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Speaker 1: This is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate your support and we have a brand new

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Speaker 2: resource we'd like to send you this month.

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Speaker 1: It's called Playing with Confidence. I'll tell you more about

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Speaker 1: it at the end of the podcast.

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Speaker 2: We love you and we sure hope you enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I.

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Speaker 2: Think today the other day I was down here at

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Speaker 2: the altar and I was praying for a beautiful young woman.

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Speaker 2: She was telling me what she was concerned about and

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Speaker 2: what she wanted me to pray for, And then she

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Speaker 2: looked right at me and she said, I feel unnoticed

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Speaker 2: by God. I feel like God doesn't even care.

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Speaker 3: About what's going on with me.

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Speaker 2: You know, I believe that sometimes we can all feel

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Speaker 2: that way. We get struggling with something so long in

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Speaker 2: our life, we wonder, God, where are you? Do you

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Speaker 2: even see what's going on in my life? Do you

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Speaker 2: even care? Sometime we're in a room like this and

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Speaker 2: we feel like just one person in the crowd. God,

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Speaker 2: how do you find me in the midst of all

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Speaker 2: these people? But can I tell you today, God's eyes

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Speaker 2: are on you. I want to be the one that

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Speaker 2: reminds you God sees you. The Bible says that He

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Speaker 2: knew you before the foundation of the world.

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Speaker 3: That he handpicked you.

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Speaker 2: See, he knows every single hair on your head. Now

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Speaker 2: that blows my mind.

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Speaker 3: But God is God, and if he said it, I

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Speaker 3: believe it.

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Speaker 2: No matter what I feel like, even if I feel

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Speaker 2: alone in a crowded room, I'm going to stand on

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Speaker 2: the word that God says he knew me. He knows

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Speaker 2: my down city, he knows my uprising. The Bible says

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Speaker 2: he knows my thoughts from Afar. I don't even have

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Speaker 2: to speak anything, and God already knows me.

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: God knows you today. But if we're gonna overcome those

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Speaker 2: crushing feelings of feeling alone, feeling uncared for, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: have to stir up our faith. We're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: remind ourself every day. God does know me, He does

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Speaker 2: care for me. And me and God we're a majority.

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Speaker 2: We can do anything. But failed see, with God, anything

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Speaker 2: is possible, Anything is possible. Whatever you're faith things, It's

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Speaker 2: possible if you take hold of God.

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Speaker 3: Luke Chapter thirteen one.

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Speaker 2: Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on this

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Speaker 2: and he began to teach them, and in the middle

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Speaker 3: He stopped because he took.

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Speaker 2: Notice of a woman that was in the crowd. You see,

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Speaker 2: the woman that was in this crowd. She wasn't dressed beautifully,

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Speaker 3: The woman that was in this crowd, the Bible says,

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Speaker 2: Now we don't know what that infirmity was, but it

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Speaker 2: let's everybody, let's bend over, you would go Victoria, quit

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Speaker 3: But if you were bent over.

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Speaker 2: Bent over for eighteen long years. You see, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: most amazing thing to me that day was that Jesus

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Speaker 2: all about her. In fact, he immediately called that woman forward.

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Speaker 2: don't know how old she was, but she was bent over.

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Speaker 2: But she began moving slowly towards Jesus, and he spoke

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Speaker 3: You're free.

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Speaker 2: I mean, she was shuffling and she heard those words,

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Speaker 2: and the Bible said she immediately stood up. She hadn't

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Speaker 2: stood up for eighteen years. This woman had been looking

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Speaker 2: of the ground and people's feet. She didn't even see

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Speaker 2: and he touched her and she stood up. Can you

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Speaker 3: Face she had seen in this upright position was a

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Speaker 2: You see, she felt like no one saw her. She

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Speaker 2: had an identity of being crippled. But Jesus saw her

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Speaker 2: as a daughter of Abraham. You see, he didn't see

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Speaker 2: Now I was thinking about this. She'd been crippled for

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Speaker 2: wonder how long it took her to realize that she

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Speaker 2: was set free. But she wasn't crippled anymore. I mean,

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Speaker 2: she was standing up straight. But you know, when you've

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Speaker 2: When that attitude's had you for so you've had this

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Speaker 3: Just got set free.

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Speaker 2: And I believe when I'm talking to somebody today that's

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Speaker 2: that you're a son or a daughter of Promise, and

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Speaker 2: that God has already spoken the word and he's already.

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Speaker 3: Set you free.

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Speaker 2: He's already freed you from what would bind you.

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Speaker 3: But you just don't realize it yet.

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Speaker 2: You see, the enemy wants you low, real low. He

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Speaker 2: wants you looking down. He certainly doesn't want you to

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Speaker 3: He doesn't want.

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Speaker 2: To see you to see that you are a son

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Speaker 2: and daughter of Promise. You see, he called her a

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Speaker 2: for all the reasons that women shouldn't be healed.

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Speaker 3: But you know what he said. He said, this woman

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Speaker 2: She has every right and every authority to be healed any.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes people try to keep you bent over with

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Speaker 3: With the situation. Man, your own mind tries to keep

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Speaker 2: But can I tell you you have all power and

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Speaker 2: authority to stand up straight, because Jesus is already calling

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Speaker 2: was in the synagogue that day. She didn't let her

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Speaker 2: hearing what Jesus had to say. And too often we

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Speaker 2: allow the conditions in our life to keep us from

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Speaker 2: our position of faith.

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Speaker 3: We say, I can't come to church today. I'm too tired.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: My boss has me working six days a week. My

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Speaker 3: I'm tired. I need to rest. You see, nobody would.

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Speaker 2: but she didn't see she didn't allow her condition.

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Speaker 3: To change her position.

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Speaker 2: She was a daughter of Promise, whether she knew it

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Speaker 2: or not, and that's what kept her going. I want

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Speaker 2: to encourage you.

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Speaker 3: Today to stir your faith.

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Speaker 2: Don't allow anything to bend you over, to bind you up.

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Speaker 3: Because whom the sons that's free is free.

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Speaker 2: Indeed you are free. Indeed, today you've been bought with

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Speaker 2: a great Christ. You are joint heirs with Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: You have a covenant between you and God. You see,

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Speaker 2: that's what that woman had. That's what Jesus saw. He

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Speaker 2: didn't see her crippled body. He saw his covenant with her.

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Speaker 2: He saw an agreement that couldn't be broken and used

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Speaker 2: agreement between you and God that cannot be broken. There's

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Speaker 2: no devil on earth that can bind you anymore because you're.

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Speaker 3: Free, free, free.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, you see, it's up to us to get ourself

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Speaker 2: under the word, to understand that Jesus is the same yesterday, today,

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Speaker 2: he is for your children. He is the same Jesus,

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Speaker 2: with the same covenant, blood covenant. You see, when we

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Speaker 2: and God will reposition you no matter what situation you're

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Speaker 2: will become everything He's intended you to be amen.

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Speaker 3: Do you believe that today? Thank you Lord, we received

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Speaker 3: that today.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes life can make you feel like you are just

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Speaker 4: living in the dark. Even your prayers don't feel like

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Speaker 4: they are making it to heaven. But God is listening

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Speaker 4: and his light is about to shine.

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Speaker 1: We know God is all powerful that he can answer

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Speaker 1: any prayer, but sometimes we don't know what to pray.

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Speaker 1: We don't think we deserve God's goodness. Maybe we're inconveniencing him,

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Speaker 1: or he has more important things to deal with. But

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Speaker 1: God is concerned about every detail of your life. He's

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Speaker 1: move the hands of God. There are prayers you can

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Speaker 1: pray for peace and comfort, prayers for your family and hell,

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Speaker 1: prayers for your dreams and goals. As you make these

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Speaker 1: prayers your own, pray with confidence, that's when you'll see

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Speaker 1: the creator of.

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Speaker 3: The universe go to work.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll bequest your copy today.

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Speaker 4: Joel shares how to pray when you need a breakthrough,

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Speaker 4: when you need strength. Yes, when life's moments happen and

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