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Speaker 5: to start with something funny and I heard about this
Speaker 5: man that died and went to heaven. Saint Peter escorted
Speaker 5: him down this long hallway filled with clocks. The hens
Speaker 5: on the clocks were all moving at different speeds. Peter
Speaker 5: explained that every person has a clock. When they send
Speaker 5: the clock ticks. The man saw a clock barely moving.
Speaker 5: It's Billy Graham's clock. There was another clock creeping along
Speaker 5: Mother Teresa's clock. He said, curiously, can I see my clock?
Speaker 5: Peter said, yeah, we keep yours in the office and
Speaker 5: use it as a fan. Hold up your Bible, say
Speaker 5: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I
Speaker 5: am what it says I am. I have what it
Speaker 5: says I have. I can do what it says I
Speaker 5: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.
Speaker 5: I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about
Speaker 5: remember your dream. All of us have things that we're
Speaker 5: believing for, something that we want to accomplish. Deep down,
Speaker 5: we know it's a part of our destiny. We can
Speaker 5: feel it so strongly. But then we hit some setbacks.
Speaker 5: We didn't get the promotion, the medical report wasn't good,
Speaker 5: or a relationship didn't work out. Life has a way
Speaker 5: of pushing our dreams down. They can become buried under discouragement,
Speaker 5: buried under past mistakes. There are dreams buried under divorce,
Speaker 5: buried under low self esteem. It's easy to settle for mediocrity,
Speaker 5: even though we have all this potential buried on the inside.
Speaker 5: But just because you gave up doesn't mean God gave up.
Speaker 5: Your dream may be married. The good news is it's
Speaker 5: still alive. It's not too late to see it come
Speaker 5: to pass. And we've all been through disappointments and set
Speaker 5: backs and life happens. But instead of remembering the hurt,
Speaker 5: the pain, what didn't work out. The key to reaching
Speaker 5: your destiny is you have.
Speaker 6: To remember your dream. Remember what God promised you, Remember
Speaker 6: what He whispered to you in the middle of the night.
Speaker 6: The scripture calls it the secret petitions of our heart,
Speaker 6: things you haven't told anybody about.
Speaker 5: It may seem possible. Every voice tells you it's not
Speaker 5: going to happen. You've been pushing it down. But God
Speaker 5: is saying what I promised you, I'm still going to do.
Speaker 5: I spoke it to you. It may not have happened yet,
Speaker 5: but I am true to my word. It is on
Speaker 5: the way if you'll do your part and start believing again,
Speaker 5: get your passion back. God is going to resurrect what
Speaker 5: you thought was dead, dreams that you're giving up on.
Speaker 5: You tried, it didn't work out. It's been so long.
Speaker 5: They're going to suddenly come back to life. Problems that
Speaker 5: looked permanent going to suddenly turn around what should have
Speaker 5: taken years. God's going to do in a fraction of
Speaker 5: the time. He hasn't changed his mind. He has the
Speaker 5: final say. Now, don't let circumstances talk you out of it.
Speaker 5: You may not understand why a business didn't make it,
Speaker 5: why a person walked away, why you came down with
Speaker 5: an illness. You were doing the right thing, but the
Speaker 5: wrong thing happened. It's all a part of the process.
Speaker 5: Every disappointment, every delay, every closed door, it's not just
Speaker 5: a set back. It's a setup for God to get
Speaker 5: you to where you're supposed to be. It may be
Speaker 5: taken a long time, may look impossible. All it takes
Speaker 5: is one touch of God's favor. What are you remembering
Speaker 5: the hurt, the pain? What didn't work out, Turn it
Speaker 5: around and remember your dream. What is God put in
Speaker 5: your heart? What did you used to be excited about?
Speaker 5: Now you think it's been too long, it's too big,
Speaker 5: it's not possible. You don't think you could write the book,
Speaker 5: finish school, see your marriage restored, start the business. No,
Speaker 5: get your passion back. You have not missed your opportunity.
Speaker 5: You have not had too many bad breaks. You're not lacking.
Speaker 5: You didn't get short changed. When God breathed life into you,
Speaker 5: he put in you everything you need to fulfill your destiny.
Speaker 5: People can't stop you bad breaks, disappointments lost. The most
Speaker 5: High God is on your side. You have royal blood
Speaker 5: flowing through your veins. There are seeds of greatness in
Speaker 5: you right now, dreams so big that you can accomplish
Speaker 5: them on your own. It's going to take you connecting
Speaker 5: with your creator. Believe that you're a person of destiny,
Speaker 5: that he's directing your steps. That if he before you,
Speaker 5: who dare be against you? When we go through opposition
Speaker 5: these challenging times, we don't have to fall apart. God
Speaker 5: controls the whole universe. He won't allow anything to happen
Speaker 5: unless he knows how to bring good out of it.
Speaker 5: But you have to do your part and keep your
Speaker 5: faith stirred up. The enemy would love to deceive you
Speaker 5: into burying your dream, thinking that it's never going to
Speaker 5: work out. Don't believe those lies. It's not too late
Speaker 5: to become all that you were created to be. And
Speaker 5: every time you remember your dream, every time you say Lord,
Speaker 5: thank you for bringing it to pass, you're removing some dirt.
Speaker 5: You're digging it back out. Maybe you've struggled with an
Speaker 5: illness for a long time. Early on you believed you
Speaker 5: could get well, but now it's been years and you're
Speaker 5: just learning to live with it. What's happened is your healing,
Speaker 5: your breakthrough, your freedom has gotten buried. It's still in you,
Speaker 5: it's still alive. If you'll start believing again, God can
Speaker 5: bring it to pass instead of thinking, well, it's never
Speaker 5: gonna work out. I've had so many bad medical reports.
Speaker 5: That's putting more dirt on it, that's burying it deeper.
Speaker 5: Why don't you get your shovel out and start removing
Speaker 5: some of that dirt. How do you do that? Lord,
Speaker 5: Thank you that you're restoring health back into me. Think
Speaker 5: you that the number of my days. You will fulfilled.
Speaker 5: Think you that don't getting stronger, healthier if you'll keep
Speaker 5: talking thinking like that, that dream that's been buried is
Speaker 5: going to come back to life. This is what allows
Speaker 5: God to do great things. God is moved by our faith.
Speaker 5: He's not moved by our discouragement, by our complaining, by
Speaker 5: our self pity. Joel, I'm never going to meet the
Speaker 5: right person. I've been hurt too many times. You're remembering
Speaker 5: the wrong thing. As long as you remember the hurt,
Speaker 5: you're going to get stuck. Turn it around. Start remembering
Speaker 5: you Father, Thank you that you have a divine connection.
Speaker 5: Come in my way, somebody perfect for me, better than
Speaker 5: I ever imagine. Instead of I'll never be in management.
Speaker 5: I'll never get the promotion this company. They don't even
Speaker 5: like me. You're putting more dirt on your dream. You're
Speaker 5: burying it deeper. Get your shovel and start digging that
Speaker 5: dream out. Some of you have done this so long.
Speaker 5: You need a back hole, you need some heavy equipment.
Speaker 5: That dream is way deep, but you can dig it out.
Speaker 5: You can bring it back to life. It starts in
Speaker 5: our thinking, in what you're believing, in what you're saying.
Speaker 4: No more.
Speaker 5: It's never gonna happen. I'll never break this addiction. I'll
Speaker 5: never live in a nice house, I'll never finish college. No,
Speaker 5: I'm surrounded by God's favor. Blessings are chasing me down
Speaker 5: because I delight myself and the Lord God. You promised
Speaker 5: you would give me the desires of my heart. Whatever
Speaker 5: God's put on the inside, no matter how long it's been,
Speaker 5: no matter how impossible it looks, I'm asking you to
Speaker 5: stir it up. You have to get in agreement with God.
Speaker 5: He's the giver of all dreams. He's the one that
Speaker 5: put the desires in you. You may need to get alone,
Speaker 5: in your quiet time, search your heart. Say God, anything
Speaker 5: I've push down, anything I've given up on, showed me
Speaker 5: what it is. God, don't let me die with any
Speaker 5: dreams still buried on the inside. This is what Caleb did.
Speaker 5: He and his friend Joshua went and spied out the
Speaker 5: promised land. They came back and told Moses, we are
Speaker 5: well able to take the land, let us go in
Speaker 5: at once. But the other ten spies came back and
Speaker 5: said just the opposite. They talked Moses out of it.
Speaker 5: The Israelites became afraid and some two million people, even
Speaker 5: though they were camped right next door. They turned around
Speaker 5: and that group never did make it into the Promised Land.
Speaker 5: Now I can imagine that Caleb was disappointed, discouraged. He
Speaker 5: knew they were supposed to go in. God put the
Speaker 5: dream in his heart, and it looked like somebody else
Speaker 5: caused his dreams to get buried, caused him to miss
Speaker 5: his destiny. And a lot of people could have settled
Speaker 5: there and thought too bad it didn't work out, But
Speaker 5: not Caleb. The true mark of a champion is even
Speaker 5: though some dirt gets thrown on your dream, instead of
Speaker 5: letting it get buried, you keep shaking it off. You
Speaker 5: keep moving forward, You keep looking for new opportunities. Forty
Speaker 5: five years later, at the age of eighty five, Caleb
Speaker 5: could still feel that dream stirring on the inside. He
Speaker 5: wasn't sitting around feeling sorry for himself, saying God, if
Speaker 5: only those people would have done right back then. No,
Speaker 5: he went back to that same mountain, that same place
Speaker 5: the others refused to go in, and at eighty five
Speaker 5: he said, God, give me this same mountain. What significant
Speaker 5: is that mountain had five giants living on it. There
Speaker 5: were other mountains with less opposition. That would have been
Speaker 5: much easier. I can hear a friends say, come on, Caleb,
Speaker 5: you're eighty five, let's go take this easy mountain. He said, no, thanks.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to settle for mediocrity when I know
Speaker 5: God has placed greatness in me. I want that same mountain.
Speaker 5: That's the dream that's been stirring in my spirit all
Speaker 5: these years. At eighty five, he went out and conquered
Speaker 5: the mountain, saw the dream come to pass. Have you
Speaker 5: allowed any dreams to get buried in you? At one time,
Speaker 5: you believed you could do something great. You believed you
Speaker 5: could lead the company in sales. You believed you could
Speaker 5: break that addiction. It's been a long time, had some
Speaker 5: bad breaks. Wasn't all your fault? You could easily settle
Speaker 5: where you are. Nobody would fault you. God sent me
Speaker 5: to a new fire. On the inside, that dream is
Speaker 5: still alive. You may have tried a year ago, five
Speaker 5: years ago, or forty years ago, didn't work out. Nobody
Speaker 5: was there to help you. God is saying to you
Speaker 5: what he said to Caleb, go back and try again.
Speaker 5: This is your time, This is your moment. Your destiny
Speaker 5: is calling out to you. You have to be like Caleb.
Speaker 5: You can't have a week defeated, give up spirit. I'll
Speaker 5: take the easy way out. I'll settle for second best.
Speaker 5: I don't want to put forth the effort. If you
Speaker 5: don't stir it up, you can miss who you were
Speaker 5: created to be. You may have been knocked down, but
Speaker 5: you got to get back up again and said, God,
Speaker 5: give me this same mountain. I don't want a substitute.
Speaker 5: I don't want second best. God. I'm going after what
Speaker 5: you placed in my heart. If you will remember your
Speaker 5: dream like that, God will help you to accomplish what
Speaker 5: you didn't accomplish. Early on, I saw a report about
Speaker 5: this man. He was raised in a very disfunctional environment
Speaker 5: in government housing, very low income. His father was not
Speaker 5: a part of his life. His mother, a teenager, was
Speaker 5: never around. From the time he was a little boy,
Speaker 5: he had a dream to become a writer. He went
Speaker 5: to school, but there was no structure in his house,
Speaker 5: no guidance. At fifteen, he dropped out of school. He
Speaker 5: had never learned how to read or write. He was
Speaker 5: so embarrassed by it he started drinking, trying to numb
Speaker 5: the pain. For thirty five years, All he did was
Speaker 5: hang out on the streets and drink with his buddies.
Speaker 5: One day, something rose up in him like fire on
Speaker 5: the inside. He told his buddies, this is the last
Speaker 5: time you will ever see me take another drink of alcohol.
Speaker 5: I am fed up living like this. They laughed and said,
Speaker 5: yeah right. But that day was a turning point. He
Speaker 5: was instantly set free from the alcohol. He never touched
Speaker 5: it again. Fifty one years old, he went back to
Speaker 5: school and learned how to write god Is diploma. He
Speaker 5: was so proud. He started writing poetry. He was very eloquent,
Speaker 5: very talented. That dream had been buried under dysfunction, under addictions,
Speaker 5: but it was still alive. At one point he entered
Speaker 5: this very prestigious national writing contest and he won the
Speaker 5: grand prize first place. Today, at seventy five, he continues writing,
Speaker 5: inspiring others, letting them know that it's never too late
Speaker 5: to accomplish your dreams. What am I saying? What you
Speaker 5: gave up on God, didn't give up on what you
Speaker 5: wanted to do earlier in life. Just because it didn't
Speaker 5: work out doesn't mean that it went away. It's still
Speaker 5: in you, Jeremiah said, your word Oh Lord, is like
Speaker 5: fire shut up in my bones. I believe there are
Speaker 5: some dreams shut up in you like fire. You're going
Speaker 5: to feel your destiny calling out. May not have happened
Speaker 5: the first time. The loan didn't go through, you didn't
Speaker 5: get chosen for the part, the medical report wasn't good.
Speaker 5: That's okay. This is a new day. What God started,
Speaker 5: he's going to finish. You may have missed some opportunities,
Speaker 5: but God knows how to make up for lost time.
Speaker 5: He's going to give you another chance. He said in
Speaker 5: the Book of Joel, I will restore the years that
Speaker 5: have been stolen. You may have lost years because somebody
Speaker 5: else puts you at a disadvantage, or years because of
Speaker 5: your own choices. God knows how to make up for it.
Speaker 5: He's still going to get you to where you're supposed
Speaker 5: to be. This is what happened to Joseph in the scripture.
Speaker 5: God gave him a dream that one day he would
Speaker 5: rule a nation. In this dream, he saw his brothers
Speaker 5: bowing down before him. Joseph should have used more wisdom
Speaker 5: and not told his brothers that part of the dream.
Speaker 5: Certain things you should keep to yourself. Some people can't
Speaker 5: handle what God's put in you. They won't celebrate you.
Speaker 5: They'll be jealous, fine, fault, be critical. One day, Joseph
Speaker 5: went to see his ten brothers. When he walked up,
Speaker 5: one of them said, sarcastically, here comes the dreamer. They
Speaker 5: weren't upset because he was their father's favorite child. They
Speaker 5: weren't upset because he was wearing a coat of many colors,
Speaker 5: a coat that represents favor. They were upset because he
Speaker 5: had a dream. They were offended because he was determined
Speaker 5: to break out of the mold, to do something great,
Speaker 5: to leave his mark. They would have been fine if
Speaker 5: he was content to be average, to accept the status quo.
Speaker 5: But when you stir up what God has put on
Speaker 5: the inside, believe that you have seeds of greatness. Believe
Speaker 5: that you can overcome that illness, break the addiction, pay
Speaker 5: your house off, be blessed in spite of past mistakes.
Speaker 5: Let me warn you, everybody will not celebrate you when
Speaker 5: you have a dream. You're going to have some detractors.
Speaker 5: People will get jealous, try to make you look bad,
Speaker 5: try to talk you out of it, say things like
Speaker 5: you really think you can get that promotion? You don't
Speaker 5: have the experience the talent. I don't think so. You
Speaker 5: really think you're still going to get married. You've tried
Speaker 5: three times, hadn't happened. Wet, you're getting kind of old.
Speaker 5: Let that go in one ear and out the other.
Speaker 5: People don't determine your destiny. God does. The critics, the naysayers,
Speaker 5: the detractors. They cannot stop your dream. They may do
Speaker 5: something that puts you at a disadvantage, but God knows
Speaker 5: how to take what's meant for harm and use it
Speaker 5: for your good. Joseph's own brothers tried to push his
Speaker 5: dream down. I say this respectfully, but sometimes your relatives
Speaker 5: won't celebrate you. Sometimes the people closest to you will
Speaker 5: be the least supportive. Don't get distracted fighting battles that
Speaker 5: don't matter, trying to prove to them who you are,
Speaker 5: trying to convince them how they should be for you.
Speaker 5: You don't need their approval. You have Almighty God's approval.
Speaker 5: Let it go and run your race. What stirs them
Speaker 5: up is the fact that you're moving forward pursuing your destiny.
Speaker 5: They would love to convince you to keep your dream
Speaker 5: buried so you don't rise higher and make them look bad.
Speaker 5: They don't realize God has put dreams in them. If
Speaker 5: they would stir it up, they could fulfill their purpose.
Speaker 5: Successful people people that have a dream don't waste their
Speaker 5: valuable time looking at what everybody else is doing. They're
Speaker 5: too busy focused on what God has put in their
Speaker 5: own heart. Bottom line, the enemy targets people who have
Speaker 5: a dream. He'll use opposition, discouragement, delays, jealousy, everything he
Speaker 5: can to try to convince you to bury that dream.
Speaker 5: If you're going to reach your highest potential, you have
Speaker 5: to make up your mind that you are in it
Speaker 5: for the long haul. You're not going to let people
Speaker 5: talk you out of it. Circumstances discourage you, Delays cause
Speaker 5: you to give up, critical people cause you to get distracted.
Speaker 5: You're going to stay focused on your goal. And here's
Speaker 5: the key. You wouldn't be having that opposition if you
Speaker 5: didn't have something great in you. If your dream wasn't
Speaker 5: alive and on track, right on schedule to come to pass,
Speaker 5: you wouldn't have so many things coming against you. But
Speaker 5: when the enemy looks at you, he says, oh no,
Speaker 5: here comes another dreamer. Here comes another person full of faith,
Speaker 5: believing that they have seeds of greatness, not moved by
Speaker 5: their circumstances, not upset because they have a delay. They're
Speaker 5: a dreamer. They know they have the favor of God.
Speaker 5: They know because they believe all things are possible. They
Speaker 5: know God can make a way when they don't see
Speaker 5: away friends. When you're a dreamer, you're dangerous to the enemy.
Speaker 5: You give him a nervous breakdown. He knows you're headed
Speaker 5: to a new level. He knows you're coming into overflow.
Speaker 5: He knows you're going to set a new standard for
Speaker 5: your family. And here's the most important thing. He knows
Speaker 5: there's nothing he can do to stop you. The forces
Speaker 5: that are for you are greater than the forces that
Speaker 5: are against you. But he will work over time trying
Speaker 5: to convince us to settle, to give up, to stay
Speaker 5: where we are. You have to remember this principle. When
Speaker 5: negative things happen, that's not stop your destiny. That's a
Speaker 5: sign that you're on your way to your destiny. Every delay,
Speaker 5: the setbacks, the disappointment, that didn't stop your dream, it's
Speaker 5: all a part of the process. Joseph's brothers they were
Speaker 5: jealous of him. They threw him into a pit. They
Speaker 5: were going to leave him there to die, but they
Speaker 5: saw this caravan coming by. They ended up selling him
Speaker 5: as a slave to an influential man named Potiphar. Year
Speaker 5: after year, Joseph worked for Potterphar, kept a good attitude,
Speaker 5: kept being his best. But one bad thing after another
Speaker 5: happened to Joseph. Potterphar's wife lied about him, falsely accused him.
Speaker 5: He was put in prison for something he didn't do.
Speaker 5: He spent years there. One night, this pharaoh had a dream.
Speaker 5: He didn't understand what it meant. Joseph was able to
Speaker 5: interpret that dream. Pharah was so impressed with him he
Speaker 5: brought Joseph out of prison and put him in charge
Speaker 5: of the whole nation, just like Joseph had seen in
Speaker 5: his own Years later, there was a great famine in
Speaker 5: the land. People were desperate, trying to survive, trying to
Speaker 5: find food. Joseph was in charge of the food supply,
Speaker 5: one of the most important positions of that day. His brothers,
Speaker 5: the same ones that threw him into a pit. They
Speaker 5: traveled a long distance and showed up at the palace
Speaker 5: looking for food. They were right before him, bowing down,
Speaker 5: but they didn't recognize who Joseph was. You can imagine
Speaker 5: this is a very dramatic moment for Joseph. These are
Speaker 5: the brothers that betrayed him. These are the brothers that
Speaker 5: caused him all the heartache and pain. You would think
Speaker 5: Joseph would be angry, bitter, vindictive. This was his chance
Speaker 5: to pay them back. But the scripture says when Joseph
Speaker 5: saw his brothers, he remembered his dream. He didn't remember
Speaker 5: the hurt, he didn't remember the betrayal, the lonely nights,
Speaker 5: the times he was confused. He remembered the promise. He
Speaker 5: remembered what God had spoken to him. Now, all these
Speaker 5: bad breaks, it looked like Joseph missed his destiny. The
Speaker 5: whole time, God was directing his steps, leading him, guiding him.
Speaker 5: It was all a part of the process to get
Speaker 5: him to where he was supposed to be. When God
Speaker 5: puts a dream in your heart, when he gives you
Speaker 5: a promise, it doesn't mean that it's going to come
Speaker 5: to pass with no opposition, no delays, no adversity. There
Speaker 5: will be things that you don't understand. You'll have plenty
Speaker 5: of opportunities to get negative and think I must not
Speaker 5: have heard God right In those tough times, you have
Speaker 5: to do like Joseph and remember your dream. God has
Speaker 5: not brought you this far to leave you. He has
Speaker 5: you in the palm of his hand. He's directing your steps.
Speaker 5: Now do your part. Dare to try him, dare to believe.
Speaker 5: Let him fight your battles, Let him be your vindicator.
Speaker 5: He has it all figured out. Well, Joel, I'm upset.
Speaker 5: I don't understand it. I got thrown into a pit.
Speaker 5: Don't worry. Another caravan is coming to move you onto
Speaker 5: your next location. Well, a friend lied about me, I
Speaker 5: lost a loved one, I went through a divorce. Don't
Speaker 5: get bitter. It's just a detour on the way to
Speaker 5: your destiny. The palace is coming, the promise is on track.
Speaker 5: The dream will be fulfilled. The scripture says, these light
Speaker 5: afflictions are for a moment when you face opposition. Things
Speaker 5: don't go your way. Recognize that it's not permanent. That's
Speaker 5: not your final destination. Quit worrying about things that are
Speaker 5: only temporary. Like Joseph, the pit is temporary, the injustice
Speaker 5: is temporary. The betrayal is not your permanent home. It's
Speaker 5: a temporary style. The psawmis put it this way, passing
Speaker 5: through the valley of weeping. It doesn't say settling in
Speaker 5: the valley, getting stuck in the valley, building your house
Speaker 5: in the valley. The valley is temporary, you're passing through it.
Speaker 5: My challenge quit losing sleep over a temporary stop. Quit
Speaker 5: being discouraged over something that's only for a season. It's
Speaker 5: not permanent. I was in my backyard one time and
Speaker 5: my grass looked so dead. It was brown, worn out,
Speaker 5: run down. I called the man that helps with my landscaping, said,
Speaker 5: what happened to my grass? Why did it die? He
Speaker 5: kind of laughed and said, Joel, it's not dead. It's
Speaker 5: just not in season. It's dormant right now, but in
Speaker 5: a few months it will be as green and lush
Speaker 5: as can be. See. I was worried about something that
Speaker 5: was only temporary. I thought that's the way it was
Speaker 5: always going to be. When I realized that that was normal,
Speaker 5: I never worried about it again. When I saw my
Speaker 5: brown grass, I thought, no big deal, just a matter
Speaker 5: of time for it's back to green. Are you worried
Speaker 5: about things that are only temporary? Letting something steal your
Speaker 5: joy because you think that's the way it's always going
Speaker 5: to be. Can I tell you your dream is not dead,
Speaker 5: it's just not in season. Your time is coming the
Speaker 5: right people, the right breaks, favor, restoration, vindication. That's what's
Speaker 5: headed your way. These light afflictions are for a moment.
Speaker 5: It goes on to say, they work in us and
Speaker 5: eternal weight of glory. In other words, the adversity is temporary,
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Speaker 5: on the inside. You may have a dream that you bury.
Speaker 5: You need to get your shovel out and start thanking
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Speaker 5: a detour right now, something you don't understand. Don't get this.
Speaker 5: It's temporary. You're just passing through. It's easy to remember
Speaker 5: the hurt, the disappointment, the failure. I'm asking you to
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Speaker 5: are about to come back to life. Promises you've given
Speaker 5: up on are being resurrected. Like Joseph, God is going
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Speaker 5: receive it, can you say amen today? We never like
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