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Speaker 5: start with something funny, and I heard about this mother.

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Speaker 5: She had two young boys that were known for their

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Speaker 5: He asked again, where is God?

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Speaker 5: The third time the pastor asked, the young boy bolted

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Speaker 5: out the door, ran home and said to his brother,

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Speaker 5: God is missing. And they think we did it. Say

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Speaker 5: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 5: am what it says.

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Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 5: to you today about ease is coming. We all go

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Speaker 5: through seasons of struggle when it feels like it's uphill.

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Speaker 5: There's pressure raising children. Maybe you're believing for your health

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Speaker 5: He was saying, there will be times of struggle, pressure, difficulties,

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Speaker 5: You're going to get breaks that you didn't see coming.

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Speaker 5: Ease is coming, David said. God anoints my head with oil.

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Speaker 5: Oil makes things flow. When there's friction, things that are stuck.

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Speaker 5: To cause good breaks to find you. New doors are

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Speaker 5: easier than you think. A couple of years after I

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Speaker 5: I nearly passed out. I said, well, you sure do

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Speaker 5: thank you.

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Speaker 4: For making my life easier.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for your goodness, then you will see more

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Speaker 5: of God's favor.

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Speaker 4: And what's interesting is this man.

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Speaker 5: I met this realtor when we learned that the Compact

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Speaker 4: He was very.

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Speaker 5: his number, him taking us to an office building where

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Speaker 5: they were building a self power. That wasn't random, That

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Speaker 5: wasn't a coincidence. That was God causing our cows to

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Speaker 5: find us. God is in control of your life. He

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Speaker 5: it to you. Yes, we all go through seasons of struggle,

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Speaker 5: seasons of pressure and difficulty, but that is not your

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Speaker 5: like with me, You're going to see things fall into place.

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Speaker 4: You're going to know it's the goodness of God.

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Speaker 5: A friend of mine grew up very poor. His family

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Speaker 5: lived in public cowsing. There was crime and drugs. His

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Speaker 5: parents were migrant farmers and had no education. Didn't look

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Speaker 5: like this young man would ever amount to too much.

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Speaker 5: His mother saw that he had a love for music

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Speaker 5: and encouraged him to join the band in school, he

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Speaker 5: he already stood six foot six inches tall. He was

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Speaker 5: from high school, he received thirty scholarship offers to play

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Speaker 5: in college. He was headed to the Portland Trailblazers to

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Speaker 5: ended up back at home in the projects, no money,

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Speaker 5: no education, working for the city as a dog catcher

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Speaker 5: making a little more than minimum wage. During his lunch hour,

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Speaker 5: Customers would gather around to listen to him play. They

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Speaker 5: were misburized at his ability. One day, a customer told

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Speaker 4: This happened again and again.

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Speaker 5: The owner said to this young man, people aren't buying

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Speaker 4: They love what you do.

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Speaker 5: He offered him a full time job to come in

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Speaker 4: That was the.

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Speaker 5: First step in his musical career. Today, my friend Ben

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Speaker 5: Tankard has become known as the Godfather of gospel jazz.

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Speaker 5: He sold millions of albums pastors a great chirt goes

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Speaker 5: around the world cheering his music. Like with Ben, God

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Speaker 5: is working behind the scenes, lining up what you need.

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Speaker 5: You're coming into a season where you're not going to

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Speaker 5: have to struggle. You're not going to have to fight.

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Speaker 5: You can put those swords down. You are coming into

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Speaker 5: God making your life easier. You may be in a

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Speaker 5: difficult time. God is about to take the pressure off.

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Speaker 5: You're going to have a strength that you didn't have before.

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Speaker 5: People are going to go out of.

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Speaker 4: Their way to be good to you.

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Speaker 5: That yoke of bondage is coming off, the yoke of

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Speaker 5: ease is coming on.

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Speaker 4: What's hindered you in the past is not going to

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare You're going to overcome obstacles.

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Speaker 4: Easier than you think.

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Speaker 5: You're going to accomplish dreams easier than you think. Like

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