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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. Reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 2: the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, right here

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Speaker 2: at Lakewood. But thanks for tuning in today and thanks

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Speaker 2: for coming out. And I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 2: and I heard about this man. He was the only

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Speaker 2: Protestant in this large Catholic neighborhood. Every Friday during Lent,

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Speaker 2: while his neighbors were eating cold fish, he was in

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Speaker 2: his backyard grilling a steak. They couldn't stand the temptation

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Speaker 2: and decided to try to convert him to Catholicism.

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Speaker 1: He finally agreed.

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Speaker 2: A priest came over sprinkled water on him, said you

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Speaker 2: were born a Baptist, you were raised a Baptist, but

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Speaker 2: now you're a Catholic. The next year, on the first

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Speaker 2: Friday of lent.

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Speaker 1: They smell the same smell. They rushed through his house.

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Speaker 2: He was in his backyard sprinkling water over his steak, saying,

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Speaker 2: you were born a cow, you were raised a cow,

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Speaker 2: but now you're a fish. I mean all right, say

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Speaker 2: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 2: am what it says I am. I have what it

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Speaker 2: says I have. I can do what it says I

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Speaker 2: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about inviting God.

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Speaker 1: Into your difficulties.

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Speaker 2: Most of the time we're praying God, get me out

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Speaker 2: of this challenge, get me out of this trouble at work,

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Speaker 2: get me out of this financial setback. And there's nothing

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Speaker 2: wrong with that, But before you get out, you have

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Speaker 2: to invite God in. Sometimes the miracle is not in

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Speaker 2: getting out, it's in what God is.

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Speaker 1: Going to do in the situation. And instead of.

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Speaker 2: Just praying God, get me out, why don't you start

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Speaker 2: praying God, come in to this hospital room while take

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Speaker 2: the treatment, Come into this trouble at work where the

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Speaker 2: people aren't fair, come into this anxiety that I'm dealing with.

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Speaker 2: What's more powerful than God bringing you out is when

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Speaker 2: God comes in and begins to change things. He comes

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Speaker 2: in and gives you favor despite who's.

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Speaker 1: Trying to push you down.

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Speaker 2: He comes in and gives you strength that you can't explain, grace.

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Speaker 1: To outlast what should stop you.

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Speaker 2: If you're only focused on God bringing you out, then

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Speaker 2: you're going to be disappointed because God doesn't do things

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Speaker 2: on our timetable. Sometimes it's taking longer than we thought.

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Speaker 2: But when you ask God to come in, you can

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Speaker 2: be at rest. God, I know you're right here with me.

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Speaker 2: You are ordering my steps and at the right time,

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Speaker 2: you'll get me to where I'm supposed to be. You

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Speaker 2: don't have to fight everything, live upset, can't sleep at night.

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Speaker 2: That happens when you're only focused on getting out.

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Speaker 1: God is waiting to come in.

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Speaker 2: When you ask him in, you're saying, God, don't just

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Speaker 2: change the circumstances, change me. Help me to not just

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Speaker 2: go through this situation, Help me to grow through it.

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Speaker 2: Help me to learn increase my faith, let my character

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Speaker 2: come up higher. If God delivered us out of everything, instantly,

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Speaker 2: we would never reach our highest potential.

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Speaker 1: God works in the trouble. He works in the uncomfortable situations.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes God is not bringing you out yet because

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Speaker 2: he wants the odds to be against you in a

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Speaker 2: bigger way. So when he brings you out, it will

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Speaker 2: be a greater miracle. Now, voices will whisper. God doesn't

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Speaker 2: even hear your prayers. That's why nothing's changing. The truth

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Speaker 2: is God is setting you up to show out in

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Speaker 2: be able to deny that his favor is on you.

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Speaker 2: God said in Isaiah, when you go through the waters,

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Speaker 2: they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting that God didn't say I'll keep you out

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Speaker 2: he said, the challenges will come. There will be adversities

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Speaker 2: and things we don't understand. But the whole key to

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Speaker 2: this verse is when he said I will be with you.

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Speaker 1: In the fire, in the flood, in the famine.

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Speaker 2: Are you trying to get out of something that God

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Speaker 2: It's not fair, God, I can't take it anymore. Everything

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Speaker 2: will change if you'll start inviting God into the fire.

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Speaker 2: He's already promised he'll be with you. Maybe he's just

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Speaker 2: waiting for your invitation. The right attitude is God, I

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Speaker 2: know you're going to bring me out, But in the meantime,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to come in to this challenge in

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Speaker 2: my health. Come in to this loss I'm going through.

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Speaker 2: Come into this depression that's trying to stop me. When

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Speaker 2: you invite God into your difficulty, you'll feel him breathing

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Speaker 2: in your direction, empowering you, enabling you, favoring you. Is

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Speaker 2: it a greater testimony that God kept you out of

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Speaker 2: the fire, or that He came with you in the

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Speaker 2: fire and brought you through it? David said, though I

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Speaker 2: will fear no evil.

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Speaker 1: Why because you are with me.

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Speaker 2: When you know God is with you, when you've invited

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Speaker 2: Him into your situation, you'll have a smile in the

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Speaker 2: middle of the difficulty. You'll have a song of praise

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Speaker 2: in the prison. Like Paul and Silas. You won't be

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Speaker 2: complaining about the trouble, worried about when it's gonna work out.

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Speaker 1: You'll be at peace in the midst of the storm.

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Speaker 2: The reason David didn't live afraid, even though he went

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Speaker 2: through valleys and all kinds of adversities, is he understood

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Speaker 2: this principle to invite God into the trouble. He wasn't

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Speaker 2: just waiting to get out. He knew that God was right.

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Speaker 1: There with him. If you're only.

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Speaker 2: Praying God, get me out, you'll be discouraged until it changes.

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Speaker 1: Joel, I can enjoy my life.

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Speaker 2: I have this child, this off course, I'm dealing with

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Speaker 2: an illness. My finances are low. When it turns around,

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Speaker 2: they don't have a good attitude. You're waiting for God

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Speaker 2: to bring you out, while God is waiting for you

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Speaker 2: to invite him in. Have to do like David, Father,

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Speaker 2: thank you that you were with me right here in

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Speaker 2: this valley. I'm not going to live afraid worried. I

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Speaker 2: may not see away, but I know you have a way.

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Speaker 2: Instead of just trying to get out of the valley,

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Speaker 2: out of the trouble, out of the fire.

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Speaker 1: If you'll start.

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Speaker 2: Saying God, come in, let me feel your presence in

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Speaker 2: the fire, show me your greatness.

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Speaker 1: In this trouble.

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Speaker 2: Then you'll have a peace that passes understanding, a joy

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Speaker 2: when you could be discouraged, a hope when you should

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Speaker 2: be distraught. In the Scripture, three Hebrew teenagers wouldn't bow

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Speaker 2: down to the king's golden idol. The king was so

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Speaker 2: The teenager said, King, we're not worried. We know our

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Speaker 2: God will deliver us. This made the king even more angry.

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Speaker 2: He had the guards turn up the furnace seven times.

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Speaker 1: Hotter than normal. Why did God have the king make

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Speaker 1: the fire even hotter. He wanted it to be a

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Speaker 1: bigger miracle. He wanted the odds to be more against them.

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Speaker 2: The fact is God could have kept them out of

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Speaker 1: He's God.

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Speaker 2: He parted red seas, he opened blind eyes. Would have

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Speaker 2: been no problem for God to change the king's mind

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Speaker 2: or to help these teenagers escape. But God doesn't deliver

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Speaker 2: us from every fire. Sometimes he'll take you through the fire.

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Speaker 2: The good news is God knows how to make you

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Speaker 2: fire proof.

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Speaker 1: People don't determine your destiny.

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Speaker 2: Bad breaks cannot stop God's plan for your life. Sickness, addictions,

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Speaker 2: unfair situations.

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Speaker 1: Don't have the final saying.

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Speaker 2: Now, don't be discouraged because God didn't keep you out

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Speaker 2: of the fire. God doesn't stop every negative situation. He

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Speaker 2: uses adversities to move us into our purpose. We would

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Speaker 2: never know his power if we were never thrown into

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Speaker 2: a fire, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't know he was a healer.

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Speaker 2: If you never had an illness, we wouldn't know he

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Speaker 2: could move mountains, if.

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Speaker 1: We never face big obstacles.

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Speaker 2: Now quick complaining about what you're up against. It's not

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Speaker 2: a surprise to God. The enemy may have turned up

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Speaker 2: the fire seven times hotter than normal. They didn't do

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Speaker 2: that without God's permission. God is in control, not just

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Speaker 2: of your life. He's in control of your enemies. Instead

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Speaker 2: of complaining about the fire, start inviting him into the fire.

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Speaker 1: When he's with you, you.

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Speaker 2: Cannot be defeated. You and God are a majority. He

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Speaker 2: is a supernatural god. He's not limited by the fire,

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Speaker 2: by the floods, by the famines. What should take you out,

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Speaker 2: cannot stop your destiny. Instead of complaining about everything that

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Speaker 2: you don't like, if you'll recognize that God allowed the difficulty,

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that he sent it, but he allowed

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Speaker 2: it because he had a purpose. And the purpose is

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Speaker 2: not so you can live miserable, worried and afraid.

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Speaker 1: His purpose is to show his glory through you.

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Speaker 2: It's so other people can see his power and fever

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Speaker 2: on your life. Without great test you won't have a

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Speaker 2: great testimony. Without big battles, we.

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Speaker 1: Won't see big victories.

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Speaker 2: These teenagers said, we know our God will deliver us.

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Speaker 1: They made this statement of faith.

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Speaker 2: Then they said something even more powerful. But even if

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Speaker 2: he doesn't, we're still knocking to bow down. That's the

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Speaker 2: kind of people that give the enemy a nervous breakdown

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Speaker 2: when you can say, God, this is what i'm believing for,

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Speaker 2: this is what i'm hoping will happen. But God, even

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Speaker 2: if it doesn't work out my way.

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Speaker 1: I'm still going to give you praise. I'm still going

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Speaker 1: to be good to others.

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Speaker 2: I'm still going to show up Sunday an usher, I'm

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Speaker 2: still going to pursue my dreams. That attitude gets God's attention.

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Speaker 2: You're saying, God, not my will, but let your will

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Speaker 2: be done. But too often we're putting conditions on God

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Speaker 2: and conditions on our prayer. God I'll be happy if

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Speaker 2: my boss moves to the backside of Mars when you

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Speaker 2: get him out of my life, then I'll have a

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Speaker 2: good attitude. Have you ever thought God may be using

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Speaker 2: that person to do a work in you, to grow

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Speaker 2: you up, to develop your character, to teach you to.

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Speaker 1: Love those that are not very lovable.

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Speaker 2: Instead of praying God, get me out of this situation,

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to start praying God, come into this situation,

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Speaker 2: help me to have a good attitude, Help me to

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Speaker 2: do the right thing when the wrong thing is happening.

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Speaker 2: It's very powerful when you can say God, if my

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Speaker 2: I know you have given me the strength to overcome,

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Speaker 2: the power to be happy in the middle of this difficulty.

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Speaker 2: And I am not going to let this person, this sickness,

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Speaker 2: this injustice, steal my joy. Now you're growing, Now you're

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Speaker 2: coming up higher, because sometimes God is waiting for us

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Speaker 2: to pass the test before he brings us out. The

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Speaker 2: king had the guards tie up the teenager's hands and

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Speaker 2: God, Come into this fire with me. God, help me

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Speaker 2: The creation couldn't stop the creator. They had no reason

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Speaker 2: storm with them. I wonder if you're doing like them,

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Speaker 2: He's already promised you that he would restore health's back

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Speaker 2: into you, that you would lend and not borrow that.

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Speaker 2: As for you and your house, you would serve the Lord.

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Speaker 2: Now the circumstances may look the opposite. The medical report's

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Speaker 2: not good. You love doing's off. It's easy to live worried, upset.

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Speaker 2: But can I encourage you? The most tied God is

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Speaker 2: on your boat. Those winds cannot stop you. The sickness,

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Speaker 2: the injustice, the people, they cannot keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 2: You might as well relax. Everything is going to be

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Speaker 2: fine for you. Sure, the waves may be big, but

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Speaker 2: you have an advantage. The God who controls the universe

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Speaker 1: Now do your part.

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Speaker 2: Start thinking him that he's fighting your battles. Start shining

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Speaker 2: where you are, being your best in spite of the difficulties.

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Speaker 1: Don't wait till it changes.

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Speaker 2: You have to invite him in before he brings you out.

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Speaker 2: And if you'll do this, I believe and declare like

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Speaker 2: these teenagers, that fire is not going to burn you.

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Speaker 2: You're about to see the fourth man show up. Unusual

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Speaker 2: things are about to happen, unusual favor, unusual healings, unusual

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Speaker 2: you'll breakthroughs, unusual promotion, the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, and.

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Speaker 1: If you receive it. Can you say amen?

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Speaker 2: Today I'd like to give you the opportunity to make

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 3: It's a new year. Time to see the impossible become possible.

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Speaker 3: Life setbacks are about to become God's setups for new opportunity.

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Speaker 3: It's a new year cherished dreams will become unexpected reality.

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Speaker 2: to reset your focus, release disappointments of the past, and

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Speaker 2: get ready for the new things God has in store.

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Speaker 2: Every January we create a new three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: you're positioning yourself for a blessed, favor filled year. Amazing

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