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Speaker 5: that I'm covered by your mercy. Hi, this is Joel

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Speaker 5: start with something funny. And one Sunday morning, this man

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Speaker 4: Were in old blue.

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Speaker 5: They sent notes to the pastor expressing their concerns. Afterwards,

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Speaker 5: back to his church. The next Sunday, the man walked

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Speaker 5: to ask God what to wear before you came back

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Speaker 5: to my church. The man said, I did ask God,

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Speaker 5: All right, say it like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 5: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I

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Speaker 5: have what it says I have. I can do what

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Speaker 5: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 5: to you today about when God doesn't listen. We know

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Speaker 5: that God is omnipresent. He's everywhere at the same time.

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Speaker 5: He can see everything and he can hear everything. But

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Speaker 5: there's a difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is unintentional.

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Speaker 5: You can be asleep and hear your alarm. You weren't listening,

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Speaker 5: you were simply hearing. Listening means you've tuned in, you've

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Speaker 5: It may surprise you that even though God hears everything, he.

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Speaker 5: There are certain things the scripture tells us that God

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Speaker 5: Now, I wonder if we're talking to God about something

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Speaker 4: He's right there, but he's not listening. Luke fifteen. There's

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Speaker 5: The younger son asked his father for his inheritance early.

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Speaker 5: Sitting in the hog pen, dirty smelly, feeling depressed, he

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Speaker 5: He had already practiced what he was going to say, Father,

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Speaker 5: I have sinned against you and against God. I am

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Speaker 5: no longer worthy to be called your son. I don't

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Speaker 5: He had practiced this speech again and again. When his

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Speaker 5: But when the father got to the son, he grabbed

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Speaker 4: Now it was the son's big moment to give his speech.

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Speaker 5: He knew this would either make him or break him.

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Speaker 4: Right in the middle of his big speech.

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Speaker 5: He looked over at his staff and said, quick, go

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Speaker 5: and kill the fatted calf.

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Speaker 4: We're going to have a party. My son was lost,

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Speaker 5: I can see the son thinking, Dad, I'm trying to

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Speaker 5: tell you how unworthy I feel, how sorry I am.

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Speaker 4: But you're not even listening.

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Speaker 5: Are you telling God everything wrong with you, how many

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Speaker 4: How you don't deserve to be blessed God? I blew

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Speaker 4: Can I tell you? God is not listening. You are

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Speaker 5: This can save you a lot of time and emotional energy.

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Speaker 5: You are not worthy because of what you did or

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Speaker 4: You're worthy because of what Jesus did. You don't have

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Speaker 5: You know you're not good enough, You're just a weak

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Speaker 4: He tunes all that out.

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Speaker 5: If you want God to not only hear, but to listen,

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Speaker 5: then go to him with the language of faith. Father,

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Speaker 5: thank you that your mercy is bigger than my mistakes.

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Speaker 5: Thank you that you're not holding my past against me.

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Speaker 5: Thank you that I'm forgiven, that I'm redeemed. Don't go

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Speaker 5: The moment you ask God to forgive you, he forgave

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Speaker 5: When you're telling God all the times you failed, how

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Speaker 5: I'm glad you finally feel unworthy. I'm glad you're finally

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Speaker 5: All that's doing is making you feel bad about yourself.

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Speaker 5: It's keeping you from expecting his favor. That's why the

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Speaker 5: scripture says, come boldly to the Throne of Grace.

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Speaker 4: To obtain mercy. When you need mercy.

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Speaker 5: Don't go to God guilty, condemned, weak, Go boldly, Go

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Speaker 5: with confidence, knowing that you're forgiven, knowing that God is

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Speaker 5: for you. Yes, you may have blown it, but like

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Speaker 5: this young man, God is running towards you right now,

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Speaker 5: not to condemn you, not to make you feel guilty,

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Speaker 5: but to love you.

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Speaker 4: Well, Joel, shouldn't I.

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Speaker 5: Tell God how bad I was and how unworthy I feel?

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Speaker 4: What we don't deserve.

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Speaker 5: The enemy would love for you to live feeling condemned.

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Speaker 5: He'll remind you of all the times you haven't measured up.

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Speaker 4: It may not be.

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Speaker 5: Something big, but even small things. You didn't spend enough

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Speaker 5: time with your children last week, you should have worked out,

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Speaker 5: you got mad at your neighbor, you were late to school.

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Speaker 4: There's always some reason that.

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Speaker 5: We can feel bad about who we are. If you

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Speaker 5: give into these lies, you'll go through life feeling wrong

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Speaker 5: on the inside. Now, I found most people accept condemnation

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Speaker 5: easier than they accept mercy. They believe the lies from

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Speaker 5: the accuser more than they believe what God says about them.

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Speaker 5: That they're forgiven, that you're redeemed, that you're made worthy.

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Speaker 5: When you make a mistake, go to God, ask for forgiveness,

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Speaker 5: and then move on. Don't keep asking again and again,

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Speaker 5: bringing up the same failures. First time you ask God

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Speaker 5: When you go back and ask God again and again,

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Speaker 5: He was saying, yes, I've made mistakes, Yes I brought

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Speaker 5: You may have made some poor choices, You're not where

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Speaker 5: He's just waiting to see how long you're going to

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Speaker 5: let the accuser make a slave of you. How long

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Speaker 5: are you going to live with that guilt, believing that.

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Speaker 4: You've blown your future?

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Speaker 5: How long are you gonna ask forgiveness for the same things.

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Speaker 4: My declaration is no more. This is a new day.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna rise up like Sam and say enough is enough. Yes,

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Speaker 5: I've made some mistakes, but I'm not gonna go through

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Speaker 5: life condemned trying to pay a debt that's already been paid,

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Speaker 5: thinking that I've missed my destiny.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to arise. You can still become all you

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Speaker 4: were created to be.

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Speaker 5: No mistake you've made is too much for the mercy

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Speaker 5: of God. You have to get back in the game,

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Speaker 5: get your fireback, get your passion back.

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Speaker 4: Quit believing those lies that it's too late. You made

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Speaker 4: too many poor choices. Telling God everything you've done wrong.

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Speaker 4: He's not listening to that.

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Speaker 5: If you want to get God's attention, go to him

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Speaker 5: with boldness, despite the mistakes you've made.

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Speaker 4: Dare to ask him for favor.

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Speaker 5: Dare to ask him to open new doors to take

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Speaker 5: you where you couldn't go on your own.

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Speaker 4: This is what Jacob did in the scripture.

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Speaker 5: He had lived his whole life being dishonest, cheating people.

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Speaker 5: He tricked his brother out of his birthright. He finally

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Speaker 5: got tired of living that way. One day, he went

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Speaker 5: down to the brook by himself to get alone with

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Speaker 5: God to make things right. An angel appeared in the

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Speaker 5: form of a man. Jacob started wrestling with him. This

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Speaker 5: went on all night. Jacob finally realized.

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Speaker 4: It was an angel.

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Speaker 5: He said to him, I'm not going to let you

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Speaker 5: leave until you bless me. When the angel saw how

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Speaker 5: determined Jacob was, how he wasn't going to give in,

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Speaker 5: he touched Jacob and gave him the blessing. That night,

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Speaker 5: God changed his name from Jacob to Israel. He left

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Speaker 5: there a different person.

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Speaker 4: But think of the nerve of Jacob.

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Speaker 5: After all those years of cheating people, making bad choices.

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Speaker 5: He should have been living guilty, feeling unworthy, But somehow

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Speaker 5: he had this boldness to not only ask for forgiveness,

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Speaker 5: but he said, God, I'm asking you to bless me

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Speaker 5: despite what I've done wrong.

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Speaker 4: You would think.

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Speaker 5: God would say, come on, Jacob, are you kidding? You

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Speaker 5: don't even deserve forgiveness, much less to be blessed. But

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Speaker 5: God said, in effect, Jacob, I like your boldness. I

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Speaker 5: like the fact that you're not telling me how bad

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Speaker 5: you are and how unworthy you feel and what you

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Speaker 5: don't deserve.

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Speaker 4: But you're asking me to be good to you. Jacob.

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Speaker 4: If you're bold enough to ask, then I'm bold enough

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Speaker 4: to do it.

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Speaker 5: If God will bless Jacob after living that kind of life.

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Speaker 5: Why are you believing the lies that God won't bless you, that.

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Speaker 4: You don't deserve it, that you're not worthy. Do yourself

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Speaker 4: a favor.

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Speaker 5: Quit telling God all about that, and go to him

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Speaker 5: like Jacob, Father, I.

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Speaker 4: Thank you that you are full of mercy.

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Speaker 5: I'm asking you to bless me not because of how

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Speaker 5: good I am, but because of how good you are.

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Speaker 5: That's what gets God's attention, That's what he listens to.

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Speaker 5: How much time are you spending being down on yourself,

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Speaker 5: guilty from Pastmas tanks, telling God what you don't deserve.

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Speaker 5: That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good.

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Speaker 4: Yes, God hears you, he knows.

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Speaker 5: You're sincere, but he's not listening. God is not moved

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Speaker 5: by our guilt. He's moved by our faith. And it

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Speaker 5: takes faith not.

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Speaker 4: To just believe for your dreams.

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Speaker 5: It takes faith to believe you're forgiven, to believe that

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Speaker 5: you're worthy. Don't let the accuser deceive you into going

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Speaker 5: through life with no passion thinking you've blown it too

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Speaker 5: many times. Your record has been cleared, those files have

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Speaker 5: been deleted. Now do like Jacob and come boldly to

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Speaker 5: the throne.

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Speaker 4: If you'll do.

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Speaker 5: This, I believe and declare God is about to show

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Speaker 5: you favor that you didn't deserve. New doors are about

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Speaker 5: to open the right people, promotion breakthroughs, the fullness of

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Speaker 5: your destiny in Jesus's name, and if you receive.

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Speaker 4: It, can you say amen? Today?

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