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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate you,

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Speaker 2: and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 2: and be a part of one of our services.

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

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this airplane that was about to crash. There were

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Speaker 2: four passengers, but only three parachutes. The first passenger said,

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Speaker 2: I'm a leading heart surgeon. My patients need me, and

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Speaker 2: he took the first pair of chuting jumped. Second passenger said,

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Speaker 2: I'm a rocket scientist, one of the smartest men alive.

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Speaker 1: My country needs me.

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Speaker 2: Took the second paara chuting jumped The third passenger's Pope

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Speaker 2: John Paul. He said to the fourth passenger, a ten

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Speaker 2: year old boy scout son, I'm old and frail.

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Speaker 1: I don't have much time left.

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Speaker 2: You can have the last pair of the boy scouts said,

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Speaker 2: don't worry about it, sir, there are still two parachutes left.

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Speaker 1: You see the smartest man alive.

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Speaker 2: He just jumped out with my backpack. Say it like

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Speaker 2: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 2: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 2: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about it's all good.

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Speaker 2: Life is full of things that we don't like. Disappointments.

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Speaker 2: A friend betrayed us, we didn't get the promotion. We

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Speaker 2: see these things as being negative, thinking that was bad,

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Speaker 2: didn't work out, my prayers weren't answered. But God won't

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Speaker 2: allow a difficulty unless he's going to somehow use it

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Speaker 2: for our good. This means everything that happens in life.

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Speaker 2: We may not understand it, but if you'll keep the

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Speaker 2: right attitude, it'll push you further into your destiny. Every

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Speaker 2: closed doors, the delays, the person that did you wrong,

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Speaker 2: the loan that didn't go through. God says, it's all good.

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Speaker 2: I'm in control. It may not feel good, but trust

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Speaker 2: me and I'll use it for your good. And when

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Speaker 2: you understand this principle, life is much more freeing. You

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Speaker 2: don't get upset because a coworker is playing politics trying

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Speaker 2: to keep you down.

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Speaker 1: You know it's all good.

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Speaker 2: God allowed it, and he's going to use it. You tried,

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Speaker 2: but the business didn't make it. You don't give up

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Speaker 2: on your dreams. You know it's all good. It's a

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Speaker 2: part of the process.

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Speaker 1: Even simple things.

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Speaker 2: You get stuck in traffic, you don't let it frustrate

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Speaker 2: you ruin the rest of your day. You know God

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Speaker 2: is directing your steps. He may be keeping you from

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Speaker 2: an accident, or he may be developing atiens in you.

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Speaker 2: Whatever it is, keep the right perspective, it's all good.

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Speaker 2: This boils down to trusting God. We're never going to

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Speaker 2: understand everything that happens in life. If you try to

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Speaker 2: figure it all out, you'll be frustrated. God has an advantage.

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Speaker 2: He can see the big picture for our lives. He

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Speaker 2: knows where the dead ends are, where the shortcuts are, where.

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Speaker 1: The bumpy roads are.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes he'll close a door that we're asking him

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Speaker 2: to open because he knows it would be a waste

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Speaker 2: of time when you're a mature person. Instead of getting bitter,

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Speaker 2: you say, God, I trust you. I may not like it,

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Speaker 2: but I believe you know what's best for me. Some

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Speaker 2: of the things that God has in your future, if

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Speaker 2: he gave them to you right now, you couldn't handle it.

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Speaker 2: He loves you too much to let it happen. He's

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Speaker 2: developing your character, growing you up. That boss that gets

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Speaker 2: The reason he's not going anywhere is because God's using

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Speaker 2: him like sandpaper to rub the rough edges off of you.

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Speaker 2: Now as you keep doing the right thing, keeping your

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Speaker 1: A work in you.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't develop your character without him. You may not

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Speaker 2: the next level. God is asking us, do you trust

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Speaker 2: your unanswered questions, with the things you don't understand? Instead

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Speaker 1: It's all good. This grouchy boss.

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Speaker 2: I can't stand him, but I know he's good for me,

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Speaker 2: this child that's hard.

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Speaker 2: I'm dealing with this dream that's taken forever. I don't

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Speaker 1: That's what Paul said in Romans.

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Speaker 2: All things work together for good to those that love

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Speaker 2: the Lord. Not some things, but all things. They may

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Speaker 2: not be good at the time. It's painful to go

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Speaker 2: through a loss, discouraging when a dream doesn't work out

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Speaker 2: by itself. That may not be good, but God is

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Speaker 2: promised He's going to bring it all together.

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Speaker 1: One day you'll look back and say that was good.

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Speaker 2: Well, Joel, I'm discouraged because I lost a loved won er.

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Speaker 2: I'm bitter because a business partner cheated me.

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Speaker 1: That wasn't good.

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Speaker 2: The problem is you're isolating that one incident. God hasn't

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Speaker 2: brought it all together yet. If that difficulty was going

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Speaker 2: to keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 1: God would have never permitted it.

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Speaker 2: That setback was really a setup for God to show

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Speaker 2: out in your life. So you have to get rid

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Speaker 2: of a victim mentality and have a victor mentality. When

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Speaker 2: you have this attitude, that is all good. You don't

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Speaker 2: go around with a chip on your shoulder because you

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Speaker 2: had some bad breaks. You know, no weapon formed against

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Weeping indoors for a night, but joy's coming in the morning.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's just a matter of time before God

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Speaker 2: brings it all together. We celebrated Good Friday recently. We

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Speaker 2: call it good today, But two thousand years ago, when

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Speaker 2: Jesus was crucified didn't look like a good Friday.

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Speaker 1: The disciples thought.

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Speaker 2: It was the worst day of their lives. Their dreams

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Speaker 2: were shattered. The man they had given their lives to

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Speaker 2: wasted all this time. Can imagine Mary, the Mother of Christ,

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Speaker 1: She's heartbroken, in so much pain.

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Speaker 2: If someone would have suggested Mary, this is a good.

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Speaker 1: Friday, she'd have thought, what are you talking about? Good?

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Speaker 2: But we all face these times when life doesn't make sense,

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Speaker 2: seems good. Good would have been the last word we

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Speaker 2: would have used to describe this Friday. Better description would

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Speaker 2: have been tragic Friday. Lonely Friday, betrayed Friday. In the

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Speaker 2: heat of the battle, It's easy to get discouraged. The

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Speaker 2: disciples could have said, God, why did you let Judas

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Speaker 2: betray him? Why did you let the soldiers crucify him? God,

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Speaker 2: why did you abandon your son in his time of

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Speaker 1: But a few days later.

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Speaker 2: After he arose from the grave and cooked them breakfast.

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Speaker 1: On the beach, appeared to them in the upper room.

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Speaker 2: They realized he was who he said he was. They

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Speaker 2: looked back on that Friday and said, it wasn't what

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Speaker 2: we thought. It wasn't depressing Friday. It wasn't tragic Friday.

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Speaker 2: It was all a part of his plan.

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Speaker 1: It was good Friday.

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Speaker 2: They looked back on what they thought was the darkest

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Speaker 1: What am I saying? It's all good?

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Speaker 2: May not be good right now, may not make sense

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Speaker 2: on its own, but God knows how to bring it

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Speaker 2: all together, and what you think is going to stop

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Speaker 2: you hold you back. Can I tell you, if you

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Speaker 2: will stay in faith, one day you will look back

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Speaker 2: and say that it was good. If Judas had not

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Speaker 2: betrayed Jesus, we wouldn't have salvation. God used the betrayal

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Speaker 1: The betrayal at the time didn't seem good.

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Speaker 2: Hurts when somebody does you wrong, walks out on you,

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Speaker 2: but without that betrayal, like Jesus, you couldn't become who

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Speaker 1: If they left you, you didn't need them.

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Speaker 2: If they walked away, they weren't a part of your destiny.

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Speaker 2: It may be painful Friday right now, but keep moving forward.

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Speaker 1: Sunday is coming. New beginnings are on the way. A

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Speaker 1: resurrection is in your future.

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Speaker 2: When God brings it all together, when you meet that

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Speaker 2: you'll look back and say with a smile, it was

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Speaker 2: a good Friday.

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Speaker 1: When that old goat left.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when that man left, that supervisor that's tried

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Speaker 2: next level. You wouldn't be who you are today without

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Speaker 2: that difficulty. You may not have liked it, but you

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Speaker 1: That was a good friday. That's what happened to us.

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Speaker 2: Twice we tried to buy property to build a new sanctuary.

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Speaker 2: On both times the property was sold out from under us.

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Speaker 2: The first one we had worked for six months doing

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Speaker 2: soil samples, preliminary drawings. We went to close on the

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Speaker 2: property real early in the morning. The secretary came out said,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. The owner sold the property last night to

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Speaker 2: someone else. It had been on the market for twenty years.

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Speaker 2: We were so disappointed. I went home told Victoria is

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Speaker 2: no place to build a new sanctuary. There didn't seem

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Speaker 2: not selling us that property. If you would have told

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Speaker 2: me it was a good friday, I'd have told you

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Speaker 2: go jump in a lake. A few months later, we

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Speaker 2: found another one hundred acre tract of land. Thought, boy,

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Speaker 2: this is even better. I prayed more fervently. Lord, Thank

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Speaker 2: you for your favor. Thank you for opening this door.

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Speaker 2: Same thing they sold it out from under us.

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Speaker 1: Didn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 2: I've learned God's ways are better than our ways. The

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Speaker 2: right way to pray is God, this is what I want,

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Speaker 2: this is what I'm believing for. But God, you know

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Speaker 2: what's best for me. I trust you. If you're only

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Speaker 2: going to be happy if God does it your way,

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Speaker 2: that's not really trusting.

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Speaker 1: That's not praying.

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Speaker 2: That's giving God orders. God, Here's what I want you

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Speaker 2: to do, when to do it, where to do it, here's.

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Speaker 1: Who to use. I found God doesn't take orders.

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Speaker 2: But this is one of the main reasons we get

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Speaker 1: We have to remember it's not all about us. We

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Speaker 2: If you ever thought about maybe God has you there

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna be my best. I'm gonna keep a

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Speaker 1: That was unfair, That was wrong. He didn't like it,

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Speaker 2: Without that disappointment, he would have never become who God

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Speaker 2: God wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: This doesn't make sense to me, but I believe when

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Speaker 2: One day, Craig was very discouraged. He said, God, I

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Speaker 2: don't understand it. Why was my son born with autism?

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Speaker 1: Why did this happen to me? He heard God say

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Speaker 2: That moment, Craig did what we all must do when

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Speaker 2: of God's plan for his life. God will never give

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Speaker 2: Not only did little Connor begin to defy the odds

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Speaker 2: same thing Joseph said that difficulty look like a setback,

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