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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. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. 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 stay 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: groom during the wedding rehearsal. He said to the minister,

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Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you. If you'll leave out

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Speaker 1: all that honor, love and obey stuff, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. He's lifted one hundred dollars bill into

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Speaker 1: the minister's hand and walked away with a smile. The

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Speaker 1: next day, during the ceremony, the minister said to him,

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Speaker 1: her breakfast in bed, fulfill her every desire? He gulped

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Speaker 1: in astonishment, said in a weak voice, he didn't whisper

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Speaker 1: it in the minister's ear. I thought we had a deal.

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Speaker 1: The minister handed him his money back and said, your

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Speaker 1: wife made me a much better offer. Say it like

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Speaker 1: you mean it. 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 recepted. I will

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

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about fast forward.

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Speaker 1: When we look at the dreams we want to accomplish

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Speaker 1: and problems we're hoping will turn around, it can seem

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Speaker 1: like it's going to take a long time. Years to

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Speaker 1: get out of debt, years to recover from a sickness,

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Speaker 1: years to see the business grow. But God doesn't always

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Speaker 1: do things on a normal timeline. The scripture talks about

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Speaker 1: to speed things up. He has these moments of favor

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Speaker 1: where he will catapult you ahead. Everything seems routine, going

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Speaker 1: along at the same pace, making the same progress. Then

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere, one good break, one contract. One door

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Speaker 1: see it coming. You can't explain it. It's God accelerating things,

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Speaker 1: propelling you forward. When I'm watching a movie at home,

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Speaker 1: or I've recorded a ballgame it's getting boring, or if

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Speaker 1: up the remote control and hit fast forward, jumps it ahead,

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Speaker 1: hit it again four times, to speed again, eight times,

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Speaker 1: in thirty minutes. The good news is God has a

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Speaker 1: fast forward button for your life. Should take you thirty

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Speaker 1: the time. I met a lady in the lobby that

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Speaker 1: was waiting for a liver transplant. She was told it

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Speaker 1: could take up to five years, so many people in

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Speaker 1: line in front of her. Problem was she didn't have

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Speaker 1: five years. Her health was declining so fast. I told

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Speaker 1: her what I'm telling you, that God is not limited

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Speaker 1: by a normal timeline. God controls time. Three weeks later,

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Speaker 1: I'm still believing with you. She said, no, Joel, I've

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Speaker 1: already had the transplant. They called her back the next week.

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Speaker 1: Her doctor said he had never seen anything like that before.

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Speaker 1: What happened, God hit fast forward. God knows how to

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Speaker 1: accelerate your dreams, accelerate your healing, accelerate what you're believing for.

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Speaker 1: That's why you can't judge your future based on the

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Speaker 1: progress you've seen in the past. God has the remote control.

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Speaker 1: He has some of these fast forward moments come in

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Speaker 1: explain it. You didn't see it coming. But suddenly you

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Speaker 1: get well, Suddenly you're in management, Suddenly you break the addiction.

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Speaker 1: Should have taken you a lifetime, but God hit fast forward.

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Speaker 1: He did a quick work. For years, Lakewood was on

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Speaker 1: Compact Center. The Rockets basketball team won two World championships here,

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Speaker 1: I said, sure, will, right up there by the flag.

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Speaker 1: But that one good break did more than I could

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Speaker 1: some of these fast forward moments for you. You couldn't

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Speaker 1: make it happen. You couldn't change their mind. You couldn't

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Speaker 1: make yourself get well. It's the hand of God propelling

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Speaker 1: you into your destiny. He has the remote control. Right now,

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Speaker 1: God's feeding things up. What should have taken you years

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Speaker 1: will happened in a fraction of the time. Hell, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I feel stuck. I'm not making

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Speaker 1: much progress. My dream seems so far off. Now get

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Speaker 1: in agreement with God. You have to be a believer

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Speaker 1: and not a doubter. Father. I want to thank you

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Speaker 1: that acceleration is coming my way. Thank you that you've

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Speaker 1: already lined up these fast forward moments that'll propel me

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Speaker 1: into my destiny. Acts chapter eight. Philip was in Samaria ministering.

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Speaker 1: This angel came and told him to go into the

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Speaker 1: desert on the road that leads to Gossen. He didn't

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Speaker 1: While he was writing, he was reading out loud a

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Speaker 1: When Philip heard this, he walked alongside the man and

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Speaker 1: asked if he understood what it meant. The man said

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Speaker 1: so excited he saw some water and said, I want

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Speaker 1: to get baptized right now. He got out and Philip

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Speaker 1: baptized him. When the man came up out of the water,

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Speaker 1: the scripture says, the spirit of God caught Philip away,

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Speaker 1: and the man never saw Philip again. You can imagine

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Speaker 1: what the man thought. Came up out of the water

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Speaker 1: and suddenly Philip is gone. He's disappeared. Verse forty says

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Speaker 1: Philip found himself further in the city of Azotas. Azotas

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Speaker 1: was twenty miles from where they were. That defies logic.

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Speaker 1: You can't explain, it doesn't make sense, but God propels

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Speaker 1: but God propels you. In your career, should have taken

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Speaker 1: you years to build your business, but you found yourself further.

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Speaker 1: God opened the doors, He brought the right people, gave

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Speaker 1: to propel you. In your health, We're supposed to take

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Speaker 1: a long time to get well. You'd made up your

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Speaker 1: couldn't do. Now you've found yourself further, healthy, whole, victorious.

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Speaker 1: Or you thought that legal problem would last for years.

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Speaker 1: The experts told you to not get your hopes up.

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Speaker 1: But God hit the fast forward button. He did a

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Speaker 1: quick work, and you found yourself further. See, we look

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Speaker 1: at things in the natural. It should take this long

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Speaker 1: good to be wise. But God is supernatural. All he

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Speaker 1: has to do is hit fast forward, and your twenty

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Speaker 1: years down the road, you find yourself further. Here's the key.

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Speaker 1: You can't calculate his goodness. You can't quantify his blessings,

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Speaker 1: his favor, his increase. There are things he's already planned

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Speaker 1: for you that are out of the ordinarian uncommon. That's

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Speaker 1: why he said lean not to your own understanding. Don't

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Speaker 1: look at your dreams, your problems, that medical report just

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Speaker 1: in the natural on your timeline. God has another timeline.

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Speaker 1: He has some fast forward moments that are going to

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Speaker 1: defy the odds acceleration you didn't see coming. Good breaks

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Speaker 1: that will catapult you ahead. You look up and think,

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Speaker 1: how did I get here? I didn't have the training,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't next in line, but God catapulted you ahead.

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Speaker 1: How did I break this addiction? They said it's going

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Speaker 1: to be years, but the chain breaker stepped in. God

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Speaker 1: said enough is enough, and you found yourself further. The

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Speaker 1: prophet Ezekiel said, the hand of the Lord was on me,

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Speaker 1: and he carried me. That word carried in the original

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Speaker 1: language means to shoot out, to launch forward. It implies acceleration. Now,

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Speaker 1: making progress, being faithful. Then God hit fast forward out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere. You're thrust into levels you didn't see coming. Favor, influence,

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Speaker 1: opportunity that you've never imagined. When my father went to

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Speaker 1: pasture the church. I called our contact at the cable network,

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Speaker 1: where my father had a national program for almost twenty years,

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Speaker 1: told him that Daddy had died and we were gonna

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Speaker 1: have to cancel our airtime. I thought, I don't know

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Speaker 1: I'm sure not gonna get on television. Nobody's gonna listen

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Speaker 1: to me. And I came home that night and talking

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Speaker 1: to Victoria just casually, she said what'd you do today?

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Speaker 1: And I told her that I canceled our airtime. She

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Speaker 1: to see what's going to happen to Lakewood. She was

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Speaker 1: so strong and so passionate about it. I knew there

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Speaker 1: was only one right answer. Yes, ma'am. Airtime is very valuable.

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Speaker 1: It was a holiday weekend, so I called the first

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Speaker 1: thing Tuesday morning. The man said, Joel, this is so interesting.

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Speaker 1: I had the time sold on Friday. The contract was

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Speaker 1: on my desk, but something said to me, don't sign

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Speaker 1: it until next week. He gave us our time back.

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Speaker 1: We started airing my messages on television. Much to my surprise,

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Speaker 1: Three years later, we were on the top stations in

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Speaker 1: all the major cities. I was just hoping to keep

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Speaker 1: propelled me further than I ever imagine. What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: You don't know what God has in store for you.

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Speaker 1: He's been carrying you, he's been sustaining you. But part

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Speaker 1: of that carrying are these times where God launches you forward,

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Speaker 1: where he accelerates your destiny. He puts you years down

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Speaker 1: the road. You may feel like you're not making much progress.

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Speaker 1: It can be discouraging at this rate. It's going to

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Speaker 1: take so long to get ahead, so long to get well,

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