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Speaker 4: coming out. I like to start with something funny, and

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Speaker 4: I heard about this little girl. She was sitting in

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Speaker 4: her grandfather's laugh and she noticed how wrinkled his face was.

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Speaker 4: As she contemplated the difference between his and hers, she asked, granddaddy,

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Speaker 4: did God make you? He gotta laugh and said, yes, honey,

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Speaker 4: he made me a long time ago. She then asked,

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Speaker 4: just a little while ago. Thought about it a moment,

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Speaker 4: said granddaddy. God's getting better, isn't he. Hold up your bibles,

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Speaker 4: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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

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Speaker 4: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 4: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In

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Speaker 4: Jesus's name, God bless you. Want to talk to you

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Speaker 4: today about secret frustrations. We can be blessed in many

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Speaker 4: then just have one thing that's not right. One temptation.

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Speaker 4: Nobody can see it. On the outside, we seem fine,

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Speaker 4: Talk to a lady last week. She volunteers as one

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Speaker 4: of our prayer partners. She and her husband have been

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Speaker 4: believing to have a baby for many years with no success,

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Speaker 4: so happy she sees their prayers being answered, but her

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Speaker 4: what you can't see is this secret frustration that one

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Speaker 4: Your coworkers are all being promoted, you're working just as hard,

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Speaker 4: we all have these secret frustrations, things that we know

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Speaker 4: going to understand why everything happens. There are some things

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Speaker 4: the contradictions of life cause you to be sour, give

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Speaker 4: That means he gave it his best argument. God, you

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Speaker 4: know I'm being my best serving you writing all these books.

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Speaker 4: The least you could do is heal me. If anybody

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Speaker 4: my grace is sufficient for you. My power shows up

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Speaker 4: best in weakness. Is there something you've been imploring God

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Speaker 4: to let this secret frustration, this thorn in my flesh,

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Speaker 4: grace is sufficient. Now. I know at the right time,

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Speaker 4: If Paul would have gone around thinking, God, why want

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Speaker 4: when life doesn't make sense. Named Smith Wigglesworth was one

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Speaker 4: Healed all kinds of miracles, but most of Wigglesworth's life

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Speaker 4: he suffered from kidney stones. Many times he would leave

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Speaker 4: his own miracle. He could have gotten bitter God, this

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Speaker 4: is not fair you heal them? Why don't you heal

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Speaker 4: you can't be a week clean. You have to be

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Speaker 4: the pull of Bethesda, he told him to get up,

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Speaker 4: My dad said, Gary, I don't understand it all, but

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Speaker 4: But I love the fact that even though God didn't

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Speaker 4: Whatever seek you're with, frustration you're facing, you have to

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Speaker 4: never changes, you're going to keep believing, we too are

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Speaker 4: going to die in faith. This is what three teenagers

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Speaker 4: going to have them thrown into a fiery furnace. They said, King,

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Speaker 4: we're not worried. We know our God will deliver us.

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Speaker 4: But even if he doesn't, we're still not going to

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Speaker 4: bow down. That's the key. Believe for your dreams. Believe

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Speaker 4: for God to turn the situation around. Then't take it

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Speaker 4: one step further. Even if it doesn't happen my way,

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Speaker 4: even if I don't get delivered God, I'm still going

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Speaker 4: to be happy. God. If you turn it around, I'm

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Speaker 4: going to give you praise. And if you don't turn

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Speaker 4: it around, I'm still going to give you praise. You

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Speaker 4: live like that, and all the forces of darkness cannot

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Speaker 4: stop you. Friends, don't let these secret frustrations keep you

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Speaker 4: from your destiny. Have a new perspective. You have the

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Speaker 4: grace you need for every situation if God is not

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Speaker 4: removing it, there's a reason. Don't try to figure it out.

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Speaker 4: Trust him. If you do this, I believe and declare

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Speaker 4: God is going to change what needs to be changed.

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Speaker 4: He's going to remove what needs to be removed. You're

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Speaker 4: going to rise higher, overcome obstacles, and become everything God's

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Speaker 4: created you to be in Jesus' name. If you receive it,

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Speaker 4: can you say in men today? We never like to

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Speaker 4: close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 4: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 4: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 4: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 4: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 4: born again. Get in a good Bible based church, God

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Speaker 4: first place. He's going to take your places that you've

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Speaker 4: never dreamed. Thank you for listening to the Joel Osteine podcast.

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Speaker 4: Help us continue to share the message of hope with

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