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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. So God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It is always a joy to be here with you.

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Speaker 1: We love each and every one of you, and if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, I hope you'll come out

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. We'd love

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Speaker 1: to have you just be here and hopefully meet you

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Speaker 1: one on one. But thanks for tuning in, and again,

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Speaker 1: thank you all for coming out. I'd like to start

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Speaker 1: each week with something funny, and y'all know these are

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Speaker 1: just jokes. They are not doctrinally correct, especially this one

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Speaker 1: that I heard about this middle aged woman. She had

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Speaker 1: a heart attack and on the operating table she asked

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Speaker 1: God if that was it. God said, no, you have

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Speaker 1: forty more years. Upon recovery, she decided to stay in

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Speaker 1: the hospital and have a major face lift, tummy tuck,

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Speaker 1: life o suction, and extreme makeover. Two months later, as

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Speaker 1: she is leaving the hospital, she got hit by a

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Speaker 1: car and killed. She got to heaven, said God, I

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Speaker 1: thought you said I had forty more years. God shook

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Speaker 1: his head and said, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you.

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Speaker 1: All right, say it like you mean it. This is

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

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

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about living in the rain. In the scripture,

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Speaker 1: rain is symbolic of blessings, favor, and increase. One place

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Speaker 1: talks about how we should be like a well watered garden,

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Speaker 1: and that's the way God designed us to flourish, to

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Speaker 1: be full of joy, to always be in blossom. But

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Speaker 1: too many people are in a dry spell. Say that

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Speaker 1: they're flourishing. It's just the opposite. They feel like they're

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Speaker 1: in a famine. They hadn't had a good break in years.

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Speaker 1: They're stagnant in their marriage, stagnant in their career, not

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Speaker 1: seeing dreams come to pass, And it's easy to just

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Speaker 1: settle there and think this is as good as it gets.

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Speaker 1: I don't have enough, but I'll learn to make ends meet.

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Speaker 1: I don't like this job, but I'll just endure it.

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Speaker 1: I'll probably never get well, probably never get out of debt. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not flourishing, that's not always being in blossom. The

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Speaker 1: good news is there's a way to put an end

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Speaker 1: to that famine. There's a way to come out of

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Speaker 1: that dry spell. You just have to get under the

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Speaker 1: right cloud. You just need God to rain down some

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Speaker 1: of his favor, some of his increase into your life.

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting, even in the natural, how a cloud

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Speaker 1: is formed. The sun shines down on water and it

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Speaker 1: produces an invisible vapor. These vapors rise up into the

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Speaker 1: Earth's atmosphere and eventually become clouds. When enough vapors go up,

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Speaker 1: that water is too heavy for the cloud to hold

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Speaker 1: and it begins to drift out. That's when it missed

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Speaker 1: or sprinkles. And if that cloud gets so full of condensation,

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Speaker 1: it'll open up and begin to pour down rain. Now,

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Speaker 1: I believe that we can create rain in our own life.

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Speaker 1: We can put an end to a dry spell and

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Speaker 1: even create blessings, favor and good breaks The way we

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Speaker 1: do this is through our praise. When we go around

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Speaker 1: focused on how bright the future is. Our praise is

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Speaker 1: that invisible vapor that goes up to the heavens and

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Speaker 1: forms a cloud. And when that cloud gets so full

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Speaker 1: bragging on the goodness of God, eventually it can't hold

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Speaker 1: Us favor, blessings, supernatural opportunities, divine connections. You've all heard

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Speaker 1: the saying, when the praises go up, the blessings come down.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes in life it may seem like it's never

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Speaker 1: gonna rain. You don't see any sign of things getting better,

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Speaker 1: nothing's changing. You could say there's not a cloud in

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Speaker 1: your sky. That's the way the prophet Elijah felt he

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Speaker 1: had been in a great draft for three and a

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Speaker 1: half years. It hadn't rained. The people were struggling, just

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Speaker 1: thought you said I'd always be in blossom. I thought

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Speaker 1: He went to the top of Mount Cardinal, and he

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Speaker 1: thank God that he was still in control, and thank

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Speaker 1: Not a cloud in the sky. Elijah didn't get discouraged,

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Speaker 1: he didn't give up. He just kept giving God praise,

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Speaker 1: On the seventh time, the servant came back and said,

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Speaker 1: guess what, Elijah, This time I saw a cloud starting

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Speaker 1: You may be in a dry spell, but just like Elijah,

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Speaker 1: as you continue to give God praise, that cloud is

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Speaker 1: of that obstacle, you're never gonna accomplish your dreams. But

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Speaker 1: instead of dwelling on that, instead of getting discouraged, you

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Speaker 1: switch over into praise Father. I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: that you're changing things in my favor. You said i'd

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Speaker 1: my best days are still out in front of me.

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Speaker 1: What's happening. The cloud is beginning to form. Every morning

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Speaker 1: you get up and say thank you Lord for another

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Speaker 1: beautiful day, your cloud is getting a little bit heavier.

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Speaker 1: Driving to work. Instead of complaining about the traffic, complaining

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Speaker 1: about the price of gas, dreading going to the office,

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Speaker 1: you're saying, Father, thank you that I have a job.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the gifts and talents that you've given me. Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you that my legs can walk, my arms can move,

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the opportunity in front of me. Lord,

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Speaker 1: I just want to thank you that I'm alive. When

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Speaker 1: you do that, you might as well get your umbrella out.

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Speaker 1: It's just a matter of time before that cloud opens

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Speaker 1: up and unloads God's blessings and favor right back on you.

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Speaker 1: Just like in the natural, a cloud can only hold

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Speaker 1: the same way, when you keep sending up praise, you

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Speaker 1: keep singing God, is good all the time. When you

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Speaker 1: keep giving, serving, loving, that cloud can only hold so

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Speaker 1: much before the blessings come bursting back down. But here's

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Speaker 1: the key. If you're not sending anything up, nothing's gonna

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Speaker 1: come back down. Some of you are waiting for your

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Speaker 1: to send up praise, send up thanks, go around meditating

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Speaker 1: able to get away from God's blessings. When you stay

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Speaker 1: full of praise, that cloud follows you everywhere you go.

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Speaker 1: Driving in your car, you've got a cloud following you around.

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Speaker 1: Not a cloud of defeat and despair. It's a cloud

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Speaker 1: of God's blessing raining down favor, keeping you protected, giving

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Speaker 1: If we do this, we'll never have a problem. Of course,

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Speaker 1: not life is going to happen. But the secret is

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Speaker 1: not to complain, not to talk about the problem. Don't

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Speaker 1: get tough. The secret is to kick your praise into

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Speaker 1: a higher gear. Some battles, the only way you'll get

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Speaker 1: out is to praise your way out. It's not to

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Speaker 1: fight with other people, it's not to try to get even.

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Speaker 1: Just stay full of praise and God will fight your

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Speaker 1: battles for you. When you're in one of those deserts

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Speaker 1: and it's slow and you don't see your dreams coming

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Speaker 1: to pass, don't make the mistake of sitting around feeling

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Speaker 1: have this favor that they're talking about. No, the only

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Speaker 1: way out is to change your attitude. Quit looking at

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Speaker 1: what's wrong, quit talking about what didn't work out, and

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Speaker 1: start praising your way out. It's not up to somebody else,

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Speaker 1: shake off what didn't work out, and start thinking God

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Speaker 1: like you have already overcome. Start thinking Him like he's

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Speaker 1: already turned the situation around. That's what faith is all about.

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Speaker 1: In other words, you may be in debt up to

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Speaker 1: your ears, all kinds of things coming against you. Well,

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Speaker 1: you just need to form some new clouds. Father, thank

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Speaker 1: you that I am blessed, that whatever I touch prospers,

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Speaker 1: that I will lend and not borrow. I may be

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Speaker 1: in the desert right now, it may be difficult, but

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Speaker 1: am a victor and not a victim. Watch out, that

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Speaker 1: cloud is beginning to form. And some of you got

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Speaker 1: a good break in a long long time, and it's

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Speaker 1: easy to get negative and lose our enthusiasm. But I

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Speaker 1: love what the Psalmist said. I will keep on hoping

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Speaker 1: for you to help me. I will praise you more

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Speaker 1: and more. Notice he's saying the longer it takes, the

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Speaker 1: just the opposite. Normally, when something's taken a long time,

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Speaker 1: getting discouraged, I'm gonna kick my praise into a higher gear. Father,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you that you're in complete control.

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Speaker 1: You're a faithful God, and I know you will bring

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Speaker 1: every promise you put in me to pass. I believe God,

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Speaker 1: even right now, you're arranging things in my favor, the

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Speaker 1: right people, the right breaks, the right opportunities. What's happening.

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Speaker 1: Your cloud is filling up, and it won't be long

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Speaker 1: till it rains down favor blessings right back onto you.

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Speaker 1: One thing I've learned is God will never disappoint a praiser.

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Speaker 1: Just ask Paul and Silas. At midnight, as they saying

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Speaker 1: praise is God showed up and opened the prison doors.

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Speaker 1: Just ask Daniel as he gave God thanks. Those hungry

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Speaker 1: Nijak and a Bendigo. They went into the fiery furnace

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Speaker 1: full of praise, and they came out without even having

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Speaker 1: the smell of smoke. You may have been through more

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Speaker 1: than your share of disappointments. You may have had some setbacks,

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Speaker 1: but you need to have the attitude. I may have

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Speaker 1: lost a lot in life, but one thing I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna lose is my praise. I'm gonna give God thanks

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Speaker 1: at all times. Well, let me ask you, what are

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Speaker 1: you you're sending up today complaints nothing good ever happens,

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Speaker 1: it's not fair. Or are you sending up praise, bragging

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Speaker 1: on God's goodness, expecting his favor. Here's the key. You

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Speaker 1: need to keep your cloud full. Some of you get

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Speaker 1: would just continue to rain back down. It all starts

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Speaker 1: But then you have to have a big vision. You've

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Speaker 1: just like Leahemiah, the gracious hand of God is upon me.

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Speaker 1: I saw the medical report. Now I've got another report.

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Speaker 1: It says God's gracious hand is upon me. What I'm

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Speaker 1: saying is it doesn't have to happen in our own strength,

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Speaker 1: supernatural doors are going to open up. When God breathes

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Speaker 1: shouldn't have been approved. What is that that's the favor

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Speaker 1: us to see favor like we've never seen it before.

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Speaker 1: Let's do our part and keep our cloud filled up.

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Speaker 1: Develop this lifestyle of thanksgiving. Go around all day meditating

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Speaker 1: on God's goodness. When you're in a dry time, in

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Speaker 1: some new clouds. Learn to open your mouth wide, and

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Speaker 1: God will feel it. Remember, what you send up is

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Speaker 1: gonna come back down. When that cloud gets so full,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna release back on you. Some of you. You

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Speaker 1: are so close you don't realize it. But just a

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Speaker 1: times of thanking him, expecting his that's going to be

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Speaker 1: He's releasing favor, good ideas, creativity, making crooked places straight,

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Speaker 1: fighting your battles for you. If you'll stay in this

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Speaker 1: says you will always be in blossom. That means you'll

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Speaker 1: overcome every obstacle. You'll defeat every enemy, and you'll see

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Speaker 1: It will come to pass. Amen. Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 1: Many people believe that God can heal, But when nothing

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