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Speaker 4: We love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 4: of our services. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 4: and I heard about this senior citizen. He was driving

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Speaker 4: down the freeway in his brand new Corvette with the

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Speaker 4: Without thinking about it, he floored it. Took it up

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Speaker 4: pulled over. He said, officer, I'm so sorry. I don't

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Speaker 4: know what I was thinking. The officer said, listen, it's Friday,

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Speaker 4: four o'clock. My shift is over in thirty minutes. If

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Speaker 4: you tell me a reason you're speeding that I've never

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Speaker 4: heard before, I'll let you go. The man thought about it,

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Speaker 4: he said, Officer, years ago, my wife ran off with

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Speaker 6: He said, have a great weekend. Say it like you

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Speaker 6: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 6: says I am. I have what it says I have,

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Speaker 6: will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 4: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 4: your place of blessing. There are specific places where God

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Speaker 4: has designed for you to be blessed, places where He

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Speaker 4: has favored opportunity provision waiting for you. Your destiny is

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Speaker 4: connected to certain places. You can have faith, you're can

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Speaker 4: have a great attitude, but if you're not in the

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Speaker 4: The Book of Acts, Jesus told five hundred people to

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Speaker 4: have you stay where it's uncomfortable. You're not seeing any growth,

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Speaker 4: But notice how merciful God is. When she left that place.

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Speaker 4: should have known better. I'm done with you. No, God

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Speaker 4: You're going to hear that still small voice, that knowing

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Speaker 4: God is ordering your steps. Ordering is not an option.

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Speaker 4: He's not suggesting. He's not saying, if you perform perfectly,

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Speaker 4: places that he's already lined up favor, promotion, opportunity. Stay

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Speaker 4: open for change, don't fight the closed doors. Don't get

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Speaker 4: he didn't stop one place of blessing and move you

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Speaker 4: Perhaps you feel stuck, You're not making any progress. You're

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Speaker 4: tempted to force a door to open, manipulate things. No,

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Speaker 4: door hasn't opened, then shine where you are. That's your

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Speaker 4: You have to prove to God who you are that

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Speaker 4: Chapter one, Joseph was engaged to his fiance Marian. She

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Speaker 4: God was up to. The door closing wasn't random. The

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Speaker 4: King Herod heard about this baby Jesus, that he might

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Speaker 4: then you'll miss out. God told Elijah go to the

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Speaker 4: to be blessed, but a different location. Well, Zaraphath is

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Speaker 4: where Ahab and his wife Jezebel lived. She didn't like Elijah.

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Speaker 4: things always requires faith. He could have sent him to

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Speaker 4: his friends, his relatives, his supporters. I'm sure Elijah thought, God,

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Speaker 4: has dried up. Our God is a moving God, a

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Speaker 4: take that new position at work, teach that class, volunteer

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Speaker 4: what didn't work out? Who did you wrong? Had relationship

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Speaker 4: that didn't make it? God is still in control. He

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Speaker 4: commanded another place for you to be blamed. As Elijah

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Speaker 4: for you. Is there something that God is asking you

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Speaker 4: to do but you keep putting it off. You're afraid

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Speaker 4: you have more in you like Hagar. You're not being

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Speaker 4: begin to turn things in your favor. There are prophecies

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Speaker 4: He has spoken over your life, things He's destined you

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Speaker 4: to accomplish. You have not missed them. Keep trusting Him

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Speaker 4: even when you don't understand. Don't fight the things that

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Speaker 4: don't make sense. Your steps are being ordered. Things are

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Speaker 4: happening right now behind the scenes that you cannot see. Now,

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Speaker 4: be sensitive to what He's saying, and be quick to obey.

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Speaker 4: If you'll do this, I believe and declare you will

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Speaker 4: The wise men are about to show up blessings you

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