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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victorian. So great to have

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Speaker 1: you listening to the podcast. We have a new resource

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Speaker 1: we'd love to send you. It's the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 1: Devotional Calendar. It's full of inspiration and encouragement. It'll help

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Speaker 1: you to start the day off right. Hope you'll request

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Speaker 1: your copy, but enjoy the podcast today. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. If you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, please stop by and be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. But thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in, and thank you again for coming out.

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this man that called the church office. He said,

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Speaker 1: I want to speak to the head hag at the trough.

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Speaker 1: The secretary was offended. She said, if you mean the pastor,

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Speaker 1: you're going to have to call him pastor, but you

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Speaker 1: may not call him the head hog at the trough.

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Speaker 1: He said, well fine, but I was thinking about making

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Speaker 1: a ten thousand dollars donation to your church. She said,

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Speaker 1: hang on, pork, you just walked in, Hold up your bibles,

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Speaker 1: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about get over it. Too many people go through life

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Speaker 1: thinking somebody owes them something. They didn't have a perfect childhood.

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Speaker 1: Now they're offended at their parents. They got laid off

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Speaker 1: after years with the company. They're offended at a boss,

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Speaker 1: or maybe they came down with an illness. Life through

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Speaker 1: them a curve. They went through a divorce, didn't get

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Speaker 1: the promotion. Now they're offended at God. They've got a

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Speaker 1: chip on their shoulder, bitterness on the inside. If God

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Speaker 1: was so good, how could he let this happen to me? No.

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Speaker 1: God never promised that life would be fair, but he

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Speaker 1: did promise if you would stay in faith, he will

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Speaker 1: take what's meant for your harm and use it to

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Speaker 1: your advantage. Nothing that's happened to you is a surprise

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Speaker 1: to God. The people that raised you may not have

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Speaker 1: given you everything you needed, It may not have been fair,

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Speaker 1: but that didn't catch God off guard. Don't use it

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Speaker 1: as an excuse to be bitter thinking that you got cheated.

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Speaker 1: If you'll get over it, God will still get you

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Speaker 1: to where you're supposed to be. The person that did

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Speaker 1: you wrong in a relationship, the betrayal, the divorce. It

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Speaker 1: may have been painful, it wasn't right. But if you'll

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Speaker 1: get over it and quit reliving all the hurt and

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Speaker 1: pain and start moving forward, then you'll come in to

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Speaker 1: the new beginning God has in store. My message today

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Speaker 1: is very simple. Now I say it respectfully. Whatever wrong

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Speaker 1: that was done causing you to feel sour, whatever seems unfair,

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Speaker 1: get over it. Well, Joel, all my friends are married,

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Speaker 1: I'm still single. Get over it. Don't let that bitterness

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Speaker 1: I wish I was a different nationality, I wish I

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Speaker 1: came from a different family. Get over it. God knows

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Speaker 1: what he's doing. God wasn't having a bad day when

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Speaker 1: he created you. You are not at a disadvantage. You

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Speaker 1: have been fearfully and wonderfully made for Joel. My friends

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Speaker 1: seems like they've got more golden for them. He's more talented,

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Speaker 1: she's more beautiful. I feel like I got short changed. No,

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Speaker 1: get over it. You have exactly what you need to

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Speaker 1: fulfill your destiny. Well, they did me wrong, they left

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Speaker 1: me out. Get over it and God will make it

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Speaker 1: up to you. Get over it and God will fight

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Speaker 1: your battles. I've heard it said you can be pitiful

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Speaker 1: or you can be powerful, but you cannot be both.

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Speaker 1: And instead of sitting around thinking about all the reasons

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Speaker 1: been through has to keep you from becoming all God's

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Speaker 1: created you to be. My mother had polio as a child.

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Speaker 1: people that need healing. In spite of the quote disadvantage,

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Speaker 1: She's gone on to live a full, blessed life. Why

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Speaker 1: But God has giving you the grace you need to

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Speaker 1: assignment too important. To go through life thinking about what

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Speaker 1: you didn't get, who hurts you, and how it didn't

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Speaker 1: He would love to keep you discouraged in self pity,

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Speaker 1: bad attitude, an offense, what somebody did to you, a

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Speaker 1: mistake you made. Don't be pitiful when you can be powerful.

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Speaker 1: The creator of the universe breathed his life into you.

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Speaker 1: Every day of your life has already been written in

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Speaker 1: God's book. The good news is your book ends in victory.

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Speaker 1: And yes, we all go through tough times, but we're

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Speaker 1: not supposed to stay there. Keep turning the page and

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Speaker 1: you'll come in to another victory. God knew there'd be

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Speaker 1: unfair situations. That's why He's already arranged a comeback for

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Speaker 1: every setback, vindication for every wrong, a new beginning for

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Speaker 1: every disappointment. Now, don't let one bad break, a divorce,

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Speaker 1: If you didn't get the promotion, get over it. God

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Speaker 1: has something better in store. If those friends don't accept you,

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Speaker 1: they leave you out, won't give you their approval. Get

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Speaker 1: over it. You don't need their approval. Don't go trying

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Speaker 1: You have Almighty God's approval. That's all that matters. Maybe

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Speaker 1: Don't condemn yourself. You are not a failure. You took

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Speaker 1: you're one step closer to an open door. When you

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Speaker 1: get knocked down, don't stay down, get back up again.

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Speaker 1: Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're

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Speaker 1: your disadvantages. That's going to keep you from the amazing

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Speaker 1: future God has in store. I know some of you

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Speaker 1: are dealing with the sickness now. Our hearts go out

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Speaker 1: to you. We're standing in faith with you. But don't

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Speaker 1: I guess my life is over. I've got this disadvantage. No,

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Speaker 1: dig your heels in and fight the good fight of faith.

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Speaker 1: God did not bring you this far to leave you.

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Speaker 1: When the going gets tough, the tough have to get going.

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Speaker 1: Get over the disappointment, get over the self pity, get

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Speaker 1: over the doubt. You have been armed with strength for

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Speaker 1: this battle. No weapon formed against you is going to prosper.

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Speaker 1: Nothing can snatch you out of God's hand. The enemy

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Speaker 1: doesn't have the final say. God has the final say,

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Speaker 1: and he says, the number of your days he will fulfill. You.

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Speaker 1: Keep turning that page, praying, believing, being your best, being

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Speaker 1: good to other people, and you're going to come into

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Speaker 1: another chapter, a chapter of victory. Think about Job. He

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Speaker 1: had a lot to get over. He lost his health,

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Speaker 1: his family, his business. If anybody had a right, at

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Speaker 1: least in the natural, to have a chip on their

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Speaker 1: shoulder be angry and bitter, it would have been Job.

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Speaker 1: He was a good man, he loved God, he was

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Speaker 1: The scripture says, rain falls on the just and the unjust.

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Speaker 1: and you love God, you'll never have any difficulties. But

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Speaker 1: that's not reality. But I can tell you when the

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Speaker 1: storms come. If you've got your house built upon the rock,

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Speaker 1: know the Lord as your shepherd, the storms will come,

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Speaker 1: but you will not be defeated. When it's all said

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Speaker 1: through the famine, but you'll come out still standing strong.

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Speaker 1: Don't be discouraged by the storm. Don't fall into self fity.

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Speaker 1: not have done anything wrong. May be because you're doing

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Speaker 1: something right. You're taking new ground for the kingdom. You're

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Speaker 1: setting a new standard for your family. The enemy's not

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Speaker 1: going to roll out the red carpet and let us

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Speaker 1: fulfill our destiny. But know this, the forces that are

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Speaker 1: for you are greater than the forces that are against you.

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Speaker 1: Job could have given up on life, blame God, thought, Ah,

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Speaker 1: yet will I trust him? He was saying, in effect,

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Speaker 1: no matter what comes my way, I'm not gonna get bitter, angry, offended,

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Speaker 1: but I know a secret. My God is still on

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Speaker 1: the throne. He will make my wrongs right. I may

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Speaker 1: and keep moving forward. Nine months later, Job came out

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Speaker 1: with twice what he had before. When you get over it,

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Speaker 1: you position yourself for double. When you forgive even though

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Speaker 1: they did you wrong. Get ready for double when you

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Speaker 1: have a good attitude even though life has thrown you

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Speaker 1: you got a disadvantage. Thoughts tell you you're not as

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Speaker 1: talented as she is. Look at him, he comes from

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Speaker 1: an influential family. You got cheated. Look at her, she's

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Speaker 1: image of Almighty God. You have royal blood flowing through

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Speaker 1: your veins. You don't let those thoughts defeat you. You

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Speaker 1: don't let what people say circumstances pull you down. No

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Speaker 1: matter what comes your way, you get over it and

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Speaker 1: God says to you what he says to job, double

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Speaker 1: is coming your way, double the joy, double the peace,

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling up the root of bitterness and I'm moving

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Speaker 1: forward into the amazing future God has in store. If

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Speaker 1: then I believe in declare. No disappointment, no bad break,

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Speaker 1: no injustice is going to keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 1: God's going to take what's meant for harm and use

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Speaker 1: it to your advantage. And like job, you're not only

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Speaker 1: stronger inquest with twice the joy, twice the peace, twice

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Speaker 1: the victory in Jesus's name. If you receive it, can

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Speaker 1: close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep

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Speaker 1: God first place. He's going to take your places that

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Speaker 1: you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a dream that's waiting to happen, but

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Speaker 2: it often feels like you'll never get there? Is your

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like our dream is so far off.

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Speaker 1: But I believe you're closer than you think.

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Speaker 3: You're on the verge of seeing things change in your favor.

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