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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this man. He was quietly reading the newspaper when

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Speaker 2: his wife snuck up behind him and hit him on

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Speaker 2: the head with a frying pan.

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Speaker 1: He said, what was that for?

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Speaker 2: She said, that was for that piece of paper I

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Speaker 2: found in your pocket with the name Mary Lou on it.

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Speaker 2: He said, oh, honey, that's just one of the horses

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Speaker 2: that I bet on at the racetrack last week. She apologized,

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Speaker 2: went about her business. Two days later, she hit him

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Speaker 2: on the head with a bigger frying pan. After he

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Speaker 2: woke up, he said, what world was that for? She said,

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Speaker 2: your horse just called all right, y'all, there's no spiritual value.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, here we go. Ready, this is my Bible.

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Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about upstream blessings. We all have situations where we're praying

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Speaker 2: and believing, but we don't see anything happening. Our health

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Speaker 2: isn't improving, our child isn't turning around.

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Speaker 1: We haven't met the right person.

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Speaker 2: And it's easy to get discouraged and think that God

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Speaker 2: didn't hear us.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's not meant to be.

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Speaker 2: But what you can't see is God is working upstream.

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Speaker 2: He said in Isaiah, I will go ahead of you

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Speaker 2: and may crooked place is straight. There are things He's

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Speaker 2: already done. The moment you prayed, he set the miracle

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Speaker 2: into motion. He lined up the healing, the right people,

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Speaker 2: the breaks you need.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: The key is you have to stay in faith until

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Speaker 2: those upstream blessings make it down to you. Of course,

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Speaker 2: thoughts will tell you it's never gonna happen, nothing's changing.

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Speaker 2: Don't get your hopes up or don't get talked out

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Speaker 2: of it. If you're going to see upstream blessings, you

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Speaker 2: have to have upstream faith.

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Speaker 1: I'm not moved by what I see.

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Speaker 2: I know God is working, I know things have changed

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Speaker 2: in my favor. I know this answer is on the way.

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Speaker 2: When you have that kind of attitude, it's just a

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Speaker 2: matter of time before you see what God has done upstream.

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Speaker 2: And this is what Joshua had to do. Moses had

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Speaker 2: just died. Now Joshua was leading the Israelites toward the

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Speaker 2: Promised Land. They were camped at the Jordan River. They

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Speaker 2: needed to cross, but it was harvest season. The Jordan

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Speaker 2: was overflowing. Its banks was nearly a mile across.

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Speaker 1: The current was so strong, so forceful, there was no way.

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Speaker 2: Of God and to walk into the Jordan River. This

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Speaker 2: was the first test of Joshua's leadership. Two million Israelites

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Speaker 2: were watching with great anticipation, believing that the waters were

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Speaker 2: going to part like the Red Sea. The priests were

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Speaker 2: slowly walking toward those banks, people praying, believing, God let

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Speaker 2: it happen. As they got closer and closer, was more

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Speaker 2: and more intense, this incredible drama. Finally their feet touched

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Speaker 2: the water, this big moment, and nothing happened.

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Speaker 2: They went in ankle deep, nothing need deep, still nothing.

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Speaker 2: What do you do when you've done the right thing

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Speaker 2: but it doesn't work out. You took steps of faith,

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Speaker 2: The problem hasn't resolved. That's right where Joshua was. He

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Speaker 2: things changing. Nothing looked any different, Rivers still swollen, current

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Speaker 2: Adam was twenty miles from where they were. The miracle

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Speaker 2: had it happened, they just couldn't see it yet. Twenty

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Speaker 2: It was just a matter of time before the Israelites

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Speaker 2: The priest stood in the water and waited and waited.

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Speaker 2: A couple of hours, as all the Israelites were standing

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Speaker 2: not as strong? Doesn't look like it's flowing as fast now.

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Speaker 2: Just spoke up and said, I think you're right. Doesn't

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Speaker 2: look like it's as swollen as it was. I think

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Speaker 2: it's gone down a little. It kept getting slower and slower,

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Speaker 2: less and less water, until finally the whole river bed

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Speaker 2: with them, there are things God has done in your life. Upstream,

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Speaker 2: He's already taken care of what you're worried about. He's

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Speaker 2: already damned up those waters. Stop the sickness broken, the

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Speaker 2: addiction lined up the right person. Now you may not

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Speaker 2: be able to see it, yet all the circumstances look

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Speaker 2: just the same. The river's still swollen, your business is

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Speaker 2: still struggling. The medical report hasn't changed. Your loved one

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Speaker 2: still off course. Don't let what's happening downstream talk you

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Speaker 2: out of what God has done upstream. If you're going

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Speaker 2: to see that upstream blessing, you have to keep believing,

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Speaker 2: keep praising, keep expecting. Walk by faith and not by sight.

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Speaker 2: I don't see any sign of it. Nothing's improving. But God,

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Speaker 2: I know you're working. I know you're faithful. I know

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Speaker 2: what you promised me is already on the way. What's

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Speaker 2: significant is the priest stayed in the water with the

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Speaker 2: ark of the Covenant until the water's receded.

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Speaker 1: They could have waited five minutes and thought, well, we

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Speaker 1: did what we were told to do. Nothing happened, let's

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Speaker 1: go back home. After ten minutes. They could have thought

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, we look like fools out here. Joshua

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Speaker 2: didn't hear from God. He had too much pizza last night.

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Speaker 2: After an hour, I'm tired, my feet are freezing. It's

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Speaker 2: not meant to be. No, these priests stayed there in

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Speaker 2: faith as they were standing in these waters that didn't

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Speaker 2: not going to happen. I can hear them declaring the

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Speaker 2: can hear them singing, Waymaker, Promise keeper, You're the light

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Speaker 2: in the darkness. I can hear one of them saying, God, you've.

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Speaker 1: Done it in the past. We know you're doing it

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Speaker 2: You being for Usd's more than what's against us. We

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Speaker 2: will make it into our promised land. They stood there

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Speaker 2: stood there effecting things to change. They didn't see how,

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Speaker 2: they didn't know when. But one thing they knew was

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Speaker 2: that God was faithful, that he was in control, that

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Speaker 2: what He purposed would come to pass. When you're standing

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Speaker 2: in those waters believing for things to change, waiting for

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Speaker 2: what God promised, the way you're going to stay in

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Speaker 2: the water and not give up is by keeping the

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Speaker 2: presence of God on your life, by praising Him when

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Speaker 2: you don't see anything changing, By thanking him that it's

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Speaker 2: on the way when there's no sign of it, by

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Speaker 2: declaring his promises in the middle of water that's not moving.

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Speaker 2: This medical report says, I'm not going to get well,

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Speaker 2: But God, I believe you're restoring health back into me.

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Speaker 1: My child's off course.

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Speaker 2: But Lord, I want to thank you that as for

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Speaker 2: me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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Speaker 1: Business is slow.

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Speaker 2: I lost that contract, But God, you said even in famine, the.

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Speaker 1: Righteous would have more than enough.

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Speaker 1: Don't come out of that water.

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Speaker 2: Your obedience stepping into the water is what activated the miracle,

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Speaker 2: and it's going to be your obedience of staying in

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Speaker 1: The miracle was set in motion when you pray.

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Speaker 2: God dispatched the angels with the healing the favor of

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Speaker 2: the freedom. But you may not see it right away.

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Speaker 2: The waters may not part immediately. This is a test

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Speaker 2: of your faith. A lot of people get out of

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Speaker 2: the water. You'r nothing happened. This doesn't work for me. No,

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Speaker 1: For it to get to you. Daniel.

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Speaker 2: Chapter ten, Daniel had been praying and fasting, asking God.

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Speaker 2: Didn't seem like anything was happening, nothing was changing. He

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Speaker 1: Request was heard in heaven.

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Speaker 2: When we don't see anything happening, we can think God

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Speaker 2: must not have heard us. Nothing's changing. No, the moment

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Speaker 2: you prayed, God heard your request. The angel went on

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Speaker 2: to say, God sent me with the answer, but for

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Speaker 2: Then Michael, the archangel came and helped me break through

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Speaker 2: the opposition. Notice the first day he prayed, something happened upstream.

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Speaker 2: God set the miracle into motion, but for twenty one

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Speaker 2: days the waters didn't recede. So to speak, for twenty

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Speaker 1: By now it's not meant to be.

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Speaker 2: Daniel could have been talked out of it, but he

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Speaker 2: had upstream faith. His attitude was, I know there are

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Speaker 2: things God has already done that I can't see right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep.

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Speaker 2: Believing, expecting, praying, knowing that it's on the way. Like

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Speaker 2: with Daniel, the moment you prayed according to God's word,

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Speaker 2: he did something upstream. He dispatched the angel. He set

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Speaker 2: things into motion. You can't see it right now, but

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Speaker 2: upstream things have changed in your favor. Upstream. Healing has

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Speaker 2: been released upstream. The right people have been lined up upstream.

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Speaker 2: The breaks you need, the restoration, the vindication has been

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Speaker 2: put in place.

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Speaker 1: It's in your future.

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Speaker 2: Don't let what's happening downstream talk you out of the

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Speaker 2: blessings that are upstream. Angels have been dispatched with your

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Speaker 2: name on them, bringing healing, favor, abundance. Now do your

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Speaker 2: part and have up stream faith God. I believe the

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Speaker 2: moment I prayed, you not only heard me, but you

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Speaker 2: Little by little, she got better and better, until one

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Speaker 2: God has already taken care of it. Now, stay in

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Speaker 2: I thank you that you're going ahead of me, opening

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Speaker 1: God is going to head of you.

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Speaker 2: There are things he's doing right now that you can't see.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the waters are not parting. You don't see any

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Speaker 2: The Angel has already been dispatched with the answer. There

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Speaker 2: Abraham said, the Lord, my God, will send his angel

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Speaker 1: His attitude was, God is going before me.

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Speaker 2: He's already arranged what I need. I know the right

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Speaker 2: let the right girl for Isaac not only give me

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Speaker 2: ask to water my camels as well. That way I'll

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Speaker 2: know she's the one. This beautiful young woman came to

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Speaker 2: mind getting me a drink? She said sure, and let

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Speaker 1: Your camels too.

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Speaker 2: The first girl that showed up was a divine connection.

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Speaker 1: Her name was Rebecca. She became Isaac's wife.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to go through life worth how's it going

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Speaker 2: I don't meet the right person?

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Speaker 1: Stay in peace. God has upstream blessings.

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Speaker 2: Waiting for you. He's going before you right now. He's

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Speaker 2: already sent the angel ahead of you, lining up the

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Speaker 2: right people, the good breaks, the healing. Now do your

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Speaker 2: part and have upstream faith. The Jordan River may not

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Speaker 2: be partying. You don't see anything changing, but upstream the

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Speaker 1: God has stopped the water.

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Speaker 2: Just a matter of time before you see things change

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Speaker 2: you out of what has already happened. Walk by faith

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Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I.

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Speaker 2: Believe and declare, you're about to see upstream blessings. Like

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Speaker 2: been praying. About is on the way. Like with Abraham,

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Speaker 2: Breakthroughs are coming, promotion, healing, the fullness of your destiny

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