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Speaker 3: thanks for coming out today. And I like to start

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Speaker 3: with something funny. And I heard about this minister that

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Speaker 3: was out bear hunting. He searched and searched all through

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Speaker 3: he finally threw his gun down in frustration and went

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Speaker 3: I need your protection. God. I'm asking you to convert

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Speaker 3: this bear into a Christian. Miraculously, the bear froze in

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Speaker 3: his tracks, put up both paws toward the heavens, and said,

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Speaker 3: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 3: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 3: never be the same. In Jesus' name, Amen, God, bless you.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about not having

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Speaker 3: habit of seeing the negative. They can walk into a

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Speaker 3: no matter how much good there is, you can always

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Speaker 3: She may have some weaknesses, but she's a great mother.

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Speaker 3: this critical spirit, it's going to poison your whole. Out book,

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Speaker 3: we start magnifying the wrong things. That's when we start

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Speaker 3: people respond to praise more than they respond to criticism.

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Speaker 3: The next time you want your husband to mow the lawn,

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Speaker 3: instead of nagging saying you lazy thing, when are you

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Speaker 3: ever gonna mow our lawn? It looks so bad? Now,

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Speaker 3: just say, did I ever tell you when you're out

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Speaker 3: there mowing the lawn you look really good? And when

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Speaker 3: sweat dripping down in your face. You look so handsome,

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Speaker 3: so attractive. You praise him like that, and he'll mow

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Speaker 3: I heard about this couple that moved into a new neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: Day after day she made these same comments. Can't believe

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Speaker 3: She was so surprised she called her husband said, honey, look,

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Speaker 3: The husband smiled and said, honey, I got up early

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Speaker 3: that the neighbor had dirty laundry. The problem was the

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Speaker 3: scripture puts it to the purer, all things are pure

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Speaker 3: if you can't ever see anything right. You drive down

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Speaker 3: never the amazing house. You never see what people do right,

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Speaker 3: The problem is not with somebody else. It's an internal issue.

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Speaker 3: It's like this man that had an accident driving to work.

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Speaker 3: seeing the bad rather than the good. If I'm constantly skeptical.

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Speaker 3: You can leave one job angry, upset, bitter they didn't

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Speaker 3: that's gone through years of judgment, years of criticism. Parents,

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Speaker 3: spend your time trying to improve your own life, and

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Speaker 3: you'll have a whole lot less time being critical and judgmental.

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Speaker 3: And when I come to the end of my days

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Speaker 3: and stand before God, and he says, Joel, what did

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Speaker 3: How did you use the gifts that I gave you?

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Speaker 3: I would hate to have to say God, I spent

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Speaker 3: my life criticizing other ministries, knocking people down, trying to

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Speaker 3: make them look bad. Stirring everything up. Have a hard

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Speaker 3: time believing that God's going to say, well done, you,

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Speaker 3: good and faithful servant. You did just what I asked.

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Speaker 3: You stirred it all up. Now, I imagine God's going

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Speaker 3: to hand them a bottle of wind decks and say,

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Speaker 3: up here. If not before long, you'll be finding fault

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Speaker 3: with me. And in life at times you'll have to

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Speaker 3: taking things out of context. It's very tempting to be

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Speaker 3: They said this about me, Well, let me tell you

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Speaker 3: to bless your enemies. Understand the higher you go, the

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Speaker 3: more haters will come out. Everything may be fine with

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Speaker 3: your co workers as long as you're at the same level.

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Speaker 3: But the moment you get promoted and they see you

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Speaker 3: be surprised if they start talking, spreading rumors, trying to

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Speaker 3: make you look bad. Unfortunately, not all of your friends

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Speaker 3: will celebrate your victories. Not all of your coworkers will

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Speaker 3: be happy when you get promoted. Some will be jealous,

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Speaker 3: some will be intimidated, thinking you succeeding is making them

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Speaker 3: I don't know why he got promoted. He's not even

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Speaker 3: It'll be tempting to try to set the record straight

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Speaker 3: you will stay on the high road, God will take

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Speaker 3: what they mean for harm and he will use it

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Speaker 3: to stop you, but God will use it as a

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Speaker 3: stepping stone to thrust you higher. Every day I say, God,

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Speaker 3: bless my enemies. Those people that criticize, talk about me,

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Speaker 3: try to make me look bad. God give them a

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Speaker 3: great day to day. When you do that, the more

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Speaker 3: they talk, the higher you're going to go. Sometimes I

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Speaker 3: feel like I'd even need to thank my enemies. If

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Speaker 3: it had not been for them, I wouldn't be where

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Speaker 3: I am today. They meant it to bring me down,

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Speaker 3: but God used it to push me up higher. Now

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Speaker 3: I'm asking you today to make a decision that you

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Speaker 3: are not going to have a critical spirit your self

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Speaker 3: to see the best. There's good in every situation if

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Speaker 3: you'll look for it. Make a list of the qualities

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Speaker 3: you like in your spouse, your children, your friends. Learn

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Speaker 3: to magnify those things, the good things. I believe today

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Speaker 3: that windows are getting clean. We are wiping away judgment, criticism,

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Speaker 3: fault finding, maybe things that have even held us back

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Speaker 3: for years. But this is a new day. I declare,

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Speaker 3: It's no longer going to cloud our vision. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: go out of here with clean windows, believing the best,

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Speaker 3: seeing the good, minding our own business. When we do that,

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Speaker 3: God promises he will fight our battles for us, He

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Speaker 3: will make our wrongs right. We're going to rise higher.

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Speaker 3: I believe and declare every dream, every promise, every desire

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Speaker 3: God's put in your heart, You're gonna see that come

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Speaker 3: to fulfillment. Amen, do you receive it today? I know

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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