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Joel Osteen Podcast - Trouble Is Temporary | Joel Osteen · Top Churches

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Speaker 1: And thanks again for coming out today. I like to
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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about these three
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Speaker 1: men that were traveling together. It was a Hindu priest,
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Speaker 1: a Jewish rabbi, and a televangelist. They stopped at a
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Speaker 1: farmhouse for lodging. The farmer said, I only have room
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Speaker 1: for two of you in the house. Somebody will have
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Speaker 1: to stay in the barn. The Hindu priest said, I'll
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Speaker 1: do it. A few minutes, there was a knock on
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Speaker 1: the door. He said, I can't stay out there. There's
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Speaker 1: a cow, and cows are sacred in our religion. The
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Speaker 1: Jewish rabbi said, I'll do it. A few minutes later,
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Speaker 1: a knock on the door said, I can't stay out there.
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Speaker 1: There's a pig that wouldn't be kosher. The televangelist finally said,
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Speaker 1: all right, I'll do it. In a few minutes, there
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Speaker 1: was a knock on the door. It was the cow
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Speaker 1: and the pig. I'm the only one that got it.
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Speaker 1: Here we go. Ready? This is my Bible. I am
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Speaker 1: what it says I am. I have what it says
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Speaker 1: I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today,
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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly
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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I
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Speaker 1: will never be the same in Jesus name. God bless you.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about trouble is temporary.
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Speaker 1: We all face difficulties that don't look like they'll ever change.
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Speaker 1: Seems like the more we pray, the worse it gets.
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Speaker 1: We don't see any sign of things improving. It's easy
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Speaker 1: to live discouraged and accept that it's not meant to be.
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Speaker 1: But Paul said in 2 Corinthians, our present troubles are
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Speaker 1: small and won't last very long. These troubles will soon
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Speaker 1: be over, but the joy to come will last forever.
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Speaker 1: What you're up against may look permanent, Seems like it's
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Speaker 1: going to take years to get well years to get
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Speaker 1: out of debt years to meet the right person Don't
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Speaker 1: be fooled by what you see god is saying the
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Speaker 1: trouble is only temporary It's not going to last very
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Speaker 1: long soon. It's going to be over Soon you're going
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Speaker 1: to see the breakthrough. Soon your health is going to
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Speaker 1: turn around. Soon you're going to meet the person of
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Speaker 1: your dreams. You may not see how this can happen.
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Speaker 1: Everything in your reasoning says it's not possible. You're looking
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Speaker 1: at it in the natural. We serve a supernatural God.
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Speaker 1: He can make things happen that you can't make happen.
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Speaker 1: And instead of thinking of all the reasons why it's
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Speaker 1: not going to work out, how it's going to take forever,
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Speaker 1: try a different approach. Father, thank you that this difficulty
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Speaker 1: will soon be over. Thank you that this sickness, this depression,
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Speaker 1: this family problem will not last very long. Joel, it's
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Speaker 1: already been a long time. That means you are very
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Speaker 1: close to seeing it turn around. You're on the verge
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Speaker 1: of a breakthrough. You're about to see freedom, promotion, problems
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Speaker 1: suddenly resolve, dreams suddenly come to pass. Not in the
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Speaker 1: sweet by and by, but soon things are going to change.
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Speaker 1: Soon that child is going to get back on course.
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Speaker 1: Soon that new door is going to open. Soon the
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Speaker 1: right person is going to show up. Soon you're going
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Speaker 1: to come into overflow. Now you have to get in
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Speaker 1: agreement with God and have a soon mentality. As long
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Speaker 1: as you think it's going to take years, that's going
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Speaker 1: to stop God from working. When you have this soon mentality,
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Speaker 1: you get up each morning with expectancy, knowing that this
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Speaker 1: could be the day that God shows out in your life.
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Speaker 1: When is your health going to turn around? I don't know, Joel.
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Speaker 1: This medical report doesn't look very good at all. That's
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Speaker 1: one report. I'm giving you another report. Soon things are
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Speaker 1: going to change in your favor. When are you going
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Speaker 1: to get out of debt? It looks like it's going
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Speaker 1: to take me 112 years to pay everything off. You're
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Speaker 1: going to be in heaven by then. How about soon
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Speaker 1: I'm coming out of debt? Soon I'm going to lend
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Speaker 1: and not borrow. How can that happen? God owns it all.
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Speaker 1: One touch of his favor and you'll have more than enough.
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Speaker 1: One good break, one idea, one contract and everything will change.
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Speaker 1: When are you going to overcome that addiction? Soon. When
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Speaker 1: are you going to meet the right person? Soon. When
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Speaker 1: is that legal issue going to resolve? Soon. When are
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Speaker 1: you going to sell that property? Soon. When are you
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Speaker 1: going to start your business? Soon. Your mind will tell
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Speaker 1: you all the reasons it's not going to happen. Your
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Speaker 1: problem's too big. The people that you're up against are
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Speaker 1: too powerful. It's been that way too long. Don't believe
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Speaker 1: those lies. Receive this into your spirit. The problem will
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Speaker 1: soon be over. The loneliness will soon be gone. The anxiety,
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Speaker 1: the grief, the barrenness, not able to have a child
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Speaker 1: is coming to an end soon. These present troubles will
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Speaker 1: not last very long. Job went through a great difficulty.
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Speaker 1: He was doing the right thing, honoring God, and the
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Speaker 1: bottom fell out. He lost his business, lost his children,
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Speaker 1: lost his health. He had boils all over his body.
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Speaker 1: And just because we're people of faith doesn't mean we
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Speaker 1: won't have difficulties. You can be doing the right thing
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Speaker 1: and come into trouble. The scripture says, rain falls on
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Speaker 1: the just and the unjust. When it rains at my house,
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Speaker 1: my property gets wet. my next door neighbors, people across
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Speaker 1: the street, everyone in the neighborhood. The rain doesn't discriminate.
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Speaker 1: Don't get discouraged by difficulties. It's just life. The promise
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Speaker 1: we have is not that trouble won't come, but the
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Speaker 1: trouble is not going to last. Soon the trouble will
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Speaker 1: be over. When you're in difficulties, things happen like with
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Speaker 1: Job that you don't understand. He came down with an illness.
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Speaker 1: People at work turned on you. You had a setback
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Speaker 1: in your business. It's easy to live worried, thinking that
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Speaker 1: it's never going to work out. You have to remind
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Speaker 1: yourself it is not permanent. It is not going to
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Speaker 1: last long. Soon it will resolve. All through the day,
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Speaker 1: you need to keep this in your heart. Father, thank
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Speaker 1: you that this trouble is only temporary, that it didn't
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Speaker 1: come to stay, it came to pass. Thank you that
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Speaker 1: it will soon be over. When Job looked at all
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Speaker 1: his circumstances, everything that went wrong, all that he had lost,
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Speaker 1: he got depressed. He sat down in the ashes and
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Speaker 1: wanted to die. One reason he was so discouraged is
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Speaker 1: he saw the trouble as permanent. He didn't see any
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Speaker 1: way he could get out. As long as he had
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Speaker 1: this forever mentality, this is how my life is always
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Speaker 1: going to be, he felt overwhelmed. When you have a setback,
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Speaker 1: thoughts will tell you it's permanent. You'll never get well.
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Speaker 1: You'll never be happy again. You'll never meet someone. If
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Speaker 1: you believe those forever lies, you'll get discouraged and lose
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Speaker 1: your passion. But God won't let you get in a
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Speaker 1: situation that he can't bring you out of. If the
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Speaker 1: trouble was too much, the sickness too great, the opposition
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Speaker 1: too strong, he wouldn't have allowed it. It's a test.
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Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Get discouraged, give up
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Speaker 1: on dreams, live defeated, or are you going to believe
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Speaker 1: that God is on the throne, that he's bigger than
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Speaker 1: what you're facing, that the trouble is temporary, that it's
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Speaker 1: not going to last long? What you believe in times
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Speaker 1: of trouble will determine whether you come out or whether
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Speaker 1: you get stuck there. And at one point, Job changed
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Speaker 1: his attitude. Instead of sitting around defeated, he got up
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Speaker 1: out of the ashes, looked up toward the heavens and said,
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Speaker 1: I know my redeemer lives. He was saying, I know
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Speaker 1: God is still on the throne. I know this difficulty
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Speaker 1: can't stop my destiny. What he has purposed for my
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Speaker 1: life will come to pass. He shifted to an attitude
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Speaker 1: of faith. God let us see both sides of Job,
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Speaker 1: him discouraged, despondent, then him switching over to faith to
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Speaker 1: let us know it's okay to feel things. It's okay
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Speaker 1: to have times when you feel discouraged. You don't see
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Speaker 1: how it can work out. It's okay to start there,
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Speaker 1: but don't finish there. Don't stay in the ashes. Don't
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Speaker 1: stay defeated. At some point, you have to do like
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Speaker 1: Job and say, I know my Redeemer lives. I know
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Speaker 1: God didn't bring me this far to leave me. I
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Speaker 1: know this problem is not permanent. Lord, thank you that
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Speaker 1: it will soon be over. Do you know what that
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Speaker 1: does to the enemy? When he hits you with his
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Speaker 1: best shot, but you don't start complaining, you don't stay
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Speaker 1: in the ashes, you start declaring, soon it's going to
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Speaker 1: turn around. Soon I'm gonna get well. Soon I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: meet someone new. Soon my business is going to take off.
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Speaker 1: Soon I'm gonna laugh again, love again, lead again, run again.
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Speaker 1: When you live with this soon mentality, all the forces
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Speaker 1: of darkness cannot keep you down. Job's situation looked permanent,
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Speaker 1: looked like he had seen his best days, but God
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Speaker 1: not only turned it around, but Job came out with
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Speaker 1: twice what he had before. The scripture says he had
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Speaker 1: twice the cattle, twice the sheep. He got his business back.
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Speaker 1: God never brings you out the same. He makes the
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Speaker 1: enemy pay for bringing the trouble. We hear a lot
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Speaker 1: about the suffering of Job all that he went through.
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Speaker 1: Seems like that was his whole life. The entire book
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Speaker 1: of Job is about his struggle. You would think it
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Speaker 1: went on for 40 years, trouble, heartache, pain, but some
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Speaker 1: commentaries believe the whole struggle was only nine months. All
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Speaker 1: the sickness, all the trouble didn't last years, it was months.
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Speaker 1: What you think is going to take years, what looks
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Speaker 1: like it's going to be a long time to resolve,
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Speaker 1: like with Job, it's going to happen sooner than you think.
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Speaker 1: That trouble looks permanent, but God is saying it's not
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Speaker 1: going to last very long. You're about to see his
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Speaker 1: hand bring healing, restoration, divine connections, promotion. It's not by
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Speaker 1: your might, not by your power, but by the spirit
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Speaker 1: of the living God. 2003, the Houston City Council voted
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Speaker 1: for us to have the compact center. This was a
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Speaker 1: city owned building. We had worked for two years presenting
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Speaker 1: our case and trying to convince council members. When we
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Speaker 1: won the vote, we were so excited. It was like
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Speaker 1: God opened a door that we never dreamed would open.
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Speaker 1: The next day, a company that owns all the high
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Speaker 1: rises around this property filed a federal lawsuit to try
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Speaker 1: to keep us from moving in. They were the largest
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Speaker 1: taxpayer in Texas, a huge real estate company with property
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Speaker 1: all over the state. It was like David versus Goliath.
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Speaker 1: Our attorneys told us that it could be tied up
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Speaker 1: in the courts for 10 years. How these kinds of
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Speaker 1: legal proceedings can be extremely slow. That meant we couldn't
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Speaker 1: move in. We couldn't start our renovations. Our future concerning
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Speaker 1: this building was on hold. The problem was I had
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Speaker 1: already presented the compact center to the church. People had
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Speaker 1: already given to support it. Everyone was excited, asking when
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Speaker 1: are we moving in? I would wake up in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night in a cold sweat, thoughts telling me,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna look like a fool. What are you gonna
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Speaker 1: do if you don't win the lawsuit? I was tempted
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Speaker 1: to live worried, stressed, but I did what I'm asking
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Speaker 1: you to do. Despite what the experts were saying, despite
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Speaker 1: how permanent it looked, I said, Father, I want to
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Speaker 1: thank you that this trouble is only temporary, that it
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Speaker 1: won't last very long. Lord, I know you're working behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes, fighting our battles, making our crooked places straight,
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Speaker 1: shining down your favor on us. I would check with
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Speaker 1: the attorneys every week looking for some sign of hope.
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Speaker 1: Is there anything new? Nothing. We haven't heard from them.
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Speaker 1: They didn't want to negotiate. They were going to sit
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Speaker 1: back and wait, drag it out for years until we
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Speaker 1: had to do something else. And I could hear that promise,
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Speaker 1: that still small voice saying, Joel, trust me, this trouble
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Speaker 1: is only temporary. Soon it will be over. But my
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Speaker 1: mind would say, are you kidding? Nothing is improving. You're
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Speaker 1: years away from even finding out if it's going to
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Speaker 1: be yours. The battle is taking place in our thinking.
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Speaker 1: Don't accept the lies that it's permanent. It's going to
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Speaker 1: take a long, long time. You have to turn it
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Speaker 1: around and say, Father, thank you that this will resolve
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Speaker 1: sooner than it looks. About eight months after the lawsuit
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Speaker 1: was filed, we received a call from the other side
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Speaker 1: saying they wanted to meet. I was excited. I believed
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Speaker 1: it was the hand of God. Our attorneys were more skeptical.
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Speaker 1: They said it was a ploy. They were just trying
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Speaker 1: to complicate things. We met with them. Not only did
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Speaker 1: they agree to let us have this building, but to
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Speaker 1: lease us 9,000 covered parking spaces. They dropped the lawsuit.
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Speaker 1: The facility was ours, free and clear. What looked like
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Speaker 1: would take years to happen took place in a few months.
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Speaker 1: God is saying to you, what you're up against is
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Speaker 1: going to resolve much sooner than it looks. That trouble
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Speaker 1: is not going to last long. That addiction is not
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Speaker 1: going to hinder you your whole life. The sickness, depression,
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Speaker 1: anxiety is not going to stop your destiny. Soon it's
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Speaker 1: going to be over. Not years, but months. Why don't
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Speaker 1: you get in agreement with God? You may not see how.
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Speaker 1: The giant looks too big. The sickness too great. The
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Speaker 1: opposition too strong. You're not in this by yourself. The
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Speaker 1: Most High God is fighting for you. He knows how
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Speaker 1: to move people out of the way. He can do
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Speaker 1: what medicine cannot do. He can restore what's been stolen.
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Speaker 1: Sooner than later, you're going to see the hand of
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Speaker 1: God making things happen that you couldn't make happen, opening
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Speaker 1: doors that no person can shut, turning situations around that
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Speaker 1: look impossible. But it's easy to live with this forever mindset.
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Speaker 1: It's never going to work out. or maybe years down
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Speaker 1: the road, maybe one day, Joel, I'll get a good break,
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Speaker 1: switch over to a soon mentality. Now, I know some
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Speaker 1: things take time, but God promises us in this verse,
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Speaker 1: soon the trouble will be over. He's about to do
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Speaker 1: something out of a normal timeframe, something unusual sooner than
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Speaker 1: you think. Well, what if I believe and this doesn't happen?
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Speaker 1: What if you believe and it does happen? It probably
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Speaker 1: won't happen if you've already accepted it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a long time to get out of this trouble, a
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Speaker 1: long time to get well, to meet the right person,
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Speaker 1: to accomplish that dream. That's limiting what God will do.
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Speaker 1: I'm asking you to believe for sooner than later. Even
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Speaker 1: if it doesn't happen as soon as you like. Yes,
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Speaker 1: we all have to wait, but I've made up my mind.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna live with the soon mentality. I'm gonna keep
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Speaker 1: releasing my faith, reminding God what he promised, that this
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Speaker 1: difficulty will soon be over. There are 42 chapters in
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Speaker 1: the book of Job. All 42 talk about what he
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Speaker 1: went through. Seems like this struggle with his whole life.
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Speaker 1: But the last two verses of the book of Job
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Speaker 1: are very significant. After describing the trouble, the heartache, the
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Speaker 1: loss for 42 chapters, the last thing written says, after this,
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Speaker 1: Job lived 140 years and saw his children and grandchildren
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Speaker 1: for four generations. Then he died an old man having
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Speaker 1: lived a long, good life. Job's struggle was approximately nine months,
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Speaker 1: but after that struggle, he lived 140 good years, happy years,
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Speaker 1: healthy years, years where he enjoyed his children, years where
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Speaker 1: there was great joy and laughter in his house. God
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Speaker 1: was showing us the trouble is temporary. The trouble is
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Speaker 1: not going to last forever. You may be in a
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Speaker 1: difficult time, but that's not how your story ends. That
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Speaker 1: loss is not going to define you. That sickness is
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Speaker 1: not going to ruin the rest of your life. That
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Speaker 1: person that walked away, the bad break, the unfair situation
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Speaker 1: is not going to stop your purpose. God has an
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Speaker 1: after this for you. After the trouble, there's going to
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Speaker 1: be great joy in your life. After the loss, after
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Speaker 1: the sickness, after the legal battle, you're going to see
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Speaker 1: new friendships, new opportunities, new growth. Don't be discouraged by
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Speaker 1: the trouble. It's not stopping anything God has for you.
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Speaker 1: God is storing up all the joy, all the good breaks,
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Speaker 1: the favor, the resources that have been put on hold
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Speaker 1: because of this temporary trouble. You're not losing anything. What
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Speaker 1: belongs to you is still coming your way. Your latter
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Speaker 1: days will be better than your former days. Your story
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Speaker 1: doesn't end in Doesn't end in failure, injustice, sorrow. Those
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Speaker 1: are temporary seasons. Your story ends in victory. God has
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Speaker 1: already lined up an after this for you. He said
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Speaker 1: what was meant for your harm, he's turning to your advantage.
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Speaker 1: Even now, God is turning some things. He's turning the trouble.
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Speaker 1: turning the sickness, turning the people that are against you.
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Speaker 1: You're about to step in to an advantage, step into
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Speaker 1: favor that God has already lined up for you. When
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Speaker 1: we walked into that meeting, the CEO of the company
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Speaker 1: had already changed his mind. God had already turned his heart.
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Speaker 1: He was against us, but no person can stand against
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Speaker 1: our God. No bad break, no sickness, no trouble. God
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Speaker 1: controls the universe. He said, weeping may endure for a night,
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Speaker 1: but joy is coming in the morning. You may be
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Speaker 1: in a night season. Can I encourage you? It's temporary.
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Speaker 1: Joy is on the way. God is going to turn
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Speaker 1: your mourning into dancing your sorrow into joy What's holding
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Speaker 1: you back is not going to last much longer soon.
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Speaker 1: It will be over One time I was flying to
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Speaker 1: India with my father. It was a 15-hour flight. Everything
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Speaker 1: was going fine, cruising along very smoothly. But about 12
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Speaker 1: hours in, the plane hit this turbulence and started bouncing
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Speaker 1: around like a roller coaster, up and down. Everything started flying,
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Speaker 1: laptops hitting the ceiling. Some of the flight attendants had
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Speaker 1: gone up in the air, landed on top of other passengers.
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Speaker 1: People were screaming, panicking. For about 10 minutes, it was chaos.
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Speaker 1: You had to hold on for dear life. Eventually it
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Speaker 1: all calmed down Thankfully, nobody was injured went back to
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Speaker 1: smooth sailing the last several hours were as peaceful as
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Speaker 1: can be This is how it is in life. We're
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Speaker 1: going along fine Everyone is healthy. We're getting good breaks
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Speaker 1: then we hit some turbulence an unexpected challenge a sickness
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Speaker 1: a layoff a friend betrays you you didn't see it
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Speaker 1: coming and It's easy to panic god what's happening? Can
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Speaker 1: I encourage you? It's just a part of your 10
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Speaker 1: minutes of turbulence It's not going to last it may
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Speaker 1: be chaotic feel stressful, but it's going to calm down
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Speaker 1: There's going to be an after this for you after
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Speaker 1: the turbulence. You're going to come out just fine I've
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Speaker 1: discovered we're all going to have about 10 minutes of
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Speaker 1: turbulence Not at once but a minute here a minute
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Speaker 1: there Our mind will tell us it's permanent. I'll never
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Speaker 1: get through this difficulty. It's bumpier than I've ever felt.
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Speaker 1: God is still in control. He's not only flying your plane,
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Speaker 1: but he controls the weather. He speaks to storms and
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Speaker 1: they calm down. A friend of mine recently lost his job.
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Speaker 1: He'd been there for many years and wasn't about his performance.
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Speaker 1: They just didn't have the funds to pay him. He
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Speaker 1: was tempted to panic, be upset. I told him what
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Speaker 1: i'm telling you. This is not how your story ends
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Speaker 1: The trouble is going to pass and the rest of
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Speaker 1: already figured out. There's another position already lined up has
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Speaker 1: your name on it If you'll stay in faith and
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Speaker 1: keep being your best you're going to come in to
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Speaker 1: your after this You'll say after the layoff. I got
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Speaker 1: a better position After they walked away, I met someone better.
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Speaker 1: After the sickness, I came out stronger. What's interesting is
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Speaker 1: that 10 minutes of turbulence felt like 10 hours to me.
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Speaker 1: I was sweating, holding on for dear life, praying the
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Speaker 1: sinner's prayer 42 times. God, please forgive me. I'm about
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Speaker 1: to come see you. I was afraid and stressed out.
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Speaker 1: If I had known it was temporary, I would have
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the ride. pay a lot of money to go
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Speaker 1: to Disneyland to ride a ride like that. If I
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Speaker 1: had known it wasn't going to last very long, if
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Speaker 1: I had known everything was going to be all right,
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Speaker 1: I would have stayed in peace. Said, Lord, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I know this too shall pass. I know this temporary
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Speaker 1: problem is not going to stop your plan for my life.
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Speaker 1: I could have relaxed and saved myself a lot of
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Speaker 1: heartache if I had only remembered the trouble was temporary.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you're in part of your 10 minutes of turbulence now.
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Speaker 1: It feels like it's going to be 10 years. You're worried,
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Speaker 1: to a place of peace. It's not permanent. Things are
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Speaker 1: going to work out. God is going to get you
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Speaker 1: to your destiny. You may not see how. The winds
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Speaker 1: are strong. The plane is bouncing around. God controls the winds.
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Speaker 1: That cancer is not bigger than our God. That breakup
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Speaker 1: didn't stop your purpose. The trouble at work is not
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Speaker 1: going to last. God is behind the scenes right now
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Speaker 1: working in your life. Your time is coming. It's going
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Speaker 1: to happen sooner than you think. In the book of Genesis,
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Speaker 1: God told Noah that there was going to be a
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Speaker 1: take two of every kind of animal on it. While
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Speaker 1: he was building, I'm sure people made fun of him. Thought,
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Speaker 1: what's this crazy man doing? There's no water around here.
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Speaker 1: At that time, it had never rained. The dew came
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Speaker 1: up from the ground and watered the earth. You can
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Speaker 1: imagine how odd that seemed. But the scripture says Noah
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Speaker 1: did exactly what God asked him to do. He was obedient.
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Speaker 1: The rain came for 40 days. The whole earth was flooded.
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Speaker 1: Noah and his family were on the boat. Months and
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Speaker 1: be like that the rest of his life. He sent
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Speaker 1: a bird out to see if the waters were receding,
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Speaker 1: but the bird came back. It couldn't land. This happened
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Speaker 1: again and again. It looked like this was permanent, but
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Speaker 1: chapter eight says God remembered Noah. He sent a wind
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Speaker 1: God remembers your faithfulness. He remembers your obedience. The times
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Speaker 1: like Noah, you did the right thing when it was hard.
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Speaker 1: You kept giving, serving, being good to people, not seeing
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Speaker 1: anything change. Nothing was getting better. Don't worry, your time
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Speaker 1: able to get off the boat. I believe like with him,
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Speaker 1: God is about to breathe on your life and problems
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Speaker 1: see the wind of God's spirit causing it to disappear.
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Speaker 1: says the underground water sources ceased their gushing. The torrential
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Speaker 1: rain stopped flowing. There are things that you can't see.
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Speaker 1: They're underground, so to speak. They're about to cease in
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Speaker 1: Soon you're going to get well. Soon you're going to
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