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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 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Will God bless you? It's always a joy to come

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Speaker 1: into your homes.

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Speaker 2: We love you and we know God has great things

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Speaker 2: in store for each one of you. If you're ever

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Speaker 2: in our area, I hope you'll stop buying be a

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Speaker 1: We love to have you here.

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Speaker 2: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: But thanks for tuning in today. I like to get

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Speaker 2: started each week with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 2: these three people, a Russian, an American, and a blonde.

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Speaker 2: They were talking one day and the Russian proudly said,

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Speaker 2: we were the first ones in space. The American said,

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Speaker 2: we were the first ones on the moon. The blonde said,

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Speaker 2: no big deal, We're going to be the first ones

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Speaker 2: on the Sun. The Russian and American laugh said, what

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Speaker 2: are you talking about. You can't land on the sun.

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Speaker 2: It's too hot, you'll burn up. She replied, we're not

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Speaker 2: that dumb we're going to go at night. All right,

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Speaker 2: Hold up your Bible, 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: 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, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about seeing adversity the right way.

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Speaker 2: Anytime God's about to take you to a new level,

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Speaker 2: You're going to face opposition. There will be new battles

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Speaker 2: to fight, new obstacles to overcome, maybe people that don't

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Speaker 2: do you right, some kind of struggle. I heard somebody say,

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Speaker 2: new level, new devil. It's easy to get discouraged and think,

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Speaker 2: why is this happening? Why did they lie about me?

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Speaker 2: Or why didn't I get that promotion? Or why am

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Speaker 2: I having to face this sickness? But if we can

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Speaker 2: just realize right past those challenges is a new level

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Speaker 2: of victory, a new level of success. David would only

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Speaker 2: be known as a shepherd boy if it were not

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Speaker 2: for Goliath. What looked like was his enemy that was

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Speaker 2: meant to destroy him was actually the tool God used

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Speaker 2: to promote him. Many times, your enemies will do more

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Speaker 2: to catapult you to success than even your friends. I

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Speaker 2: know in my life there have been times when I

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Speaker 2: was down. I didn't see a way out. It looked impossible,

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Speaker 2: but I thought, I cannot give up now. It would

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Speaker 2: make my enemies too happy. And sometimes we can smile,

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Speaker 2: but we smile because we're not going to give our

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Speaker 2: enemies the pleasure of seeing us down. That person that

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Speaker 2: rejected you did you wrong, you may see him or

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Speaker 2: on the inside you're hurting down in here, you're discouraged,

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Speaker 2: but on the outside you've got a smile on your face,

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Speaker 1: You're not about to let them see you defeated.

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Speaker 2: Not out of pride, not out of spite, but more

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Speaker 2: out of a quiet confidence, knowing that you are a

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Speaker 2: have allowed it if he didn't have a purpose for it.

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Speaker 2: Deep down, you know, when it's all said and done,

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Speaker 2: out promoted. Increased better off than you were before. Keep

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Speaker 2: does each one of us.

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Speaker 1: But what did God do? He sent him Goliath.

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Speaker 2: When you say, Joel, I thought, if God loved me

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Speaker 2: this much, I wouldn't be having these struggles. I thought

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Speaker 2: God does love you so much, because he's it's such

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Speaker 2: And I realize there are people that have major illnesses and.

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Speaker 1: Eventually they're going to go to be with the Lord.

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Speaker 2: And even when we do go to be with the Lord,

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Speaker 2: David went out to the battlefield and he didn't have

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Speaker 2: You realize that God has armed you with strength for

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Speaker 2: And what's interesting is the thirty second Bank decided to

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Speaker 2: take a chance on him. Today that young man runs

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Speaker 2: Like David, you can defeat a giant with less equipment.

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Speaker 2: Here's what that means. You can overcome that illness. Even

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Speaker 1: His word can be like medicine to you.

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Speaker 2: It means that you can accomplish your dreams even though

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Speaker 2: You may have had thirty one. People tell you no,

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Speaker 2: Don't realize is behind the scenes, God's arranging things in

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Speaker 2: This army got so afraid they thought hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 2: They said, haven't you heard were being attacked by a

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Speaker 1: God multiplied the sound of their footsteps. When you stay in.

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Speaker 2: Faith, God will cause people to see you the way

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Speaker 1: But here's the secret. Don't act on what you feel,

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Speaker 2: Up Here you may feel afraid, but down in here

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Speaker 1: Some people don't think that your dreams.

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Speaker 2: Those adversity are not only going to establish to yourself,

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Speaker 2: trouble me? He was saying, God, it looks like my

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Speaker 2: enemies are multiplying. Have you ever been there, You get

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Speaker 2: through one adversity and seemed like something else comes against you.

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Speaker 2: You finally make it through one sickness and you find

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Speaker 2: out something else is wrong.

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Speaker 1: No, my father when he got up there in years,

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Speaker 1: he had.

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Speaker 2: A few health issues, and he used to say, I

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Speaker 2: get one end fixed and the other ind acts up.

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Speaker 2: But even at work, maybe you go the extra mile,

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Speaker 2: do the right thing, try to keep the peace. Then

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Speaker 2: you find out the people that you thought with your

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Speaker 2: friends are talking behind your back, stirring up trouble. Like

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Speaker 2: that old saying, when it rains, it pours. That's how

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Speaker 2: David felt.

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Speaker 1: The reason he wrote.

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Speaker 2: This passage is because his son Absalom was trying to

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Speaker 2: kill him and take over the kingdom. I'm sure David

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Speaker 2: must have thought, God, I can take a lot of things.

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Speaker 2: I killed a line and a bear with my own hands,

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Speaker 2: feeded Goliath with a slingshot. God, I stayed faithful and

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Speaker 2: did the right thing when Saul was trying to kill me.

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Speaker 2: But God, I just don't know if I can take this.

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Speaker 2: My own son is trying to bring me down. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: in life we think I can make it if.

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Speaker 1: My neighbor's against me.

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Speaker 2: I can dig my hills in and be strong if

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Speaker 2: it's my coworker or my boss or my competitor. But

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Speaker 2: when it's our own family, when it's our own flesh

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Speaker 2: and blood, it's easy to thank God.

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Speaker 1: This is just not right. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: can go on.

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Speaker 2: David could have been overwhelmed. This could have been the

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Speaker 2: point to where David faded off into the sunset, the

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Speaker 2: straw that broke the camel's back, to where we didn't.

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Speaker 1: Hear anymore about this man named David.

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Speaker 2: But the reason David was a champion, the reason he

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Speaker 2: overcame every obstacle, can be found in verse three.

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Speaker 1: He didn't just stop with this problem.

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Speaker 2: He didn't just describe the situation talk about how bad

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Speaker 2: it was. He changed his focus. He said, in effect, God,

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Speaker 2: I'm having all these problems. This is the worst thing

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Speaker 2: I've ever faced. Here it comes verse three, But you

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Speaker 2: Old Lord, are a shield under me, the glory and

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Speaker 2: the lifter of my head.

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Speaker 1: What's the message?

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Speaker 2: Don't ever let the enemy have the last word. Sure,

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Speaker 2: there are times where we say, man, the doctor's report

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Speaker 2: doesn't look good. I don't feel well. Don't really see

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Speaker 2: how I'm gonna make it. But you, old Lord, I

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Speaker 2: know you can make a way. Always add the butt. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I'm going through tough times, but I know God's gonna

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Speaker 2: see me through. Yes, gas prices are high, but I

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Speaker 2: know he's Jehovah Jyrah. He's gonna supply all of my needs.

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Speaker 2: Or how about this. Yes, I've had this addiction a

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Speaker 2: long time, but I know it's only temporary. My chains

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Speaker 2: are broken. Whom the sun sets free is free. Indeed,

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Speaker 2: too often.

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Speaker 1: We leave the butt. Well, Joel, I've just been through

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Speaker 1: so much. It's unfair.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but God said he would pay you back double

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Speaker 2: for that injustice. Yeah, but my problems are so big,

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Speaker 2: eliath is so large. Yes, but God said when the

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Speaker 2: enemy comes in like a flood, he would raise up

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Speaker 2: a barrier. Don't allow the enemy to have the last word.

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Speaker 2: I know some of you right now you're in the

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Speaker 2: middle of a struggle, but You've got to have the

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Speaker 2: right perspective. That challenge was never meant to destroy you.

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Speaker 2: It was meant to promote you. The very fact that

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Speaker 2: it's happening lets me know that your destiny is within reach.

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Speaker 2: When David faced Goliath, deep down he knew something great

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Speaker 2: was about to happen.

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Speaker 1: He didn't get discouraged. He got encouraged by it. In

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Speaker 1: the same way. I'll just declare it.

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Speaker 2: When you come through that adversity, you're going to be

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Speaker 2: at a new level. You're going to see God's favor

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Speaker 2: like you've never seen it before. That problem is going

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Speaker 2: to be the catalyst for God to open up supernatural

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Speaker 2: doors yours. It's not only going to establish who you

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Speaker 2: are and give you more confidence, it's going to prove

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Speaker 2: to others God's annoying in your life. I challenge you

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Speaker 2: to be strong in the Lord, put on the whole

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Speaker 2: armor of God. If you'll get up each day knowing

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Speaker 2: not only who you are, but who you are, no

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Speaker 2: obstacle will be able to hold you back.

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Speaker 1: What was meant for your harm.

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Speaker 2: God will turn around and use to your advantage that

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Speaker 2: thing you're struggling with right now. Because you're in faith,

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Speaker 2: because You've got your trust in the most high. It

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Speaker 2: is not going to defeat you. It's going to promote you.

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Speaker 2: You're going to come out better off than you were before.

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Speaker 2: I speak strength into you. I speak encouragement, I speak health,

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Speaker 2: I speak favor, I speak determination, I speak new levels

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Speaker 1: If you receive it, then you say amen.

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Speaker 2: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: When you start the year in faith expecting God's goodness,

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