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God s Purpose Will Prevail Joel Osteen · A Better Tomorrow

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  Speaker 1: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
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  Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what
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  Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says
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  Speaker 1: I can do. Today, I will be taught the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My
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  Speaker 1: heart is receptive.
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  Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
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  Speaker 2: bless you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about God's purpose
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  Speaker 1: will prevail.
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  Speaker 2: Before you were born.
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  Speaker 1: God gave you an assignment something to accomplish. He's already
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  Speaker 1: lined up the right people, the resources, what doors will
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  Speaker 1: open and what doors will close. You're not just wandering
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  Speaker 1: through life, hoping to get a good break. You are
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  Speaker 1: walking out a divine purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Your steps are being ordered.
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  Speaker 1: Even things you don't understand, God wouldn't have allowed it
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  Speaker 1: if it wasn't going to move you toward your destiny.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is serving His plans.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to fight closed doors, get upset when
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  Speaker 1: your plans don't work out.
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  Speaker 2: God is behind the.
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  Speaker 1: Scenes orchestrating, maneuvering, positioning you for what He has in mind.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs 19 says, you can make many plans, but the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's purpose will prevail. God's purpose is stronger than your plans.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't mean that in a negative sense, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we plan things that are less than God's best.
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  Speaker 2: We're planning this level.
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  Speaker 1: That we've always seen, but God is going to take
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  Speaker 1: you to new levels. He's going to cause you to
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  Speaker 1: set new standards and break barriers of the past. God's
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  Speaker 1: purpose is stronger than opposition and people that come against you,
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  Speaker 1: try to hold you back. It's stronger than the environment
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  Speaker 1: that you're in or how you were raised.
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  Speaker 2: And things you can't control. You didn't choose which family
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  Speaker 2: you would be born in.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't choose how you'd be raised, what battles you'd
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  Speaker 1: have to fight, negative things that were passed down.
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  Speaker 2: You could think you're.
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  Speaker 1: At a disadvantage, but God knew everything you would have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: What He has purposed will override all that.
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  Speaker 1: Just ask a lady in the scripture named Esther. She
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  Speaker 1: was an orphan, lost her parents, raised poor. What could
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  Speaker 1: she ever do that was significant? How could she leave
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  Speaker 1: her mark?
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  Speaker 2: No, God's purpose isn't limited by what you didn't get.
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  Speaker 2: It's not limited by how you were raised. Things that
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  Speaker 2: put you at a disadvantage.
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  Speaker 1: Before Esther was born, God marked her as a person
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  Speaker 1: of great influence. To stand before the king, to save
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  Speaker 1: his people. God knew what family she would be born in.
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  Speaker 1: He could have chosen someone born in royalty, in affluence.
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  Speaker 1: He knew she would lose her parents at a young age.
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  Speaker 1: have this heartache to deal with, feel like she was
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  Speaker 1: the least likely. But what God has purposed will override injustice.
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  Speaker 1: It will override disadvantage, bad breaks, being left out. He's
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  Speaker 1: taken everything about you into account. All your circumstances, opposition,
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  Speaker 1: mistakes you would make, none.
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  Speaker 2: Of that has stopped what He has planned. Now quit discounting.
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  Speaker 1: Yourself because of what you don't have. Well, if I
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  Speaker 1: came from a better family, Joel, we were more successful.
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  Speaker 1: I had a better environment, more opportunity. If I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have these people against me, coworkers trying.
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  Speaker 2: To leave me out, you can't control all that.
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  Speaker 1: If you take on the responsibility to fix everyone and
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  Speaker 1: convince them to like you and force this door to open,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to waste a lot of time frustrated trying
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  Speaker 1: to change things that you can't change.
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  Speaker 2: That's not your job.
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  Speaker 1: That's God's job. What He has purposed is not stopped
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  Speaker 1: by opposition, by people, by delays. He's already planned out
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  Speaker 1: your good breaks that will thrust you ahead. Supernatural turnarounds
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  Speaker 1: where you'll break out of what's held you back. You'll
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  Speaker 1: step into levels you can't imagine. Your plans may not
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  Speaker 1: have worked out. What you had in mind may not
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  Speaker 1: have happened, but God's plans are better than your plans.
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  Speaker 1: His dream for your life is better than your dream.
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  Speaker 1: You can stay in peace knowing that God's plan cannot
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  Speaker 1: be stopped by bad breaks, cannot be altered by opposition,
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  Speaker 1: cannot be overridden by mistakes. All those things have been
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  Speaker 1: taken into account. God says you can make many plans.
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  Speaker 1: In effect, you can have many disappointments, many adversities, many delays,
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  Speaker 1: but don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: What I have purposed will prevail.
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  Speaker 1: What I decided before you showed up on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 1: what I assigned you to accomplish cannot be overridden.
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  Speaker 2: It will come to pass. Isaiah put it this way.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord of hosts has purposed it. Who can annul it?
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  Speaker 2: His hand is stretched out. Who can turn it back?
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  Speaker 1: Remember when Moses stretched out his hand and the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sea parted? Imagine the Most High God stretching out His
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  Speaker 1: hand over your life. That outstretched hand is releasing miracles.
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  Speaker 1: It's pushing back forces of darkness. It's defeating enemies of sickness, addictions, dysfunction,
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  Speaker 1: things you can't defeat on your own. Not only that,
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  Speaker 1: it's opening doors, parting seas, bringing you through on dry ground,
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  Speaker 1: making ways where there was no way.
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  Speaker 2: This is the God we serve, fighting.
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  Speaker 1: For you, favoring you, sustaining you, defeating your enemies.
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  Speaker 2: You are not at the mercy of people.
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  Speaker 1: Circumstances, who's not for you, what's the economy like, what
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  Speaker 1: family did I come from? His purpose overrides all those things.
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  Speaker 1: Sickness won't prevail, His purpose will prevail. Nothing can snatch
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  Speaker 1: you out of God's hands. The opposition may be stronger.
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  Speaker 1: people with more influence, more resources.
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  Speaker 2: But they are no match for our God. He created
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  Speaker 2: the universe.
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  Speaker 1: He flung stars into space. Who can stand against our God?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know, on your own, it may not be possible,
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  Speaker 2: but you're not on your own.
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  Speaker 1: There's something God put on you before you were born,
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  Speaker 1: a purpose, a calling.
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  Speaker 2: An assignment that's not just up to you. It's His
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  Speaker 2: sovereign will.
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  Speaker 1: It's something He's decided that will happen. There's nothing we
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  Speaker 1: can do to change His sovereign will. He will bring
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  Speaker 1: it to pass.
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  Speaker 2: Now, there's a.
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  Speaker 1: Conditional will where our choices impact our future. We make
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  Speaker 1: bad decisions, there are consequences, heartache, delays. We make it
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  Speaker 1: more difficult, but God's sovereign will, His purpose for your
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  Speaker 1: life cannot be changed.
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  Speaker 2: Just ask Jonah.
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  Speaker 1: God told him to go to the city of Nineveh
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  Speaker 1: and preach to the people, but he didn't want to go.
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  Speaker 1: He got on a boat going the opposite direction. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't override what God has purposed. You can run,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't hide. God knows how to get His way.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it the easy way, or you can
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  Speaker 2: go the hard way. Jonah chose the hard way. He ran.
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  Speaker 2: There was a great storm. So unusual, so uncommon.
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  Speaker 1: The crew asked, who's on board that's causing all this trouble? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jonah was man enough to admit the problem.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I'm the one.
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  Speaker 1: The crew was so grateful, so kind, they threw him overboard.
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  Speaker 1: That should have been the end, but God had already
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  Speaker 1: called an Uber.
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  Speaker 2: He had a whale waiting for Jonah.
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  Speaker 1: It swallowed him, took him to the shore, and spit
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  Speaker 1: him out on dry ground.
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  Speaker 2: God said it again, go to Nineveh. This time he went.
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  Speaker 1: Your mistakes didn't cancel the assignment God has for you.
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  Speaker 2: You may delay it.
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  Speaker 1: You may make it more difficult, but his purpose will prevail.
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  Speaker 1: Now quit being frustrated over what didn't work out the
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  Speaker 1: way you thought.
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  Speaker 2: When you understand this principle, you.
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  Speaker 1: Won't fight closed doors, live stressed because that co-worker leaves
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  Speaker 1: you out, or worried about your health.
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  Speaker 2: Stay in peace. God is fighting for you. So many
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  Speaker 2: times we're trying to force things to.
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  Speaker 1: Happen and manipulate this situation, control this outcome.
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  Speaker 2: That's not our job.
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  Speaker 1: Our job is to honor God, keep Him first place,
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  Speaker 1: and trust Him with the outcomes.
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  Speaker 2: When things happen that.
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  Speaker 1: Don't make sense, the right attitude is, God, I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand this, but I thank you that your purpose for
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  Speaker 1: my life will prevail, that nothing can stand against the assignment.
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  Speaker 2: That you've given me. It's very freeing to know it's
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  Speaker 2: not just up to you. I got to make my
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  Speaker 2: career go and make these people like me and fight
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  Speaker 2: this opposition, prove to them that I'm as smart as
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  Speaker 2: they are.
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  Speaker 1: That's called works of the flesh. That's trying to do
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  Speaker 1: it all in our own strength. That'll wear you out.
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  Speaker 2: There's no winning doing that.
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  Speaker 1: There will always be something that takes your joy.
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  Speaker 2: It's not up to you to control outcomes and strive
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  Speaker 2: and strain. There's a much better way to live.
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  Speaker 1: When you understand what God has purposed, He's going to
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  Speaker 1: make happen.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to open doors. He's going to move wrong
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  Speaker 2: people out of the way. He's going to cause you
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  Speaker 2: to shine, to stand out. and you can stay in peace.
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  Speaker 2: You know He's controlling the outcomes.
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  Speaker 1: He's behind the scenes orchestrating things you can't see right now.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I've learned He'll take you backwards before you can
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  Speaker 2: go forward.
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  Speaker 1: He'll let setbacks happen, but what you can't see is
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  Speaker 1: it's setting you.
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  Speaker 2: Up for greater things. At the moment, it won't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: It's easy to get frustrated and Think that you're off track. God,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing the right thing. Why did this happen?
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  Speaker 1: Trust Him when you can't trace Him. Stay in peace
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  Speaker 1: when it doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 2: God's ways are not our ways.
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  Speaker 1: On the way to your purpose, there will be divine
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  Speaker 1: delays and divine detours.
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  Speaker 2: God taking us a different route.
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  Speaker 1: That we don't understand. Maybe people do you wrong or
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  Speaker 1: setbacks that weren't your fault. It's all a part of
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  Speaker 1: the plan. It's not catching God off guard. He's not
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  Speaker 1: reacting to this problem, trying to come up with a
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  Speaker 1: solution real fast.
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  Speaker 2: He knows everything. It's strategic.
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  Speaker 1: It's positioning you for greater things. Later on, you will
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  Speaker 1: see how it was all necessary. It looked like it
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  Speaker 1: was working against you. The fact is, it was working
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  Speaker 1: for you. It had to happen to get you to
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  Speaker 1: where God was taking you. Moses was born into an
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  Speaker 1: environment that was chaotic and dysfunctional. The leader of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: the Pharaoh, was afraid the Hebrew people were getting too big.
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  Speaker 1: They were multiplying so fast, they could overtake the Egyptians.
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  Speaker 1: So he ordered all the Hebrew boys, two years old
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  Speaker 1: and under.
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  Speaker 2: To be killed.
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  Speaker 1: Looked like Moses was born at the wrong time, under
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  Speaker 1: this death decree. Soldiers come into houses looking for the
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  Speaker 1: male babies. Well, God could have had him born a
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  Speaker 1: few years earlier, a few years later, then we wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have this problem.
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  Speaker 2: But God is doing things we can't see.
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  Speaker 1: What we think are bad breaks and random, many times
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  Speaker 1: are the strategic hand of God. I'm sure Moses' mother
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  Speaker 1: was so stressed and so upset. She's got this beautiful baby.
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  Speaker 2: She can't understand why this has happened.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of living sour, giving up, she hid baby Moses.
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  Speaker 1: For three months, she risked her own life trying to
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  Speaker 1: save her son. When he got too big, she put
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  Speaker 1: him in a basket and sent him down the Nile River.
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  Speaker 1: You can imagine letting your baby go. There were snakes, alligators,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of danger. But it just so happened that
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's daughter was out taking a bath. She heard the
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  Speaker 1: cries coming from the little basket. When she saw baby Moses,
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  Speaker 1: it was love at first sight. She took him in
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  Speaker 1: the palace and adopted him as her own child.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Moses was raised in royalty.
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  Speaker 1: He learned protocol, leadership, how government works, and how to
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  Speaker 1: lead large groups.
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  Speaker 2: None of this was random.
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  Speaker 1: Moses' mother could have never known that 80 years later,
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  Speaker 1: that little baby would be the one that would come
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  Speaker 1: back to the palace and deliver the Israelites from the Egyptians.
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  Speaker 1: When God told Moses to go speak to the Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: to let the people go, Moses walked into a familiar environment.
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  Speaker 2: He'd grown up in a palace. He understood how everything worked.
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  Speaker 1: God was preparing him back as a child for what
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  Speaker 1: he had planned decades later. And some of the opposition,
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  Speaker 1: bad breaks, things you go through now won't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: It seems random, but you don't know what God is
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  Speaker 1: up to. It looks like it's setting you back, but
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  Speaker 1: really it's setting you up. Moses being sent down the Nile,
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  Speaker 1: being raised by a different family, that trouble was actually transportation.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't the enemy, it was God getting Moses into
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  Speaker 1: position to accomplish his purpose.
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  Speaker 2: The assignment God has.
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  Speaker 1: For you will take you through some detours, delays, betrayals,
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  Speaker 1: and You have to trust that His purpose is at work.
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  Speaker 1: It's not always about your comfort. It's about your calling.
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  Speaker 1: There will be these times you're uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: You don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: God, I don't want to send my baby down the Nile.
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  Speaker 1: Why was he born at this time? You can't see
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  Speaker 1: what God is up to.
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  Speaker 2: Trust Him.
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  Speaker 1: He's promised His purpose for your life will prevail. You
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  Speaker 1: can't see it now, but later on you will see
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  Speaker 1: it was all necessary. Few years after Victoria and I
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  Speaker 1: were married, there was a knock on our door one
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 2: I answered it and a police officer was standing there.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I was alarmed.
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  Speaker 1: He handed me some papers, smiled real big and said,
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  Speaker 1: somebody must not like you.
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  Speaker 2: It was a lawsuit. The people that had bought the
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  Speaker 2: house we'd moved out.
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  Speaker 1: Of were suing us over the plumbing. I wasn't the builder.
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  Speaker 1: Everything worked great when we lived there. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what they were talking about. They didn't just sue us.
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  Speaker 1: They sued the architect, the builder, the plumber, the real
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  Speaker 1: estate agent, next door neighbor, the mailman.
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  Speaker 2: They sued everybody.
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  Speaker 1: I was 26 years old, and I was so stressed
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  Speaker 1: and so worried.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I got to find some lawyers and try to
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  Speaker 2: defend ourselves, and what if we don't win? What if
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  Speaker 2: we owe all this money?
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  Speaker 1: This seems so unfair, like a waste of time and resources.
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  Speaker 1: The lawsuit went on for several months, and finally came
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  Speaker 1: time for me to give my deposition, and I had
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  Speaker 1: to go downtown to a high rise.
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  Speaker 2: And sit with attorneys.
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  Speaker 1: Our lawyers had spent hours preparing me and telling me
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  Speaker 1: how I was going to work and what to expect.
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  Speaker 2: Next morning I.
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  Speaker 1: Gave my deposition. I was so stressed, so uptight about it,
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  Speaker 1: I became nauseated. When I finished the deposition, a couple
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  Speaker 1: hours later, I walked out and went straight to the
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  Speaker 1: restroom and threw up.
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  Speaker 2: I felt terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Well a few months later, the whole lawsuit was dismissed.
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  Speaker 1: We were all cleared, nothing ever came out of it.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like just a random bad brag, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: life happens, just deal with.
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  Speaker 2: It, move on.
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  Speaker 1: But we don't know what God is up to. God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't send the storm, but He doesn't waste anything. He
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have allowed it if.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't going to work to your advantage.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes it's not the enemy, it's God orchestrating things
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  Speaker 1: we don't like to move us into our purpose, to
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  Speaker 1: prepare us for what we're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to need later. I didn't like that lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing good about it as far as I
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  Speaker 1: was concerned. Took a lot of time, money, heartache, but
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  Speaker 1: everything you go through is depositing something in you. It's
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  Speaker 1: making you stronger, giving you experience. You're learning new ways
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  Speaker 1: of doing things. I was ready to put that lawsuit.
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  Speaker 2: In the rearview mirror, never thinking about it again.
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  Speaker 1: But 13 years later, when we acquired this building, the
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  Speaker 1: former compact center, a company filed a lawsuit to try
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  Speaker 1: to keep us from moving in.
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  Speaker 2: I had to go give a deposition.
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  Speaker 1: This time it wasn't for a minor plumbing dispute, something
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  Speaker 1: that didn't really matter, it was for something that was
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  Speaker 1: critical to my destiny. Wasn't a few-month lawsuit. It was
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  Speaker 1: a year-and-a-half lawsuit. When I went to give my deposition,
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  Speaker 1: I knew exactly what to expect.
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  Speaker 2: I had done it before.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't intimidated by the other side. I wasn't afraid
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  Speaker 1: of the process, nervous about what to say. I could
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  Speaker 1: feel God's hand of favor and blessing.
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  Speaker 2: The last time I was nauseated, all stressed. This time
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  Speaker 2: I was bold, confident, full of faith, knowing that God
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  Speaker 2: was fighting for us.
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  Speaker 1: Looking back now, I realize God allowed that other lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: It was necessary to get me prepared to understand how
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  Speaker 1: it all worked so when I needed to shine, I
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  Speaker 1: would shine. There will be things that we don't understand
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  Speaker 1: that don't make sense at the time, like Moses' mother.
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  Speaker 2: Why did I have a baby now? Why do I
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  Speaker 2: have to send him down the Nile? Why did that
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  Speaker 2: person sue me? I'm not a plumber.
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  Speaker 1: God's doing things we can't see right now. His purpose
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  Speaker 1: is at work, getting you prepared, moving you into position.
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  Speaker 2: When you're tempted to get frustrated, come back to this
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  Speaker 2: place of peace.
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  Speaker 1: Father, thank you that your purpose for my life will prevail,
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  Speaker 1: that your hand is outstretched toward me even now. I've
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  Speaker 1: learned to go through difficult things with a good attitude.
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  Speaker 1: The Scripture says all things work together for good, for
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  Speaker 1: those that love the Lord and are called according to
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  Speaker 1: His purpose. How do you know the difficulty you don't
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  Speaker 1: like is not gonna work for your good?
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  Speaker 2: What if it was necessary for something down.
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  Speaker 1: The road that is preparing you or perhaps positioning you
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  Speaker 1: for greater things, yet you're fighting it, thinking about how
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  Speaker 1: it's not fair? How about having a bigger perspective? God
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  Speaker 1: is working on things today that.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna need 20 years from now. But if you
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  Speaker 2: look at everything on the surface, Try to understand it
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  Speaker 2: right now. It won't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Moses' birth in that troubled time was necessary for something
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  Speaker 1: God had planned for him 80 years later to.
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  Speaker 2: Deliver his people.
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  Speaker 1: What if God is doing something in your life now
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand, but 80 years from now, 40 years
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  Speaker 1: from now, or like with me, 13 years later, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be instrumental in you fulfilling your purpose, something
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  Speaker 1: much bigger than you've imagined. When you're tempted to be frustrated,
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  Speaker 1: Things aren't working out. Keep this phrase down in your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: God's purpose for your life will prevail.
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  Speaker 2: The bad breaks didn't stop it.
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  Speaker 1: The delays, the lawsuits, the Pharaohs trying to make your
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  Speaker 1: life miserable.
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  Speaker 2: God's purpose overrides all those things. He's your way maker.
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  Speaker 1: He parts red seas. He'll slay your giants. He'll call
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  Speaker 1: you out of the shepherd's fields and anoint you when
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  Speaker 1: you're overlooked. He'll close the mouths of hungry lions. He
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  Speaker 1: opens prison doors in the midnight hour. If Lazarus was here,
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  Speaker 1: he would tell you even when you're in a tomb
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  Speaker 1: wrapped in grave clothes, he'll call you back to life to.
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  Speaker 2: Finish your assignment.
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  Speaker 1: If Sarah was here, she would tell you even at
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  Speaker 1: 90 years old, if he's promised you a child, he'll
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  Speaker 1: bring it to pass. If my father was here, he
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  Speaker 1: would tell you even if you were born into poverty,
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  Speaker 1: Even if you don't have the education, the resources, you
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  Speaker 1: can still leave your mark and set a new standard
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  Speaker 1: for your family. If my mother was here, she would
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  Speaker 1: tell you, even if you've been diagnosed with terminal cancer,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're given a few weeks to live, if
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  Speaker 1: it's not your time to go, you're not going to go.
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  Speaker 1: God's purpose will prevail. Not the cancer, not the addiction,
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  Speaker 1: not the dysfunction, not your mistakes, but what God has
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  Speaker 1: purposed will override every bad break, every person trying to
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  Speaker 1: hold you back, every injustice. His hand is outstretched towards
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  Speaker 1: you right now. It's a hand of healing, a hand
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  Speaker 1: of provision, a hand of favor. What He has purposed
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  Speaker 1: for your life is right on schedule. You didn't miss it.
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  Speaker 1: Mistakes didn't cancel it. Bad breaks didn't override it. The
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  Speaker 1: trouble didn't stop it. The trouble positioned you. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: serving God's plan. Now quit trying to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: Believe in those lies. You must be off track. You
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  Speaker 1: must have done something wrong. No, God is ordering your steps.
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  Speaker 1: His calling on your life has not changed. The route
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  Speaker 1: may not be what you expected, but you're still going
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  Speaker 1: to get to the destination He has for you. Can
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, it's going to be better than you imagined,
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  Speaker 1: bigger than you dreamed, more rewarding than you thought possible.
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  Speaker 1: Deuteronomy 31 says, the Lord said to Moses, the time
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  Speaker 1: has come for you to die. The time wasn't determined
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  Speaker 1: by the enemy, by circumstances, by sickness, by accidents. God
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  Speaker 1: has numbered your days. He determines when you're going to
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  Speaker 1: come to be with Him. Moses could have been killed
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  Speaker 1: by the soldiers born at the wrong time Killed in
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  Speaker 1: the Nile River, tumped over as a baby and drowned.
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  Speaker 1: Could have been killed at 80 years old when he
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  Speaker 1: went to the Pharaoh to tell him, let the people go.
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  Speaker 1: Could have been killed by the water at the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 1: Killed in the desert those 40 years, but his life
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  Speaker 1: was never in the hands of the Pharaoh or the
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  Speaker 1: hands of people, circumstances, mistakes. It was in the hands
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  Speaker 1: of Almighty God. Nothing can snatch you away. He determines
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  Speaker 1: your beginning. when you would be born, and He determines
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  Speaker 1: when you'll come home. Not the sickness, not the trouble,
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  Speaker 1: not the enemy. Your life is in God's hands.
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  Speaker 2: His purpose will prevail.
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  Speaker 1: If the sickness could take you out before your time,
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  Speaker 1: then that would be bigger than God. If the trouble, accidents,
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  Speaker 1: addictions could end your life early, before what God had purposed,
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  Speaker 1: then He wouldn't be God. Quit worrying about your future.
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  Speaker 1: Your days are numbered. You're not going to go until
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  Speaker 1: God says it's time to go.
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  Speaker 2: He sent you here, and when it's time, He'll take
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  Speaker 2: you back home. Well, Joel, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: believe that, man. I had a loved one that died early,
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  Speaker 2: a friend lost in an accident.
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  Speaker 1: My father passed at 77. Some people told me, Joel,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy took your father. The enemy didn't take my father.
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  Speaker 1: He fulfilled his purpose. The enemy did not take your
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  Speaker 1: loved one. He doesn't have that kind of power. We
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  Speaker 1: may not be able.
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  Speaker 2: To understand it all.
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  Speaker 1: I can't explain everything, but you can be assured the
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  Speaker 1: number of your.
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  Speaker 2: Days God will fulfill. His purpose for your life will prevail.
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  Speaker 1: One time in the Old Testament, the Israelites were camped
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  Speaker 1: next to the city of Moab.
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  Speaker 2: The king of Moab knew they couldn't defeat the Israelites.
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  Speaker 2: They were too big, too strong.
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  Speaker 1: So he sent men to bring the prophet Balaam to
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  Speaker 1: curse the people of Israel. He thought, if I can't
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  Speaker 1: beat him physically, then I'll try this other way. But
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  Speaker 1: Balaam would only say what the Lord told him and
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't curse the Israelites. This happened twice. The king
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  Speaker 1: got so frustrated. The third time he said, I'll pay
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  Speaker 1: you all this money if you'll just speak defeat over them.
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  Speaker 1: Balaam said in verse 13, I am powerless to do
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  Speaker 1: anything against the will of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: When God has purposed something, even your enemies become powerless.
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  Speaker 1: They can plot, scheme, criticize, but they cannot stop what
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  Speaker 1: God has ordained. You may have things coming against you now,
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  Speaker 1: a sickness, addiction, a trouble with a child.
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  Speaker 2: Can I encourage you?
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  Speaker 1: It is powerless to stop your purpose.
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  Speaker 2: The weapon may have formed, but it will not prosper.
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  Speaker 2: The Most High God has His.
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  Speaker 1: Hands outstretched towards you, a hand of healing, a hand
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  Speaker 1: of deliverance, a hand of freedom.
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  Speaker 2: His purpose is at work in your life.
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  Speaker 1: You may not understand it, but you can trust that
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  Speaker 1: God knows what He's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Later on, you.
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  Speaker 1: Will see what you thought was a setback was really
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  Speaker 1: setting you up for greater things. Don't fight everything you
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  Speaker 1: don't like. Don't try to control all the outcomes.
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  Speaker 2: That's God's job. Stay in peace.
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  Speaker 1: Live at rest, knowing that His purpose will prevail. If
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  Speaker 1: you'll do this, I believe and declare, like Moses, despite
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  Speaker 1: bad breaks, you will step into favor, blessing, influence. Despite
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and delays, you will go further, rise higher, and
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  Speaker 1: become all God's created you to be.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say amen?
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to give you an.
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  Speaker 1: Opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I
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  Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make
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  Speaker 2: you my Lord and Savior.
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  Speaker 1: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
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  Speaker 1: born again. And we'd love to send you some free
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  Speaker 1: But I hope you'll get into a good Bible-based church
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  Speaker 1: and keep God first place.