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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jorlan Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks

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Speaker 2: for supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: Well, God bless you said joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in today.

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Speaker 2: I like to get started each week with something kind

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Speaker 2: of funny, and I heard about this minister that was

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Speaker 2: ran up to him, said, sir, you okay. The minister said, yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm fine. The Angel of the Lord was with me.

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Speaker 2: The man shook his head and said, you better let

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Speaker 2: him ride with me. You're about to kill him, all right,

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Speaker 2: Hold up your bibles say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This 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: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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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 believing that

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Speaker 2: God is in control of your life.

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Speaker 1: Too many people go.

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Speaker 2: Around worried and upset. They're always trying to figure everything out.

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Speaker 2: How am I going to get out of this problem?

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Speaker 2: How can I change my child? When am I ever

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Speaker 2: going to get married? Why won't my dreams come to pass?

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Speaker 2: Their mind is constantly going ninety miles an hour. But

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Speaker 2: that's not the way God wants us to live. When

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Speaker 2: be all right. Many times, the reason we lose our peace,

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Speaker 2: the reason we worry, is because we don't see anything happening.

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Speaker 1: Everything is looking the same month after month, year after year.

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Speaker 2: But we have to understand God is working behind the

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Speaker 2: scenes in our lives. He's already pre arranged a bright

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Speaker 2: getting everything arranged in your favor. You'd see how God

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Speaker 2: was going to open this door and bring this opportunity

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Speaker 1: I'm convinced if we.

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Speaker 2: we wouldn't worry, we wouldn't live stressed out anymore. And

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Speaker 2: the fact is, we all have difficulties. We all have

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Speaker 2: But we have to learn to turn over to God

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Speaker 2: And even though I may not see anything happening, I

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Speaker 2: much more if you could just learn to relinquish control

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Speaker 2: And the scripture says here in Philippians two, verse thirteen,

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Speaker 1: No, you don't know what God is doing behind the seins.

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Speaker 2: Don't get discouraged just because you don't see anything happening.

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Speaker 2: of God's goodness. Really, there's no such thing as a coincidence.

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Speaker 2: the creator of the universe, Almighty God, is working in

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Speaker 2: In first Thessalonians two thirteen. God is effectually at work in.

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Speaker 2: Notice his power is activated only when we believe. God

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Speaker 1: A while back, I talked to.

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Speaker 2: Everything is under control, Everything gonna be all right. Just

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Speaker 1: That had happened. Now, as I was driving to the final.

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Speaker 2: Saturday evening service, I was just reflecting on all that

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Speaker 2: God had done, and I looked up in the sky

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Speaker 2: and I saw the most beautiful rainbow you could ever imagine.

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Speaker 2: I mean, from the freeway, it looked like one end

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Speaker 2: of it was literally touching the church on the northeast side.

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Speaker 1: The other was reaching out over here.

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Speaker 2: It was almost as if God was putting his stamp

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Speaker 2: of approval on it, saying, I'm pleased.

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Speaker 1: Your work here is done. It's time to enter into

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Speaker 1: your new beginning.

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Speaker 2: God, all the while at work in those who believe.

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Speaker 1: Well, you said, Joe, I saw that rainbow.

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Speaker 2: Didn't mean that to me. No, this is for believers,

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Speaker 2: your hard headed thing. You gotta believe God's at.

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Speaker 1: Work in your life. You gotta be on the lookout.

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Speaker 2: It may just be a scripture that jumps out at

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Speaker 2: you one day while you're reading a friend that calls

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Speaker 2: you a bird in your courtyard, a rainbow in the sky.

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Speaker 1: God gives us these little glimpses.

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Speaker 2: To build our faith, to let us know that He

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Speaker 2: is still in control, He's still working behind the scenes,

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Speaker 2: and even in our dark times, God is still working

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Speaker 2: in our lives. These young parents told me the other

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Speaker 2: day about their daughter. She's in heaven today, but when

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Speaker 2: she was three years old, she had a very serious illness.

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Speaker 1: She was bedridden and near death.

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Speaker 2: As you can imagine, these parents were so distraught, in

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Speaker 2: so much pain, they would never leave her side there

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Speaker 2: at the hospital, And towards the end, the little girl

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Speaker 2: was going in and out of a coma.

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Speaker 1: They knew they were about to lose her.

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Speaker 2: But just before she died, she smiled real big and

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Speaker 2: with the most peaceful look on her face. She said, look, mommy,

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Speaker 2: look daddy, Jesus is saying it's okay to come. She

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Speaker 2: closed her eyes and breathed her final breath. But even

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Speaker 2: in the difficult times, even when we don't think that

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Speaker 2: we'll ever smile again, God is there the friend that

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Speaker 2: sticks closer than a brother.

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Speaker 1: He's got a new beginning. The scripture says, weeping may

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Speaker 1: endure for a night, but joy is coming in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you dare today to trust him? Dare to

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Speaker 2: believe that even in your disappointments, even in life's heartaches

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Speaker 2: and pains, God is still right there with you.

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Speaker 1: He said he would never leave you, nor forsake you.

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Speaker 1: You may not be able to.

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Speaker 2: See anything happening right now, but please know, God is

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Speaker 2: still working in your life.

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Speaker 1: He is directing your steps.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to figure everything out.

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Speaker 1: You may not know what your future holds, but as

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Speaker 1: long as you know who.

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Speaker 2: Holds your future, you're gonna be okay. And God has

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Speaker 2: you in the palm of his hand. You don't know

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Speaker 2: how God's been working behind the seams in your life

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Speaker 2: over the years. Thirty five years ago, God was making

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Speaker 2: a way for us to be here today. Twenty years

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Speaker 2: ago he had me walk into that jewelry store and

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Speaker 2: meet Victoria. I don't know what He has in store

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Speaker 2: for my future.

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Speaker 1: But I know this.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about it because when I think about the

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Speaker 2: God who created it all, the God who flung the

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Speaker 2: stars into space, cares so much about you and so

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Speaker 2: much about me that he is constantly working for our good.

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Speaker 2: That puts a spring in my step to know that

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Speaker 2: God is bigger than anything will ever face, to know

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Speaker 2: that He's already lining up answers for problems that we

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Speaker 2: may have ten twenty years from now. And everything may

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Speaker 2: not be perfect in our lives today, but we don't

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Speaker 2: have to live upset and stressed out. We can be

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Speaker 2: assured that God is in control and at the right time, He's.

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Speaker 1: Gonna change things in our favor.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know what's going on in your life,

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Speaker 2: but you need to know God not only knows about it,

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Speaker 2: but he is working behind the scenes. He's arranging things

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Speaker 2: in your favor. Learn to trust him, quit worrying about it,

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Speaker 2: quit living frustrated.

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Speaker 1: When you believe, you activate his power.

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Speaker 2: And always remember just because you don't see anything happening

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean God's not working.

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Speaker 1: God is all the while at work in your life.

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Speaker 2: And if you could just learn to relinquish control and say,

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Speaker 2: all right, God, I'm gonna trust you.

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Speaker 1: I know you've got a great plan for my life.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna quit.

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Speaker 2: Trying to figure it all out, and I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: start believing that you are in complete control.

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Speaker 1: When you do that, you'll feel a weight lift off

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Speaker 1: of you.

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Speaker 2: You not only enjoy your life more, but you're going

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Speaker 2: to see more of God's blessings in favor. And I

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Speaker 2: believe you'll live the life of victory God has in story.

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Speaker 1: Amen, do you receive it today?

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Speaker 2: Or we never like suppose our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to make.

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Speaker 1: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord.

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Speaker 2: Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come into my heart.

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Speaker 2: I'll make you my lord and savior. If you prayed

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Speaker 2: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get

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Speaker 2: in a good Bible based church, Keep God first place.

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Speaker 1: He's going to take you places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes the circumstances of life can be overwhelmingly negative. What

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Speaker 4: should we do when we experience these kinds of negative

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Speaker 4: reports and realities?

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Speaker 2: Our life is like a container. It can only hold

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Speaker 2: so much. When we allow negative things in, like worry, guilt,

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Speaker 2: and unforgiveness, that's taking up space for the good things

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Speaker 2: that belonged to you. That's why I wrote my book,

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Speaker 2: Empty out the Negative. I'll show you how to get

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Speaker 2: rid of what's limiting you so you can live a victorious,

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Speaker 2: fulfilled life.

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Speaker 3: When you make room for joy, peace and faith, God

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Speaker 3: will feel you afresh and anews.

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Speaker 4: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 4: of any amount to the ministry, this month, Joel and

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Speaker 4: Victoria would like to send you this powerful book, Empty

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Speaker 4: out the negative, Empty out fear, and replace it with faith.

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Speaker 5: My doctor, he said, I went in there and there

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Speaker 5: is no cancer in your body.

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Speaker 4: Empty out a hurt filled childhood and replace it with confidence.

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Speaker 4: So I took what Joel said and I physically replaced them.

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Speaker 1: With I am strong, I am worthy. I started saying

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Speaker 1: those over and over and over.

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Speaker 4: Empty out broken relationships and find love in.

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Speaker 5: A world that's just so full of so much noise

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Speaker 5: and negativity and hatred, and just to come and have

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Speaker 5: so much encouragement filled into you. You know, it's something

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Speaker 5: I've never had in my whole life.

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Speaker 1: Are you holding onto things that are weighing you down?

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Speaker 2: It's time to empty that out so you can live

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Speaker 2: a positive, faith filled line.

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Speaker 3: Joel and I pray for you every day. We're believing

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Speaker 3: for God's very best for you and your family. You

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Speaker 3: know we appreciate your prayers and your support. Your generosity

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Speaker 3: is impacting so many lives.

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Speaker 2: Remember you can watch the Services online every Sunday morning,

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Speaker 2: download our daily podcast, Listen on Serious Exam, watch the

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Speaker 2: new Joel Looastin Network streaming on television. But until we

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Speaker 2: see you next week, now, the Lord bless you and

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Speaker 2: keep you.

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Speaker 4: Be sure to request your copy of Empty Out the

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Speaker 4: Negative today. Visit Joelostein dot com or call eight eight

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