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Speaker 1: Hi, this is joln Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoy

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Speaker 1: today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share

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Speaker 1: it with a friend. Reappreciate you and pray for God's

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Speaker 1: very best in your life. Will God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: a joy to come into your homes and if you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop by and be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. But thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny and heard about this man.

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Speaker 1: He was out taking a walk through the woods with

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Speaker 1: a friend when all of a sudden, they encountered a

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Speaker 1: huge grizzly bear about twenty yards in front of them.

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Speaker 1: They froze in their tracks as the bear intently stared

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Speaker 1: them down. They contemplated what they should do. Finally, the

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Speaker 1: man whispered to his friend, I think we should run.

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Speaker 1: His friends said, are you crazy? We can't outrun a

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Speaker 1: grizzly bear. The man said, I know that. I don't

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Speaker 1: have to outrun him, I just have to outrun you.

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Speaker 1: Hold up your bibles, say it like you mean it.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about unshakable faith. When God

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Speaker 1: puts a promise in your heart, you have to come

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Speaker 1: to the place where you believe it's going to happen

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Speaker 1: so strongly nothing can talk you out of it. It

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Speaker 1: may seem impossible. The medical report may say there's no

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Speaker 1: way you're going to get well. The financial situation says

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Speaker 1: business is so slow you're not going to make it.

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Speaker 1: All the circumstances may tell you you'll never accomplish your dreams,

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Speaker 1: never meet the right person, never see your family restored.

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Speaker 1: But deep down have to have this confidence, this knowing

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Speaker 1: that God is still on the throne. He's bigger than

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Speaker 1: any obstacle. He already has a way and at the

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Speaker 1: exact time what He promised will come to pass. You

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Speaker 1: have this unshakable confidence. You know that God is fighting

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Speaker 1: your battles, arranging things in your favor, making a way

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Speaker 1: even when you don't see a way, And instead of

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Speaker 1: being discouraged, you get up in the morning thanking God

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Speaker 1: that the answer is on the way. Instead of talking

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Speaker 1: about how big the problem is, you go through the

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Speaker 1: day talking about how big your God is. When the

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Speaker 1: negative thoughts come saying it's impossible, it's been too long,

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Speaker 1: you let that go in one ear and out the other.

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Speaker 1: Your mind is set in one direction, victory, favor, healing, restoration.

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Speaker 1: You know the moment you prayed, God set the miracle

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Speaker 1: into motion. It may be taken a long time, but

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Speaker 1: God didn't bring you this far to leave you. You've

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Speaker 1: seen him do it in the past, and you know

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Speaker 1: fully persuaded. That's unshakable faith. And the fact is some

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Speaker 1: promises do take a long time. If God made everything

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Speaker 1: happen when we wanted it to happen, it wouldn't take

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Speaker 1: any faith. We grow into difficult times. We grow when

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Speaker 1: our faith is being stretched, when we have to believe

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Speaker 1: when we don't see any reason to believe, When we

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Speaker 1: stay in faith when our mind is telling us we're

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Speaker 1: wasting our time when we give God praise, but we

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Speaker 1: really feel like complaining. That's passing the test. Every day

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Speaker 1: you do that, your faith is not only increasing, your

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Speaker 1: character is not only being developed. But you are one

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Speaker 1: day closer to seeing the promise come to pass. And

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Speaker 1: some of you we're about to give up on a promise.

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Speaker 1: But God has you here for a reason. You need

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Speaker 1: to dig your heels in, put on a new attitude.

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Speaker 1: God is saying every promise I've spoken over you, every

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Speaker 1: dream I've placed in your spirit, even the secret petitions

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Speaker 1: of your heart, the dreams you haven't told anyone about,

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Speaker 1: I still have every intention of bringing them to pass. Friends,

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Speaker 1: God is a faithful God. It may not have happened

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Speaker 1: on your timetable, but that doesn't mean it's not going

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Speaker 1: to happen. God has the final say. Now, don't you

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Speaker 1: dare give up on that promise. Don't let discouragement, negative

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Speaker 1: to pass. Now do your part and have unshakable faith.

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Speaker 1: This is what the apostle Paul did. He said none

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Speaker 1: of these things move me. What were these things? Circumstances

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Speaker 1: that looked impossible, people trying to talk him out of it,

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Speaker 1: what I know, and I know if God be for me,

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Speaker 1: who dare be against me? I know all of God's

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Speaker 1: final say. That's the attitude we should have. I'm not

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Speaker 1: moved by this medical report. I respect and honor people

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Speaker 1: know God can do what medical science cannot do. God

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Speaker 1: can heal me. I'm not moved by the economy, the

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Speaker 1: in a recession. I'm not moved by how my children

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Speaker 1: poor choices. I know it's only a matter of time.

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Speaker 1: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Or for some of you, I'm not moved by the

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Speaker 1: fact that I'm single, and I haven't met anyone. I know.

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Speaker 1: God has already picked out the right person. He's already

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Speaker 1: ordained him to come across my path. I am fully

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Speaker 1: persuaded they are in my future. That's unshakable faith. You're

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Speaker 1: not moved by your circumstances. Up when something good has happened,

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Speaker 1: you know that, you know everything God promised you is

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Speaker 1: already in your future. This is what Abraham did. God

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Speaker 1: gave him a promise that he would have a child

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Speaker 1: in the natural. It was impossible. He and his wife

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Speaker 1: Sarah were nearly one hundred years old. But it says

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Speaker 1: in Romans four Abraham did not waver in faith, but

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Speaker 1: he was fully persuaded God would do what he promised.

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Speaker 1: How could Abraham have this unwavering faith when all the

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Speaker 1: odds were against him. I could see how he could

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Speaker 1: have a glimmer of hope, But it says he was

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Speaker 1: fully persuaded. Verse nineteen gives us a secret. He considered

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Speaker 1: not the weakness of his own body nor the deadness

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Speaker 1: don't consider your circumstances. Consider your God. Your circumstances, like

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Speaker 1: Sarah's womb, may look dead, the financial situation may look impossible,

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Speaker 1: may tell you you could never accomplish your dreams. If

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Speaker 1: you only consider that, you'll get discouraged. Before long, doubt

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Speaker 1: You've got to do like Abraham say, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to consider the size of my problem.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to consider the size of my God. He

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Speaker 1: spoke the world into existence, he flung the stars into space.

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Speaker 1: He's not limited by the natural he has supernatural power.

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Speaker 1: When you consider God instead of your circumstances, amazing things

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Speaker 1: can happen. I have a friend named Courtney. She attends here,

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Speaker 1: she didn't consider the odds. She considered her God. Her

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Speaker 1: attitude was, God, you control a whole universe, and if

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Speaker 1: you want me in this university, I know you can

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Speaker 1: cause me to stand out. I'm not moved by what

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Speaker 1: I see. I'm moved by what I know, and I

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Speaker 1: you have far and beyond favor. I know you reward

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Speaker 1: those that honored you. A few months ago, Courtney received

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Speaker 1: of you. Some of you are spending too much time

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Speaker 1: It's talking you out of what God can do. If

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Speaker 1: you would spend more time considering God, thinking about his greatness,

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Speaker 1: the times he's made away in the past, meditating on

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Speaker 1: his promises, speaking faith and victory over your life, then

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Speaker 1: like Courtney, like Abraham, you'd see God show up and

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Speaker 1: do supernatural things. I remember when we first acquired this

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Speaker 1: new facility, the former Compact center. I was told by

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Speaker 1: our architects that it would cost approximately one hundred million

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Speaker 1: Our team ran the numbers. They projected future giving. If

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Speaker 1: calculated we would still be significantly short. I studied those

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Speaker 1: you said, what you started, you will finish. You said, God,

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Speaker 1: we would see the surpassing greatness of your favor. You

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Speaker 1: When I changed my focus, instead of considering my circumstances,

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Speaker 1: started considering my God, Doubt, fear, anxiety, negativity didn't have

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Speaker 1: Here we are today, not just believing for the promise,

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Speaker 1: but enjoying the promise, not just dreaming the dream, but

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Speaker 1: living the dream. Friends, it's so important what you consider,

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Speaker 1: or the size of your God? If you go through

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Speaker 1: the day just thinking about your problems, worried, negative, playing

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Speaker 1: out all all the scenarios that could happen, that's going

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Speaker 1: It takes just as much energy to be worried as

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Speaker 1: it does to believe. I'm asking us to use our

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