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Speaker 7: I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 5: And one day Jesus and Satan were having a contest

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Speaker 5: When they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming, it's all lost.

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Speaker 7: Satan complained, it's not fair. He must have cheated. How

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Speaker 7: Jesus Saves, let's say it like you mean.

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Speaker 5: If this is my Bible, I am what it says

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

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Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. I will

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Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about separated for

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Speaker 5: the better. In the scripture, there's a place called the

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Speaker 5: And back in those days they didn't have machinery, so

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Speaker 7: Repeatedly. They would break up the husk and straw.

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Speaker 5: Recognize you're on the threshing floor even though it's uncomfortable.

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Speaker 5: I tried to pray away every traffic jam, every slow driver,

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Speaker 5: Before he could say anything, his supervisor started shaking his head.

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Speaker 7: No, couldn't believe. He didn't know what was gonna ask.

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Speaker 7: He just said no. I turned around so, frustrated, drove through.

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Speaker 5: See Victoria is very relaxed, easy going. She doesn't struggle

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Speaker 5: deliberately put us in situations so we can come up higher.

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Speaker 5: The right approach is, if God has me here, I

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Speaker 5: knowing that I'm coming out refined, I'm coming out more valuable.

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Speaker 5: In the scripture, when the three Hebrew teenagers wouldn't bow

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Speaker 5: He was going to have them thrown into a fiery furnace.

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Speaker 5: He had their hands and feet bound with cords, and

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Speaker 7: It made them better.

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Speaker 5: They came out with a new confidence, with a greater

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Speaker 5: not going to leave you broken, scarred, defeated. All it's

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Speaker 5: going to do is burn off any limitations that are

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Speaker 5: the next level. In the scripture we see this principle.

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Speaker 5: All the great heroes of faith went through their threshing

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Speaker 7: He told Jesus, I'll never deny you. I'm your main disciple.

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Speaker 5: But when he was put on the threshing floor in

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Speaker 5: friends for seventeen years. I'd worked with and behind the

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Speaker 5: of a sudden he was gone. I found sometimes God

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Speaker 7: Through a season of being alone.

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Speaker 5: That's a time you can draw closer to God. When

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Speaker 7: Out that aloneness.

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Speaker 7: Don't fight a season of isolation. If you'll embrace.

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Speaker 5: It, you'll discover something otherwise you could never have. Jesus

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Speaker 5: put it this way, My father is the gardener. Every

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Speaker 5: branch that doesn't bear fruit, he will cut away. God

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Speaker 7: We're not moving forward. We understand this.

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Speaker 5: He'll take away a branch of impatience, a branch of insecurity.

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Speaker 5: He'll move a person that's holding us back. That makes sense.

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Speaker 5: But then he said, every branch that does bear fruit,

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Speaker 5: he will cut it back so that it can bear

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Speaker 5: much fruit. This is saying at times, we're all going

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Speaker 5: to experience being cut back.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes it doesn't make sense. God, I was doing so good.

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Speaker 7: Why did I lose that main client friend walk away?

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Speaker 7: Why did my child break my heart? We're doing the

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Speaker 5: We tend to focus on the cutback, the loss, the disappointment.

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Speaker 5: But the only reason God cuts us back is so

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Speaker 5: we can bear much fruit, so we can rise higher.

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Speaker 7: At home.

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Speaker 5: Next to our sidewalk, we have these green plants. They're

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Speaker 5: line our sidewalk. A couple of months ago, I walked

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Speaker 5: three inches tall. They looked terrible, looked like my gardener

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Speaker 5: was having a bad day. He had scalped my plants.

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Speaker 5: A few days ago, Victoria and I were outside.

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Speaker 7: Those plants were.

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Speaker 5: In just a few weeks they had sprouted to new heights.

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Speaker 5: Here's the key Man was an experienced gardener. He knows

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Speaker 5: when each plant needs to be pruned. He knows how

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Speaker 5: much they need to be cut back. It's not one

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Speaker 5: size fits all. He carefully studies each plant. I have

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Speaker 5: some crape myrtles other plants that he prunes at different

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Speaker 5: times in the same way. God is the master gardener.

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Speaker 5: He will never cut something back, remove it, take it

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Speaker 7: Sometimes we think, God, you scalp me, You mess me up.

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Speaker 5: God, why'd you take away my dad? Why'd you cut

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Speaker 5: back my business?

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Speaker 7: God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 5: The only reason he cuts you back is so you

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Speaker 5: can bear much fruit. If he had not cut you back,

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Speaker 5: you would have been satisfied to stay where you were.

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Speaker 5: God doesn't want you to get stuck. He has new

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Speaker 5: levels and on a regular base. He says, we're gonna

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Speaker 5: see this pruning in the uncomfortable times. In those tough times,

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Speaker 5: you have to remind yourself you're being pruned so you

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Speaker 5: can bloom, so you can blossom, so you can see

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Speaker 5: new growth. Friends, We're all gonna have these bumps in

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Speaker 5: the road, these threshing floor experiences. The separation may be uncomfortable,

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Speaker 5: but it's making you better.

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Speaker 7: It's getting you prepared.

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Speaker 5: You may have lost something you need to get ready,

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Speaker 5: You're about to gain something a whole lot better.

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Speaker 7: I believe and declare you're gonna come.

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Speaker 5: Through every adversity less chaff, more wheat, refined, purified, stronger,

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Speaker 5: ready for the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 7: In Jesus' name. If you receive it today, can just

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