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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: the podcast, I hope you'll share it with a friend,

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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: We exalt you in this place and we honor you today.

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Speaker 3: Amen. He's a good God.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to a girl the other day who

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Speaker 2: had had a breakup. in her relationship. And she was

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Speaker 2: so disheartened. She said that she thought this relationship was

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Speaker 2: be headed towards marriage. And then one day he came

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Speaker 2: to her and he said, I'm taking a job in

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Speaker 3: Well, she was so discouraged. She thought, what's happening?

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Speaker 2: When she began to think about how he could leave

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Speaker 2: She said, I began to dwell on these thoughts and

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Speaker 2: I became more discouraged. She said, you know, I was

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Speaker 3: What happened? What did I do?

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Speaker 2: She said, I got to the place where I didn't

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Speaker 2: didn't want to go out with any friends. I found

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Speaker 2: one evening I turned on the television and I saw

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Speaker 2: your ministry. She says, as I began to listen and

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Speaker 2: listen to the messages, I began to regain a sense

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Speaker 2: of who I was. She said, I began to become

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Speaker 2: encouraged again. She said this that I thought was so good.

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Speaker 2: She said, I realized what I had been doing was

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Speaker 3: She said, I had been so hurt. I had been

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Speaker 2: She said, and as I became encouraged, she said, that

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Speaker 2: discouragement left and how rose. She said, I literally got

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Speaker 3: She said, little by little, she said, I'd get up

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Speaker 2: Began to have this fun person come back into my life,

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Speaker 3: And she said, I got so excited, I got encouraged

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Speaker 3: You see, I love that. She added this, and I

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Speaker 2: She said, and I would say to myself, God is

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Speaker 2: Fact that she did something about her discouragement. She made

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Speaker 2: says that they were too discouraged to believe. They had

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Speaker 3: That man didn't come back to her life, but everything

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Speaker 2: And when hope rises in your heart, faith causes you

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Speaker 2: tells us that David, the mighty man of God who

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Speaker 2: You see, At one point in David's life, everybody had

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Speaker 2: his God. You know, it's great when your family is

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Speaker 3: You know what I believe?

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Speaker 2: I believe we shouldn't depend on other people to encourage us.

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Speaker 2: I believe our main source of encouragement should come right

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Speaker 2: from the inside of us. See, I can't even imagine

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Speaker 3: You know what?

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Speaker 2: If I went to Joel every time that I was discouraged,

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Speaker 2: You see, we've got to learn to encourage ourself every day.

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Speaker 2: We've got to remember what God has done in our life.

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Speaker 2: We have to understand that we have to get in

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Speaker 2: And if you believe that about your life, then when

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Speaker 2: you criticize yourself, you might as well be criticizing your creator,

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Speaker 3: You see, if you can.

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Speaker 2: Criticize his creation, then what you're doing is criticizing the

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Speaker 2: for who you made me to be. Thank you, God,

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Speaker 2: that you've made me to be more than a conqueror.

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Speaker 3: In Christ Jesus, that I'm an overcomer because you backed

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Speaker 2: See, it's so easy sometimes to see the good qualities

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Speaker 2: But I believe that we need to see the good

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe you.

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Speaker 2: Feel like you're a procrastinator and there's been a project

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Speaker 2: What about that diet you've been trying to stay on? Listen,

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Speaker 2: when you have a good day, applaud yourself. What about

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Speaker 2: the addiction that you're overcoming? When you see yourself trying, listen,

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Speaker 2: crown your own efforts with the success. Applaud yourself. You see,

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Speaker 2: we've got to learn to applaud even the smallest accomplishments

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Speaker 2: we're doing? We're not being boastful. We're not being egotistical

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Speaker 2: and prideful. We're building confidence and faith in ourself. Too

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Speaker 2: often we see what we're doing wrong and not what

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Speaker 3: We see all the times we blew it.

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Speaker 2: But I want to tell you something. Don't go around

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Speaker 2: for all the things you've done well. Buy yourself some flowers.

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Speaker 2: Celebrate yourself. You've been made in the image of God.

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Speaker 2: You've got to understand when you celebrate yourself, you're celebrating

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Speaker 3: See, it's so.

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Speaker 2: Important that we do this. You know, life doesn't always

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Speaker 3: But can I.

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Speaker 2: Encourage you with this? You're still here. You're still full

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Speaker 2: get to where God wants you to be. You can't

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Speaker 3: You see, we're all in the process. That is the truth.

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Speaker 2: Every one of us in here is in a certain

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Speaker 3: And it's up to us to stay encouraged along the way.

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget the time we were in another state

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Speaker 2: when you affirmed yourself after that important interview, he said,

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Speaker 2: it reminded me of how negative I am towards my

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Speaker 3: He said, I would have probably had a mindful of doubt.

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Speaker 2: I would have probably thought I didn't say the right

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Speaker 2: thing and I didn't do the right thing. But when

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Speaker 2: he said, it was such a freedom for me. It

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Speaker 2: made me realize that I can affirm myself. Because see,

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Speaker 2: the truth is we can only do the best that

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Speaker 2: we can do today. And if we'll do the best

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Speaker 2: we'll be more equipped to do better tomorrow. You see,

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Speaker 2: my husband is one of the greatest encouragers that I

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Speaker 2: think I've ever seen. He's encouraged people all over the world.

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Speaker 2: And I believe one of the greatest secrets to his

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Speaker 2: encouragement is the fact that he knows how to encourage himself.

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Speaker 2: He practices finding the best in himself. See, when you're

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Speaker 2: full of good things, It's interesting how you see through

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Speaker 2: that lens of good things. Then you're able to see

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Speaker 2: the best in others, to affirm and encourage other people.

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Speaker 3: So you can't give away what you don't have.

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Speaker 2: If you've got a full tank, then you can give

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Speaker 2: Listen, I believe I'm looking at people who have decided

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Speaker 3: Out and be encouragers everywhere we go.

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