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Speaker 1: is a special bonus teaching that I recorded just for

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Speaker 1: you to break it down a little more, to take

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Speaker 2: I hope you enjoy this overflow message. Let me know,

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Speaker 2: let's go. You know, many times in.

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Speaker 1: Our life, even when things don't go the way we

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Speaker 1: inspires me. I have three people that come to my

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Speaker 1: mean there's always a way to avoid suffering. Because Jesus

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Speaker 1: Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. So Jesus

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Speaker 1: So we're not saying with God, there's always a way

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Speaker 1: And I thought about that as it relates to preaching

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Speaker 1: And even though I don't have this list of things

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Speaker 1: So stay in the law of the Lord, meditate on

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Speaker 1: And the Lord your God, he told Joshua, will be

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Speaker 1: So now God can do anything. God can blow blow

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Speaker 2: We got a friend. He's very, very sick. As you

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Speaker 2: can see. He can't move from this map. What's his name? Matt?

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, sorry, but you and Matt gonna have

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Speaker 1: to come back next week because there's no room left. Okay, cool,

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Speaker 1: the things that you know He's purpose. I'm being generic

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Speaker 1: When you can't find a way, what do you do?

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Speaker 2: It's very good to wait on the Lord.

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Speaker 1: But in this case, they knew that the power of

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Speaker 1: that Jesus was not the one keeping them out of

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Speaker 2: It was the crowd.

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Speaker 1: So watch what they did when they couldnot find a way.

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Speaker 1: Somebody say, with God, there's always a way. That's the

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Speaker 1: first thing You've got to believe. You got to believe

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Speaker 1: who enliven's dead wounds, He who causes the rain to

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Speaker 2: He will always make a way. But watch this, you

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Speaker 1: And I said, when they cannot find a way to

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm getting you to Jesus. I'm getting you

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Speaker 1: by faith. Here's why this verse came to me, this

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Speaker 1: Here's why it came to me as an illustration of

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Speaker 2: There's always a way. The power of the God God

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Speaker 1: And at first it seemed like there was in a way.

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Speaker 1: But with God, there's always a way. And look what

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Speaker 1: Jesus said when he verse twenty saw their faith. He said, friend,

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Speaker 1: Because they found a way, And how did they find

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Speaker 2: By faith? By faith, I will find it. By faith, I.

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Speaker 1: Will find a way to get to my wife's heart

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Speaker 2: By faith, I will find find a.

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Speaker 1: I will find a way to get up on my

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Speaker 1: a way, because with God, there's always a way. And

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Speaker 1: In fact, you could argue that this was not a

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Speaker 1: very smart thing at all to go up on the roof,

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Speaker 2: But they did it, and Jesus didn't call it foolish.

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Speaker 2: She called it faith. And I'm not saying be destructive,

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Speaker 2: but I'm saying be creative, be creative, be creative with

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Speaker 2: feel a little lost in what I'm supposed.

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Speaker 1: you know what, God is in this with me, working

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Speaker 2: He's fighting for me.

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Speaker 1: So there's a way, there's a way, and by faith,

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Speaker 1: I will find it. I will find it because God

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Speaker 1: is in it with me. God is working through me.

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Speaker 1: God is fighting for me. I mentioned Paul and Silas

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Speaker 1: it'll get with you anywhere. And I know they didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything wrong to be in prison, but you know

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Speaker 1: the analogy is still good, right, who wants to go

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Speaker 1: And the crazy thing was that when the door's open,

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Speaker 1: twenty five, when the doors flung open and everyone's prison

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Speaker 1: bands were loose, and God made a way for them

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Speaker 1: to get out, and they stayed.

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Speaker 1: Paul and Silas stayed in the prison even though they

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Speaker 2: Don't do that.

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Speaker 1: We're all here, let me tell you by Jesus, And

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Speaker 1: that prison guard got saved, which always demonstrated to me

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Speaker 1: a very powerful principle. A lot of times, what we're

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Speaker 1: looking for a way out of God is looking for

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Speaker 1: a way into. So I'm trying to escape situations, going God,

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Speaker 1: get me a way out, and God's say.

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Speaker 2: I want to weigh in. That's what I want.

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Speaker 1: I want to work through you in this. I want

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Speaker 1: to show my strength in this. Let him in because

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Speaker 1: there's a way. But you got to unblock your heart.

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Speaker 1: You can't be bitter, you can't be in survival mode.

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Speaker 1: today and say, Lord, I know there's a way that

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Speaker 1: you can use this. I know there's a way you

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Speaker 1: go forward in it. By faith, help me find it.

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Speaker 1: You won't find it.

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Speaker 2: By fear.

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Speaker 1: You will only see dead ends through the lens of fear.

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Speaker 1: That's all you ever see through the lens of fear

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Speaker 1: is dead after dead end. But by faith, I will

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Speaker 1: find a way. Hey, I hope you enjoyed the podcast,

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