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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks again for being with us today. Always my

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Speaker 1: honor to be able to share God's Word with you

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Speaker 1: and hopefully inspire you and encourage you. If you're enjoying

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Speaker 1: pass it along. Let's inspire some other people as well.

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Speaker 1: But know that we love you. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: a blessed day for you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Father, that we're here and in your love.

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 2: So how's your outlook on life today? Did you get

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Speaker 2: even realize that their attitude is a choice that they

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Speaker 2: make every single day. See, the Bible tells us to

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Speaker 2: consistently and constantly put on this fresh new mental attitude. See,

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Speaker 2: we choose the way we see life. We can either

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Speaker 2: grateful about that, or we can look at what didn't

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Speaker 2: allow it to give us a negative perspective on life.

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Speaker 2: We've all heard that saying, the glass half full or

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Speaker 2: timeless because it makes such an amazing point. See, the

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Speaker 2: how one chooses to see the water that makes all

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Speaker 2: the difference in the world. I know this girl that

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Speaker 2: You could predict she was going to start telling you

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Speaker 2: day she said, oh, I was late to work. I

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Speaker 2: to this and it almost makes you grin because you're

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Speaker 2: thinking you're kidding, right? Then she goes on to say,

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Speaker 2: on and on. And you know, when you listen to this,

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Speaker 2: you realize, you know what? She's probably got a pretty

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Speaker 2: good husband. In fact, I know her husband and he's

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Speaker 2: He loves to take the kids out on Saturdays and

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Speaker 2: she can have the whole house to herself. But instead

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Speaker 2: to look at the negative. And when you begin to

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Speaker 2: And when you see this negative, it's like swimming against

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Speaker 2: I believe that we need to learn how to manage

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Speaker 2: then enjoy what we have. The other day, I walked

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Speaker 2: And then I realized, I'm not going to be getting

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Speaker 2: And just the way I rearranged my furniture, we need

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Speaker 2: I believe sometimes if we'll simply just change our routine,

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Speaker 2: the pastor pulled out this legal pad of paper. He

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Speaker 2: He said, you know, I am so sorry to hear

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Speaker 2: in his step. Amen. Have you ever heard that saying

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Speaker 2: to see today is this, that God gave Joshua and

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Speaker 2: Bible says that the 40 days that those men were

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Speaker 2: With the attitude, if we can take the land, they

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Speaker 2: But the Bible says this about them. They were of

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Speaker 2: a different spirit. One version says an excellent spirit. So

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Speaker 2: We're going to choose to overlook offense. We're going to

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Speaker 2: In fact, we'll outlast anything. that the enemy is trying

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Speaker 1: Amen.

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Speaker 3: Don't wait for the perfect time. Don't wait for things

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Speaker 1: The scripture says, write the vision and make it plain

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