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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. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate you,

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Speaker 2: and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 2: you're ever in our area, please stop by and be

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Speaker 2: a part of one of our services. I promise you

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Speaker 2: we will make you feel right at home. I like

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Speaker 2: to start with something funny, and I heard about this

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Speaker 2: little girl. She asked her mother how the human race

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Speaker 2: got started. Her mother explained how God created Adam and

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Speaker 2: Eve and they had.

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Speaker 1: Children on and on. Here we are today.

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Speaker 2: A few days later, she asked her father the same question.

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Speaker 2: He explained, how many years ago there were monkeys, and

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Speaker 2: little by little they became more like people, and now

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Speaker 2: here we are confused. She went back to her mother, said, Mom,

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Speaker 2: you said God created people. Dad said we came from

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Speaker 2: How can that be? She said, oh, honey, that's easy.

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Speaker 2: I told you about my side of the family that

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Speaker 2: told you about his Say it like you mean it.

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

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do.

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

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about positioned for increase.

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Speaker 2: We all have to deal with things that come to

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Speaker 2: an end. We lost our main client, a friend we

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Speaker 2: could always count on is moving away, or a loved

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Speaker 2: one went to be with the Lord. We've seen God's

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Speaker 2: blessing in the past. We know we have his favor,

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Speaker 2: but it seems like that favor has.

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Speaker 1: Been taken away. But God will never remove.

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Speaker 2: Something unless he has something better coming. If he didn't

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Speaker 2: stop certain things, we would never get out of our

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Speaker 2: comfort zone.

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Speaker 1: We would stay with what's familiar.

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Speaker 2: So sometimes God will put an end to what doesn't

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Speaker 2: make sense to us. We don't understand why the friend

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Speaker 2: walked away, why the business.

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Speaker 1: Pushed us out, why sells aren't what they used to be.

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Speaker 2: God is not doing that to make your life more difficult.

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Speaker 1: He's getting you in position for increase.

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Speaker 2: He had to stop what was working to force you

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Speaker 2: to stretch so you could come in to greater provision,

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Speaker 2: greater opportunity. This is what happened with the Israelites. They

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Speaker 2: had been in slavery for many years when God supernaturally.

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Speaker 1: Brought them out.

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Speaker 2: These two million people headed into the desert toward the

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Speaker 2: Promised Land. The problem was there wasn't anything to eat

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Speaker 2: out there, no way to survive. So every morning God

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Speaker 2: gave them something called mana. It was like bread that

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Speaker 2: formed on the ground. For forty years, as they traveled

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Speaker 2: the mana. They had enemies to fight, they had to

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Speaker 2: like clockwork, there was the mana. They knew that was

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Speaker 2: didn't realize was the mana was only temporary provision. They

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Speaker 2: were satisfied they had something to eat, but God wasn't satisfied.

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Speaker 2: He was taking them into a land flowing with milk

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Speaker 2: When the Israelites got close to the Promised Land, something

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Speaker 2: After forty years of having manna over fourteen thousand mornings,

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Speaker 2: what's happening? Why won't you provide for us anymore? They

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Speaker 2: It's not a coincidence that the manna stopped when they

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Speaker 2: God will never stop something unless he has greater provision.

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Speaker 2: On the way, a friend walked away, a contract fell through,

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Speaker 2: The manner drying up is a sign you were close

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Speaker 2: only temporary provision. You were blessed, life was good. But

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Speaker 2: God has so much more in store for you. He

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Speaker 2: had to cease the friendship. He had to move that

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Speaker 2: limiting you. They can't go where you're going. God had

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Speaker 2: your life that will push you into your purpose. Or

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Speaker 2: maybe that position you were counting on didn't work out.

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Speaker 2: God stopped the manna, not because he's forgotten about you.

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Speaker 2: He's about to take you into your promised land. He

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Speaker 2: ceased it for one reason, to increase you, to take

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Speaker 2: you where you couldn't go on your own. But when

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Speaker 2: things cease, it's easy to think, God, where are you?

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Speaker 2: Where is the manna? What's happening? It's been this way

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Speaker 2: for years. I'm counting on it. It's tempting to live worried,

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Speaker 2: didn't have something better coming. When that mana quits appearing,

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Speaker 2: instead of being discouraged, have a new perspective.

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Speaker 1: You're on the verge of a new level.

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Speaker 2: That's an indication that walls are about to come down.

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Speaker 2: new ground. See new levels, new opportunities. Friend Tony Dungee

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Speaker 2: played professional football for many years. After a successful career,

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety six, he landed his first job as

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Speaker 2: Was a dream come true. He knew it was the

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Speaker 2: hand of God opening that door. For six years, everything

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Speaker 2: went great. They were winning more games, making more progress.

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Speaker 2: The manna was there every morning, the favor, the provision.

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Speaker 2: But one day he was unexpectedly let go. They fired him.

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Speaker 2: He thought, God, I know you gave me this position.

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Speaker 2: When the manna stops, that means.

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Speaker 1: God is up to something.

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Speaker 2: The question is, will you get negative God, I can't

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Speaker 1: Or will you say God, I know you wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: closed this door unless you were about to open a

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Speaker 2: So Lord, I thank you that you're in control, that

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Speaker 2: your plans for me are for good. That what you

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Speaker 2: ce sing is a test. Many people get bitter and

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Speaker 2: reason the man of stops, the reason doors closed, the

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Speaker 2: promised land. That's God taking away. The temporary provision may

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Speaker 2: look permanent to us. We were satisfied. But God's dream

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Speaker 2: for your life is much bigger than your own. Coach

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Speaker 2: Dungee was disappointed, but he didn't sit around in self

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Speaker 2: same God that opened the door in Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: After he was let go that he received a phone

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Speaker 2: call from the Indianapolis Colts football team. They said, we're

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Speaker 2: looking for a coach. Are you interested. Coach Dungee took

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Speaker 2: Has something ceased in your life? You went through a disappointment,

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Speaker 1: The manner is not there.

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Speaker 2: Every morning, God is saying, get ready, I'm about to

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Speaker 2: do something that you've never seen. He didn't cease the

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Speaker 2: new level. Now, don't let it sour you. Why did

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Speaker 2: me out? It wasn't their choice. It was God closing

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Speaker 2: stopping the manna. God told the Israelites, you don't need

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Speaker 2: this manna anymore. There's provision all around you. They were

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Speaker 2: they would have missed the abundance that belonged to them.

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Speaker 2: When the manna ceases in your life, like with them,

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Speaker 2: you're so close to your promised land. The provision is

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Speaker 2: already there. Now you have to cook your own food.

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Speaker 2: God's not going to do this for you. You can't stay

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Speaker 2: where it's familiar, what you're used to, what's easy. You

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Speaker 2: some steps of faith. There is greatness in you. You

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Speaker 2: man of mentality. Don't complain when something ceases in your life.

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Speaker 2: just a step on the way to your destiny. The

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Speaker 2: Man of ceased, they would have never seen walls of.

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Speaker 2: They would have never conquered city after city and lived

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Speaker 2: go into your promised land. When the Man of ceases,

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Speaker 2: you have to dig down deep. This business may have

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Speaker 2: slowed down, but Lord, I want to thank you that

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Speaker 2: new doors are about to open. This person walked away. Lord,

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Speaker 2: thank you you have somebody better coming. This marriage is difficult,

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Speaker 2: but Lord, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Peace, Joy restoration is on the way.

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Speaker 2: The closer the Israelites got to the Promised Land, the

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Speaker 2: less God did for them when they were in slavery.

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Speaker 2: God sent plagues on the Pharaoh. Israelites didn't have to

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Speaker 1: They just sat back and watched.

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Speaker 2: God changed the Pharaoh's mind. God parted the Red Sea.

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Speaker 2: God drowned their enemies in the desert. God gave them

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Speaker 2: They saw the hand of God manna every morning. But

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Speaker 2: when they were about to go into the Promised Land, God.

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Speaker 1: Said, now I want you to cook your own food.

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Speaker 2: I'll bring the walls down, but you have to march

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Speaker 2: around them seven times.

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Speaker 2: If you will do this, I believe and declare like Elijah,

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Speaker 2: Like with Bobby, doors are about to open that no

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Speaker 2: Today I'd like to give you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 3: Fear can be a powerful force and will try to

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