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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. God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: great to have you with us today. We are praying

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Speaker 1: for you and your family, and I hope you'll stay

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Speaker 1: connected with us during the week through our podcast, YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: serious XM, social media. We want to keep it inspired

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Speaker 1: and encouraged. But thanks for tuning in. I like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this pastor.

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Speaker 1: He was raising funds for a new auditorium. He said

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Speaker 1: to the congregation, anyone that will give a thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: can pick out the next three hymns. A little old

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Speaker 1: lady in the back raised her hand said, Pastor, I'll

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Speaker 1: do it. He was so excited. He said, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. Now, which three hymns would you like? She

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Speaker 1: looked over the congregation and said, I'll take him and

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Speaker 1: him and him say it like you've been it. This

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Speaker 1: 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 trusting when you don't understand.

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Speaker 1: We all go through things in life that don't make sense.

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Speaker 1: A friend walked out of a relationship. The company's downsizing,

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Speaker 1: they don't need us anymore, or we were being our best.

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Speaker 1: Then the pandemic hit. Business went down, children can't go

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Speaker 1: to school, Dreams are put on hold. Sometimes it feels

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Speaker 1: like we're going backwards. It's easy to live frustrated and

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Speaker 1: thank God, why is this happening? But we're not going

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Speaker 1: to understand everything that happens. God's ways are not our ways.

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Speaker 1: He can see things that we can't see. And just

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Speaker 1: because it's not fair doesn't mean that God is not

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Speaker 1: in control. Your steps are being ordered by the Lord.

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Speaker 1: If he allowed it to happen, He's going to bring

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Speaker 1: good out of it. He promises all things worked together

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Speaker 1: for your good. On its own. It may not be good.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't fair. You're uncomfortable, but when it all comes together,

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Speaker 1: you're going to see how it works to your advantage.

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Speaker 1: The difficulty, the delayed, the betrayal was all instrumental in

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Speaker 1: you reaching your destiny. But none of us like bad breaks, loss, delay,

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Speaker 1: But without that difficulty, you couldn't become who you were

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Speaker 1: created to be. It may look like a dead end,

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Speaker 1: but really it's setting you up for promotion. That door

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Speaker 1: closed so a bigger door could open. That person that

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Speaker 1: left you, it was hurtful, but it wasn't just their choice.

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Speaker 1: God moved them out of the way so he could

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Speaker 1: bring someone better. That struggle was difficult. You didn't do

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Speaker 1: anything wrong, but you had opposition at work. Your child

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Speaker 1: wouldn't do what's right. It wasn't fair. But what you

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Speaker 1: couldn't see is it was growing you up, developing your character,

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Speaker 1: getting you stronger, more confident, more determined. Without it, you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be prepared for the blessing, the increase, the new

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Speaker 1: levels that are coming your way. And you may not

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Speaker 1: understand what you're going through. You could live worried, discourage,

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Speaker 1: try a new approach. God, I don't understand it, but

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Speaker 1: I trust you. I know you're in control. You're working

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Speaker 1: all things for my good, So I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: live upset. I'm going to stay in peace, knowing that

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Speaker 1: you will get me to where I'm supposed to be.

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Speaker 1: In John thirteen, Jesus was about to be crucified. He

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Speaker 1: and his disciples were eating dinner together at what we

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Speaker 1: now know as the Last Suffer. These disciples had spent

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Speaker 1: the last few years with Jesus, seeing incredible miracles. Him

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Speaker 1: when he made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, with people

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Speaker 1: lining the streets shouting Hosanna. It was an experience greater

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Speaker 1: betrayed and crucified. Instead of people celebrating, they would mock him.

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Speaker 1: After dinner, Jesus took a bowl of water and a

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Speaker 1: one day you will understand Jesus was telling the disciples,

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Speaker 1: in effect, you're going to walk through some things in

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Speaker 1: the days to come that you don't understand. Up to

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Speaker 1: about to be taken away. He knew they were going

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Speaker 1: to feel lonely, confused, afraid, so he told them right

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Speaker 1: one day you will. Like these disciples, there will be

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Speaker 1: times in life that you don't understand what God is doing.

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Speaker 1: Things don't make sense, trouble, delays, closed doors, people that

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Speaker 1: God is going to connect all the dots. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: allow things that he doesn't have a purpose for. That

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Speaker 1: trouble is not a surprise to God. The sickness didn't

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Speaker 1: catch him off guard. The child getting off course is

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Speaker 1: not going to stop his destiny. God is still on

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Speaker 1: the throne. He's still ordering your steps. You can't see

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Speaker 1: it right now, but behind the scenes. God is lining

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Speaker 1: up things in your favor. When it's the right time,

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Speaker 1: When it all comes together, it's going to work for

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Speaker 1: your good. You're going to see the hand of God.

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Speaker 1: You'll look back and say, if that hadn't have happened,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have this position. If that door hadn't have closed,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have met this person, If I hadn't have

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Speaker 1: gone through that difficulty, I wouldn't have stepped in to

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Speaker 1: this new level. Now, don't waste your time trying to

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Speaker 1: figure everything out. There are some things you're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to understand right now. We can't see the plan of God.

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Speaker 1: We can't fathom how he does things we think natural.

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Speaker 1: He's supernatural, and if you're always trying to figure it out,

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Speaker 1: it's going to frustrate you. Instead of using that energy

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Speaker 1: trying to understand what's happening, use it to thank God

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Speaker 1: that he's working. Thank him that he's fighting your battles.

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Speaker 1: Think him that he's making your crooked places straight. Thank

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Speaker 1: him that you surrounded with his favor. The scripture says

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Speaker 1: God will work out his plan for your life. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to work it out. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: live frustrated over what's not happening, discouraged over disappointments. You're

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Speaker 1: not doing life by yourself. The creator of the universe

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Speaker 1: is breathing in your direction. You keep honoring him, and

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Speaker 1: he'll open the right doors. He'll bring the right people,

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Speaker 1: He'll turn negative situations around. He'll make things happen that

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Speaker 1: you couldn't make happen. His plan for your life is

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Speaker 1: much bigger than your own. If you're going to stay

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Speaker 1: in faith, you have to learn to trust when you

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Speaker 1: don't understand. After Jesus was crucified, I'm sure the disciples thought,

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Speaker 1: was he really the son of God? Did we waste

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Speaker 1: our time with him? I thought he said he would

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Speaker 1: never leave us. There was a time of doubt confusion

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Speaker 1: where it looked like Jesus abandoned them, But his time

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Speaker 1: went on. They begin to realize the crucifixion was a

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Speaker 1: part of God's plan. Judas betrayal was a part of

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Speaker 1: the plan. The opposition, the mocking, the ridicule, It all

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Speaker 1: had to happen. It was leading to redemption, to salvation.

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Speaker 1: Are you frustrated because you don't understand what God is doing?

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Speaker 1: Upset because that friend betrayed you discouraged over the contract

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Speaker 1: to your destiny? Without the betrayal, we wouldn't have salvation

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Speaker 1: without that situation. You don't understand. You couldn't see the

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Speaker 1: fullness of what God has in store. And sometimes we're

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Speaker 1: trying to pray away what God is going to use

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Speaker 1: to take us to the next level. I know it's uncomfortable,

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Speaker 1: but the betrayals are necessary. The lonely nights are necessary,

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Speaker 1: the delays, the struggles, it's all necessary. If Jesus couldn't

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Speaker 1: reach his destiny with out these things that don't make sense,

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Speaker 1: that weren't fair, people that did him wrong, how can

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Speaker 1: we reach our destiny without them? But the way to

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Speaker 1: stay in faith is to recognize that it's all a

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Speaker 1: part of God's plan. It's not happening by accident. The

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Speaker 1: enemy didn't somehow get the controls of your life. Wrestle

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Speaker 1: them away from God. Now God is standing by hoping

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Speaker 1: things work out. God had you in the palm of

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Speaker 1: his hand. Nothing can snatch you away. Him being for

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Speaker 1: you is more than the world being against you. It's

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Speaker 1: very freeing when you can say God, I don't understand it,

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Speaker 1: but I trust you. Doesn't seem fair, but I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to live bitter. Had some bad breaks, disappointments, but

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Speaker 1: still in control and you will work out your plan

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Speaker 1: for my life. Friend of mine is in commercial real

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Speaker 1: estate and he specializes in hotels. He'll buy them, run

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Speaker 1: At one point he owned over two hundred hotels, most

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Speaker 1: of them were small in rural areas. His dream was

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Speaker 1: excited he worked for months and months arranging the funding.

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Speaker 1: This was a huge undertaking. He was going to have

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Speaker 1: to stretch and leverage everything he had, including his house,

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Speaker 1: for it to work. Occupancy had to be strong, business

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Speaker 1: to find another loan, stretched even further now he was

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Speaker 1: way over his head. The day he went to closing,

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Speaker 1: and wouldn't lend him the funds. He was so disappointed.

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Speaker 1: This was his dream, a prestigious hotel, two years worth

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Speaker 1: the work, all for not. He couldn't understand why it

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Speaker 1: didn't work out. What he couldn't see was three months

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Speaker 1: later this pandemic would hit in New York City would

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Speaker 1: be the epicenter. All the hotels had to close, no income,

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Speaker 1: no business, no customers. He would have this huge payment

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Speaker 1: that deal would have gone through, he would be bankrupt.

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Speaker 1: He would have lost all his other hotels, His personal

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Speaker 1: finances would be gone. Sometimes what we think is a

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Speaker 1: bad break is really God protecting us. You may not

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Speaker 1: understand what God is doing now, but one day you

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Speaker 1: will understand. One day you'll say, I'm glad that door

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Speaker 1: glad that relationship didn't get started. I'm asking you to

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Speaker 1: trust when you don't understand. God can see the big

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Speaker 1: picture for our lives. All we can see is a

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Speaker 1: he knows where the shortcuts are. He's ordering your steps.

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Speaker 1: I used to just thank him for the open doors,

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Speaker 1: but now I thank him just as much for the

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Speaker 1: closed doors, because if it's not supposed to be mine,

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Speaker 1: I don't want it. If God is closing a door,

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Speaker 1: don't fight it. If you tried your best and it

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Speaker 1: didn't work out, yes, be persistent, but at some point

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Speaker 1: you have to accept it as God's plan and move on.

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Speaker 1: That's a sign that God has something better, something more fulfilling,

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Speaker 1: more rewarding. Does it mean that it's it's never going

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