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Speaker 5: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 5: about this pastor. He was raising funds for a new auditorium.

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Speaker 5: He said to the congregation, anyone that will give a

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Speaker 4: Next three hymns. A little old lady in the back

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Speaker 4: raised her hand, said, Pastor, I'll do it. He was

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Speaker 5: He said, thank you so much. Now, which three hymns

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Speaker 5: would you like? She looked over the congregation and said.

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Speaker 4: I'll take him and him and him say it like

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Speaker 4: you mean it.

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

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

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Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about trusting when you don't understand.

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Speaker 5: We all go through things in life that don't make sense.

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Speaker 5: A friend walked out of a relationship, the company's downsizing,

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Speaker 5: they don't need us anymore, or we were being our best.

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Speaker 4: Then the pandemic hit. Business went down.

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Speaker 5: Children can't go to school, Dreams are put on hold.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes it feels like we're going backwards. It's easy to

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Speaker 5: live frustrated and thank God, why is this happening? But

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Speaker 5: we're not going to understand everything that happens. God's ways

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Speaker 5: are not our ways. He can see things that we

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Speaker 5: can't see. And just because it's not fair doesn't mean

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Speaker 5: that God is not in control. Your steps are being

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Speaker 5: ordered by the Lord. If he allowed it to happen,

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Speaker 5: he's going to bring good out of it. He promises

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Speaker 5: all things work together for your good. On its own,

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Speaker 5: it may not be good. It wasn't fair. You're uncomfortable,

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Speaker 5: how it works to your advantage. The difficulty, the delayed,

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Speaker 5: But none of us like bad breaks, loss, delay, But

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Speaker 5: without that difficulty, you couldn't become who you were created

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Speaker 5: to be. It may look like a dead end, but

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Speaker 4: That door closed so a bigger door could open.

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Speaker 5: That person that left you it was hurtful, but it

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Speaker 5: wasn't just their choice. God moved them out of the

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Speaker 5: was difficult. You didn't do anything wrong, but you had

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Speaker 5: growing you up, developing your character, getting you stronger, more confident,

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Speaker 5: more determined. Without it, you wouldn't be prepared for the blessing,

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Speaker 5: the increase, the new levels that are coming your way,

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Speaker 5: and you may not understand what you're going through. You

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Speaker 5: could live worried, discourage, try a new approach. I don't

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Speaker 5: understand it, but I trust you. I know you're in control.

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Speaker 5: You're working all.

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Speaker 4: Things for my good. So I'm not going to live upset.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to stay in peace, knowing that you will

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Speaker 5: get me to where I'm supposed to be. In John thirteen,

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Speaker 5: Jesus was about to be crucified. He and his disciples

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Speaker 5: the Last Suffer.

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Speaker 4: These disciples had spent.

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Speaker 5: The last few years with Jesus seeing incredible miracles. Him

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Speaker 5: he made his triumphant entry into Jerusalem, with people lining

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Speaker 4: Jesus told them.

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Speaker 5: How his hour had come, how he was going to

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Speaker 5: be betrayed and crucified. Instead of people celebrating, they would him.

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Speaker 5: After dinner, Jesus took a bowl of water and a

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Speaker 4: He washed the disciples feet.

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Speaker 5: He said in verse seven, you don't realize now what

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Speaker 5: I'm doing, but one day you will understand. Jesus was

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Speaker 5: telling the disciples in effect, You're going to walk through

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Speaker 5: some things in the days to come that you don't understand.

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Speaker 5: Up to this point, there's been people cheering me on,

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Speaker 5: to be taken away. He knew they were going to

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Speaker 5: feel lonely, confused, afraid, so he told them right up front,

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Speaker 4: Will like these disciples.

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Speaker 5: There will be times in life that you don't understand

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Speaker 4: Things don't make sense, trouble.

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Speaker 5: Delays, closed doors, people that betrayed you, the prayers that

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Speaker 5: But don't worry. One day you're going to understand. God

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Speaker 5: is going to connect all the dots. He doesn't allow

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Speaker 5: things that he doesn't have a purpose for. That trouble

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Speaker 5: is not a surprise to God. The sickness didn't catch

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Speaker 5: him off guard. The child getting off course is not

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Speaker 5: going to stop his destiny. God is still on the throne.

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Speaker 5: He's still ordering your steps. You can't see it right now,

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Speaker 5: but behind the scenes, God is lining up things in

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Speaker 5: going to see the hand of God. You'll look back

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Speaker 5: and say, if that hadn't have happened, I wouldn't have

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Speaker 5: this position, If that door hadn't have closed, I wouldn't

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Speaker 5: have met this person. If I hadn't have gone through

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Speaker 4: To figure it everything out.

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Speaker 5: There are some things you're not supposed to understand right now.

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Speaker 4: We can't see the plan of God.

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Speaker 5: We can't fathom how he does things we think natural.

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Speaker 4: He's supernatural, and.

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Speaker 5: If you're always trying to figure it out, it's going

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Speaker 5: to frustrate you. Instead of using that energy trying to

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Speaker 5: understand what's happening, use it to thank God that he's working.

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Speaker 5: Thank him that he's fighting your battles. Think him that

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Speaker 5: he's making your crooked places straight. Thank him that you're

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Speaker 5: surrounded with his favor. The scripture says God will work

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Speaker 5: out his plan for your life.

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Speaker 4: You don't have to work it out.

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Speaker 5: You don't have to live frustrated over what's not happening,

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Speaker 4: You're not doing life by yourself.

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Speaker 5: The creator of the universe is breathing in your direction.

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Speaker 5: You keep honoring him and he'll open the right doors.

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Speaker 5: He'll bring the right people, he'll turn negative situations around.

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Speaker 4: He'll make things happen that you couldn't make happen.

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Speaker 5: His plan for your life is much bigger than your own.

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Speaker 5: If you're going to stay in faith, you have to

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Speaker 5: learn to trust when you don't understand. After Jesus was crucified,

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Speaker 5: I'm sure the disciples thought, was he really the son

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Speaker 5: realize the crucifixion was a part of God's plan. Judas

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Speaker 5: betrayal was a part of the plan. The opposition, the mocking,

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Speaker 5: Are you frustrated because you don't understand what God is doing?

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Speaker 5: Upset because that friend betrayed you? Discourage over the contract

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Speaker 5: to your destiny? Without the betrayal, we wouldn't have salvation.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't see the fullness of what God has in store.

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Speaker 5: And sometimes we're trying to pray away what God is

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Speaker 5: I know it's uncomfortable, but the betrayals are necessary. The

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Speaker 5: way to stay in faith is to recognize that it's

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Speaker 5: all a part of God's plan. It's not happening by accident.

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Speaker 5: The enemy didn't somehow get the controls of your life.

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Speaker 5: Wrestle them away from God. Now God is standing by

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Speaker 5: Had some bad breaks, disappointments, but I'm not going to

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Speaker 4: Now, looking back, I can see it so clearly.

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Speaker 5: If I had not had the tax problem, I would

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Speaker 5: have never met the attorney. Without my attorney friend, I

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Speaker 5: wouldn't have the funds to renovate the Compact Center. I

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Speaker 5: wonder if you're upset about something now that later on

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Speaker 4: To happen to get you to your destiny.

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Speaker 5: You didn't like it, it wasn't fair, but God used

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Speaker 5: it to connect the dots.

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Speaker 4: It was instrumental.

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Speaker 5: You wouldn't have met the person, you wouldn't have been

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Speaker 5: at the right place. You wouldn't have sold the property,

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Speaker 5: you wouldn't have started the business. Maybe, like with me,

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Speaker 5: what you're discouraged over now is really a blessing. You

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Speaker 5: can't see what God is up to, but later on

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Speaker 5: you're going to understand. God knows what you're going to

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Speaker 5: need twenty years from now. A disappointment today, a setback,

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Speaker 5: a betrayal. You may not see how that works out

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Speaker 5: for your good until years down the road. When our

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Speaker 4: Every couple of weeks, we'd get a.

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Speaker 5: New puzzle and work on it, and sometimes it'd take

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Speaker 5: two or three days to complete. Invariably we'd find a

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Speaker 5: peace that wouldn't fit anywhere. We would try every option,

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Speaker 5: put it here, there still nothing. I was convinced that

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Speaker 5: because it does not fit.

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Speaker 4: It was so frustrating.

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Speaker 5: What's interesting is every time we got close to the

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Speaker 5: end and more of the pieces came together, all of

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Speaker 5: a sudden, that piece that I was so sure it

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Speaker 5: was a mistake, would fit perfectly into place didn't make sense.

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Speaker 4: On its own.

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Speaker 5: I had to wait for the pieces to come together.

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Speaker 5: You may have some pieces in your life that don't

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Speaker 5: make sense. Why did I not get that promotion I

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Speaker 4: Was it my fault?

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Speaker 5: Why did that person walk out of a relationship by itself?

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Speaker 5: That piece doesn't fit right now, it's not going to

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Speaker 5: make sense.

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Speaker 4: You have to wait for the other pieces to come together.

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Speaker 5: The scripture says all things work together for good. God

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Speaker 5: is in the process of connecting the dots in your life.

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Speaker 5: Be patient and let him work out his plan. Trust

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Speaker 5: him when the peace doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 4: I can assure you.

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Speaker 5: Your manufacture didn't make a mistake when God designed the

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Speaker 5: plan for your life, when he made your puzzle, so

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Speaker 5: to speak, he didn't accidentally put in a wrong peace,

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Speaker 5: something that didn't fit. He didn't leave something out. You

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Speaker 5: have been fearfully and wonderfully made. Everything is serving his plan.

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Speaker 5: But here's a key. He never said you're going to

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Speaker 5: understand everything. I'm going to show you what I'm doing.

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Speaker 5: It's all going to make sense. He said, My ways

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Speaker 5: are not your ways. He said walk by faith and

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Speaker 5: not by sight. You have to trust him when you

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Speaker 5: don't understand, stay in faith when it doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 5: God is working behind the scenes in your life.

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Speaker 4: Right now. You're on the.

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Speaker 5: Verge of seeing him connect some dots. This is not

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Speaker 5: of favor, breakthroughs, healing, divine connections. Things you haven't understood

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Speaker 5: in the past, you're about to understand. God is about

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Speaker 4: He was up to. In Jesus's name. If you receive it,

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