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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: Always a joy to come into your homes. If you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, I hope you'll stop buying be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. These are the

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Speaker 1: finest people in all of Houston, Texas, right here at Lakewood.

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Speaker 1: Come out and be a part. But thanks for tuning

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Speaker 1: in and thank you again for coming out today. And

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Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny. And I heard

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Speaker 1: about these three people, a Russian, an American, and a blonde.

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Speaker 1: They were talking one day and the Russian proudly said,

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Speaker 1: we were the first ones in space. The American said, well,

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Speaker 1: we were the first ones on the moon. The blonde

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Speaker 1: said that's nothing. We're going to be the first ones

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Speaker 1: on the Sun. The Russian the American they laughed. They said,

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Speaker 1: what are you talking about. Can't go to the sun.

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Speaker 1: It's too hot, you'd burn up. The blonde said, We're

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Speaker 1: not that dumb. We're gonna go at night. Hold up

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Speaker 1: your Bible. 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 says 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 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 how yes is in your future.

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Speaker 1: When God laid out the plan for your life, he

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Speaker 1: lined up the right people, the right breaks, the right

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Speaker 1: open doors. He already has your yes is planned out.

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Speaker 1: Yes to that promotion, Yes to that clean bill of health.

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Speaker 1: Yes you will get married. Yes you are accepted into

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Speaker 1: that college. You may have been told no a thousand times,

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Speaker 1: but God has as the final say, and he says,

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Speaker 1: yes is coming your way. Yes you will accomplish your dreams.

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Speaker 1: Yes you will overcome that addiction. Yes, your children will

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Speaker 1: fulfill their destiny. Yes is are in your future. Now

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Speaker 1: here's the key on the way to your yes. There

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Speaker 1: will be nos. You have to go through the nose

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Speaker 1: to get to your yeses. The mistake many people make

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Speaker 1: is they get discouraged by the nose and they quit trying.

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Speaker 1: They worked hard but didn't get the promotion. They prayed

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Speaker 1: and believed, but didn't qualify for the new home. They

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Speaker 1: put time and energy into a relationship, but it didn't

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Speaker 1: work out. Now they think it's never going to happen. No,

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Speaker 1: you have to go through your closed doors before you

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Speaker 1: get to your open doors when you come to a no.

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Speaker 1: Instead of being discouraged, the right attitude is I'm one

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Speaker 1: step closer to my yes. What if you could see

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Speaker 1: into your future and you knew you had to go

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Speaker 1: through twenty nose before you came to your yes. Then

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Speaker 1: when you faced a disappointment, a setback, the loan didn't

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Speaker 1: go through, you didn't get that big Seals contract. If

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Speaker 1: wouldn't give up. You just check it off and say,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's one no out of the way. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm only nineteen away from my yes. Rather than being discouraged,

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Speaker 1: you would be encouraged. But too many people, because they've

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Speaker 1: hit several no's in a row, they've lost their passion,

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Speaker 1: they've lost their fire. You've got to get this down

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Speaker 1: in your spirit. Yes is in your future. You may

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Speaker 1: have been turned down, delayed, overlooked. That was all a

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Speaker 1: part of God's plan. The no is simply a test.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to get discouraged and settle where you

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Speaker 1: are or are you going to keep moving forward knowing

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Speaker 1: that yeses are coming your way. I had a man

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Speaker 1: tell how his supervisor was about to retire and he

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Speaker 1: and two other people were in line for his position.

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Speaker 1: He had the most seniority. He'd worked for the company

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Speaker 1: faithfully for many years, but he got passed over for

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Speaker 1: the promotion. They chose a younger, less experienced person. He

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Speaker 1: felt cheated, didn't seem fair, but he understood this principle.

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Speaker 1: He knew there were already yeses in his future, put

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Speaker 1: there by the creator of the universe. He didn't get bitter,

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Speaker 1: his job. His position now is many levels higher than

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Speaker 1: that old supervisor position. Friends, God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: You may be in a know right now the relationship

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Speaker 1: lost a loved one. You gotta dig your heels in

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Speaker 1: and say, I may be in a know, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna get discouraged. I'm not gonna give up on

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Speaker 1: healing is coming, promotion is coming. I am not going

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Speaker 1: to get stuff in a know I know yeses or

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Speaker 1: in my future. That's what the scripture says. All of

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Speaker 1: God's promises are yes and amen, and we should get

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Speaker 1: up every morning and say, Father, thank you for some

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Speaker 1: yeses today. Yes, I'm healed, Yes I'm free. Yes, I'm

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Speaker 1: surrounded by your favor. A read a statistic. Ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of all first time businesses fall, ninety percent of all

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Speaker 1: second time businesses succeed, but eighty percent of people never

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Speaker 1: try a second time. What happened? They get stuck on

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Speaker 1: last time, it's never going to happen. They failed to

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many of us give up a few

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Speaker 1: nos away from seeing a dream come to pass. What

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Speaker 1: if you knew you only had to go through three

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Speaker 1: more nos, and then you would meet the right person.

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Speaker 1: You'd probably go out and find people to meet just

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Speaker 1: to tell them no, get them out of the way.

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Speaker 1: I have a friend that wanted to start a new business.

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Speaker 1: He'd tried it on a small scale and it had worked.

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Speaker 1: Now he needed a bank to get behind him, loaning

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Speaker 1: money to buy some major equipment so he could really

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Speaker 1: that he'd used for many years. Everyone knew him, they

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Speaker 1: loved his business plan. He had proven results on that

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Speaker 1: small scale, but money was very tight. They turned him

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Speaker 1: giving up, but he went to another bank. The second

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Speaker 1: it's just not for us. Ten banks turned him down.

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Speaker 1: Twenty banks said no, Thirty banks said no. You would

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Speaker 1: think he'd get the message, man, this is not gonna work.

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Speaker 1: You're wasting your time.

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Speaker 1: When God puts a dream in your heart, when he

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Speaker 1: gives a promise on the inside and deep down you

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Speaker 1: know that you know you're gonna succeed. You know your

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Speaker 1: family's going to be restored, you know you're gonna get well. Then,

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Speaker 1: like this man, you realize every no simply means you're

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Speaker 1: one step closer to your yes. Thirty one bank said no,

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Speaker 1: thirty one bank said you're not for us. But Bank

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Speaker 1: number thirty two came along and said, we really like it.

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Speaker 1: We'll take a chance. Yes, we will do it. God

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Speaker 1: had his yes, but he had to go through thirty

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Speaker 1: one knows to get to it. You don't know. You

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Speaker 1: may only be five away from your yes. Or who knows.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the next person you meet will be your yes.

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Speaker 1: The next college you apply to will be your yes.

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Speaker 1: The next time you resist the temptation you'll break the

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Speaker 1: bad habit, it'll be your yes. It was one city

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Speaker 1: council member that voted for us that gave us this

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Speaker 1: beautiful facility. Just one pushed us over the edge. We

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Speaker 1: to that yes that we needed. You could be one

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Speaker 1: yes away from being thrust to a whole new level.

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Speaker 1: Don't you dare get stuck on the no. Keep believing,

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Speaker 1: keep dreaming, keep hoping, keep taking steps of faith. I

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Speaker 1: heard zig Ziggler talking about being persistent. Zig is up

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Speaker 1: in his eighties and still a great blessing to many people.

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Speaker 1: One day, his flight was canceled because of bad weathering.

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Speaker 1: He went to this hotel very late at night and

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Speaker 1: said to the young lady, I need a room. She

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Speaker 1: checked and checked and did all this research, but she said,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, sir. All of our rooms are occupied

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Speaker 1: make an exception for me. She went back to work

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Speaker 1: and tried her best. But the second no Zig asked

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Speaker 1: back over to the manager and said, let me ask

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we would. Zig said, well, I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: nos Zig got his yes. Stay persistent. You may have

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Speaker 1: seen the beautiful act Tiriss Janine Turner. She's been in

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Speaker 1: month after month, even year after year, with no success,

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Speaker 1: She calculated during those twelve years she had been told

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Speaker 1: no over a thousand times. You're not what we're looking for.

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Speaker 1: All this disappointment, this rejection, most people would have gotten

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Speaker 1: stuck on one of those nose, but not Jeanine. Her

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Speaker 1: Now I'm closer to my yes. She kept pursuing what

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Speaker 1: know what she was going to do next. The main

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Speaker 1: producer from a major network called. He said, we're starting

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Speaker 1: a brand new prime time drama. We think you would

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Speaker 1: Northern Exposure. That show was a huge hit. It was

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Speaker 1: to go through a thousand no's to get to that one. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you may struggle with an addiction, a bad habit, you think, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I have tried a thousand times to break this. I'm

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Speaker 1: asking you to try one more time. How do you

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Speaker 1: know the next time is not going to be your Yes,

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Speaker 1: you can't let the nose discourage you. Don't let the

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Speaker 1: going to happen. Most likely we won't have to go

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Speaker 1: through a thousand no's like Janine. My question is are

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Speaker 1: trying if five banks turn you down? Will you stay

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Speaker 1: in faith if the medical report is not good three times?

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Speaker 1: Will you take a chance on meeting somebody new if

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Speaker 1: a relationship didn't work out twice before? If you're going

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Speaker 1: to keep moving forward, you have to keep this on

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Speaker 1: the forefront of your mind. Yes, is in my future.

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Speaker 1: Yes I will get married, Yes I will be promoted.

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Speaker 1: Yes I will fulfill my destiny. That's what a friend

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Speaker 1: of mine did. She and her husband had been trying

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Speaker 1: the natural, But we serve a supernatural God. There are

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Speaker 1: yes is chasing you down. Like this man, the yes

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Speaker 1: my mother, you've stayed in faith, You've been determined, you

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Speaker 1: Yeses are come in your way in Jesus' name. If

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me, Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: It's a new year. Time to see the impossible become possible.

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