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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the podcast today, Victorian. I

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Speaker 1: are praying for you and just believing for God's very best.

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Speaker 1: I believe that this month is going to be an

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Speaker 1: amazing month for you and your family.

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Speaker 2: Keep that expectation in your heart and see what God

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Speaker 2: will do.

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Speaker 1: Will God bless you. It is always our joy to

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Speaker 1: come into your homes. We love you, We know God

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Speaker 1: has great things in store for each one of you.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: stop by and be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in, Thanks again for coming out today.

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Speaker 1: And I like to start with something funny. And one

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Speaker 1: day Adam was feeling very lonely. God said, Adam, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to make you a companion. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: called a woman. This person will cook for you, wash

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Speaker 1: your clothes. She will bear you children and never ask

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Speaker 1: you to get up in the middle of the night.

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Speaker 2: She will not nag you. She will agree with every.

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Speaker 1: Decision you make, and if you do have a dish agreement,

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Speaker 1: she will be the first to admit that she's wrong.

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Speaker 1: Adam said, Wow, God, what will a woman like this cost.

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Speaker 1: God said an arm and a leg. Adam said, what

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Speaker 1: can I get for a rib? And the rest is history?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: How come all the ladies are clapping? Say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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

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

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Speaker 1: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about being pruned

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Speaker 1: so you can bloom. Life is full of different seasons.

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Speaker 1: There are growing seasons where we're seeing increase and promotion.

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Speaker 1: We're making all kinds of progress. We know God's hand

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Speaker 2: But the truth is, if.

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Speaker 1: We stayed in that season, it wouldn't be healthy. Just

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Speaker 1: like a plant, if you don't prune it at the

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Speaker 2: It will always be limited and not.

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Speaker 1: Reach its full potential. And it's the same principle in life.

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Speaker 1: If we're going to become everything God's created us to be,

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Speaker 1: just as we have growing seasons, we're going to have

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Speaker 1: pruning seasons. There will be times when it feels like

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Speaker 1: everything is being cut back. You lost your biggest client,

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Speaker 1: a good friend moved to another state, a family member

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Speaker 1: why is this happening to me? Why did this person leave?

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Speaker 1: Why did I get laid off? No, you have to

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Speaker 1: realize you're in a pruning season. That loss, that disappointment

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Speaker 2: It was meant to.

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Speaker 1: Work for you, and if you will stay in faith,

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Speaker 1: that season will come to an end and you will

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Speaker 1: come into a season of new growth, new opportunity, new friendships.

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Speaker 1: You are being pruned for one reason, so you can bloom.

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Speaker 1: So you can blossom, so you can spread your wings.

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Speaker 1: You may be in a slow season right now. You

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Speaker 1: perhaps you went through a disappointment. Something unfair has happened.

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Speaker 1: in position for new growth. Your attitude should be yes,

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Speaker 1: I went through a loss. Yes it was difficult, but

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Speaker 1: He's fighting my battles, He's directing my steps. He is

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Speaker 1: had a very long and successful career. What am I

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Speaker 1: saying when you go through a loss, when somebody does

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Speaker 1: You may not realize it, but you're in a good position.

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Speaker 1: You're being pruned, not so you can stay there, not

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Speaker 1: new opportunities and discover new potential. I had a gentleman

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Speaker 2: He was so upset they were.

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Speaker 1: Having to divide the business, divide the client list, divide

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Speaker 1: God will remove a person because they become a crutch.

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Speaker 1: It's like how a mother eagle teaches the baby eaglitz

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that baby eagle thinks, mother, have you lost

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Speaker 1: same way, sometimes in life it feels like God has

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Speaker 2: Now you're stronger, You're more confident.

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Speaker 1: Increase is coming, favor is coming, New doors are opening.

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Speaker 1: It was meant to harm you, but God used it

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Speaker 1: He'd worked at a large home improvement company for many years.

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Speaker 2: They had retail stores all over the country. Now he

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Speaker 1: But one day they had this corporate restructuring and he

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Speaker 1: was informed that they no longer needed him. Of course,

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Speaker 1: As you know, it was successful. They have stores all

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Speaker 2: Seemed very unfair.

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Speaker 1: We'd been on this network for many years and built

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Speaker 1: up a good audience. It felt like the worst thing

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Speaker 1: And even though I was disappointed on the surface, I

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Speaker 1: knew down deep that setback was putting us in position.

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Speaker 2: For new growth.

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Speaker 1: We were being pruned. But I didn't stop there. I

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Speaker 1: was ready to bloom. Darkness had overtaken us, so to speak,

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Speaker 1: but I was expecting the light to come bursting in.

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Speaker 1: Several months later, we got a call from a much

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Speaker 1: they offered us.

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Speaker 2: A Sunday morning time slot.

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Speaker 1: If that wasn't good enough, the cost was less than

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Speaker 1: half of that other network.

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Speaker 2: What I thought, what was the worst thing?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: Always thinking God that it had happened. What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: Pruning seasons always position you for new growth, and it

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Speaker 1: may be dark, but if you will stay in faith,

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Speaker 1: God promises the light is going to come bursting in

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Speaker 1: some of you. Right now, you are in a pruning season.

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Speaker 1: Your hours have been cut back at the office or

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Speaker 1: a relationship. Even though you're doing your best, it's very

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Speaker 1: continues to go downhill. You could easily be discouraged. You

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Speaker 1: could easily live life sour. But I'm asking you to

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Speaker 1: put on a new attitude, Start expecting the bloom, start

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Speaker 1: expecting the light to come bursting in. It may look

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Speaker 1: like the worst thing that could have ever happened, but

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Speaker 1: God is still in complete control. Your hut may be

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Speaker 1: on fire, but God's going to cause the right people

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Speaker 1: to see the smoke. He's going to bring the right opportunities,

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Speaker 1: the right connections, and what you thought was a setback,

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Speaker 1: like God did for me, one day, you're gonna look

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Speaker 1: back and say, Wow, if it had not been for

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Speaker 1: this challenge, I would have never seen God's goodness in

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Speaker 1: such a great way. And remember, when you come out

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Speaker 1: of that fire, it's not gonna harm you. It's just

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Speaker 1: gonna burn up your limitations. It's gonna burn up the things.

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Speaker 2: That are holding you back.

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Speaker 1: Like David, God is going to enlarge you in your

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Speaker 1: times of distress. When you really understand this principle that

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Speaker 1: you're being prune for one reason so you can bloom,

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Speaker 1: then no matter what comes against you, you won't get

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Speaker 1: down and discouraged. You'll rise up in faith and overcome

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Speaker 1: every obstacle. And some of you are in that pruning season,

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Speaker 1: but I want you to get ready. New growth is

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Speaker 1: coming your way, new opportunities, new friendships, new levels are confidence,

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Speaker 1: supernatural breakthrough. I want to declare this over each one

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Speaker 1: of you. Your finances are gonna blossom, your health is

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Speaker 1: gonna blossom. Your relationships are gonna blossom, your career is

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Speaker 1: gonna blossom, your thinking is gonna blossom.

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Speaker 2: You are going to blossom.

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Speaker 1: Into the fullness of what God has created you to be.

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Speaker 1: I believe it and declare it in the name of Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Do you receive that today? Can you give the Lord

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Speaker 2: a shot of praise today?

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Speaker 1: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 1: God first place. He's going to take your places that

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Speaker 1: you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: It starts with just a tiny seed. From it tender

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Speaker 3: bud sprout. The miracle of new life blooms and thrives.

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Speaker 3: But how do you experience the same miraculous and extraordinary

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Speaker 1: Sometimes our life is limited because we're believing too small.

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Speaker 2: Faith is like a sea.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: see new growth, opportunity, and healing.

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Speaker 2: We don't have to figure out how it's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: All we have to do is believe.

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Speaker 1: There may not be a way in the natural, but

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Speaker 1: our God is supernatural. We'd like to send you this

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