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Speaker 6: And I like to start with something funny. And I

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Speaker 6: trusting God's timing in life. We're always waiting for something,

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Speaker 6: God promises that there are set times in our future,

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Speaker 6: I don't know, Joel, I've been trying to break this

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Speaker 6: have believed enter in to the rest of God. The

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Speaker 6: way you know you're really believing is you have a rest,

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Speaker 4: You know the answers on the way.

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Speaker 6: You know the right people, the right opportunities have already

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Speaker 6: been set in your future. On January eighth, nineteen eighty six,

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Speaker 4: That was not an ordinary time.

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Speaker 6: That was a set time ordained by the most high God. Friends,

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Speaker 6: there are set times in your future. You prayed, believe,

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Speaker 6: come in to set times of favor, a set time

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Speaker 6: The vision is for an appointed time. It may seem

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Speaker 6: God has already set the date.

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Speaker 4: The appointed time.

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Speaker 6: Has already been put on your calendar. One translation says,

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Speaker 6: The good news is God knows how to make up

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Speaker 4: What happened.

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Speaker 6: You hit a set time that pushed you fifty years ahead.

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Speaker 6: Now quit worrying about who's getting ahead of you and

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Speaker 4: Be the best that you can be.

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Speaker 6: Keep honoring God with your life, Keep treating people right,

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Speaker 4: Will get you to where you're supposed to be.

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Speaker 6: That promotion, that healing, that breakthrough, that right person, they

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Speaker 4: There had to be just the right amount of traffic.

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Speaker 6: Too many cars he had been late, too few cars

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Speaker 6: I saying? You can trust God's timing. God has it

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Speaker 6: It's not going to be one second late. If it

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Speaker 6: God has already established the time down to the split second.

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Speaker 4: You don't have to worry.

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Speaker 6: You don't have to live frustrated, Stay in peace, enter

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Speaker 4: God has you in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 6: Your steps are being directed by the creator of the universe,

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Speaker 6: not randomly, not vaguely, No, down to the millisecond, down

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Speaker 6: Whether it's twenty minutes or twenty years. You know what

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Speaker 6: tempted to take everything into your own hands, you have

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Speaker 6: to make yourself be still. The battle is not yours.

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Speaker 6: The battle is the Lord's. But as long as you're

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Speaker 6: fighting it, trying to make it happen your way, trying

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Speaker 6: to pay somebody back, upset, worried, then God's going to

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Speaker 6: step back and let you do it on your own.

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Speaker 6: But when you take it out of your hands and

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Speaker 6: say God, I trust you, I know you've already set

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Speaker 6: the time to bring me out. You've already set the

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Speaker 6: time to vindicate me. You've set the time to bring healing.

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Speaker 6: So I'm going to be still and know that you

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Speaker 6: are God. This is what the Israelites did. They were

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Speaker 6: surrounded by a huge army, greatly outnumbered. They were so worried,

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Speaker 6: so stressed out. They were getting their equipment on, trying

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Speaker 6: to come up with some type of strategy to fight

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Speaker 6: off the enemy. Just before they went to battle, they

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Speaker 6: decided to pray. God said to them, stand still and

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Speaker 6: you will see the deliverance of the Lord.

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Speaker 4: For the Lord will fight for you if you remain

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Speaker 4: at rest. Notice the condition God will turn it around.

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Speaker 4: God will restore you. God will indicate you. If you

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Speaker 4: will be still and remain at rest.

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Speaker 6: In other words, if you will wait for the set time,

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Speaker 6: if you'll be patient and not give birth to ishmaels,

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Speaker 6: then God has Isaac's in your future. And some of

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Speaker 6: you today are facing a big challenge. You can't sleep

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Speaker 6: well at night, You're upset, you're frustrated. God is saying

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Speaker 6: to you what he said to them. Be still, I've

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Speaker 6: got it all figured out. I control the whole universe.

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Speaker 6: I've already set the time to deliver you. I've already

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Speaker 6: set the time to not only bring you out, but

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Speaker 6: to bring you out better off than you were before.

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Speaker 6: Now do your part and rest trust God's timing.

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Speaker 4: God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 6: We may not always understand why something is taken so long,

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Speaker 6: but sometimes God will delay and answer on purpose, simply

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Speaker 6: so he can show his power in a greater way.

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Speaker 6: When wouldn't let the Israelites go, God had Moses tell

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Speaker 6: him that if Pharaoh didn't change his mind, God was

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Speaker 6: going to send plague after plague on Pharaoh and his people.

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Speaker 6: The scripture says that God caused Pharaoh to harden his heart,

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Speaker 6: not the enemy. God caused him to be stubborn and

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Speaker 6: not give in. Moses said, Pharaoh, if you don't let

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Speaker 6: us go, God's gonna send locusts that are going to

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Speaker 6: need all your crops and destroy the food supply. Pharaoh said,

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Speaker 6: I don't care let him do it. I'm not changing

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Speaker 6: my mind. One bad plague after another, and he wouldn't

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Speaker 6: give in. Why God wanted to show his power in

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Speaker 6: a greater way When all those plagues were harming Pharaoh

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Speaker 6: and his people, The Israelites living in that same area,

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Speaker 6: not one plague affected them. Your situation may be taken

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Speaker 6: longer than you thought. Maybe it's something more difficult than

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Speaker 6: you've ever experienced. That doesn't mean that the enemies getting

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Speaker 6: the best of you. Doesn't mean that God went on

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Speaker 6: vacation and is not concerned anymore. No, just like with Paiah,

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Speaker 6: God has not turned it around yet because he wants

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Speaker 6: to show his.

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Speaker 4: Favor in your life in an amazing way.

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Speaker 6: God is going to show his strength, his healing, his goodness,

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Speaker 6: his power like you've never seen before. You guys will

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Speaker 6: get ready when God brings you out. Everybody around you

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Speaker 6: is going to have no doubt.

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Speaker 4: The God you serve is an awesome God.

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Speaker 6: Now my challenge trust God's timely. Stand still and you'll

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Speaker 6: see God deliver you. When you remain at rest, Almighty

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Speaker 6: God will fight your battles. Friends, there are set times

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Speaker 6: in your future. Now quit worrying about when it's going

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Speaker 6: to happen. God can see the big picture. He knows

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Speaker 6: what's best for you. Dare to say, like David, God,

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Speaker 6: my times are in your hand. When you do this,

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Speaker 6: it takes all the pressure off. You don't have to

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Speaker 6: struggle try to force things to happen. You know God

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Speaker 6: has it all figured out so you can relax and

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Speaker 6: enjoy your life while you're waiting for the promises to

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Speaker 6: come to pass. And if you will enter into this

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Speaker 6: rest trust in God's timing, you.

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Speaker 4: Won't give birth to Ishmaels.

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Speaker 6: You'll give birth to Isaac's because you have faith and patience.

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Speaker 6: I believe and declare you're going to come in to

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Speaker 6: set times of favor, set times of healing, set times

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Speaker 6: of promotion, set times of breakthrough. God is going to

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Speaker 6: give you the desires of your heart. Everything He's promised

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Speaker 6: you will come to pass in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 4: If you receive it. Can you say him in today?

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