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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jorlan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Praise you and thank you Ah that you're doing ay Man,

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Speaker 3: you may be seated. I want to encourage every one

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Speaker 3: of us today that if you're waiting on a prayer

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Speaker 3: to be answered, or maybe you're waiting for some things

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Speaker 3: to change in your life and it hasn't happened for

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Speaker 3: a long time and you're just waiting for things to

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Speaker 3: change so you can move on with life. Want to

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Speaker 3: encourage you to not let those things stop you. Don't

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Speaker 3: get stuck in those areas of your life. God doesn't

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Speaker 3: want you to ever get stuck. He wants you to

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Speaker 3: live with enthusiasm. He wants you to live with joy.

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Speaker 3: He wants you to live with expectancy of what He

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Speaker 3: can do in your life. Sometimes we're waiting on things

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Speaker 3: to change, we're looking at everything around us and we

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Speaker 3: forget to look at our God. See, the Bible says

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Speaker 3: we are to wait upon the Lord. We're not to

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Speaker 3: wait for all of our prayers to be answered. We're

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Speaker 3: not to wait for things to change before we can

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Speaker 3: be happy. We're to wait expectantly.

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Speaker 2: On the Lord, exciting with the anticipation.

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Speaker 3: God, I may be in a difficult season, but God,

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Speaker 3: that doesn't stop you from working in my life, you see,

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Speaker 3: with an excitement and a joy and a passion for life.

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Speaker 2: That's how God wants us to live. You know, we.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes we think that seems impossible. I can't be that

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Speaker 3: happy all the time, really, Victoria. The Bible says that

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Speaker 3: there is a joy in you that Jesus gave you.

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Speaker 3: He says, the joy that is in me I've given you.

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Speaker 2: You have the ability to tap.

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Speaker 3: Into the resources that God has given you.

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Speaker 2: You see.

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Speaker 3: The Bible says that the righteous are to get brighter

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Speaker 3: and brighter until the full day. We're to thrive like

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Speaker 3: a green leaf. We're not supposed to wither. Our dreams

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Speaker 3: and hopes are not supposed to wither. But we're supposed

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Speaker 3: to thrive. We're supposed to shine brighter and brighter. You're

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Speaker 3: not supposed to be dim some days and bright the others.

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Speaker 3: You're supposed to be bright, shiny. You're supposed to let

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Speaker 3: the sun in the so so in every single day,

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Speaker 3: so that you can be bright and shiny. I think

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Speaker 3: that's a good question to ask ourselves periodically through the day.

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Speaker 2: Am I shining? Where do I feel dim? Is there

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Speaker 3: Is there something trying to bring me down? Am I

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Speaker 3: focused too much on a situation or change that needs

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Speaker 3: to happen in my life that I'm not shining? Do

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Speaker 3: I need to get my eyes off of this mountain

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Speaker 3: from from the person who created all the mountains, who

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Speaker 3: Listen where to be stars, where to let the sun in?

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Speaker 3: Listen to what it says in Isaiah forty three, eighteen

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Speaker 3: and nineteen, And this is what God spoke through the prophet,

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Speaker 3: and he said, forget the former things, do not dwell

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Speaker 3: on them. Behold, I am doing a new thing. Now

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Speaker 2: Can you preced it?

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Speaker 3: I am making a way in the wilderness and streams

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Speaker 3: God is asking us his promise to us, and what

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Speaker 3: he is asking us is this, Do you recognize what

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Speaker 2: In your life.

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Speaker 3: You see it says I am doing a new thing.

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Speaker 3: God didn't say I'm going to do a new thing

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Speaker 3: when I get ready, when you get straight in your life,

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Speaker 3: he said, I am doing a new thing. It springs

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Speaker 3: up now. See God is saying, don't have faith when

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Speaker 3: the situation takes care of itself, because I'm doing some

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Speaker 3: new things right now, right now. But the thing is

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Speaker 3: is that we have to precede it, and in doing

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Speaker 3: so sometimes we need to change our perspective.

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Speaker 3: Some translations say look, see Watch. That sounds like anticipation

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Speaker 3: to me, doesn't it. You watch and see what the

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Speaker 2: See it is a new thing. I'll never forget.

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Speaker 3: Several years ago, I was going through the most difficult

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Speaker 3: One day, God spoke to me and he said, you

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Speaker 3: out beyond this problem because I've got opportunities. I'm doing

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Speaker 3: some new things in the middle of your mess.

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Speaker 1: Do you know?

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Speaker 3: That challenge in my life went on for three long years?

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Speaker 3: And can I tell you they seemed like long years.

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Speaker 2: But during that time I shook it off. Every day

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Speaker 3: No? But I had to change my focus and change

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Speaker 2: God, you don't want me to stay here. You've got

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Speaker 3: Do you know what was in those three years that

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Speaker 3: I wrote my first book?

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Speaker 2: I wrote a series of children's books.

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Speaker 3: And at the end of those three years, God vindicated

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Speaker 2: He gave me victory. But it was a change perspective.

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Speaker 3: It was deciding that I wasn't gonna wear a banner

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Speaker 3: victory over my head. See, I was changing what I

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Speaker 3: long as I sat and were waiting for things to

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Speaker 3: change before I could get going, I would have missed

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Speaker 3: out on all the new things, the new opportunities, the

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Speaker 3: have given in to defeat and discouragement and said so

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Speaker 3: focused on what I needed to happen, I would.

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Speaker 2: Have lost three years.

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Speaker 3: There had exponential growth in my spiritual life those three years.

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Speaker 3: You see, God turned it around because I was willing

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Speaker 3: to put forth the effort.

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Speaker 3: I was willing to say, no, this doesn't have to

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Speaker 3: I serve a great, big God, and He's gotten great

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Speaker 3: things over the horizon for me. He is doing a

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Speaker 2: In your life.

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Speaker 3: I was speaking to a woman the other day, and

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Speaker 3: I'd been praying with her for a while, and seemed

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Speaker 3: like every time I prayed with her or talked to her,

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Speaker 3: all I could see was this just rigid, stiff, just

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Speaker 3: was wanting reconciliation in her marriage. And that is what

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Speaker 3: I could see was the main focus and thrust of

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Speaker 3: do not make plans according to this prayer being answered.

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Speaker 3: Don't make plans around your life according to this happening.

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Speaker 2: Don't stop living. You see.

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Speaker 3: I believe that what she was trying to do was

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Speaker 3: back in the door, then she could begin to live.

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Speaker 3: Then her life could go on. But that is not

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Speaker 3: what God intends for her to do, because He's got

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Speaker 3: new things springing up in her mess right now. I said,

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Speaker 3: you're too valuable, You got too much to offer, You

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Speaker 3: got gifts, you got talents.

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Speaker 2: You be the best you that you can be.

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Speaker 3: You let God grow, you learn, progress, take on new

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Speaker 3: and exciting challenges that God's got out there for you.

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Speaker 2: Be the best you can be.

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Speaker 3: I didn't tell her to quit praying. I didn't tell

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Speaker 3: her to quit believing. I said, don't get stuck. Don't

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Speaker 3: get stuck. You keep living. And I believe that God

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Speaker 2: You need to keep on living.

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Speaker 3: Don't make all your plans around that unanswered prayer. I

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Speaker 3: got new things springing up even now. He didn't say

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Speaker 3: there was not going to be wilderness. He didn't say

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Speaker 3: there wasn't going to be some wasted things. You look

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Speaker 3: He said, I can make a way in the wilderness,

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Speaker 3: I was reading about eyes strain and ice train is

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Speaker 3: And it said, do this, cast your eyes at a

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Speaker 3: all the life around you. It says when you do that,

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Speaker 3: when you cast your eyes and you begin to see light, trees, sky, clouds,

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Speaker 3: your white, all this stuff around you, what it does

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Speaker 3: is it relaxes the lens of your eye. With eyestrains,

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Speaker 3: your lens flattens out. And what this exercise does is

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Speaker 3: to relax. Now, I'm not giving you a tip on

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Speaker 3: eyestrain today, although if you have it, that might work.

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Speaker 3: What I am saying is that same thing parallels our life.

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Speaker 3: When we begin to focus so much on an area

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Speaker 2: Can you perceive it?

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Speaker 3: It is springing up, But if you're not looking for it,

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Speaker 3: you might not find it. Joel quoted the scripture from

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Speaker 3: another passage in Isaiah, and it says God is longing

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you where you are today? Is it

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Speaker 3: But don't waste your precious life, your precious time, when

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Speaker 3: God is already put it into motion. There are new opportunities,

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Speaker 3: There are new ways of doing things. There's new growth,

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Speaker 3: there's new refreshing. If there are springs springing up for

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Speaker 3: you to have today, Listen, You're not going to stay

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Speaker 3: but it always can happen. Keep your eyes on God

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Speaker 3: and watch for the new opportunities and the new things

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Speaker 3: that He's bringing across your path.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God.

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Speaker 4: God has put a specific dream in your heart. Maybe

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Speaker 4: it's a dream for a better career, a blessing that

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Speaker 4: enables you to bless others, to be in a healthy,

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Speaker 4: We all have dreams, but sometimes setbacks and opposition can

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Speaker 4: rob us of our dreams. So how do you make

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Speaker 1: One way you know it's a God given dream is

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Speaker 1: you can't accomplish it on your own. We never thought

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Speaker 1: we'd be having church in a former basketball arena, But

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Speaker 1: this is what can happen when you take the limits

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Speaker 3: When you believe what God put in your heart, that's

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Speaker 3: when He steps in and makes ways where you never

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Speaker 1: Now, I love to send you my newest book.

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Speaker 2: It's time to dream again.

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Speaker 1: It'll help you to hold on to what God promised

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Speaker 1: and now get discouraged by how impossible it looks or

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Speaker 1: how long it's taking. You are closer than you think.

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Speaker 1: God's working behind the scenes right now.

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Speaker 2: Stay in faith.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see the greatness of God bring your

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Speaker 4: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 4: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and

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Speaker 4: Victoria would like to send you this dream releasing, life

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Speaker 4: affirming book, It's time to Dream again. You might sense

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Speaker 4: that your dreams have been buried, but with this book

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Speaker 4: you'll see that they are actually a hidden treasure just

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Speaker 4: waiting to be uncovered and come to life. God's plan

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Speaker 4: for you is significant. His dreams for you are beyond

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Speaker 4: what you could imagine. Don't wait another day. It's time

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Speaker 4: to dream again.

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Speaker 3: This book will help you gain a fresh perspective for

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Speaker 1: Victoria and I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. Your

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Speaker 1: generosity is making a difference around the world. Remember you

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Speaker 1: can watch the services live online every Sunday, download the

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Speaker 1: daily podcast or our YouTube channel.

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Speaker 2: Listen on Serious XM.

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Speaker 1: We will keep you encouraged and inspired, but until we

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Speaker 1: meet again, may the Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 4: Be sure to request your copy of It's Time to

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Speaker 4: Dream Again Today, visit joelosdem dot com or call eighty

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