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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

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

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

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Speaker 1: into 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. I

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Speaker 2: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. But

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Speaker 2: thanks so much for tuning in and thank you again

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Speaker 2: for coming out today. And I like to start with

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Speaker 2: something funny and I heard about this old country farmer.

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Speaker 2: He was taking his nephew camping for the first time.

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Speaker 2: His nephew had five degrees, was one of the smartest

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Speaker 2: men alive. They set their tent up and quickly fell asleep.

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Speaker 2: In the middle of the night, the farmer woke his

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Speaker 2: nephew up and said, look up.

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Speaker 1: What do you see? He said? I see millions of stars.

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Speaker 1: Farmer said, I know that, But what does it tell you?

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Speaker 2: He said, Astronomically tells me there are billions of galaxies. Meteorologically,

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Speaker 2: it tells me it's going to be a beautiful day. Theologically,

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Speaker 2: it tells me God's a great creator.

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Speaker 1: What does it tell you?

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Speaker 2: Old Farmer shook his head and said, tells me somebody

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Speaker 2: stole our tent.

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Speaker 1: Hold up your bible, 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 2: I have what it says I have. I can do

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

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Speaker 2: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about a nevertheless person. We

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Speaker 2: all face situations that seem impossible. We don't see how

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Speaker 2: we could ever accomplish a dream or get the break

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Speaker 2: we need, meet the right person in the natural.

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Speaker 1: We feel stuck.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the medical report says you're not going to get better.

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Speaker 2: Are you raised a child in church and now they're

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Speaker 2: off course, not interested in doing what or in our careers,

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Speaker 2: we gave it our best effort, We worked hard, took

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Speaker 2: the extra training, but now we've petd gone as far

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Speaker 2: as our education allows. What do you do when you've

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Speaker 2: done the right thing?

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Speaker 1: But it hasn't worked out.

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Speaker 2: You're standing on God's promises, believing that he's restoring health,

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Speaker 2: that your lend did not borrow, that it'll give you

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Speaker 2: the desires of your heart. But every circumstance looks like

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Speaker 2: it's not going to happen. Your logic, your reasoning, tells

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Speaker 2: you forget it. It's not going to work out. It's

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Speaker 2: not your lot in life. It's easy to get discouraged

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Speaker 2: and give up on what we're believing.

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Speaker 1: For this is where Peter was in Luke chapter five.

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Speaker 2: He'd been out fishing all night and caught nothing.

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Speaker 1: He was an experienced fisherman.

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Speaker 2: He went to the places where he knew there will

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Speaker 2: always fish. He tried again and again, hour after hour.

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Speaker 1: Came up empty.

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Speaker 2: They were fishing with large nets, not just a few poles.

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Speaker 1: You would have thought they would have caught.

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Speaker 2: Something, at least a few fish, even if it wasn't

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Speaker 2: the kind that they were looking for. But Peter said,

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Speaker 2: we've caught nothing. In other words, it couldn't get any worse.

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Speaker 2: They came up totally empty. For early the next morning,

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Speaker 2: after a long night of being in the boat frustration,

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Speaker 2: nothing worked out. As they were coming into the shore,

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Speaker 2: they saw Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Jesus asked Peter if he.

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Speaker 2: in a few hours. When he was done, Jesus told

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Speaker 2: Peter to do something that seemed illogical, didn't make sense

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Speaker 2: to Peter's natural reasoning. Jesus said, Peter, go back out

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Speaker 2: into the waters, throw out your nets, and you will

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Speaker 2: catch a great haul of fish. You could imagine how

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Speaker 2: Peter must have felt, Are you kidding Go back out

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Speaker 2: there again. We've been out all night, no fish or biting.

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Speaker 2: We're experts, we know what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Plus it was morning.

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Speaker 2: the daylight. Every circumstance told Peter, don't do it.

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Speaker 2: If Peter would have reasoned it out, only looked at

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Speaker 2: it logically, he would have talked himself out of it.

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Speaker 2: He could have told Jesus, I appreciate your suggestions, thank

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Speaker 2: Instead, Peter did something that we all must do if

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Speaker 2: we're going to see promises come to pass. He said, Jesus,

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Speaker 2: we fished all night and caught nothing.

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Speaker 1: Nevertheless, at your word, we'll go.

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Speaker 2: Back and try again. He didn't deny the facts. He

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Speaker 2: was saying, in effect, the odds are against us. It

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Speaker 2: looks impossible. Nevertheless, because of what you say, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to do it. He went back out into the water,

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Speaker 2: threw out his nets, and caught so many fish that

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Speaker 2: they begin to break. Practical people would have missed their miracle.

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Speaker 2: People that only look at things logically, realistically, statistically.

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Speaker 2: God is looking for, nevertheless, people for people who say

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Speaker 2: the medical report doesn't look good. Nevertheless, God is restoring

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Speaker 2: health back into men.

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Speaker 1: My child is still off course.

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Speaker 2: Nevertheless, as for me and my house, we will serve

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Speaker 2: the lord.

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Speaker 1: Business is slow.

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Speaker 2: No fish or body doesn't look like I could ever

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Speaker 2: get out of debt. Nevertheless, blessings are chasing me down.

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Speaker 1: I will lend and not borrow.

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Speaker 2: Or maybe I've had this addiction for years, gone through treatment, rehab,

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Speaker 2: nothing has worked. I should be discouraged, but I'm a

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Speaker 2: never the less person. I know freedom is in my future.

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Speaker 2: I know one touch of God's favor can turn it around.

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Speaker 2: It may not make sense to your logic in the.

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Speaker 1: Natural, you don't see how you could accomplish a.

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Speaker 2: Dream, meet the right person, see your family restored. You've

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Speaker 2: given it, your best efforts exhausted, your resources.

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Speaker 1: Became up empty.

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Speaker 2: No fish, all the circumstances say it's not going to happen.

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Speaker 1: You're right where Peter was.

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Speaker 2: You can either give up, get discouraged, or you can

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Speaker 2: dig your heels in and say it looks impossible. The

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Speaker 2: odds are against me. I tried and it didn't work out. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: I still believe. Nevertheless, I'm gonna try again. Nevertheless, I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna keep hoping, praying, expecting. Friends, If you don't learn

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Speaker 2: to become a nevertheless person, you won't reach the fullness

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Speaker 2: of your destiny because there will be situations where there's

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Speaker 2: no way out. The obstacle is too big, the opponents

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Speaker 1: Without God's favor, you'll get stuck.

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Speaker 2: God puts us in these situations on purpose, to where

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Speaker 2: we come to the end of our ability. There's nothing

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Speaker 2: more we can do. This is what faith is all about.

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Speaker 2: If you can achieve it on your own, you don't

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Speaker 2: need God's help, but his dream for your life is

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Speaker 2: to take you further than you can imagine. That's why

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Speaker 2: He plants things in your heart that are too big.

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Speaker 1: For you to accomplish on your own.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to think, man, I don't have the talent,

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Speaker 2: We get discouraged, thinking, man, I'm out of my league,

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Speaker 1: I'll never live in that nice neighborhood. I don't have

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Speaker 2: I'll never get well. Joel, I've been sick for years.

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Speaker 2: I'll never start my business, write that book, build that orphanage.

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Speaker 2: The odds are all against me. Know you are exactly

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Speaker 2: where God wants you.

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Speaker 1: He would not have put the dream in your heart

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Speaker 1: if he didn't already have a way to bring it

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Speaker 1: to pass. Your attitude should be it may be big.

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Speaker 2: Nevertheless, with God, all things are possible.

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Speaker 1: I may not have the connections. Nevertheless, I know friends

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Speaker 1: in high places. I tried and it didn't work out.

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Speaker 2: Nevertheless, what God started in my life he will finish

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Speaker 2: all through the scripture we see Nevertheless, people, when David

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Speaker 2: He thought, all I have is this slingshot.

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Speaker 2: This giant is much bigger, much stronger. Nevertheless, if God.

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Speaker 1: Be for me, who dare be against me?

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Speaker 2: David didn't just with the facts. If he would have,

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Speaker 2: is you have to add the Nevertheless. You may have

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Speaker 1: That's fine.

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Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to deny the facts. I'm asking

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Speaker 2: you to add the Nevertheless, these giants look huge. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: my God is much bigger. Medical report says I'm done. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: nothing can snatch me out of God's hands. I've been

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Speaker 2: that my spouse and I can ever have a child. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: This is what Abraham did.

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Speaker 2: God gave him the promise that he and his wife

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Speaker 1: She said, Oh yeah, right, Abraham, you and me have

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Speaker 2: Has God ever put something in your heart so big?

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Speaker 2: Seems so unlikely your first thought was to laugh.

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Speaker 1: He whispers in your spirit.

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Speaker 2: One day you're gonna live in that nice neighborhood. You're

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Speaker 2: gonna lead your company in sales. You're gonna write that

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Speaker 1: You're gonna see your whole.

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Speaker 2: Family come to know the Lord. You're gonna marry somebody fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Abraham did what we all must do to see that

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Speaker 2: too old. Nevertheless, God can make a way. Yes, it's impossible. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: God can do the impossible. Yes, it defies the laws

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Speaker 2: of nature. Nevertheless, God supersedes the laws of nature. Whatever

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Speaker 2: get chosen for that lead role. Nevertheless, God's favor is

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Speaker 2: the experience for that promotion. Nevertheless, God's causing me to

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Speaker 2: stand out, or Joel, I don't have the funds, the

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Speaker 2: Nevertheless, I know it's only temporary. I know freedom, wholeness,

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Speaker 1: You need waiting for you. You haven't missed it. It's

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Speaker 2: If you'll have this nevertheless mentality, God will lead you

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Speaker 2: Her attitude was nevertheless, I'm going to keep trying. She

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Speaker 1: He'll bring the fish to you.

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Speaker 2: David said in Psalm three, Lord, how are they increased?

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Speaker 1: That trouble me?

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Speaker 2: He was saying, God, it looks like my enemies are multiplying.

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Speaker 2: David not only had other armies coming against him, but

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Speaker 2: to take the throne.

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Speaker 1: David could have.

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Speaker 2: Gotten discouraged and thought that's it. I can handle other

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Speaker 2: people trying to stop me, but now it's my own family.

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Speaker 1: I'm done.

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Speaker 2: This could have been the point where David faded off

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Speaker 2: into the sunset and we don't read about him anymore.

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Speaker 2: But David didn't just talk about the problem. He stated

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Speaker 2: the facts. Then he took it one step further. Lord,

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Speaker 2: how are they increased that troubled me? But you, o Lord,

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Speaker 2: are a shield under me. Notice, David added the Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: I'm having a lot of trouble.

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Speaker 1: Nevertheless, God is my shield. What's the message?

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Speaker 2: Don't let the enemy have the last word. Always add

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Speaker 2: the Nevertheless, the medical report doesn't look good. Nevertheless, the

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Speaker 2: Lord is my dealer. My coworkers did me wrong. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 2: God is fighting my battles. He's my vindicator. I went

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Speaker 2: I know God will turn to my advantage for in

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Speaker 2: some of the things that have you worried right now, upset, discourage.

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Speaker 2: It would all change if you would start adding the nevertheless.

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Speaker 2: If you just stop with the facts at how impossible

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Speaker 2: it is, it's going.

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Speaker 1: To cause you to get discouraged.

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Speaker 2: Every time something negative happens, every bad break, disappoint but

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Speaker 2: delay answer back with a Nevertheless, you get stuck in traffic,

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Speaker 2: I should be upset. Nevertheless, I know God is directed

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Speaker 1: We all do. Don't talk yourself out of it.

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Speaker 2: Get rid of a no way mentality, have this nevertheless mentality.

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Speaker 2: If you'll do this, I believe and declare God is

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Speaker 1: Some things around.

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Speaker 2: He's about to open some new doors. There are explosive

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Speaker 2: blessings come in your way. Because you're a never the

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Speaker 2: to you an abundance of what you need.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name if you receive it.

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