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Speaker 5: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading

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Speaker 5: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.

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Speaker 5: I hope you enjoy this message. Have you ever had

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Speaker 5: an opportunity presented to you and you said no, No,

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Speaker 5: I don't want to do that, No I can't do that.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't think you.

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Speaker 5: Were qualified, or maybe you thought there was someone else

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Speaker 5: the resources. You know, there's numbers of reasons that we

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Speaker 3: But then have you ever done that?

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Speaker 5: And then later got to thinking, ugh, what I say no,

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Speaker 5: for I wish i'd have done that. Maybe I could

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Speaker 5: I'll never forget one time when Joel's father was the

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Speaker 5: we were worshiping God. It was in the middle of

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Speaker 5: our worship, just like we were doing today. My hands

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Speaker 5: Joel's father had turned around in his seat and looked

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Speaker 5: at me and said, Victoria, why don't you go up

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Speaker 5: I'm sure I looked at him because I had never

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Speaker 5: during that service. You know, I remember standing there thinking

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Speaker 3: But when I got home, I was wrestling with that no.

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Speaker 5: I't want to give you my yes. And through that struggle.

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Speaker 3: It's God who's preparing you. If you will get into

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Speaker 5: God can do amazing things in our lives, but.

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Speaker 3: God needs our yes. He needs to hear our yes.

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Speaker 5: When I think about how that yes kicked in and

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Speaker 5: it was it was a very much of a learning

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Speaker 3: Now, the truth is, I.

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Speaker 5: Can I tell you make a decision, just settle it

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Speaker 5: like my father in law asked me and I said no,

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Speaker 5: he didn't hold that no against me, and your heavenly

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Speaker 5: Father is not gonna hold that no against you. You

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Speaker 5: can tell you, just like my father in law, God's

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Speaker 5: gonna ask you again. He's gonna ask you again. So

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Speaker 5: I encourage you to make a decision to give God

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Speaker 5: to what it says in tewod Corinthians one twenty. It says,

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Speaker 5: for no matter how many promises God has made, they

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Speaker 3: And so through Him we speak the Amen.

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Speaker 5: Through him who speaks the Amen, who speaks the yes,

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Speaker 5: we speak the yes. God's promises are gonna stand forever.

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Speaker 5: They will remain. But He is looking for us to

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Speaker 5: does yes look like to you today? What does it

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Speaker 5: look like to you today? What does your yes look like?

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Speaker 3: When you think about God?

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Speaker 5: Yes, God, I am going to forgive the people that

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Speaker 5: I am all in with you God, knowing that you

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Speaker 5: You. See, you're not on your own. God doesn't want

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Speaker 5: I think about the saints of old. They wavered in

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Speaker 5: Because the Bible talks about this. It says you have

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Speaker 5: See, it's not just in your ability, It's in God's

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Speaker 5: And he kept building that arc. It took years and years.

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Speaker 5: People made fun of him. They even said Noah is crazy.

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Speaker 5: saying yes in his obedience to God. And let me

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Speaker 5: a sign of God's goodness, a sign of God's agreement.

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Speaker 5: You see, we are in covenant with this great God,

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Speaker 5: and he wants your yes. I have a friend of

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Speaker 5: she made a decision to say yes to God in

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Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you something. Her family didn't. I

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Speaker 5: They literally quit inviting her to certain gatherings because she

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Speaker 5: you she stayed faithful to her commitment. She held on

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Speaker 5: She continued to be kind to her family, show love,

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Speaker 5: after years and years of holding on to that yes,

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Speaker 5: because of that yes. Is our yes always easy?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: But our yes is always worth it When we serve

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Speaker 3: Yes God, I am yours yes. God, what do you

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Speaker 5: Yes, God, I will trust you, I will forgive. I

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Speaker 5: I believe that when I get into agreement with you,

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