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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 3: We love you so much. It's fun to be in

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Speaker 3: the house of the Lord.

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Speaker 2: It's fun to celebrate a God who is for us

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Speaker 2: and not against us.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine coming to a god.

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Speaker 2: Who you don't know what he thinks about you, You

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Speaker 2: don't know how he feels about you.

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Speaker 3: You don't know.

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Speaker 2: But we don't come to a God like that. We

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Speaker 2: come to a good God who's already told us that

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Speaker 2: he loves us with an everlasting love, that he redeemed

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Speaker 2: us for his good pleasure.

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Speaker 3: He is pleased with you today.

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Speaker 2: He loves you, he gave you his very best, and

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Speaker 2: that is something to celebrate. That's something to remind ourself of,

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Speaker 2: to stir up every single day.

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Speaker 3: Of our life.

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Speaker 2: Because life doesn't remind us of that. Life tries to

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Speaker 2: tell us something totally different. It tries to show us difficulties, heartaches, hardships.

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Speaker 2: But Jesus is saying I've given you my joy. I've

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Speaker 2: given you what you need to defeat the power of

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Speaker 2: the enemy and stay strong in this life. Amen, You've

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Speaker 2: got what it takes to stand strong in the Lord

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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. And that's what I want to talk a

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Speaker 2: little bit about today. I want to talk about stay

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Speaker 2: strong in God through joy. The Bible says that the

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Speaker 2: joy of the Lord is our strength. That's what Neemiah

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Speaker 2: told the people who had were downcast. He said, go eat, celebrate.

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Speaker 2: The joy of the Lord is your strength.

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Speaker 3: It is what is going to sustain you.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna fight off anxiety to help balance your life.

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Speaker 2: And Jesus said, the joy that he had, he gave

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Speaker 3: He said, my joy I give to you, and I

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Speaker 3: give it to the full.

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Speaker 2: Now, the joy that Jesus gave us is not dependent

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Speaker 2: on what is going on around us. See, the joy

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Speaker 2: that Jesus gave us is on the inside of us.

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Speaker 3: You see, God does his work on the inside of us.

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Speaker 2: When you said yes to Jesus Christ, the outside didn't

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Speaker 2: immediately change, but the inside did. You See, he put

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Speaker 2: seeds on the inside of you. He gave you a

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Speaker 2: new heart, a new start, the ability to take what

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Speaker 2: He's put on the inside of you and make it

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Speaker 2: come out of you. See, God's blessings start on the inside,

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Speaker 2: but they show up on the outside. You see, I

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Speaker 2: have a lemon tree, and when I got it and

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Speaker 2: planted it, it had no lemons on it. It was a

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Speaker 3: But I took care of it.

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Speaker 2: I watered it, I fed it, I made sure that

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Speaker 2: did everything I could to cultivate and develop the lemons.

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Speaker 2: And sure enough, that lemon tree that had no lemons

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Speaker 2: on the outside produced them from the inside. So my

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Speaker 2: And do you know that's how joy works. Joy is

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Speaker 2: inside of us, but we must cultivate it, we must

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Speaker 2: we have to eat from if we are going to

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Speaker 2: You see, you may be in a trial, you may

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Speaker 3: You may have lost a loved one.

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Speaker 3: But do you know on the other side of that sorrow,

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Speaker 2: It's the fruit of joy that you can eat from,

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Speaker 2: and it causes you to be strong, and it causes

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Speaker 2: And that's why joy is so important. In fact, the Israelites,

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Speaker 2: You see, I believe what he was showing us was,

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Speaker 2: The joy to get you out of captivity, to get

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Speaker 3: Joy is the key of coming out. Joy is your key,

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Speaker 3: and it's inside of you.

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Speaker 2: But it's like anything else, you have to tap into it,

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Speaker 2: you have to develop it, you have to use it.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says, in this world, you're gonna have troubles.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said that he wasn't promising us that we weren't

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Speaker 3: He said about those troubles.

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Speaker 2: He says, here's the key. Be of good cheer. Be

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Speaker 3: He's saying, brighten up, Brighten your face up.

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Speaker 2: When Scripture says rejoice in the Lord, and again I

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Speaker 3: See there's a light on the inside of you, but

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Speaker 2: I really believe this, because some people just seem to

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Speaker 2: where some people are maybe a little melancholy, and they have.

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Speaker 2: But the truth is, in a trial, we all need

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Speaker 3: We all need it, so we must develop it.

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Speaker 2: Listen, I didn't take my lemon tree and put it

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Speaker 2: put it in the ground. I cultivated it. I did

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Speaker 2: what it took so the lemons would come out. Then

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Speaker 3: And see, when you need.

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Speaker 2: Joy, you can't try to cultivate it right away. You

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Speaker 2: have to know how to tap into it. The fruit

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Speaker 2: So I think every day we have to practice joy.

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Speaker 2: We have to laugh in the face of adversity. We

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Speaker 2: have to smile, and there's nothing to smile about, you know.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend of mine the other day,

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Speaker 3: She's been very down. She's having some.

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Speaker 2: And you know, as a mother in here, when your

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Speaker 2: I mean, you just worry. And I've watched her just

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Speaker 2: know what, I've just watched day after day after day.

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Speaker 2: You know, I just want to encourage her. So she

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Speaker 2: we've been friends forever, I worked with her forever. We

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Speaker 2: But I walked in and I just started deciding that

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna make her laugh, you know, I

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Speaker 3: And so I was like, hey, can I see your teeth?

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Speaker 2: oh man, your teeth are beautiful. Look at your smile.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen you smile in a long time. And

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Speaker 2: so I just start laughing and cracking up. And I'm

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Speaker 3: So I begin to just brighten her. I begin to

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Speaker 3: encourage her joy.

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Speaker 2: See, I was simply changing the atmosphere in her mind.

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Speaker 2: So funny, because okay, y'all, I'm gonna just admit something.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes when I talk to you guys, like I got

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Speaker 2: this light that shining in my eye, I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: I'm being all serious.

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Speaker 2: And I see sometimes when I watch myself, I'm crew

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Speaker 3: I gotta stop that. How can I stop that? And

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Speaker 3: I told Joel, I said, I don't.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, hello, mister encouragement.

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Speaker 2: So I read that if you put a pencil in

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Speaker 3: So what I've started doing was sitting in my computer

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Speaker 2: So I thought about that, and I had took two

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Speaker 2: and I said, I said, look at this and put

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Speaker 3: I said, I washed it. We're both standing.

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Speaker 3: The joy came, the blessing came, the problems seemed to

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Speaker 3: be smaller. You see. The joy was there to be

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Speaker 2: And I begin to tell her about the promises of

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Speaker 3: The things that really produced that joy.

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Speaker 2: And I said, you know, you're worried about your child,

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Speaker 2: and that's certainly understandable, but I want to explain something

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Speaker 2: to you that I truly believe your child, your daughter,

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Speaker 2: the grace to go through it. God has given her

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Speaker 2: Her through it with discouragement. God wants you to stir

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Speaker 2: need to elevate and push that joy up for her

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Speaker 2: and for yourself. Do you know when you push joy up,

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Speaker 2: it signals victory. It's like when a god runs and

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Speaker 3: It's because he has victory. We need to change our

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Speaker 2: Pencil in our mouth if necessary.

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Speaker 3: Because God works through our joy.

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Speaker 2: He brought them out with joy because he knew they

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