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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victorian. So great to have

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Speaker 1: Devotion North Calendar. It's full of inspiration and encouragement. It'll

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Speaker 2: God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. So I'd

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny and I heard about

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Speaker 1: this reporter. He was visiting different churches across the nation.

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Speaker 1: While in the Northeast, he saw a gold phone on

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Speaker 1: The pastor explained that was a direct line to Heaven.

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Speaker 1: If you were willing to pay the price, you could

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Speaker 1: talk directly to God. He continue, you're visiting different churches

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Speaker 1: In tree D's the pastor why it was so much cheaper.

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Speaker 1: The pastor said, you're in Texas now, it's a local call.

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Speaker 1: All right, y'all say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about pre plan for purpose.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to think that we have to make everything happen,

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Speaker 2: Now, I think, who is that man? How did this happen?

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Speaker 2: God's not making it up as he goes. Oh man,

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Speaker 2: Joel's father died. Need somebody to pastor the church? Maybe

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Speaker 1: No, before you were born, God planned at all your days.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says God put treasure in earthen vessels. We

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Speaker 1: the biggest asset of the church. He ended up writing

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Speaker 1: over half of the books in the New Testament, and

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Speaker 1: it's significant what he wrote in Galatians chapter one. He said,

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Speaker 1: you know how violently I persecuted Christians?

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Speaker 2: How did my best to get rid of them? But

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Speaker 2: then something happened.

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Speaker 1: God, in his kindness, chose me before I was born

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Speaker 1: to proclaim the.

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Speaker 2: Good news to the gentiles.

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Speaker 1: Paul was saying, I was going about my business doing

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Speaker 1: what I thought was right, but what God pre planned

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Speaker 1: for me overrode my will. That encounter with God on

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Speaker 1: the road to Damascus changed his mind, brought him into

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Speaker 1: the purpose that was ordained for him before.

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Speaker 2: He was born. There are things that.

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Speaker 1: God has pre planned for you that he's not going

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Speaker 1: to let you miss.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes they think, oh, Joel, I've made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 2: I got way off course. It's too late now. No,

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Speaker 2: what God has purposed for your life is still going

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Speaker 2: to come to pass.

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Speaker 1: He did not take the time to plan your days

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Speaker 1: before you were born, to line up everything you would

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Speaker 1: need to put gifts and talents programmed to open at

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Speaker 1: the right time. He didn't go to all that effort

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Speaker 1: and then decide you can miss your purpose.

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Speaker 2: The treasure is still in you.

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Speaker 1: The good breaks, the favor, the spouse, They're already on

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Speaker 1: the schedule. You keep honoring God, being faithful. There are

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Speaker 1: destiny moments in your future where doors are going to

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Speaker 1: open right, people are going to show up, Gifts come

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Speaker 1: out that you didn't.

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Speaker 2: Know You had.

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Speaker 1: Come back to a place of peace, a place of rest.

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Speaker 1: There is a good life in front of you. It's

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Speaker 1: not just up to you to make it happen. The

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Speaker 1: Most High God is ordering your steps. It's all working

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Speaker 1: according to the counsel of His will.

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Speaker 2: I believe and declare you're.

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Speaker 1: About to step in to some prearranged blessings, some pre

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Speaker 1: planned favor, something you didn't see coming. The treasure God

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Speaker 1: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, And if

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Speaker 1: you receive it, can you say amen, I'd like to

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Speaker 1: your alive.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 2: you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 3: Do you have a dream that's waiting to happen, but

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Speaker 3: it often feels like you'll never get there? Is your

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Speaker 3: come to the Lord? Are you asking God? Will it

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like our dream is so far off.

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Speaker 1: But I believe you're closer than you think.

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