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Speaker 5: out today. I like to start with something funny and

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Speaker 5: I heard about this elderly minister he was dying. He

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Speaker 5: the lawyer said, very sincerely, sir, why did you choose

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Speaker 3: That's how I want to go. Hold up your Bible,

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Speaker 3: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 3: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 5: Today I will be taught the word of God. I'll

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Speaker 5: boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 3: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 3: bless you. I want to talk to you.

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Speaker 5: Today about strategically ordered steps. God is not a random God.

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Speaker 5: He's not vague approximant. Maybe I'll do this, maybe I'll

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Speaker 3: God is precise, exact.

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Speaker 5: He's already laid out the plan for your life down

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Speaker 5: to the smallest details. And just as God will strategically

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Speaker 5: bring good breaks promotion the right people, God will also

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Speaker 5: use adversities, disappointments, closed doors to move us toward our destiny.

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Speaker 5: At the time, we may not understand it. We think

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Speaker 3: God sees the big picture for our life.

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Speaker 5: He knows what we're going to need in a month,

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Speaker 5: We're not always going to understand why something happens. True

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Speaker 3: That he's strategic, that he knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 5: It may be uncomfortable, we don't understand it, but deep

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Speaker 5: God is creating opportunity. Somewhere down the road. It's not

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Speaker 5: And if you don't understand this principle, you'll live frustrated

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Speaker 5: will look like you're going the wrong direction. Your back

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Speaker 5: is facing your goal. You know you're supposed to be

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Speaker 5: you keep a good attitude when you're praying for increase

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Speaker 3: Friends, God knows what he's doing. He would have never

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Speaker 5: If it was going to keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 5: God doesn't always take us the most logical way. We

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Speaker 5: would not be in a straight line. Imagine a bunch

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Speaker 5: Then there's a turn and another turn. Now you're headed

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Speaker 5: At some point, you could be on a stepping stone

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Speaker 5: this is not God's plan.

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Speaker 3: I'm going the wrong way. Why do these things keep

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Speaker 5: There are curves, detours, U turns, shortcuts.

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Speaker 3: God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 5: He's strategically directing your steps. It may be uncomfortable, but

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Speaker 5: God's the one that put the stepping stone there. It's

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Speaker 5: all a part of his plan. And we all want

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Speaker 3: God has something better, something bigger.

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Speaker 5: You haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in store,

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Speaker 5: but too often think, God, I'm going backwards. You said higher,

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Speaker 5: He is strategically positioning you to see more of His goodness.

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Speaker 5: God says his plans for you are for good and

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Speaker 5: Promise is coming to pass. Now, don't judge your future

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Speaker 5: There was a great famine in the land.

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Speaker 5: I've got it put away in a real safe place. Thought, yes,

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Speaker 3: We can't even find it.

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Speaker 5: About three years later, we were driving home late one

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Speaker 5: slow down. You're going to get a ticket. I said,

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Speaker 5: I am not going to get a ticket. I was

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Speaker 5: just barely going over seventy. The seed limit was sixty five.

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Speaker 5: Sudden, look in my rear view mirror, and here's these

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Speaker 5: me get this ticket. She called it into existence. The

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Speaker 3: He said, I need to see your proof of insurance.

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Speaker 5: Victoria opened the glove compartment and started looking. We could

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Speaker 5: find every document except our current insurance. She finally pulled

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Speaker 3: The officer standing right there, very nerve wracking.

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Speaker 5: The middle of the night. You couldn't see anything. She

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Speaker 3: And she struggled and struggled. Finally got it out. It

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Speaker 5: Now. I still don't understand why God used my pain

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Speaker 3: That makes sense.

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Speaker 5: Victoria was so excited she forgot all about the insurance card.

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Speaker 5: She was over there rejoicing and here I was about

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Speaker 5: to go to jail. She ended up finding the current

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Speaker 5: the stacks. It was one of the first things she

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Speaker 5: looked at. It was almost like God caused her to

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Speaker 5: overlook it. I handed it to the officer. He said,

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Speaker 5: are you that minister, I said, I am. He said,

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Speaker 5: whole section.

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Speaker 3: He handed it back, said good night, be careful you

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Speaker 3: can go.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes what we think is a set back is really

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Speaker 5: a set up for God to do something great. God

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Speaker 5: knew we would never dig way back in that glove

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Speaker 5: the middle of the God works in mysterious ways. Everything

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Speaker 5: about your life has been strategically ordained. You may not understand,

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Speaker 5: it may not make sense. That's what faith is all about.

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Speaker 5: Some of you are living frustrated, upset because of what

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Speaker 5: somebody said, what didn't work out. Come back to that

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Speaker 5: place of peace. It's not going to work against you.

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Speaker 5: It's going to work for you. Like God promised the Israelites.

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare you're coming into an afterwards, after

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Speaker 5: the storm, after the difficulty, there will be great joy,

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Speaker 5: great health, great relationships, great opportunities, great abundance.

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Speaker 3: Come in your way in Jesus' name. If you receive it.

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Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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