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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Now 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 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: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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

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

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Speaker 1: groom during the wedding rehearsal. He said to the minister,

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Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you. If you'll leave out

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Speaker 1: all that honor, love and obey stuff, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. He's lifted one hundred dollar bill into

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Speaker 1: the minister's hand and walked away with a smile. The

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Speaker 1: next day, during the ceremony, the minister said to him,

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Speaker 1: do you promise to bow down before your wife, take

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Speaker 1: her breakfast in bed, fulfill her every desire? He gulped

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Speaker 1: in astonishment, said in a weak voice, he didn't whisper

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Speaker 1: it in the minister's ear. I thought we had a deal.

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Speaker 1: The minister handed him his money back and said, your

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Speaker 1: wife made me a much better offer. Say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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

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

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Speaker 1: I 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: want to talk to you today about fast forward. When

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Speaker 1: we look at the dreams we want to accomplish, it,

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Speaker 1: problems we're hoping will turn around, it can seem like

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Speaker 1: it's going to take a long time. Years to get

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Speaker 1: out of debt, years to recover from a sickness, years

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Speaker 1: to see the business grow. But God doesn't always do

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Speaker 1: things on a normal timeline. The scripture talks about how

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Speaker 1: speed things up. He has these moments of favor where

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Speaker 1: he will catapult you ahead. Everything seems routine, going along

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Speaker 1: at the same pace, making the same progress. Then out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere, one good break, one contract, one door opens,

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Speaker 1: and you're twenty years down the road. You didn't see

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Speaker 1: it coming. You can't explain it. It's God accelerating things,

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Speaker 1: propelling you forward. When I'm watching a movie at home,

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Speaker 1: or I've recorded a ballgame it's getting boring, or if

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Speaker 1: I'm in a hurry, it's no big deal. I pick

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Speaker 1: up the remote control and hit fast forward, jumps it ahead,

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Speaker 1: hit it again four times, to speed again eight times,

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Speaker 1: in thirty minutes. The good news is God has a

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Speaker 1: fast forward button for your life. Should take you thirty

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Speaker 1: was waiting for a liver transplant. She was told it

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Speaker 1: could take up to five years, so many people in

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Speaker 1: line in front of her. Problem was she didn't have

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Speaker 1: five years. Her health was declining so fast. I told

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Speaker 1: her what I'm telling you, that God is not limited

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Speaker 1: by a normal timeline. God controls time. Three weeks later,

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Speaker 1: I'm still believing with you. She said, no, Joel, I've

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Speaker 1: Her doctor said he had never seen anything like that before.

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Speaker 1: What happened, God hit fast forward. God knows how to

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Speaker 1: accelerate your dreams, accelerate your healing, accelerate what you're believing for.

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Speaker 1: That's why you can't judge your future based on the

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Speaker 1: progress you've seen in the past. God has the remote control.

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Speaker 1: He has some of these fast forward moments come in

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Speaker 1: explain it. You didn't see it coming. But suddenly you

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Speaker 1: get well, Suddenly you're in management, Suddenly you break the addiction.

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Speaker 1: Should have taken you a lifetime. But God hit fast forward.

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Speaker 1: He did a quick work. For years, Lakewood was on

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Speaker 1: grace of God, we moved into this place, the former

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Speaker 1: Compact Center. The Rockets basketball team won two World championships here,

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Speaker 1: That one move put us fifty years down the road,

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Speaker 1: people that ignored me, they'd come up and say, can

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Speaker 1: I said, sure, will, right up there by the flag.

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Speaker 1: But that one good break did more than I could

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Speaker 1: some of these fast forward moments for you. You couldn't make

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Speaker 1: yourself get well. It's the hand of God propelling you

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Speaker 1: into your destiny. He has the remote control. Right now,

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Speaker 1: God's feeding things up. What should have taken you years

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Speaker 1: will happen in a fraction of the time. Hell, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I feel stuck. I'm not making

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Speaker 1: much progress. My dream seems so far off. Now get

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Speaker 1: in agreement with God. You have to be a believer

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Speaker 1: and not a doubter. Father. I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: that acceleration is coming. My way. Thank you that you've

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Speaker 1: already lined up these fast forward moments that'll propel me

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Speaker 1: into my destiny. Acts chapter eight, Philip was in some

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Speaker 1: maarya ministering. This angel came and told him to go

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Speaker 1: into the desert on the road that leads to Gossen.

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Speaker 1: He didn't know what it meant, but he obeyed. Along

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Speaker 1: came this Ethiopian man riding in a chariot. He was

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Speaker 1: talked about Jesus. When Philip heard this, he walked alongside

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Speaker 1: This man was so excited he saw some water and said,

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Speaker 1: and Philip baptized him. When the man came up out

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Speaker 1: You can imagine what the man thought. Came up out

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Speaker 1: Verse forty says Philip found himself further in the city

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Speaker 1: but God propels you ahead. May not be twenty miles

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Speaker 1: should have taken you years to build your business, but

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Speaker 1: you found yourself further. God opened the doors, He brought

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Speaker 1: to a zodas? So to speak? It was the God

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Speaker 1: of acceleration. He's going to propel you. In your health,

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Speaker 1: We're supposed to take a long time to get well.

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Speaker 1: You'd made up your mind in dure the treatment to

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Speaker 1: make it through. But God stepped in and sped things up.

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Speaker 1: Did what you couldn't do. Now you've found yourself further, healthy, whole, victorious.

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Speaker 1: Or you thought that legal problem would last for years.

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Speaker 1: The experts told you to not get your hopes up.

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Speaker 1: But God hit the fast forward button. He did a

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Speaker 1: quick work, and you found yourself further. See, we look

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Speaker 1: good to be wise. But God is supernatural. All he

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Speaker 1: has to do is hit fast forward, and you're twenty

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Speaker 1: years down the road. You find yourself further. Here's the key.

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Speaker 1: You can't calculate his goodness. You can't quantify his blessings,

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Speaker 1: his favor, his increase. There are things he's already planned

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Speaker 1: for you that are out of the ordinarian uncommon. That's

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Speaker 1: why he said lean not to your own understanding. Don't

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Speaker 1: look at your dreams, your problems, that medical report, just

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Speaker 1: in the natural on your timeline. God has another timeline.

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Speaker 1: that will catapult you ahead. You look up and think,

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Speaker 1: how did I get here? I didn't have the training,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't next in line, but God catapulted you ahead.

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Speaker 1: How did I break this addiction? They said it is

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Speaker 1: going to be years, but the chain breaker stepped in.

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Speaker 1: God said enough is enough, and you found yourself further.

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Speaker 1: The prophet Ezekiel said, the hand of the Lord was

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Speaker 1: on me, and he carried me. That word carried into

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Speaker 1: the original language, means to shoot out, to launch forward.

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Speaker 1: It implies acceleration. Now, as God carries you through life,

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Speaker 1: You were going along fine, making progress, being faithful than

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Speaker 1: God His fast forward. Out of nowhere, you're thrust into

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Speaker 1: called our contact at the cable network, where my father

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Speaker 1: to cancel our airtime. I thought, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: sure not gonna get on television. Nobody's gonna listen to me.

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Speaker 1: And I came home that night and talking to Victoria,

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Speaker 1: just casually, she said, what do you do today? And

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Speaker 1: I told her that I canceled our airtime. She looked

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Speaker 1: at me and said, listen here, Joel, you need to

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Speaker 1: call and get that time back. People are watching to

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Speaker 1: see what's going to happen to Lakewood. She was so

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Speaker 1: strong and so passionate about it. I knew there was

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Speaker 1: only one right answer. Yes, ma'am. Airtime is very valuable.

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Speaker 1: It was a holiday weekend, so I called the first

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Speaker 1: thing Tuesday morning. The men said, Joel, this is so interesting.

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Speaker 1: I had the time sold on Friday. The contract was

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Speaker 1: on my desk, but something said to me, don't sign

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Speaker 1: it until next week. He gave us our time back.

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Speaker 1: We started airing my messages on television. Much to my surprise,

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Speaker 1: people started watching in record numbers. Other networks started calling.

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Speaker 1: Three years later, we were on the top stations in

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Speaker 1: all the major cities. I was just hoping to keep

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Speaker 1: things going, but God had another plan, fast forward. He

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Speaker 1: propelled me further than I ever imagine. What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: You don't know what God has in store for you.

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Speaker 1: He's been carrying you, he's been sustaining you. But part

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Speaker 1: of that carrying are these times where God launches you forward,

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Speaker 1: where he accelerates your destiny. He puts your years down

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