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Speaker 5: She was at the store and accidentally locked her keys

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Speaker 5: She prayed and asked God to help her. About that time,

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Speaker 5: She hugged him, said Lord, thank you for sending me

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Speaker 3: You even sent me a professional say like you mean it.

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Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about your destiny.

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Speaker 5: Outweighs your history. If you add up the negative things

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Speaker 5: defeated all the circumstances said he was done. But God

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Speaker 5: On the cross, Jesus said, my God, why have you

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Speaker 5: good things in your future will outweigh the negative things.

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Speaker 5: The path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. He

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Speaker 5: He's already arranged restoration for that loss, a new beginning

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Speaker 5: This may be difficult, it's not fair, but this is

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Speaker 5: Mara means bitter. She was saying, there's nothing joyful about

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Speaker 3: God is asking us, how long are you going to

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Speaker 3: mourn over? What you've lost.

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Speaker 5: How long are you going to be discouraged over the

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Speaker 5: relationship that didn't work out, the position you didn't get,

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Speaker 5: the loved one that didn't make it. The problem with

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Speaker 5: continuing to mourn is it will keep you from going

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Speaker 5: to Bethlehem. It will keep you from the harvest that's

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Speaker 5: already in process, from the new things God has in store.

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Speaker 5: And yes, there's a timeful mourning, but you can't let

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Speaker 5: a season of mourning turn into a lifetime of mourning.

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Speaker 5: God told Samuel, fill your horn with oil and be

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Speaker 5: on your way. I'm sending you to the house of Jesse.

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Speaker 5: I've chosen one of his sons to be the next king.

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Speaker 5: I can imagine Samuel thinking, God, Saul is still on

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Speaker 5: the throne. He's technically still in charge. You're telling me

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Speaker 5: to anoint my future while my past is still on

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Speaker 5: the throne. You're telling me to start over in a

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Speaker 5: feed store with ninety people. You're telling me to go

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Speaker 5: back to Bethlehem. I just want to stay here in Moab.

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Speaker 3: I've been through too much.

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Speaker 5: Are you waiting for God to change things while God

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Speaker 5: is waiting for you to anoint your future? That means

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Speaker 5: you're not seeing anything happening, but you're believing, you're declaring.

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Speaker 5: You're walking by faith and not by sight. The medical

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Speaker 5: report doesn't look good, but I know God is restoring

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Speaker 5: health back into me. Went through a loss, a bad break.

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Speaker 5: I know what was meant for harm. God's turning to

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Speaker 5: my advantage. Had to set back in my finances.

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Speaker 3: Business went down. That's not the end. I know.

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Speaker 5: I will lend and not borrow what I touch what

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Speaker 5: and succeed. You can't wait for everything to change. Then

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Speaker 5: you'll believe. Then you'll have a good attitude. Or even

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Speaker 5: though your past is still on the throne, you need

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Speaker 5: to start declaring favor, restoration, health, victory. God told Samuel

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Speaker 5: to fill your horn with oil. Oil signifies joy, praise, expectancy.

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Speaker 3: Don't drag around.

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Speaker 5: Look what I've been through, man, This pandemic was so hard.

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Speaker 5: My back's been hurting for three years. My boss won't

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Speaker 5: give me any credit. Fill your horn with oil, not

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Speaker 5: with complaints. Get your praise back, put a smile on

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Speaker 5: your face, have a report of victory. If you'll fill

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Speaker 5: your horn with oil and be on your way, you're

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Speaker 5: going to see God tip the scales, not a little bit,

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Speaker 5: but He's going to open the windows of heaven, bring

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Speaker 5: great opportunities, new people, turn mourning into dancing. He's not

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Speaker 5: going to equal it up the good and the bad.

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Speaker 3: No, your destiny is going to fall Outweigh your history.

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Speaker 5: Samuel was disappointed when Saul didn't work out, but he

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Speaker 5: filled his horn with oil and anointed David. David was

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Speaker 5: the greatest king that ever lived. Notice how God does things.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't trade an okay king for another okay king.

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Speaker 3: God was saying, you lost something that was painful.

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Speaker 5: You put time and energy into that relationship, that company,

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Speaker 5: that dream, it didn't last.

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Speaker 3: Don't worry. I'm about to send to David.

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Speaker 5: I'm about to bring someone or something so awesome, so

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Speaker 5: out of the ordinary that it's going to far Outweigh

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Speaker 5: what didn't work out. There was a lady in the

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Speaker 5: scripture that was about to give birth.

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Speaker 3: She was an Israelite.

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Speaker 5: She had just heard that the Ark of the Covenant

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Speaker 5: had been stolen. That's where God's presence was. She was

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Speaker 5: so upset, so distraught. When she gave birth, she named

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Speaker 5: her son Ichabod. Ichabod means the glory has departed. She

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Speaker 5: named her future based on her past She could have

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Speaker 5: just easily named him the glory will return. She could

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Speaker 5: have named him what Zachariah prophesied, double the glory.

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Speaker 3: But she was so caught up in what.

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Speaker 5: She had been through, the disappointment, the heartache, that it

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Speaker 5: soured her future.

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Speaker 3: Now. I wonder how many of us are doing the

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Speaker 3: same thing. We're focused on what.

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Speaker 5: Didn't work out, who hurt us, what we lost. We

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Speaker 5: don't think it's ever going to change. Don't name your

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Speaker 5: future based on your past. Get that Ichabod's spirit.

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Speaker 3: Off of you. This is a new day.

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Speaker 5: God is doing a new thing. The enemies you've seen

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Speaker 5: in the past you will see no more. Here's what

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Speaker 5: you should name your future. Blessed, prosper us, victorious, healthy, strong, wise, talented.

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Speaker 3: Things may be rough right now, but your attitude should

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Speaker 3: be this is only temporary.

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Speaker 5: It's just a matter of time before things change in

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Speaker 5: my favor.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna come out better off than I was before.

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Speaker 3: This is what David did.

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Speaker 5: He went through all kinds of heartache, disappointments, people coming

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Speaker 5: against him, but he didn't name his future based on

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Speaker 5: his past. He said, I am confident I will see

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Speaker 5: the goodness of God in the Land of the Living.

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Speaker 5: That's my prayer for you, that you will be confident

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Speaker 5: that your best days are still in front of you,

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Speaker 5: that you will know down deep that your destiny.

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Speaker 3: Will outweigh your history, that the negative things of the past.

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Speaker 5: Are not how your story ends. My question today is

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Speaker 5: are you weighing things too early? You've had disappointments. Life

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Speaker 5: has thrown you some curves. Now you've accepted that you're limited,

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Speaker 5: you had a disadvantage. Can I encourage you the best

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Speaker 5: part of your life is still.

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Speaker 3: In front of you.

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Speaker 5: You wouldn't be breathing if there were not new victories

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Speaker 5: and new opportunities. God saw everything that happened, the loss,

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Speaker 5: the bad breaks, those weighed a lot. There is favor

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Speaker 5: coming that's going to tip the scale to where the

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Speaker 5: blessing far outweighs the negative. Now do your part anoint

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Speaker 5: your future, even though the past is still on the throne.

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Speaker 5: Dare to believe, start expecting favor. There is a harvest season.

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Speaker 5: God has already prepared, something already in the works that

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Speaker 5: you're going to step into. I believe and declare even

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Speaker 5: now things are shifting, the weight of the negative is

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Speaker 5: going to pale in comparison to the weight of the glory.

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Speaker 5: Like with Samuel, the disappointment was painful, but David is

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Speaker 5: about to show up something better than you've imagined. Favor

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Speaker 5: is coming, healing, restoration, promotion, breakthroughs, the fullness of your

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Speaker 5: destiny in Jesus's name, and if you.

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