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Speaker 1: Hi, it's Joel and Victoria. What a joy to be

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Speaker 1: with you today. We always counted an honor. Know that

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Speaker 1: we're praying for you and your family. We sure hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoy this podcast today and we just are praying

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Speaker 1: for you and know that God is for you, So

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message. God bless you. It's a joy to

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Speaker 1: come into your homes. And if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 1: please stop buying. Be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this elderly lady that was close to death. She

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Speaker 1: had never been married, and she called her pastor over

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Speaker 1: to talk about her funeral. She said that she only

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Speaker 1: wanted female pallbearers. Pastor looked at her kind of strange

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Speaker 1: and asked why. She said. The men wouldn't take me

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Speaker 1: out when I was alive, and they're not gonna take

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Speaker 1: me out when I'm dead. Say it like you mean it.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: told the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about rest from your enemies.

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Speaker 1: We all have things that come against us and try

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Speaker 1: to keep us from our destiny. Most of what we

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Speaker 1: things like depression, addictions, anger, divorce. Studies show how that

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Speaker 1: can get passed from generation to generation. If your mother

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Speaker 1: with depression. If your father was an alcoholic, had anger issues,

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Speaker 1: wasn't faithful to his wife, those are traits that can

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Speaker 1: affect you, just like a lady that's on drugs and

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Speaker 1: gives birth to a baby. That baby can have the

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Speaker 1: same addiction as the mother. There was no fault of

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Speaker 1: the it's just life. The good news is there is

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Speaker 1: what's limiting you. But there's something we have to do.

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Speaker 1: As long as we accept dysfunction as the norm. It

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Speaker 1: will never change. If you see that addiction, that depression,

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Speaker 1: the next generation. And this is what the Israelites did.

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Speaker 1: In Judges fifteen, the Philistines had been ruling over them

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Speaker 1: He will deliver the Israelites from the Philistines. As he

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Speaker 1: So the Philistines circled the Israelites camp and were about

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Speaker 1: The Israelites were so comfortable in dysfunction they went to

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Speaker 1: God crowned you with favor. He put a robe of

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Speaker 1: Don't let limited thinking keep you from your destiny. You

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Speaker 1: God was showing us sometimes the people closest to you,

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Speaker 1: know these things rule over us. You'll never get your degree,

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Speaker 1: Your family, your friends, your neighbors. They don't know what's

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Speaker 1: to be a Samson, to deliver your people, to set

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Speaker 1: have held you back. Sometimes it's not our enemies that

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Speaker 1: say discouraging things, just settle their depression runs in this family.

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Speaker 1: power that's in me is greater than any forced it's

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Speaker 1: I know I was born to make a difference. Somebody

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Speaker 1: Why can't it be you? Why can't you set a

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Speaker 1: Asa removed the pagan shrines, he smashed the sacred pillars.

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Speaker 1: not going to let this anger rule my life anymore.

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Speaker 1: pull down those long mindsets. If you will become an

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Speaker 1: God will give you rest from those enemies. I talked

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Speaker 1: These are the things that keep getting passed down until

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Speaker 1: if your father struggled, you will struggle is because they're

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