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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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

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Speaker 2: the ministry.

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

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Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 2: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come

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Speaker 1: into your homes.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buy

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Speaker 2: and be a part of one of our services. I

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

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Speaker 2: thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again

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Speaker 2: for coming out today.

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Speaker 1: And I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 2: And I heard about this man that died and went

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Speaker 2: to heaven. Saint Peter escorted him down this long hallway

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Speaker 2: filled with clocks. The hens on the clocks were all

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Speaker 2: moving at different speeds. Peter explained that every person has

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Speaker 2: a clock. When they send the clock ticks. The man

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Speaker 2: saw a clock barely moving. It's Billy Graham's clock. There

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Speaker 2: was another clock creeping along Mother Teresa's clock. He said, curiously,

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Speaker 2: can I see my clock? Peter said, yeah, we keep

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Speaker 2: yours in the office and use it as a fan.

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Speaker 1: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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

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Speaker 2: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 2: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 2: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 2: to talk to you today about remember your dream. All

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Speaker 2: of us have things that we're believing for, something that

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Speaker 2: we want to accomplish. Deep down we know it's a

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Speaker 2: part of our destiny. We can feel it so strongly.

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Speaker 2: But then we hit some setbacks. We didn't get the promotion,

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Speaker 2: the medical report wasn't good, or a relationship didn't work out.

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Speaker 2: Life has a way of pushing our dreams down. They

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Speaker 2: can become buried under discouragement, buried under past mistakes. There

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Speaker 2: are dreams buried under devor buried under low self esteem.

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Speaker 2: It's easy to settle for mediocrity, even though we have

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Speaker 2: all this potential buried on the inside. But just because

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Speaker 2: you gave up doesn't mean God gave up. Your dream

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Speaker 2: may be buried. The good news is it's still alive.

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Speaker 2: It's not too late. To see it come to pass.

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Speaker 2: And we've all been through disappointments and set backs and

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Speaker 2: life happens. But instead of remembering the hurt, the pain,

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Speaker 2: what didn't work out. The key to reaching your destiny

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Speaker 2: is you have.

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Speaker 1: To remember your dream.

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Speaker 2: Remember what God promised you, Remember what He whispered to

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Speaker 2: you in the middle of the night. The scripture calls

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Speaker 2: it the secret petitions of our heart, things you haven't

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Speaker 2: told anybody about. It may seem possible. Every voice tells

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Speaker 2: you it's not going to happen. You've been pushing it down.

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Speaker 2: But God is saying what I promised you, I'm still

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Speaker 1: I spoke it to you. It may not have happened yet,

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Speaker 2: It is on the way if you'll do your part

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Speaker 2: and start believing again, get your passion back. God is

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Speaker 2: going to resurrect what you thought was dead, dreams that

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Speaker 1: You tried, it didn't work out. It's been so long.

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Speaker 1: They're going to suddenly come back to life.

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Speaker 2: Problems that looked permanent going to suddenly turn around what

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Speaker 2: fraction of the time. He hasn't changed his mind. He

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Speaker 2: has the final say. Now, don't let circumstances talk you

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Speaker 2: didn't make it, why a person walked away, why you

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Speaker 2: came down with an illness. You were doing the right thing,

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Speaker 2: the process. Every disappointment, every delay, every closed.

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Speaker 2: It's a setup for God to get you to where

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Speaker 2: you're supposed to be. And it may be taken a

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Speaker 2: remember your dream? What is God put in your heart?

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Speaker 2: What did you used to be excited about? Now you

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Speaker 2: You have not missed your opportunity. You have not had

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Speaker 2: God is on your side. You have royal blood flowing

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Speaker 2: your creator, believing that you're a person of destiny, that

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Speaker 2: he's directing your steps.

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Speaker 1: That if he before you, who dare be against you?

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Speaker 2: And when we go through opposition these challenging times, we

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Speaker 2: don't have to fall apart.

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Speaker 1: God controls the whole universe.

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Speaker 2: He won't allow anything to happen unless he knows how

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Speaker 2: do your part and keep your faith stirred up. The

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Speaker 2: thinking that it's never going to work out. Don't believe

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Speaker 2: those lies. It's not too late to become all that

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Speaker 1: And every time you remember your dream, every.

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Speaker 2: Time you say Lord, thank you for bringing it to pass,

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Speaker 2: What's happened is your healing, your breakthrough, your freedom has

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Speaker 2: had so many bad medical reports. That's putting more dirt

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Speaker 1: Burying it deeper.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you get your shovel out and start removing

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Speaker 1: How do you do that? Lord?

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Speaker 2: Thank you that you're restoring health back into me. Think

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Speaker 2: Think you that I'm getting stronger, healthier. If you'll keep

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Speaker 2: God to do great things.

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Speaker 1: God is moved by our faith.

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Speaker 2: He's not moved by our discouragement, by our complaining, by

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Speaker 2: our self pity. Joel, I'm never going to meet the

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Speaker 2: right person. I've been hurt too many times. You're remembering

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Speaker 2: you're going to get stuck. Turn it around, start remembering

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Speaker 2: your dream. Father, Thank you that you have a divine connection.

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Speaker 2: Come in my way, somebody perfect for me, better than

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Speaker 2: like me. You're putting more dirt on your dream. You're

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Speaker 1: Some of you have done this so long. You need

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Speaker 1: is way deep, but you can dig it out. You

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Speaker 2: It starts in our thinking, in what you're believing, in

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Speaker 2: never break this addiction. I'll never live in a nice house.

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Speaker 2: the Lord God. You promised you would give me the

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Speaker 2: no matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible

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Speaker 1: Stir it up. You have to get in agreement with God.

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Speaker 2: He's the giver of all dreams. He's the one that

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Speaker 2: put the desires in you. You may need to get

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Speaker 2: alone in your quiet time, search your heart. Say God,

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Speaker 2: anything a push down, anything I've given up on showed

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Speaker 2: me what it is. God, don't let me die with

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Speaker 2: any dreams still buried on the inside.

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Speaker 1: This is what Caleb did.

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Speaker 2: He and his friend Joshua went and spied out the

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Speaker 1: They came back and told.

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Speaker 2: Moses, we are well able to take the land, let

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Speaker 1: He knew they were supposed to go in.

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Speaker 2: God put the dream in his heart, and it looked

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Speaker 2: At the age of eighty five, Caleb could still feel

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Speaker 1: People would have done right back then.

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Speaker 2: No. He went back to that same mountain, that same

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Speaker 2: five he said, God, give me this same mountain. What

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Speaker 1: There were other mountains with less.

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Speaker 2: Opposition that would have been much easier. I can hear

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Speaker 2: friends say, come on, Caleb, you're eighty five, let's go

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Speaker 2: the dream that's been stirring in my spirit all these years.

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Speaker 2: At eighty five, he went out and conquered the mountain,

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Speaker 2: saw the dream come to pass. Have you allowed any

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Speaker 2: dreams to get buried in you. At one time, you

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Speaker 2: believed you could do something great. You believed you could

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Speaker 2: lead the company in sales. You believed you could break

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Speaker 2: bad breaks. Wasn't all your fault.

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Speaker 1: You could easily settle where you are. Nobody would fault you.

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Speaker 2: God sent me to light a new fire on the inside.

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Speaker 1: That dream is still alive. You may have.

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Speaker 2: Tried a year ago, five years ago, or forty years ago,

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Speaker 1: Nobody was there to help you.

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Speaker 2: God is saying to you what he said to Caleb,

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Speaker 2: go back and try again.

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Speaker 1: This is your time, this is your moment.

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Speaker 2: Your destiny is calling out to you.

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Speaker 1: You have to be like Caleb. If you can't have

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Speaker 2: May not have happened the first time. The loan didn't

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Speaker 2: that you can overcome that illness, break the addiction, pay

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Speaker 2: People will get jealous, try to make you look bad,

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Speaker 2: The critics, the naysayers, the detractors. They cannot stop your dream.

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Speaker 2: Joseph's own brothers tried to push his dream down. I

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Speaker 2: Don't get distracted fighting battles that don't matter, trying to

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Speaker 2: you have Almighty God's approval.

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Speaker 2: What stirs them up is the fact that you're moving

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Speaker 1: They don't realize God has put dreams in them.

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Speaker 2: If they would stir it up, they could fulfill their purpose.

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Speaker 2: Successful people people that have a dream don't waste their

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Speaker 2: He'll use opposition, discouragement, delays, jealousy, everything he can to

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't be having that opposition if you didn't have

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Speaker 2: When you're a dreamer, you're dangerous to the enemy. You

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Speaker 2: And here's the most important thing. He knows there's nothing

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Speaker 2: But he will work over time trying to convince us

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Speaker 1: You have to remember this principle.

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Speaker 2: When negative things happen, that's not stopping your destiny. That's

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Speaker 2: Every delay, the setbacks, the disappointment, that didn't stop your dream,

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Speaker 1: These are the brothers that betrayed him.

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Speaker 1: The whole time, God.

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Speaker 2: Was directing his steps, leading him, guiding him. It was

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Speaker 2: where he was supposed to be. When God puts a

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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that it's going to come to pass

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Speaker 2: things that you don't understand. You'll have plenty of opportunities

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Speaker 2: Let him fight your battles, let him be your vindicator.

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Speaker 2: He has it all figured out well. Joel, I'm upset.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand it. I got thrown into a pit.

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Speaker 1: Don't get bitter. It's just a detour on the way

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Speaker 2: The palace is coming, the promise is on track, the

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Speaker 2: dream will be fulfilled. The scripture says, these light afflictions

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Speaker 2: go your way. Recognize that it's not permanent. That's not

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Speaker 2: your final destination. Quit worrying about things that are only temporary.

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Speaker 2: Like Joseph, the pit is temporary, the injustice is temporary.

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Speaker 2: The betrayal is not your permanent home. It's a temporary stop.

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Speaker 2: The Psalmists put it this way, passing through the valley

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Speaker 1: My challenge. Quit losing sleep over a temporary stop.

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Speaker 2: Quit being discouraged over something that's only.

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Speaker 1: For a season. It's not permanent.

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Speaker 2: I was in my backyard one time and my grass

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Speaker 2: looked so dead. It was brown, worn out, run down.

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Speaker 2: I called the man that helps with my landscaping, said

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Speaker 2: what happened to my grass?

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Speaker 1: Why did it die?

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Speaker 2: He kind of laughed and said, Joel, it's not dead.

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Speaker 2: It's just not in season. It's dormant right now, but

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Speaker 2: in a few months it will be as green and

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Speaker 2: lush as can be.

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Speaker 1: See, I was worried about something that was only temporary.

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Speaker 1: I thought that's the way it was always going to be.

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Speaker 2: When I realized that that was normal.

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Speaker 1: I never worried about it again.

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Speaker 2: When I saw my brown grass, I thought, no big deal,

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Speaker 2: just a matter of time for it's back to green.

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Speaker 2: Are you worried about things that are only temporary? Letting

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Speaker 2: something steal your joy because you think that's the way

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Speaker 2: it's always going to be. Can I tell you your

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Speaker 2: dream is not dead, it's just not in season.

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Speaker 1: Your time is coming. The right people, the right.

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Speaker 2: Breaks, favor, restoration, vindication. That's what's headed your way. These

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Speaker 2: light afflictions are for a moment. It goes on to say,

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Speaker 2: they work in us and eternal weight of glory. In

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Speaker 2: other words, the adversity is temporary, the glory is eternal. Friends,

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Speaker 2: stir up what God's put on the inside.

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Speaker 1: You may have a dream that you buried.

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Speaker 2: You need to get your shovel out and start thanking

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Speaker 2: God that it's still coming to pass. Perhaps you're on

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Speaker 2: a detour right now, something you don't understand. Don't get discouraged.

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Speaker 2: It's temporary. You're just passing through. It's easy to remember

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Speaker 2: the hurt, the disappointment, the failure. I'm asking you to

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Speaker 2: remember your dream, remember what God's promised you.

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Speaker 1: If you'll do.

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Speaker 2: This, I believe and declare dreams that you buried are

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Speaker 2: about to come back to life. Promises you've given up

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Speaker 2: on are being resurrected. Like Joseph, God is going to

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Speaker 2: turn every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

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Speaker 1: You're going to rise higher, accomplish your goals.

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Speaker 2: And become everything you were created to be in Jesus's name.

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Speaker 1: If you receive it, can you say it?

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Speaker 2: Men? Today, we never like to close our broadcast without

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Speaker 2: giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of

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Speaker 2: your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus,

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Speaker 2: I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: Keep God first place. He's going to take your places

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Speaker 2: that you've never dreamed. It's easy to get stuck in

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Speaker 2: life because of fear and lack of confidence. We've been

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Speaker 1: Victoria's new book, Grace to Go.

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Speaker 3: My heart for this book is that you will discover

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Speaker 3: put in you so that you can see your dreams

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Speaker 3: come to pass. It's not too late, the obstacles are

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