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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jorlan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: We believe you're going to have.

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Speaker 1: An awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message I'll never forget.

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Speaker 3: One Saturday afternoon, when I was sixteen years old, I

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Speaker 3: walked in the kitchen and my father was grilling Hamburgers

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Speaker 3: that Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'm hungry. Dad. He said great.

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Speaker 3: He said, can you run to the store for me

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Speaker 3: and pick up a few little items. I just need

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Speaker 3: some mustard and pickles, just a couple little items.

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Speaker 2: I said absolutely. I mean I was sixteen years old,

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Speaker 2: just waiting to.

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Speaker 3: Get behind the wheel, any excuse to drive, and I

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Speaker 3: was right there. So he went to give me his keys,

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Speaker 3: and as he was giving me the keys, he said,

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Speaker 3: now look, Victoria, He said, I want you to go

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Speaker 3: straight to the grocery store.

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Speaker 2: I want you to come straight.

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Speaker 3: Back and don't open the passenger side window.

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Speaker 2: Don't roll it down.

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Speaker 3: Because it's off the track. And he said, I have

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Speaker 3: to get it repaired next week, so don't open the window.

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Speaker 3: I took the keys from his hand, and I rushed

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Speaker 3: out the back door, jumped in the car, cranked it up,

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Speaker 3: drove down the street to my best girlfriend's house and

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Speaker 3: picked her up.

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Speaker 2: I said, we're going to the grocery store.

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Speaker 3: As we were on our way to the grocery store,

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Speaker 3: about to leave the neighborhood, we saw some of our

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Speaker 3: friends who lived in the neighborhood walking down the sidewalk,

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Speaker 3: so we started waving. I said, let's pull over so

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Speaker 3: they can see us driving. So we pull over. I said,

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Speaker 3: roll down the window so we can say hi. She

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Speaker 3: looks at me and she says, I thought she said

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Speaker 3: the window was broken. I said, it's okay, it'll be

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Speaker 3: fine this time, This one time won't hurt anything.

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Speaker 2: So she rolls the window down, and we talked to

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Speaker 2: our friends. And I'll never forget.

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Speaker 3: As I was driving all she was rolling that window

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Speaker 3: back up, and it was as if time stood still.

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Speaker 3: That window shattered in one million pieces. I looked at

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Speaker 3: that window. I couldn't believe it, millions of pieces. I

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Speaker 3: looked at my girlfriend.

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Speaker 2: I said, you're going home with me. Listen.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget driving that car home, thinking what am

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Speaker 3: I going to tell my father?

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Speaker 2: Drove up the driveway, walked.

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Speaker 3: In the back door, and there he stood in the kitchen.

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Speaker 3: With the biggest knot in my throat. I said, Dad,

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Speaker 3: I got to tell you something. I did everything you

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Speaker 3: told me not to do, I said, Dad, I shattered

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Speaker 3: your window.

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Speaker 2: Please forgive me. I couldn't believe what I had done.

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Speaker 3: But you know that Saturday afternoon as a sixteen year

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Speaker 3: old girl, and I'll never forget my dad's response to me.

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Speaker 2: As I looked at my father and he looked back at.

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Speaker 3: Me, and I'm sure he was disappointed. He looked at

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Speaker 3: me with eyes of compassion. It was as if he

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Speaker 3: looked past my failure, pass my mistake. Somehow he saw

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Speaker 3: a daughter on a journey, and he showed me unconditional

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Speaker 3: love that day. He didn't rate me, he didn't tell

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Speaker 3: me how terrible I was. Somehow he found it in

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Speaker 3: himself to look over my faults and show me his love.

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Speaker 3: Can I tell you, if an earthly father can do

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Speaker 3: such a thing, how much more does our heavenly father.

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Speaker 2: Look at us today.

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Speaker 3: Through eyes of compassion and love? So often we feel

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Speaker 3: like he's looking at our mistakes, counting our failures against us.

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Speaker 3: But can I tell you the scripture says, when we

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Speaker 3: were yet sinners, before we even knew what was right

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Speaker 3: and what was wrong, he looked down through the corridors

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Speaker 3: of time and he said, I love you unconditionally. That

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Speaker 3: is the heart of the Father. Now your story might

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Speaker 3: not be the same with your earthly father. I don't know,

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Speaker 3: but I can tell you it has helped me understand

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Speaker 3: the love of my heavenly father. You see, that day

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Speaker 3: I had to do something I had ton't met what

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Speaker 3: I did, and then I had to ask for forgiveness.

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Speaker 3: Then I took it one step further. I had to

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Speaker 3: receive his forgiveness because see, it was up to me

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Speaker 3: at that point. Was I going to make a decision

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Speaker 3: that my father loved me and that he indeed forgave.

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Speaker 2: Me and I could shake off the shame, shake off.

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Speaker 3: The guilt, because see, there was something real important that

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Speaker 3: I needed to do.

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Speaker 2: I needed to have a relationship with this father in

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Speaker 2: my life.

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Speaker 3: And if I was going to draw back and not

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Speaker 3: feel like I was good enough, I would have never

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Speaker 3: come and asked him for the keys again.

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Speaker 2: But guess what I did. I asked him for the

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Speaker 2: keys again and he gave them to me.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying all that to say some of you have

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Speaker 3: shrunk back.

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Speaker 2: You're not asking God for the keys again. You're saying he.

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Speaker 3: Couldn't possibly want that for me. How could I possibly

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Speaker 3: achieve that? Man, I'm make a mistake all the time.

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Speaker 3: I can't get to where God wants me to be

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Speaker 3: if I even ask him?

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Speaker 2: Will you even hear me? Can I tell you your.

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Speaker 3: Heavenly Father is not looking at what you're doing wrong.

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Speaker 2: He's looking at what you're doing right. He sees your

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Speaker 2: two good moves. Yeah, you may have blown it. You

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Speaker 2: may have even blown it yesterday.

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Speaker 3: But can I tell you when you come and you say,

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Speaker 3: God forgive me, he sees us as a work in progress.

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Speaker 3: We are sons and daughters in progress, and he's not holding.

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Speaker 2: That against us.

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Speaker 3: Say that.

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Speaker 2: ILL tell you something.

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Speaker 3: When I asked my dad for the keys again, he

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Speaker 3: didn't say to me, well, don't forget what you did,

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Speaker 3: don't forget how you wronged me. He didn't come at

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Speaker 3: me with guilt and condemnation. And I want to remind

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Speaker 3: you today if if you're not asking for the keys

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Speaker 3: because you feel guilty, maybe a little ashamed, maybe you

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Speaker 3: can't even believe God would do.

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Speaker 2: That that is not of God, that is the accuser.

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Speaker 3: And those are the things you're gonna have to shake

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Speaker 3: off and make a decision today.

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Speaker 2: When I ask God.

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Speaker 3: For forgiveness, he freely forgives me, He pardons me. Luke

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Speaker 3: twelve says, he takes great pleasure in giving you the kingdom.

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Speaker 2: That tells me He's got some keys for you today.

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Speaker 2: You gotta ask.

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Speaker 3: You don't walk timid before God. He likes boldness, he

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Speaker 3: likes tenacity. Listen, God says, come boldly before the throne

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Speaker 3: of grace so you can obtain mercy and find help

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Speaker 3: in your time of need.

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Speaker 2: See there's the key right there. You gotta be bold.

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Speaker 3: You got to ask for forgiveness, you got to receive it.

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Speaker 3: You gotta forgive yourself, and then you got to know

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Speaker 3: that God's going to help you get to where.

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Speaker 2: You need to be. Amen. He's a good father. He

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Speaker 2: is an amazing father.

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Speaker 4: Today it's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start.

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Speaker 4: It's a new year, time to forget the struggles of

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Speaker 1: Every January we create a new devotional calendar. When you

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