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Speaker 4: This is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 5: But thanks for tuning in today, Thanks for coming out.

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Speaker 5: I like to get started each week with something kind

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Speaker 5: of funny, and I heard about this husband and wife.

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Speaker 5: They were driving down the road and they saw this

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Speaker 5: sign that said Nakodochius forty miles ahead. They begin to

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Speaker 5: argue over how to correctly pronounce the name Nakodochus. The

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna stop and prove to you that I was right.

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Speaker 5: They drove silently for the next thirty minutes. When he

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Speaker 5: got to the town, he pulled into the first little

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Speaker 5: fast food restaurant.

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Speaker 4: They both marched up to the counter.

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Speaker 5: He said to the young lady working behind it, my

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Speaker 5: wife and I have been arguing for the last thirty minutes.

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Speaker 5: Would you please, very slowly and very clearly, tell us

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Speaker 5: how to pronounce the name of this place. The young

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Speaker 5: lady's eyes got real big. She leaned over the counter

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Speaker 5: and said, Burger Keen, all right.

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Speaker 4: Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean. This

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Speaker 4: is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says I am, I have what

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Speaker 5: it says I have I can do what it says

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Speaker 4: Today. I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 5: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 5: living a resurrected life. Every person goes through adversities. We've

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Speaker 5: all had unfair things happen. We didn't get a promotion

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Speaker 5: we deserve, we lose a loved one, a friend betrayed us,

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Speaker 5: So many people are living in the past, focused on

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Speaker 5: They go around with a victim mentality, always blaming somebody else.

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Speaker 4: You were prepared by your past.

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Speaker 5: Every challenge you've been through, every adversity you faced, God

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Speaker 5: you can experience a new level of God's goodness. You

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Speaker 5: may have had unfair things happen, somebody did you wrong,

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Speaker 5: But if you can just see it the right way,

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Speaker 4: Your past is getting you prepared.

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Speaker 5: One of the best things that I've ever learned is

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Speaker 5: nothing in life happens to me, it happens for me.

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Speaker 5: In other words, God would not have allowed me to

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Speaker 5: go through it if he didn't have a purpose for it.

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Speaker 5: It did not happen by accident. All things work together

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Speaker 5: for good when you love the Lord, and it doesn't

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Speaker 5: say that all things are good. It may be uncomfortable,

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Speaker 5: Maybe you've gone through a major setback in your health,

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Speaker 5: in your marriage, in your finances, but don't let that

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Speaker 5: keep your new goals in front of you, keep your

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Speaker 5: focusing on the joy that was set before him. What

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Speaker 5: are you focusing on today, what didn't work out? Who

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Speaker 5: even though they may look like stumbling blocks, God can

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Speaker 5: use them as stepping stones to take you to a

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Speaker 5: He's getting you prepared, and you wouldn't be who you

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Speaker 5: One of your dreams died, you lost a loved one,

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Speaker 5: how God works. You've been through the death, you've been

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Speaker 5: through the burial. Now it's the third day. It's time

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Speaker 5: for your resurrection. If you're going to live this resurrected life,

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Speaker 5: I may have been cheated in a business deal, but

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Speaker 5: I'm not bitter. I'm not sour. I know that didn't

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Speaker 5: would be my vindicator. He said he would pay me

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Speaker 5: back double for every injustice. So I'm not going to

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Speaker 5: that just qualified me for double. Or in your health,

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Speaker 5: maybe you're facing a sickness. It's been that way a

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Speaker 5: I said, maybe you've made poor choices. You've made some

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Speaker 5: condemning voice, the accuser keeps telling you you blew it.

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Speaker 5: It's your fault. You can't expect anything good. No, You've

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Speaker 5: not gonna live my life guilty. I'm not giving up

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Speaker 5: Have that resurrection mentality. You are a child of the

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Speaker 5: give you beauty for your ashes, joy for your mourning.

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Speaker 5: Some of you may feel like today all you have

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Speaker 5: none of your dreams have come to pass. That simply

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Speaker 5: And the good news is it's not over until God

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Speaker 5: The natural, we should get down and discourage, go around

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Speaker 5: They don't realize how God has used them to stretch me,

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Speaker 5: When we were trying to acquire this place, one of

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Speaker 5: the main business leaders in the city told a friend

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Speaker 5: Lakewood ever gets the Compact Center. That man doesn't know

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Speaker 5: was so distraught over what he was about to face.

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Speaker 5: He was in such agony in his spirit that he

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Speaker 5: swept great drops of blood. He said, Father, if you're

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Speaker 5: willing take this cup from me, nevertheless, not my will,

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Speaker 5: yours be done. It was there in the garden that

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Speaker 5: he made a decision to hold on to the promise

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Speaker 5: that God had put in his heart. In fact, there

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Speaker 5: was a war going on on the inside. Everything in

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Speaker 5: him was telling him, you're not gonna make it. There's

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Speaker 5: no way, it's too tough. But when he made the

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Speaker 5: began to strengthen him. You may feel like you're in

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Speaker 5: the garden right now. Everything has come against you. You

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Speaker 5: don't see in the natural how you could make it.

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Speaker 5: But God is saying, hold on to that promise, keep believing,

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Speaker 5: keep hoping, keep praying. You are close to your victory.

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Speaker 5: On the road to be crucified. They made Jesus carry

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Speaker 5: his own cross, but he had been so beaten down,

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Speaker 5: so mistreated, he couldn't carry it. The whole way he

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Speaker 5: fell down under the weight of his cross. The message

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Speaker 5: is you don't have to be strong one hundred percent

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Speaker 5: of the time.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes the cross we're carrying can be extremely heavy.

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Speaker 5: The accusing voice tell you if every day is not

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Speaker 5: a perfect day, if you don't stay in faith every minute,

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Speaker 5: keep your joy and keep your peace, and you're.

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Speaker 4: Just not strong enough.

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Speaker 5: But it's always encouraging to remember that even Jesus fell

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Speaker 5: down under the weight of his cross, a man by

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Speaker 5: the name of Simon came and helped him to carry you.

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Speaker 5: God will always send somebody across your path to be

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Speaker 5: there for you.

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Speaker 4: In the time of your greatest need.

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Speaker 5: Maybe today it's my voice telling you you can make it.

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Speaker 5: There are better days up ahead. But the enemy will

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Speaker 5: tell you this. He'll tell you lost your victory, you

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Speaker 5: had a bad day, you had a pity party, you

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Speaker 5: lost your temper, you yelled at your kids on God

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Speaker 5: saying that's okay, You're human. I know what it feels

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Speaker 5: like to fall down. I've been there. Just get back

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Speaker 5: up again. You've got a resurrection coming. They nailed Jesus

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Speaker 5: to the cross, and as he hung there, he felt

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Speaker 5: so lonely, so dejected, he cried out, my God, my God,

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Speaker 5: why have you forsaken me? He asked a question, but

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Speaker 5: he didn't hear any kind of answer. Sometimes heaven can

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Speaker 5: be silent. You pray, you believe you're doing your best,

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Speaker 5: but you don't see anything happening. You're hurting on the inside.

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Speaker 5: It looks like it's over. But in those silent times,

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Speaker 5: something powerful is happening down in here. God is stretching you.

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Speaker 5: You're developing a greater confidence in him. Your mind will

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Speaker 5: tell you it's over, it's never going to happen, but

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Speaker 5: something will rise up in your spirit that says, no,

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Speaker 5: God is still on the throne.

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Speaker 4: This is not happening to me. It's happening for me.

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Speaker 5: And even though it's not fair, even though I'm discouraged,

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Speaker 5: deep down, I know that I know I've got a

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Speaker 5: resurrection coming. I know God can still turn this around.

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Speaker 5: As Jesus hung on the cross in all that pain,

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Speaker 5: the soldiers made fun of him, locked him, ridiculed him.

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Speaker 5: In spite of all that suffering, in spite of the disrespect,

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Speaker 5: he looked up to heaven and said, Father, forgive them.

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Speaker 5: They don't know what they're doing. He forgave his enemies.

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Speaker 5: Then he committed his spirit into his father's hands. They

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Speaker 5: put him in the grave.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure the.

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Speaker 5: Forces of darkness were celebrating, rejoicing, thinking they had finally

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Speaker 5: won the victory. But they didn't realize it's not over

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Speaker 5: until God says it's over. God always has the final say.

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Speaker 5: He controls the whole universe. That was on Friday, But

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Speaker 5: three days later, on Sunday morning, Jesus came up out

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Speaker 5: of that grave. He said, I am he that lives.

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Speaker 5: I was dead, but I am alive forevermore. He went

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Speaker 5: on to say, because I live, you can live.

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Speaker 4: Also.

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Speaker 5: God has an abundant life in store for each one

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Speaker 5: of us. But many times, on the way to our victories,

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Speaker 5: just like Jesus, will experience some of these setback. Some

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Speaker 5: of these difficult times. You have to remind yourself it's

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Speaker 5: not happening to me, it's happening for me. God's getting

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Speaker 5: me prepared on the inside. He's depositing strength, courage, and ability.

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Speaker 5: Keep your eyes focused on your goals, says in Hebrews.

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Speaker 5: Now faith is you have to have a now mentality.

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Speaker 5: Not one day I'm going to be happy. One day

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Speaker 5: God's gonna work in my life. No, now is the

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Speaker 5: time to release your faith. The fact is, right now,

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Speaker 5: God is working in your life.

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Speaker 4: Right now.

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Speaker 5: God's arranging things in your favor. Right now, God's trying

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Speaker 5: to fill you with his strength. Stay in the now.

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Speaker 5: That's what activates God's power. You remember when Mary and

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Speaker 5: Martha were at the tomb of their brother Lazarus.

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Speaker 4: He'd been dead for four days, and they were there

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Speaker 4: crying so distraught.

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Speaker 5: Jesus finally showed up and said, I am the Resurrection

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Speaker 5: and the Life. They said, yes, Jesus, we know in

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Speaker 5: the last days you'll raise our brother Lazarus from the

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Speaker 5: dead when we all go to heaven. Jesus said, in

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Speaker 5: the fact, No, Mary, no, Martha, I'm not talking about

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Speaker 5: in the last days.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking about today.

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Speaker 5: If you'll roll away the stone, I'll raise your brother

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Speaker 5: right now. He was saying, I am a right now God.

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Speaker 5: A lot of times, like these ladies, we're believing one

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Speaker 5: day God's gonna do something great in my life. One

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Speaker 5: day God's gonna resurrect my dead dreams. No, we have

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Speaker 5: to get out of that one day mentality, and let's

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Speaker 5: start believing that today God's gonna do something great today.

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Speaker 4: God's gonna open up supernatural doors have a now mentality.

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Speaker 4: And I know some of you have been through the death,

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Speaker 4: so to speak. You've been through the burial.

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Speaker 5: You've had people lie about you, lost friends, gone through disappointments,

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Speaker 5: face sicknesses. But God didn't take you through everything. He

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Speaker 5: took you through just so you could come out beaten down, bedraggled,

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Speaker 5: half dead.

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Speaker 4: Well, how you doing, brother?

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Speaker 5: All be good under the circumstances. Now it's time for

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Speaker 5: your resurrection. It's time for you to rise up and

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Speaker 5: take everything that belongs to you.

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Speaker 4: If you've been.

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Speaker 5: Crucified with Christ, you can be raised with Christ. The

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Speaker 5: enemy may have done his best, but his best will

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Speaker 5: never be enough. You've got to shake off the past,

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Speaker 5: shake off every disappointment, shake off every injustice, shake off

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Speaker 5: every failure.

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Speaker 4: Let today be a new beginning. You may feel like you're.

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Speaker 5: In the garden, down and discouraged, but take heart, you've

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Speaker 5: got a resurrection coming. You may have fallen down under

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Speaker 5: the weight of your cross. God is saying get back

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Speaker 5: up again. You're close to your victory. You may even

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Speaker 5: feel like you're on the cross. Your dreams have died

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Speaker 5: everything's coming against you. You've got to get a new perspective.

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Speaker 5: Nothing in life has happened to you, It has happened

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Speaker 5: for you.

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Speaker 4: God has you in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 5: He is going to take what was meant to destroy

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Speaker 5: you and use it to thrust you into your divine destiny.

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Speaker 5: Remember you are not defined by your past. You are

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Speaker 5: prepared by your past. Every adversity, every obstacle, God's depositing

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Speaker 5: something on the inside. If you'll live this resurrected life,

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Speaker 5: you won't have a victim mentality. You will have a

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Speaker 5: victoria mentality. And even when things come against you, you'll

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Speaker 5: still have a smile on your face. You'll know God's

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Speaker 5: not only gonna turn it around, but He's gonna give

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Speaker 5: you beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, and in the end,

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Speaker 5: you're gonna come out stronger, happier, healthier, better off than

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Speaker 5: you were before.

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Speaker 4: Amen, Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll make

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Speaker 4: you my lord. And Savior.

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