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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate you,

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Speaker 2: and pray for God's very best in your life. Well,

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Speaker 2: God bless you said joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying.

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Speaker 2: Be a part of one of our services. I promise you.

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Speaker 1: We'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this eighty four year old woman. She went on

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Speaker 2: a blind date with a ninety three year old man.

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Speaker 2: When she returned home to her daughter's house, and she

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Speaker 2: seemed kind of upset, and her daughter asked her what

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Speaker 2: was wrong. She said, I had to slap him three times.

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Speaker 2: She said, you mean he tried to get fresh. She said, no,

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Speaker 2: I thought he was dead. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about balanced books.

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Speaker 1: This is an accounting term.

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Speaker 2: It means to make up for loss when account is

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Speaker 2: low or when there's a deficit. When you balance the books,

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Speaker 2: you add revenue to equal it out. You have to

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Speaker 2: first determine how much the account is behind you, take

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Speaker 2: all the losses, all the deficits, total them up.

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Speaker 1: Then you know how much you need to add.

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Speaker 2: When the books are properly balanced, no one can tell

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Speaker 2: there's ever been a loss, there is no deficit. In

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Speaker 2: the same way, God is promised he will balance the books.

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Speaker 1: In our lives.

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Speaker 2: We all go through things that put us at a deficit,

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Speaker 2: an unfair situation, a rough childhood, a friend betrayed us,

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Speaker 2: we lost a loved one, nothing changed.

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Speaker 1: We would be out of balance.

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Speaker 2: We would go through life with more loss, thinking, man,

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Speaker 2: I must have got the short end of the stick.

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Speaker 2: God must thart I had a good plan for my life.

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Speaker 1: A young lady told.

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Speaker 2: Me recently how she's had six miscarriages, hasn't been.

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Speaker 1: Able to carry the baby.

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Speaker 2: With big tears running down her cheeks, she said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it. I want to have a baby

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Speaker 2: so badly. Life is not always fair, but God is fair.

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Speaker 2: He will add up all the losses, the disappointment, the heartache,

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Speaker 2: the tears, and he will pay you back. Hebrews ten

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Speaker 2: says God is a just God. He will repay the

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Speaker 2: compensation owed us. He will settle the cases of his people.

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Speaker 2: God knows what you're owed. You are not going to

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Speaker 2: live in.

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Speaker 1: A deficit mode.

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Speaker 2: You may go through seasons where you're out of balance,

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Speaker 1: But don't worry.

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Speaker 2: Your time is coming. God is going to settle your case.

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Speaker 2: He's seen every tear you shed, every person that's done

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Speaker 2: and he is not going to leave you out of balance.

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Speaker 1: You are not going to end up in the red, lonely.

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Speaker 2: The creator of the universe is adding up all the deficits.

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Speaker 2: You may have gone through things you don't understand it.

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Speaker 2: You could easily live discouraged, with a chip on your shoulder.

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Speaker 2: God is saying, I'm about to balance your books. Compensation

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Speaker 2: headed your way. I can look back in my own

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Speaker 2: life and see times where God balanced my books. When

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Speaker 2: I was growing up, we had church in a small

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Speaker 2: And over time that area of town started to go downhill,

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Speaker 2: that old rundown building. I would hear them kind of laughing,

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Speaker 2: Fast forward thirty years We're no longer in a Rundown

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Speaker 2: feed store. God has blessed us with the former Compact Center,

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Speaker 2: the premier facility in our city, in the most prestigious

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Speaker 2: part of town. That was God balancing the books, God

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Speaker 2: bringing justice.

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Speaker 1: When I was growing up, it.

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Speaker 2: Never bothered me that people made fun In fact, I

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Speaker 1: But God does pay attention.

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Speaker 2: He is keeping the records of who's trying to push

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Speaker 2: all the deficits, and at the right time, he's going

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Speaker 2: to balance your books. Some of the things God is

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Speaker 2: going to pay you back for isn't because of wrongs

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Speaker 1: And I say that very humbly.

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Speaker 2: I recognize that I am reaping from the life my

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Speaker 2: They gave, they served, they honored God, but they never

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Speaker 1: We get ready like with me.

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Speaker 2: God is going to bless you to make up for

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Speaker 2: what should have been there. God is not going to

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Speaker 2: leave your family out of balance. You're going to come

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Speaker 2: This is what happened with the Israelites. They had been

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Speaker 2: After four hundred and thirty years, God brought them out

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Speaker 2: those four hundred and thirty years. God sees every deficit,

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Speaker 2: God says, enough is enough. It's time to balance your books.

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Speaker 2: He's promised he will compensate you. Now, quit worrying about

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Speaker 2: what you lost. Who did you wrong, who puts you

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Speaker 2: You're coming out, not empty handed, not look down on,

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Speaker 2: with abundance, favored that you didn't deserve, blessings chasing you down.

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Speaker 2: That's the God of Justice paying you back for what

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Speaker 2: was raised in a very negative environment. His father wasn't

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Speaker 2: Was put at such a disadvantage. I told him what

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you. Life may not be fair, but God,

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Speaker 2: God saw what happened, and He's going to make it

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Speaker 1: Here's the whole key.

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Speaker 2: You can't go around with a chip on your shoulder

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Speaker 2: thinking about what Mama didn't give you, what Daddy didn't

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Speaker 1: To be able to give you. It didn't stop his plan.

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Speaker 2: If you will stay in faith, God will balance your books.

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Speaker 2: If you didn't get as much in one area. He

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Speaker 2: is a god of justice. He'll give you more in

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Speaker 1: To make up for it.

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Speaker 2: You may feel like you got short changed in life.

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Speaker 2: many other areas. I'm not living from a place of deficit.

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Speaker 2: Sure that first year the loss was extra heavy. I

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Speaker 2: cause things to fall into place.

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Speaker 1: What was happening He was balancing my books.

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Speaker 2: Maybe somebody walked out of a relationship and broke your heart.

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Speaker 1: Don't live bitter, don't give up on life. That is

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Speaker 1: not the end.

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Speaker 2: You may be out of balance right now. That loss

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Speaker 2: pay you back. He's going to bring somebody better into

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Speaker 2: medical report wasn't good. Now you have to take a

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Speaker 2: whole nother round of treatment. In these tough times, when

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Speaker 1: That He is a just God.

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Speaker 1: Lord, I want to thank you.

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Speaker 2: That you're balancing my books. Lord, I believe that payback

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Speaker 2: He was Anonius's biggest critic. Now he needs what Anonius has.

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Speaker 2: Instead of wanting to persecute Anonius, he's saying, please go

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Speaker 2: see if Anonius will.

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Speaker 1: Come pray for me.

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Speaker 2: You may have people like Saul in your life. They've

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Speaker 2: been against you for years. Maybe not that vocal, but

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Speaker 2: they're condescending. They try to push you down. Don't worry.

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Speaker 1: Payback is coming. God is your vindicator.

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Speaker 2: You keep taking the high road, keep doing the right thing.

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Speaker 2: One day God will cause them to need what you have.

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Speaker 2: They'll come to you asking for your health. You're blessing

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Speaker 2: your favor. Annias said God, I'm not gonna go pray

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Speaker 2: for Saul. That men's killing people. This is a setup.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna arrest me. God said no, Anonyus, it's not

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Speaker 2: what you think. I've changed things Saul. I'm going to

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Speaker 2: use him in a great way. Anonius went and prayed

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Speaker 2: for his greatest enemy. He did good to someone who

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Speaker 2: had spent years doing bad to him. This is a

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Speaker 2: test we all must pass. Will you be good to

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Speaker 2: the Sauls in your life when you have what they need.

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Speaker 2: Will you show them favor even though they've been mistreating you.

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Speaker 2: If you want God to balance your books, you have

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Speaker 2: to be the bi person and bless those who have

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Speaker 2: cursed you in their time of need. Don't withhold what

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Speaker 2: you have. Don't say, well, too bad, Saul, I'm glad

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Speaker 2: you're blind now, maybe you'll leave me alone. No, do

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Speaker 2: good to those that persecute you. And and I just

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Speaker 2: went over and prayed for Saul. After he did, his

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Speaker 2: eyes were open. And of course Saul became the apostle

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Speaker 2: Paul who wrote over half of the New Testament.

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Speaker 1: But when people come against.

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Speaker 2: Us, unfair situations happen. It's easy to get upset. Try

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Speaker 2: to pay somebody back or prove to them who we are. No,

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Speaker 2: don't waste your emotional energy on the Sauls in your life.

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Speaker 2: Wait for God to do it his way. God sees

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Speaker 2: every injustice, he hears every negative comment.

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Speaker 1: He's adding up all the deficits, all the wrongs, And

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Speaker 1: at the.

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Speaker 2: Right time, God will make things happen you could never

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Speaker 2: make happen. He'll cause people to need what you have. Friends,

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Speaker 2: your time is coming. You are not going to live

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Speaker 2: in a deficit mode. Like Isaiah said, you may have

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Speaker 2: gone through a double dose of trouble, but get ready

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Speaker 2: for a double dose of blessing.

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Speaker 1: The God of Justice is saying it's payback time. Now.

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Speaker 2: I believe and declare God is about to balance your books.

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Speaker 2: Promotion is coming, healing is coming, Vindication is coming.

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Speaker 1: Because you honor God, even your enemies are going to

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Speaker 1: be at peace with you.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, And if you receive it, can you

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Speaker 1: Men? Today, we never.

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Speaker 2: Like to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 2: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 3: It's a new year. Time to see the impossible become possible.

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Speaker 3: Life setbacks are about to become God's setups for new opportunity.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year cherished dreams will become unexpected reality.

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Speaker 2: The start of the new year is the perfect time

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Speaker 2: to reset your focus, release disappointments of the past, and

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Speaker 2: get ready for the new things God has in store.

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Speaker 2: Every January we create a new three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: When you begin the day thanking God for what He's done,

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