up for you. This is what happened to Esther. She

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Speaker 2: went from being an orphan in poverty with no real future.

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Speaker 2: Now she's in the palace. Now she's royalty. What am

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Speaker 2: I saying with God?

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Speaker 1: There are no disadvantages.

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Speaker 2: You may have been through bad breaks in life, you

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Speaker 2: may have had some disappointments, but encourage you, don't stay

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Speaker 2: on that page.

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Speaker 1: There are new chapters up ahead.

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Speaker 2: The scripture talks about how God has recorded every day

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Speaker 2: of our life before we were ever even born. That

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Speaker 2: means there's a book already written with your life story

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Speaker 2: in it. The good news is it has a great ending.

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Speaker 2: But a lot of people, when they face setbacks, or

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Speaker 2: like Esther, they go through disadvantages, they just accept it.

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Speaker 2: They think, Ah, this is my lot in life. I'll

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Speaker 2: never get out of this mess, never rise any higher.

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Speaker 1: What's happening? They're getting stuck on that page.

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Speaker 2: But if you'll get your fire back and start pressing forward, believing, expecting,

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Speaker 2: somewhere in your future, you'll come to a.

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Speaker 1: New chapter that'll pull it all together.

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Speaker 2: Even those dark times you don't understand right now, it

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Speaker 2: will cause it to all make sense.

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Speaker 1: Stay in faith. The next chapter is coming, a new

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Speaker 1: season is on its way. Here's a key.

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Speaker 2: Esther was taught about the goodness of her God. Mordecai

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Speaker 2: was constantly speaking faith into her, saying things like Esther,

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Speaker 2: you may be an orphan, you may not have a

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Speaker 2: nice place to lay your head, you may not be

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Speaker 2: wearing pretty clothes, but let me tell you.

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Speaker 1: You're something special.

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Speaker 2: Girl.

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Speaker 1: God's got his hand on you. You're going to do

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Speaker 1: great things.

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Speaker 2: And as she heard that over and over, she started believing.

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Speaker 2: It got down on the inside. She started thinking, I

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Speaker 2: am anointed, I am equipped.

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Speaker 1: This is my season.

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Speaker 2: The truth is every one of us needs someone speaking

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Speaker 2: faith over us. Victoria told me I was going to

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Speaker 2: pasture this church. When I was afraid to get up

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Speaker 2: in front of anyone. She told me I was anointed

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Speaker 2: when I didn't feel annointed. She said, one day you're

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Speaker 2: going to stand before great leaders when I was working

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Speaker 2: behind the scenes running camera.

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Speaker 1: She spoke faith, victory, increase into me.

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Speaker 2: Somebody has to stir up your seeds of greatness. Joshua

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Speaker 2: had Moses, Elisha had Elijah, Timothy had Paul. You may

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Speaker 2: not have anyone speaking victory in your life right now,

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Speaker 2: but allow.

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Speaker 1: Me to be your Mordecai.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you you were created for greatness. You

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Speaker 2: have the seed of Almighty God in you. There is

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Speaker 2: no obstacle that you cannot overcome. There is no disadvantage

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Speaker 2: that can hold you back. You in the palm of

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Speaker 2: God's hand. He has equipped you, He has empowered you.

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Speaker 2: The right people are already in your path. He's already

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Speaker 2: released favor into your future. You'll come in into new

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Speaker 2: seasons of increase. The dreams that you've given up on.

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Speaker 2: God's gonna resurrect those dead dreams. The family members you've

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Speaker 2: written off. God's gonna restore those relationships. He's going to

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Speaker 2: breathe new life into your health, new life into your finances,

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Speaker 2: new life into your career. I can hear God saying,

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Speaker 2: you're coming in to your year of jubilee. This is

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Speaker 2: your time to come up higher. This is your time

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Speaker 2: to be free. Why don't you do like that lady

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Speaker 2: that press through the crowd and rise up and say, yes,

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Speaker 2: this is for me, this is my season. If you

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Speaker 2: do that, you'll see God's goodness in a greater way

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Speaker 2: like esther. God will take your places you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: And my prayer is that every one of you will know,

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Speaker 2: beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are equipped,

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Speaker 2: you are anointed, and your best days are not behind you.

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Speaker 1: They're still out in front of you. Amen. Do you

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Speaker 1: receive it today?

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to.

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Speaker 1: Make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray

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Speaker 1: with me?

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

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Speaker 2: into my heart.

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Speaker 1: I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church,

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Speaker 2: keep God first place to take your places that you've

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Speaker 2: never dreamed of. It's easy to get stuck in life

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Speaker 2: because of fear and lack of confidence.

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Speaker 1: We've been through disappointments.

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Speaker 2: But I'm excited about Victoria's new book, Grace to Go.

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Speaker 2: It'll help you move past what's holding you back and

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Speaker 2: step into new levels of your destiny.

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Speaker 3: My heart for this book is that you will discover

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Speaker 3: the courage, the gifts, and the faith that God has

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Speaker 3: put in you so that you can see your dreams

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Speaker 3: come to pass. It's not too late, the obstacles are

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Speaker 3: not too big. The grace of God equips you to

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Speaker 3: go beyond your comfort zone and overcome what looks impossible.

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Speaker 3: You are stronger than you think. You are not alone.

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Speaker 1: You are Grace to Go.

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Speaker 4: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 4: renew your perspective, and empower you to live boldly. You

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Speaker 3: Grace is power. When you receive it by faith, it

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Speaker 2: We pray for you and your family every day. Thank

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