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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.

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Speaker 2: Friend, reappreciate you, and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life. Well, God bless you. It's always a joy

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Speaker 2: to come into your homes, and if you're ever in

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Speaker 2: our area, please stop by and be a part of

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Speaker 2: one of our services. I'll promise you we'll make you

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Speaker 2: feel right at home. But thanks so much for tuning

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Speaker 2: in and thank you again for coming out today. I

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Speaker 2: like to start with something funny heard about these two

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Speaker 2: professional baseball players. They were discussing whether or not there

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Speaker 2: would be baseball up in heaven. They made an agreement

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Speaker 2: that whoever died first would come back and tell the

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Speaker 2: other one if indeed there was baseball in heaven. A

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Speaker 2: few months later, one of the men died, and just

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Speaker 2: like he promised, he came back.

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Speaker 1: He said to his friend.

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Speaker 2: I've got good news and I've got bad news. The

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Speaker 2: good news is there is baseball up in heaven. The

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Speaker 2: bad news is scheduled to pitch next Thursday. Hold up

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Speaker 2: your Bible, 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 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about unexpected sunshine.

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Speaker 2: A few months ago, it had been cloudy in Houston

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Speaker 2: for a long time, gray, gloomy, overcast.

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Speaker 2: When I woke up, I thought, surely it's going to

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Speaker 2: be sunny today. I looked outside eagerly, but nothing had changed.

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Speaker 2: I watched the weather reports on the news, but as

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Speaker 2: far out as they predicted it was all cloudy. Checked

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Speaker 2: the ten day report on my phone. Nothing had changed,

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Speaker 2: no end in sight. It had been that way so long.

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Speaker 2: People started asking the question, when are we ever going.

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Speaker 1: To see the sun again.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it can be that way in life. Gets cloudy

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Speaker 2: in our health, cloudy in our finances, cloudy in a relationship.

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Speaker 2: Day after day goes by, doesn't look like it's ever

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Speaker 2: going to change. A gentleman told recently how he struggled

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Speaker 2: with an addiction. Since high school, those dark clouds rolled in.

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Speaker 2: Now thirty years later.

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Speaker 1: He's still dealing with it. Hasn't seen the sun.

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Speaker 2: And when it's been dark for a long time, it's

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Speaker 2: easy to get discouraged and think that it's never.

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Speaker 2: But one morning I was in my office looking out

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Speaker 2: of nowhere, the clouds broke open and this bright ray

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Speaker 1: It looked like a postcard.

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Speaker 2: Was so beautiful, the sun shining through the tree freeze,

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Speaker 2: two words in my spirit, unexpected sunshine. Maybe it's been

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Speaker 2: cloudy in your life for a long time. Those clouds

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Speaker 2: of loneliness don't look like they'll ever leave.

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Speaker 1: You don't think you'd ever meet the right person.

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Speaker 2: But can I tell you God has unexpected sunshine? He's

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Speaker 2: already lined up the person of your dreams. Just a

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Speaker 2: matter of time before those clouds open up. The medical

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Speaker 2: live with it. It's cloudy in your health. Stay encouraged.

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Speaker 2: Unexpected sunshine is coming your way. Or those clouds of struggle, lack,

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Speaker 2: You could easily accept mediocrity, think you've reached your limits. No,

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Speaker 2: get ready for unexpected sunshine. One touch of God's favor

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Speaker 2: overcast right now, gloomy in some area of your life.

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Speaker 2: The good news is those clouds don't stop our God.

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Speaker 2: cause them to open up. Suddenly you get well, Suddenly

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Speaker 2: Don't be discouraged by the clouds.

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Speaker 2: It was cloudy in our life in nineteen eighty one

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Speaker 2: when my mother was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Those

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Speaker 2: The forecast said, a few weeks to live but people

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Speaker 2: don't have the final say God does. He said, I

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Speaker 2: have unexpected sunshine. I'm gonna cause those clouds to open up.

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Speaker 2: Shine down, healing, shine down, restoration. That's what happened in

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Speaker 2: my mother's life. Unexpectedly the sun came out. Thirty four

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Speaker 2: years later, she's still healthy and hope.

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Speaker 1: But when it's cloudy, every voice will tell you it's

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Speaker 1: never gonna change.

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Speaker 2: You'll always be addicted, always be discouraged, always struggle in

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Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies.

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Speaker 2: God is saying, I have unexpected sunshine come in your way.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be unusual, out of the ordinary, and

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Speaker 1: Suddenly. Those clouds are going to break open.

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Speaker 2: You're going to see rays of healing, raise of favor,

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Speaker 2: raise of promotion. Now do your part and get in

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Speaker 2: agreement with God. Start acting like it's gonna happen, Thinking

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Speaker 2: like it's gonna happen, talking like it's gonna happen. No more,

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Speaker 2: I'll never get well, Joel, I've had this too long.

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Speaker 2: No God is restoring health back into me. The number

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Speaker 2: of my days he will fulfill. No more, I never

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Speaker 2: get any good breaks. I'll never accomplish my dreams. No,

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Speaker 2: I have the fevor of God. Blessings are chasing me down.

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Speaker 2: I'm the head and not the tail. No more, this

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Speaker 1: I don't see a way out.

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Speaker 2: No. It may be big, but I know my God

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Speaker 2: is bigger. May be a little cloudy right now, but

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Speaker 2: I know a secret, unexpected sunshine is coming my way.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said in Matthew six point twenty two. A pure

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Speaker 2: eye let sunshine into your soul.

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Speaker 1: When you have this attitude.

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Speaker 2: Of faith, positive, hopeful, expecting good things, that pure eye

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Speaker 2: is letting sunshine.

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Speaker 1: Into your life.

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Speaker 2: But when we go around stressed out, worried, thinking it's

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Speaker 2: never going to change, that's stopping the sun. It's calling

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Speaker 2: have to start letting some sun shine into your life.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't start with God. It starts with us.

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Speaker 2: Instead of being discouraged by the dark clouds. Our attitude

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Speaker 2: should be any moment this can change. Healing is coming,

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Speaker 2: promotion is coming, the right person is coming.

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Speaker 1: Breakthroughs are coming.

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Speaker 2: If you want to see the clouds open up, you

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Speaker 2: have to have this expectancy, shake off the negativity, quit

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Speaker 1: Turn it around. God.

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Speaker 2: I know you're in control of these clouds. They didn't

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Speaker 2: any moment, I'm going to see that unexpected sunshine. A

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Speaker 2: friend of mine had a supervisor at work that was

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Speaker 2: very condescending and hard to get along with. Nobody liked

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Speaker 2: Half of the staff fell down on their knees began

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Speaker 2: to thank God. What was that unexpected sunshine? He didn't

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Speaker 2: see it coming. The forecast was cloudy. All the reports said,

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Speaker 2: this problem is permanent. But God controls the universe. He

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Speaker 2: knows how to suddenly change things. He can suddenly move

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Speaker 2: by what you see. What you see is temporary, Like

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Speaker 2: In the natural, that may be true, But the good

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Speaker 2: news is we serve a supernatural God. On your own,

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Speaker 2: you may be stuck, but you're not on your own.

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Speaker 2: The creator of the universe, the God who spoke worlds

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Speaker 2: into existence, has you in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 2: He's directing your steps. He controls the clouds, he controls

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Speaker 2: to turn around. No, when it's your time for promotion,

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Speaker 2: for he for abundance, all the forces of darkness cannot

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Speaker 1: For you need to get ready. Those clouds are about

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Speaker 2: The sun is about to break through, just like I

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Speaker 2: saw in my office that day. In fifteen minutes, all

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Speaker 2: God knows how to make what should have taken years

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Speaker 2: up and say, like my friend, I didn't see that coming.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see my supervisor resigning that quickly. I didn't

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Speaker 2: see my health improving this fast. I didn't see that

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Speaker 2: new house on the radar. I didn't see that favor coming.

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Speaker 2: A gentleman that's attended Lakewood for many years had a

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Speaker 2: major stroke. He was told by the medical professionals that

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Speaker 2: Do it, it would take years of rehabilitation. It looked cloudy,

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Speaker 2: the forecast was very depressing. But this man understood this

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Speaker 1: He didn't sit.

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Speaker 2: Around in self pity. He knew he was a victor,

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Speaker 2: he amazed the therapist. They had never seen anyone like him.

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Speaker 2: Sixteen months after he had the stroke. He came back

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Speaker 2: to Lakewood for the first time. He came back, not

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Speaker 2: in a wheelchair, not on a walker, He walked in

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Speaker 2: raised in victory. I'll never forget that image. He wasn't disabled,

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Speaker 2: he wasn't limping. What should have taken years. God may

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Speaker 2: scripture puts it this way. When darkness overtakes the righteous,

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Speaker 2: get there, hopefully make it one day. Know suddenly, unexpectedly,

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Speaker 1: Weeping may endure for a night, but joy is coming

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Speaker 2: It may be dark right now, but Lord, I believe

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Speaker 2: So I want to thank you that joy is coming,

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Speaker 2: healing is coming. The right person is coming. The breakthrough

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Speaker 1: Standing there in the surf.

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Speaker 2: Thanking God for what he had done, not even thinking

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Speaker 2: about her necklace under her foot. As the waves retreated,

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Speaker 2: it pulled more and more sand out little by little.

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Speaker 2: In a few minutes, she felt something sharp poking her foot.

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Speaker 2: She thought it was a rock a seashell. She looked down.

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Speaker 1: Unexpected sunshine.

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Speaker 2: Only God could make that happen. That's like finding a

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Speaker 2: He knows where everything is. He tells every grain of

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Speaker 2: He owns it all well. The medical report says no way.

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Speaker 2: God has the final say. He says, yes way. It

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Speaker 2: may be cloudy in your life, but I can sense

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Speaker 2: Have this attitude of faith, go out each day with expectancy.

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Speaker 2: If you do this, I believe and declare light is

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