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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victorian.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks

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Speaker 2: for supporting the ministry. We'd love to have you join

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Speaker 2: always watch online. You can find a service schedule on

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Speaker 2: our web. I promise you it will make you feel

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Speaker 1: We love you and hope you enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It is a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. We love you.

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Speaker 2: We know God has great things in store for each

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Speaker 2: one of you. And if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: please stop by and be a part of one of

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Speaker 2: our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll have a good.

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Speaker 2: Time and will make you feel right at home. But

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Speaker 2: thanks for tuning in again, thanks for coming out today.

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Speaker 2: And I like to start with something funny and I

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Speaker 2: heard about this pastor. He decided to skip church one

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Speaker 2: Sunday and go play golf. He told his assistant he

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Speaker 2: wasn't feeling well, and he drove to another city a

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Speaker 2: golf course there so nobody would know him.

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Speaker 1: He teed off on the first hole.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, a huge gust of wind caught

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Speaker 2: his ball, carried it an extra hundred yards and blew

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Speaker 2: it right into the hole for a four hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty yard hole in one. An angel looked at God

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Speaker 2: and said, what you do that for? God smiled and said,

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Speaker 2: who's he going to tell? All right, 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 Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about how you

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Speaker 1: have come back power.

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Speaker 2: We all face situations that seem like they could bury us.

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Speaker 2: The loss of a loved one, bad news concerning our health,

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Speaker 2: a divorce. Those negative thoughts bombard our minds, telling us

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Speaker 1: That setback is.

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Speaker 2: Going to taint your future, that layoff is going to

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Speaker 2: ruin your career, That illness is always going to limit you.

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Speaker 2: But what's interesting is the only difference between being buried

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Speaker 2: When you put a seed in the ground, you don't

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Speaker 2: seed because you know it's coming back. Not long ago,

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Speaker 2: one of our rabbits died. I didn't say I'm planting

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Speaker 2: this rabbit. I buried the rabbit. I knew it wasn't

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Speaker 2: be around. We all face difficulties, but you have the

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Speaker 2: seed of Almighty God on the inside.

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Speaker 1: He breathed his life into you.

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Speaker 2: When you go through disappointments, you're in tough times, you

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Speaker 2: you've simply been planted. That means you're coming back, and

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Speaker 2: you're not only gonna come back, you're gonna come back better, increased, stronger.

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Speaker 2: What was meant for your harm, God will use to

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Speaker 2: your advantage. You go in as a seed, but because

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Speaker 2: even more fruit. Jesus talked about this in John twelve

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Speaker 2: You can have a seed on your shelf for a lifetime.

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Speaker 2: It's no longer buried, no longer hidden and alone, no

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Speaker 2: Something was unfair, doesn't look like it's ever gonna change.

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Speaker 2: But if you can just keep shaking off the dirt,

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Speaker 2: like that little seed, will begin to feel the life

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Speaker 2: But I'm not staying here. I know my chains have

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Speaker 2: Or how about this business may be slow, I may

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Speaker 2: I'm planted. I know God's got another victory in my future.

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Speaker 2: Big challenge today, that just means you have a big destiny.

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Speaker 2: Extraordinary people face extraordinary difficulties. But the good news is

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Speaker 2: we serve an extraordinary God. He has you in the

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Speaker 2: to draw the line in the sand, make a declaration.

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Speaker 2: This difficulty is not going to bury me. This loss,

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Speaker 2: He really loved this old mule, But when he surveyed

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Speaker 2: I may be down, but I'm not staying down. This

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Speaker 1: But I know better.

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Speaker 2: God's gonna use it to my advantage. He's gonna use

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Speaker 1: Somebody ask you.

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Speaker 2: Well, you really think you're gonna get well? I've never

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Speaker 2: So God's bringing the right person into my life. He's

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Speaker 2: Just like you know the sun's gonna come up in

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Speaker 2: have some difficulties, but don't talk about your problems, talk

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Speaker 2: about your God. The scripture says, let God arise, and

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Speaker 2: his enemies will be scattered. When you let God arise

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Speaker 2: in your life and you go out with this unshakable confidence,

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Speaker 2: you're waiting for your harvest like that farmer, know one

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Speaker 2: that is going to be better than expected. You know

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Speaker 2: down deep, no difficulty can defeat you, No person can

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Speaker 2: keep you from your destiny. Every setback is only temporary.

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Speaker 2: Instead of complaining, you're saying, I can't wait to see

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Speaker 2: what God's going to do. When you let God arise,

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Speaker 2: you might as well get ready. Your enemies will be scattered,

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Speaker 2: enemies of sickness, enemies of debt, enemies of depression, enemies

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Speaker 2: of disappointment. Let me ask you today, what are you

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Speaker 2: letting arise? What are you lifting up? Oh Joe a

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Speaker 2: minutes hard. I lost a lot of money in the

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Speaker 2: stock market. My health doesn't look good. Somebody walked out

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Speaker 2: of my relationship. No, you're letting the wrong things arise.

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Speaker 2: That's discouragement, self pity. You need to turn it around.

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Speaker 1: Say God is still in control.

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Speaker 2: Somebody may have walked out of a relationship, but I

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Speaker 2: know God's gonna bring me somebody better. I may be

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Speaker 2: hurting right now, but I know God is the restorer

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Speaker 2: of my soul.

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Speaker 1: He's giving me beauty for my ashes.

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Speaker 2: May have lost money in the stock market, but I'm

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Speaker 2: not worried. I know God is my provider. He's supplying

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Speaker 2: all of my needs. Somebody may have cheated me in

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Speaker 2: a business deal.

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Speaker 1: No big deal.

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Speaker 2: God's my vindicator. He'll make my wrongs right. He's fighting

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Speaker 2: my battles. I'm not buried. I know I'm planet. When

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Speaker 2: you let God arise, you can't stay defeated. Your enemies

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Speaker 2: will be scattered. I was thinking about Moses as a

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Speaker 2: young man. He had a desire to deliver the people

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Speaker 2: of Israel, but he got out of God's timing and

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Speaker 2: he killed a man. He had to run for his life.

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Speaker 2: He spent forty years on the back side of the death.

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Speaker 2: Looked like he was buried, looked like his dreams would

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Speaker 2: never come to pass. The truth is he wasn't buried.

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Speaker 2: He was simply planted. He was coming back. Those dreams

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Speaker 2: were still alive during all those years out there in

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Speaker 2: the wilderness. He didn't get bitter, he didn't get discouraged.

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Speaker 2: He knew God was still in control. One day, when

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Speaker 2: he was eighty years old, God came and said, Moses,

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Speaker 2: it's time for you come back. It's time for you

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Speaker 2: to blossom. I've got an assignment for you. Do you

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Speaker 2: know the latter part of Moses's life was much greater

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Speaker 2: than the first part.

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Speaker 1: Some of you today kind.

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Speaker 2: Of feel like Moses, like you've made too many mistakes. Joel,

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Speaker 2: this sounds good, but I've missed so many opportunities. Listen,

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Speaker 2: God wants the rest of your life to be the

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Speaker 2: most fulfilling, the most rewarding. Those dreams that you once had,

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Speaker 2: they didn't die. They're still alive on the inside. You

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Speaker 2: may have made poor choices, but it didn't bury you.

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Speaker 2: It planted you. That means God has already arranged your comeback.

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Speaker 2: Now you've got to do your part and get your

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Speaker 2: fire back. Quit living condemned. Quit listening to the accuser

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Speaker 2: reminding you of everything that you've done wrong. God knew

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Speaker 2: every mistake you'd ever make. The moment you ask him.

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Speaker 1: For forgiveness, he forgave you. And the good news is

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Speaker 1: he didn't cancel your destiny. He didn't give away your assignment.

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Speaker 1: You need to dig your heels in say that's it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not living condemned anymore. If God gave Moses another chance,

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Speaker 2: he'll give me another chance.

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Speaker 1: This is a new day. I'm putting on a new attitude.

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Speaker 1: I know I've not been buried. I've been planted. Friends,

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Speaker 1: you have come back power in your DNA.

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Speaker 2: You've been created to overcome every obstacle, to rise above

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Speaker 2: every challenge. I want you to have this confidence that

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Speaker 2: no matter what comes against you, it cannot defeat you.

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Speaker 2: As long as you're letting God arise, your enemies will

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Speaker 2: be scattered. Same dirt that's trying to bury you can

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Speaker 2: be the dirt God's gonna use to promote you. Learn

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Speaker 2: to shake it off and step up. Remember in the

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Speaker 2: tough times, that loss, that disappointment, that injustice is not

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Speaker 2: the end. It's a new beginning. Put your shoulders back,

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Speaker 2: hold your head up, hie dare to declare I'm coming

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Speaker 2: back and I'm coming back better.

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Speaker 1: If you do that, then you're gonna come out like

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Speaker 1: job with twice what you had before.

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Speaker 2: Those difficulties are gonna give way to new growth, new potential,

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Speaker 2: new talent, new friendships, new opportunities, new vision.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna see God blossom your life in ways that

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Speaker 1: you've never even dreamed of. Amen. Do you receive that today?

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Speaker 2: Or we never like to close our godcast without giving

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Speaker 2: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life?

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 2: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 2: if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got again.

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Speaker 2: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna take your places you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes life can make you feel like you are just

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Speaker 3: living in the dark. Even your prayers don't feel like

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Speaker 3: they are making it to heaven. But God is listening

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Speaker 3: and his light is about to shine.

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Speaker 2: We know God is all powerful that he can answer

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Speaker 2: any prayer, but sometimes we don't know what to pray.

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Speaker 1: We don't think we deserve God's goodness.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we're inconveniencing him, or he has more important things

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Speaker 2: to deal with.

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Speaker 1: But God is concerned about.

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Speaker 2: Every detail of your life. He's waiting to hear your prayers.

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Speaker 2: I have a new resource called Praying with Confidence Guided

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Speaker 2: Or obstacles that seem too big, you'll find prayers that

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Speaker 2: will build your faith, prayers that will move the hands

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Speaker 2: of God. There are prayers you can pray for peace

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Speaker 2: and comfort, prayers for your family and hell, prayers for

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Speaker 2: your dreams goals. As you make these prayers your own,

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Speaker 2: pray with confidence, that's when you'll see the creator of.

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Speaker 1: The universe go to work. I hope you'll request your

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Speaker 1: copy today.

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Speaker 3: Joel shares how to pray when you need a breakthrough,

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Speaker 3: when you need strength. Yes, when life's moments happen and

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Speaker 3: you're not sure how to pray, Praying confident prayers will

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Speaker 3: put you on the right path, you'll enter new seasons

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Speaker 3: in your prayer life that will turn challenges to victories,

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Speaker 3: heartache to hope, frustration to new found favor. Be sure

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