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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying.

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Speaker 1: Be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll make you feel right at home. I like

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

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Speaker 1: two men, the pope and a lawyer. They died on

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Speaker 1: the same day, went to heaven. Peter met them at

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Speaker 1: the gates, said follow me. I'll take you to your homes.

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Speaker 1: Peter dropped the pope off at this small wood frame house,

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Speaker 1: one bed, one table, nothing to it. He then took

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Speaker 1: the lawyer to this magnificent house. It was huge, had

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Speaker 1: a big swimming pool, beautiful view out back. The lawyer

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Speaker 1: was overwhelmed, said Peter, how did I manage to get

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Speaker 1: this spectacular place? And the Pope only got the small place?

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Speaker 1: Said we have dozens of popes, you're the first lawyer

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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 seasons of silence. We all go through times or

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Speaker 1: doesn't feel like we're making progress. We're praying, but our

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Speaker 1: prayers aren't being answered. We're being our best but not

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Speaker 1: getting good breaks. The problem hasn't turned around. Seems like

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Speaker 1: God went on vacation. But the silence is not a

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Speaker 1: sign that God is not working. He may not be

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Speaker 1: changing the circumstances, but he is changing us. God uses

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Speaker 1: the seasons of silence to get us prepared when we're

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Speaker 1: not getting our way. We're doing the right thing, but

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Speaker 1: we're being overlooked. Our friend got married, but we're still single.

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Speaker 1: We're working harder than our coworker, but they got the promotion.

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Speaker 1: We feel overlooked, undervalued, forgotten. These times of isolation where

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Speaker 1: you're not being celebrated, are extremely valuable. Nothing may be

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Speaker 1: changing on the outside, but something's happening on the inside.

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Speaker 1: Your character is being developed. You're learning to not depend

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Speaker 1: on people. You're gaining experience, maturity, strength that you'll need

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Speaker 1: to go where God is taking you. And you may

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Speaker 1: wonder why no one is celebrating you. You're being faithful,

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Speaker 1: but the door hasn't opened. You're gifted. You know you

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Speaker 1: could teach that class better than the person that's in place,

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Speaker 1: but they never call on you. Don't complain about the silence.

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Speaker 1: God does his greatest work in isolation, when nobody is

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Speaker 1: noticing you. There are things you will learn in anonymity

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Speaker 1: that you can't learn anywhere else. When God is silent,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he's not concerned. Silence is not a

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Speaker 1: sign that God has forgotten about you, just the opposite.

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Speaker 1: It's a sign that he's closely watching you. He's getting

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Speaker 1: you prepared for new levels. But if he brought you

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Speaker 1: out before you were ready, it would stop your purpose.

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Speaker 1: God loves you so much that at times he will

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Speaker 1: hide you. He'll cause you to be overlooked. He'll cause

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Speaker 1: have great ideas and hidden. If you don't understand that

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Speaker 1: to make things happen out of God's timing. But before

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Speaker 1: You have to pass this test when you're hidden. As

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Speaker 1: He spent years out there by himself, alone in obscurity.

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Speaker 1: Don't compare your life to other peoples. It may seem

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Speaker 1: have the challenges you do. Run your race. God's purpose

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Speaker 1: for your life is not the same as theirs. Don't

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Speaker 1: He killed the lion and a bear with his own hands.

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Speaker 1: when nobody knew his name, he was a person of excellence.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine when he was out there alone, nobody

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Speaker 1: drew close to his creator. Maybe that's where he wrote

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Speaker 1: some of the psalms that we read today. Instead of

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Speaker 1: complaining God, was it taking so long? The Lord is

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Speaker 1: God has you hidden. You're not off course, you're not

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Speaker 1: falling behind. You are in a time of preparation, a

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Speaker 1: God causes you to be seen. Promotion doesn't come from people.

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Speaker 1: It comes from the Lord. When it's your time, no

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Speaker 1: person can stop you, no bad break, no injustice. Just

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Speaker 1: as God hid you, he will bring you out into

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Speaker 1: Now you may feel like you're hidden, but don't be

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Speaker 1: When you have an expensive piece of jewelry, a diamond ring,

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Speaker 1: you're going somewhere special, you bring it out for people

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Speaker 1: is because you're extremely valuable. You're like that diamond. You're

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Speaker 1: seeds of greatness. Don't let the silence discourage you. Your

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Speaker 1: time is coming now. In the isolation, you have to

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Speaker 1: develop you like David. Do the right thing when it's hard.

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Speaker 1: Keep a good attitude when you're being treated wrong. Go

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Speaker 1: That's an opportunity to grow, to come up higher. You're

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Speaker 1: getting prepared for new levels. It's like a tree. I

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Speaker 1: Like this tree. What you can't see is you're gathering

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Speaker 1: up SAPs, so to speak. Your spiritual muscles are getting stronger.

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Speaker 1: You're learning to trust God in a new way. This

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Speaker 1: time is important because when God brings you out to

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Speaker 1: new levels, into greater opportunities, you will see greater opposition,

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Speaker 1: bigger obstacles, more coming against you. If God brought you

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Speaker 1: Why are we still out here in the desert? God?

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Speaker 1: slow seasons, and especially the unfair seasons. We lost a

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Speaker 1: Because where you're going you can't be offended by every

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Speaker 1: negative comment. You have to have a backbone made of steel.

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Speaker 1: God can't promote you if you're going to be revengeful

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Speaker 1: these silent seasons, like the Israelites, we can think God,

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Speaker 1: It's all a part of the process to get you prepared,

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Speaker 1: I face challenges today that if I would have faced

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