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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: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: 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: you'll stay connected with us during the week to our

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Speaker 2: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 2: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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Speaker 2: be a part of one of our services. But I

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

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Speaker 2: this husband that died and he left his wife twenty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars. After the funeral, his wife told a friend

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Speaker 2: that she was totally brunk. The friends said, what do

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Speaker 2: you mean. I thought you said you had twenty thousand.

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Speaker 2: She said, I did, but I spent five thousand on

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Speaker 2: the funeral and fifteen thousand on the memorial stone. Friend said, wow,

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Speaker 2: that must have been some kind of stone.

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Speaker 1: How big was it? She held up her finger and

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Speaker 1: said three and a half carrots.

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Speaker 2: All right, y'all say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 2: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 2: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about angels are coming.

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Speaker 2: We all have times that can be overwhelming. We're dealing

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Speaker 2: with an illness. Child is difficult to raise, trying to

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Speaker 2: pay bills.

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Speaker 1: Doors aren't opening for our dreams. We've done the.

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Speaker 2: Right thing, We've worked hard, but it hasn't improved. Now

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Speaker 2: the pressure feels like too much. We don't say how

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Speaker 2: we can go on. It's not that we're weak, it's

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Speaker 2: not that we don't have faith. It's battle fatigue. I

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Speaker 2: talk to a man that's lived a blessed life. God's

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Speaker 2: been good to him, but he's had some setbacks. A

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Speaker 2: relationship is not working out, his business is struggling. He said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I'm at a breaking point. I can't take it anymore.

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Speaker 1: God sees what you're going through.

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Speaker 2: He knows when it's too much, and the scripture says

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Speaker 2: God is a very present help in times of trouble.

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Speaker 2: When you feel overwhelmed, thinking you can't go on. God

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Speaker 2: doesn't sit oddly bind think too bad, you're on your own.

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Speaker 1: No, God will send angels to strengthen you, to encourage you.

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Speaker 2: To help lighten that load. Angels are called ministering spirits.

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Speaker 2: There are messengers that God uses to carry out his will,

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Speaker 2: to fight battles, to push back forces of darkness, and

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Speaker 2: to breathe new life into your spirit, to refresh and

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Speaker 2: re energize you. And you may be tired today. You

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Speaker 2: love God, you're grateful, but you're weary. You don't see

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Speaker 2: how you can keep moving forward, dealing with the anxiety,

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Speaker 2: believing for your dreams.

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Speaker 1: You've stood strong as long as you can. Think I

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Speaker 1: can't handle this anymore. Be encouraged.

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Speaker 2: Angels are coming. Strength is coming, Freshness is coming. You're

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Speaker 2: going to feel a supernatural power lifting that load, a

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Speaker 2: new attitude, giving you a second wind so you can

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Speaker 2: step up and fulfill your purpose.

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Speaker 1: God knew at times the load would be heavy. He

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Speaker 1: knew the pressures could feel overwhelming. He's not fault in

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Speaker 1: you because you're not strong enough. You should be tougher.

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Speaker 1: He knows we're human. We all have breaking points.

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Speaker 2: He sees you being your best, going the extra mile,

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Speaker 2: but not seeing results. He's about to step in and

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Speaker 2: do what you couldn't do. He's already dispatched the angels.

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Speaker 1: They're on the way, with healing in their.

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Speaker 2: Wings, with strength, with favor, with fresh vision, with victory.

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Speaker 2: You may be at a breaking point, but get ready,

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Speaker 2: a breakthrough is coming. Genesis twenty eight. Jacob had a dream.

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Speaker 2: He saw this stairway going up to the heavens. The

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Speaker 2: scripture says there were angels ascending and descending. They were

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Speaker 2: their next assignment. Was this constant flow of activity, thousands

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Speaker 1: Ascending and descending. God was showing us how He's always working.

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Speaker 2: Dispatching angels to rescue, to strengthen, to move people out

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Speaker 1: We all have situations.

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Speaker 2: Where we could feel overwhelmed, get a negative medical reporter.

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Speaker 2: God has already dispatched what you need. He's not gonna

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Speaker 2: let you be defeated. Angels are about to break chains

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Speaker 2: that have held you back. Angels are bringing freedom. Angels

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Speaker 2: Angels are en route, bringing energy, courage, fortitude, so you

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Speaker 2: can rise up and do what God's called you to do.

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Speaker 2: When Jesus was on the earth from the age of

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Speaker 2: eighteen years. But at thirty years old, he was walking

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Speaker 2: the Baptist. When John saw him, he pointed in front

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Speaker 2: God who takes away the sin of the world. He

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Speaker 2: He was baptized by John, a voice boomed out, this

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Speaker 2: is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. A

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Speaker 2: dove came and landed on his shoulder, representing the Holy

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Speaker 2: Spirit was this incredible moment where Jesus was about to

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Speaker 2: begin his ministry after eighteen years of silence, now he

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Speaker 1: You would think God would send him to a large.

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Speaker 2: But the scripture says the Spirit led Jesus into the

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Speaker 2: wilderness to be tempted by the enemy. You can be

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Speaker 2: in the wilderness and be in God's will. You can

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Speaker 2: be in the desert by design.

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Speaker 1: The enemy didn't lead him there. The Spirit led him there.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we find ourselves in the wilderness. We know we

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Speaker 2: have God's favor, we know He's put big things in

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Speaker 2: our heart, but we're in a dry season. We're not

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Speaker 2: seeing any growth. Doors aren't opening. The opposition is stronger

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Speaker 2: than ever. You could get discouraged, complain. Well, this is

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Speaker 2: when you have to dig down deep and say, God,

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Speaker 2: You won't take me someplace where you won't sustain me.

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Speaker 2: If you'll have the right attitude, you'll come out of

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Speaker 2: of fasting in the desert, the enemy came to Jesus

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Speaker 1: Jesus wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: Final temptation, he took Jesus to a high place overlooking

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Speaker 2: the scripture says, angels came and strengthened him. You can imagine,

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Speaker 2: But God knows when the pressure is too much. He

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Speaker 2: knows when you can't take it anymore. Here Jesus is

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Speaker 1: Notice what God did.

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Speaker 2: He sent angels to strengthen him, Angels to refresh him,

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Speaker 2: give him what he needed for his destiny. The scripture

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Speaker 2: says that Jesus came out of the desert in the

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Speaker 2: power of the spirit.

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Speaker 1: How could he come out more powerful when he's.

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Speaker 2: Been in a dry place, no food, being tested, facing opposition.

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Speaker 2: Angels showed up. They brought supernatural strength, energy and favor

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Speaker 2: and courage. You too, may be in a dry place.

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Speaker 2: You don't see how you can keep going. You're fighting

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Speaker 1: It's been so long, feels.

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Speaker 2: Like it's too much. God sees what's happening. You didn't

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Speaker 2: not easy, but you passed the test. You've stayed faithful,

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Speaker 2: You didn't give up. You didn't quit believing. Like with Jesus,

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Speaker 2: God's about to send angels to strengthen you, to breathe

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Speaker 2: new life, fresh vision, incourage. You're not just going to

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Speaker 1: You're going to come out in the power of the.

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Speaker 1: The new levels that God has in store.

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Speaker 2: When my father went to be with the Lord, that

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Speaker 2: I thought he'd live another twenty years. I worked with

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Speaker 1: My life was suddenly turned upside down. We didn't know.

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Speaker 2: What was going to happen to the church and how

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Speaker 2: it was all going to work out. I couldn't see

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Speaker 1: The Spirit led me into the wilderness.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes what we think is the enemy is really the

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Speaker 2: hand of God moving us into our destiny. The closed doors,

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Speaker 2: the bad breaks, the loss, nothing happens without God's permission.

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Speaker 2: You shouldn't fight everything you don't like. There are deserts

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Speaker 1: To your destiny.

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Speaker 2: And in those dry places and those wilderness seasons, you.

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Speaker 1: Have to know God is right there with you.

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna let you go through anything you can't handle.

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Speaker 2: The moment it becomes too much, God will send the angels.

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Speaker 1: Now I knew deep down.

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Speaker 2: I was supposed to step up and pastor the church,

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Speaker 2: but I had never ministered.

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Speaker 1: I was dealing with the loss of my father, all

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Speaker 1: these changes.

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Speaker 2: I thought I'd be so upset and so distraught, but

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Speaker 2: I felt a peace that I can't explain. Yes, I

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Speaker 2: missed my father, but I didn't fall apart sinking discouragement. God,

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Speaker 2: Why did this happened? I felt a supernatural strength. There

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Speaker 2: well able, that everything was going to work out, that

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Speaker 2: God was still in control.

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Speaker 1: Now I look back now and realize that wasn't normal.

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Speaker 1: That was God.

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Speaker 2: Peter cut off one of the soldier's ears. Jesus thought,

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Speaker 2: Surely he would say, God, take this away, I've changed

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Speaker 1: But he had superna, natural strength.

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Speaker 2: But what I want us to see is God will

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Speaker 2: never let you feel so overwhelmed that you can't fulfill

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Speaker 1: That's when he'll send angels.

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Speaker 2: And what God has destined for your life, all the forces.

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Speaker 2: You may be in a difficult season, like Jesus, a

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Speaker 2: He's already dispatched the angels. He's about to bring strength, power,

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Speaker 2: You're not going to just come out not the same,

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Speaker 2: Strength is coming, A second wind is coming. I believe

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Speaker 2: and declare, God is about to lighten that load, lift

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Speaker 2: to feel a supernatural strength. You will run and not

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