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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.

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Speaker 1: Have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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

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Speaker 2: Week through our daily.

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Speaker 1: Podcast, YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit

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Speaker 1: us in person. We'd love to have you be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I'd like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny and I heard about this pastor. He

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Speaker 1: was walking down the street when he came upon this

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Speaker 1: group of young boys that were surrounding a small dog,

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Speaker 1: and he asked what they were doing. They said they

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Speaker 1: were having a contest that whoever could tell the biggest

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Speaker 1: lie would get to keep the dog. The pastor launched

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Speaker 1: into a ten minute sermon, starting with don't you know

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Speaker 1: lying is a sin and ending with when I was

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Speaker 1: your age, I never told a lie.

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Speaker 2: There was complete silence, and.

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Speaker 1: Just when he thought he'd got through to them, the

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Speaker 1: youngest boy spoke up and said, all right, give him

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Speaker 1: the dog.

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Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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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 divine surprises. God has

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Speaker 1: moments of favor already lined up for you.

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Speaker 2: That you didn't see coming.

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Speaker 1: Unexpected blessings and good breaks that catch you off guard.

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Speaker 1: There was no sign of it. You weren't next in

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Speaker 1: line for the promotion. The medical report said you weren't

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Speaker 1: going to get well. You've been single a long time,

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Speaker 1: no indication anything was going to change. Then suddenly your

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Speaker 1: right person. It's not just a lucky break, just a coincidence.

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Speaker 1: That's a divine surprise, the hand of God showing out

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Speaker 1: in your life unexpectedly. You couldn't plan it, no reason

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Speaker 1: to believe it was going to happen. But God steps

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Speaker 1: in and says, surprise, does something out of the ordinary

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Speaker 1: you never saw coming. Deuteronomy twenty eight says, if you'll

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Speaker 1: obey God's word and follow his commands, then all these

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Speaker 1: blessings will overtake you. One translation of that word overtake

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Speaker 1: is to catch by surprise.

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Speaker 2: You may be in a situation that looks permanent.

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Speaker 1: You've gone as far as you can in your career,

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Speaker 1: a child that will never get back on course, or

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Speaker 2: Work will always hinder you.

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Speaker 1: What you can't see is God has some surprises come

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Speaker 1: in your way because you're honoring him. He has blessings

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Speaker 1: that are going to overtake you that you can outrun

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Speaker 1: some surprises, some unexpected blessings. You look back and think, man,

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Speaker 1: I didn't see that door opening, I didn't see that

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Speaker 1: I didn't see me running my own business. One surprise,

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Speaker 1: and you'll go from struggling to overflow, from being lonely

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Speaker 2: To overcome with opportunities.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be hearing this if God didn't have surprises

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Speaker 1: come in your way. He's about to do something suddenly unexpectedly,

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Speaker 1: favor that catapults you ahead, good breaks that thrust you

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Speaker 2: You couldn't make it happen.

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Speaker 1: It's not something you worked for, you deserve, you had planned.

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Speaker 1: It's the favor of God breathing on your line, taking

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Speaker 1: you where you couldn't go on your own. And all

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Speaker 1: through the scripture we see these divine surprises. Paul and

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Speaker 1: Silas were in prison in the deepest dungeon, their hands

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Speaker 1: What happened, God said, surprise. It looked impossible. The odds

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Speaker 1: You may not see away, but that's okay. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: what happened with Abraham and Sarah. God promised them a baby,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes God waits on purpose, so it'll be a bigger miracle.

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Speaker 1: Not only will you know it's him, but other people

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Speaker 1: promises God has put in your heart, but seems too late.

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Speaker 1: It's not practical now. No, get ready for a surprise.

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Speaker 1: What God started, He's going to finish. One surprise and

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Speaker 2: One surprise and doors will open that you never imagine. Now,

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Speaker 1: It's too late for me, Joel, too hard, too much opposition.

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Speaker 2: Don't believe those lies.

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Speaker 1: Turn it around. Father, Thank you that you're a god

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Speaker 1: of surprises. Thank you that you have unexpected blessings in

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Speaker 1: my future. That you will get me to where I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to be. John Chapter five. There was a man

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Speaker 1: who had been crippled for thirty eight years. Every day

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Speaker 1: he went to the pool of bethesday, when the angel

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Speaker 1: Year after year he just sat there hoping something would change,

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Speaker 1: but nothing was different. One day Jesus came walking by.

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Speaker 1: The man told how he didn't have anyone to help

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Speaker 1: God up for the first time in thirty eight years.

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Speaker 1: What was that, God saying, surprise. The man thought he'd

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Speaker 1: you may be dealing with things that look like they'll

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Speaker 1: never change your hell, your finances, your family.

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Speaker 2: Like this man.

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Speaker 1: You've gone to the pool each day, you prayed, believe,

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Speaker 2: God sees your faithfulness.

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Speaker 1: He sees you're doing the right thing when it's hard,

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Speaker 1: There's a surprise coming, something unexpected, and it's interesting. The

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Speaker 1: You don't know what God has come in your way.

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Speaker 1: Healing that's going to overtake you, good breaks that are

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Speaker 1: have things that we're chasing, chasing our dreams, chasing good hell,

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Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that.

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Speaker 1: But what's even more exciting is what God has chasing you,

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Speaker 2: And here's the whole key.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to chase the blessing, strive and manipulate,

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Speaker 2: People like you.

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Speaker 2: If you'll chase God, the blessings will chase you.

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Speaker 1: If you'll keep God first place, you won't be able

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Speaker 1: to outrun what He has in store. They'll catch you

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Speaker 1: by surprise. One reason it's a surprise is because what

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Speaker 1: God has planned is so much bigger, so much more

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Speaker 1: rewarding than what you have in mind. When I look

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Speaker 2: It's not something I had planned.

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Speaker 1: I was just honoring God being my best, and his

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Speaker 1: blessings caught me by surprise. Twenty two years old, I

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Speaker 1: walked into a jewelry store to buy battery.

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Speaker 2: It was Victorian. It was like God said, surprise.

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Speaker 2: But I took it as God.

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Speaker 1: We bought an old rundown house on a half acre

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Speaker 2: The day we closed on.

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Speaker 2: I said, no, ma'am. We just bought it and we're

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Speaker 1: She said, how about if you sell it for a

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Speaker 2: Your dream house. I don't know what she meant.

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Speaker 1: It was an old rundown house, had cracks in the

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Speaker 1: The neighborhood was in the process of changing the deed

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Speaker 1: He built two new homes there, one for us. It

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Speaker 2: What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: God has some of these blessings that are going to

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Speaker 1: overtake you because you're chasing him. His blessings are going

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Speaker 1: to chase you. See, we look at our circumstances from

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Speaker 1: Blessings that will cattle pulled you ahead. Never dreamed at

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Speaker 2: Couldn't plan that.

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Speaker 1: There was no way, logically speaking. But God stepped in

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Speaker 2: Who knows what God has planned for you?

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Speaker 1: He said, you haven't seen, heard, or imagined what He

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Speaker 2: You're going to come into these divine surprises. You didn't

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Speaker 2: see it coming. You can't explain it. You didn't deserve it.

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Speaker 1: It's just the goodness of God pushing you into new

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Speaker 1: levels of your destiny. After my father went to be

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Speaker 1: with the Lord and I started pastoring, we were looking

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Speaker 1: for property to build a larger auditorium.

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Speaker 2: Twice the property we found.

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Speaker 1: Was sold out from under us. We couldn't find anymore,

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Speaker 1: and I was tempted to be discouraged. I didn't see

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Speaker 1: coming to pass is because they're too small. If God

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Speaker 1: just kept thanking God that he was making ways where

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Speaker 1: no longer there. They explained their situation. To this woman,

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Speaker 1: she had a totally different view. She didn't think they

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Speaker 2: They left there saying, we didn't see that coming.

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Speaker 1: Like Peter, that was a net breaking blessing. God has

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Speaker 1: some of these surprises for you, unexpected blessings, favor that

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

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Speaker 1: Like this couple, He's moving the raw people out of

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Speaker 1: the way to get you in position.

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Speaker 2: For a surprise. Like us in the compact center.

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Speaker 1: That door closed because he's about to surprise you with

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Speaker 2: Like David, you feel stuck out in the fields. No

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Speaker 1: God has already spoken to the people that will be

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Speaker 1: a part of your surprise.

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Speaker 2: Now you don't have to chase the blessing.

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Speaker 1: Our job is to honor God, and the blessing will

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Speaker 1: chase you. You won't be able to outrun the healing

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Speaker 1: the good breaks the right people.

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Speaker 2: Now I know you've been faithful.

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Speaker 1: You've kept God first place. Now get ready for a surprise.

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Speaker 1: I believe in declare unexpected favor on your life, the

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Speaker 1: goodness of God suddenly overtaking you. Divine surprises that catapult

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Speaker 1: you into your destiny in Jesus's name, And if you

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Speaker 1: receive it.

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Speaker 2: Can you say amen?

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Speaker 1: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 1: the Lord of your life.

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

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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 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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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 1: This is the first Bible that my parents gave me

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Speaker 1: I was six years old. They taught me the importance

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Speaker 1: determine your self image. How through the Scripture you can

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Speaker 1: learn to handle challenges and pursue your dreams.

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Speaker 2: Some people tell me that the Bible's not practical.

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Speaker 1: you see the Bible with fresh eyes so you can

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Speaker 1: When you tap into the power of God's word, there's

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: You'll discover fresh inspiration on every page of your Bible.

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Speaker 3: The twelve lenses give you the power to see the

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Speaker 1: When you get God's Word down in you, it brings

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Speaker 2: Your prayers and support.

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Speaker 1: Remember you can watch the services online every Sunday morning,

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