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

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

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buy

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Speaker 1: and be a part of one of our services. I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny. And one day this

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Speaker 1: young man was talking to God and he said, God,

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Speaker 1: what's a million years like to you? God said, a

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Speaker 1: million years to me is like one second to you.

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Speaker 1: He said, well, God, what's a million dollars like to you?

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Speaker 1: God said, a million dollars to me is like one

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Speaker 1: penny to you. He thought about it a moment. He said, God,

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Speaker 1: will you give me a penny? God said, sure, just

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Speaker 1: a second, say it like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says. I am. I

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Speaker 1: have what it's as I have. I can do what

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Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about pit praisers. It's easy to give

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Speaker 1: much faith. But what about when business slows down, somebody

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Speaker 1: to get better. We all have times where we feel

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Speaker 1: like we're in the pits. Life has thrown us a curve.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and go around negative. We think,

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Speaker 1: when it turns around, then I'll have a good attitude.

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Speaker 1: When my health improves, then I'll be grateful when I

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Speaker 1: get out of this mess. Joel, when I break this addiction,

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Speaker 1: then I'll get my joy back. But that's backwards. You

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Speaker 1: have to give God praise first. Praise is what causes

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Speaker 1: things to turn around. Praise is what breaks bondages that

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Speaker 1: are holding us back. Praise activates God's favor. Don't wait

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Speaker 1: till you get out of the pit. Be a pit praiser.

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Speaker 1: Praise Him in spite of what hasn't worked out. Praise

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Speaker 1: Him in spite of what you lost. Any of us

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Speaker 1: can give God praise when we're on the mountaintop. The

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Speaker 1: real test is will you praise him in the valley?

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Speaker 1: Will you worship him in the wilderness? Will you shout

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Speaker 1: when the walls aren't falling? Will you be a pit praiser?

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Speaker 1: This is what Joseph had to do. When he was

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Speaker 1: day he would rule a nation that his brothers would

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Speaker 1: bow down before him. He was excited. He knew God's

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Speaker 1: favor was on his life. He should have been more

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Speaker 1: Joseph was the youngest son and his father's favorite child.

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Speaker 1: One day, Joseph's father asked him to go check on

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Speaker 1: is our chance to get rid of Joseph. We'll tell

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Speaker 1: our father that he was eaten by a wild animal.

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Speaker 1: They grabbed Joseph and threw him into a pit, a

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Speaker 1: But when God puts a promise in your heart. People

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Speaker 1: can't stop you. Bad breaks can't stop you. Betrayal, rejection.

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Speaker 1: People don't have the final say God does. But the

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Speaker 1: to pass without opposition. There will be times it's not fair,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. Don't get bitter. It's all a

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Speaker 1: part of God's plan. It looks like a setback. The

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Speaker 1: A relationship didn't work out, you lost a loved one,

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Speaker 1: around complaining, talking about how it's not going to work out.

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Speaker 1: All that's going to do is keep you in the pit.

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Speaker 1: Joseph's brothers were up having lunch while he was in

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Speaker 1: One of the brothers, named Judah, said, what does it

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Speaker 1: means praise. God was showing us. Praise protects the dream.

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Speaker 1: The other brothers were saying, let's kill him, let's leave

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Speaker 1: by having Judah show up. Father, Thank you that you

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Speaker 1: are fighting my battles. Yes, this is a big problem,

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Speaker 1: the spirit of faith is in our words. What kind

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Speaker 1: talking about how big your problem is? Are you talking

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Speaker 1: You can deliver yourself if you'll get Judah up. And

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Speaker 1: start thanking God that he's turning it around. Now complaining

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Speaker 1: about the medical report, but thanking him that he's restoring

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Speaker 1: health back into you. Not discouraged over finances, but thanking

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Speaker 1: him that you will lend and not borrow. When God

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Speaker 1: sees you praising Him in the pit, praising him in

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Speaker 1: calls the sacrifice of praise. He knows it's not easy,

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Speaker 1: he knows it wasn't fair. He knows they did you wrong.

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Speaker 1: He knows you felt like quitting. But when you praise

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Speaker 1: Him in the pit, that moves God in a greater way.

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Speaker 1: The sacrifice of praise carries more weight. It's one thing

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Speaker 1: to be grateful when things are going our way. That's important.

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Speaker 1: We should do that. But when you have a song

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Speaker 1: when you can say, God, I bless you in spite

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Speaker 1: show out in your life. David said, God lifted me

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Speaker 1: the rock. You may be in the pit, but you're

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Speaker 1: not going to stay there. You've heard that saying you

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Speaker 1: can't keep a good man down. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: you can't keep a praiser down. Anyone can complain, anyone

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Speaker 1: can be discouraged. But God is looking for some pit praisers,

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Speaker 1: people that will praise him no matter what happens. Praise

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Speaker 1: him in the good times, praise him in the tough times,

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Speaker 1: Praise him when business is up, praise him when it's down.

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Speaker 1: praise will continually be in my mouth. This is what

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Speaker 1: Paul and Silas did in the scripture. They were falsely

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Speaker 1: were pit praisers. At midnight in the dungeon, they started

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Speaker 1: to Gabriel and said, Gabriel, if they're going to praise

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Speaker 1: me in the pit, if they're going to sing in

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Speaker 1: scripture says in Zephaniah, the Lord, your mighty Warrior is

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Speaker 1: with you. He will take delight in you and rejoice

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Speaker 1: over you with singing. When you give God praise in

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Speaker 1: the Lord, your mighty Warrior, not a weak God, not

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Speaker 1: a lacking God, not a limited God, but the all

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Speaker 1: God sings. Prison doors open, addictions are broken, depression can't stay.

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Speaker 1: Poverty and lack have to go. God will get you

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Speaker 1: to where you're supposed to be. But when we're in

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Speaker 1: the pits, it's easy to have a pity party. Think

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Speaker 1: why did this happen? I prayed, my loved one didn't

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Speaker 1: make it, our relationship didn't work out, my house was

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Speaker 1: where Paul and Silas were honoring God and we're thrown

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Speaker 1: into a pit. You could either get negative bitter or

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Speaker 1: you can become a pit praiser. You can thank God

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Speaker 1: not for the pit, but thank him that he's bringing

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Speaker 1: understand everything God is doing. There are times, like with Joseph,

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Speaker 1: the pit has been ordained by God. We don't like it,

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Speaker 1: God's plan for Joseph's life was to rule Egypt, not Israel.

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Speaker 1: His brothers were ordained to betray him, he was ordained

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Speaker 1: to be sold as a slave, ordained to work for Potiphar,

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Speaker 1: of the plan to get him to Egypt. Sometimes life

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Speaker 1: God is still in control, that he knows what he's doing,

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Speaker 1: that he will not mismanage your life. God has already

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Speaker 1: planned the end from the beginning, but he never promised

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Speaker 1: that we would understand everything that happens along the way.

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Speaker 1: In fact, he said, my ways are not your ways.

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Speaker 1: He let us know right up front, not always going

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Speaker 1: to make sense. This is what faith is all about.

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Speaker 1: When God gave Joseph that dream, it showed him up

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Speaker 1: It's just the opposite. He could have thought, God, I

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Speaker 1: must have heard you wrong. This is backwards. He could

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Speaker 1: have complained, been bitter. Instead, his attitude was, God, I

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Speaker 1: trust you. You said, my steps are ordered by you,

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Speaker 1: So wherever you have me, I'm going to be the

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Speaker 1: best that I can be. You never read where Joseph complained,

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Speaker 1: where he was bitter, where he slacked off. I can

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Speaker 1: your God? Now? This dream is never going to come

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Speaker 1: to pass. The pit was simply a test God was seeing,

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Speaker 1: will you trust me when you don't understand? Will you

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Speaker 1: praise me in the pit when it doesn't make sense?

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Speaker 1: And praise is not just words, it's our attitude. We're grateful,

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Speaker 1: passionate about our dreams. The scripture says, our life is

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Speaker 1: a praise to God. When you're a pit praiser. You

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Speaker 1: can be in the pit and nobody arounds you. Knows it.

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Speaker 1: You're not sour. You don't have a chip on your shoulder.

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Speaker 1: You've learned this secret to bless the Lord at all times.

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Speaker 1: Joseph said, in effect, this pit is not going to

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Speaker 1: stop my praise. I know it's a part of the process.

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Speaker 1: God wouldn't have allowed it if he didn't have a purpose.

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Speaker 1: So it's not going to take my joy. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be a pit praiser. I can hear him when

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Speaker 1: he was in the pit. His brother's up having lunch. Father,

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Speaker 2: enables you to bless others, to be in a healthy,

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Speaker 2: We all have dreams, but sometimes set backs and opposition

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Speaker 2: can rob us of our dream So how do you

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Speaker 1: One way you know it's a God given dream is

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Speaker 1: you can't accomplish it on your own. We never thought

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Speaker 1: we'd be having church in a former basketball arena, but

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Speaker 1: this is what can happen when you take the limits

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Speaker 3: When you believe what God put in your heart, that's

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Speaker 3: when He steps in and makes ways where you never

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Speaker 1: I'd love to send you my newest book, It's time

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Speaker 1: to Dream again. It'll help you to hold on to

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Speaker 1: what God promised and now get discouraged by how impossible

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Speaker 1: it looks or how long it's taken. You are closer

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Speaker 1: than you think God's working behind the scenes right now.

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Speaker 1: Stay in faith, You're going to see the greatness of

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Speaker 1: God bring your dreams to pass.

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Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 2: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and

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Speaker 2: Victoria would like to send you this dream releasing, life

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Speaker 2: affirming book, It's time to Dream Again. You might sense

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Speaker 2: that your dreams have been buried, but with this book,

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Speaker 2: you'll see that they are hidden treasure, just waiting to

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Speaker 2: be uncovered and come to life. God's plan for you

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Speaker 2: is significant. His dreams for you are beyond what you

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Speaker 2: could imagine. Don't wait another day. It's time to dream again.

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Speaker 3: This book will help you gain a fresh perspective for

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Speaker 3: in your heart.

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Speaker 1: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your

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Speaker 1: generosity is making a difference around the world. Remember you

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Speaker 1: can watch the services live online every Sunday. To download

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Speaker 1: the daily podcast our YouTube channel, listen on Serious exam.

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Speaker 1: We will keep you encouraged and inspired. But until we

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Speaker 1: meet again, may the Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of it's time to

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Speaker 2: dream again Today, visit Joelostein dot com or call eight

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