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Speaker 5: with something funny, and I heard about these two men,

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Speaker 5: They died on the same day, went to heaven. Peter

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Speaker 5: met them at the gates, said follow me. I'll take

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Speaker 4: Peter dropped the pope off at this small wood.

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Speaker 5: then took the lawyer to this magnificent house. It was huge,

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Speaker 5: lawyer was overwhelmed, said Peter, How did I manage to

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Speaker 4: Peter said, we have dozens of popes. You're the first lawyer.

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Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 5: be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I

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Speaker 5: want to talk to you today about seasons of silence.

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Speaker 5: Times or doesn't feel like we're making progress. We're praying,

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Speaker 5: God uses the seasons of silence to get us prepared

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Speaker 5: when we're not getting our way. We're doing the right thing,

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Speaker 5: God loves you so much that at times he will

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Speaker 5: Peter asked Jesus about John and what kind of future

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Speaker 5: You'll be frustrated because you'll always find somebody that looks

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Speaker 4: You're like that diamond.

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Speaker 5: You're going to shine God's way for the right time

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Speaker 5: That's an opportunity to grow, to come up higher.

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Speaker 5: it wasn't his time. Yet another place, the people believed

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Speaker 5: in Jesus so strongly they wanted to crown him king.

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Speaker 4: But the scripture says Jesus snuck away and went up

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Speaker 4: and hid in the mountains.

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Speaker 5: He knew he couldn't be crowned before he went to

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Speaker 5: the cross. He trusted his father's timing. Like Jesus, we

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Speaker 5: can't be crowned before we go to our cross, so

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Speaker 5: to speak, before we learn to crucify our flesh and

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Speaker 5: resist things that are holding us back. He told his

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Speaker 5: disciples to stay silent, to not tell anyone he was

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Speaker 5: the Messiah. A lot of us would be just the opposite.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Peter, get the word out. Let everyone know

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Speaker 5: how great I am.

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Speaker 4: It's much better to let.

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Speaker 5: God promote you and not people. Don't get in a hurry.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to make things happen. You don't have

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Speaker 5: to convince someone to put in a.

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Speaker 4: Good word for you.

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Speaker 5: God knew how to hide you, and he knows how

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Speaker 5: to elevate you. If you'll let God do it his way.

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Speaker 5: It will be better than anything you could have made happen.

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Speaker 5: God has not forgotten about you. He knows you're hidden,

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Speaker 5: and he knows how long you've been there. He knows

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Speaker 5: what's in you. He's the one that put the gifts,

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Speaker 5: the talents, the dreams. Instead of fighting the silence, why

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Speaker 5: don't you do like Jesus and embrace it. God, My

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Speaker 5: times are in your hands. I know you're getting me prepared,

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Speaker 5: working all things for my good, and at the appointed time,

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Speaker 5: I know you.

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Speaker 4: Will bring me out.

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Speaker 5: Elijah was one of the greatest prophets in the Bible.

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Speaker 5: As a young man, he spent time studying and preparing

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Speaker 5: for ministry. He just gone to the palace and spoken

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Speaker 5: the word of the Lord, the king Ahab. No one

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Speaker 5: else had the courage to speak up to the king.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure Elijah left their feeling confident, ready for his

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Speaker 5: next assignment. God said to him in one king seventeen

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Speaker 5: leave here, go east and hide yourself by the brook cherish.

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Speaker 5: I can imagine him saying, excuse me, God, you must

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Speaker 5: have the wrong person. I'm Elijah. I just prophesied to

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Speaker 5: the king. I've studied more than anyone. I'm ready to

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Speaker 5: go on a national tour. You don't want me to

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Speaker 5: hide myself. Elijah wanted to to the nation, but for

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Speaker 5: the next three and a half years he only spoke

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Speaker 5: to a widow and her son.

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Speaker 4: God hid him. He didn't understand it.

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Speaker 5: He had bigger things in his heart, but he trusted

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Speaker 5: God's timing.

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Speaker 4: He was faithful when he was hidden.

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Speaker 5: When you're faithful in the silent seasons, you are setting

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Speaker 5: yourself on a launching pad for God to take you

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Speaker 5: further than you've ever dreamed.

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Speaker 4: After three and a half years.

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Speaker 5: God said, okay, Elijah, now I know I can trust you.

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Speaker 4: You're ready leave here and go in your next assignment.

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Speaker 4: He was hidden.

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Speaker 5: Elishah prayed and the drought came to an end. He

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Speaker 5: called down fire from heaven, destroyed four hundred false prophets,

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Speaker 5: on and on. It's interesting he performed no miracles until

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Speaker 5: after his season of silence.

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Speaker 4: Don't be frustrated when you're hidden.

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Speaker 5: Jesus was hidden, Elijah was hidden, David was hidden.

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Speaker 4: It's all a part of the process. Here's the beauty.

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Speaker 5: You're hidden number one because you're extremely valuable, like that diamond.

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Speaker 4: Number two, you're.

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Speaker 5: Hidden because God is about.

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Speaker 4: To launch you.

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Speaker 5: You're on the verge of seeing promotion, favor increase like.

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Speaker 4: You've never seen.

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Speaker 5: You may have been hidden for a long time, but

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Speaker 5: you've been faithful. You've been growing, getting prepared. I believe

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Speaker 5: and declare God is about to bring you out. He's

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Speaker 5: about to cause you to be seen. People are going

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Speaker 5: to notice you that have never noticed. Keep being faithful.

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Speaker 5: Your appointed time is on the way in Jesus' name,

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Speaker 5: and if you receive.

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