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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, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll say connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 1: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to start with something funny, and I heard about this

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Speaker 1: lady that died. She was standing at the pearly gates

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Speaker 1: and sat. Peter says, you can't come in yet. You

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Speaker 1: have to correctly spell a word. She said, what word?

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Speaker 1: He said, any word, So she spelled the word love helovee.

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Speaker 1: Peter said, welcome to Heaven. Then Peter asked if she

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Speaker 1: would take his place for a moment. He instructed her

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Speaker 1: if anyone came to just follow the same procedure. In

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Speaker 1: a few moments, she sees her ex husband walking up.

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Speaker 1: She can't believe it. He said, what are you doing here?

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Speaker 1: He said, I just had a heart attack. Did I

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Speaker 1: really make it to heaven? She said not yet. You

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Speaker 1: have to correctly spell a word. He said, what word?

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Speaker 1: There was a long pause, and she said, Checkuslovakia. Here

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Speaker 1: we go, y'all. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 1: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about you will

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Speaker 1: defy the odds. We all face situations where we don't

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Speaker 1: see how they can work out. We don't have the

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Speaker 1: funds to accomplish our dreams, or a sickness looks like

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Speaker 1: will never get well, or our child is off course.

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Speaker 1: A student told me how he wanted to go to

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Speaker 1: medical school and finish his undergraduate work and it's done

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Speaker 1: very well. He needs a scholarship, but he's been turned

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Speaker 1: down by over forty schools. He was so discouraged, thinking

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Speaker 1: it could never happen. But God loves to take people

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Speaker 1: who are the underdogs where there are no good options

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Speaker 1: and do something supernatural in their lives. The odds may

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Speaker 1: be against you, but the most high God is for you.

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Speaker 1: You and God are a majority. What you're up against

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Speaker 1: may seem bigger, the opposition stronger. God will put you

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Speaker 1: in situations on purpose where the odds are against you,

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Speaker 1: so he can show out in your life. It's not

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Speaker 1: there to stop you. It's a setup for God to

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Speaker 1: make you an example of his goodness. But voices will

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Speaker 1: whisper you're outnumbered. You'll never defeat this giant. It's too big.

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Speaker 1: Never get out of this trouble, Never overcome this illness. No,

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Speaker 1: you were created to defy the odds. You have the

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Speaker 1: most powerful force in the universe breathing in your direction.

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Speaker 1: God is not limited by what you don't have, by

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Speaker 1: what family you come from, by your connections, your education,

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Speaker 1: your talent. I can't accomplish my dream, joy, I don't

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Speaker 1: know the right people. That's okay, you have friends in

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Speaker 1: high places. God controls the universe. I can't get out

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Speaker 1: of debt. Everyone in my family struggles. You're the exception.

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Speaker 1: You're the difference maker. God raised you up to defy

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Speaker 1: agreement with him. Not an underdog mentality. Look what I'm

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Speaker 1: No turn it around. The odds may be against me,

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Speaker 1: but God, I know you being for me is more

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Speaker 1: than anything trying to stop me. Our son Jonathan, got

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Speaker 1: me playing fantasy football this year. You choose players from

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Speaker 1: different NFL teams to make up your team, depending on

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Speaker 1: how they do each week. That determines your score. There

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Speaker 1: are ten different teams in our league, Friends of Ours.

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Speaker 1: Each week you play against one team on the app,

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Speaker 1: it gives you the percentage of winning and the percentage

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Speaker 1: they've been performing the other. Saturday, I checked my game.

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Speaker 1: I had a sixty percent chance of winning, forty percent

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Speaker 1: Sunday evening games. You can see it in real time

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Speaker 1: on Monday night. I went to bed Sunday with a

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Speaker 1: and figured out I'd lost that week. But with thirty

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Speaker 1: from ninety nine percent chance of losing to ninety nine

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Speaker 1: odds changed in my favor. I won that game. But

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Speaker 1: for days, all the stats said and away, the analytics,

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Speaker 1: the computers, the odds maker all said I would lose.

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Speaker 1: But then this unforeseen good break, and I defied the odds.

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Speaker 1: That's the way it is with God. All the facts

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Speaker 1: can say you'll never get well, never get out of debt,

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Speaker 1: never be free from this depression. That's just who you are.

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Speaker 1: Can I encourage you one touch of God's favor and

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Speaker 1: you will defy the odds. One good break, one healing,

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Speaker 1: one folk hall, You'll go from ninety nine percent no

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Speaker 1: What am I saying, don't let the odds discourage you.

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Speaker 1: We look at things in the natural. Here are the facts,

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Speaker 1: the experts, the calculations. But God is supernatural. He's not

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Speaker 1: limited by what limits us. One time, the prophet Elijah

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Speaker 1: came up against four hundred and fifty false prophets that

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Speaker 1: in a greater way. Don't be surprised when the odds

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Speaker 1: He could have complained, this is not fair. But he

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Speaker 1: understood this principle that he was created to defy the odds,

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Speaker 1: that defy the odds. You can't explain it. You didn't

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Speaker 1: have the training, but you've got the promotion. You're supposed

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Speaker 1: to live with that sickness, but you're healthier than ever.

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Speaker 1: Or you came from a dysfunctional family that should be you,

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Speaker 1: but you're blessed, happy, strong, beautiful. What happened You defied

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Speaker 1: couldn't open. Gave you ability influence, favor that catapulted you ahead.

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Speaker 1: You may be in a situation now where the odds

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Speaker 1: Don't believe those lies. God is about to show out

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Speaker 1: in your life. That difficulty is setting you up for

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Speaker 1: God to do something you've never seen. It's gonna happen quickly.

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Speaker 1: is going to turn around. The right people will show up,

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Speaker 1: be able to say, with Elijah, the odds were against me,

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Speaker 1: but the most High God was for me. That's what matters.

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Speaker 1: Ex A, Chapter fourteen. God had delivered the Israelites out

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Speaker 1: and they were so excited. Was a moment they had

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Speaker 1: been dreaming of. As they were leaving, God said in

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Speaker 1: verse two, tell the people to march toward the Red Sea.

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Speaker 1: Then Pharaoh will think their trap between the Red Sea

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Speaker 1: there was no way out. Was it like Moses made

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Speaker 1: easy way, no obstacles, no opposition. But God on purpose

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Speaker 1: It was a setup so God could demonstrate his power

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Speaker 1: they begin to panic. Complain, Moses, why'd you bring us

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Speaker 1: to see his favor in a greater way. Moses said

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Speaker 1: a thick fog that came on Pharaoh and his army.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't see. They had to stop. God has ways

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Speaker 1: to deliver you that you've never thought of them. God

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Speaker 1: told Moses to lift up his rod. When he did,

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Speaker 1: But God is supernatural. He's going to do things in

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Speaker 1: your life that you can't calculate, you can't explain, you

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Speaker 1: can't plan. His ways are not our ways. When the

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Speaker 1: odds are against you, it's easy to panic, worried, can't

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Speaker 1: still in control. You may not see away, but that

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean God doesn't have a way. He created you

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Speaker 1: to defy the odds. Now, be still and see that

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Speaker 1: he is God. After the last Israelites made it through

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