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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. Well,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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

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Speaker 2: Be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 2: you we will make you feel right at home. I

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

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Speaker 2: this ninety two year old man. He wasn't feeling up

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Speaker 2: to par, so he went to the doctor. A few

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Speaker 2: days later. The doctor saw him out in the park

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Speaker 2: with this beautiful young lady by his side, and he

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Speaker 2: seemed as.

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Speaker 1: Happy as can be.

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Speaker 2: The doctor said, Wow, you sure are feeling a lot better,

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Speaker 2: aren't you. He said, yes, doctor, I'm just following your orders.

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Speaker 2: You said, get a hot mama and stay cheerful. The

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Speaker 2: doctor said, I didn't say that. I said you got

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Speaker 2: a heart murmur, be careful. He heard what he wanted

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Speaker 2: to hear. But here we go. 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.

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Speaker 1: Taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God

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Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 2: windows of grace. There are times we're going along and

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Speaker 2: minding our own business and suddenly we know something we're

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Speaker 2: supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: We feel it so.

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Speaker 2: Strongly in our spirit, this urging telling us to forgive

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Speaker 2: the person that hurt us. Or we've struggled with an

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Speaker 2: addiction for years, but suddenly we have a new desire

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Speaker 2: to get free. We've been dreaming about starting our own business,

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Speaker 2: writing that book. All of a sudden, we know it's

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Speaker 2: our time. Those are not just nice thoughts. That's God

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Speaker 2: speaking to us. He doesn't ask us to do something

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Speaker 2: and then doesn't give us the ability to do it.

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Speaker 1: With that urging, you'll feel faith rising up.

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Speaker 2: You'll have the favor, the determination, the strength to do

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Speaker 2: what you couldn't do before. But here's the key, it's

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Speaker 2: a window of grace. It's not going to last forever.

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Speaker 2: Too often we hear the still small voice, but we

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Speaker 2: put it off. I know I need to forgive, but

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Speaker 2: I'll do it later. I know I need to get

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Speaker 2: I feel this new passion, new confidence to step up

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Speaker 2: and lead my department. One day, I'm going to do it.

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Speaker 2: The problem is that window is going to close. Don't

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Speaker 2: take the grace for granted. That is a destiny moment

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Speaker 2: where God is making a way where you can come

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Speaker 2: up higher. When you feel that faith, you have to

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Speaker 2: step into it. That's God saying, this is your time,

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Speaker 2: this is your moment. The scripture says today, if you

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Speaker 2: hear his voice, harden not your heart. That's not just

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Speaker 2: talking about salvation. When you hear his voice telling you

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Speaker 2: to have a better attitude, to treat your spouse more respectfully,

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Speaker 2: to tithe your income. The reason it's so strong is

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Speaker 2: God is opening a window of grace. That's the time

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Speaker 2: to obey. Not tomorrow, not next week, but right then.

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Speaker 2: When that window opens, you'll feel a divine empowerment, God

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Speaker 2: breathing on you in a new way. You will have

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Speaker 2: the grace to forgive, the confidence to step up, the

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Speaker 2: favor to succeed. A friend of mine struggled with smoking

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Speaker 2: that was his lot in life. But one morning he

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Speaker 2: new passion. He said, I've never felt faith like this.

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Speaker 2: The problem is he kept putting it off, saying tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: Don't make excuses.

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Speaker 2: always going to feel what you're feeling. That grace is

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Speaker 2: on you for a season to help you accomplish.

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Speaker 1: What God is asking you to do. Today.

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Speaker 2: When you hear his voice, obey, step into that grace,

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Speaker 2: take advantage of what God is offering you. And if

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Speaker 2: the window closes, yes, God will open another window.

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Speaker 1: He's merciful. But you don't know how long it's going

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Speaker 2: You don't have time to waste going around the mountain

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Speaker 1: Talking about how big the obstacles were. When God brings

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Speaker 2: into it, you will feel a force enabling you, empowering you.

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Speaker 2: What is that You're in a window of grace. In

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Speaker 2: the scripture, there's two Greek words.

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Speaker 1: Used for time.

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Speaker 2: One is chronos. It's where we get our word chronological.

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Speaker 2: It deals with ordinary time, minutes, hours, and days. The

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Speaker 2: second Greek word is chiros. It's defined as an opportune moment,

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Speaker 2: a passing instant where an opening appears. It has to

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Speaker 2: do with an appointed time, with a season of favor. Now,

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Speaker 2: God has all ordained these chiros moments for you. You're

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Speaker 2: going to come into opportunity that seems over your head.

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Speaker 1: You'll be tempted to shrink back.

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Speaker 2: But God wouldn't have put you there if you couldn't

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Speaker 2: You know lack and struggle is not your destiny. You

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Speaker 2: God has specifically designed for you.

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Speaker 1: If you will step into it, doors will open that

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Speaker 2: Now get ready for some chiros moments, moments that are

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Speaker 2: you feel it, you have to stir your faith up. Father,

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Speaker 2: thank you that this is a new day, that I

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Speaker 2: am stepping into new levels of favor, discipline, anointing, creativity, strength, energy,

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Speaker 2: and that every force is trying to stop me is

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Speaker 2: This is where the Israelites missed it. They had been

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Speaker 2: in slavery for many years. God brought them out and

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Speaker 1: the land. God had already.

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Speaker 2: Promised them the victory. This was one of their Chiros moments.

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Speaker 2: the opposition. The problem is the Israelites didn't recognize that

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Speaker 2: they were in a window of grace. They said, Moses,

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Speaker 2: Even though God promised to take them into the land,

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Speaker 2: Moses would say, good, you finally changed your mind.

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Speaker 2: Moses said to them, do not enter the land now,

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 2: That window of grace closed, that Chiros moment passed. Moses

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Speaker 2: That's why it's so important to not put off what

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Speaker 2: feel the urging, the knowing, whether it's to break a

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Speaker 1: If you keep delaying, the window is going to close.

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Speaker 2: You may feel afraid. Your thoughts will tell you all

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Speaker 2: the reasons it's not going to work out. You can't

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Speaker 2: accomplish that dream. It's too big. You can't forgive that person.

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Speaker 2: They hurt you too badly. You've always been negative, critical,

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Speaker 2: better that's just who you are.

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Speaker 1: That is not who you are.

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Speaker 2: That's why you're hearing this. There is a Chiros moment coming.

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Speaker 2: There is a window of grace about to open.

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Speaker 1: Now, don't do like them.

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Speaker 2: Put your shoulders back, hold your head up high, and

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Speaker 2: step into it. God is about to take you to

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Speaker 2: a new level. Things that have held you back are

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Speaker 2: being defeated. New doors are about to open. Giants are

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Speaker 1: You are coming into a season of special favor.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you always have favor, but there are moments when

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Speaker 2: that favor stands out. You're going to see an opportune

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Speaker 1: Now do your part.

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Speaker 2: Has for you is much bigger than you've ever imagined.

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Speaker 2: In the scripture, God told Jonah to go to the

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Speaker 2: It's interesting that God put a time period on it.

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Speaker 2: He didn't just say repent sometime whenever you feel like it.

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Speaker 2: As long as you do it, no big deal. He said,

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Speaker 2: you have forty days to make things right. When Jonah

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Speaker 2: on their knees. The king took off his royal robe,

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Speaker 2: They didn't wait a week, they didn't wait twenty days.

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Speaker 2: Immediately they said God, we're sorry for the way we've

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Speaker 1: I wonder if there's something you could change.

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Speaker 2: In the next forty days, ease and you would see

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Speaker 1: Maybe God is saying.

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Speaker 2: To you, you have forty days to get your priorities

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Speaker 2: You have forty days to pursue that dream. You have

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Speaker 2: There is a window of grace. It was forty days

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Speaker 1: They are not going to last forever. Don't miss your moment.

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Speaker 2: Listen to that still small voice, that knowing on the inside.

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Speaker 2: That's when you're going to feel a divine empowerment, the

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Speaker 1: Some of these chirost moments.

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Speaker 2: New doors are about to open, freedom from addictions, restoration

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Speaker 1: Receive it, can you say amen? Today?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus.

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Speaker 1: The lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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