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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. Reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 2: God bless you. It's great to have you with us today.

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Speaker 2: I know God has amazing things in your future. I

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Speaker 2: hope you'll stay connected with us all through the week.

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Speaker 2: You can download our podcast listen to the messages anytime,

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Speaker 2: or you can go to our YouTube channel. But thanks

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Speaker 2: for tuning in today. I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 2: I heard about this pastor. He was in the lobby

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Speaker 2: after service, greeting people. He saw a man that he

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Speaker 2: hadn't seen in a long long time. He pulled him aside, said, sir,

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Speaker 2: you need to join the Army of the Lord. The

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Speaker 2: man said, what are you talking about. I'm in the

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Speaker 2: Army of the Lord. The pastor said, well, how come

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Speaker 2: I only see you on Easter and Christmas. The man

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Speaker 2: whispered back, I'm in the Secret Service.

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Speaker 1: All right, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my 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.

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Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about remember what

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Speaker 2: God said. We all have promises that God has put

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Speaker 2: in our heart. Things we know He's spoken to us.

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Speaker 2: How we're going to accomplish a dream, see a problem,

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Speaker 2: turn around, beat the addiction, meet the right person. At

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Speaker 2: one time we knew it was going to happen.

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Speaker 1: We were praying, believing, passionate.

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Speaker 2: But when it's taking longer than we thought, when we've

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Speaker 2: gone through disappointments, people didn't come through. The medical report

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Speaker 2: isn't improving, negative thoughts start to play louder and louder.

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Speaker 2: It's never going to work out. You're never going to

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Speaker 2: get well, you'll never.

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Speaker 1: See your family restored.

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Speaker 2: Too often we let those thoughts drown out what God

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Speaker 2: has spoken to us. But if you're going to stay

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Speaker 2: in faith, you have to remember what God said. Go

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Speaker 2: back to the promises, go back to that time He

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Speaker 2: whispered to you in the night. Start thanking him for

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Speaker 2: what he told you, start declaring favor, victory, healing. You

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Speaker 2: have to keep your faith stirred up, keep those promises

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Speaker 2: on the forefront.

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Speaker 1: Of your mind. God is faithful.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't tell you something and then not do it.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says, all of his promises are yes and amen.

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Speaker 2: It may not happen on our timetable or the way

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Speaker 2: we think, but what God promised is on the way.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to believe when things are going our way,

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Speaker 2: but most of the time the promise won't come to

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Speaker 2: pass without a test.

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Speaker 1: When you're under pressure, you.

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Speaker 2: Don't understand why it's taking so long and why those people.

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Speaker 1: Didn't keep their word.

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Speaker 2: You'll be tempted to live frustrated, live worried, afraid. Recognize

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Speaker 2: that that's a test. The enemy would love for you

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Speaker 2: to forget what God promised. He'd love for you to

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Speaker 2: get so caught up in what's not happening, so focused

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Speaker 2: on how your child isn't doing right. Right when you

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Speaker 2: thought you were going to get ahead, the pandemic hit.

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Speaker 2: Now there's no way you can have a good year. No,

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Speaker 2: remember what God said, even in famine, you will have

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Speaker 2: more than enough. Whatever you touch will prosper and succeed.

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Speaker 2: The economy is not your source. God is your source.

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Speaker 2: You're connected to a supply line that will never run dry.

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Speaker 2: But there's always something trying to steal the seed of

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Speaker 2: God's word out of your heart.

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Speaker 1: Because when you.

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Speaker 2: Keep that seed watered, you keep thanking God for what

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Speaker 2: he promised. You keep talking like it's on the way,

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Speaker 2: You're constantly meditating on what he said. Then you're going

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Speaker 2: to see the faithfulness of God. He's going to make

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Speaker 2: things happen that you couldn't make happen. Jesus said in

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Speaker 2: John eleven, did not I tell you if you believe

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Speaker 2: you will see the glory of God? You may be

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Speaker 2: facing a sickness. You're so worried stressed out. God is saying,

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Speaker 2: did not I tell you I will restore health unto you?

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Speaker 2: Did not I tell you by my stripes you are healed.

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Speaker 2: Did not I tell you the number of your days

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Speaker 2: The reason we're discouraged many times is we've forgotten what

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Speaker 1: It's not complicated.

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Speaker 2: Go back to his promises, Go back to what he

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Speaker 2: spoken over you replaying that over and over as you

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Speaker 2: dwell on those promises.

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Speaker 1: Fear has to leave. Doubt, worry cannot stay. Faith will

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Speaker 1: rise in your heart.

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Speaker 2: Maybe your child is off course, running with the wrong crowd,

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Speaker 2: and you're frustrated, thinking they're never going to change. God

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Speaker 2: is saying, did not I tell you that as for

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Speaker 2: you and your house, you will serve the Lord? Did

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Speaker 2: not I tell you that your children will be mighty

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Speaker 2: in the land. When you wake up in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the night tempted to worry, turn it around.

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Speaker 1: Lord, thank you for what you said.

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Speaker 2: That my children will fulfill their destiny. There's a battle

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Speaker 2: taking place in our mind. The enemy comes against us

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Speaker 2: with thoughts, thoughts of doubt, fear, worry. His goal is

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Speaker 2: to keep your mind so filled with all the negative

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Speaker 2: that you're so preoccupied with what's not going to work out,

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Speaker 2: how you can't break the addiction, how you'll never meet

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Speaker 2: the right person, that you never think about what God

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Speaker 2: promised you. You have to take control of your thought

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Speaker 2: life when worry comes.

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Speaker 1: Don't go on autopilot. Don't just let it.

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Speaker 2: Play, stay on the offensive on purpose. Remember what God said.

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Speaker 2: Thank him that he's making a way. Will you don't

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Speaker 2: see away? Thank him that he always causes you to triumph.

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Speaker 2: Thank him that what was meant for harm, he's turning

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Speaker 2: for your advantage. Thank him that He's taken you from

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Speaker 2: glory to glory, from victory to victory. A young lady

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Speaker 2: I know went through a breakup in a relationship and

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Speaker 2: she thought this.

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Speaker 1: Would be the person she would marry in.

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Speaker 2: She was so discouraged, so down on life, down on herself.

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Speaker 1: We all go through.

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Speaker 2: Disappointments, loss things that are not fair. If we stay

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Speaker 2: focused on the hurts, God, why did this happen? I

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Speaker 2: don't understand it. That's going to keep us way down.

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Speaker 2: We'll miss the new things God has in store. I

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Speaker 2: know it's not easy, but you have to make this

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Speaker 2: shift in your thinking. Quit dwelling on the hurts and

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Speaker 2: start dwelling on what God promised you. God is saying,

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Speaker 2: did not I tell you I will give you beauty

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Speaker 2: for those ashes? Did not I tell you weeping endures

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Speaker 2: for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Did

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Speaker 2: not I tell you that I will pay you back

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Speaker 2: double for the unfair things that have happened. God has

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Speaker 2: you in the palm of his hand. He has not

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Speaker 2: brought you this far to leave you that loss, the breakup. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it's painful, but it didn't stop your destiny. God has

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Speaker 2: a new beginning. He's about to open new doors, bring

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Speaker 2: new relationships. You haven't seen your best days. The reason

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Speaker 2: the enemy is fighting you is he knows there's something

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Speaker 2: amazing in your future. You're on the verge of seeing blessing, favor,

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Speaker 2: influence like you've never seen. Now, don't let those negative

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Speaker 2: thoughts keep you where you are. Start remembering what God

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Speaker 2: said in the scripture. When Job was in the middle

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Speaker 2: of all this loss and heartache, it looked like he

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Speaker 2: had seen his best days. Everything had gone wrong. God

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Speaker 2: said to him, I will yet fill your mouth with

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Speaker 2: laughter and your.

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Speaker 1: Lips with shouts of joy.

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Speaker 2: This was in chapter eights and turn around until chapter

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Speaker 2: forty two. I can imagine Job sitting in the ashes, discouraged,

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Speaker 2: thinking about all that had gone wrong. He was tempted

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Speaker 2: then he remembered what God promised. He's going to fill

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Speaker 2: my mouth with laughter. I can hear him say Lord,

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Speaker 2: thank you that I'm gonna dream again, I'm gonna laugh again,

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Speaker 1: To love again.

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Speaker 2: When he could have been complaining, right in the middle

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Speaker 2: of the difficulty, he looked up and said, I know

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Speaker 2: my Redeemer lives. He was saying, I know God is

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Speaker 2: still on the throne. I know he's bigger than this adversity.

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Speaker 2: I know my latter days will be better than my

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Speaker 1: He kept remembering.

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Speaker 2: What God said, not what the circumstances said, not what

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Speaker 2: When you keep your mind on what God promised, you're

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Speaker 2: going to see him show out in your life. When

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Speaker 2: that test was over, Job came out with twice what

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Speaker 2: he had before. You may have gone through loss, disappointments,

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Speaker 2: that is not how your story ends.

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Speaker 1: It may be painful now you're hurting. God sees it.

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Speaker 2: He's not only going to help you through, but he's

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Speaker 2: going to fill your mouth with laughter.

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Speaker 1: There is great joy in your future.

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Speaker 2: The right people are already headed your way, new relationships,

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Speaker 2: favor like you've never seen. Now. Don't fall into the

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Speaker 2: what God said, that there is beauty for those ashes.

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Speaker 2: That double is coming, double the joy, double the peace,

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Speaker 2: double the resources. You're not going to just come out.

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Speaker 2: God says You're going to come out better, stronger, healthier, happier.

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Speaker 2: Now do like job and keep thanking God for what

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Speaker 2: he is said. Keep declaring my redeemer lives all through

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Speaker 2: the day. In your thoughts, Father, thank you that your

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Speaker 2: plans for me are for good. Thank you that you

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Speaker 2: will fill my mouth with laughter again. When you're under pressure,

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Speaker 2: it's so important what you're allowing to play in your mind.

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Speaker 2: Thoughts will tell you all the reasons it's not going

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Speaker 2: never break the addiction. You can't start that business. You

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Speaker 2: have to go back to what God said, not what

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Speaker 2: people said, no disrespect, not what the expert said, not

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Speaker 2: what your mind says, not how you feel, but to

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Speaker 2: what God promised, maybe your discourage over how long your

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Speaker 2: dream is taking, how impossible it looks. God is saying,

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Speaker 2: did not I tell you what I started I will finish?

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Speaker 1: Did not I tell you if you.

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Speaker 2: Delight yourself in me, I will give you the desires

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Speaker 2: of your heart. The medical report wasn't good. Now you're upset.

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Speaker 2: Did not I tell you no weapon formed against you

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Speaker 2: will prosper. People at the office or playing politics trying

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Speaker 2: to push you down. They have more influence, more seniority.

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Speaker 1: Did not I tell you when.

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Speaker 2: The enemy comes in like a flood, I will raise

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Speaker 2: fight your battles for you. Did not I tell you

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Speaker 2: I'm preparing a table before you in the presence of

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Speaker 2: your enemies. When you remember what God said, you won't

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Speaker 2: be worried. You'll have peace in the midst of the storm.

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Speaker 2: You'll have faith to believe for the impossible. You'll have

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Speaker 2: As long as your dwelling on the negative, what didn't

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Speaker 1: You need to go.

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Speaker 2: Back to what God has spoken to you. Go back

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Speaker 1: You have to stir it.

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Speaker 2: The mistake we make many times is we go by

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Speaker 2: But I remembered what God said, that promotion doesn't come

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Speaker 2: Go by what God says. He says you're a giant killer.

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Speaker 2: That's when you're going to see far and beyond favor,

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