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Speaker 3: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 4: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 4: I know God has great things in store for each

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Speaker 4: tuning in today. I'd like to get started each week

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Speaker 4: with something kind of funny. And I heard about this

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Speaker 4: lady that was shopping with her husband.

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Speaker 3: He had asked her to not buy any new clothes.

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Speaker 4: Well, she saw this dress in the window and decided

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Speaker 4: to try it on. She liked it so much she

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Speaker 4: bought it in secret. A couple of days later, the

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Speaker 4: to him that when she tried it on, it looks

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Speaker 4: so good that Satan tempted her to buy it and

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Speaker 3: Couldn't resist it. He said, well, why didn't you do what.

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Speaker 4: The scripture says and say get behind me?

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Speaker 4: She said, I did, and he told me it looked

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Speaker 4: even better from a distance. All right, hold up your Bible,

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Speaker 4: say it like.

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Speaker 3: You mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 3: it says. 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. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever.

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Speaker 3: Living seed of the Word of God.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus's name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about making preparations

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Speaker 4: for the good things God has in store. God has

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Speaker 4: We all have promises that we're standing on, things that

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Speaker 4: we're believing to come to pass. But almost always there's

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Speaker 4: even waiting to overcome an illness. Much of life is

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Speaker 3: Too often, when.

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Speaker 4: Things don't happen on our timetable, we get down and discouraged,

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Speaker 3: The fact is we're all going to wait.

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Speaker 4: It goes on to say, see how the farmer waits expectantly.

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Speaker 3: That's the key. We have to wait with expectancy.

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Speaker 4: We're not supposed to sit around discouraged, negative thinking my

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Speaker 3: Out of this mess, Joel.

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Speaker 4: No. To wait with expectancy means we're hopeful. We're positive.

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Speaker 4: It's just like if you're expecting someone for dinner, you

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Speaker 4: Most likely, you start early in the day, make sure

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Speaker 4: all these preparations. Why because you're expecting someone. Well, that's

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Speaker 4: the attitude we need to have while we're waiting for

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Speaker 3: It's not enough to just pray.

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Speaker 4: We have to put actions behind our prayers. The scripture

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Speaker 4: we can believe one way, we can talk one way,

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Speaker 4: this young man that has a dream to go to college,

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Speaker 4: began to list all of his obstacles, Joel, I don't

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Speaker 4: Finally I had to stop him and said, hey, why

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Speaker 4: Go talk to the school counselors, make preparations to succeed.

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Speaker 4: If you'll do what you can, then God will do

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Speaker 4: what you can. But too often we're believing one way,

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Speaker 3: We're actually preparing for defeat.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you come from a long line of divorce in

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Speaker 3: Not any of this. If we make it, maybe we're

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Speaker 4: No, get rid of the if and start saying when

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Speaker 4: we make it. I know I've already planned Victoria in

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Speaker 3: That girl stuck with me. I'm taking her to dairy Queen.

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Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. We're going to Sonic. That's cheaper.

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Speaker 4: But stay hopeful, stay positive, and make preparations to succeed.

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Speaker 4: We have to understand there's a difference between believing and expecting.

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Speaker 3: You can be believing to have a child and not

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Speaker 4: But when you go from believing to expecting, you kick

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Speaker 4: into a different year. When you're expecting, you'll go furnish

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Speaker 4: You don't look any different, I don't feel anything. No,

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Speaker 4: When God puts a dream in your heart, all of

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Speaker 4: know your family can be restored. You know you can

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Speaker 4: First thing is you have to let the seed really

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Speaker 3: Believing to expecting.

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Speaker 4: Well, you say, Joel, I'm doing that, but I don't

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Speaker 4: If you can see everything happening, you don't really need

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Speaker 4: that's what gets God's attention, That's what caused him to

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Speaker 4: God wanted us to go forward. So I went from

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Speaker 4: believing to expecting. We started making preparations, just like a

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Speaker 4: Those negative voices would come saying, Joel, what are you

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Speaker 4: I'd say, no, God, I know you're in control, and

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Speaker 4: I believe at the right time, you will change things

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Speaker 4: in our favor. A year and a half later, that's

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Speaker 4: exactly what happened. How does the farmer wait expectantly? How

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Speaker 4: does he take care of his seed by watering it

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Speaker 4: By staying full of praise, by getting up every morning

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Speaker 4: the Lord. As much as I didn't like that, as

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Speaker 4: painful as it was, down in my heart, I knew

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Speaker 4: my father had fulfilled his purpose here on this earth.

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Speaker 4: Thing I loved about my dad is he did just

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Speaker 4: what I'm talking about. He died in faith. The last

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Speaker 4: month of his life, while he was on dialysis. He

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Speaker 4: was making preparations to go back to India, and he

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Speaker 4: had us checking to see if they could do dialysis

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Speaker 4: over there. The fact is he never made it back,

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Speaker 4: but he died in faith expecting to go back to India.

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Speaker 4: And it's this attitude of expectancy that keeps a scring

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Speaker 4: in our step, That's what keeps life exciting. Keep the

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Speaker 4: vision in front of you and stay hopeful. I know

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Speaker 4: this couple they.

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Speaker 3: Had become a strange from their son. Some things had happened.

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Speaker 4: They'd gotten at odds with each other, and now this

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Speaker 4: young man wouldn't talk to them, wouldn't come visit them,

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Speaker 4: wouldn't have anything to do with them. This went on

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Speaker 4: month after month. It looked like they would never be reconciled.

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Speaker 4: But these parents, rather than just giving up getting all defeated,

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Speaker 4: they took a step of faith. They went out and

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Speaker 4: bought their son a Bible and had his name grave

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Speaker 4: on the front of it. This young man had never

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Speaker 4: had anything.

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Speaker 3: To do with the things of God.

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Speaker 4: Looked like they were wasting their money, but they put

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Speaker 4: the Bible on their coffee table, and every time they

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Speaker 4: walked by it, several times a day, they would just

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Speaker 4: thank God that one day their son would be back home.

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Speaker 4: One day he would get back on the right course. Well,

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Speaker 4: seven years later they got a phone call from their son.

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Speaker 4: God supernaturally restored that relationship. Today, I see that young

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Speaker 4: man in church all the time. You know what, he's

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Speaker 4: carrying a Bible, not just any bible, but the same

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Speaker 4: Bible that sat on that coffee table all those years,

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Speaker 4: with his name on it.

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Speaker 3: See, these parents waited expectantly.

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Speaker 4: They made preparations for their son to come back home.

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Speaker 4: Today they're reaping the benefits. It may just be something small,

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Speaker 4: a dream to lose weight. I know this young lady.

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Speaker 4: She was so tired of being overweight. But I'm telling you,

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Speaker 4: she had dieted, she had tried, she had fought it,

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Speaker 4: nothing seemed to work. Finally, she just gave up and

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Speaker 4: accepted where she was in spite of the fact that

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Speaker 4: she knew that wasn't God's best. And this is so

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Speaker 4: easy to do in any area of life, to kind

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Speaker 4: of just sit back and settle for mediocrity. But one

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Speaker 4: day this young lady got fed up. She put her

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Speaker 4: foot down and started putting actions behind her prayers. She

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Speaker 4: went up to the mall and on purpose, she bought

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Speaker 4: a new outfit that was two sizes too small for her.

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Speaker 3: She knew she couldn't wear it.

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Speaker 4: What was she doing making preparations to lose the weight?

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Speaker 4: She went from believing to expecting. She told how she

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Speaker 4: put that outfit in her closet, right by her mirror

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Speaker 4: so she could see it every day.

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Speaker 3: You said, Joel, that would depress me. No, this inspired her.

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Speaker 4: Every time she saw it, she'd say Father, thank you

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Speaker 4: that I'm going to lose this weight. Thank you that

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Speaker 4: every gland, every organ, every cell in my body functions normally.

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Speaker 4: Thank you that I have discipline and self control. Afterday,

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Speaker 4: she kept watering her seat.

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Speaker 3: I saw her about a month ago. You know what.

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Speaker 3: She was wearing her new outfit.

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Speaker 4: She said, Joel, I not only lost thirty pounds, but

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Speaker 4: I feel better today than I've ever felt before. I

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Speaker 4: gave her a high five and said, you go girl.

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Speaker 4: God rewards people like that.

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Speaker 3: Keep the vision in front of you. Stay determined.

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Speaker 4: Tamra would have never got those rabbits if she had

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Speaker 4: not already had the cages built. We'd have never got

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Speaker 4: this place if we had not pressed through those obstacles.

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Speaker 4: Stretch your faith, put some actions behind what you're believing.

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Speaker 4: For some of you today, you've just about giving up

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Speaker 4: on what God has put in your heart.

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Speaker 3: You've just settled.

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Speaker 4: You think it's never gonna change, never gonna get any better.

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Speaker 4: But you've got to rekindle that fire.

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Speaker 3: Well, Joe, it's been a long long time.

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Speaker 4: Listen to what the scripture says. Though the vision tarries

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Speaker 4: wait earnestly for it. Notice we can't wait passively. We

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Speaker 4: have to wait earnestly, wait expectantly. What's going to happen

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Speaker 4: when we do that. It goes on to say the vision.

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Speaker 3: Will not be one second late.

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Speaker 4: That means when we stay in faith, positive, expectant, hopeful,

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Speaker 4: then all the forces of darkness cannot keep God from

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Speaker 4: bringing those promises to pass. Now I read a story

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Speaker 4: about Gavin MacLeod. He's an actor, probably best known for

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Speaker 4: playing the captain of The Love Boat, popular television show.

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Speaker 3: Years ago.

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Speaker 4: He and his wife Patty had been married for seven years.

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Speaker 4: They hit some bumps along the road and Gavin left.

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Speaker 4: He told how he got real caught up in his

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Speaker 4: career and long story short, he wasn't making good choices

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Speaker 4: and they went through this divorce and Patty was just devastated.

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Speaker 3: She never wanted it.

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Speaker 4: Instead of just giving up and accepting that, every day

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Speaker 4: she started thanking God that one day Gavin would be

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Speaker 4: back home, one day that relationship would be restored. He

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Speaker 4: took it one step further and started putting actions.

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Speaker 3: Behind her faith.

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Speaker 4: She told how every night at the dinner table, instead

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Speaker 4: of setting one place setting, she would set two place settings.

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Speaker 4: She was making preparations for him to come back home.

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Speaker 3: One day.

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Speaker 4: Three years later, there was a knock on the front door.

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Speaker 4: She opened it up and it was Gavined. She smiled

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Speaker 4: and said, come on in. Your dinner's getting cold today.

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Speaker 4: They'd been remarried for more than twenty one years. Let

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Speaker 4: me ask you, how are you waiting?

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Speaker 3: Negative? Discourage? Frustrated?

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Speaker 4: No, stay hopeful? Learn to wait with expectancy. Get up

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Speaker 4: every morning and water your seeds by thanking God that

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Speaker 4: the answers on the way.

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Speaker 3: And then take it one step further.

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Speaker 4: Start making preparations for the dreams God's put in your heart.

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Speaker 3: Talk like it's going to happen. Act like it's going

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Speaker 3: to happen.

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Speaker 4: Keep the right attitude if you'll go from believing to expecting.

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Speaker 4: God promises in due season, at the right time, he

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Speaker 4: will bring you the desires of your heart. And the

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Speaker 4: good news is they will not be one second late.

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Speaker 3: Amen. Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 4: We'd never liked to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 4: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Say Lord, Jesus, I repent

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Speaker 3: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you

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Speaker 3: my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 4: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 4: got born again. Get in a good Bible based church.

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Speaker 4: Keep God first place. He's going to take you places

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Speaker 4: that you've never dreamed of.

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