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Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 6: about this couple. They were driving down the road and
Speaker 6: they came upon this sign that said Nacodochius forty miles ahead.
Speaker 6: They began to argue about how to correctly pronounce the
Speaker 6: name Nakodochius. The husband got so upset he said to
Speaker 6: his wife, I'm gonna stop when we get to town
Speaker 6: and prove to you that I'm right. They drove silently
Speaker 6: for the next thirty minutes. When he arrived in town,
Speaker 6: he pulled into the first fast food restaurant he could find.
Speaker 4: They both marched up to the counter.
Speaker 6: He said to the young lady working behind it, my
Speaker 6: wife and I have been arguing for thirty minutes. Can
Speaker 6: you please tell us, very slowly, very clearly, how you
Speaker 6: pronounced the name of this place. The young lady's eyes
Speaker 6: got real big. She leaned over the counter and said,
Speaker 6: burger King, hold up your Bible. Say it like you
Speaker 6: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it
Speaker 6: says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 6: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 6: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly
Speaker 6: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I
Speaker 6: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 6: I want to talk to you today about pushed into
Speaker 6: your purpose. We don't always understand why things happen to us.
Speaker 6: Maybe a friend you thought would be with you for years,
Speaker 6: somebody you counted on had to move away suddenly, and
Speaker 6: now you have to find new friends.
Speaker 4: Or at work things.
Speaker 6: Were going great. You had all this favor, but now
Speaker 6: there's conflict. Everything's a struggle. You don't enjoy it. A
Speaker 6: friend of mine was the sales manager at a big
Speaker 6: car dealership here in town. They were always breaking wracks,
Speaker 6: but a while back they sold to a national company.
Speaker 6: His new supervisor didn't care for him, treated him unfairly,
Speaker 6: said Joela. I never dreamed after all these years, i'd
Speaker 6: have to find a new job. But I've found sometimes
Speaker 6: God will let us be uncomfortable now so he can
Speaker 6: bless us. Later on, he'll close a door. We don't
Speaker 6: like it, we don't understand it, But later on he'll
Speaker 6: open up a bigger door. He'll take us to a
Speaker 6: new level of our destiny. God is not as concerned
Speaker 6: about our comfort as he is our purpose.
Speaker 4: There are times God will stir things up.
Speaker 6: A friend will do you wrong, you lose a loved one,
Speaker 6: business goes down. God uses loss, betrayal, persecution to force
Speaker 6: us to change. He's not just trying to make your
Speaker 6: life miserable. He's pushing you into your purpose. See, every
Speaker 6: closed door is not a bad thing. Every person that
Speaker 6: walks away is not a mistake. God knows we wouldn't
Speaker 6: go without a push. And when everything is good, we're comfortable,
Speaker 6: we don't want to have to stretch. We don't want
Speaker 6: to have to find new friends, develop new skills, step
Speaker 6: out into the unknown.
Speaker 4: What if it doesn't work out?
Speaker 6: We may not like it, but if God had not
Speaker 6: closed those doors, we would be satisfied to stay where
Speaker 6: we were.
Speaker 4: God loves you too much.
Speaker 6: To let you miss your destiny. You have too much potential,
Speaker 6: too much talent, too much in you to get stuck
Speaker 6: where you are. And God will put us in these
Speaker 6: situations that force us to stretch, that help us to grow.
Speaker 6: Every difficulty you've been through, every bad break, every person
Speaker 6: that did you wrong that wasn't meant to stop you.
Speaker 6: It was meant to push you, to mature you, to
Speaker 6: make you stronger. It's deposited something on the inside. It's
Speaker 6: made you into who you are. You wouldn't be prepared
Speaker 6: for the new levels if you had not gone through
Speaker 6: those things. Don't complain about what didn't work out, the
Speaker 6: job you lost, the loved one that went to be
Speaker 6: with the Lord.
Speaker 4: It was all a part of God's plan.
Speaker 6: And when you face a difficulty, especially things you don't understand,
Speaker 6: instead of being critical, complaining negative.
Speaker 4: Have this new perspective. This is not meant to stop me.
Speaker 4: It's meant to promote me.
Speaker 6: I may be uncomfortable, I may not like it, but
Speaker 6: I know God is using it to push me to
Speaker 6: a new level, to push me to greater influence, to
Speaker 6: push me into my purpose. When I look back over
Speaker 6: my life, I can see the pivotal moments where I
Speaker 6: really grew, the times where I really stepped up to
Speaker 6: a new level. The common denominator was I was pushed.
Speaker 6: I didn't like it, I was uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: I wanted to stay.
Speaker 6: It took God closing the door, forcing me to take
Speaker 6: a step of faith. I was pushed pushed into my purpose.
Speaker 6: Nineteen years old, I came back from college to start
Speaker 6: a television outreach here for my father at Lakewood, and
Speaker 6: that was always my passion, anything that had to do
Speaker 6: with production, sound, lighting, cameras, editing.
Speaker 4: I was young.
Speaker 6: I had a lot of enthusiasm, but not a lot
Speaker 6: of training. So we hired this gentleman in his sixties,
Speaker 6: a seasoned television producer. He used to produce The Today
Speaker 6: Show and went on to produce Major League Baseball. He
Speaker 6: was not only extremely talented, but he was very friendly.
Speaker 4: He and I hit it off.
Speaker 6: And became the best of friends, and for about a
Speaker 6: year I was with him practically night and day. I
Speaker 6: was very excited to be learning so much. During the services,
Speaker 6: I would watch him in the control booth as he
Speaker 6: directed the cameras. He taught me what the right angles
Speaker 6: were and what good lighting was, how to edit. As
Speaker 6: I watched him, I would sit there in amazement, thinking,
Speaker 6: how in the world does he know how to do
Speaker 6: all of this? He was so talented. I was so
Speaker 6: blessed to have him. But about a year after he started,
Speaker 6: he came in one morning and said, Joel, I'm moving
Speaker 6: back to California. I've done everything here that I need
Speaker 6: to do. You can take it from here. I nearly
Speaker 6: passed out. I said, you gotta be kidding. You can't
Speaker 6: leave us. What are we gonna do. Who's going to
Speaker 6: direct the program, who's going to edit it? He said,
Speaker 6: you are. I've trained you for a year. You can
Speaker 6: do what I've been doing. Said, there's no way, I
Speaker 6: don't know how to do that. We offered him more money,
Speaker 6: more time all I said, you can live in California,
Speaker 6: just come back a couple of times a month and
Speaker 6: help us put everything together. Say, oh, thanks, Joel, but
Speaker 6: now I'm done here. I was so disappointed. I thought
Speaker 6: that was the worst thing in the world that could
Speaker 6: have happened to me. And I prayed, God, please change
Speaker 6: his mind. God, don't let him leave. God, you know
Speaker 6: it's all going to fall apart. Sometimes we're praying against
Speaker 6: the very thing God has ordained. We're praying against what
Speaker 6: God has set into motion. The enemy doesn't close every door.
Speaker 6: Sometimes God closes the door. God moves people out of
Speaker 6: our life because he knows they would become a crutch.
Speaker 6: They would keep us from our destiny. So God causes
Speaker 6: things to drive to force us to change. My friend left,
Speaker 6: went back home to California. I had to get out
Speaker 6: of my comfort zone, stretching, start doing things that I
Speaker 6: didn't think I could do. I discovered it as I
Speaker 6: stepped out. It wasn't as hard as I thought. First
Speaker 6: month went by and I thought, not too bad. At this.
Speaker 6: Six months went by, I thought I'm pretty good. At
Speaker 6: this year went by, I thought, what did.
Speaker 4: We ever need him for?
Speaker 6: But the truth is him leaving was a turning point
Speaker 6: in my life. That was God pushing me into my destiny.
Speaker 6: Even though I was uncomfortable. It was the best thing
Speaker 6: that could have happened to me. If he would have
Speaker 6: that would have stunted my growth. I wouldn't be where
Speaker 6: I am today if God had answered my prayer. Quit
Speaker 6: being depressed over somebody that walked away. If they left
Speaker 6: your life, their time was up step into the new season.
Speaker 6: If the door closed, you went through a disappointment, don't complain.
Speaker 6: You're about to be pushed into your purpose. You're about
Speaker 6: to see new growth, new opportunities, new friendships. In the scripture,
Speaker 6: the prophet Samuel spent years pouring in to King Saul.
Speaker 6: He had mentored him as a young man, loved him
Speaker 6: like his own son, but Unfortunately, Saul wouldn't do what
Speaker 6: was right, and God told Samuel he was going to
Speaker 6: take the throne away from Saul.
Speaker 4: And Samuel was so heartbroken. He felt like he had
Speaker 4: wasted all that time.
Speaker 6: God said to Samuel, quit mourning over what I have rejected.
Speaker 6: God is saying, quit being depressed over who walked away.
Speaker 6: Quit being sour over what didn't work out. If they
Speaker 6: were supposed to stay, they would have stayed. God went
Speaker 6: on to tell Samuel, I found a new man. His
Speaker 6: name is David.
Speaker 4: Go anoint him as the next king.
Speaker 6: Notice the principle, if you'll stop being discouraged over who left,
Speaker 6: God will.
Speaker 4: Send the right people.
Speaker 6: But as long as you're complaining about the Sauws, what
Speaker 6: didn't work out, and if they wouldn't have left me,
Speaker 6: you're going to get stuck. When you accept it and
Speaker 6: move forward, you'll not only step into a new level,
Speaker 6: but the Davids.
Speaker 4: Will show up.
Speaker 6: The right people will be there for every season of
Speaker 6: your life. For seventeen years, I did the television production
Speaker 6: behind the scenes here at Lakewood.
Speaker 4: I thought that's how to spend the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: I was content.
Speaker 6: I enjoyed doing it, but in nineteen ninety nine, my
Speaker 6: father went to be with the Lord.
Speaker 4: Once again.
Speaker 6: I was forced to change, forced to make an adjustment.
Speaker 6: God closed that door. Job said, I thought I would
Speaker 6: die in my nest. He was saying. He got his
Speaker 6: nest all fixed up God, his house like he wanted it,
Speaker 6: had a successful business, everything was going great. He was
Speaker 6: finally comfortable. What happened. God came along and stirred up
Speaker 6: the nest. Now God doesn't send the trouble, but he
Speaker 6: will use difficulty to push us into our destiny. Job
Speaker 6: had a lot of things go wrong, lost his business,
Speaker 6: lost his health, lost his family. If the story stopped there,
Speaker 6: it would be a sad ending. But Job understood this
Speaker 6: principle right in the midst of the difficulties. He looked
Speaker 6: up and said, I know my redeemer lives. He was saying,
Speaker 6: I know God is still on the throne. He has
Speaker 6: the final say. This trouble is not going to defeat me.
Speaker 6: It's going to promote me. In the end, Job came
Speaker 6: out with twice what he had before. God used that
Speaker 6: adversity to give him double Don't be surprised, like with Job,
Speaker 6: when you get comfortable, when you get everything figured out.
Speaker 6: If God doesn't stir up the nest, it's not to
Speaker 6: harm you, it's to push you. You have a bigger destiny.
Speaker 6: God has new levels, more favor, more influence, more resources.
Speaker 6: His dream for your life is bigger than you can imagine.
Speaker 6: I knew I was supposed to step up and pasture
Speaker 6: the church, but again, like with the production, I didn't
Speaker 6: think I could do this. I didn't have the training,
Speaker 6: the experience. My father had tried to get me up
Speaker 6: here for years, but I was comfortable behind the scenes.
Speaker 6: I didn't have to stretch anymore. I could do the
Speaker 6: production in my sleep like job. I thought I would
Speaker 6: die in my nest, But when my dad went to
Speaker 6: be with the Lord, it was like the whole process
Speaker 6: started all over again. That loss pushed me out of
Speaker 6: my comfort zone. It pushed me to discover new talents
Speaker 6: that I didn't know I had.
Speaker 4: It pushed me into greater influence.
Speaker 6: Every time I've seen major growth, every time I've stepped
Speaker 6: up to a new level, it's because I was pushed.
Speaker 4: There was adversity, challenges lost.
Speaker 6: Maybe you're in a situation now you could easily be discouraged.
Speaker 6: You lost a loved one, went through a breakup, business
Speaker 6: didn't work out. The enemy may have meant that for
Speaker 6: your harm, but God is going to use that for
Speaker 6: your good. God didn't allow it to stop you. He
Speaker 6: allowed it to push you. Like job, you're going to
Speaker 6: come out stronger, healthier, wiser, increase, better off than you
Speaker 6: were before. That sickness is going to push you into
Speaker 6: your purpose. That bad break is going to push you
Speaker 6: into greater fulfillment. Or perhaps that betrayal it's going to
Speaker 6: push you into better relationships, into new happiness. Here's the key.
Speaker 6: The pain is a sign you're about to see a birth.
Speaker 6: The greater the difficulty, the closer you are to that birth.
Speaker 6: Like me in that law, she think go, oh, this
Speaker 6: is as good as it gets. But no, you're going
Speaker 6: to see God push you into a new level of
Speaker 6: your destiny. The disappointment, the betrayal, the bad break. Yes
Speaker 6: is painful, Yes we don't like it, but if you'll
Speaker 6: stay in faith, it's going to promote you. I wouldn't
Speaker 6: be here if God had not pushed me when I
Speaker 6: was nineteen taken away.
Speaker 4: My friend wouldn't be here if.
Speaker 6: God hadn't pushed me in nineteen ninety nine when my father.
Speaker 4: Went to be with the Lord.
Speaker 6: It's difficult, but God doesn't waste the pain.
Speaker 4: The pain is a sign of new birth.
Speaker 6: Steve Jobs was one of the most brilliant minds of
Speaker 6: our generation. Twenty one years old, he founded Apple Computer.
Speaker 6: By the time he was twenty three, he was incredibly successful,
Speaker 6: known around the world. But seven years later, after developing
Speaker 6: this global brand so many products that we all like,
Speaker 6: he classed with his board of directors and was eventually
Speaker 6: fired from the company he started. He told his friends
Speaker 6: how betrayed he felt, how wrong that was. But instead
Speaker 6: of sitting around in self pity, he went out and
Speaker 6: started another company and learned new skills. This company developed
Speaker 6: something that Apple needed, and that was so successful that
Speaker 6: Apple purchased his company and brought him back. As the CEO,
Speaker 6: Jobs said, if I hadn't been fired, I would have
Speaker 6: never learned these new skills that have made me into
Speaker 6: who I am. The betrayal wasn't sent to stop you.
Speaker 4: It was sent to push you.
Speaker 6: Don't complain about who hurts you, who did you wrong.
Speaker 6: If that was going to keep you from your destiny,
Speaker 6: God would have never permitted it. Shake off the self pity,
Speaker 6: Get ready for the new doors that are about to open,
Speaker 6: the new opportunities, the new skills, the new talents. Moses said,
Speaker 6: as an eagle stirs up her nest, so God will
Speaker 6: stir up his children. When things are stirring in your life,
Speaker 6: when you're uncomfortable, a door closed, a friend betrayed, you
Speaker 6: don't think all great, just.
Speaker 4: My luck, always have these bad breaks.
Speaker 6: No turn it around, God, I know you're stirring things
Speaker 6: because you're about to open up a new door. You're
Speaker 6: about to take me to a higher level. You're about
Speaker 6: to push me into my purpose. I was in the
Speaker 6: hospital room when Victoria gave birth to both of our children.
Speaker 6: I was sitting by her bed, and she had a
Speaker 6: hold of my arm right here at the bicep. When
Speaker 6: she had a contraction, she would squeeze my arms so
Speaker 6: tightly she would scream, then I would scream. At one point,
Speaker 6: the doctor told her, the next time you have a control,
Speaker 6: I want you to push. He didn't have her push
Speaker 6: until the baby was ready to come. In the same way,
Speaker 6: when you're being pushed, it means the door is open.
Speaker 6: Something new is coming, new growth, new influence. God wouldn't
Speaker 6: be pushing you if the door was closed and nothing
Speaker 6: new is on the way. A doctor doesn't tell a
Speaker 6: woman in labor just push whenever you want to, push,
Speaker 6: whenever you feel like it. They have to wait until
Speaker 6: the exact right time. When you're being pushed, don't be discouraged.
Speaker 6: Be encouraged. It is the right time. Get ready. Something
Speaker 6: good is coming your way. That little baby, when he's
Speaker 6: in the womb for nine months, everything is great. He's comfortable,
Speaker 6: he doesn't have to do anything. He gets his food
Speaker 6: from his mother, gets carried around all day. He can
Speaker 6: sleep whenever he wants to. It's peaceful, calm. Life is
Speaker 6: good for a season. That's healthy.
Speaker 4: He's growing, he's maturing. That's where he's supposed to be.
Speaker 6: But if he stays in that wound too long, instead
Speaker 6: of being a blessing, the womb will become a curse.
Speaker 6: It's too small, it will keep him from his destiny,
Speaker 6: it will limit his potential. He has to get out.
Speaker 6: When he comes through the birth canal, it's tight, it's uncomfortable,
Speaker 6: it's traumatic. Up to this point, all he's known is
Speaker 6: peace and calm, lying around doing nothing.
Speaker 4: Now it's like.
Speaker 6: All hell breaks loose. He thinks, what in the world
Speaker 6: is wrong with mama. Has she lost her mind? Is
Speaker 6: she trying to kill me? He's being pushed, squeezed, pressured.
Speaker 6: He gets pushed again, pushed again, pushed again.
Speaker 4: Finally he comes out.
Speaker 6: He's born, breathes new light, steps into that new level.
Speaker 6: It's the same principle. When things are tight, when you're
Speaker 6: being pressured, when you're uncomfortable, it's easy to think, what
Speaker 6: in the world is happening. I like it when it
Speaker 6: was peaceful. I want to go back to how it was.
Speaker 6: But if you stay in that wound too long, in
Speaker 6: that protected place, it won't be a blessing. It will
Speaker 6: keep you from becoming all God created you to be.
Speaker 6: God controls the universe.
Speaker 4: He knows what's best for you.
Speaker 6: If you're being pushed, it's because the door is open.
Speaker 6: There's something greater in your destiny. It may be uncomfortable,
Speaker 6: don't complain. God is stretching you. He's enlarging you. You're
Speaker 6: about to see new growth, new talents, new opportunities.
Speaker 4: This is what happened with my father.
Speaker 6: For years he pastored a large denominational church.
Speaker 4: It's very successful.
Speaker 6: The church was growing that just built a beautiful new sanctuary.
Speaker 4: Looked like he would be there forever.
Speaker 6: But my sister Lisa was born with something like cerebral palsy.
Speaker 6: My father went away for a few days to get
Speaker 6: alane at a hotel. He began to search the scriptures
Speaker 6: like he had never searched them before.
Speaker 4: He came back with a new fire.
Speaker 6: He told his congregation that God is a good God,
Speaker 6: that he can still heal and perform miracles, and that
Speaker 6: God wanted them to live an abundant life. He thought
Speaker 6: they'd all be excited, so happy for him, but it
Speaker 6: was just the opposite that didn't fit into their tradition
Speaker 6: back then, and some of his longtime friends, people that
Speaker 6: had known my parents for thirty years, turned on them,
Speaker 6: started stirring things up, talking about how my father needed
Speaker 6: to leave. My dad was devastated. He thought, God, why
Speaker 6: is this happening. I've given my life to these people.
Speaker 6: But the fact is God was the one stirring it up.
Speaker 6: God knew my father couldn't reach his highest potential in
Speaker 6: that limited environment. It looked like a disappointment, but behind
Speaker 6: the scenes, it was the and of God orchestrating it all.
Speaker 6: My father resigned from that church, feeling rejected, feeling betrayed,
Speaker 6: but he didn't sit around talking about how bad life
Speaker 6: had treated him. He understood this principle that he was
Speaker 6: being pushed into his purpose. He realized the same God
Speaker 6: that opens doors closes doors. He went out and started
Speaker 6: Lakewood Church on Mother's Day in nineteen.
Speaker 4: Fifty nine with ninety people.
Speaker 6: Here we are today, still going strong. But had those
Speaker 6: people not come against him, he would have never reached
Speaker 6: his full potential. Don't complain about people that do you wrong,
Speaker 6: betray you lead you out. God uses people to get
Speaker 6: you to where you're supposed to be. They may think
Speaker 6: they're pushing you down. What they don't realize is they're
Speaker 6: pushing you up. They're pushing you into your destiny. Judas
Speaker 6: thought when he betrayed Jesus, he was stopping him. The
Speaker 6: truth is he was promoting him. God ordained the betrayal,
Speaker 6: and the scripture says in Acts that persecution arose in Jerusalem,
Speaker 6: so Philip went down to Samaria. It doesn't say that
Speaker 6: Philip prayed and decided to go to Samaria. He didn't
Speaker 6: have a choice. The persecution forced.
Speaker 4: Him out of his hometown.
Speaker 6: He was pushed out of his comfort zone. It's interesting
Speaker 6: God could have stopped the opposition.
Speaker 4: He's God.
Speaker 6: He closed the mouths of hungry lions. For Daniel, it
Speaker 6: would have been no big deal.
Speaker 4: But the persecution was for a purpose.
Speaker 6: He allowed that opposition to get them into their destiny.
Speaker 6: It was in Samaria that Philip saw his greatest days
Speaker 6: of ministry. If it had stayed in Jerusalem, he wouldn't.
Speaker 4: Have reached his highest potential.
Speaker 6: Maybe Jerusalem has closed up for you, so to speak,
Speaker 6: a bad break, a disappointment, a betrayal.
Speaker 4: Don't be discouraged.
Speaker 6: Jerusalem may have closed, but Samaria is about to open up.
Speaker 6: God wouldn't be pushing you if he didn't already have
Speaker 6: another open door. A friend of mine was working at
Speaker 6: this job and he wasn't fulfilled. He knew he had
Speaker 6: more in him. He wasn't being stretched and using his gifts.
Speaker 6: But he was afraid to take a step of faith.
Speaker 6: And this man is one of the nicest people you'd
Speaker 6: ever meet. He's kind, he's friendly, easygoing, he's a model employee,
Speaker 6: comes early, he stays late, never causes any trouble. Well,
Speaker 6: he called me one day and said, Joel, you won't
Speaker 6: believe what just happened to me. I said what he said,
Speaker 6: I just got fired. I said you got fired. You
Speaker 6: got to be kidning. That's like saying, mother, Teresa just
Speaker 6: robbed a bank. That was so out of character. Here's
Speaker 6: my point. God loves you too much to let you
Speaker 6: stay in mediocrity. He knows how to get you out
Speaker 6: of your comfort zone. He opens doors, and he can
Speaker 6: close doors. If we don't take the hint, he'll push
Speaker 6: you us. Today, my friend is the vice president of
Speaker 6: a major corporation. He continues to see increase in new growth.
Speaker 6: Don't be discouraged by your closed doors. That's God pushing you.
Speaker 6: Don't get upset because of a bad break. If it
Speaker 6: was going to keep you from your destiny, God would
Speaker 6: have never permitted it. In the scripture, God told Paul
Speaker 6: that he was going to stand before Caesar, and Paul
Speaker 6: was on a boat headed toward Rome. But they encountered
Speaker 6: a huge storm. The winds were so strong that it
Speaker 6: blew the boat aground. The whole boat fell apart. They
Speaker 6: all had to swim to this little island called Malta.
Speaker 6: Looked like a bad break, a disappointment, but that storm
Speaker 6: didn't stop God's plan. It was a part of God's
Speaker 6: plan on that island. The chief's father was very sick.
Speaker 6: Paul prayed for him. God healed him. They started bringing
Speaker 6: other sick people, same thing. God healed them. Paul ended
Speaker 6: up sharing his faith with the whole island. What am
Speaker 6: I saying? The winds that were meant to stop you,
Speaker 6: God will use to push you into your destiny. You
Speaker 6: may not like it, you may not understand it, but
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Speaker 6: something bigger, something better, something more rewarding in front of you.
Speaker 6: Now you've got to be willing to go through the process.
Speaker 6: When it's tight, you're uncomfortable, you're being squeezed. That's a
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Speaker 6: is too small. That woumb was for a time. It
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Speaker 6: about to be new growth, new opportunities. Keep the right perspective.
Speaker 6: This sickness is not going to stop me. It's pushing me.
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Speaker 6: people that did me wrong, they can't stop my destiny.
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Speaker 6: my good. He's pushing me. Every difficulty you went through,
Speaker 6: every storm, every person that did you wrong, it was
Speaker 6: pushing you to mature, pushing you to know God in
Speaker 6: a greater way, pushing you to become stronger, more resilient. Now,
Speaker 6: don't be discouraged by the process. Perhaps you feel like
Speaker 6: you're being pushed right now, it's tight, it's uncomfortable. You
Speaker 6: need to get ready. I believe and declare. God is
Speaker 6: about to push you into a new level. He's going
Speaker 6: to push you into greater strength, greater influence, greater resources.
Speaker 6: You're coming into a new season, health, favor, victory, breakthroughs.
Speaker 6: The winds that were meant to stop you are going
Speaker 6: to push you into your purpose. In Jesus's name, If
Speaker 6: you receive it today, can you say amen. We never
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Speaker 6: to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you
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Speaker 6: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again.
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