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Trust God in Spite of! · G. T. Ministries

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SPEAKER_01: I bless everyone today.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for tuning in here on GoPartyonline.org.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Bishop Gregory Tucker, GT Ministries of the One Way Church of Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: And we thank you for tuning in.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: May the blessings of God be upon you today.
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SPEAKER_01: Today we're coming from Hebekah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Hebekah, the third chapter of the book of Hebekah.
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SPEAKER_01: It's in the Old Testament.
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SPEAKER_01: And the 17th and the 18th, 17th, 18th, and 19th verse, and it says this, although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vine.
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SPEAKER_01: The labor of the olive shall fail, and the field shall yield no meat.
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SPEAKER_01: The flock shall be cut off from the foe, and there be no herd in the stall.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: I will joy in the God of my salvation.
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SPEAKER_01: The Lord God is my strength.
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SPEAKER_01: He will make me walk upon the high places.
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SPEAKER_01: He questioned God.
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SPEAKER_01: He wanted to know.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God, what was going on?
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SPEAKER_01: Why are we uh going through all of this?
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SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
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SPEAKER_01: He he went, asked God.
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SPEAKER_01: He was a man who sought for answers.
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SPEAKER_01: Troubled, troubled by what he observed, and he asked difficult questions.
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SPEAKER_01: These questions were not merely intellectual exercises or bitter complaints.
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SPEAKER_01: Hebekah saw a dying world and it broke his heart.
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SPEAKER_01: He's asking the question, even though we asked the same question today.
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SPEAKER_01: Why is there so much evil in the world?
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SPEAKER_01: Why do the wicked seem to be winning?
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SPEAKER_01: He boldly and confidently took his complaint directly to God.
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SPEAKER_01: And you know what happened?
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SPEAKER_01: God answered him with an avalanche of proof and prediction.
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SPEAKER_01: The prophet questioned that God answers were recorded in this book.
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SPEAKER_01: As he turned the pages, we can immediately confront with his urgent cries.
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SPEAKER_01: How long, O God, must I call for help, but you do not listen?
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SPEAKER_01: Violence is everywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: I cry, but you but do you not come to save?
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, most of the first chapter is devoted to his questions.
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SPEAKER_01: And the second chapter begins with Hebekah declaring that he will wait to hear God's answer to his complaint.
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SPEAKER_01: Then God began to speak and telling the prophet to write his answers plainly so that all would see and understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Righteousness will prevail.
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SPEAKER_01: Judgment may not come quickly, but it will come.
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SPEAKER_01: God answers fill the second chapter.
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SPEAKER_01: Then Hebekah concludes the book with a prayer of triumph and praise.
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SPEAKER_01: With questions and answers, a new understanding of God's power and love.
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SPEAKER_01: Hebekah rejoice in whom God is and what he will do.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet I will rejoice.
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SPEAKER_01: I will be joyful in the Lord of God of my salvation.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God.
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SPEAKER_01: That's where we at this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: And I want to bring it into today's time.
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SPEAKER_01: Talking from the subject, trust God in spite of.
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SPEAKER_01: Although I may have lost my job and nobody seemed to be hiring.
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SPEAKER_01: Although the gas prices are so high, I used to pay, I'm now paying double for what I used to pay single.
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SPEAKER_01: Although the doctor gave me a troubling report and my health is not improving, although my children are giving me problems and my family is struggling, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Although my marriage is under pressure and my relationships are failing, apart, falling apart, although the price of groceries keep rising, and my money don't seem to stretch far enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Although I'm praying for a breakthrough and nothing seemed to be changing.
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SPEAKER_01: But verse number 18.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: I will joy in the God of my salvation.
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SPEAKER_01: For the Lord is my strength.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: You're going to make my feet like deer's feet and make me to walk upon high places.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't be weary and well doing, Galatians 6 and 9.
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SPEAKER_01: For in due season you shall weep if we faint not.
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SPEAKER_01: Because I found out it's easy to trust God when the bills are paid.
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SPEAKER_01: It's easy to trust God when the family is getting along good.
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SPEAKER_01: It's easy to trust God when the doctors give you a good report.
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SPEAKER_01: It's easy to trust God when your prayers and answers answer.
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SPEAKER_01: Prayers are answered the way you wanted them to.
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SPEAKER_01: But what happened when things don't go your way?
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SPEAKER_01: What happened when you pray and the situation doesn't change?
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SPEAKER_01: What happened when you do everything you know to do, but the results are disappointing?
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SPEAKER_01: What happened when you are faithful to God, but trouble comes?
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: A man said, Pastor, I have strong faith in God.
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SPEAKER_01: The pastor, Pastor, the answer, how do you know?
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SPEAKER_01: The man said, because I trust God with everything.
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SPEAKER_01: Then the pastor said, Wonderful.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you trust him when your money gets funny?
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SPEAKER_01: The man answered, Pastor, nah, you're getting personal.
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SPEAKER_01: Everybody won't say have great faith until their faith gets tested.
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SPEAKER_01: We want mountain moving faith, but we don't want to face any mountains.
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SPEAKER_01: We want overcome in faith, but we don't want to face anything we must overcome.
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SPEAKER_01: We want victorious faith, but we don't want to fight any battles.
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SPEAKER_01: But faith is not proven only when things are going right.
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SPEAKER_01: Faith is also revealed when everything around you seemed to be going wrong.
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SPEAKER_01: Hebekah was troubled by what he saw happening around.
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SPEAKER_01: He questioned why wickedness seemed to prevail.
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SPEAKER_01: He struggled to understand what God was doing.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: But by the end, by the end of his prophecy, something remarkable happened.
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SPEAKER_01: His circumstances were still serious.
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SPEAKER_01: His question has not all been answered in the way he might have expected.
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SPEAKER_01: But his attitude had changed.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: We have to change our attitudes when we are facing with situations.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: He moved from questioning God to declare his trust in God.
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SPEAKER_01: He said, Aldo, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And you know, and we got to use that word all though.
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SPEAKER_01: The negative might have happened.
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SPEAKER_01: I've been troubled on every side, but I'm not perplexed.
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SPEAKER_01: Persecuted but not forsaken.
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SPEAKER_01: Cast down but not destroyed.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: He learned to trust God through trouble.
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SPEAKER_01: Living in a terrible period in Judah's history, violence, injustice, wickedness troubled him.
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SPEAKER_01: But he cried out to God asking why these things was happening.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yes, he cried.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: I told you early, and that you go to Hebekah, the first chapter, first, second chapter, first, first, I will stand upon my watch, set me upon the tower, set upon the tower, and watch to see what he was saying me and what I should answer when I am reproved.
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SPEAKER_01: And he decided to wait on God.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And sometimes, as I said on yesterday, you bring your complaints or whatever troubling you to God.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And then you appeal to him.
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SPEAKER_01: And then you take the word and give it back to him.
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SPEAKER_01: And then you remember what he's done for you in the past.
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SPEAKER_01: Gotta trust him.
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SPEAKER_01: Gotta trust, we have to trust God in spite of what we see.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, we know what 2 Corinthians 5 and 7 just got to implement it.
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SPEAKER_01: We walk by faith.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And not by sight.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, he looked around and saw all that wickedness and violence and uncertainty.
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SPEAKER_01: But he learned what he saw could not be the final authority over faith.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we see discourage, we see things that discourage us.
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SPEAKER_01: Especially in this time.
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SPEAKER_01: Living in this troublesome time of this world.
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SPEAKER_01: My God, the shootings, just had another shooting in an elementary school on yesterday.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's so that's just becoming a normal thing in this world.
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SPEAKER_01: I went to school, man.
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SPEAKER_01: School was the safest place you could ever be.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: But not anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: But although these things are happening, the Bible says to cast all our cares.
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SPEAKER_01: Cast all our concerns, all our disappointments upon the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Cast all of your cares upon me, because he says he cares for us.
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SPEAKER_01: He cares for us.
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SPEAKER_01: He's capable of handling it.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Man can't handle it.
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SPEAKER_01: The arm of flesh will fail you every time.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: But we have a God that loves us.
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SPEAKER_01: I say we have a God that loves us.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't remember, if you don't remember nothing else, remember that God loves us.
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SPEAKER_01: When you're going through, remember that you have a father.
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SPEAKER_01: The press are our father, which are in heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: You know the first uh words every miller each child learns is the word Abba.
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SPEAKER_01: Abba.
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SPEAKER_01: That means Father.
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SPEAKER_01: He loves us, he cares about us.
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SPEAKER_01: Because in Psalms 33, 4, every word of God uh is true.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: He said that it sell it.
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SPEAKER_01: Praise God, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: I know it says, you know, uh uh uh I believe in God, God said it, I believe it that sells it, whether you believe it or not.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether you believe it or not, God's word is true.
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SPEAKER_01: God said it, that sells it, whether I believe it or not, whether you believe it or not, because it's this word.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Abraham received a blessing from God concerning a son, but years passed and the circumstances seemed impossible.
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SPEAKER_01: But in Romans 4, 1921, and being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old, neither with the deadness of Sarah Womb.
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SPEAKER_01: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully persuaded that what he had promised, he was able to perform.
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SPEAKER_01: Abraham believed God despite circumstances that seemed impossible.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't allow what you see to cancel what God has said.
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SPEAKER_01: Your circumstances may be difficult, but God is still worthy of trust.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't let your sight overthrow your faith.
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SPEAKER_01: Trust God in spite of what you don't see.
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SPEAKER_01: Trust in the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: And Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, with all that heart lean not upon their own understanding.
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SPEAKER_01: And all your ways of knowledge and may direct your pathway.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, he had questions.
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SPEAKER_01: He did not understand why God was allowing certain things to happen.
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SPEAKER_01: But he learned to trust God's wisdom.
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SPEAKER_01: There are things in life that we may not never fully understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Why did this happen?
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SPEAKER_01: Why did that door close?
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SPEAKER_01: Why did the answer take so long?
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SPEAKER_01: Why did that relationship end?
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SPEAKER_01: Why did that faithful person experience such suffering?
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we do not have the answer.
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SPEAKER_01: But we can still trust God.
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SPEAKER_01: Job lost his possession, lost his children.
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SPEAKER_01: He suffered physically.
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SPEAKER_01: He struggled to understand his suffering, but Job continued bringing his question before God.
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SPEAKER_01: Though he slayed me, he says, My God, yet will I trust him?
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SPEAKER_01: That's in Job 13, 15.
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SPEAKER_01: But I will remain, I will maintain my own way before him.
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SPEAKER_01: Job trust did not mean he never struggled.
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SPEAKER_01: It meant he continued engaging with God in the midst of his suffering.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you listening here today?
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't have to understand everything to trust God.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't have to know why everything happened.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't have to know how everything would turn out.
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SPEAKER_01: But you cannot trace God's hand.
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SPEAKER_01: When you cannot trace God's hand, you can still trust his character.
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SPEAKER_01: You trust God in spite of unanswered prayers.
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SPEAKER_01: In 2 Corinthians 12, 8 and 9, for the thing I besought the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
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SPEAKER_01: And he said, My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
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SPEAKER_01: Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, he said, Paul, that the power of Christ might rest upon me.
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SPEAKER_01: Paul prayed three times concerning the thorn in the flesh, but God did not remove the difficulty as Paul requested.
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SPEAKER_01: Instead, God answered Paul that his grace was sufficient.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes God answers by changing our circumstances.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes God gives us a strength to endure them.
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SPEAKER_01: And sometimes we must continue waiting without knowing the outcome.
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SPEAKER_01: But our trust in God must not depend entirely on receiving the answer we prefer.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you listening?
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SPEAKER_01: This is the confidence that we have in Him that if we ask anything concerning His will, He's going to hear us.
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SPEAKER_01: That's 1 John 5 and 14.
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SPEAKER_01: So my advice is to keep praying.
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SPEAKER_01: Keep trusting.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Keep seeking God.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't measure God's love by whether every prayer is answered exactly as you requested.
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SPEAKER_01: God's grace can sustain you even when you your circumstances have not changed.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you with me here this morning?
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, yes.
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SPEAKER_01: Gotta trust him.
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SPEAKER_01: I put our total, our total trust, our total dependency into our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's hands.
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SPEAKER_01: I look at the word tea and trust.
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SPEAKER_01: Take your troubles to God.
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SPEAKER_01: In Psalms 55, 22, cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.
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SPEAKER_01: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't carry everything along.
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SPEAKER_01: Bring your burdens before the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Take it to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: The R and trust is remember his faithfulness.
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SPEAKER_01: In Psalm 77, verse 11, I will remember the works of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Surely I remember how the wonders of old.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Today's testimony can script for today's faith.
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SPEAKER_01: You and trust is understand that God ways are higher than our ways.
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SPEAKER_01: Glory be to God.
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SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 55, 89.
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SPEAKER_01: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither your ways, my ways, says the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: The S and trust is to stand on His word.
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SPEAKER_01: Psalm 119 105.
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SPEAKER_01: That word is a lamp unto my feet and light unto my path.
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SPEAKER_01: When circumstances change, stand before the truth of Scripture.
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SPEAKER_01: When emotions change, stand upon his word.
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SPEAKER_01: When others discourage you, stand upon his word.
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SPEAKER_01: Let God's word be stronger than your words.
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SPEAKER_01: And then the keen trust.
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SPEAKER_01: So in spite of what you're going through, in spite of your s the sickness you're facing, your financial difficulty, your family problems, your disappointment, your delayed answers.
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SPEAKER_01: In spite of all negativity.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna trust God.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna trust.
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SPEAKER_01: Put your trust in Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: The greatest decision we make is to place your trust in Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: He died for your sins, he was buried, he rose again, he'd offer forgiveness, salvation, and a new life.
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SPEAKER_01: And Peter said in them, repent, be baptized, every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sin.
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SPEAKER_01: You shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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SPEAKER_01: If you need salvation, come to Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: You need repentance, turn to him.
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SPEAKER_01: If you desire baptized in Jesus' name, respond to his word.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're seeking the gift of the Holy Ghost, call upon the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you are weary, ask God to renew your script.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: We're closing now.
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SPEAKER_01: But Heavenly Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, we thank you for your word.
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SPEAKER_01: Lord, teach us to trust you in spite of what we seek.
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SPEAKER_01: Help us to trust you when we don't understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Help us to trust you when our prayers are not answered the way we desire.
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SPEAKER_01: Father, in the name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Help us trust you when the fire becomes hot.
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SPEAKER_01: Help us to trust you when the experiences when we experience loss.
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SPEAKER_01: Help us to trust you while we wait.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for tuning in.
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SPEAKER_01: May the blessings of God be upon you today.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna put our total dependency and our trust in God.
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SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
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SPEAKER_01: Have a blessed day today in Jesus' name.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I trust in God.