Hi, this is Joel in Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this little girl. She asked her mother how the human race got started.

Her mother explained how God created Adam and Eve and they had children on and on. Here we are today.

Few days later, she asked her father the same question. He explained how many years ago there were monkeys and little by little they became more like people.

Now here we are. Confused, she went back to her mother and said, Mom, you said God created people.

Dad said we came from monkeys. How can that be? She said, Oh, honey, that's easy. I told you about my side of the family. Dad told you about his.

See it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Today I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

In Jesus name, God bless you. I want to talk to you today about positioned for increase.

We all have to deal with things that come to an end. We lost our main client. A friend we could always count on is moving away.

Or a loved one went to be with the Lord. We have seen God's blessing in the past. We know we have his favor, but it seems like that favor has been taken away.

But God will never remove something unless he has something better coming. If he didn't stop certain things, we would never get out of our comfort zone.

We would stay with what's familiar. So sometimes God will put an end to what doesn't make sense to us.

We don't understand why the friend walked away. Why the business pushed us out. Why sales aren't what they used to be.

God is not doing that to make your life more difficult. He's getting you in position for increase.

He had to stop what was working to force you to stretch so you could come in to greater provision, greater opportunity.

This is what happened with the Israelites. They had been in slavery for many years when God supernaturally brought them out.

These two million people headed into the desert toward the promised land.

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