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Speaker 4: But thanks for tuning in. Thanks again for coming out today.

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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny each week, and

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Speaker 4: I heard about this man. He got caught shoplifting at

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Speaker 4: the grocery store. He was in court and the judge said, sir,

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Speaker 4: I understand you stole a can of peaches. How many

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Speaker 4: peaches were in that can? He said five?

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Speaker 3: Your honor, He.

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Speaker 4: Said, all right, I'm going to give you one week

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Speaker 4: The man's wife stood up and said, your honor, may

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Speaker 4: I say something? He said, yes, what is it she's

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Speaker 4: said he stole a ken appease too.

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Speaker 3: All right, hold up your bible.

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Speaker 4: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 4: I am what it says.

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Speaker 3: 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 not accepting things as permanent.

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Speaker 4: When we've dealt with something for a long time and

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Speaker 4: Is never going to get better. I've struggled in my

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Speaker 4: I've had this addiction since I was a teenager. Or

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Speaker 4: I've tried and tried to qualify for that new home.

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Speaker 3: It's never going to happen.

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Speaker 4: tell me, Joel, I've always been negative.

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Speaker 3: That's just who I am.

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Speaker 4: I've always had this sickness. I'm just learning to live

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Speaker 4: with it. They've convinced themselves that it's never going to change.

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Speaker 4: really it's their own thinking that's holding them back, because

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Speaker 3: But here's the key.

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Speaker 4: You have to view everything negative in your life, every obstacle,

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Speaker 3: You may have had it for twenty years. The doctor's

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Speaker 4: You have to stand against the lie of permanencies. Maybe

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Speaker 3: I know. It's just a matter of time before those

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Speaker 4: If you have to stand in faith your whole lifetime,

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Speaker 4: you should never accept mediocrity in your marriage, in your career,

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Speaker 4: recognize God is working in your life right now. You

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Speaker 4: is not working, it says in Philippians two thirteen. God

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Speaker 4: is constantly at work in those who believe. That means

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Speaker 4: because you're a believer, right now, God is.

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Speaker 3: Working, not next week, not next month. Right now. God

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Speaker 3: is arranging things in your favor. Right now. God is

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Speaker 3: lying enough the right people. Right now. Health and healing

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Speaker 4: God's protecting your children. Right now, God's fighting your battles

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Speaker 4: for you. As long as you're believing, God is working.

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Speaker 4: That's why it's so important to live in an attitude

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Speaker 3: You might as well accept it. That is the forces of.

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Speaker 4: I am not moved by what I see. I'm moved

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Speaker 4: Right now, God is working in my finances.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 4: God's working in my children, right now, God's working in

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Speaker 4: my health. When you believe, you activate God's power. But

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Speaker 4: if we don't guard our minds and constantly cast down

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Speaker 3: Well, Joel, I'd love to believe what.

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Speaker 4: You're saying, but you don't know my situation. I don't

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Speaker 4: see how it could ever change. It's been this way

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Speaker 4: you are tying the hands of Almighty God. If you

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Speaker 4: could see behind the scenes right now, you would see

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Speaker 4: God arranging things in your favor, lining up your vindication,

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Speaker 4: planning your breakthrough. But all of a sudden, God says

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Speaker 4: to the angels, hold on, everybody, We've got to take

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Speaker 4: Why God, why can't we finish? Why can't we give

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Speaker 4: them the victory? Why can't we turn it around? God says,

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Speaker 4: we have to stop because they quit believing. They're not

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Speaker 4: releasing their faith anymore. If they're not activating my power,

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Speaker 4: I can't continue to work. I don't know about you,

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Speaker 4: I need God to fight my battles for me. I

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Speaker 4: need his favor, his wisdom, his strength. Let's make up

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Speaker 4: we don't have to live life upset, stressed, wondering if

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Speaker 4: it's ever gonna change, Is it ever gonna get any better? Now,

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Speaker 4: God is saying it is not permanent. It is not

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Speaker 3: Your day of victory is on its way.

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Speaker 4: Because you're a believer, things are changing in your favor.

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Speaker 4: God is working behind the scenes, and it's just a

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Speaker 4: Divine connections are coming your way, restoration, vindication, promotion, health

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Speaker 4: Now's not the time to get discouraged. Think, ah, man,

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Speaker 4: one day God supernaturally brought them out, and after much traveling,

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Speaker 3: Why can't we just go back to being slaves.

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Speaker 4: Do you know those people, even though they were camp

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Speaker 4: They wandered around in the wilderness for over forty years.

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Speaker 3: What's my point?

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Speaker 4: It became permanent because of their own wrong thinking. It

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Speaker 4: was never God's intention for them to stay in mediocrity.

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Speaker 4: God never planned for them to wander around, defeated, constantly, struggling,

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Speaker 4: Then our own wrong thinking is what allowed to become permanent.

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Speaker 4: Some of you today, just like them, You are kemped

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Speaker 4: right next door to your promised land. You are so

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Speaker 4: seeing that promotion you've been praying for, close to a

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Speaker 4: they've got all these limitations.

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Speaker 3: Programmed into their mind.

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Speaker 4: Things like you're depressed because your mother was depressed. You'll

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Speaker 4: never break that addiction. Your father has the same problem.

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Speaker 4: You'll always be poor and defeated. Everybody in your family

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Speaker 4: has been that way. But just because it's been that

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Speaker 4: way a long time, just because that's all you saw

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Speaker 4: model growing up, doesn't.

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Speaker 3: Mean it's the way it's supposed to be. Could it

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Speaker 3: be even right?

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Speaker 4: Now? You've accepted something a limitation, an addiction, a sickness,

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Speaker 4: a wrong mindset, when in fact, just like my father,

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Speaker 4: you're a foreigner in that land. You may have settled there,

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Speaker 4: but something on the inside is saying I don't belong here.

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Speaker 3: I don't fit in.

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Speaker 4: I was made to rise higher, I was made to

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Speaker 4: be free, I was made to live healthy. I was

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Speaker 4: made to have good relationships. I was made to do

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Speaker 4: something great with my life. You need to rise up

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Speaker 4: and say, I am not settling here. I've been here

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Speaker 4: long enough, but I don't fit in mediocrity. I don't

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Speaker 4: fit in defeat. I don't fit in poverty. I don't

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Speaker 4: fit in poor health. That's not who I really am.

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Speaker 4: I am a foreigner to those things. That may be

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Speaker 4: the way it's been in the past, but that's not

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Speaker 4: the way it's going to be in the future. I'm

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Speaker 4: packing up my goods and moving where I belong, to

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Speaker 4: the land of victory, the land and of more than enough,

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Speaker 4: the land of health and wholeness, the land of blessing

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Speaker 4: and favor. How you say, Joel, I don't see how

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Speaker 4: that can happen. My obstacles are so big, and I

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Speaker 4: have so much coming against me.

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Speaker 3: No recognized.

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Speaker 4: In difficult times, human nature tends to exaggerate the negative.

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Speaker 4: We get so focused on our problems we make them

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Speaker 4: bigger than they really are. And that's what happened to

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Speaker 4: the Israelites heading toward the Promised Land. They said, Moses,

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Speaker 4: we're never gonna survive out here. We don't have anything

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Speaker 4: to eat, nothing to drink. What are we gonna do? Really,

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Speaker 4: that was not true. God had provided them manna every day,

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Speaker 4: He had given them water out of a rock. The

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Speaker 4: fact is they had not missed a single meal. But

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Speaker 4: in their mind it was so hard and they were

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Speaker 4: so worried they exaggerated their problems. When times get tough,

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Speaker 4: you need to step back and get the proper view.

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Speaker 4: You'll hear those thoughts saying it's never gonna change, but

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Speaker 4: the fact is it is gonna change. Well, it's never

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Speaker 4: gonna get any better. No, Can I give you some

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Speaker 4: good news? It is gonna get better. Well it's been

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Speaker 4: like this forever, Joel. No, most likely it's just been

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Speaker 4: like that for a season. Get a new perspective. Don't

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Speaker 4: believe the never lies. They are exaggerations. I'll never get well,

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Speaker 4: I'll never get out of debt, I'll never overcome this obstacle.

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Speaker 3: No, those are exaggerated points of view. You've got to

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Speaker 3: reprogram your thinking.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to put some new software in your computer today.

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Speaker 4: This is the latest, greatest version available. It says every

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Speaker 4: problem is temporary, that sickness is not permanent, that financial

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Speaker 4: difficulty is not going to last forever. This too shall pass.

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Speaker 4: God is supplying all of your needs. He's gonna prosper

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Speaker 4: you even in the desert. What was meant for your harm,

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Speaker 4: God's gonna use to your advantage. It may be taking

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Speaker 4: a long time, but you don't know. You may be

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Speaker 4: camp right next door to your promised land. The good

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Speaker 4: news is God will finish what he started. If you're

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Speaker 4: gonna exaggerate anything, exaggerate the goodness of God in your life,

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Speaker 4: magnify his promises. Recognize every adversity is only temporary. It

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Speaker 4: may have been there for years, but it is not permanent.

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Speaker 4: Let me tell you what is permanent, Psalm thirty, verse five.

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Speaker 4: God's favor will last for a lifetime. Friends, Challenges are temporary.

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Speaker 4: Favor is permanent. David said, goodness and mercy will follow me,

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Speaker 4: not a little while, not six days a week, all

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Speaker 4: the days of my life.

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Speaker 3: I want you to have a new attitude.

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Speaker 4: Those problems didn't come to stay, Favor came to stay.

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Speaker 4: That sickness is not gonna last forever. Favor is gonna

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Speaker 4: last forever. That financial difficulty is not permanent. Favor is

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Speaker 4: what's permanent. Because you honor God, he is promised his

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Speaker 4: blessings are gonna chase you down, overtake you. That means

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Speaker 4: trouble's not gonna overtake you. Blessings are gonna overtake you.

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Speaker 4: When you look back, don't look for heartache, disappointments, failure,

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Speaker 4: look for promotion, increase, blessings, favor. Remember, everything you're facing

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Speaker 4: is subject to change.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 4: The creator of the universe is at work in your life.

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Speaker 4: Those light afflictions are for a moment, but favor is permanent.

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Speaker 4: If you'll have this perspective and view everything negative as temporary,

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Speaker 4: here's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna step into a new freedom. You're gonna enjoy

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Speaker 3: each day more.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and you're

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Speaker 4: gonna live that life of victory.

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Speaker 3: God has in story. Amen, do you receive it today?

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