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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks.

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Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have an.

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Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, God

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Speaker 2: bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. And if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I'll promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this airplane.

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Speaker 2: That was about to crash.

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Speaker 1: There were four passengers, but only three parachutes. First passenger said,

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Speaker 1: I'm a leading heart surgeon. My patients need me. Took

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Speaker 1: the first parachute and jumped. Second passenger said, I'm a

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Speaker 1: rocket scientist, one of the smartest men alive. My country

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Speaker 1: needs me. Took the second parachute and jumped.

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Speaker 2: The third passenger.

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Speaker 1: Pope John Paul said to the fourth passenger, a ten

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Speaker 1: year old boy scout, son, I'm old and frail. I

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Speaker 1: don't have much time left. You can have the last parachute.

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Speaker 1: The boy scout says, sir, don't worry, there are still

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Speaker 1: two parachutes left the smartest man alive.

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Speaker 2: He just jumped out with my backpack.

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Speaker 1: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about pulled strings. It's easy to go through life wondering

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Speaker 1: how things are going to work out, hoping we make

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Speaker 1: right decisions, stressed over our finances, concerned about a child.

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Speaker 2: But you don't have to worry about your future.

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Speaker 1: Your life has been divinely orchestrated. God has determined the

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Speaker 1: end from the beginning. He's already laid out your plan,

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Speaker 1: drawn up your blueprint. He knows everything that's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says God works all things according to his will.

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Speaker 1: It's not according to who likes you, according to what

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Speaker 1: family you come from, according to even how many mistakes

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Speaker 1: you've made.

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Speaker 2: It's according to his will.

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Speaker 1: He is working behind the scenes, not only directing your steps,

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Speaker 1: but he's directing the steps.

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Speaker 2: Of the people you need.

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Speaker 1: He's not just in control of you, He's in control

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Speaker 1: of your circumstances. Nothing randomly happens. You're not at the

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Speaker 1: mercy of bad breaks. You don't have to get upset

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Speaker 1: because a door closed. Give up on a dream because

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Speaker 1: you went through a loss. God knew about it. He

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't on your blueprint.

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Speaker 1: We may not like it, we don't understand it, but

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Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing. It's not keeping you from

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Speaker 1: your purpose. It's leading you to your purpose. And sometimes

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Speaker 1: the reason God closes a door is because he's about

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Speaker 1: to open.

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Speaker 2: A bigger door. Where we were was too small. We

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Speaker 2: couldn't see it. We were happy.

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Speaker 1: But God loves you too much to let you miss

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Speaker 1: your destiny. His dream for your life is bigger than

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Speaker 1: your own. That friend that left you, they didn't walk

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Speaker 1: away on their own accord. God directed their steps. He

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Speaker 1: moved them away because they were limiting your growth. They

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Speaker 1: to be. When you know your life is divinely orchestrated,

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Speaker 1: that nothing happens without God's permission, then you don't get

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Speaker 1: discouraged when things don't go your way.

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Speaker 2: You know God is at.

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Speaker 1: Work, controlling, manipulating, arranging things according to his will. Now

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Speaker 1: this takes faith because we can't see the blueprint. We

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Speaker 1: don't know what God is up to. His ways are

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Speaker 1: not our ways. All we know is the door closed.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't fair. It set us back.

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Speaker 1: What we can't see is really it's setting us up

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Speaker 1: for something better, or we would going along being our best,

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Speaker 1: honoring God. Out of nowhere, a promotion, a good break,

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Speaker 2: We didn't see it coming, but God did. It was

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Speaker 1: You have no idea what God has in your future,

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Speaker 1: the doors he's going to open, the people he's going

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Speaker 2: It may seem like you've reached your limits.

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Speaker 1: You could never accomplish a dream, never get out of debt,

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Speaker 2: You don't know what God is up to.

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Speaker 1: If he showed you the blueprint, if you could see

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Speaker 1: is God is working it out. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: do this just in your own strength. Try to manipulate

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Speaker 1: people manipulate circumstances. You have someone manipulating things for you.

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Speaker 2: It just so happens. He controls the universe. Why are

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Speaker 1: The most tigh God is directing your steps, moving the

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Speaker 1: Don't have to worry. It's on the blueprint, Jeremiah said.

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Speaker 1: God's plans for you are for good, to bring you

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Speaker 1: to an expected end. You are not going to come

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Speaker 1: to a random end. God is not up in the

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Speaker 1: heavens thinking I wonder what's going to happen in their life.

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Speaker 1: God has already established your end. Your steps are being ordered,

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Speaker 1: You are at the right place at the right time.

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Speaker 2: Everything is on schedule.

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Speaker 1: All the details are coming together, and things may have

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Speaker 1: happened that you don't understand.

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Speaker 2: Stay in faith. It's on the plans.

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Speaker 1: It may not make sense now, but when it comes together.

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Speaker 2: It will make sense. His plan is in process.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to be frustrated because it's not happening

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Speaker 1: fast enough, get upset because somebody did you wrong. The

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Speaker 1: God who breathed life into you has not only established

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Speaker 1: your end, but he is working all.

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Speaker 2: Things according to his will.

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Speaker 1: When I was a little boy, my father would travel

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Speaker 1: overseas for a couple of weeks at a time to minister.

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Speaker 1: When he returned home, my siblings and I were always

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Speaker 1: so excited to see him, not just because we missed him,

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Speaker 1: but because he always brought us a gift, something from

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Speaker 1: that country. One trip, he opened his suitcase and he

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Speaker 1: handed me a puppet. It was a cowboy made out

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Speaker 1: All these strings were attached to different parts of the puppet.

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Speaker 1: I could move my little finger, make the puppet wave.

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Speaker 1: put on puppet shows for my little sister. I was

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Speaker 1: She would laugh when the puppet danced, wave when the

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Speaker 1: would forget I was pulling the strings. I was the

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Speaker 1: one orchestrating his every move in the same way you're

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Speaker 1: not doing life on your own. God is behind the

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Speaker 1: SEMs pulling the strings orchestrating your steps. Sometimes we think

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Speaker 1: we got to where we are by ourselves, our talent,

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Speaker 2: We don't realize God.

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Speaker 1: Has been pulling strings our whole life, bringing talent out,

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Speaker 1: giving us ability, causing us to shine. When we were tired,

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Speaker 1: he pulled a string and lifted us. When we felt

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Speaker 1: like quitting, he pulled a string and caused us to

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Speaker 1: try again. When we didn't have the training, he pulled

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Speaker 2: It on our own.

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Speaker 1: It's good to look up and say, Father, thank you

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Speaker 1: for pulling strings. I realize you're giving me strength, You're

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Speaker 1: making me dance, You're causing me to shine. The great

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Speaker 1: thing about God is he doesn't just have a string

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Speaker 1: on you. He has a string on all of your circumstances.

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Speaker 1: Like in a puppet show, there's a string on the curtain,

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Speaker 1: The person running the show can control everything on the stage.

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Speaker 2: That's the way it is with God.

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Speaker 1: He has a string on all your props, a string

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Speaker 1: on everything you need. When it's your time to shine,

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Speaker 1: God has a string on the curtain.

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Speaker 2: He'll open that door, and there you are.

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Speaker 1: When he's ready for you to be promoted, he has

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Speaker 1: a string on that promotion.

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Speaker 2: He'll bring it to you.

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Speaker 1: You're not feeling well, don't worry. God has a string

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Speaker 1: on your healing. You've heard that phrase no strings attached

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Speaker 2: Is just the opposite.

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Speaker 1: He has a string on everything on your stage.

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Speaker 2: How did you get to where you are? It's very simple.

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Speaker 2: God pulled the strings.

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Speaker 1: How did my father rise out of poverty, no future

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Speaker 1: churches and live an abundant life. God pulled the strings.

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Speaker 1: There was no way in the natural. All the odds

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Speaker 2: He's supernatural. You can't see him.

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Speaker 1: He's behind the scenes, but he's working all things according

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Speaker 1: to his will. When God is ready to promote you,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't check with your boss, he doesn't get approval

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Speaker 1: from your family, he doesn't take a vote from your critics.

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Speaker 2: He simply pulls the strings.

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Speaker 1: He controls what door's open, He controls what breaks come

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Speaker 1: your way. Don't be discouraged by your boss. God has

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Speaker 1: a string on your boss. Don't lose sleep over those

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Speaker 2: God has a.

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Speaker 1: String on who's trying to stop you. When it's time,

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Speaker 1: he'll pull that string move them out of the way.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to live.

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Speaker 1: Stressed out because you have opposition and things haven't worked out.

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Speaker 1: You're still connected. God has a string on you and

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Speaker 1: everything that's affecting you. The psalmist said, God's hand is

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Speaker 1: outstretched towards you when you're tempted to get discouraged.

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Speaker 2: I think it's never going to work out.

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Speaker 1: Just imagine God's hand outstretched above you, pulling strings, directing

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Speaker 1: your steps, orchestrating your life. He not only has a

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Speaker 1: string on you, he has a string on your finances.

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Speaker 1: He has a string on your opportunities, on your house,

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Speaker 1: on your health, on your family, on your promotion. Get ready,

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Speaker 1: God is about to pull some strings. He's about to

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Speaker 1: make things happen that you couldn't make happen.

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Speaker 2: You didn't see it coming. The opposition was bigger.

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Speaker 1: But God pulled a string and you came out with

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Speaker 1: the victory. The medical report didn't look good. God pulled

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Speaker 1: a string. Now you're healthy in whome, the school said

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Speaker 1: they had no more funds. God pulled a string and

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Speaker 1: you received a scholarship. You'd been lonely a long time.

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Speaker 1: God pulled a string, brought a divine connection. The string

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Speaker 1: puller is about to show out in your life. You're

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Speaker 1: going to look back and say, like me, how did

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Speaker 1: I get up here? I didn't have the training, the experience.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't next in line.

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Speaker 2: God pulled my strings.

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Speaker 1: He brought ability out of me that I didn't know

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Speaker 1: I had. You see me up here, speaking, moving my hands.

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Speaker 1: I know it's the stream puller, God working out his purpose.

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Speaker 1: your life. I'm bigger than what you're facing. You've tried

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Speaker 2: Come to me. I'll help you. I'll work it out.

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Speaker 1: All you have to do is say God, my life

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Speaker 1: is in your hands.

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Speaker 2: I'm turning it over to you.

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Speaker 1: When you trust God with your future, he'll take you

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Speaker 1: where you couldn't go on your own. Like this man,

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Speaker 1: God is about to pull some strings. Things you've been

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Speaker 1: trying to make happen. A loved one off course, they

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Speaker 1: won't listen to you. Don't worry. God has a string

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Speaker 1: on them. He's about to pull them back. As for

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Speaker 1: you and your house, you will serve the Lord. Doors

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Speaker 2: Don't worry.

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Speaker 1: God has a string on those doors, a string on

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Speaker 1: your finances. He's about to bring promotion, opportunity, increase you

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Speaker 1: didn't see coming.

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Speaker 2: You're going to know.

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Speaker 1: It's the outstretched hand of God pulling streams.

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Speaker 2: Quit worrying, Quit living stress.

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Speaker 1: God has a stream on everything on your stage right now.

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Speaker 2: He is working out his purpose for your life.

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Speaker 1: Live from a place of rest, knowing that your life

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Speaker 1: has been divinely orchestrated. If you'll do this, I believe

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Speaker 1: and declare like job, nothing or no one is going

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Speaker 1: to stop your purpose in Jesus' name, and if you

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Speaker 1: receive it, can you say men today? But I'd like

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Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord

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Speaker 1: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: I repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I

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Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get

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Speaker 1: in a good Bible based church, keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: He's going to take you where you've never dreamed.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year time to forget the struggles of

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Speaker 1: The beginning of the year is a great time to

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Speaker 3: One wake up with an expectancy in your heart. Two

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