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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about special strength is coming.

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Speaker 5: We all have times in life that we feel tired.

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Speaker 5: A woman I know has struggled with depression for many years.

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Speaker 5: The weight of what we're facing has left us exhausted.

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Speaker 5: When you feel overwhelmed, like you can't go on, he

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Speaker 5: and he outran the king's chariot to Jezreel. Jezreel wasn't

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Speaker 5: Special strength is headed your way. When you have special strength,

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Speaker 5: They gave the people of Jezrael an incredible enemies new

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Speaker 5: not to come against Jezreel. It's significant that Elijah outran

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Speaker 5: I can imagine Elijah's standing before King Ahab as A

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Speaker 5: I can hear Ahab laughing, saying, what are you talking about, Elijah.

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Speaker 5: These are the fastest horses of our day. These are

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Speaker 4: When Ahab got to Jezreel.

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Speaker 5: I can see Elijah with his feet up, drinking a

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Speaker 5: When God gives you special strength, you're going to accomplish

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Speaker 5: Opposition that's more powerful, that has more resources. You may

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Speaker 5: But right now God is breathing special strength into you.

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Speaker 5: Like Elijah, You're going to have the endurance, the stamina,

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Speaker 5: God has not brought you this far to leave you,

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Speaker 5: Isaiah said. God gives strength to the weary. He increases

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Speaker 5: The good news strength is coming. Maybe you feel weak.

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Speaker 5: It's the hand of God lifting you, empowering you, re

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Speaker 5: strength that means strength to outlast, strength to try again,

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Speaker 5: look back over my life, I can see these times

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Speaker 5: where God gave me special strength. When my father went

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Speaker 5: A strength, a courage, a determination, a stamina that wasn't

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Speaker 5: God is not going to let you miss your destiny.

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Speaker 5: He's not going to let you stay overwhelmed. You may

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Speaker 5: I thought, all we're doing is giving people hope and

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Speaker 5: letting them know that God is good. Didn't make sense

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Speaker 5: to me why people would be against that. I was

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Speaker 5: concerned about how it was going to work out, and

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Speaker 5: thoughts told me that we weren't going to last, and

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Speaker 5: these other voices were too strong. I was tempted to

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Speaker 5: live worried, discouraged, afraid. One afternoon, I was walking through

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Speaker 5: elevator when the door's open. An older lady stepped out

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Speaker 5: that I've known all my life.

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Speaker 4: She used to take care of me in the nursery.

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Speaker 5: I hadn't seen her in years, but I always knew

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Speaker 5: that she prayed for me. Every time I would see

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Speaker 5: her growing up, she would smile and say, Joel, you

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Speaker 5: know I'm praying for you. I thought, yes, I know,

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Speaker 5: You've told me four hundred times. I gave her a

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Speaker 5: big hug. She said, Joel, I can't believe I ran

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Speaker 5: When I was praying for you this morning, I heard

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Speaker 5: God saying, whatever you're worried.

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Speaker 4: About is going to be fine. The people the opposition

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Speaker 4: is not going to last. When she said that, it

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Speaker 5: There, strong, confident, re energized. Two minutes earlier and I

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Speaker 5: would have missed her two minutes later, she'd.

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Speaker 4: Have been gone.

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Speaker 5: God knows how to bring the Simons across your path,

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Speaker 5: people that will encourage you and help lift.

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Speaker 4: You back up.

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Speaker 5: Before Jesus was crucified, he went up a high mountain

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Speaker 5: with Peter, James and John. Jesus' appearance changed. His face

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Speaker 5: shined like the sun. His clothing became dazzling white. It's

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Speaker 5: known as the Mount of Transfiguration. Suddenly Moses and Elijah

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Speaker 5: appeared and started talking with Jesus.

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Speaker 4: It's interesting that those two were chosen.

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Speaker 5: There were other great heroes of faith, Abraham, David, Joseph.

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Speaker 5: Jesus was about to face all this hardship and suffering,

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Speaker 5: go through things that were very difficult, things that could

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Speaker 5: be overwhelming and exhausting. Maybe Elijah was there because, even

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Speaker 5: though he had performed great miracles, even though he'd called

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Speaker 5: at one point he was too exhausted to carry on,

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Speaker 5: too weary to move forward. Then God sent angels to

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Speaker 5: strengthen him. I don't know what the conversation was, but

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Speaker 5: maybe Elijah encouraged Jesus that God would give him special

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Speaker 5: strength to make it through, that angels would be there

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Speaker 5: to minister to him. Maybe Moses reminded Jesus how when

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Speaker 5: he was too tired to hold up his hands, when

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Speaker 5: he was fatigued and couldn't do it any longer. God

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Speaker 5: sent people to hold his hands up for him to

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Speaker 5: lift him when he fell, to help him carry the

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Speaker 5: weight of the cross. Maybe God has you hearing this

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Speaker 5: to remind you when you face these times where you

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Speaker 5: feel fatigued, overwhelmed, like you don't have the strength to

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Speaker 5: go on, That's okay. Jesus felt overwhelmed. Moses, Elijah, they

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Speaker 5: didn't think they.

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Speaker 4: Could go on.

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Speaker 5: God is going to have angels to strengthen you. The

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Speaker 5: right people are going to show up. God is not

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Speaker 5: going to let you miss your destiny. He gives strength

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Speaker 5: to the weary, not condemnation, Not why aren't you stronger?

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Speaker 4: Take the pressure off.

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Speaker 5: Even Jesus fell down under the weight of the cross.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes your cross is too heavy to carry by yourself.

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Speaker 5: Like Jesus, you may fall down, but God will always

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Speaker 5: have a simon there, someone to help you carry it.

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Speaker 5: Perhaps today you don't feel like.

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Speaker 4: You have the strength to move forward, the.

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Speaker 5: Strength to fight the illness, the strength to raise your children.

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Speaker 4: Remember when you are weak, He is strong.

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Speaker 5: Now. I believe, right now, God is breathing special strength

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Speaker 5: into you. That burden that's weighed you down is being lifted.

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Speaker 5: This is a turning point. God is re energizing you

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Speaker 5: with fresh passion, fresh vision. You will run and not

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Speaker 5: be weary. You will walk and not faint. Like Elijah.

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Speaker 5: You're about to outrun some chariots. You're going to think,

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Speaker 4: It's God giving you special strength.

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare you are strong, you are victorious,

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