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Speaker 5: I like to get started each week with something kind

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Speaker 4: Heard about this.

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Speaker 5: Husband and wife they were driving down the road and

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Speaker 5: they saw this sign that said Nacodochius forty miles ahead.

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Speaker 5: They begin to argue over how to correctly pronounce the

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Speaker 5: name Nakodochus. The husband got so upset he finally said,

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Speaker 5: to you that I was right. They drove silently for

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Speaker 5: the next thirty minutes. When he got to the town,

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Speaker 5: He said to the young lady working behind it, my

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Speaker 5: Would you please, very slowly and very clearly, tell us

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Speaker 5: how to pronounce the name of this place. The young

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Speaker 5: and said, Burger Keen.

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Speaker 4: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 4: 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: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about living a

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Speaker 5: resurrected life. Every person goes through adversities. We've all had

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Speaker 5: unfair things happen. We didn't get a promotion we deserve,

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Speaker 5: They go around with a victim mentality, always blaming somebody else.

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Speaker 4: You were prepared by your past.

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Speaker 5: Every challenge you've been through, every adversity you faced, God deposited.

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Speaker 5: new level of God's goodness. You may have had unfair

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Speaker 4: Your past is getting you prepared.

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Speaker 5: One of the best things that I've ever learned is

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Speaker 5: nothing in life happens to me, it happens for me.

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Speaker 5: In other words, God would not have allowed me to

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Speaker 5: And even though it's difficult, even though it may be unfair,

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Speaker 4: It did not happen by accident.

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Speaker 5: All things work together for good when you love the Lord,

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Speaker 4: That all things are good.

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Speaker 5: It may be uncomfortable, you may not like it, but

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Speaker 5: And maybe you've gone through a major setback in your health,

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Speaker 5: keep your new goals in front of you, keep your

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Speaker 5: focusing on the joy that was set before him. What

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Speaker 4: Or are you focusing on your dreams, your goal knowing

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Speaker 4: that your best days are still out in front of you.

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Speaker 5: And those adversities, even though they may look like stumbling blocks,

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Speaker 5: God can use them as stepping stones to take you

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Speaker 5: every adversity, every lonely time, God was depositing something on

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Speaker 5: Now I'm asking us today to shake off any kind

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Speaker 5: Life is too short to have a victim mentality. And

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Speaker 5: in life, But here's how God works. You've been through

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Speaker 5: the death, you've been through the burial. Now it's the

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Speaker 5: third day. It's time for your resurrection. If you're going

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Speaker 5: to live this resurrected life, you have to have a

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Speaker 5: resurrected mentality. In other words, I may have been cheated

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Speaker 5: I'm not sour. I know that didn't happen to me.

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Speaker 5: That happened for me. God said he would be my vindicator.

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Speaker 5: He said he would pay me back double.

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Speaker 4: For every injustice. So I'm not going to drag around defeated.

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Speaker 4: I am stayed in faith knowing that that just qualified

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Speaker 5: Or in your health, maybe you're facing a sickness. It's

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Speaker 5: been that way a long time. The medical report doesn't

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Speaker 5: look good. You should be down and discouraged. But no,

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Speaker 5: I know this isn't happening to me. It's happening for me.

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Speaker 5: God is in complete control, and I believe he's not

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Speaker 5: only going to turn it around, but he's gonna bring

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Speaker 4: Stay in faith.

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Speaker 5: Or like I said, maybe you've made poor choices. You've

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Speaker 5: now that condemning voice, the accuser keeps telling you you

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Speaker 4: It's your fault.

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Speaker 5: You can't expect anything good. No, You've got to shake

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Speaker 5: Have that resurrection mentality. You are a child of the

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Speaker 5: Some of you may feel like today all you have

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Speaker 5: is it's not over until God says it's over. He

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Speaker 5: still has a way to bring your dreams to pass.

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Speaker 4: Why don't you get in agreement with him? Why don't

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Speaker 5: If we will have the right perspective, it takes away

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Speaker 4: When things come against us.

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Speaker 5: In the natural, we should get down and discourage, go

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Speaker 5: I've told you how when we were trying to acquire

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Speaker 4: For my good. Stay in faith. I know this pastor.

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Speaker 5: I'm giving this relationship to you as a seed, believing

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Speaker 5: of Gasemone, Jesus was so distraught over what he was

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Speaker 5: about to face. He was in such agony in his

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Speaker 5: spirit that he swept great drops of blood. He said, Father,

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Speaker 5: if you're willing take this cup from me, nevertheless, not.

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Speaker 4: My will, yours be done.

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Speaker 5: It was there in the garden that he made a

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Speaker 5: decision to hold on to the promise that God had

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Speaker 5: going on on the inside. Everything in him was telling him,

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Speaker 5: you're not gonna make it. There's no way, it's too tough.

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Speaker 5: But when he made the decision to stay in faith,

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Speaker 5: God sent.

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Speaker 4: An angel that began to strengthen him.

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Speaker 5: You may feel like you're in the garden right now.

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Speaker 5: Everything has come against you. You don't see in the

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Speaker 5: natural how you could make it. But God is saying,

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Speaker 5: hold on to that promise. Keep believing, keep hoping, keep praying.

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Speaker 5: You are close to your victory. On the road to

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Speaker 5: be crucified. They made Jesus carry his own cross, but

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Speaker 5: he had been so beaten down, so mistreated, he couldn't

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Speaker 5: carry it the whole way. He fell down under the

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Speaker 5: weight of his cross. The message is you don't have

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Speaker 5: to be strong one hundred percent of the time. Sometimes

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Speaker 5: the cross we're carrying can be extremely heavy. The accusing

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Speaker 5: voice will tell you if every day is not a

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Speaker 5: perfect day, if you don't stay in faith every minute,

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Speaker 5: keep your joy and keep your peace, and you're.

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Speaker 4: Just not strong enough.

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Speaker 5: But it's always encouraging to remember that even Jesus fell

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Speaker 5: down under the weight of his cross, a man by

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Speaker 5: the name of Simon came and helped him to carry you.

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Speaker 5: God will always send somebody across your path to be

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Speaker 5: there for you in the time of your greatest need.

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Speaker 5: Maybe today it's my voice telling you you can make it.

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Speaker 4: There are better days up ahead.

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Speaker 5: But the enemy will tell you this. He'll tell you

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Speaker 5: you lost your victory, you had a bad day, you

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Speaker 5: had a pity party, you lost your temper, you yelled

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Speaker 5: at your kids on God's saying, that's okay, you're human.

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Speaker 4: I know what it feels like to fall down. I've

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Speaker 4: been there. Just get back up again. You've got a

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Speaker 4: resurrection coming. They nailed Jesus to the cross, and as he.

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Speaker 5: Hung there, he felt so lonely, so dejected. He cried out,

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Speaker 5: my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? He

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Speaker 5: asked a question, but he didn't hear any kind of answer.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes heaven can be silent.

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Speaker 4: You pray, you.

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Speaker 5: Believe you're doing your best, but you don't see anything happening.

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Speaker 4: You're hurting on the inside. It looks like it's over.

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Speaker 5: But in those silent times, something powerful is happening down

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Speaker 5: in here. God is stretching you. You're developing a greater

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Speaker 5: confidence in him. Your mind will tell you it's over,

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Speaker 5: it's never gonna happen, but something will rise up in

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Speaker 5: your spirit that says, no, God is still on the throne.

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Speaker 4: This is not happening to me. It's happening for me.

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Speaker 5: And even though it's not fair, even though I'm discouraged,

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Speaker 5: deep down, I know that I know I've got a

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Speaker 5: resurrection coming.

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Speaker 4: I know God can still turn this around.

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Speaker 5: As Jesus hung on the cross in all that pain,

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Speaker 5: the soldiers made fun of him, locked him, ridiculed him.

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Speaker 5: In spite of all that suffering, in spite of the disrespect,

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Speaker 5: he looked up to Heaven and said, Father, forgive them.

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Speaker 4: They don't know what they're doing. He forgave his enemies.

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Speaker 5: Then he committed his spirit into his father's hands.

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Speaker 4: They put him in the grave.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure the forces of darkness were celebrating, rejoicing, thinking

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Speaker 5: they had finally won the victory. But they didn't realize

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Speaker 5: it's not over until God says it's over. God always

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Speaker 5: has the final say. He controls the whole universe. That

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Speaker 5: was on Friday, but three days later, on Sunday morning,

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Speaker 5: Jesus came up out of that grave. He said, I

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Speaker 5: am he that lives. I was dead, but I am

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Speaker 5: alive forevermore. He went on to say, because I live.

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Speaker 4: You can live. Also.

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Speaker 5: God has an abundant life in store for each one

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Speaker 5: of us.

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Speaker 4: But many times on the way to.

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Speaker 5: Our victories, just like Jesus, will experience some of these setback,

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Speaker 5: some of these difficult times. You have to remind yourself

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Speaker 5: it's not happening to me, it's happening for me. God's

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Speaker 5: getting me prepared on the inside. He's depositing strength, courage,

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Speaker 5: and ability. Keep your eyes focused on your goals, says

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Speaker 5: in Hebrews. Now faith is you have to have a

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Speaker 5: now mentality. Not one day I'm going to be happy.

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Speaker 5: One day God's gonna work.

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Speaker 4: In my life.

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Speaker 5: No, now is the time to release your faith. The

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Speaker 5: fact is, right now God is working in your life.

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Speaker 5: Right now, God's arranging things in your favor. Right now,

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Speaker 5: God's trying to fill you with his strength. Stay in

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Speaker 5: the now. That's what activates God's power. You remember when

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Speaker 5: Mary and Martha were at the tomb of their brother Lazarus.

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Speaker 5: He'd been dead for four days, and they were there

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Speaker 5: crying so distraught. Jesus finally showed up and said, I

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Speaker 5: am the Resurrection and the Life. They said, yes, Jesus,

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Speaker 5: we know in the last days you'll raise our brother

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Speaker 5: Lazarus from the dead when we all go to heaven.

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Speaker 5: Jesus said, in the fact, no, Mary, no Martha. I'm

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Speaker 5: not talking about in the last days. I'm talking about today.

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Speaker 5: If you'll roll away the stone, I'll raise your brother

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Speaker 5: right now. He was saying, I am a right now God.

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Speaker 5: A lot of times, like these ladies, we're believing one

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Speaker 5: day God's gonna do something great in my life. One

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Speaker 5: day God's gonna resurrect my dead dreams. Now, we have

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Speaker 5: to get out of that one day mentality and let's

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Speaker 5: start believing that today God's.

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Speaker 4: Gonna do something great.

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Speaker 5: Today, God's gonna open up supernatural doors. Have a now mentality,

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Speaker 5: And I know some of you have been through the

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Speaker 5: death so to speak. You've been through the burial, You've

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Speaker 5: had people lie about you, lost friends, gone through disappointments,

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Speaker 5: face sicknesses.

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Speaker 4: But God didn't take you through everything. He took you

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Speaker 4: through just so you could.

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Speaker 5: Come out beaten, down, bedraggled, half dead. Well, how you doing, brother,

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Speaker 5: All good under the circumstances. Now it's time for your resurrection.

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Speaker 5: It's time for you to rise up and take everything

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Speaker 5: that belongs to you. If you've been crucified with Christ,

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Speaker 5: you can be raised with Christ. The enemy may have

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Speaker 5: done his best, but his best will never be enough.

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Speaker 5: You've got to shake off the past, shake off every disappointment,

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Speaker 5: shake off every injustice, shake off every failure.

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Speaker 4: Let today be a new beginning.

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Speaker 5: You may feel like you're in the garden, down and discouraged,

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Speaker 5: but take heart, you've got a resurrection coming. You may

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Speaker 5: have fallen down under the weight of your cross. God

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Speaker 5: is saying get back up again. You're close to your victory.

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Speaker 5: You may even feel like you're on the cross. Your

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Speaker 5: dreams have died. Everything's coming against you. You've got to

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Speaker 5: get a new perspective. Nothing in life has happened to you,

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Speaker 5: It has happened for you.

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Speaker 4: God has you in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 5: He is going to take what was meant to destroy

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Speaker 5: you and use it to thrust you into your divine destiny. Remember,

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Speaker 5: you are not defined by your past. You are prepared

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Speaker 5: by your past. Every adversity, every obstacle, God's depositing something

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Speaker 5: on the inside. If you'll live this resurrected life, you

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Speaker 5: won't have a victim mentality. You will have a victoria mentality.

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Speaker 4: And even when.

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Speaker 5: Things come against you, you'll still have a smile on

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Speaker 5: your face.

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Speaker 4: You'll know God's not only gonna turn it around, but

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Speaker 4: He's gonna give you beauty for ashes, joy for mourning,

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Speaker 4: and in the end, you're gonna come out stronger, happier, healthier,

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Speaker 4: better off than you were before. Amen. Do you receive

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Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 5: repent of my sins.

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