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Speaker 4: heard about this blonde lady.

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Speaker 3: She was trying to get to sleep one.

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Speaker 4: they like it. All right, hold it up, say it

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Speaker 4: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 4: the healing power of laughter. A lot of the sickness

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Speaker 4: in our world is simply because.

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Speaker 3: We don't have the joy that we should.

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Speaker 4: When we live uptight and on edge, causes headaches, digestive problems, lack.

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Speaker 4: Much of this would go away if we just learned

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Speaker 4: how to deal with the stress properly. And one of

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Speaker 4: the greatest stress relievers God's given us is laughter. Laughter

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Speaker 4: it restores and rejuvenates what the pressures of life have

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Speaker 4: Look for opportunities to laugh. Now, you say, Joel, I'm

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Speaker 3: What's happened.

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Speaker 4: We've allowed the pressures of life, stress, more responsibilities, little

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Speaker 3: It is healthy to have fun.

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Speaker 4: It's healthy to laugh, It's healthy to have fun. Proverbs

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Speaker 4: Notice when we're good natured and full of joy, taking

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Speaker 4: She was releasing the healing that God put on the inside.

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Speaker 4: She said, doctor, I haven't laughed like that in over

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Speaker 4: one thing I appreciate about Victoria. She loves to laugh.

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Speaker 4: Do you know every time you've laughed today, you've gotten healthier.

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Speaker 4: up and have fun. Have you it's seen the news reports.

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Speaker 4: These are troubling times. No, it's just the opposite. The

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Speaker 4: more difficult it is, the more we need to activate

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Speaker 4: our joy, the more pressure, the more we need to

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Speaker 4: look for opportunities to laugh. Today, every other minute you

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Speaker 4: hear doom and gloom. It's gonna be so bad. It's

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Speaker 4: gonna get much much worse. You probably won't make it.

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Speaker 4: If we're not careful, we'll fall into that trap of thinking,

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Speaker 4: this is no time to enjoy my life. This is

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Speaker 4: certainly no time to laugh, no time to have a

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Speaker 4: sense of humor.

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Speaker 3: But now, more than ever, you need to activate your joy.

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Speaker 4: In fact, it says in Joe five point twenty two,

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Speaker 4: at destruction in famine, we should laugh. That doesn't seem

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Speaker 4: to make sense. You mean we're supposed to laugh at famine.

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Speaker 4: We're supposed to laugh in difficulties. That's exactly right. It's

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Speaker 4: because in tough times, that's when it's easiest to lose

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Speaker 4: your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

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Speaker 4: When you don't have strength, you'll drag through the day defeated,

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Speaker 4: not strong. You'll catch diseases that you shouldn't have. Your

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Speaker 4: immune system is run down. You're tired, you're worried, you're

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Speaker 4: worn out. God says, I've got a solution in difficulties.

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Speaker 4: Cheer up infamine. Laugh, keep your joy, friends. I believe

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Speaker 4: you can laugh your way to victory. You can laugh

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Speaker 4: your way to better health. You can laugh your way.

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Speaker 3: To more energy.

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Speaker 4: It says in Psalms two four that God sits in

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Speaker 4: the heavens and laughs.

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Speaker 3: Can you get a picture of that? Right now? God

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Speaker 3: is on the throne.

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Speaker 4: He's not mad, he's not worried about the economy, he's

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Speaker 4: not upset with you and me. What's he doing God's

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Speaker 4: laughing on the throne full of Joy. Goes on to

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Speaker 4: tell us in Psalm thirty seven why he's laughing because

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Speaker 4: he can see the destruction of the enemy coming. In

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Speaker 4: other words, the reason God laughs is because he knows

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Speaker 4: the end of the story. He knows the final outcome.

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Speaker 4: The good news is you and I win. God always

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Speaker 4: causes us to triumph.

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Speaker 3: It's just like we are in a fixed fight.

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Speaker 4: Imagine you're gonna watch the super Bowl, but you already

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Speaker 4: know the outcome.

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Speaker 3: You already know who's going to win.

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Speaker 4: No matter how far behind the winning team falls, no

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Speaker 4: matter how bad it looked for them, you wouldn't get upset.

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Speaker 4: You wouldn't be worried. Why you've got inside information. You

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Speaker 4: know the final outcome. That's what God is saying. When

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Speaker 4: it gets tough and things don't look like they're gonna

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Speaker 4: work out, we can laugh by faith knowing that God

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Speaker 4: has already written the final chapter. God has already recorded

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Speaker 4: the victory in your favor. He's saying in famine, when

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Speaker 4: it gets tough, you need to look that trouble in

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Speaker 4: the face and say, ha ha ha, I know the outcome.

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Speaker 4: God has destined me to win. He's already got the

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Speaker 4: roses for my neck. He's already seen me standing on

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Speaker 4: the Winter's circle.

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Speaker 3: What are we saying?

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Speaker 4: God is supplying all of my needs. He's healing all

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Speaker 4: of my diseases. He's fighting my battles for me. He's

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Speaker 4: my vindicator, my waymaker, my deliverer. He's given me the

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Speaker 4: desires of my heart. This is what Abraham did. God

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Speaker 4: gave him a promise that he was gonna have a

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Speaker 4: child in the natural. It was impossible. He was much

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Speaker 4: too old. But the first thing he did was laugh.

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Speaker 4: It was the laugh of faith. He said, in effect, Haha, God,

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Speaker 4: I know you can bring this to pass. I know

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Speaker 4: you're a supernatural God. And so often when God puts

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Speaker 4: a promise in our heart, it looks impossible. Maybe you're

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Speaker 4: sick and you know God's told you you're gonna be well.

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Speaker 4: You're coming out of that. Are you're struggling financially for

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Speaker 4: God's saying you're coming into overflow. He's gonna prosper you.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps your family is pulled apart. God's saying he's going

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Speaker 4: to bring him back together. Our minds so often will

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Speaker 4: tell us it's never gonna happen. You're never gonna get well,

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Speaker 4: never gonna get out of death, never see your dreams

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Speaker 4: come to fulfillment. But if we could just remember to

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Speaker 4: do like a Abraham, no matter how we feel, no

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Speaker 4: matter how bad it looks, we need to let out

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Speaker 4: the laugh of faith and just say, haha, I've got

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Speaker 4: inside information. I know God has already worked it out.

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Speaker 4: He's already arranged things in my favor. It's just a

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Speaker 4: matter of time before these promises come to pass. We

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Speaker 4: can laugh by faith knowing that we're in a fixed fight.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you today to get in a habit of

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Speaker 4: taking your medicine on a regular basis every day.

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Speaker 3: Find some reason to laugh, look for opportunities.

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Speaker 4: If you don't think you have a reason, then just

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Speaker 4: know you can laugh by faith. Remember you got to

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Speaker 4: stir up the joy, stir up the healing that's on

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Speaker 4: the inside. Some of you have been living uptight and stressed.

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Speaker 4: But I believe today is going to be a turning point.

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Speaker 4: Make a decision that you're going to lighten up and

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Speaker 4: start laughing more often. Yes, you can be responsible, but

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Speaker 4: at the same time, you can be good natured. It

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Speaker 4: is healthy to laugh, it's healthy to have fun. And

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Speaker 4: if you'll make it a priority to laugh every single

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Speaker 4: day and keep a happy heart a cheerful mind, you're

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Speaker 4: not only gonna enjoy your life more, but you're gonna

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Speaker 4: see healing flow through you in a new way. You're

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Speaker 4: gonna get free from chronic illnesses, chronic fatigue, chronic things

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Speaker 4: that have been holding you back. You're gonna see your

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Speaker 4: relationships go to a new level. God's gonna pour out

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Speaker 4: his favor in a greater way. And just like with Abraham,

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Speaker 4: every promise, every dream, every desire, God's put in your heart,

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Speaker 4: no matter how impossible it looks. I believe and declare,

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Speaker 4: you're gonna see God bring it to pass.

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Speaker 3: Amen. Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me, just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins.

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