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Speaker 1: I hope you and your family are having a great summer.

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Speaker 1: Victorian are praying for you, believing for God's very best

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Speaker 1: in your life, and it's always my pleasure to be

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Speaker 1: able to share a message with you. I hope you're

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Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired today. God bless you. It's great to

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Speaker 1: be with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected

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Speaker 1: with us during the week through our daily podcast, our

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit us

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Speaker 1: in person. We'd love to have you be a part

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Speaker 1: of one of our services. But I like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this pastor. He

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Speaker 1: found a dead mule on the church grounds. He called

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Speaker 1: up without authorization from the mayor. Well, the mayor was

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Speaker 1: known to be rude and hard to get along with.

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Speaker 1: When the pastor called, the mayor didn't disappoint He started

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Speaker 1: job to bury the dead? Why did you even call me?

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Speaker 1: The pastor asked God to give him the right response.

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Speaker 1: He said, yes, Mayor, it is my job to bury

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Speaker 1: of ken first man, say it like you mean it.

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

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about necessary endings. We all

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Speaker 1: have times when things come to an end that we

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Speaker 1: have any control over it. It's easy to get discouraged. God,

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Speaker 1: where were you? But God is called the Alpha and

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Speaker 1: the Omega, the beginning and the end. He has designed

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Speaker 1: certain things to come to an end to move us

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Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense, but it's a necessary ending. Without

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Speaker 1: that door closing, you wouldn't see the greater things God

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Speaker 1: that the ending is a part of his plan. The

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Speaker 1: same God that opens doors closes doors. The same place

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Speaker 1: you saw abundance in one season may seem like a

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Speaker 1: don't understand that God has necessary endings, you'll fight every

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Speaker 1: the author and the finisher. When that door closes, keep

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Speaker 1: be tempted to hold on, why did this happen? It's

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Speaker 1: He's the one that changes seasons. You were in spring,

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Speaker 1: prepared to blossom in new ways. I've learned. God never

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Speaker 1: has in store. When God brought the Israelites out of slavery,

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Speaker 1: morning to get breakfast, like you've done for four decades,

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Speaker 1: I don't like this, but I know it's a necessary

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Speaker 1: ending that you're ordering my steps, that you wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: allowed this man of to cease unless you had something

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Speaker 1: better coming. When I was nineteen years old, I came

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Speaker 1: blessed to have him. But one morning, after about a year,

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Speaker 1: no way. We offered him more money. We said, you

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Speaker 1: their part in your story is over. Some people are

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Speaker 1: like scaffolding. They come into your life for a season

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Speaker 1: said in motion. We think, man, the enemy is shutting

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't be able to leave. In the scripture, Ruth

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Speaker 1: She kissed Naomi and moved on, but Ruth said, Naomi,

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Speaker 1: my God. Your home will be my home. Aaomi said no, Ruth,

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Speaker 1: You can't talk them out of it. They'll stick with

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Speaker 1: people that are supposed to go, you can't convince them

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Speaker 1: You enjoyed the time together, but to become who you

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