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Speaker 4: to start with something funny and I heard about this pastor.

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Speaker 4: He was in the lobby after service greeting people. He

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Speaker 4: saw a man that he hadn't seen in a long

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Speaker 4: long time. He pulled him aside, said, sir, you need

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Speaker 4: to join the Army of the Lord. The man said,

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Speaker 4: what are you talking about. I'm in the Army of

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Speaker 4: the Lord. The pastor said, well, how come I only

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Speaker 4: see you on Easter and Christmas. The man whispered back,

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Speaker 4: I'm in the Secret Service. All right, say it like

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Speaker 4: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 4: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 4: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 4: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly

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Speaker 4: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 4: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about remember what

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Speaker 4: God said. We all have promises that God has put

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Speaker 4: in our heart. Things we know He's spoken to us.

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Speaker 4: How we're going to accomplish a dream, see a problem,

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Speaker 4: turn around, beat the addiction, meet the right person. At

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Speaker 4: one time we knew it was going to happen. We

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Speaker 4: were praying, believing, passionate. But when it's taking longer than

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Speaker 4: we thought, when we've gone through disappointments, people didn't come through,

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Speaker 4: the medical report isn't improving, Negative thoughts start to play

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Speaker 4: louder and louder. It's never going to work out. You're

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Speaker 4: never going to get well, you'll never see your family restored.

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Speaker 4: Too often we let those thoughts drown out what God

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Speaker 4: you have to remember what God said. Go back to

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Speaker 4: the promises, go back to that time He whispered to

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Speaker 4: told you. Start declaring favor, victory, healing. You have to

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Speaker 4: you something and then not do it. The scripture says,

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Speaker 4: all of his promises are yes and amen. It may

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Speaker 4: not happen on our timetable or the way we think,

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Speaker 4: but what God promised is on the way. It's easy

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Speaker 4: of the time the promise won't come to pass without

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Speaker 4: a test. When you're under pressure, you don't understand why

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Speaker 4: it's taking so long and why those people didn't keep

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Speaker 4: Recognize that's a test. The enemy would love for you

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Speaker 4: to forget what God promised. He'd love for you to

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Speaker 4: get so caught up in what's not happening, so focused

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Speaker 4: on how your child isn't doing right. Right when you

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Speaker 4: thought you were going to get ahead, the pandemic hit.

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Speaker 4: Now there's no way you can have a good year. No,

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Speaker 4: Remember what God said, even in famine, you will have

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Speaker 4: more than enough. Whatever you touch will prosper and succeed.

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Speaker 4: The economy is not your source. God is your source.

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Speaker 4: You're connected to a supply line that will never run dry.

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Speaker 4: But there's always something trying to steal the seed of

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Speaker 4: that seed watered, you keep thanking God for what he promised,

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Speaker 4: You keep talking like it's on the way, You're constantly

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Speaker 4: meditating on what he said. Then you're going to see

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Speaker 4: the faithfulness of God. He's going to make things happen

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Speaker 4: that you couldn't make happen. Jesus said in John eleven,

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Speaker 4: did not I tell you if you believe you will

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Speaker 4: see the glory of God? You may be facing a sickness.

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Speaker 4: You're so worried, stressed out. God is saying, did not

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Speaker 4: I tell you I will restore health unto you? Did

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Speaker 4: not I tell you by my stripes you are healed?

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Speaker 4: Did not I tell you the number of your days

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Speaker 4: what he told you instead of letting the negative thoughts play.

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Speaker 4: The reason we're discouraged many times is we've forgotten what

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Speaker 4: God said. It's not complicated. Go back to his promises,

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Speaker 4: Start remembering what He's spoken over you. Replaying that over

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Speaker 4: to leave. Doubt, worry cannot stay. Faith will rise in

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Speaker 4: going to change. God is saying, did not I tell

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Speaker 4: serve the Lord? Did not I tell you that your

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Speaker 4: children will be mighty in the land. When you wake

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Speaker 4: turn it around. Lord, Thank you for what you said,

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Speaker 4: that my children will fulfill their destiny. There's a battle

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Speaker 4: taking place in our mind. The enemy comes against us

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Speaker 4: with thoughts, thoughts of doubt, fear, worry. His goal is

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Speaker 4: to keep your mind so filled with all the negative

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Speaker 4: how you can't break the addiction, how you'll never meet

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Speaker 4: life when worry comes, don't go on autopilot, don't just

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Speaker 4: let it play. Stay on the offensive on purpose. Remember

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Speaker 4: what God said, Thank him that He's making a way.

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Speaker 4: Will you don't see away. Thank him that he always

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Speaker 4: causes you to tryumph. Thank him that what was meant

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Speaker 4: for harm he's turning for your advantage. Thank him that

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Speaker 4: he's taken you from glory to glory, from victory to victory.

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Speaker 4: A young lady I know went through a breakup in

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Speaker 4: loss things that are not fair. If we stay focused

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Speaker 4: it's not easy, but you have to make this shift

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Speaker 4: dwelling on what God promised you. God is saying, did

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Speaker 4: not I tell you I will give you beauty for

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Speaker 4: those ashes? Did not I tell you weeping endures for

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Speaker 4: a night, but joy comes in the morning. Did not

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Speaker 4: I tell you that I will pay you back double

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Speaker 4: for the unfair things that have happened. God has you

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Speaker 4: you this far to leave you that loss, the breakup. Yes,

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Speaker 4: it's painful, but it didn't stop your destiny. God has

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Speaker 4: in chapter eight. Things didn't turn around until chapter forty two,

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Speaker 4: and Job, sitting in the ashes, discouraged thinking about all

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Speaker 4: I know my Redeemer lives. He was saying, I know

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Speaker 4: God is still on the throne. I know he's bigger

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Speaker 4: not what the negative thought said. When you keep your

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Speaker 4: mind on what God promised, you're going to see him

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Speaker 4: show out in your life. When that test was over,

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Speaker 4: Job came out with twice what he had before. You

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Speaker 4: may have gone through loss, disappointments, that is not how

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Speaker 4: God sees it. He's not only going to help you through,

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Speaker 4: already headed your way, new relationships, favor like you've never seen. Now.

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Speaker 4: Don't fall into the trap of complaining, living in self pity,

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Speaker 4: thinking it's all downhill from here. You're remembering the wrong things.

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Speaker 4: Start remembering what God said, That there is beauty for

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Speaker 4: those ashes, that double is coming double the joy, double

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Speaker 4: come out. God says you're going to come out better, stronger, healthier, happier,

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Speaker 4: more fulfilled. Now do like job and keep thanking God

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Speaker 4: for what he said. Keep declaring my redeemer lives all

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