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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. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you, and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Oh God, bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 1: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. Not I'd

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 1: this man that was out walking on the beach and

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Speaker 1: God said, son, you've been so faithful, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: grant you one special wish. He was so excited. He said, God,

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Speaker 1: I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I'm afraid

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Speaker 1: to fly. So my wish is that you'd build me

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Speaker 1: a bridge across the ocean. God said, son, that's impossible.

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Speaker 1: Think of the logistics of that. I take a moment

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Speaker 1: and wish again. Men thought about it and said, okay, God,

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Speaker 1: I've been married four times. All my ex wives say

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Speaker 1: I am so insensitive. So my wish is that I

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Speaker 1: would be able to understand a woman. I want to

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Speaker 1: know why they think like they think, why they feel

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Speaker 1: like they feel. There was a long pause. God said,

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Speaker 1: And all the men said, Amen, here we go. God,

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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: taught 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 time to try again.

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Speaker 1: We've all had things that we wanted to see happen,

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Speaker 1: but they didn't work out. We tried to start a business,

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Speaker 1: tried to lose the weight, tried to have a baby,

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Speaker 1: tried to forgive. We did our best, but we weren't

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Speaker 1: able to do it. When we face these setbacks, it's

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Speaker 1: easy to settle there and think, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: be disappointed again. The relationship didn't work out. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get hurt again. My boss said I wasn't

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Speaker 1: qualified for the position. I don't want to get rejected again.

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Speaker 1: I tried to make peace with my loved one, only

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Speaker 1: Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it's

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Speaker 1: not going to happen. The people that reach their destiny

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Speaker 1: are the people that try again. The enemy would love

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Speaker 1: for you to live disappointed, dwelling on what wasn't fair

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Speaker 1: and who hurt you. How you did your best, but

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Speaker 1: the door closed. The promotion you deserved went to your coworker.

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Speaker 1: You wanted to get your degree, but you weren't that discipline.

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Speaker 1: You didn't study your party. Then now it seems like

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Speaker 1: it's too late. But God knew every mistake you would make.

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Speaker 1: He knew every setback, every person that would do you wrong.

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Speaker 1: He's already taken that into account. For every setback, He's

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Speaker 1: already planned to come back for every loss, a new

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Speaker 1: beginning for every closed door and open door. Failure is

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Speaker 1: not final unless you quit trying. The scripture says a

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Speaker 1: good man falls seven times, but he gets back up again.

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Speaker 1: We're all gonna fall. The question is are you gonna

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Speaker 1: get back up? Are you gonna believe that God's still

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Speaker 1: ordering your steps that what he started he will finish.

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Speaker 1: There has to be a fire on the inside, a

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Speaker 1: holy determination that you're gonna become all God's created you

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Speaker 1: to be. But Joel, I tried to get back in shape.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. God is saying, try again. I

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Speaker 1: tried to break the addiction. I've been to rehab a

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Speaker 1: time where God was working in you, getting everything arranged.

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Speaker 1: But you will come in to what the scripture calls

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Speaker 1: a window of grace where God empowers you to do

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Speaker 1: what you couldn't do before, where there's a favor that

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Speaker 1: if you try again. First Chronicles thirteen, the Israelites had

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Speaker 1: God ordered their steps. The art came back home, was

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Speaker 1: When David became king, he wanted to bring the Ark

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Speaker 1: So David organized thirty thousand men from all the different

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Speaker 1: It was this huge celebration, all this singing, dancing, music playing.

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Speaker 1: and instantly he was killed. You couldn't touch the ark.

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Speaker 1: It was the presence of God. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: send it to a house close by. David was not

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Speaker 1: only disappointed, he was angry. He was mad at God.

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Speaker 1: He said in verse twelve, God, how do you expect

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Speaker 1: me to bring this arc home? David had good intentions.

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Speaker 1: He was zealous. I'm gonna bring this home. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: researched it, he would have seen hundreds of years earlier,

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Speaker 1: Joshua had the priest carry the arc as they crossed

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Speaker 1: Here's the good news that disappointment is not where your

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Speaker 1: story ends. God doesn't hold our failures against us. The

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Speaker 1: key is learned from your mistakes. Most of the time,

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Speaker 1: there's a lesson. There's something we could do differently. We

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Speaker 1: This was embarrassing for David. He was humiliated, this national event,

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Speaker 1: disappointed he could have said, forget about that art. I'm

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Speaker 1: never touching that thing again. God, you better find someone else.

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Speaker 1: One thing that made David a champion is he was

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Speaker 1: willing to try again. He didn't stay disappointed. Instead of

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Speaker 1: you move the arc? God, what did I do wrong?

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Speaker 1: Is there something I need to change? When we're disappointed

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Speaker 1: things haven't worked out, it's very powerful to look inside

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Speaker 1: could I do better next time? Could I prepare more?

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Speaker 1: God will show you so you don't keep repeating the

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Speaker 1: same mistakes. For three months, the ark was stored in

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Speaker 1: verse thirteen. It was because the Levites the priests didn't

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Speaker 1: We did not inquire of him how to do it

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Speaker 1: showed me how to do this. God give me wisdom,

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Speaker 1: show me the best way. David made a mistake, learned

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Speaker 1: this boldness to try again. His attitude was when I fall,

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Speaker 1: I shall arise. Verse twenty eight says David went down

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Speaker 1: on himself, thinking he blew it. Now he's got the art, dancing, celebrating,

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Speaker 1: thanking God for the victory. Like David, we're all going

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Speaker 1: to go through disappointments. Times we did our best, We

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Speaker 1: had good intentions, didn't work out. Doesn't seem fair. That's

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Speaker 1: not the end of the story. Thoughts will tell you

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Speaker 1: you'll never bring the arkon, never start your business. The

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Speaker 1: last one didn't make it. Never have a healthy relationship.

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Speaker 1: You put your heart and soul into the last one.

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Speaker 1: It didn't last. No, learn the lesson and dare to

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Speaker 1: try again. God will always give you another chance. Now,

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Speaker 1: what will keep you stuck is if you don't try, Joel,

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Speaker 1: I've been too hurt, too embarrassed, through too much. You're

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Speaker 1: right where David was. He could have settled there, and

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Speaker 1: disappointment missed his destiny. You have to get your fire back.

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Speaker 1: You are coming into a window of grace to do

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Speaker 1: what you couldn't do before. God is breathing new life

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Speaker 1: into your spirit, new strength into your body, new passion

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Speaker 1: into your heart. That set back didn't stop what he

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