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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the podcast today, Victory, and

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Speaker 1: I as praying for you and just believing for God's

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Speaker 1: very best. I believe that this month is going to

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Speaker 1: be an amazing month for you and your family. Keep

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Speaker 1: that expectation in your heart and see what God will do.

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

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Speaker 1: into your homes. We love you, and I know God

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Speaker 1: has great things in store for each one of you.

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Speaker 1: He rewards the people that seek after him. If you're

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

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

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Speaker 1: you feel right at home. Thanks for tuning in, Thanks

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Speaker 1: again for coming out. I'd like to start with something

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Speaker 1: funny and I heard about this minister. He was walking

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Speaker 1: young boys surrounding a small dog. He asked what they

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Speaker 1: and whoever could tell the biggest lie would get to

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Speaker 1: keep the dog. The minister launched into a ten minute

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Speaker 1: sermon on lying, starting with don't you know lying is

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Speaker 1: a sin? And ending with when I was your age,

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Speaker 1: I never told a lie. There was complete silence, just

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Speaker 1: when he thought he had gotten through to them. The

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Speaker 1: youngest boy spoke up and said, all right, given the dog.

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Speaker 1: All right, hold up your bibles. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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

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

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Speaker 1: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about how your

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Speaker 1: destiny supersedes your mistakes. None of us are perfect, and

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Speaker 1: when God designed the plans for our lives, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a wrong turn. God knew we would all make mistakes.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't have just one way to get you to

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Speaker 1: your destiny. He has many ways. He has detours, shortcuts bypasses,

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Speaker 1: and God has already calculated the entire route for your life.

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Speaker 1: And the good news is nothing that you've done, no

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Speaker 1: mistake that you've made or ever will make, is a

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Speaker 1: surprise to God. He's already got it figured out. He's

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Speaker 1: arranged comebacks for every setback. He has grace for every weakness.

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Speaker 1: He has mercy for every failure. But so often when

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Speaker 1: we make mistakes, we get down on ourselves and think,

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Speaker 1: if I just not messed up my marriage, where would

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Speaker 1: I be? If I had just listened to my parents,

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Speaker 1: not hung around this crowd, I wouldn't have these addictions.

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Speaker 1: Or if I'd just finished college, if I'd just been

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Speaker 1: more disciplined. It's easy to feel like we've missed the

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Speaker 1: best plan for our lives. That's when we get discouraged

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Speaker 1: and stop pursuing our God given dreams. But understand, just

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Speaker 1: because you made a mistake or failed in some way

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Speaker 1: that didn't cancel God's plan. God never disqualifies us. He

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Speaker 1: never says, go sit on the sidelines. You've blown it

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Speaker 1: always gives us another chance. Some of the great people

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Speaker 1: Yet Paul's destiny was bigger than his mistakes. He ended

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Speaker 1: the New Testament. What am I saying? Our mistakes, our failures,

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Speaker 1: God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God

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Speaker 1: I can understand how he's the God of Isaac. Isaac

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Speaker 1: You may have made a lot of mistakes and you

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Speaker 1: But God is not pushing you aside, thinking keep them

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Speaker 1: He did not cancel your destiny. He has already calculated

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Speaker 1: another route. He still has a way to get you

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Speaker 1: up when you make mistakes, Repent and keep moving forward. Lord,

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Speaker 1: I know people that feel like they've wasted years of

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Speaker 1: nothing you've been through has been a waste. It has

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Speaker 1: And you may think it's a dead end, but if

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Speaker 1: another step toward your God given destiny. The truth is,

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Speaker 1: God knew we wouldn't all be as blameless as Abraham.

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Speaker 1: We wouldn't all be as obedient as Isaac. Some of

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Speaker 1: all the time, or like Peter, who was hot tempered

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Speaker 1: God knew we would all have times of failure, times

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Speaker 1: of poor choices. But he's saying, I'm still your God.

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Speaker 1: Some of you are beating yourself up, thinking that you've

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Speaker 1: Your destiny is bigger than your mistakes. And when God

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Speaker 1: every failure, every setback, every poor choice, and in his

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Speaker 1: I may have failed, but I know he's still my God.

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Speaker 1: great plan for my life. He's still directing my steps.

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Speaker 1: God is more pleased with someone with a right heart

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Speaker 1: Down deep you want to do what's right. When you

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Speaker 1: destiny can supersede those poor choices. But so often we

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Speaker 1: get our identity mixed up with our performance. You ask

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Speaker 1: But God looks beyond our behavior, beyond our performance, and

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Speaker 1: but I am not a failure. I'm struggling with alcohol,

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Speaker 1: But God is saying, if you will shake that all

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Speaker 1: God saw Abraham as unwavering, God sees you as unwavering.

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Speaker 1: And God doesn't even remember those mistakes. God is not

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Speaker 1: holding anything against you. Why don't you quit holding something

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Speaker 1: if Abraham lied, if Abraham had a child out of wedlock,

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Speaker 1: you've not only forgiven me for every mistake, but you

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Speaker 1: see me as not wavering, and you will help me too,

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Speaker 1: fulfill the best plan that you have for my life.

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Speaker 1: You got to get your fire back. Don't drag through

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Speaker 1: the day focused on your missed opportunities. How you should

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Speaker 1: but you can do something about your future. Let go

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Speaker 1: start being your very best today. Nothing that's happened in

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Speaker 1: it's never too late, and the mistake was never too big.

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Speaker 1: Nothing that you've done can supersede the destiny that God

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Speaker 1: has already ordained for your future. Agreement with God, shake

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Speaker 1: even when you make mistakes, God will take that stumbling

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Speaker 1: what was meant to harm you and use it to

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Speaker 1: you will fulfill your destiny, overcoming every mistake, and you

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Speaker 1: will become everything that God has created you to be. Amen.

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Speaker 1: Do you receive it today? Or we never liked to

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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: If you prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got

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Speaker 2: But how do you experience the same miraculous and extraordinary

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Speaker 1: Sometimes our life is limited because we're believing too small.

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Speaker 1: Faith is like a sea. When you believe all things

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Speaker 1: We don't have to figure out how it's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: All we have to do is believe. There may not

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Speaker 1: We'd like to send you this time next year believe

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