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Speaker 4: I like to start with something funny and one day,

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Speaker 4: Jesus and Satan were having a contest to see who

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Speaker 3: The power out.

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Speaker 4: When they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming, it's all lost,

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Speaker 4: all my materials gone, while Jesus quietly walked over and

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Speaker 3: Satan complained, this isn't fair. He must have cheated. How

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Speaker 3: come he did lose his.

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Speaker 4: Material God smiled and said, Jesus saves, say it.

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Speaker 3: Like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 3: what it says.

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Speaker 4: I am, I have what it says I have, I

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Speaker 3: I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 4: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 4: time is on your side. We've all been through seasons

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Speaker 4: in life where it feels like we've lost time. We

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Speaker 4: were in a relationship that didn't work out. We've lost

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Speaker 4: those years we weren't raised in a healthy environment. It

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Speaker 4: feels like we've lost our childhood. We came down with

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Speaker 4: an illness or struggled with an addiction months past, maybe years.

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Speaker 4: It's time that we can't get back. It's easy to

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Speaker 4: Book of Joel, I will restore the years that the

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Speaker 4: locusts have eaten, the years that the canker worm and

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Speaker 4: how to make up for lost time. He's not going

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Speaker 4: It feels like it was a waste of time. But

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Speaker 4: so fulfilling that you don't think about what you've been through.

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Speaker 4: He's not going to just bring you out of that illness.

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Speaker 4: the treatment. Your latter days will be better than your

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Speaker 4: former days. Now here's how good God is. He's even

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Speaker 4: going to restore the years that we've wasted making poor choices,

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Speaker 4: God is saying, get ready, I'm about to restore the years.

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Speaker 3: For what should have been yours.

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Speaker 4: In this passage from the Book of Joel, the Israelites

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Speaker 3: It wasn't fair. They had worked hard but had nothing

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Speaker 4: We didn't have a harvest last year, but God sustained us.

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Speaker 4: But when the crops were ready to harvest, here came

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Speaker 4: We know what's going to happen. These locusts are going

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Speaker 4: I believe even for my health to improve, but every

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Speaker 4: I'm being my best at work, but I'm not being

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Speaker 4: He said, in effect, I know it hasn't been fair.

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Speaker 4: going to give you this season's harvest plus four more

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Speaker 3: He knows what you didn't get.

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Speaker 4: He saw you working hard, raising those children, making sacrifices,

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Speaker 3: He saw you taking the.

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Speaker 3: God is not.

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Speaker 4: Going to just free you, just heal you, just turn

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Speaker 3: He's going to restore the years that you've lost.

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Speaker 4: You're going to still get a harvest from all those

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Speaker 4: That harvest has been stored up. The enemy may think

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Speaker 3: He has blessings stored up for you.

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Speaker 4: When he restores the years, you're going to be more

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Speaker 4: A man I know was married at a young age,

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Speaker 4: what wasn't fair. The beauty of our God is he

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Speaker 4: makes up for what wasn't fair. You may feel like

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Speaker 4: you're in one of those lost years. The pandemic has

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Speaker 4: payback is coming. God is keeping the records. He knows

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Speaker 4: how to not just restore you, but restore the years

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Speaker 4: that were stolen, the years that were unfair, the years

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Speaker 3: You had the illness. Nobody will know you went through

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Speaker 4: Instead of living defeated, he started thanking God that there

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Speaker 4: told me, he said, Joel, I have never been this

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Speaker 4: It stood still until the Israelites defeated their enemies. It

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Speaker 4: may feel like it's too late for you to accomplish dreams,

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Speaker 4: too late to get your degree, too late to write

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Speaker 4: that book, too late to overcome that obstacle. If you

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Speaker 4: just knew back then what you knew now, then you

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Speaker 4: would have stayed in school. You would have raised the

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Speaker 4: children differently. You would have started that business if you

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Speaker 4: just had more time. God is going to do for

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Speaker 4: you what he did for Joshua. He's going to freeze

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Speaker 4: time so you can finish what you started. He's going

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Speaker 4: to help you accomplish what you could have accomplished in

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Speaker 4: an earlier season in life. He's not going to let

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Speaker 4: you missed your destiny. You're not running out of time.

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Speaker 4: Time is on your side. Because God is on your side,

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Speaker 4: he controls time. He's not limited by clock, by calendar,

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Speaker 4: by age, by year. This is your chance to step

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Speaker 4: up to a new level, your chance to break the

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Speaker 4: addiction to go back to school to make your marriage great.

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Speaker 4: God is going to cause you to accomplish more in

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Speaker 4: less time. He's going to make you more effective, more productive,

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Speaker 4: more focused, more skilled, to be a greater.

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Speaker 3: Favor on your life. Now, don't sit back.

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Speaker 4: And think I waited too long, I'm too old, I

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Speaker 4: don't have the experience, the training, the discipline. No, this

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Speaker 4: is a window like with Joshua, where God is going

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Speaker 4: to freeze time. He's going to give you the opportunity

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Speaker 4: to finish what you started. I met a lady after

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Speaker 4: the service. She was one hundred and three years old.

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Speaker 4: Her mind was as sharp as can be. She had

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Speaker 4: a great sense of humor. She told how she promised

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Speaker 4: her mother that she would get her college degree, but

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Speaker 4: she got married and spent years raising her children. Then

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Speaker 4: she worked in an office at this large company. After

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Speaker 4: she retired, she was busy with her grandchildren, but in

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Speaker 4: the back of her mind, it always bothered her that

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Speaker 4: she didn't keep her promise, she kept putting it off.

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Speaker 3: In her nineties, she started having.

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Speaker 4: Some health issues after spending a couple of months in

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Speaker 4: the hospital. Didn't look like she was going to make it,

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Speaker 4: but somehow she recovered. When she was released, she told

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Speaker 4: the doctors that she was going to go back and

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Speaker 4: get her college degree. She spent three years finishing up

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Speaker 4: her degree, and at one hundred and three, was the

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Speaker 4: oldest person to ever graduate from that university. God knows

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Speaker 4: how to freeze things until you accomplish what he put

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Speaker 4: in your heart. It may feel like you're running out

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Speaker 4: of time, but God wouldn't have planned out your days.

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Speaker 4: He wouldn't have given you a destiny and then not

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Speaker 4: given you the time.

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Speaker 3: To fulfill it.

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Speaker 4: It may seem like it's too late, you've missed your season.

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Speaker 4: If you would have pursued that dream twenty years ago,

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Speaker 4: it would have worked. If you would have invested in

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Speaker 4: your marriage, your business, your children back then, you could

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Speaker 4: have accomplished it.

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Speaker 3: No, there's still time.

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Speaker 4: I wonder what would happen if you would do like

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Speaker 4: Joshua and say, son, stand still, God, I need more.

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Speaker 3: Time to spend with my children.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know back then what I know now I

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Speaker 4: need more time to finish my education, more time to

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Speaker 4: accomplish my dream. God gave Joshua an extra day to

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Speaker 4: finish his assignment. God said he would restore years that

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Speaker 4: you've lost.

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Speaker 3: You're not running out of time. Time is on your side.

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Speaker 4: I believe and declare everything God put in your heart

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Speaker 4: will come to pass. What the locusts have eaten, all

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Speaker 4: those harvests that belong to you are about to show up.

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Speaker 4: God is about to restore the years that were stolen.

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Speaker 4: You're going to see favor like you've never seen. Healing, freedom, breakthroughs, promotion,

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Speaker 4: the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus's name.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 4: the Lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 3: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 3: you my Lord and savior.

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