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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's a joy to come into your homes and thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for being a part of the program today.

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Speaker 1: We love you.

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Speaker 2: If you're ever in our area, please stop by and

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Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 2: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for tuning in and thank you again for

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Speaker 2: coming out today.

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

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Speaker 2: Young man was talking to God and he said, God,

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Speaker 2: what's a million years like to you? God said, Son,

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Speaker 2: to me, a million years is like one second. He said, well, God,

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Speaker 2: what's a million dollars like to you?

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Speaker 1: He said, Son, a million.

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Speaker 2: Dollars to me is like one penny to you. Thought

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Speaker 2: about it a moment, he finally got up his courage.

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Speaker 2: He said, God, would you give me a penny? God

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Speaker 2: said sure, just a second. A hold up your Bible,

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Speaker 2: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In

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Speaker 2: Jesus's name, God bless you. I want to talk to

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Speaker 2: you today about the valley of blessing. We all go

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Speaker 2: through difficult times in life and things.

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Speaker 1: That we don't understand, and when we're in.

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Speaker 2: it'll never get better. Too often we lose our passion.

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Speaker 2: But the scripture talks about the valley of blessing.

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Speaker 1: That seems like a contradiction.

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Speaker 2: We think I can't be in the valley and be

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Speaker 2: blessed in the valley. I'm discouraged dealing with this health issue.

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Speaker 2: These people at work won't.

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Speaker 1: Treat me right. We see the valley as being negative.

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Speaker 2: As soon as I get out of this situation, I'll

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Speaker 2: have a better attitude. But I've learned God doesn't always

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Speaker 1: He'll bless you in the valley.

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Speaker 2: David said, God prepares a table before me in.

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Speaker 1: The presence of my enemies.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't say God will remove all my enemies, eliminate everything.

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Speaker 1: This bothered me. Thedn't prepare the table.

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Speaker 2: No, in the midst of the trouble, in the midst

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Speaker 2: to deliver you from it. He can deliver you in it.

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Speaker 2: One time in the scripture, Isaac was in a great famine.

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Speaker 2: same year he received a one hundredfold return. God didn't

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Speaker 2: have to deliver him from the famine. He blessed him

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Speaker 2: in the midst of the famine. You may be in

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Speaker 2: to turn that battlefield into your blessing field. Don't complain

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Speaker 2: about the valley. There's a blessing in that valley. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't set to harm you. It was sent to increase you.

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Speaker 2: You need to get ready. It's not going to stay

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Speaker 2: valley of victory. What you think is a value of disappointment, loss, heartache.

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Speaker 2: God is going to turn to a valley of new beginnings,

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Speaker 2: a valley of greater fulfillment. Or perhaps you're in a

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Speaker 2: valley of sickness. You could easily be discouraged and settle

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Speaker 2: greater strength. God has you in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 2: He promised the number of your days he will fulfill.

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Speaker 2: Don't be fooled by the valley like Isaac. It's about

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Speaker 2: This is what happened in the scripture to the people

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Speaker 2: be honest. God, I don't see how it could ever

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Speaker 2: God, I don't see away, but my eyes are a you.

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Speaker 2: I know you still have a way. I know nothing's

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Speaker 2: Don't be discouraged by these mighty armies. For the battle

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Speaker 2: is not yours. The battle is the lord's. You may

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Speaker 2: Quit letting it upset you, Quit losing your peace.

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Speaker 1: It's not your battle. It's the Lord's battle.

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Speaker 2: God went on to instruct them that the next day

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Speaker 2: they were to walk toward their enemies. He said, you

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Speaker 1: The Lord's victory.

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Speaker 2: King Jehosaphat did something interesting. He put the musicians out

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Speaker 2: as they walked toward their enemies, they saying the Lord

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Speaker 2: This problem's too big. Why does this happen to us? No,

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Speaker 2: they were singing praises. They were talking about the greatness

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Speaker 2: What you're saying in the valley is extremely important. If

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Speaker 2: you go around saying I'm never going to get out, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I've got all these problems. I always get these bad breaks,

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Speaker 2: then you're going to get stuck. But when you start

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Speaker 2: talking about how great your God is, how no weapon

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Speaker 2: I am more than a conquer When you start talking

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Speaker 2: things happen that you could never make happen. When these

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Speaker 2: they got confused and begin to fight among themselves. They

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Speaker 2: their enemies were already defeated. They didn't have to lift

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Speaker 2: still and He will fight your battles. These enemy armies

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Speaker 2: In the place where they had their greatest battles, their

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Speaker 2: have this new perspective. That is not the valley of defeat.

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Speaker 2: That's the valley of victory. That's not a valley to

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Speaker 2: hold you back. It's a valley of promotion. It's not

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Speaker 2: a valley of sickness. It's a valley of restoration. Maybe,

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Speaker 2: like the people of Judah, what you're facing looks insurmountable.

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Speaker 2: Medical report doesn't look good. You lost your biggest client,

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Speaker 2: but one touch of God's favor can turn it all around.

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Speaker 2: Don't get discouraged. God has not brought you this far

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Speaker 2: valley of defeat. You're never going to get out, never

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Speaker 2: accomplish your dreams. The good news is you don't have

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Speaker 2: to get out of the valley. God can bless you

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Speaker 2: in the valley. The enemy may have meant it for

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Speaker 2: your harm, but he doesn't have the final say God does.

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Speaker 1: He says, stand still.

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Speaker 2: And I'm going to show you my goodness. Stay in faith,

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Speaker 2: and I'm going to turn that battlefield into your blessing field.

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Speaker 2: What should have defeated you is going to increase you. You're

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Speaker 2: took them three days to gather up all the spoils.

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Speaker 2: Would have been a great victory if God would have

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Speaker 2: just defeated their enemies spared their lives. But God never

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Speaker 2: brings you out the same. He makes the enemy pay

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Speaker 2: for bringing that trouble into your life. And sometimes we're

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Speaker 2: just hoping to make it through the valley.

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Speaker 1: God help me make it through this dry season at work.

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Speaker 2: But God says, no, I'm going to turn that valley

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Speaker 2: into a valley of abundance. If you're a football fan,

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Speaker 2: you probably know who Tony Dungee is one of the

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Speaker 2: great coaches of our day. After playing in the league

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Speaker 2: job as a head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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Speaker 2: He told me how he didn't know anyone in that organization,

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Speaker 2: didn't have any special inside contacts, but out of several

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Speaker 2: everything was going good. They were making more progress, winning

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Speaker 2: more games. But one day, unexpectedly, he was fired. They

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Speaker 2: in the valley, didn't make sense, but he didn't start complaining.

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Speaker 2: He understood this principle that there's a blessing in every valley.

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Speaker 2: David said in Psalm twenty three, the.

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Speaker 1: Lord is my shepherd.

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Speaker 2: He leads me by the still waters, leads me to

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Speaker 2: the green pastures. We liked that part of the passage,

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Speaker 1: He was saying, the same God.

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Speaker 2: That leads you to the green pastures and the still

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Speaker 2: for your good, God would have never allowed it. When

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Speaker 1: God would not be leading you to that valley.

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Speaker 2: If that's all there was, loss, defeat, too bad, you're done. No,

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Speaker 2: there's a purpose for that valley, not to hinder you,

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Speaker 2: but to help you, not.

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Speaker 1: To hold you back, but to push you forward, not.

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Speaker 2: To weaken you, but to make you stronger. Now the

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Speaker 2: key is our attitude in the valley. If Jehosaphat would

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Speaker 2: have thought, God, I've served you all these years, I've

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Speaker 2: If he'd have been negative, bitter, discouraged, he would have

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Speaker 2: seen this valley of blessing. Most likely he would have

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Speaker 2: been captured or even killed. Proverb says, the steps of

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Speaker 2: God has it all figured out. The valley you faced

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Speaker 2: On the way to your destiny, there'll be some valleys.

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Speaker 2: You'll probably shed some tears, have things you don't understand.

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Speaker 2: But God doesn't waste anything. This is saying God collects

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Speaker 2: to refresh you. They will become pools of blessing. When

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Speaker 2: David was thirty seven years old, he was about to

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Speaker 2: the Valley of Reffian Raffium means giants. Some twenty years

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Speaker 2: earlier he had killed Goliath in that valley, but now

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Speaker 2: he not only faced one Goliath, he faced a valley

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Speaker 2: of Goliath. The principle the closer you are to your destiny,

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Speaker 2: the greater the upper position. It may overcome one challenge

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Speaker 1: That means you're getting closer to your destiny.

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Speaker 2: David and his men went out full of faith, full

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Speaker 2: David renamed the valley. Instead of calling it the valley

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Speaker 2: of Giants the valley of refuum, he renamed.

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Speaker 1: It vow Parism. That means the God of the breakthrough.

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Speaker 2: When you face situations that seem impossible, you need to

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Speaker 2: do like David rename that valley. This is not the

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Speaker 2: This is not the valley of cancer, heart disease, kidney failure.

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Speaker 2: I'm renaming it the Valley of health, the valley of wholeness,

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Speaker 2: valley of loneliness, lost, disappointment, but I'm renamed it the

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Speaker 1: It's the valley of blessing.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you'll start renaming your valleys, what was meant

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Speaker 1: Instead promote you.

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Speaker 2: The reason you're facing the opposition is because, just like David,

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Speaker 2: you're about to step into a new level of your destiny.

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Speaker 2: Don't complain about the valley. Have this new perspective. There's

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Speaker 2: a blessing in that valley. Get your passion back, get

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Speaker 2: your fire back. The forces that are for you are

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Speaker 2: greater than the forces that are against you. If you'll

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Speaker 2: do this, I believe and declare, God is going to

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Speaker 1: In Jesus's name, and if you receive it, can you

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