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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name. But God bless you, and enjoy the podcast.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to start with something funny. And I

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Speaker 1: The little boy said, wouldn't you know it? The one

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Speaker 1: Sunday I don't go oh and Jesus shows up, say

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about something's cooking.

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Speaker 1: We all have things that we're waiting on, and it's

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Speaker 1: easy to be frustrated. Why is this taking so long?

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Speaker 1: but without patience you can miss God's best. One of

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Speaker 1: the most important things I've learned is to trust God's timing.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the reason it's taking longer is because what God

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Speaker 2: Better than what we have in mind.

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Speaker 1: We think we're falling behind and everyone's passing us up,

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Speaker 1: that will catapult you ahead. Jesus told its disciples, I'm

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Speaker 2: God has some prepared blessings for you.

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Speaker 1: Things He's already lined up, good breaks, the right people, healing.

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Speaker 2: In to a prepared blessing John twenty one. Peter was

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Speaker 1: What they couldn't catch, Jesus was already cooking what they

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Speaker 1: He not only knows where all the fish are, but

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Speaker 1: I smell fire burning. I smell some fish grilling. Something's cooking.

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Speaker 2: The Lord is good. You're gonna come into a prepared blessing.

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Speaker 2: Ready, when it's just right, he'll call you. See.

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Speaker 1: God is a master chef. He doesn't use a microwave.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't on the beach microwaven. Some frozen fish come

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Speaker 2: I've cooked you a cheap version of what you're trying

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Speaker 1: Now, God uses the real thing, the charcoal, the fire,

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Speaker 1: Let him cook. He's up to something. You haven't met

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Speaker 2: God has not forgotten about you.

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Speaker 2: You can't see it yet, but something's cooking.

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Speaker 1: What you're believing for has already been caught, clean, seasoned.

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Speaker 2: It's on the grill.

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Speaker 1: What I couldn't see was God was already grilling the fish.

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Speaker 1: All I had to do was let him cook. Stay

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Speaker 2: I've got what you're looking for.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just a piece of property, but a prepared blessing,

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Speaker 1: a facility already built. You know what this building is

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Speaker 2: Were plenty of times.

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Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't sleep, and we're never going to

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Speaker 1: the forces of darkness cannot stop what God has for you.

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Speaker 1: You would have thought they caught something, at least a

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Speaker 1: point all of our own efforts, striving, straining, toiling, that

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Speaker 2: But what God has for you is much greater than you.

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Speaker 2: That's a test.

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Speaker 2: They couldn't handle it. God not only knows where all

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Speaker 1: You may have fished all night and caught nothing, but

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Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty six, Houston was in the worst recession our

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Speaker 2: Does it, it will be a bigger miracle.

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Speaker 1: My father announced to the congregation that we were going

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Speaker 1: had that delay was because he had something better in store.

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Speaker 2: What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: God can see things that we can't see. He knows

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Speaker 1: what's coming, what you're going to need, where you need

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Speaker 2: Trust his timing. Don't fight the delays, let him cook.

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Speaker 1: He knows what's best for you, and he has some

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Speaker 1: of these prepared blessings in store. You may have been

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Speaker 1: waiting for a long time, you haven't caught anything.

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Speaker 2: I'm up empty. Can I encourage you again?

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Speaker 1: Something's cooking. God's already grilling what you couldn't catch. He

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Speaker 1: already has what you need. It's just a matter of

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Speaker 2: Now do your part and wait for his plan to unfold.

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Speaker 1: The reason it's taking longer is it's grilled fish.

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Speaker 2: It's better than you've imagined.

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Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe and declare you're about

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Speaker 1: to come into a prepared blessing, favor, healing, promotion that

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Speaker 1: catapults you ahead like Rachel. Your baby is coming like Peter.

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Speaker 1: Abundance is coming like my father. Your dream is coming

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name, and if you receive it, can you

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Speaker 1: say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray

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Speaker 1: with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 3: When God created the world, he did it specifically with

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Speaker 3: you in mind. He used his words. He spoke everything

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Speaker 3: into existence, light, oceans and dry land, plants, sun and stars, animals,

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Speaker 3: man and woman. Your words have that same creative power.

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Speaker 1: If you want to know what you're going to be

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Speaker 1: I'll never get healthy, I'm not attractive, This dreams impossible.

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Speaker 1: Instead of limiting your future, why don't you start blessing

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Speaker 1: When you get your words aligned with what God says,

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Speaker 1: When you declare what God says about you, I'm strong,

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