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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks.

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

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Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's great to.

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Speaker 1: Be with you today, and I hope to stay connected

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Speaker 1: with us during the week through our daily podcast, our

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, social media. We'll keep your encouraged and inspired.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this couple that had been married for over sixty

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Speaker 1: years and never had an argument, never had a cross word.

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Speaker 1: They were at a church function and someone asked the

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Speaker 1: secret of their success. The man told how he always

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Speaker 1: treated his wife with respect and how he took her

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Speaker 1: on trips around the world. He said, in fact, for

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Speaker 1: our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China.

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Speaker 2: Everyone politely applauded.

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Speaker 1: Someone asked, what'd you do for your fiftieth anniversary?

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Speaker 2: He said, I.

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Speaker 1: Went back and picked her up. All right, y'all, that's

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Speaker 1: not in your marriage class.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says, I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about secure in

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Speaker 1: his sovereignty.

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Speaker 2: We all have our own free will.

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Speaker 1: We can make decisions, do what we want, go where

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Speaker 1: we want to go.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to think that our life is based on

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Speaker 2: what we're choosing.

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Speaker 1: To a point of course, that's true, but that's not

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Speaker 1: the only factor.

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Speaker 2: God has a conditional will.

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Speaker 1: These are things he does based on whether or not

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Speaker 1: we make good choices. We determine the course our life

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Speaker 1: will take. But God also has a sovereign will. These

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Speaker 1: are things He's going to do.

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Speaker 2: Regardless of our decisions.

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Speaker 1: God has already planned ahead of time a purpose for

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Speaker 1: you to fulfill. He's not making it up on the fly,

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Speaker 1: watching how you're going to perform, how disciplined you'll be.

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Speaker 1: Then he's going to decide whether he does certain things.

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Speaker 2: He's not watching to.

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Speaker 1: See what other people do, what bad breaks come your way.

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Speaker 2: What disappointments. Then he'll pivot come up with.

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Speaker 1: Another plan, which says in Ephesians, you were chosen, having

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Speaker 1: been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out.

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Speaker 2: Everything according to his will.

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Speaker 1: Long before you got here, God laid out the plan

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Speaker 1: and purpose for your life. His sovereign will is unstoppable.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do or not do to keep

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Speaker 1: his sovereign will from coming to pass. You can't make

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Speaker 1: too many mistakes. You can't get so far off course

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Speaker 1: that God's going to change his mind. Just ask Jonah.

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Speaker 1: He did exactly opposite of what God told him to

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Speaker 2: God didn't say, too bad, you're on your own. You

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Speaker 2: should have listened. God had a big fish waiting for him.

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Speaker 1: It's like God called an uber, swallowed him up, took

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Speaker 1: him to the shore. God was saying, Jonah, you can't

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Speaker 2: Where I want you to go, You're going to go.

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Speaker 1: Not just in negative things. When it's his sovereign will

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Speaker 1: for you to be blessed. It's not dependent on what

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Speaker 1: family you come from, how much experience, talent education you have.

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Speaker 1: The blessing will overtake you. You'll see favor that you

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Speaker 1: didn't have anything to do with. You didn't earn it,

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Speaker 1: you weren't born into it. You can't explain it. It's

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Speaker 1: the unstoppable God carrying out the plan that he decided

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Speaker 1: long ago. When you go to add way play you

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Speaker 1: How will the drama unfold? The script has already been written,

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Speaker 2: Actors ever arrive.

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Speaker 1: The writer has already decided what's going to take place.

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Speaker 1: When you walk in the theater, there's not an empty stage.

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Speaker 1: The carpenters don't show up. Say okay, let's build some sets.

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Speaker 2: Let me figure everything out.

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Speaker 1: The stage has already been set, The props are already

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Speaker 1: figure out what role they'll play. You weren't born into

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Speaker 1: I use, what experiences. Long before you arrived, God wrote

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Speaker 2: Yes, there may be some drama, ups and downs.

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Speaker 1: Things you don't understand, but you can stay in peace

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Speaker 1: knowing that it's all working according to His will. You're

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Speaker 1: not at the mercy of fate. Happenstance. Hope you get

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Speaker 1: some good breaks. Hope this sickness doesn't take you out.

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Speaker 1: There is a sovereign God who is in control of

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Speaker 1: your life. His sovereign will cannot be overridden by bad

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Speaker 1: choices by other people, by how you were raised, by

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Speaker 1: what you didn't get. Jeremiah said, God knew you before.

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Speaker 2: You were formed in your mother's womb.

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Speaker 1: You didn't show up because you and father decided to

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Speaker 1: have a baby.

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Speaker 1: Coincidence that they got together. Sometimes when a pregnancy is

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Speaker 1: not planned, we say this baby was a surprise. You

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Speaker 1: may have been a surprise to your parents, but you

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Speaker 1: are not a surprise.

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Speaker 2: To our God.

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Speaker 1: He's been thinking about you for generations. Jeremiah went on

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Speaker 1: to say God's plans.

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Speaker 2: For you are for good, to give you a future

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Speaker 2: and a hope.

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Speaker 1: Part of his sovereign will is to be good to you.

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Speaker 1: There are blessings coming that are unstoppable. There is favor

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Speaker 1: in your future that is simply the goodness of God,

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Speaker 1: something that He's already planned that cannot be overridden.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to worry.

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Speaker 1: About how it can happen, how you can get ahead,

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Speaker 1: how you can.

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Speaker 2: Leave your mark.

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Speaker 1: The sovereign God has already not only planned it, but

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Speaker 1: he will make it happen.

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Speaker 2: It's not up to you, it's up to him.

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Speaker 1: Blessings that chase you down, favor you didn't see coming,

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Speaker 1: good breaks that you couldn't explain. It's already written in

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Speaker 1: your script. The stage has already been set. How could

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Speaker 1: I be up here today. This is not something that

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Speaker 1: I chose, not something that I worked for that I

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Speaker 1: was hoping to attain. I didn't want to get up

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Speaker 1: For seventeen years, I stayed behind the scenes. My choices

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Speaker 1: One point I came in to the sovereign will of God.

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Speaker 1: His will is unstoppable. God will let you make decisions

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Speaker 1: up to a point. He'll let you be in control

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Speaker 1: of your destiny for periods of time, but at certain

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Speaker 1: times he will take complete control. He will override your

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Speaker 2: When my father died, I.

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Speaker 1: Not only knew I was suppose to step up and

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Speaker 1: wanted to. I hadn't had that desire for thirty six years.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I was just the opposite. I dreaded getting

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Speaker 1: up in front of people. But when you hit one

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Speaker 1: of these sovereignty moments, when it's not God's conditional will,

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Speaker 1: where you have a part you can decide, but God

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Speaker 2: It's already on the script.

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Speaker 1: He's already planned to bless you, to favor you, to

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Speaker 2: There's nothing you can do except sit back and enjoy

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Speaker 1: You stepped in to the unstoppable God, the part of

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Speaker 1: his plan that is not negotiable. He's not looking for

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Speaker 1: your opinion. He's not asking what you think. He will

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Speaker 1: override every force trying to stop you, every limitation, every disadvantage,

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Speaker 1: every bad decision, and thrust you into your destiny.

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Speaker 2: I think about my father.

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Speaker 1: He grew up in a family that didn't have anything

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Speaker 1: to do with God. They were good people, but they

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Speaker 1: didn't know anything about faith. His grandparents, great grandparents, three

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Speaker 2: He felt this sense of destiny calling him. He walked

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Speaker 1: Jesus standing at a door and knocking. The caption read,

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Speaker 1: That Bible was put there in the sovereignty of God.

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Speaker 1: That was in the script that was written before my

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Speaker 1: father was born. Falling open to that particular page. Wasn't

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Speaker 1: God working out the plan that he had decided long ago.

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Speaker 1: My father went to church the next morning with a

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Speaker 1: my children, my grandchildren, we will come from generations that

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Speaker 1: honor God. There are some things that you can't explain.

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Speaker 1: It's just the sovereignty of God. Well, Joe, why didn't

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not God.

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Speaker 1: He's the one that's in control, it says, he lifts

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Speaker 2: I do know that he's promised to be good to you.

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Speaker 1: I do know that there are sovereign moments in your future. Well,

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Speaker 1: God is going to do things that you can't explain.

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Speaker 1: There's no reason for it, and made it happen. But

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Speaker 1: suddenly a family member gets back on course, Suddenly a

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Speaker 1: When David was a teenager, he was working out in

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Speaker 1: Came from a low income family. They weren't influential. Nobody

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Speaker 1: designed a plan for your life on purpose, he put

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Speaker 1: these moments of favor that don't make sense.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says he chose.

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Speaker 2: Every circumstance said you're stuck. This is your lot in life.

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Speaker 1: But one day the prophet Samuel showed up at his

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Speaker 1: They fell in love and were married well. Eventually, Naomi's

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Speaker 1: She was so heartbroken she decided to move back home

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Speaker 1: go back to their hometowns as well. Orfa took her

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Speaker 1: up on it, she walked away. Ruth said, no, I'm

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Speaker 1: not leaving you. She moved back to Bethlehem with Naomi.

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Speaker 1: She met a man named Boas.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: They were married, had a son named Obed. Obed had

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Speaker 1: a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son named David.

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Speaker 2: Look at how strategic God is.

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Speaker 1: The famine that caused Naomi to move wasn't random. It

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Speaker 1: was a part of God's plan to get her to

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Speaker 1: Moab so her son could marry Ruth. It was painful,

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Speaker 1: but if she hadn't gone through that loss, she would

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Speaker 1: have never moved back home. If Ruth wasn't single again,

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Speaker 1: she would have never married Bo, as they would have

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Speaker 1: never had a child. Yet God decided ahead of time

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Speaker 1: that David, the greatest king that ever lived, would.

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Speaker 2: Come out of their family line.

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Speaker 1: If someone would have told Naomi back then, during the famine,

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Speaker 1: during the laws that God was working that it was

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Speaker 1: all a part of his plan, she'd have said, yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: nothing's good going to come out of this.

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Speaker 2: But God is sovereign.

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Speaker 1: We're looking at what's going on this week, this month.

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Speaker 1: But God can be looking generations ahead.

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Speaker 2: He can be.

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Speaker 1: Using you to orchestrate something much bigger, much more significant

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Speaker 1: than you could imagine.

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Speaker 2: Think about Ruth.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, she wanted to move to Naomi's hometown.

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Speaker 2: She didn't know anyone there.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't she do like Orpah and go back to

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Speaker 1: where she was from. This was the sovereignty of God.

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Speaker 1: God gave her the desire because it was something he

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Speaker 1: had already decided ahead of time. God is not making

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Speaker 1: it up as you go He's working all things according

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Speaker 1: to his plan. Stay in faith while his plan unfolds.

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Speaker 1: What if you're upset over a disappointment, living bitter over

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Speaker 1: a loss, when in fact, oh Bed so to speak,

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Speaker 1: is coming now. Ruth is in the family line of Jesus.

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Speaker 1: What God is doing in our lives is not always

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Speaker 1: going to make sense. He's been orchestrating things for you

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Speaker 1: generations back to bring you to where you are, just

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Speaker 1: like he brought Ruth out of heartache into great joy.

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Speaker 2: Nothing you've been through has been random.

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Speaker 1: It's not happenstance, bad luck. God is still in control.

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Speaker 1: This is when you have to trust that He's sovereign,

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Speaker 1: that the good things in your future are unstoppable. If

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Speaker 1: you'll do this, I believe and declare, you're about to

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Speaker 1: come in to some of these sovereign moments. Things that

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Speaker 1: you couldn't make happen. Like David, The right breaks are

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Speaker 1: going to come looking for you, like Ruth, favor that

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Speaker 1: you've never imagine like Paul. God is going to override

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Speaker 1: your mistakes and thrust you into your destiny in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 1: If you receive it, Can you say men today, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the

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Speaker 1: Lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart.

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Speaker 1: I'll make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed

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Speaker 1: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd

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Speaker 1: walk with the Lord. You can text the number on

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Speaker 1: get into a good Bible based church and keep God

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you

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Speaker 3: feel like you're stumbling around in the dark. Things are

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Speaker 3: so bad you would need a miracle to change your situation,

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Speaker 3: but as a miracle even possible.

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Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see a way.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what

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Speaker 1: we're believing. For that's how we felt. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a

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Speaker 1: few weeks to live. Nothing could be done medically speaking,

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Speaker 1: but she chose to believe.

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Speaker 2: That God is a miracle worker.

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Speaker 1: Today, forty three years later, by the grace of God,

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Speaker 1: she's still healthy and strong. I'm so grateful to be alive.

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Speaker 2: I'm ninety years young.

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Speaker 1: I thank God every day that he still does miracles.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to send you by new book. It's called

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Speaker 2: Miracles Happened.

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Speaker 1: It's filled with powerful stories of miracles from the Scripture

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Speaker 1: and real life stories of people that have seen the

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Speaker 1: hand of God. It'll help build your faith so you

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Speaker 1: can believe what seems impossible.

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Speaker 2: God did it for my mother, He'll do it for you.

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Speaker 3: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 3: of any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and Victoria,

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Speaker 3: we'd like to send you this powerful book, Miracles Happen

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Speaker 3: your journey to supernatural breakthrough. This new book details thirty

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Speaker 3: different miracles from the Word of God, and each one

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Speaker 3: comes with an encouragement and application to your own life.

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Speaker 3: God has miracles stored up for you, healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 1: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: see the hand of God do supernatural things.

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Speaker 2: In your line.

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Speaker 1: Victory and I are standing in faith with you. We

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Speaker 1: pray for you every day. We appreciate your prayer and support.

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Speaker 1: Your generosity is impacting so many lives. Remember you can

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Speaker 1: watch the services live online every Sunday morning, download our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, watch on YouTube the new Joelostein Network.

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Speaker 2: Listen on Serious XM until we meet again. May the

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Speaker 2: Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 3: Be sure to request your copy of Miracles Happen your

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Speaker 3: journey to Supernatural breakthrough today. Visit Joelostein dot com or

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