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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about pit praise.

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Speaker 3: It's easy to give God praise when things are going good.

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Speaker 5: That doesn't take much faith. But what about when business

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Speaker 5: when I get out of this mess, Joel, when I

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Speaker 5: is what causes things to turn around. Praise is what

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Speaker 5: When you're in the pit when life has taken an

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Speaker 3: Praise protects the dream.

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Speaker 5: The other brothers were saying, let's kill him, let's leave

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Speaker 5: Praise push back the forces of darkness. When you're in

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Speaker 5: by having Judah, show up, Father, Thank you that you

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Speaker 5: are fighting my battles. Yes, this is a big problem,

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Speaker 3: Are you talking about how big your God is?

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Speaker 5: Are you complaining about the pit, focused on what wasn't fair,

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Speaker 3: You have to wake up Judah. Judah is in you.

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Speaker 5: You're waiting for someone else to deliver you, someone to

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Speaker 5: God that he's turning it around. Now, complaining about the

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Speaker 5: Not discouraged over finances, but thanking him that you will

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Speaker 5: lend and not borrow. When God sees you praising him

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Speaker 3: That's what he calls the sacrifice of praise.

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Speaker 5: He knows it's not easy, he knows it wasn't fair.

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Speaker 5: But when you praise Him in the pit, that moves

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Speaker 3: Ready for God to show out in your life. David said,

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Speaker 5: Praisers, people that will praise him no matter what happens.

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Speaker 3: They walked out as free men.

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Speaker 5: As he kept thanking God, his brother named Judah, the

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Speaker 3: But what if Joseph wasn't a pit praiser.

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Speaker 5: What if he had been negative, bitter, Maybe he'd stayed

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Speaker 5: Because sometimes, like with Joseph, what God promised us looks

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Speaker 3: That is on the way. Car racing, when a car

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Speaker 5: Refueled is through your praise, by finding something to be

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Speaker 3: And you may feel like you're in the pits, you

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Speaker 5: Your life is not supposed to end in defeat, in

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Speaker 5: The pits are temporary, but you have to do your

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Speaker 3: Your way out of the pit. The right attitude is Father,

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Speaker 5: Thank you that you're restoring health back to me. Thank

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Speaker 3: been yours, Restore years you lost because somebody did you wrong,

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Speaker 3: Restore a relationship that's going down, Restore health back to

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Speaker 3: your body. It's going to happen because of your praise.

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Speaker 5: In the scripture, the Israelites had traveled through the desert

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Speaker 5: forty years trying to make it to the Promised Land.

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Speaker 5: The parents never did make it in because they complained

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Speaker 5: and were negative. They eventually died. Now their children were

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Speaker 5: at Jericho. This was the last city that stood between them.

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Speaker 3: And their promised land.

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Speaker 5: You can imagine how excited they were if they could

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Speaker 5: just get through Jericho, that they could see this dream come.

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Speaker 3: To pass, there will always be.

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Speaker 5: A Jericho that stands between you and your promised land,

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Speaker 5: one last obstacle that looks insurmountable. You come this far,

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Speaker 5: you've done so well, but you don't see how you

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Speaker 5: could get past it. This is how the Israelites fell.

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Speaker 5: They could taste the victory. After years, they were finally

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Speaker 5: within reach. But Jericho had a huge wall around the city,

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Speaker 5: so thick that the chariots could ride on top of

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Speaker 5: the wall. It looked impossible to penetrate well. God told

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Speaker 5: Joshua to have the people march around the wall six days.

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Speaker 5: On the seventh day, on the seventh time around, they

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Speaker 5: were to let out a great shout.

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Speaker 3: I can imagine.

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Speaker 5: The people told Joshua, we'll shout after the wall falls,

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Speaker 5: after we take the city, then we'll give God praise.

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Speaker 3: There's no reason to do it before.

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Speaker 5: That doesn't make sense, Joshua said, you're missing the point.

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Speaker 5: The shout is what's going to cause the wall to fall.

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Speaker 3: Like them, we want to shout after the victory.

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Speaker 5: But God is saying, if you'll give me praise while

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Speaker 5: the wall is still standing, then you'll see things begin

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Speaker 5: to change.

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Speaker 3: Do you trust him?

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Speaker 5: Enough to praise him in front of a wall that's

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Speaker 5: not moving, to worship him with a bad medical report,

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Speaker 5: to thank him for freedom when you still have the addiction.

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Speaker 5: The Israelites stood in front of that wall and let

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Speaker 3: Great shout of praise.

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Speaker 5: Didn't make sense to their mind. Everything said, you're being foolish,

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Speaker 5: you're on the outside, nothing is happening. They just kept

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Speaker 5: giving God praise. Suddenly, this huge wall not only came

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Speaker 5: tumbling down, but researchers have found it fell in such

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Speaker 5: a way that it created a perfect ramp so the

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Speaker 5: Israelites could go in and take the city. When you

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Speaker 5: give God praise, he doesn't just bring down walls, but

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Speaker 5: he'll make a path.

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Speaker 3: So you can go in and take your promised land.

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Speaker 3: He'll make your rough places smooth. Now, maybe you have

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Speaker 3: a big obstacle in front of you.

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Speaker 5: You don't see how you could ever get past it.

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Speaker 5: Don't complain, turn up your praise. Praise is what's going

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Speaker 5: to bring the wall down. Perhaps you feel like you're

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Speaker 5: in a pit. You've had some bad breaks. Being bitter

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Speaker 5: is not going to make it better.

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Speaker 3: You have to bring.

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Speaker 5: Judah on the scene. Be a pit praiser, all through

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Speaker 5: the day. Father, Thank you that you're fighting my battles.

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Speaker 5: Thank you that you hold victory in store for the upright.

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Speaker 5: If you'll do this, I believe and declare, like Joseph,

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Speaker 5: you're coming out of that pit into your palace. Like Joshua,

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Speaker 5: walls that are holding you back are being broken right now.

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Speaker 3: Like Jeremiah said, God's going to reverse and restore. You're

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Speaker 3: going to.

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Speaker 5: See healing, breakthroughs, vindication, promotion, the fullness of.

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Speaker 3: Your destiny in Jesus's name, if you receive it. Can

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Speaker 3: you say a man today, I'd like to give you

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Speaker 3: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 3: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I'll make

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Speaker 3: you my Lord and savior.

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