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Speaker 4: Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 4: right at home. I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 4: And I heard about this positive farmer and negative farmer.

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Speaker 4: When it would rain, the positive farmer would say, Lord,

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Speaker 4: thank you for water and our crops. The negative farmer

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Speaker 4: would say, yeah, but if it keeps this up, it's

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Speaker 4: going to rock the roots. When the sun came out,

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Speaker 4: the positive farmer, Lord, thank you for giving our plants

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Speaker 4: valuable nutrients. The negative farmer, Yeah, but if it keeps

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Speaker 4: it up, it's going to squirtch the crops. One day

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Speaker 4: they went bird hunting together in a boat. The positive

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Speaker 4: farmer just got a new bird dog. He was so

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Speaker 4: proud of him. He shot a bird, fell in the water,

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Speaker 4: said to the negative farmer. Watched this. The dog jumped

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Speaker 4: out of the boat, ran on top of the water,

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Speaker 4: put it in the boat. He said, what you think?

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Speaker 4: The negative farmer said, I should have known it. That

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Speaker 4: dog can't even swim. Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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

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Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind

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Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about it's worth the wait.

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Speaker 4: We all have things that we're waiting for, a dream

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Speaker 4: to come, to pass, problem, to turn around, or to

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Speaker 4: meet the right person. When it's taking longer than we thought,

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Speaker 4: it's easy to get discouraged, to become impatient and think

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Speaker 4: not happening because we're not prepared for what God has prepared.

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Speaker 4: You're ready for what you have in mind, but if

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Speaker 4: you could see what God has in mind, you would

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Speaker 4: realize you couldn't handle it right now. You need more

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Speaker 4: time to grow, to develop, to gain experience, and the

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Speaker 4: scripture says let patients have its perfect work. Patience is

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Speaker 4: God will send you to the weight room. Wait. You

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Speaker 4: means the more God has in store when it's your time,

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Speaker 4: when he knows you're ready, what you give birth to

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Speaker 4: is going to be much bigger than you've imagined. Hebrews

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Speaker 4: says you have need of patience so you can receive

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Speaker 4: know we need to believe those things seem obvious, but

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Speaker 4: this says we need patience if we're going to see

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Speaker 4: promises come to pass. Maybe you've been praying, believing, being

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Speaker 4: tolive stress. Have a new perspective. You're in the weight room.

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Speaker 4: You're not missing out, you're not falling behind. God has

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Speaker 4: you right where he wants you. That promise is right

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Speaker 4: good attitude, not upset complaining. When is it ever going

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Speaker 4: to happen? No, turn it around. Father, Thank you that

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Speaker 4: what you started in my life you will finish. Thank

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Speaker 4: you that what you promised is on the way. If

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Speaker 4: But we see waiting as negative. We don't like it.

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Speaker 4: is interested in the journey. He's working on us along

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Speaker 4: nothing is happening, Does it mean God has forgotten about us?

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Speaker 4: David waited thirteen years to take the throne after the

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Speaker 4: prophet Samuel anointed him to be the next king. God

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Speaker 4: During those thirteen years he faithfully took care of his

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Speaker 4: God he would take care of his father's sheep before

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Speaker 4: The people of Israel. While you wait, be your best

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Speaker 4: watching to see if you're ready. And here's the key.

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Speaker 4: If what you're praying about isn't changing, then God is

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Speaker 4: using that situation to change you. If it's not working out,

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Speaker 4: then it's working out something in you. All things are

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Speaker 4: working for your good. When we acquired the Compact Center,

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Speaker 4: Now there was a chance it wasn't going to happen.

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Speaker 4: Thoughts told me, Joel, you're going to look like a fool.

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Speaker 4: going to be a big mess. I was tempted to worry,

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Speaker 4: I'd turn it around. Father. Thank you that you being

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Speaker 4: developing a greater trust in God. In that weight room.

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Speaker 4: I learned to stand strong even when it seemed impossible.

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Speaker 4: But what's interesting is the weight never changes. The only

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Speaker 4: great victory. But think of this. God could have given

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Speaker 4: There's a price to pay to be prepared in that

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Speaker 4: something is happening, you're growing, you're developing. You may not

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Speaker 4: When my father went to be with the Lord and

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Speaker 4: a boy's bike. Sometimes that's funny. Sometimes God is not

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Speaker 4: letting us see something now because it's not the right time.

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Speaker 4: He's got the cover on it. But when you come

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