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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 1: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 2: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 2: can come visit us in person. We love to have

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Speaker 2: you be a part of one of our services. I'd

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Speaker 2: like to start with something funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 2: this couple that had been married for sixty years and

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Speaker 2: never had an argument, never had a crossword, And they

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Speaker 2: were at a church function, and someone asked them the.

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Speaker 1: Secret of their success, and the man.

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Speaker 2: Told how he always treated his wife with respect, and

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Speaker 2: how he took her on trips around the world. He said,

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Speaker 2: in fact, for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I took

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Speaker 2: her to Beijing, China. Everyone politely applauded. Someone asked, what'd

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Speaker 2: you do for your fiftieth anniversary?

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Speaker 1: He said, I went back and picked her up up.

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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.

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Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what

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

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about trusting God's ways. We're not going to understand everything

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Speaker 2: that happens in life. There will be detours, delays, and

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Speaker 2: even dead.

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Speaker 1: Ends and times where it looks like we're stuck.

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Speaker 2: And it's easy to get discouraged when our plans don't

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Speaker 2: work out and frustrated when a door closes, or upset

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Speaker 2: over that person that did us wrong. It's like we

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Speaker 2: went one step forward, then two steps backwards. But God

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Speaker 2: doesn't always take us in a straight line. The scripture

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Speaker 2: says everything serves his plan. Now just the good breaks.

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Speaker 2: Times you're promoted and see in favor, but even the

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Speaker 2: closed doors, the person that walked away, the promotion you

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Speaker 1: But God has a master plan. He can see things

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Speaker 1: that we can't see.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes he'll take you backwards so he can move you forward,

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Speaker 2: We were comfortable where we were, We were satisfied.

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Speaker 1: But God wasn't satisfied.

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Speaker 2: He has something greater, something that we've never imagined. He

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Speaker 2: uses trouble as transportation.

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Speaker 1: We don't like. It feels like a setback.

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Speaker 2: The truth is it's a set up. The trouble is

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Speaker 2: not there to stop you.

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Speaker 2: Of your destiny. The question is will you trust him

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Speaker 2: but they walked away. It's tempting to get bitter. Complain God,

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Speaker 2: where were you? This isn't fair? You know the right

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Speaker 2: I know you're in control. You wouldn't have allowed this

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Speaker 2: greater is coming. March Chapter six Jesus had been teaching

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Speaker 2: Yes, you saw a miracle like the feeding of the

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Speaker 2: not going to understand everything God does. The scripture says,

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Speaker 2: His ways are not our ways. This is what faith

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Speaker 2: Things have come against you in your health, finances, maybe

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Speaker 2: I'm right there with you in that storm. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: But an abundance of blessings.

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Speaker 2: The storm did. It blew them to a place of abundance.

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Speaker 2: If the storm is not stopping in your life, then

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Speaker 2: it hasn't fulfilled its purpose. You have to trust that

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Speaker 2: God is in control, that he has your best interest

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Speaker 2: to blow you to Gennesarae, an abundant place.

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Speaker 2: you were blessed, but look at you now. You got

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Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be in that storm if you weren't headed

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Speaker 2: He protected teenagers in a fiery furnace. But sometimes God

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Speaker 2: them thought, God, what did we do wrong? We felt

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Speaker 2: be pushed out, that means he's up to something. Trust

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Speaker 2: You can't override what God has purpose. Let those winds

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Speaker 2: get them out of their nest. They were satisfied in Jerusalem.

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Speaker 2: But what God had in mind was much bigger. Because

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Speaker 1: Over the world. You don't know what God is up

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Speaker 2: All we know is we're in a storm that we

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Speaker 2: The medical report hasn't improved. God is saying, I'm still

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Speaker 1: Fine for you. Everything is serving his plan. Now. Trust

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Speaker 2: You'll always have to deal with this sickness. Always be lonely.

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Speaker 2: Now what you can't see right now or those winds

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Speaker 2: God didn't bring you this far to leave you where

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Speaker 2: The best part of your life is still in front

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Speaker 2: God is working behind the scenes, getting you in position

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Speaker 2: If you'll do this, I believe and declare. Those winds

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Speaker 2: They're about to blow you into favor, healing, breakthroughs, new levels.

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Speaker 1: You're going to come.

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