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Speaker 4: for tuning in, and thank you again for coming out.

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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny. And one day,

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Speaker 4: Jesus and Satan were having a contest to see who

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Speaker 4: was better with computers. After six hours of making spreadsheets

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Speaker 4: designing web pages, a thunderstorm knocked the power out. When

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Speaker 4: they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming, it's all lost.

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Speaker 4: All my material is gone, while Jesus quietly printed his

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Speaker 4: out and turned it in. Satan complained, it's not fair.

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Speaker 4: He must have cheated. How come he didn't lose his work.

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Speaker 4: God smiled and said, Jesus Saves, let's say it like

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Speaker 4: you in if this is my Bible, I am what

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Speaker 4: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 4: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 4: I will be to the word of God. I'll boldly confess.

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Speaker 4: My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. I will

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Speaker 4: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about separated for

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Speaker 4: the better. In the scripture, there's a place called the

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Speaker 4: threshing floor. That's where the wheat was separated from the chaff.

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Speaker 4: And back in those days they didn't have machinery, so

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Speaker 4: they would lay sheaves of wheat on the ground and

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Speaker 4: would break up the husk and straw. The valuable part

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Speaker 4: could have a great harvest, but if he didn't separate

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Speaker 4: the dysfunctional part of the plant from the functional, he

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Speaker 4: threshing floors. We start off like that stalk of wheat.

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Speaker 4: The potential is there. We have seeds of greatness, we're valuable.

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Speaker 4: God has to separate the dysfunctional part of us, the

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Speaker 4: if the weak could talk, it would say, I don't

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Speaker 4: Why did this friend walk away? We don't realize we're

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Speaker 4: is the one that ordained it. Instead of fighting it,

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Speaker 4: if you'll stay in peace, then you're being refined. What's

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Speaker 4: becoming more valuable. That person at work that always gets

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Speaker 4: As long as you let that frustrate you ruin your day,

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Speaker 4: you're going to get stuck. But when you recognize I'm

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Speaker 4: that approach, even if the situation doesn't change, you will change.

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Speaker 4: You're getting better. The scripture says, our faith is tried

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Speaker 4: in the fire of affliction. We can't pray away every difficulty.

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Speaker 4: There will be things that happened that you don't understand.

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Speaker 4: You went through a loss, a friend lets you down,

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Speaker 4: you didn't get the promotion. Recognize you're on the threshing

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Speaker 4: you back. I'm a very gold oriented person, and I

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Speaker 4: never liked to wait. But it seemed like the more

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Speaker 4: I tried to pray away every traffic jam, every slow driver,

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Speaker 4: every delayed I prayed that Victoria'd get dressed faster, and

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Speaker 4: it didn't work. I was praying against what God had ordained.

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Speaker 4: He loved me too much. To answer my prayer. I

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Speaker 4: wanted God to change the situation. God wanted the situation

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Speaker 4: to change me. Maybe you're on the threshing floor today

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Speaker 4: It may not be good, but God knows how to

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Speaker 4: we're bitter, have the attitude. I may not like this,

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Speaker 4: but it was blocked off as well. I tried another place,

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Speaker 4: I said to the police officer standing there, I passed

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Speaker 4: All he had to do was move one cone and

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Speaker 4: let me cross the road. Early Sunday morning, not another

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Speaker 4: He said, all right, let me see what I can do.

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Speaker 4: She left thirty minutes after me. I said, how did

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Speaker 4: normal way. The intersection was open for me. Friends, God

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Speaker 4: If he has you there, don't fight it. Embrace it

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Speaker 4: stay in peace. See Victoria is very relaxed, easy going.

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Speaker 4: She doesn't struggle with being impatient. She has a whole

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Speaker 4: If we would work with God and let the situation

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Speaker 4: All it's going to do is burn off any limitations

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Speaker 4: ready for the next level. In the scripture we see

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Speaker 4: this principle. All the great heroes of faith went through

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Speaker 4: he used bad language. He told Jesus, I'll never deny you.

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Speaker 4: he knew Christ. When you're under pressure, you find out

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Speaker 4: what's really on the inside. That's when in purities in

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Speaker 4: our character come to light. If you'll work with God

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Speaker 4: and let him refine you, you'll come out better. This

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Speaker 4: his shadow caused people to get healed. Moses, as a

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Speaker 4: The dream was in his heart, but he got out

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Speaker 4: He had scalped my plants. A few days ago, Victoria

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Speaker 4: and I were outside. Those plants were taller, fuller, bigger,

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Speaker 4: healthier than I've ever seen. I was so amazed. In

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Speaker 4: just a few weeks they had sprouted to new heights.

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Speaker 4: Here's the key. That man was an experienced gardener. He

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Speaker 4: knows when each plant needs to be pruned. He knows

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Speaker 4: how much they need to be cut back. It's not

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Speaker 4: one size fits all. He carefully studies each plant. I

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Speaker 4: have some crape myrtles other plants that he prunes at

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Speaker 4: different times. In the same way. God is the master gardener.

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Speaker 4: He will never cut something back, remove it, take it

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Speaker 4: away unless it's the perfect time. Sometimes we think, God,

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Speaker 4: you scalp me, You mess me up. God, why did

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Speaker 4: you take away my dad? Why'd you cut back my business?

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Speaker 4: God knows what he's doing. The only reason he cuts

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Speaker 4: you back is so you can bear much fruit. If

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Speaker 4: he had not cut you back, you would have been

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Speaker 4: satisfied to stay where you were. God doesn't want you

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Speaker 4: to get stuck. He has new levels and on a

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Speaker 4: regular basis, we're going to see this pruning the uncomfortable times.

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Speaker 4: In those tough times, you have to remind yourself you're

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Speaker 4: being pruned so you can bloom, so you can blossom,

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Speaker 4: so you can see new growth. Friends, we're all gonna

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Speaker 4: have these bumps in the road, these threshing floor experiences.

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Speaker 4: The separation may be uncomfortable, but it's making you better.

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Speaker 4: It's getting you prepared. You may have lost something you

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Speaker 4: need to get ready, You're about to gain something a

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Speaker 4: whole lot better. I believe and declare you're gonna come

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Speaker 4: through every adversity less chaff, more wheat, refined, purified, stronger,

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Speaker 4: ready for the fullness of your destiny. In Jesus's name,

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Speaker 4: If you receive it today, can you say amen. We

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Speaker 4: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would

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Speaker 4: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent

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Speaker 4: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you

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Speaker 4: my lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer,

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