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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and my brother

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Speaker 2: Paul sent me this one, so you can blame him.

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Speaker 1: But here's how it goes. I heard about this husband.

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Speaker 2: He said to his wife, do you know men are

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Speaker 2: going to arrive in heaven thirty minutes before women? She said,

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Speaker 2: what are you talking about? Where'd you see that? He said,

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Speaker 2: right here? In the scripture, Revelation eight one says when

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Speaker 2: he opened the seventh Seal, there was silence in heaven

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Speaker 2: for thirty minutes. Okay, Paul, they didn't like it. Here

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Speaker 2: we go, y'all. This here's my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 2: it says, I am. I have what it says I have,

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Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 2: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about.

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Speaker 1: God controls your doors.

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Speaker 2: We all have dreams we want to accomplish and things

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Speaker 2: we're believing for. But sometimes we wonder how it's going

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Speaker 2: to happen. Will I meet the right people, What if

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: Get the scholarship, What if the loan doesn't go through.

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Speaker 2: We end up striving and straining trying to force doors

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Speaker 2: to open. It Frustrated because we didn't get the promotion,

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Speaker 2: and upset because this person walked away, we think we

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Speaker 2: have to do it.

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Speaker 1: All on our own.

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Speaker 2: The good news is God is your doorkeeper. He's in

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Speaker 2: control of the doors in your life, what opens and

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Speaker 2: what closes. You're not at the mercy of fate. Luck

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Speaker 2: and if this person likes you. The scripture says God

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Speaker 2: will open doors that no person can shut, and he

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Speaker 2: will shut doors that no person can open. Every shut

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Speaker 2: door is not the enemy. God will shut doors to

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Speaker 2: protect you. He'll move someone out of your life because

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Speaker 2: he knows they're not going to be good for you.

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Speaker 2: He'll let the boss overlook you for the promotion because

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Speaker 2: he has something much better in store. Sometimes he closes

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Speaker 2: doors because we're believing too small. He can see the

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Speaker 2: greatness in you. He knows what you're capable of. He's

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Speaker 2: not gonna let you settle for second best. He'll shut

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Speaker 2: a door that you wanted so badly. This person was

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Speaker 2: so good Joyce she was fine, or he was tall, dark,

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Speaker 2: handsome and rich. But where God is taking you, they

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Speaker 2: cannot go. God is not punishing you. He's protecting you.

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Speaker 1: If he let us have our way all the time, we.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't reach the fullness of our destiny. He loves you

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Speaker 2: too much to not close doors. We love when he

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Speaker 2: opens doors. We know that's the hand of God, But

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Speaker 2: the closed doors are.

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Speaker 1: Just as important.

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Speaker 2: He's keeping you on the best plan for your life.

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Speaker 2: He can see things we can't see.

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Speaker 1: The big picture.

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Speaker 2: He's already written every day of our life in his book.

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Speaker 2: What may look good to us is really leading to

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Speaker 2: a dead end. It would be a waste of time

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Speaker 2: and energy. So he'll step in as your doorkeeper and

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Speaker 2: close the door. When you realize this, it takes the

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Speaker 2: pressure off. You don't live frustrated striving. You can stay

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Speaker 2: in peace knowing that the doors you need open no

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Speaker 2: person can shell. If God wanted you to have that promotion,

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Speaker 2: the boss wouldn't have overlooked you.

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Speaker 1: Don't blame your boss. It was a hand of God.

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Speaker 2: If God wanted you to marry that person that walked away,

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Speaker 1: He didn't walk away on his own. God shut the door.

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Speaker 2: If God wanted you to have that house that fell through,

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Speaker 1: It looks like a bad break.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's normal to be disappointed, but you have

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Speaker 2: to come back to this truth that God is your doorkeeper.

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Speaker 1: No person can shut what God wants open.

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Speaker 2: No force of darkness can stop what God has purposed

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Speaker 2: for your life.

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Speaker 1: The question is will you trust him with your doors?

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Speaker 2: Will you believe that He has your best interests at heart,

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Speaker 2: That he will open doors that no man can shut.

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Speaker 2: That means he will favor you, bring the right people,

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Speaker 2: cause promotion to track you down.

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Speaker 1: He's not just a god who closes doors.

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Speaker 2: He's a God who opens doors that you couldn't open.

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Speaker 2: A God who surprises you with opportunity, with promotion, with

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Speaker 2: influence that you didn't see coming. Think about David. He

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Speaker 2: was out in the shepherd's fields, seventeen years old, taking

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Speaker 2: He came from a family of shepherds, ordinary people.

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Speaker 2: But when God is ready to promote you, he doesn't

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Speaker 2: check your resume, what family you come from, who you know.

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Speaker 1: God looks at your heart. Do you have a heart

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Speaker 2: Can he trust you with greater influence, with promotion, with favor.

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Speaker 2: One day, the prophet Samuel came from another city to

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Speaker 2: He called seven of them to stand before Samuel. He

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Speaker 2: left David out in the fields. He thought, it's not David,

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Speaker 2: he's too young, he'll never do anything great. Jesse shut

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Speaker 2: He opens doors that no man can shut. Jesse didn't

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Speaker 2: believe in David. But Jesse didn't have the final says.

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Speaker 2: People are not your doorkeeper. They may try to discount you,

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Speaker 2: leave you out, push you down. They don't control your doors,

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Speaker 2: the most high God does. Don't get bitter, don't try

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Speaker 2: to get even prove to them who you are.

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Speaker 1: You don't need their approval. They may be.

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Speaker 2: Over you have more seniority, more experience, But what God

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Speaker 2: has for you they cannot stop.

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Speaker 1: They may try to shut the door. Don't worry. The

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Speaker 1: doorkeeper is coming. Who opens doors that no person can shut.

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Speaker 2: I can see Samuel trying to pour the oil on

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Speaker 2: each of the suns, but the oil wouldn't flow. It

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Speaker 2: defied gravity, wouldn't go to who Jesse wanted.

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Speaker 1: So Samuel asked Jesse if he had any other sons.

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Speaker 2: Jesse scratched his head so puzzle, he said, yes, I

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Speaker 2: have a son named David. He's the youngest out in

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Speaker 1: But God sees you. He knows what you need for

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Speaker 1: your destiny.

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Speaker 2: It He's the one that put the dreams in you.

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Speaker 1: People can't stop it.

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Speaker 2: Could be an upset because someone is not for you,

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Speaker 2: or trying to win over that coworker that doesn't believe

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Speaker 2: in you. They're not your doorkeeper. They don't control the opportunities.

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Speaker 2: The God breaks the influence that comes from Almighty God.

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Speaker 2: If you don't realize this, you'll live offended at the Jesseys.

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Speaker 1: Why did they leave me out? Man? Why do is

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Speaker 1: my own family not.

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Speaker 2: Believe in me? You'll end up insecure. I guess man,

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Speaker 2: I'm just not good enough. We'll tune all that out.

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Speaker 2: You have one.

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Speaker 1: Doorkeeper, not your boss, not your.

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Speaker 2: Family, not the critics, not the enemy. The most High God.

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Speaker 1: Is your doorkeeper. When he's ready to open doors. All

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Speaker 1: the forces of darkness cannot stop him.

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Speaker 2: People can't stop him, The economy can't stop him. Bad

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Speaker 2: breaks can't stop him. Your past won't stop him. He

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Speaker 2: controls your doors. David came in from the fields, and

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Speaker 2: Samuel poured the jar and the oil begin to freely flow.

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Speaker 2: He was anointed the next king of Israel. The oil

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Speaker 2: God has for you is not going to flow.

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Speaker 1: To anyone else. Would worry in that.

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Speaker 2: Someone got your promotion and got your boyfriend. You wanted

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Speaker 2: to date that man got your house. Your contract didn't

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Speaker 2: go through. If you didn't get it, they didn't take it.

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Speaker 2: God closed the door. They're not your doorkeeper. They don't

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Speaker 2: control your breaks, who you meet, what you have access to.

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Speaker 1: God does your oil?

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Speaker 2: Can't flow to another person. God ordained it for you.

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Speaker 2: It has your name on it.

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Speaker 1: In the same way, Quit warning what someone else has.

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Speaker 1: Don't live in envious man.

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Speaker 2: I wish I had their talent, their resources, their looks,

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Speaker 2: their life.

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Speaker 1: You're not anointed to be them.

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Speaker 2: If God gave you what they have, it wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: a blessing, it would be a burden.

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Speaker 1: God has designed a specific path for you.

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Speaker 2: He's already lined up the right people, the right breaks,

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Speaker 2: the favor, and at the right time, He'll open the door.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to live worried man. Why am I

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Speaker 2: still out here in the shepherd's fields? Why are people

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Speaker 2: passing me up? How you wait will determine how long

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Speaker 2: you're going to wait. When doors haven't opened, You're in

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Speaker 2: a silent season and everyone else is being promoted, getting married,

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Speaker 2: moving into a new house, having that baby, and you're

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Speaker 2: still in the shepherd's fields.

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Speaker 1: Feels unfair.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to get discouraged and try to force doors

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Speaker 2: to open. No, be still and know that he is God.

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Speaker 2: He has not forgotten about you. He's already lined up

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Speaker 2: the right doors, doors that no person can shut.

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Speaker 1: Now, trust him. Why you're waiting.

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Speaker 2: Keep a good attitude when the doors haven't opened, Keep

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Speaker 2: doing the right thing when the wrong thing has happened.

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Speaker 1: Samuel is on the way.

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Speaker 2: God is already scheduled to open doors, doors that will thrust.

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Speaker 1: You in your destiny.

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Speaker 2: At one point, David went to take his brother's lunch.

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Speaker 2: They were in the army on the battlefield, and he

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Speaker 2: heard Goliath taunting the Israelites, and something rose up in him,

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Speaker 2: this fire on the inside. He told King Saul that

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Speaker 2: he wanted to fight Goliath. Saul said, David, you're just

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Speaker 2: a boy.

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Speaker 1: You don't have a chance. Saul tried to close the door.

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Speaker 1: You're not qualified.

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Speaker 2: His brothers made fun of him, said, David, what did

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Speaker 2: be taking care of back at home. Tried to belittle him,

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Speaker 2: closed the door. David felt the sting of rejection from his.

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Speaker 1: Father, not believing in him.

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Speaker 2: He had plenty of opportunities to live discouraged inferior.

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Speaker 1: Go back home.

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Speaker 2: Despite all this opposition, The scripture says, David ran toward Goliath.

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Speaker 2: He's running to face a giant that's twice his size.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 2: But when God opens the door, there's a faith, a courage,

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Speaker 2: a power to do what he's called.

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Speaker 1: You to do.

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Speaker 2: God won't open a door without giving you everything you

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Speaker 2: They couldn't get in this gate by themselves, but I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm watching for them when they arrive. No big deal.

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Speaker 2: Click, it opens on its own accord. Can I encourage you?

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Speaker 2: God has the remote control to doors you can't open.

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Speaker 1: You come to a door where you don't have the training.

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Speaker 2: is there. He has the remote. Like Peter, You're gonna

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Speaker 2: hand of God good breaks that you didn't see coming

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Speaker 2: opportunities you've never imagined. How About like a compact center,

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Speaker 2: how about like my mother healed from terminal cancer, things

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Speaker 2: that defy the odds. And this was so amazing that

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Speaker 2: Peter thought he was dreaming. He was out of the

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Speaker 2: prison on the streets before he realized what had really happened.

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Speaker 2: God has doors He's going to open for you that

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Speaker 2: will seem like a.

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Speaker 1: Dream, too good to be true. That's what it means.

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Speaker 1: A door no person can open.

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Speaker 2: It's out of your league, over your head, beyond what

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Speaker 1: Here's the beauty. It's going to open of its own accord.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't all your striving, straining, living pressure. No, just

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Speaker 2: keep God first place, keep honoring him, and He's going

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Speaker 2: to open doors you never imagine would open.

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Speaker 1: One reason is because you've been faithful with your closed doors.

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Speaker 2: You didn't get sour when you didn't get your way.

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Speaker 2: You kept a good attitude when you were overlooked for

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Speaker 1: You pass the test. Now God is going to do

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Speaker 1: what only he can do.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to trust him with the doors in

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Speaker 2: your life. No more frustrated over closed doors and things

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Speaker 1: God knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: No more straining trying to force things to happen.

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Speaker 1: Take the pressure off.

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Speaker 2: God controls what opens and what closes, not people, not

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Speaker 2: bad breaks, not the enemy. You may be waiting for

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Speaker 2: it's never gonna happen. No, Samuel is already on the

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Speaker 2: schedule at the right time. God will surprise you. It

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Speaker 2: will be better than you've imagined. Trust him as your doorkeeper.

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Speaker 2: If you'll do this, I believe and declare. God is

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Speaker 2: not only gonna protect you by closing wrong doors, but

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Speaker 2: like Peter, you're gonna see doors open of their own accord, promotion, breakthroughs, healing,

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