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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: I want to remind us all today to not be

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Speaker 2: complainers and fault finders. Oh man, really, we don't need

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Speaker 2: to be complainers and fault finders. See, it's easy to

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Speaker 2: see what's wrong in a situation. It's easy to see

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Speaker 2: what could be done better.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Naturally we tend to look at the negative. Just our

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Speaker 2: natural minds tend to always gravitate to the negative, and

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Speaker 3: To find fault.

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Speaker 2: But we don't want to be complainers and fault finders

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Speaker 2: because we know that it doesn't please God.

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Speaker 3: You know we're all guilty of this. I'll be the

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Speaker 3: first one to raise my hand.

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Speaker 2: Okay, because sometimes it feels good to complain. You get

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Speaker 2: it off your chest. You're just venting. It feels good.

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Speaker 2: Why do we complain? That's one reason it feels kind

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Speaker 2: of good sometime. Okay, let's just get real about it.

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Speaker 3: We've all thought, all right, just get it off my

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Speaker 2: Or we think, or I think sometimes if I complain,

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Speaker 2: I can change the situation.

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Speaker 3: I'll go to Joel and I'll tell him.

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Speaker 2: Why this isn't right and why we shouldn't do it

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Speaker 2: this way, because I think I'm going to change the

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Speaker 2: situation right. But you don't change the situation by complaining,

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Speaker 2: by finding fault, you usually make the situation worse. Like

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Speaker 2: I said, we can all think these thoughts of how

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Speaker 2: we could do it better, But we've got to learn

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Speaker 2: that we don't have to give life to these thoughts.

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Speaker 2: You see, when we give life to these negative thoughts,

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Speaker 2: we create a more negative environment. We not only pollute

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Speaker 2: ourselves with this negative environment, but we pollute other people.

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Speaker 2: We cause them to begin to think negative thoughts. It's

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Speaker 2: as if it can spread if we're not careful. No

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Speaker 2: one wants to be around a complainer. No one wants

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Speaker 2: to be around a fault finder. We don't either, So

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Speaker 2: let's watch what we're saying. Even though it may feel

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Speaker 2: good for a time, have we ever stopped step back

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Speaker 2: and thought, but is it doing us any good?

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Speaker 3: Is it really doing us any good?

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Speaker 2: You see, I was reading this study and I thought

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Speaker 2: it was very interesting.

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Speaker 3: And these researchers, we're talking.

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Speaker 2: About the brain and the effects of the on the

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Speaker 2: brain when we complain, and it says that when we complain,

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Speaker 2: we literally rewire our brain to complain. You see, our

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Speaker 2: brain wants to take the path of least resistance, It

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Speaker 2: wants to take the easy way out, so it wants

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Speaker 2: to repeat a pattern. So when you complain, you learn

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Speaker 2: to complain more. You're wiring in this negative pattern. And

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Speaker 2: so really, what the researchers we're saying is we're training

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Speaker 2: our own brains to complain. I don't want to be

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Speaker 2: a complainer. I want to be a person that has

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Speaker 2: faith and hope. Yes, we're all gonna have the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to complain because there's no perfect person, there's no perfect spouse,

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Speaker 2: So we're not gonna get rid of the fact that

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Speaker 2: there is opportunities to complain. But I want to suggest

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Speaker 2: to us today to be smarter than a complainer and

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Speaker 2: to figure out a way to be the solution to

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Speaker 2: the problem, to not just complain about the problem. To

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Speaker 2: find a way to act properly when you feel negative

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Speaker 2: and the first way is not to train your brain

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Speaker 3: Now, the scripture is full of.

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Speaker 2: Stories, and the Scripture says that these stories are placed

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Speaker 2: here so that we can learn, so that we can

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Speaker 3: Lessons for our own life.

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Speaker 2: So I want to quickly take us back to the Israelites.

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Speaker 2: When God brought them out of Egypt, he led them

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Speaker 2: They were led out of captivity by a leader named Moses,

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Speaker 2: and he did it by God's command. He was able

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Speaker 2: Now, they had been quickly to under the barbaric hand

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Speaker 2: been mistreated, sometimes you come out very with a victim mentality.

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Speaker 2: But God wanted to reverse this victim mentality. So you

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Speaker 2: know what he had the Egyptians do. Pharaoh and those people,

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Speaker 2: he had them pour the wealth on the Israelites. So

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Speaker 2: when they left Egypt, they didn't leave with nothing. They

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Speaker 2: They left with the mindset of, oh wow, this is God,

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Speaker 2: because only God could do that. They got to the

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Speaker 2: the Promised Land. But as they got on their way,

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Speaker 2: guess what they started some seeing some things that could

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Speaker 2: be done better. They began to look at Moses and think, Moses, really,

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Speaker 3: Complain and mumble and grumble. You see.

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Speaker 2: They began to complain about their food, and their water,

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Speaker 2: and their enemies. But you know what's really interesting in

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Speaker 2: Deuteronomy one too, this is what it says. It says

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Speaker 2: when God was taking them to the Promised Land, he

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Speaker 2: had already ordained to get them there.

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Speaker 3: It was an eleven day journey. You see.

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Speaker 2: They left with more than enough to get there in

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Speaker 3: Forty years.

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Speaker 2: Was it Moses that stopped them? Was it their enemies

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Speaker 2: have the right food that stopped them?

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Speaker 3: No, what they.

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Speaker 2: Thought was their enemies, the things they were complaining about

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Speaker 2: the things that they were blaming and pointing the finger

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Speaker 3: Enemy at all. Their number one.

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Speaker 2: Enemy was their own murmuring and complaining. Have you ever

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Speaker 2: thought that your own murmuring and complaining could limit your thinking,

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Speaker 2: could literally stop you from going to the next level?

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Speaker 2: Have you ever thought how unhealthy it really is? See?

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Speaker 2: I think if the Israelites could have read the research

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Speaker 2: that I read, they would have said, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 2: I'm training my own brain to complain, and that complaining

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Speaker 3: Enemy number one. I want to encourage us today.

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Speaker 2: If we can train our brain to complain, we can

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Speaker 2: train our brain to see God and how he can

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Speaker 2: work in a situation and literally train our brain to

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Speaker 2: believe that God can do something. You know, God is

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Speaker 2: taking us all somewhere, And can I tell you right now,

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Speaker 2: you have everything you need right now to get to

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Speaker 2: where God's taking you. If God is leading you, nothing

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Speaker 3: You see, that's where the Israelites missed it.

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Speaker 2: They were looking at the things, the circumstances around them.

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Speaker 3: They forgot to look to their God.

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Speaker 4: It's easy to blame, it's easy to see out of

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Speaker 4: these eyes, but we've got to begin to see out

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Speaker 4: of our supernatural eyes the things unseen, the hand of

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Speaker 4: God behind the seas, that's fighting our battles for.

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Speaker 3: Us, and keep our mouths closed.

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Speaker 2: Until we get there. You see, they complained about mana.

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Speaker 2: Manna was the bread that came down from heaven that

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Speaker 2: God provided for them every single day.

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Speaker 3: Now, granted, they had this.

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Speaker 2: Manna every single day, and they tired of the mana.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever got tired of something? Every day?

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Speaker 2: I go to work every day, I clean this house

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Speaker 3: You see, they tired of this manna.

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Speaker 2: So they begin to grumble and complain about this manna.

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Speaker 2: And it's so interesting that that just took fire in

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Speaker 2: the whole camp. So they all started grumbling and complaining.

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Speaker 2: And when you grumble and complain, you know what happens.

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Speaker 2: Attitudes come up out of you that are not pleasing

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Speaker 2: to God. In fact, grumbling and complaining can literally change

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Speaker 2: our perspective. They started thinking about the food they used

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Speaker 2: to eat, the onions and the leeks and the garlic.

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Speaker 2: They begin to take their mind back to what they

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Speaker 2: used to eat in captivity, so much that that food

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Speaker 2: became more important than their freedom. That food became more

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Speaker 2: important than their freedom, instead of going to that manna

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Speaker 2: every day and saying, God, I want to eat this

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Speaker 2: until you change it.

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Speaker 3: But I am grateful that I am free.

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Speaker 2: I am grateful that you are taking me somewhere.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we all want something bigger. We want to go

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want a job promotion. I want this job

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Speaker 3: promotion now. I don't want to work any extra hours.

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Speaker 2: Man, if I could have a husband, my life would

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Speaker 2: be complete. I am waiting for my man. I certainly

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Speaker 3: Though.

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Speaker 2: We want things, but we don't want what it takes

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Speaker 2: to have those things. And this was their dilemma. They

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Speaker 2: wanted out of captivity. God says I'm taking you somewhere,

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Speaker 2: but they didn't want to face the trials until they

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Speaker 2: got there. Listen, if you don't like what's going on

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Speaker 3: Change is coming. Change is coming. Change is coming.

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Speaker 2: But you're not gonna find it by complaining and grumbling.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna find it by staying the course, by being grateful.

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Speaker 2: See complaining finds the worst in the situation, not the best.

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Speaker 2: If you can train your mind to complain, you can

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Speaker 2: train your mind to find the best. Listen to what

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Speaker 2: it says in Philippians two fourteen. This is kind of

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Speaker 2: the antidote for seeing the negative and figuring out what

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Speaker 3: You can see it's gonna get in there. But what

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Speaker 2: Don't give it life, don't spread it, don't ruin relationships,

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Speaker 2: don't stop your destiny. Figure out what to do with

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Speaker 2: it before you let it out. And this is what

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Speaker 2: God is saying. First of all, He's commanding us do

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Speaker 2: all things without grumbling, finding fault and complaining. All right,

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Speaker 2: so there's one thing I can recognize. I'm not supposed

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Speaker 2: to let it out. What am I supposed to do

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm only human, right, he says a little

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Speaker 2: later in Philippians four or five, he says, pray, Hey,

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Speaker 2: if you've got a complaint, if you see something wrong,

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Speaker 2: pray and ask God about it.

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Speaker 3: Pray and ask God about it. That's what you do

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Speaker 3: with it. And then it says, with thanksgiving in your heart.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if they would have said, Lord.

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Speaker 3: This manna is getting a little old. Do you think

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Speaker 3: you could send some quell?

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Speaker 1: God?

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Speaker 2: Thank you Father for this manna though, And if you

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Speaker 2: don't send some quaill, I know you're getting me where

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Speaker 2: I'm going. But God, I'm asking, I'm asking you for

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