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The God of Miracles Is Still Alive Joel Osteen · A Better Tomorrow

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  Speaker 1: But in those tough times, don't turn from your faith,
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  Speaker 1: turn to your faith. God is the one who will
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  Speaker 1: help you get through it. My father had been taught
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  Speaker 1: in seminary that the day of miracles was over.
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  Speaker 2: That was for back then when Jesus was alive on
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  Speaker 2: the earth.
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  Speaker 1: He went to a hotel downtown for a few days
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  Speaker 1: to be alone and he read the scriptures like he
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  Speaker 1: was reading it for the first time. He saw how
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  Speaker 1: Jesus went around healing people and doing so much good.
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  Speaker 1: He realized there never was a day of miracles. There's
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  Speaker 1: a God of miracles and he's still alive. He and
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  Speaker 1: my mother prayed over Lisa and asked God to heal her.
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  Speaker 1: They were told she would never be able to feed herself,
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  Speaker 1: never be able to walk, but little by little she
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  Speaker 1: got better and better.
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  Speaker 2: And today Lisa is perfectly healthy.
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  Speaker 1: God may not have sent the storm, but he will
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  Speaker 1: use the storm to move you into your destiny. The
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  Speaker 1: storm will take you where you couldn't go on your own.
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  Speaker 1: That's why in difficulties, betrayals, things.
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  Speaker 2: You don't understand, you have to keep the faith. God
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  Speaker 2: is up to something. It may be painful. It's not fair,
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  Speaker 2: but God is still in control. You can't see what
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  Speaker 2: he's doing right now. You don't know where that's leading
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  Speaker 2: you to.
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  Speaker 1: My father came back to his church with a new
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  Speaker 1: fire and a new passion. He started sharing about how
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  Speaker 1: God is a healer and how he wants us to
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  Speaker 1: live a life of victory.
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  Speaker 2: He thought everyone would be excited, but some of.
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  Speaker 1: Them didn't like it, didn't fit into their tradition. There
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  Speaker 1: was so much contention and discord that my parents had
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  Speaker 1: to leave. They'd poured their heart and soul into those people,
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  Speaker 1: never dreaming it would come to an end like that.
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  Speaker 1: My mother was 26 years old. She had friends she
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  Speaker 1: had known for years that never.
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  Speaker 2: Spoke to her again.
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  Speaker 1: My parents felt that sting of rejection. They could have
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  Speaker 1: been bitter, offended, but they trusted when it didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't understand why the door closed, why they would
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  Speaker 1: be pushed out. They were doing the right thing. The
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  Speaker 1: truth is that storm wasn't the enemy. It was the
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  Speaker 1: hand of God moving them to a new level of
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  Speaker 1: their destiny. My parents went out, started Lakewood in an
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  Speaker 1: abandoned feed store, this little rundown building with 90 people.
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  Speaker 2: The critics said we'd never make it, but.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are today, 64 years later and still going strong.
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