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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. Well, God bless

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Speaker 1: you always a joy to come into your homes, and

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

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

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Speaker 1: I promise you it will make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in today. I like to get

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Speaker 1: started each week with something kind of funny, and this

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Speaker 1: was sent to me from a senior citizen's home. It's

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Speaker 1: about a ninety two year old man. He wasn't feeling

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Speaker 1: well one day, and so he decided to go to

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Speaker 1: the doctor and have a checka. A few days later,

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Speaker 1: the doctor saw him out walking down the street with

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Speaker 1: a beautiful young lady by his side, and he seemed

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Speaker 1: to be just as happy as can be. And the

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Speaker 1: doctor was kind of surprised. He said, while you, she

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Speaker 1: are doing a lot better. The man said, yes, doctor,

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Speaker 1: I just took your orders. You said, get a hot

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Speaker 1: mama and stay cheerful. The doctor said, I didn't say that.

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Speaker 1: I said you've got a heart murmur. Be careful, all right,

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Speaker 1: Hold up your bible. 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 how God wants to

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Speaker 1: finish what he started in your life. And we all

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Speaker 1: have things that we would consider to be in completions,

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Speaker 1: we're standing on, in our health, in our finances, in

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Speaker 1: our family. Maybe it's a child that's gotten off course

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Speaker 1: we've been praying and believing, but it's been so long

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Speaker 1: now we're tempted to think that it's never going to happen.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe we have a dream to get out of debt,

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Speaker 1: a dream to buy a new home, a dream to

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Speaker 1: start a business, but we've had so many obstacles. Every

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Speaker 1: time we try to go forward, something comes against us,

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Speaker 1: and now these disappointments, these setbacks, have caused us to

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Speaker 1: probably not going to happen for me. But I want

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Speaker 1: to encourage you today. God has called the author and

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Speaker 1: the finisher of our faith. Anything he begins, any dream

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Speaker 1: God started it, he's well able to finish it. It

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Speaker 1: may not look like it's going to happen, it may

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Speaker 1: be taken a long time. But if you will stay

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Speaker 1: in faith, if you will keep your hopes up, God

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Speaker 1: has promised he will complete your incompletions. I want you

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Speaker 1: to get a vision of that today. You may have

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Speaker 1: a dream to get married. It's been a long time,

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Speaker 1: and you've been through other relationships that didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: You're a tempted to think, well, I guess this is

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Speaker 1: just not for me. I don't think I'll ever meet anybody. No,

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Speaker 1: you've got to keep your hopes up. God still has

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Speaker 1: instead of giving up on that, going around discouraged, thinking

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Speaker 1: dreams will happen. No, our attitude should be God. I

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Speaker 1: know you are a God of completion. I know what

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Speaker 1: just want to thank you that every dream, every desire,

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Speaker 1: how impossible it looks, we don't have to get discouraged.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to give up. We know that God

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Speaker 1: is the author and the finisher of our faith and

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Speaker 1: he will bring it to completion. I think about my

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Speaker 1: brother Paul. He has a son that at one time

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Speaker 1: And that's the way the enemy works. When he sees

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Speaker 1: a god of completion. He knows God has a way

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Speaker 1: he can to try to get us discouraged, telling us

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Speaker 1: You've had that sickness ten years. Your business will never

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Speaker 1: we lose the battle is in our own thinking. We

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Speaker 1: have to learn to get rid of those thoughts and

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Speaker 1: And that's what Paul did, not for weeks, not for months,

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Speaker 1: Do you know today Paul is seeing that vision come

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Speaker 1: to do great things in life. But why did it

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Speaker 1: happen because Paul dared to believe. He refused to give up.

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Speaker 1: He knew God is a god of completion. Now I

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Speaker 1: want us to have a new determination that we're going

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if it's been ten years, twenty years, thirty years.

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Speaker 1: God can still bring it to pass. I don't know

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Speaker 1: gonna die believing that every single promise, every dream, every

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Speaker 1: Some of you today you need to get this new fire.

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Speaker 1: You've given up on a dream, you gave up on

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Speaker 1: the thought that you could live an abundant life. You

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Speaker 1: need to draw that line in the sand and say

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Speaker 1: day in faith with expectancy, believing that every promise in

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Speaker 1: God put a dream that one day he would do

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Speaker 1: Joseph's life went just in the opposite direction. Everything that

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Speaker 1: Don't be surprised if all all kinds of adversity comes

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Speaker 1: was mistreated and lied about and forsaken. If anyone had

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Speaker 1: He could have said, God, I thought you put a

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Speaker 1: because the whole bottom has fallen out. No, Joseph understood

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Speaker 1: And in the end, some thirteen years later, because he believed.

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Speaker 1: Because he stayed in faith, he saw God bring to

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Speaker 1: But some of you have allowed your disappointments and the

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Speaker 1: unfair things that have happened to steal your dream. Maybe

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Speaker 1: somebody mistreated you, somebody lied about you and tried to

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Speaker 1: going to vindicate you. But now it's been year after

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Speaker 1: But God is saying to us today, I am a

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Speaker 1: God of completion. I finish what I start. And if

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Speaker 1: do for you what I did for Joseph. I'll take

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Speaker 1: it to your advantage. See, no matter what's come against you,

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Speaker 1: no matter how long it's been or how unfair it was,

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Speaker 1: God still has a way to turn it around and

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Speaker 1: bring to completion what He's put in your heart. And

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Speaker 1: the scripture tells us to hold fast the profession of

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Speaker 1: our faith. It indicates something's trying to pull it away,

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Speaker 1: like a tug of war. In other words, disappointments are

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Speaker 1: give up. It didn't work out, you didn't get the promotion,

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Speaker 1: It's been so long, negative voices, you don't have what

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Speaker 1: The doctor's report says, you're not going to make it.

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Speaker 1: All these things constantly coming against us. Why to try

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Speaker 1: that he will bring it to pass. Abraham waited. Abraham

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Speaker 1: to thank you that you're at work in my life.

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Speaker 1: Even though this looks impossible, even though it's taken a

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Speaker 1: faith by giving praise and thanksgiving to God. Now all

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Speaker 1: what he's already done, but let's thank him in advance

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Speaker 1: for what he's going to do. Thank him that he's

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Speaker 1: going to bring your dreams to pass. Thank him that

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Speaker 1: he's arranging things in your favor. Learn to thank him

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Speaker 1: that He's a God of completion. The scripture says here

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Speaker 1: in Philippians one to six, be confident of this. He

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Speaker 1: that began a good work in you will continue to

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Speaker 1: perform it until it's perfectly complete. Notice that saying that

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Speaker 1: God is constantly working behind the scenes in our lives.

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Speaker 1: Why so he can bring his promises to completion. What

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Speaker 1: can stop it when we get negative, when we quit believing,

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Speaker 1: and we don't think that it's going to happen. But understand,

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Speaker 1: God's dream is to bring to completion every promise he's

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Speaker 1: put in you. He wants to give you the desires

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Speaker 1: of your heart in the natural. Like Abraham. It may

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Speaker 1: Looked like he didn't make it. Remember, it's not over

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Speaker 1: He almost had a double portion. He almost fulfilled his

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Speaker 1: He got the final one he needed. And that tells me,

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