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

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a.

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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. Well, God bless you. It's great to be

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

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Speaker 1: us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: social media, and you can come visit us in person.

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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 this couple. They were driving down

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Speaker 1: the road when they saw a sign that said Nacodochius

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Speaker 1: forty miles ahead. They begin to argue over how to

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Speaker 1: correctly pronounce the name Nakodochius. The husband got so upset

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Speaker 1: he told his wife that when they got into town,

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Speaker 1: he was going to stop and prove to her that

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Speaker 1: she was wrong. They drove silently the next thirty minutes.

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Speaker 1: When he arrived in town, he pulled into the first

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Speaker 1: fast food restaurant. They both marched up to the counter.

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Speaker 1: He said to the young lady working behind it, my

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Speaker 1: wife and I have been arguing the last thirty minutes.

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Speaker 1: Would you please tell us, very slowly and very clearly,

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Speaker 1: how to pronounce the name of this place. The young

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Speaker 1: girl's eyes got real big. She leaned over the counter

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Speaker 1: and said, bird girl King, all right, y'all say it

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Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 1: what it says I am. I have what it says

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

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Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 1: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is recepted.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: finding the lost you. Life has a way of changing us.

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Speaker 1: At one time we were outgoing, excited about our dreams,

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Speaker 1: grateful for our family. We saw the best in people

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Speaker 1: and excelled at work. Positive, hopeful. Then life happens. We

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Speaker 1: go through a disappointment and we lose a little joy.

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Speaker 1: We make mistakes and lose a little sense of value.

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Speaker 1: People do us wrong and we lose a little passion.

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Speaker 1: We look up and wonder where that other person went.

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Speaker 1: Men said to me last week, Joel, I've lost myself.

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Speaker 1: I used to be so passionate, so caring. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what happened. I don't even recognize who I am.

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Speaker 1: He'd been through a loss. Things hadn't turned out the

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Speaker 1: way he thought. Now he was a fraction of what

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Speaker 1: he used to be. But God didn't create us to

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Speaker 1: start off excited about life, believing for our dreams, and

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Speaker 1: then end up defeated, insecure, and lonely. That's life trying

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Speaker 1: to change who you are. You may have lost yourself.

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Speaker 1: The good news is you can find yourself. You can

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Speaker 1: go back to who God made you to be. The

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Speaker 1: real you is still there, the joy for you, the

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Speaker 1: passion you, to confident you, the victorious you. One reason

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Speaker 1: Jesus came was to recover what was lost, to restore

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Speaker 1: what was stolen, to heal what was broken, to give

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Speaker 1: your beauty for ashes, joy for mourning. What you've lost

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Speaker 1: is coming back. God is about to do a new thing.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to leave you at a deficit. He

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Speaker 1: sees what you've been through and he's going to make

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Speaker 1: up for it. He's going to breathe new life, new passion,

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Speaker 1: new opportunities, and new vision. You haven't seen the best

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Speaker 1: version of you. Yet it's still in front of you.

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Speaker 1: But there is something you have to do. You can't

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Speaker 1: washed up. Man, I've made so many mistakes, and why

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Speaker 1: did these people do me wrong. As long as we

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Speaker 1: have a defeated mentality, we're going to get stuck. You

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Speaker 1: start believing again, start dreaming again, start hoping again. The

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Speaker 1: book of Genesis, Adam and Eve were in the garden

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Speaker 1: of Eden. They had this magnificent place to live. God

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Speaker 1: They knew they had done wrong. Their consciences came to light.

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Speaker 1: garden that evening, he said, Adam, where are you? God

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Speaker 1: He was saying, Adam, where is the real you? Where

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Speaker 1: God is asking us where are you? Where is the

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Speaker 1: you before you went through the disappointment, The you before

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Speaker 1: the breakup, the you before the mistake. Where is the

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Speaker 1: too often, like Adam, because of mistakes disappointments, we lose

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Speaker 1: that person. We can look back and think, man, I

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to me. You may have

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Speaker 1: that person back. Nothing that's happened to you has taken

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Speaker 1: I was afraid, so I went and the hid. How

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Speaker 1: many of us are hiding because the things we've gone through.

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Speaker 1: Hiding our potential, hiding our personality, hiding our smile. You

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Speaker 1: handle hurts and failures and disappointments is to isolate, to disengage,

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Speaker 1: really there. They have great ideas, but they never share them.

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Speaker 1: to live disengaged, unplumbed, hiding your gifts, hiding your creativity,

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Speaker 1: hiding your feelings. God is saying, where are you? I

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Speaker 1: created you to bloom, to blossom, to shine, to enjoy life,

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Speaker 1: but it will never happen if you're hiding, hiding behind mistakes,

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Speaker 1: hurt me. That's why I'm not passionate anymore. Or my

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Speaker 1: spouse and I we don't get along. She doesn't respect me.

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Speaker 1: That's why I've checked out. The enemy is using that

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Speaker 1: Here's the key. God can't heal what's hidden. He's asking

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Speaker 1: not going to force you. You have to make that

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Speaker 1: Can I encourage you. It's looking for you right now.

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Speaker 1: The joy, the talent, the favor, the confidence. It's knocking

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Speaker 1: and you have to do your partner, get your fire back,

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Speaker 1: start taking some risk well Joel. If I get involved

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Speaker 1: in this new relationship, I may get hurt again. If

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Speaker 1: I take this new opportunity, they may not treat me right,

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Speaker 1: or I may not be good at it. Yes, it's

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Speaker 1: easier to stay in hiding. If you unplugg disengage, you

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Speaker 1: might not experience as much hurt, pain, or possible disappointment,

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Speaker 1: but you'll also never experience the joy, the love, the favor,

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Speaker 1: the victory that makes life so rewarding and so fulfilling.

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Speaker 1: The enemy doesn't want you engaged, motivated, passionate, feeling anything

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Speaker 1: He loved, for you to go through life none, never

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Speaker 1: showing this world who God made you to be. Don't

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Speaker 1: fall into that trap. You may get knocked down, but

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Speaker 1: don't go into hiding. That disappointment is not final. Get

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Speaker 1: back up again. You made a mistake, don't beat yourself

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Speaker 1: up for five years, live in regrets, ask for forgiveness,

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Speaker 1: and move forward. God doesn't remember your mistakes. Why are

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Speaker 1: you remembering them? Those are forces trying to get you

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Speaker 1: to unplug engage so you don't fulfill your purpose. Or

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Speaker 1: maybe your dream didn't work out. You've put a lot

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Speaker 1: don't have to go into hiding. It's not who you are.

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Speaker 1: You're not a failure. You're a child of the most

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Speaker 1: high God. Any person that's ever done anything significant has

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Speaker 1: had some failures, disappointments and setbacks, or perhaps people have

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Speaker 1: hurt you. They put you at a disadvantage. Thoughts will

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Speaker 1: try to convince you that you're lacking. You're not up

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Speaker 1: have happened. It's easy to go into hiding, live insecure,

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Speaker 1: feel inferior unless you give them permission. They don't determine

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Speaker 1: doesn't change who God made you to be. Now quit

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Speaker 1: would think. But I could hear God whispering deep down

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Speaker 1: in my spirit, Joel, where are you? Where is that person?

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Speaker 1: I created? Strong, confident, fun outgoing. Why are you shrinking

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