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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. God bless you. It's great to be with

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Speaker 1: you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 1: of our services. I'd like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 1: and I heard about these elderly women. They were in

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Speaker 1: their late eighties and they were driving down the freeway

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Speaker 1: together when they were pulled over by a policemen. The

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Speaker 1: officer asked the driver, ma'am, do you realize you're only

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Speaker 1: going thirty five miles an hour. She said, yes, Officer,

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Speaker 1: I realize that. He said, well, why are you going

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Speaker 1: so slow? She said, because that's what the sign says.

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Speaker 1: He kind of laughed and said, no, ma'am, that's the

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Speaker 1: number of the freeway. This is Highway thirty five. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, why are these other passengers look so terrified.

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Speaker 1: She smiled and said, because we just got off Highway

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Speaker 1: ninety five, we say like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I

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Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what

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Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is recepted. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about build your altar. We can all

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Speaker 1: look back in life and see times where God made away.

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Speaker 1: He protected us from an accident. He sustained us in

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Speaker 1: a slow time, promoted us when we didn't deserve it,

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Speaker 1: strengthened us when we were weaker, brought us through that loss.

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Speaker 1: Those weren't lucky breaks. They weren't just a coincidence. That

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Speaker 1: was the hand of God protecting you, healing you, favoring you.

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Speaker 1: In the Old Testament, when these things happened, the people

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Speaker 1: took time to build an altar to thank God for

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Speaker 1: what he had done. They would look back at those

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Speaker 1: altars and that was fuel for their faith. They knew

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Speaker 1: He did it back then he would do it again today.

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Speaker 1: We should still be building altars. It's easy to take

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Speaker 1: things for granted and get so busy that we don't

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Speaker 1: recognize the blessing of God. But when you take time

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Speaker 1: to acknowledge what God has done, you realize He brought

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Speaker 1: you through the pandemic. Some people didn't make it. He

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Speaker 1: gave you that person to love. You were at the

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Speaker 1: it didn't look good. He opened that door, and now

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Speaker 1: you're further than you've ever imagined. When you paused to say, God,

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Speaker 1: I recognize this didn't happen on my own. This is

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Speaker 1: your goodness. Thank you for your favor, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your mercy. Lord. I'm grateful for what you've done. That's

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Speaker 1: building an altar. God told the Israeli in Exodus chapter twenty,

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Speaker 1: build altars in the places where I remind you who

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Speaker 1: bless you where you built altars. When you're always thanking

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Speaker 1: God for what he's done, remembering his goodness, talking about

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Speaker 1: how he's made ways where you didn't see a way.

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Speaker 1: While you're thanking him, God says he will bless you.

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Speaker 1: You're there to express your gratitude. But when you're at

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Speaker 1: begs the question, are we not being blessed because we're

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Speaker 1: not acknowledging God's goodness? God said, build altars where I

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Speaker 1: remind you who I am. We all have these times

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Speaker 1: where we know it was the hand of God. That

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Speaker 1: Those were angels assigned to protect you. Take time to

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Speaker 1: build an altar. That contract at work should have gone

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Speaker 1: to three other people. They had more experience, they looked

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Speaker 1: the favor of God causing you to stand out. Have

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Speaker 1: you built your altar? I talked to a young couple.

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Speaker 1: After the service, and at those places where you see

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Speaker 1: Just take the blessing and move on no build an altar,

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Speaker 1: in a habit of building altars, then you'll look back

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Speaker 1: it again. But God says he will bless you at

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Speaker 1: back and remember the good things He's done. Genesis chapter six.

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Speaker 1: God told Noah there was going to be a great flood.

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Speaker 1: every kind of animals on it. The floods came forty

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Speaker 1: his family, and those animals. For over a year. Noah

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Speaker 1: The first thing Noah did was build an altar. He

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Speaker 1: going to do is thank God that he's spared our lives.

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Speaker 1: We're going to build an altar, and thank God that

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Speaker 1: we didn't drown. Thank him for showing us merci, Thank

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Speaker 1: him for his faithfulness. My prayer is, God, help us

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Speaker 1: to be like Noah. When we see your favor, when

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Speaker 1: you give us the victory, bring us through tough times,

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Speaker 1: do be build an altar. Let us recognize your goodness,

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Speaker 1: acknowledge your mercy. Noah took animals he had set aside

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Speaker 1: when he heard Noah giving him praise, the scripture says

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Speaker 1: God promised that he would never flood the earth again.

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Speaker 1: There are times like with Noah. When you build that altar,

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Speaker 1: you thank God for what He's brought you through. God

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Speaker 1: will say you will never have to go through that again.

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Speaker 1: to do it physically like they did. It's simply acknowledging

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Speaker 1: for healing me from this sickness. I know it wasn't

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Speaker 1: just the medicine. God, You're the healer. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: beauty for these ashes. We went through a two year

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Speaker 1: battle to acquire the Compact Center. This building was owned

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Speaker 1: by the city. We needed ten council members to vote

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to be there. He received so much pressure

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Speaker 1: decided to vote for us. The vote was on a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. Victoria and myself and all of our team

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Speaker 1: were there, plus about one hundred people from Lakewood, and

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Speaker 1: council members one by one. Do you vote yes or

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Speaker 1: no for Lakewood having the Compact Center. My heart was

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Speaker 1: beating so fast, it's very dramatic. They came to the

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Speaker 1: We were waiting and waiting. He finally looked up and

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Speaker 1: smiled and said, yes, I vote for them. We got

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Speaker 1: we started singing praises, declaring the greatness of our God,

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Speaker 1: see away. It just came up out of us impromptu.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure people walking around downtown, thought, what are these

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Speaker 1: people doing? Singing, shouting, celebrating like Noah. The first thing

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Speaker 1: we did was build an altar. God, we recognized your

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Speaker 1: hand of favor. You've opened a door we never dream

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Speaker 1: would open. You've caused us to defeat giants right there

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Speaker 1: on the steps of city hall. We built that altar.

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Speaker 1: You can build an altar wherever you are. Your car

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Speaker 1: Walking in the park can become an altar. At the

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Speaker 1: places that remind you who God is when he does

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Speaker 1: things that only he can do. Don't just think war

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Speaker 1: him for his favor. God will bless you where you

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Speaker 1: built altars. In the Old Testament, when the people were

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Speaker 1: facing difficulties, often they would start their prayers by reminding

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Speaker 1: This is what King Jehosaphat did. He and the people

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Speaker 1: Are you not the God that drove the inhabitants out

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Speaker 1: that provided this temple for us to worship in? They

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Speaker 1: reminded God of all their past victories. They looked back

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Speaker 1: it again. All of us have some of these. Am

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Speaker 1: I not the God's stories? When you look back over

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Speaker 1: Am I not the God that brought you through the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I not the God that turned that child around? Make

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Speaker 1: sure you're building altars, recognizing his favor, thinking him for

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Speaker 1: his goodness. That's where He's promised to bless you at

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Speaker 1: the altars you built. I'm celebrating a birthday today, as

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Speaker 1: you know, and I finally made it to thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: You know what I did. You know what I did

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Speaker 1: early this morning, long before the sun rose. I built

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Speaker 1: Thank you for giving me favor, opening new doors, blessing

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Speaker 1: you for sustaining me. You didn't let my enemies defeat me.

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Speaker 1: Lord is on my side. My enemies could not take

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