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Speaker 4: his whispers what we're feeling, the promptings, the nudgings, the

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Speaker 4: further we're going to go. HI. This is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 4: social media. We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I like

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Speaker 4: to start with something funny, and I heard about this

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Speaker 4: pastor and song leader that weren't getting along, and it

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Speaker 4: started spilling over in the services. One Sunday, the pastor

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Speaker 4: preached on the importance of being a giver. Afterward, the

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Speaker 4: song leader got up and led the song Jesus paid

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Speaker 4: it all. The next week, the pastor talked about not gossiping,

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Speaker 4: watching your tongue. The song leader got up and led,

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Speaker 4: I love to tell the story. The pastor was so

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Speaker 4: frustrated finally resigned, told the congregation Jesus brought me here

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Speaker 4: and Jesus has taken me away. The song leader then led,

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Speaker 4: what a friend we have in Jesus, Like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about listen to the whisper.

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Speaker 4: We don't always realize how God speaks to us. We've

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Speaker 4: seen in the movies where God spoke to Moses. The

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Speaker 4: time God speaks to us in a gentle whisper. It's

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Speaker 4: not something loud, it's not forceful. It's called the still

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Speaker 4: small voice. We feel an impression, a prompting, not in

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Speaker 4: these promptings, the suggestions, the gentle whispers, God will lead

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Speaker 4: That whisper is God leading you. The more you obey

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Speaker 4: And sometimes you feel an unrest and uneasiness, like an

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Speaker 4: keeping you from something good. He's protecting you. He's keeping

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Speaker 4: my spiritual ears to be sensitive to your voice. Help

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Speaker 4: I pulled up. It was this old rundown house, hadn't

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Speaker 4: scripture talks about peace that passes understanding. That means sometimes

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Speaker 4: When you develop this skill of listening to the whisper,

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Speaker 4: He used to go check on it every once in

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Speaker 4: He said, no, Joel, I was just driving by one

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Speaker 4: day and I felt so drawn to it. I knew

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Speaker 4: it was supposed to be mine. Just a whisper, just

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Speaker 4: a prompting that he felt in his spirit. God will

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Speaker 4: ask you to do things that are not always it's logical.

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Speaker 4: The battle will take place between your mind, all the

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Speaker 4: loud voices and the gentle whisper. When it's from God,

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Speaker 4: it's more of a knowing. You can't explain it on paper.

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Speaker 4: It may not make sense, your reason can't justify it.

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Speaker 4: But deep down you have this peace. You know you're

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Speaker 4: supposed to do it. Fifteen years later, he received notice

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Speaker 4: that the state was putting in a highway. It just

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Speaker 4: so happened out of all that land it was going

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Speaker 4: to run right through his property. They had to buy

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Speaker 4: him out. He ended up making more than one hundred

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Speaker 4: times what he paid for it. This man is an

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Speaker 4: the regional paper was talking to him, said, sir, you

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Speaker 4: sure know how to pick a piece of property. He said, yes,

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Speaker 4: my father told me about this place. The reporter said,

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Speaker 4: I didn't know your dad was in real estate. The

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Speaker 4: He knows where everything. When you listen to this still

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Speaker 4: small voice, you'll come across blessings, favor, good breaks, things

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Speaker 4: you had no way of knowing. You can't explain it,

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Speaker 4: you don't have any data to back it up, but

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Speaker 4: inside of you. He'll whisper secrets to your spirit. Some

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Speaker 4: of these whispers are destiny moments. They are vital for

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Speaker 4: you to see the fullness of what God has in store.

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Speaker 4: The reason you feel it so strongly is because it's

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Speaker 4: about to launch you into a new level of your destiny.

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Speaker 4: God is about to whisper some secrets. He's going to

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Speaker 4: give you insight into things that propel you ahead. You

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Speaker 4: are one whisper away from stepping into greater favor, greater influence,

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Speaker 4: greater reefsources, something more than you've imagined. Now, it may

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Speaker 4: not happen the way you think. It may not make sense. Logically,

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Speaker 4: your mind will try to talk you out of it.

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Speaker 4: Follow the still small voice. You can trust your censor.

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Speaker 4: I believe that God is whispering something to all of us,

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Speaker 4: maybe an area we need to grow, come up higher,

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Speaker 4: make better decisions. We've heard it, we keep ignoring it,

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Speaker 4: but it won't go away. Now is the time to act.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's a whisper where we need to stretch, get

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Speaker 4: My challenge is pay attention to the whispers. Be sensitive

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Speaker 4: to what you're feeling the promptings. Let that still small

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Speaker 4: voice be the loudest voice in your life, the voice

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Speaker 4: that you choose to obey. If you'll do this, I

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Speaker 4: believe and declare, God is going to whisper secrets to you.

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Speaker 4: He's going to give you inside information. You're about to

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Speaker 4: rise higher, accomplish dreams, and become all you were created

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Speaker 4: to be in Jesus' name. And if you receive it,

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Speaker 4: can you say a man, I'd like to give you

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll make

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