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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, reappreciate you, and pray for

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

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop by and be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I promise you

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Speaker 1: we'll make you feel right at home. I like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this man

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Speaker 1: that was very stingy with his money, and just before

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Speaker 1: his death, he made his wife promise him that she

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Speaker 1: would have him buried with the fifty thousand dollars he

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Speaker 1: had saved. His wife reluctantly agreed. At the funeral, before

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Speaker 1: they closed the casket, she snuck in this small wooden box.

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Speaker 1: Her friend said, surely you didn't just bury the money,

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Speaker 1: did you. The wife said, of course I did. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Christian. I can't lie. She said, you mean you

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Speaker 1: just buried fifty thousand dollars. Wife said, yes, I did.

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Speaker 1: I wrote a check. Say that 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: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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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 daily direction. God said

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Speaker 1: in Psalms that he will lead us down the best

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Speaker 1: path for our lives. He has the wisdom we need,

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Speaker 1: the guidance, the direction, but it's not going to happen automatically.

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Speaker 1: Every morning. We have to go to him and say, God,

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Speaker 1: show me my assignment, show me what to do, show

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Speaker 1: me where to go, give me the words to speak.

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Speaker 1: Asking for wisdom, for guidance. That's an act of surrender.

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Speaker 1: Takes humility to say, God, you know what's best for me.

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Speaker 1: I can't do this on my own. I need your help.

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Speaker 1: Open the right doors, close the wrong doors, make the

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Speaker 1: path clear. The scripture says when you acknowledge God in

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Speaker 1: all your ways, he will direct your path. But too

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Speaker 1: often we make our plans without consulting God. Then we

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Speaker 1: ask him to bless those plans, and we wonder why

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Speaker 1: it to struggle, Why it feels like it's always uphill.

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Speaker 2: We have it backwards.

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Speaker 1: We're making a move and then asking God for help.

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Speaker 1: The right way is to ask God first, God, what

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Speaker 1: do you want me to do? Should I date this person?

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Speaker 1: If you feel peace about it, then move forward. If not,

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Speaker 1: hold off, knowing that God knows what's best for you.

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Speaker 1: In the Lord's prayer, Jesus' praid, give us this day

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Speaker 1: our daily bread. He didn't say our weekly bread, our

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Speaker 1: monthly bread, Joel, I come to church every Sunday, No,

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Speaker 1: every morning. You need to go to God for your

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Speaker 1: daily bread, your daily wisdom, daily direction. Too many times

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Speaker 1: we're trying to do things only in our own strength,

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Speaker 1: God can see things that you can't see. He knows

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Speaker 1: the right people who should be in your life. He

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Speaker 1: knows where the danger is, where the dead ends are.

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Speaker 1: God knows how to catapult you into your destiny. You

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Speaker 1: have an advantage. Are you taking time for your daily bread?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we rush out of the house. I'm in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: I don't have time today, Joel I got to get

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Speaker 1: to work. I live by this principle, never meet with

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Speaker 1: other people before you meet with God. If you'll take

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Speaker 1: time to acknowledge God, say God, I need you today.

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Speaker 1: Lead me, guide me, keep me on the right path.

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Speaker 1: Not only will your day go better, but God will

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Speaker 1: keep you from making mistakes. A few years before my

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Speaker 1: came across a construction permit for the last full power

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Speaker 1: television station here in Houston. I had spent years behind

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Speaker 1: was excited about being able to put this station on

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Speaker 1: making a mistake. What was I doing getting my daily bread,

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Speaker 1: our engineers had researched it and come up with their

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Speaker 1: heard that, chills went up and down my spine. He

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Speaker 1: didn't know it, but God was using him to speak

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Speaker 1: to me. When I hung up, I called our engineers.

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Speaker 1: They researched it and found out what he was saying

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Speaker 1: was true. If he'd have called a couple of days later,

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Speaker 1: stuck with something that could have been a big headache, outdated,

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Speaker 1: not supported. And some people think that's a coincidence. But

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Speaker 1: I know that was God directing my steps. That's what

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Speaker 1: happens when you get your daily bread. When every morning

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Speaker 1: you ask God for wisdom, you are showing your dependency

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Speaker 1: on him. When you humble yourself like that, the scripture

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Speaker 1: says God will exalt you. A lot of people these days,

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Speaker 1: they're too think I don't need any help. I can

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Speaker 1: do this on my own. Joel, look at how successful

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Speaker 1: I am already. Think about where you could be if

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Speaker 1: you'd start acknowledging God. Think about the mistakes he could

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Speaker 1: getting your daily bread, your daily direction. When the Israelites

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Speaker 1: were in the desert, headed toward the Promised Land, God

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Speaker 1: gave them manna to eat each morning. It was something

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Speaker 1: like bread that formed on the ground. The manna would

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Speaker 1: They woke up the next morning, all that manna was spoiled.

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Speaker 1: when we go to God for our fresh manna each day?

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Speaker 1: The right attitude is God, what is it you want

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Speaker 1: Not giving God orders, telling him what to do how

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Speaker 1: Show me how to overcome this problem, Show me how

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Speaker 2: Are you getting your daily bread?

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Speaker 1: Are you checking in with headquarters to get your assignment

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Speaker 1: on autopilot just doing what you've always done. The challenge

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Speaker 1: not work today. Sometimes God will do things different way.

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Speaker 1: When the Israelites needed water out there in the desert,

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Speaker 1: when they needed water, same situation, God told Moses to

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Speaker 1: need to get daily direction. I've overcome this problem before.

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Speaker 1: I can do it again. He struck the rock, same problem,

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Speaker 2: But God had a different plan.

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Speaker 1: God was saying, Moses, just because I had to do

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Speaker 1: to do it that way this time. What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: You can't live off of yesterday's manna and expect to

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Speaker 1: have victory today. Yesterday's information may not work today. God

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Speaker 1: and it's easy to get stuck in the rock thinking

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Speaker 1: I don't need daily direction, Joel, I've overcome this problem before.

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Speaker 1: the rock. It's a small tweet, but you'll only hear

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Speaker 1: it if you're getting your daily bread. Stay open for change,

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Speaker 1: be willing to try something new. What made you successful

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Speaker 1: Why don't you get some fresh manna have the attitude God,

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Speaker 1: where you are. The world is changing. Somebody wants your job,

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Speaker 1: news is God has daily favor, daily ideas, daily wisdom,

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Speaker 1: daily abundance. If you'll stay open, he'll lead you into

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Speaker 1: the fullness of your destiny. Why couldn't Moses strike the

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Speaker 1: rock again worth the first time. It's because God wants

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Speaker 1: us to rely on Him, not some formula, thinking, well,

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Speaker 1: we wouldn't really need God. Just follow these steps for success,

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Speaker 1: Just keep striking the rock on purpose. God changes the method,

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Speaker 1: so we'll have to go to him for our daily bread.

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Speaker 1: He's looking for people who recognize he's the source of

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Speaker 1: our strength. He's the source of our success. In him

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Speaker 1: is health, freedom, ideas, abundance. When you rely on him,

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Speaker 1: he'll take you from victory to victory. But here's the

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Speaker 1: whole key. He may not do it the same way.

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Speaker 2: Could it be that you are stuck.

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Speaker 1: You're not seeing the progress that you should because you're

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Speaker 1: happened in the past, trying to duplicate the same way.

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Speaker 1: When God is wanting to do a new thing, a

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Speaker 1: new way, with new ideas, with new people, bringing new

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Speaker 1: talents out of you. If you'll start getting your daily bread,

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Speaker 1: listening to what God is saying now, then you'll see

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Speaker 1: that water begin to flow out of the rock in

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Speaker 1: greater ways. David understood this principle in second Samuel five.

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Speaker 1: He had just been made king over Israel. When the

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Speaker 1: Philistines heard about it, they came down to this valley

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Speaker 1: to attack him. Now, David was a warrior. He had

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Speaker 2: His nature was to attack.

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