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Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 6: about this couple. They were driving down the road and

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Speaker 6: they came upon this sign that said Nacodochius forty miles ahead.

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Speaker 6: They began to argue about how to correctly pronounce the

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Speaker 6: name Nakodochius. The husband got so upset he said to

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Speaker 6: He said to the young lady working behind it, my

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Speaker 6: you please tell us, very slowly, very clearly, how you

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Speaker 6: pronounced the name of this place. The young lady's eyes

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Speaker 6: got real big. She leaned over the counter and said,

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Speaker 6: burger King, hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 6: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 6: I want to talk to you today about pushed into

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Speaker 6: Maybe a friend you thought would be with you for years,

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Speaker 4: Or at work things.

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Speaker 6: A friend will do you wrong, you lose a loved one,

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Speaker 6: business goes down. God uses loss, betrayal, persecution to force

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Speaker 6: We may not like it, but if God had not

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Speaker 4: God loves you too much.

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Speaker 6: To let you miss your destiny. You have too much potential,

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Speaker 4: It was all a part of God's plan.

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Speaker 6: And when you face a difficulty, especially things you don't understand,

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Speaker 4: Have this new perspective. This is not meant to stop me.

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Speaker 6: Nineteen years old, I came back from college to start

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Speaker 6: I watched him, I would sit there in amazement, thinking,

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Speaker 6: help us put everything together. Say, oh, thanks, Joel, but

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Speaker 6: it's all going to fall apart. Sometimes we're praying against

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Speaker 6: But the truth is him leaving was a turning point

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Speaker 6: Even though I was uncomfortable. It was the best thing

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Speaker 6: He had mentored him as a young man, loved him

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Speaker 4: And Samuel was so heartbroken. He felt like he had

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Speaker 6: God said to Samuel, quit mourning over what I have rejected.

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Speaker 6: God is saying, quit being depressed over who walked away.

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Speaker 6: But he was afraid to take a step of faith.

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Speaker 6: And this man is one of the nicest people you'd

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Speaker 6: comes early, he stays late, never causes any trouble. Well,

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Speaker 6: he called me one day and said, Joel, you won't

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Speaker 6: got to be kidning. That's like saying, mother, Teresa just

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Speaker 6: robbed a bank. That was so out of character. Here's

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Speaker 6: stay in mediocrity. He knows how to get you out

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Speaker 6: of your comfort zone. He opens doors, and he can

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Speaker 6: close doors. If we don't take the hint, he'll push

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Speaker 6: you us. Today, my friend is the vice president of

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Speaker 6: Don't be discouraged by your closed doors. That's God pushing you.

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Speaker 6: Don't get upset because of a bad break. If it

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Speaker 6: was going to keep you from your destiny, God would

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Speaker 6: have never permitted it. In the scripture, God told Paul

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Speaker 6: that he was going to stand before Caesar, and Paul

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Speaker 6: was on a boat headed toward Rome. But they encountered

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Speaker 6: all had to swim to this little island called Malta.

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Speaker 6: Looked like a bad break, a disappointment, but that storm

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Speaker 6: didn't stop God's plan. It was a part of God's

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Speaker 6: plan on that island. The chief's father was very sick.

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Speaker 6: Paul prayed for him. God healed him. They started bringing

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Speaker 6: other sick people, same thing. God healed them. Paul ended

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Speaker 6: I saying? The winds that were meant to stop you,

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Speaker 6: God will use to push you into your destiny. You

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Speaker 6: may not like it, you may not understand it, but

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Speaker 6: if you'll stay in faith, it won't defeats you. It

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Speaker 6: will promote you. The storm blew my father from a

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Speaker 6: restricted environment to a ministry that touched the world. It

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Speaker 6: blew my friend from a job where he wasn't using

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Speaker 6: his talents to the vice president of a large company.

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Speaker 6: Blew me from behind the scenes into the position that

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Speaker 6: I'm in. Now. You're being pushed for a reason. There's

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Speaker 6: something bigger, something better, something more rewarding in front of you.

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Speaker 6: Now you've got to be willing to go through the process.

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Speaker 6: When it's tight, you're uncomfortable, you're being squeezed. That's a

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Speaker 6: sign you're about to see new birth. Where you are

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Speaker 6: is too small. That woumb was for a time. It

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Speaker 6: served its purpose, but now it's a new day. There's

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Speaker 6: This sickness is not going to stop me. It's pushing me.

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Speaker 6: I'm coming out better. This trouble at work, it can't

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Speaker 6: hold me back. It's pushing me. I'm getting stronger. These

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Speaker 6: people that did me wrong, they can't stop my destiny.

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Speaker 6: They meant it for harm, But God's using it for

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Speaker 6: my good. He's pushing me. Every difficulty you went through,

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Speaker 6: every storm, every person that did you wrong, it was

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Speaker 6: pushing you to mature, pushing you to know God in

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Speaker 6: a greater way, pushing you to become stronger, more resilient. Now,

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Speaker 6: don't be discouraged by the process. Perhaps you feel like

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Speaker 6: you're being pushed right now, it's tight, it's uncomfortable. You

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Speaker 6: need to get ready. I believe and declare. God is

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Speaker 6: about to push you into a new level. He's going

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Speaker 6: to push you into greater strength, greater influence, greater resources.

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Speaker 6: You're coming into a new season, health, favor, victory, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 6: The winds that were meant to stop you are going

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Speaker 6: to push you into your purpose. In Jesus's name, If

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Speaker 6: you receive it today, can you say amen. We never

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