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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: We believe you're going to have an.

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Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled. God

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Speaker 1: bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to it Earl the other day, who

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Speaker 3: had had a breakup in her relationship, and she was

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Speaker 3: so disheartened. She said that she thought this relationship was

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Speaker 3: on the right track. She thought that it could even

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Speaker 3: be headed towards marriage, and then one day he came

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Speaker 3: to her and he said, I'm taking a job in

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

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Speaker 3: When she began to think about how he could leave

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Speaker 3: so quickly, it began to demoralize her. She thought, Wow,

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Speaker 3: I'm not as special as I thought I was. I

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Speaker 3: guess he didn't love me like I thought he loved me.

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Speaker 4: She said.

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Speaker 3: I began to dwell on these thoughts, and I became

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Speaker 3: more discouraged. She said, you know, I was just really

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Speaker 3: just trying to make sense of it all, trying to

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Speaker 3: figure it all out.

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Speaker 4: What happened? What did I do?

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Speaker 1: She said?

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Speaker 3: I got to the place where I didn't even want

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Speaker 3: to go hardly go to work. I certainly didn't want

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Speaker 3: to go out with any friends. I found myself just

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Speaker 3: staying at home a lot. And she said, one evening,

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Speaker 3: I turned on the television and I saw your ministry.

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Speaker 4: She says.

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Speaker 3: As I began to listen and listen to the messages,

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Speaker 3: I began to regain a sense of who I was,

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Speaker 3: She said, I began to become encouraged again.

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Speaker 4: She said, this that I thought was so good. She said,

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Speaker 4: I realized.

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Speaker 3: What I had been doing was I had been so

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Speaker 3: focused and so attentive to what had happened to me

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Speaker 3: that I wasn't understanding what was happening in me.

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Speaker 4: She said.

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Speaker 3: I had been so hurt, I had been so discredited,

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Speaker 3: I felt so all alone, and what was happening to

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Speaker 3: me was causing what was happening in me to.

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Speaker 4: Totally destroying my life.

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Speaker 3: She said.

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Speaker 4: I didn't want to do anything.

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Speaker 3: She said, and as I became encouraged, she said, that

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Speaker 3: discouragement left in hole rose. She said. I literally got

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Speaker 3: to the place where I could look myself in the

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Speaker 3: mirror and like myself again. She said, little, my little,

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Speaker 3: She said, I'd get up in the morning, and I

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Speaker 3: would look in the mirror and she would say, you

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Speaker 3: are beautiful, you are talented, you are valuable. She said,

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Speaker 3: I begin to have this fun person come back into

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Speaker 3: my life, the person I really was.

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Speaker 4: And she said, I got so excited. I got it.

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Speaker 3: I got encouraged to get up in the morning and

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Speaker 3: look at myself and tell myself how well I was doing.

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Speaker 4: You see. I love that she added this. And I

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Speaker 4: can't leave this out, she said.

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Speaker 3: And I would say to myself, God is going to

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Speaker 3: bring the right person across.

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Speaker 4: My path because I'm in the pall of his hand.

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Speaker 3: I love the fact that she did something about her discouragement.

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Speaker 4: She made a choice.

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Speaker 3: She took what she received on the inside, the encouragement

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Speaker 3: she got from the ministry, and she began.

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Speaker 4: To encourage herself.

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Speaker 3: It says in Exodus six that when Moses was going

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Speaker 3: to leave the children of Israel out of captivity, which

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Speaker 3: God had promised would happen, when he went to them

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Speaker 3: to tell them that this was their time. This was

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Speaker 3: the moment that God was going to cause them to

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Speaker 3: leave this burden of this yoke, this bondage that they

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Speaker 3: had been under. The scripture says this, It says that

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Speaker 3: they were too discouraged to believe. They had been under

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Speaker 3: so much discouragement that they couldn't even believe that what

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Speaker 3: God could do for them. You know, that's a sad statement,

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Speaker 3: too discouraged to believe.

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Speaker 4: But I'll tell you what it shows me.

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Speaker 3: It shows me the power of discouragement in our life.

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Speaker 3: It shows me that when we become discouraged, we can't

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Speaker 3: even get the faith to believe that God can take

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Speaker 3: us to the places we need to go, to take

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Speaker 3: us over.

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Speaker 4: A challenge, through an obstacle.

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Speaker 3: You see, discouragement is heaped on us and we can't see.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's very interesting because the young girl that

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Speaker 3: she began to take this encouragement that she had on

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Speaker 3: the inside and encourage herself. You know, nothing had changed

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Speaker 3: on the outside. That man didn't come back to her life,

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Speaker 3: but everything had changed on the inside. And when hope

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Speaker 3: rises in your heart, faith causes you to act, Faith

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Speaker 3: causes you to move forward. The scripture tells us that David,

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Speaker 3: the mighty Man of God, who faith this challenge after challenge,

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Speaker 3: learned this secret. He encouraged himself in the Lord. You see,

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Speaker 3: David had a warrior's mentality. He took this place inside

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Speaker 3: of him that he had built up, this place where

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Speaker 3: he had encouraged himself in the things of God, and

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Speaker 3: he was able to take that war chest and encourage

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Speaker 4: He was able to.

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Speaker 3: Look at the face of discouragement and say, no, my

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Speaker 3: God can supply all of my needs.

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Speaker 4: My God can get me through this.

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Speaker 3: You see, at one point in David's life, everybody had

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Speaker 3: turned against him. Even the men that were fighting battles

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Speaker 3: to David and they said, we want to stone you.

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Speaker 3: They were looking for someone to blame for the difficulties

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Speaker 4: David had no.

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Speaker 3: One around him that could encourage him, Yet he encouraged.

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Speaker 4: Himself in the Lord his God.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's great when your family is there to

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Speaker 3: encourage you, when your friends are there to encourage you.

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Speaker 3: But what happens when no one's there to encourage you.

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Speaker 4: You know what I believe.

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Speaker 3: I believe we shouldn't depend on other people to encourage us.

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Speaker 3: I believe our main source of encouragement should come right

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Speaker 3: from the inside of us. See, I can't even imagine

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Speaker 3: my husband trying to encourage me every time I'm discouraged.

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Speaker 3: You know what, if I went to Joel every time

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Speaker 3: that I was discouraged, he'd probably lock himself in a

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Speaker 3: closet and not come out. You See, we've got to

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Speaker 3: learn to encourage ourself every day. We've got to remember

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Speaker 3: what God has done in our life. We have to

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Speaker 3: understand that we have to get in agreement with God. See,

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Speaker 3: you are made in the image of Almighty God. God

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Speaker 3: created you and he made you. And if you believe

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Speaker 3: that about your life, then when you criticize yourself, you

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Speaker 3: might as well be criticizing your creator, the one.

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Speaker 4: Who made you.

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Speaker 3: You. See, if you can critic besides his creation, then

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Speaker 3: what you're doing is criticizing the Creator because he made you,

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Speaker 3: he formed you, he fashioned you, just the way you

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Speaker 3: should be. See, when you encourage yourself, what you're doing

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Speaker 3: is you're saying, thank you.

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Speaker 4: God for who you made me to be.

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Speaker 3: Thank you God that you've made me to be more

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Speaker 3: than a cauquer in Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 4: But I'm an overcomer.

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Speaker 3: Because You've backed me up, because I have your word

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Speaker 3: in me. See, it's so easy sometimes to see the

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Speaker 3: good qualities in other people yet ignore the good qualities

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Speaker 3: in ourself. But I believe that we need to see

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Speaker 3: are the good things in ourself, and we need to

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Speaker 3: applaud even.

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Speaker 4: The smallest accomplishments.

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe you feel like you're a procrastinator and

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Speaker 3: there's been a project that you've been putting off. Well,

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Speaker 3: when you begin to start that project, even if you

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Speaker 3: don't finish it, applaud yourself.

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Speaker 4: You know, what about that diet you been trying to

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Speaker 3: Listen when you have a good day, applaud yourself. What

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Speaker 3: about the addiction that you're overcoming when you see yourself

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Speaker 3: trying listen? Cry in your own efforts with the success,

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Speaker 4: You see, we've got to learn to.

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Speaker 3: Applaud even the smallest accomplishments in our life.

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Speaker 4: When we applaud ourself, you know what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: We're not being boastful, we're not being egotistical and prideful.

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Speaker 3: We're building confidence and faith in ourself. Too often we

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Speaker 3: see what we're doing wrong and not what we're doing right.

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

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Speaker 3: want to tell you something. Don't go around looking at

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Speaker 3: all the times you blew it. Applaud yourself for all

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Speaker 3: the things you've done well by yourself some flowers.

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Speaker 4: Celebrate yourself. You've been made in the image of God.

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Speaker 3: You've got to understand when you celebrate yourself, you're celebrating

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Speaker 3: God on the inside of you.

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Speaker 4: See, it's so.

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Speaker 3: Important that we do this. You know, life doesn't always

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Speaker 3: turn out the way we planned. And maybe today you

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Speaker 3: can say, well, not everything has gone my way. But

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Speaker 3: can I encourage you with this? You're still here, You're

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Speaker 3: still full of purpose, You're still.

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Speaker 4: Full of value. You can still get to where God

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Speaker 3: You can't live negative and expect to have a positive life.

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Speaker 3: You can't dwell on everything that you can't do and

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Speaker 3: expect to go out with strength and courage to do it.

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Speaker 4: You see, we're all in the process. That is the truth.

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Speaker 3: Every one of us in here is in a certain

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Speaker 4: Stay encouraged along the way.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget the time we were in another state

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Speaker 3: had done an interview with this journalist, and I'll never forget.

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Speaker 3: He got in the car. We all piled in the

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Speaker 3: you know what, I did a good job, He said,

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Speaker 3: I did everything that I knew to do. I said

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Speaker 3: feel good about what I did today. I did the

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Speaker 3: very best that I could. And we had a friend

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Speaker 3: know when you affirmed yourself after that important interview, he said,

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Speaker 3: it reminded me of how negative I am towards my

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Speaker 3: own self. He said, I thought about what if that

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Speaker 3: was me that just came out of that interview. He said,

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

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Speaker 4: I would have probably.

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Speaker 3: Thought I didn't say the right thing and I didn't

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Speaker 3: do the right thing. But when you had the boldness

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Speaker 3: and the courage to affirm yourself, he said, it was

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Speaker 3: such a freedom for me.

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Speaker 4: It made me realize that I can affirm myself.

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Speaker 3: Because see, the truth is, we can only do the

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Speaker 3: best that we can do today. And if we'll do

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Speaker 3: the best we can do today, whether it was the

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Speaker 3: best or not, we'll be more equipped.

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Speaker 4: To do better tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: You See, my husband is one of the greatest encouragers

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Speaker 3: that I think I've ever seen. He's encouraged people all

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Speaker 3: over the world, and I believe one of the greatest

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Speaker 3: secrets to his encouragement is the fact that he knows

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Speaker 3: how to encourage himself. He practices finding the best in himself. See,

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Speaker 3: when you're full of good things, it's interesting how you

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Speaker 3: see through that lens of good things. Then you're able

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Speaker 3: to see the best in others to affirm and encourage

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Speaker 3: encouragement and love to one another. Listen, I believe I'm

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Speaker 4: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you

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Speaker 2: But as a miracle even possible.

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Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see a way out.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what

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Speaker 1: we're believing. For that's how we felt. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: but she chose to believe that God is a miracle worker. Today,

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Speaker 1: I thank God every day that he still does miracles.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to send you by new book. It's called

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Speaker 1: Miracles Happen. It's filled with powerful stories of miracles from

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Speaker 1: the Scripture and real life stories of people that have

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Speaker 1: seen the hand of God. It'll help build your faith

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Speaker 1: so you can believe what seems impossible. God did it

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Speaker 1: for my mother. Yes, He'll do it for you.

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Speaker 2: of any amount to the ministry. This month, Joel and Victoria,

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Speaker 2: we'd like to send you this powerful book, Miracles Happen

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Speaker 2: Your Journey to Supernatural Breakthrough. This new book details thirty

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Speaker 2: different miracles from the Word of God, and each one

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Speaker 2: comes with an encouragement and application to your own life.

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Speaker 2: God has miracles stored up for you, healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 1: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: Victory and I are standing in faith with you. We

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Speaker 1: pray for you every day.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate your prayer and support.

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Speaker 1: Your generosity is impacting so many lives. Remember you can

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Speaker 4: Until we meet again. May the Lord bless you and

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Speaker 4: keep you.

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