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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.

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Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our

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Speaker 2: podcast and I wanted to thank you for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.

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Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God has moving

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Speaker 2: in your life.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: Are you ready for the word today? I'm excited. Turn

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Speaker 3: in your Bible if you have one. If not, we'll

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Speaker 3: have it up here on the screens. To Philippians four,

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Speaker 3: starting in verse six. Has our pastor not been on

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Speaker 3: fire for the last several weeks? I mean like eight

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Speaker 3: nine weeks he's been preaching.

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Speaker 1: He did the series called called did you enjoy That?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about you.

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Speaker 3: But every single week this man brought a word for me.

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Speaker 1: Did you have a favorite? I think my favorite was Martha? Martha,

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Speaker 1: but then I also.

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Speaker 3: Like the one about Jacob with the wagons, and then

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Speaker 3: I like the one about Samuel.

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Speaker 1: And it was like every week I was like, no,

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Speaker 1: this one's my favorite.

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Speaker 3: And the last week he said, all you have to

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Speaker 3: do is don't and that really ministered to me. I

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Speaker 3: wish you could see how hard our pastor fights every

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Speaker 3: single week.

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Speaker 1: He makes it look easy, but he fights so.

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Speaker 3: Hard every week to bring us a relevant now word

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Speaker 3: for our church.

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Speaker 1: Aren't you grateful for our pastor.

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Speaker 3: So it's my turn this week, and I feel like

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Speaker 3: God has given me a word not just for all

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Speaker 3: of the moms here, but for everyone all right.

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Speaker 1: So we're in Philippians four.

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Speaker 3: Starting in verse six, it says this, do not be

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Speaker 3: anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition,

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Speaker 3: with thanksgiving, present your request to God.

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Speaker 1: And the peace of.

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Speaker 3: God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and

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Speaker 3: minds in Christ Jesus Finally, Brothers and sisters, whatever is true,

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Speaker 3: whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever

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Speaker 1: Whatever you have learned or received, or heard from me

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Speaker 1: Let's pray.

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Speaker 3: Where we think you that your word is a lamp

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Speaker 1: God, we open up our hearts to hear from you today. Lord.

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Speaker 3: We know that sometimes Mother's Day can be a day

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Speaker 3: that is painful.

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Speaker 1: But we're here, Lord, and we want to hear from you.

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Speaker 3: Would you shine your light in the darkest areas of

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Speaker 1: Lord use me. Now it's in your name, I pray Amen.

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Speaker 1: All right, So.

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Speaker 3: We have a little problem with the DNA in the

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Speaker 3: Verdict family. See, I am a very opinionated, like there

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Speaker 3: is a right and a wrong kind of person. And

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Speaker 3: then I married Stephen Ferdick, who was a very opinionated

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Speaker 3: together we make a great team when it comes to

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not a genetic expert.

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Speaker 3: I never really understood that little box with the geen thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't even remember what it's called. What is it called?

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Speaker 3: Graham Punnet Square? Junior accolade right here?

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Speaker 1: So I don't know anything.

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Speaker 3: About the Punnett Square, but I can tell you that

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Speaker 3: when Stephen and Holly Ferdick made babies, we managed to

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Speaker 3: produce three of the most opinionated there is a right

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Speaker 3: clear kind of people. So all five of us together

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Speaker 3: we have a problem. And when a disagreement occurs in

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Speaker 4: Which is rare, because we're a pastor's family.

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Speaker 1: We each have this just innate desire to have the

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Speaker 3: I know this is not a problem in your house,

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Speaker 1: So the other day, the.

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Speaker 3: Weather was nice, and Steven and Abby and I we

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Speaker 3: had to kill an hour until Abby was dismissed. Now,

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Speaker 3: So I needed to stop the story right there, because

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Speaker 3: And she said, no, they get out at two and

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Speaker 3: I get out at two fifty five, and I said.

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Speaker 3: And she said, Mom, I think I would know what

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Speaker 1: We're having a peaceful meal here.

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Speaker 3: So I held my tongue and Abby proceeded with her story.

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Speaker 3: And while she was talking, I went on the school

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Speaker 3: in case you were wondering, they get out at two

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Speaker 3: title of my sermon today is hold your Peace. You

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Speaker 3: like that? And I want to talk to you about

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Speaker 3: the power of peace in your life. And I want

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Speaker 3: to hold your peace in order to hold your peace, okay.

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Speaker 1: And I want you to know that you can have peace,

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Speaker 1: biblical peace in your.

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Speaker 3: Mind and in your relationships, no matter what is going

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Speaker 3: on in the world around you.

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Speaker 1: As a believer in Christ, we have access to.

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Speaker 3: A type of peace that Paul is telling us in

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Speaker 3: transcends all understanding peace in the midst of your pain,

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Speaker 3: Jesus said to his disciples in John sixteen three. He said,

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Speaker 3: I have told you these things so that in me

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Speaker 3: you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble.

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking.

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Speaker 3: About a mood or a mental state where everything feels well.

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Speaker 3: I'm not talking about a spa or a vacation spot.

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Speaker 3: Now, there are two types of peace in the Bible

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Speaker 3: And external peace refers to your relationships with others. Internal

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Speaker 3: So my external piece, my relationships with others, effects my

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Speaker 3: So both are really important. And if the enemy can't

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Speaker 3: you won't forget. I just read Philippians four. I meant

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Speaker 3: But this is not the only letter that he wrote.

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Speaker 3: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but

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Speaker 3: in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor

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Speaker 3: may be able to stand your ground. And after you

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Speaker 3: Paul is painting this picture of a soultier getting ready

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Speaker 3: And you know, I think that one of the ways

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Speaker 3: They're gonna look at your life and they're gonna wonder,

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Speaker 3: But it's indescribable, it's not pretty, but it's what's holding

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Speaker 3: Look how steady I am. Now, Look, I can even

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Speaker 3: But when I go back up here, you can see

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Speaker 3: You see, I want you to know today that peace

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Speaker 1: Are there any fourteen year olds and piano lessons in here? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Abby, would you like to play the piano as well

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Speaker 1: So real quick as I close. Don't worry. I'm not

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Speaker 3: But I do want to show you things that you

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Speaker 3: And I feel really silly in my boots, but I

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Speaker 3: Last week my pastor Stephen said, don't time travel.

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Speaker 1: I know that he made that point up about me.

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Speaker 3: Because I am a professional time traveler. I go back

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Speaker 3: in time and I think of all the things that

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Speaker 3: I did wrong. The other day, I got in my

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Speaker 3: time machine and I told myself this elaborate story of

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Speaker 3: how something in my life today would have been so

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Speaker 3: different if I had said no to one question that

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Speaker 3: someone asked me ten years ago, and if I had

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Speaker 3: said no.

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Speaker 1: So I'm in the time machine and I'm just thinking

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Speaker 1: about that.

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Speaker 3: I was like, if I had said no to that,

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Speaker 3: then this would have happened, and then this wouldn't have happened,

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Speaker 3: and then this would have happened.

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Speaker 1: And I had pretty much convinced myself.

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Speaker 3: That everything today is my fault. And so I said

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Speaker 3: to Stephen because I really was convinced, and I said

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Speaker 3: to him, I was like, do you ever wonder what

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Speaker 3: would have happened if I had said no to that

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Speaker 3: one situation?

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Speaker 1: And my husband looked back at me and he was like, Holley,

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Speaker 1: you can't think that way.

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Speaker 3: He said, you're going back and you're changing a past

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Speaker 3: situation with future information.

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Speaker 1: He said, that's not fair to your past self.

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Speaker 3: And furthermore, he doesn't actually say furthermore, but that just

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Speaker 3: makes his home his Furthermore, he said, you're not taking

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Speaker 3: into account all the things that could have happened if

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Speaker 3: you had said yes.

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Speaker 1: He said, you're making up the perfect scenario.

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Speaker 3: And life is not perfect, and you did the best

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Speaker 3: that you could with the information.

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Speaker 1: That you had at that time.

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Speaker 3: And maybe that's a word for someone today who's been

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Speaker 3: time traveling back and trying to.

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Speaker 1: Do something over. But you know what, I'm so good

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Speaker 1: at time travel. I can also go forward in time.

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Speaker 3: A situation happened with one of my kids recently, and

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Speaker 3: I got in my time machine. And the problem is

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Speaker 3: I read too much fiction, and so I know a

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Speaker 3: lot about time travel and time loops, and so is

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Speaker 3: off and I was like, well, what if this happens

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Speaker 3: while they're driving?

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Speaker 1: And then what if this happens? And then what if

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Speaker 1: that happens?

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Speaker 3: And then and I was so worried about a scenario

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Speaker 3: that was not even happening, And then I wonder.

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Speaker 1: Why I feel anxious.

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Speaker 3: Pastors even told us last week, all you have to

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Speaker 3: do is don't.

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Speaker 1: And Paul is backing this up.

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Speaker 3: He says, do not be anxious about anything, but by

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Speaker 3: prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God,

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Speaker 3: and the peace that passes all understanding will guard your

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Speaker 3: hearts and minds and Christ Jesus. I feel like the

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Speaker 3: Lord sent me here today to tell someone don't talk

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Speaker 3: about it any more. Like I say to my kids,

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Speaker 3: not another word out of your mouth. Take it to

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Speaker 3: the Lord in prayer, and no one else stop talking

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Speaker 3: about it. Yes, there are times when you rally praying

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Speaker 3: people around you to believe.

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Speaker 1: With you for a certain situation.

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Speaker 3: I have a handful of women in my life who

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Speaker 3: have prayed me through some really hard stuff. But sometimes,

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Speaker 3: in all my running around and telling people to pray,

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Speaker 3: I neglect to actually pray. And Paul didn't say present

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Speaker 3: your request to people. He said, present your request to God,

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Speaker 3: and the peace of God that transcends all understanding will

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Speaker 3: guard your hearts and minds and Christ Jesus. Sometimes we

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Speaker 3: want something so bad for someone we love, but we're

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Speaker 3: going about getting it all the wrong way. And I'm

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Speaker 3: telling you this because I have learned this the hard way,

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Speaker 3: and I still get it wrong.

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Speaker 1: I have tried to manipulate situations.

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Speaker 3: For people so that I love, and it is exhausting,

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Speaker 3: And then I wonder why I'm the only one who's worried.

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Speaker 1: But here's the lesson that I have learned.

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Speaker 3: When I want something for someone that I love, if

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Speaker 3: I take it to God, he will change them.

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Speaker 1: Or he'll change my heart.

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Speaker 3: Now, a miracle happened in our home last week. This

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Speaker 3: has been a miracle that is twenty three years in

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Speaker 3: the making for me. Stephen and I are about to

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Speaker 3: celebrate twenty three years of being happily married.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Please clap for.

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Speaker 3: Us, because we've worked really hard at the happy part.

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Speaker 3: And I want you to know that what I'm about

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Speaker 3: to share has only come after twenty three years of

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Speaker 3: learning the hard way about the power that comes when

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Speaker 3: I hold my peace by practicing the work of prayer.

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Speaker 1: So the other day Stephen.

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Speaker 3: Woke up and he looked at me and he said, Babe,

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Speaker 3: I had the craziest dream last night.

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Speaker 1: You were talking to me and you were saying the

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Speaker 1: nicest things to me, and you were encouraging.

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Speaker 3: Me about that situation that we've been talking about. I

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Speaker 3: was speechless, which is rare when I tell you that

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Speaker 3: the things that he said I was saying to him

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Speaker 3: in his dream, they were the very things that I

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Speaker 3: had been silently holding my peace about and only talking

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Speaker 3: to God about.

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Speaker 1: And God, let me speak to that man in his sleep.

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Speaker 1: I've got to speak my peace.

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Speaker 3: Guys, I have found that God can whisper in the

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Speaker 3: ear of the one that I love the very thing

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Speaker 3: that I have been shouting at them for months, or

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Speaker 3: this one's not as fun. He can whisper to me

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Speaker 3: that he has the situation in his hands, and he

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Speaker 3: can give me a peace that.

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Speaker 1: Only comes by prayer. Peace comes by the practice of prayer.

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Speaker 3: The Bible also tells us that peace comes by the

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Speaker 3: practice of patterns. Watch for the pattern here Philippians four eight. Finally,

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Speaker 3: brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever

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Speaker 3: is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable,

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Speaker 3: if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think.

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Speaker 1: About such things. Keep going. Whatever you have learned or received,

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Speaker 1: or heard from me or.

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Speaker 3: Seen to me, put it into practice, and the God

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Speaker 3: of Peace will be with you.

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Speaker 1: Do you see a pattern here? There is power in

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Speaker 1: our patterns.

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Speaker 3: Our patterns will either accentuate the presence of God, or

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Speaker 3: they will diminish our awareness of it.

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Speaker 1: It's not that God's presence comes and goes.

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Speaker 3: He's always with us. He will never leave us or

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Speaker 3: forsake us. It's just my awareness of.

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Speaker 1: His presence is affected by my patterns. How many of

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Speaker 1: you would agree that you've had a time when.

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Speaker 3: You came to church or you joined online, and when

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Speaker 3: it was over.

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Speaker 1: You just had a peace about your situation. Raise your hand,

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Speaker 1: I want to see wow. Okay, put in the chat.

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Speaker 1: Raise your hand in the chat. Okay. So if that's.

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Speaker 3: True, my first question to you is, wouldn't you maybe

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Speaker 3: want to come to church a little bit more frequently,

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Speaker 3: a little more regularly, Like maybe if you come once

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Speaker 3: a month, you could bump it up to twice a month.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if you come twice a month, you could bump

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Speaker 1: it up again.

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, you raised your hand and you said

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Speaker 3: you felt God's presence here when you joined us.

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Speaker 1: What are your patterns?

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Speaker 3: My second question is why would you limit the presence

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Speaker 3: of God to once a week at church?

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Speaker 1: We have to look at our daily.

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Speaker 3: Routines and habits and evaluate is this promoting peace in

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Speaker 3: my life?

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Speaker 1: Or is it stealing it.

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Speaker 3: For months, I have felt God asking me to do

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Speaker 3: this little thing.

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Speaker 1: It's so stupid, Okay, but here's what it is.

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Speaker 3: For months, I felt like God has been telling me

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Speaker 3: stop looking at Instagram first thing in the morning.

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Speaker 1: Now he did not ask me to delete Instagram.

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Speaker 3: He just said stop going on Instagram first thing in

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Speaker 3: the morning. And I have ignored it, and I have

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Speaker 3: told myself this is harmless, this is a way to

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Speaker 3: just wake up my brain. And I have told myself

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Speaker 3: that my feed is very light.

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Speaker 1: It's not even news.

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Speaker 3: It's like gender reveals and dogs doing cool things and

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Speaker 3: people falling down.

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Speaker 1: And I told God. I was like, God, it's fine,

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Speaker 1: It's just like Kathine for my brain. I'm just like

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Speaker 1: using it to wake up. And then last week I

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Speaker 1: read this quote in a book by a priest.

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Speaker 3: Her name is Tishwarren, and she said this, we've covered

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Speaker 3: a lot here. She said, by reaching for my smartphone

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Speaker 3: every morning, I had developed a ritual that trained me

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Speaker 3: toward a certain end entertainment and stimulation via tech achnology.

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Speaker 3: She said, my unexamined daily habit was shaping me into

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Speaker 3: a worshiper of glowing screens.

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Speaker 1: So they said, Okay, God, I hear you. I won't

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Speaker 1: look at Instagram anymore in the morning. Okay, full disclosure.

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Speaker 3: I have relapsed once, but I'm back on the wagon.

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Speaker 1: My wagons have wings.

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Speaker 3: Does your morning practice promote the peace of God in

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Speaker 3: your life. I'm not saying that you can't play wordle

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Speaker 3: while you're drinking your coffee.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you.

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Speaker 3: Have to wake up at five am and read your

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Speaker 3: Bible and journal for an hour.

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Speaker 1: Before you start your day. What I am saying is

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Speaker 1: if you.

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Speaker 3: Do that, that's wonderful. But I'm not a five am

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Speaker 3: kind of person. What I am saying is, if your

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Speaker 3: priority is a feed social media or news, you might

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Speaker 3: not feel very peace. Your peace and your priorities are

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Speaker 3: directly connected.

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Speaker 1: What patterns do.

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Speaker 3: You need to put in your life in order to

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Speaker 3: protect your peace, in order to make you more steady

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Speaker 3: as you face your day.

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Speaker 1: Here's the last one, the practice of praise.

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Speaker 3: Paul says, is there anything excellent or praiseworthy?

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Speaker 1: Think about such things?

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Speaker 3: If you want to steady yourself with the Gospel of Peace,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna have to fix your focus on the things

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Speaker 3: in your life that are worthy of praise.

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Speaker 1: The things that come out of your mouth matter.

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Speaker 3: I don't care what you say, It matters what you say.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever had a conversation turn negative and you

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Speaker 3: can literally feel it drag the mood down.

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Speaker 1: It happens, but remember it's okay.

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Speaker 3: Pieces practice and practice doesn't make perfect, but maybe in

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Speaker 3: this context, practice makes presence. So if we want to

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Speaker 3: feel the presence of God in our conversations, we have

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Speaker 3: to be careful about.

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Speaker 1: What we say.

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Speaker 3: I have a friend that I respect so much about

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Speaker 3: the way that she is careful about how she talks.

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Speaker 1: Like sometimes to the point that I'm annoyed.

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Speaker 3: By it, because she is so careful about how she

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Speaker 3: talks about her kids, how she talks about her spouse,

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Speaker 3: how she talks about her day. I mean, it is

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Speaker 3: really hard to get her to speak negatively, not only

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Speaker 3: to say something negative, but it's really hard to even

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Speaker 3: get her to talk about what she's afraid of.

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Speaker 1: I want to be like that. And it's not that

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Speaker 1: she's like this perfect person.

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Speaker 3: She's never honest and she never has a bad day,

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Speaker 3: but she is so careful not to let herself spiral

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Speaker 3: into negative talk and negative thoughts. She actually told me

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Speaker 3: that she read that it is scientifically proven that venting

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Speaker 3: does not make you feel better.

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Speaker 1: And it's weird because after she said that, I noticed that.

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Speaker 3: Almost every time I vent, every time I just let

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Speaker 3: off the little steam, I feel worse because I say

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Speaker 3: things that I don't mean, and I exaggerate my situation

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Speaker 3: to a place that it hasn't even.

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Speaker 1: Gotten to now.

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Speaker 5: Processing processing is different from venting and processing with the

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Speaker 5: right person, like talk to your therapist, talk to your spouse,

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Speaker 5: talk to a friend that you trust. But make sure

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Speaker 5: that when you are processing that you begin to take

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Speaker 5: a turn and point your soul to whatever is good,

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Speaker 5: whatever is noble, whatever is pure, whatever is true, whatever

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Speaker 5: is lovely, whatever is admirable, because you will find what

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Speaker 5: you are looking for.

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Speaker 1: I know they get on your nerves.

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Speaker 3: I know it feels like this situation could not get

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Speaker 3: any worse. I know you feel frustrated, but remember trouble

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Speaker 3: is the common denominator. You've got to get the X

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Speaker 3: factor of peace into play. And sometimes that means speaking

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Speaker 3: out loud what is praiseworthy. Sometimes that just means going, okay, God,

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Speaker 3: I thank you that you were working in places that

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Speaker 3: I cannot see. God, I thank you that you are

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Speaker 3: bigger than this problem. God, I thank you that you

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Speaker 3: are my provider. I praise you because you are Jehovah Jirah.

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Speaker 3: You have never let me down. God, I thank you

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Speaker 3: that you are gonna give me wisdom and grace as

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Speaker 3: I move into this day, and when you begin to

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Speaker 3: speak the praises of God, you will sense that peace

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Speaker 3: coming around.

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Speaker 1: You for whatever is next.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to go through this life anxious and

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Speaker 3: worried and unsteady. There is a piece that is available

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Speaker 3: to you, but it doesn't just fall into your lap.

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Speaker 3: You gotta grab it, got a hold tight to it,

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Speaker 3: You gotta strap it on, you.

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Speaker 1: Gotta practice it.

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Speaker 6: Isaiah said, how beautiful are the feet on the mountain

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Speaker 6: that proclaim the good news of peace. When you put

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Speaker 6: these things into practice, you will not only hold tightly

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Speaker 6: to your truth, but others will see it and they'll wonder,

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Speaker 6: and you'll try to explain it to them, but you can't.

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Speaker 3: Corey Timboom, anybody know Corey Timboom, She's like one of

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Speaker 3: my heroes. She was a Holocaust survivor and she was

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Speaker 3: a Christian who was imprisoned because they hid Jews in

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Speaker 3: their house in Holland, and her sister and her were

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Speaker 3: sent to Ravensbrook, the concentration camp in Nazi Germany, and

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Speaker 3: she survived to tell her story, and she traveled the

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Speaker 3: world and she preached the forgiveness of God. And she

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Speaker 3: told this story about how she and her sister had

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Speaker 3: a secret Bible study where they would speak out loud

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Speaker 3: the things that they could praise God for, and her

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Speaker 3: sister would make her praise God for they had a Bible,

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Speaker 3: and she would make her praise God for the fleas

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Speaker 3: that were in the concentration camp, because the fleee kept

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Speaker 3: the guards out and and they, I mean, they just

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Speaker 3: went through the most horrific circumstances. And Corey wrote this

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Speaker 3: when she described their barracks one time, she said, there

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Speaker 3: was no way to walk to and from the meeting

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Speaker 3: without passing through every row of bunks and at everyone.

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Speaker 3: I would see the light of God in the eyes

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Speaker 3: of people facing death, starvation, and cruelty in such a place.

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Speaker 1: Peace was not just possible, it was real.

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Speaker 3: And I want you to know today you might be

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Speaker 3: in your darkest hour, but you can have a peace,

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Speaker 3: have guard your heart and mind to an extent that

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Speaker 3: you cannot even explain how it is happening.

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Speaker 1: You just you just know that it's real. We are

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Speaker 1: in a fight.

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Speaker 3: It is a battle against spiritual enemies in heavenly realms

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Speaker 3: that we cannot even see, and we cannot go into

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Speaker 3: it unprepared and unaware. Paul said, if anything is excellent,

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Speaker 3: if anything is worthy of praise, sometimes the only way

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Speaker 3: to hold your peace is to praise. Drown out the

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Speaker 3: noise of the evil one with songs of deliverance in

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Speaker 3: your home, in your car.

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Speaker 1: At your desk.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you've got to put on AirPods, drown out the

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Speaker 3: noise of the enemy with songs of.

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