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Speaker 5: I like to get started each week with something kind

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Speaker 6: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it with me today.

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Speaker 6: This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 5: all the red seas that God has parted in my life.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna remember how God spared my life on the freeway.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna remember how God gave me a beautiful wife.

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Speaker 5: I will remember how God healed my mother. I will

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Speaker 5: remember how against all odds, God gave us this beautiful facility,

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Speaker 5: the Compact Center. Let's remember what God has done. Let's

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Speaker 5: don't do like they did. We have to make a decision.

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Speaker 5: We're going to recall the good.

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Speaker 6: Things God's done in our lives.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 5: I would encourage you to keep a notebook, something like

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Speaker 5: a diary or a journal. And when something happens that

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Speaker 5: You know God spared your life, or you know God

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Speaker 5: spoke to you. You were down and God quickened the scripture,

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Speaker 6: Will write that down. It would do us all good

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Speaker 6: to have a record of the.

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Speaker 5: Good things that God has done for us, and I

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Speaker 5: found if you don't write it down, it's very easy

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Speaker 5: gave me clear insight. It gave me clear direction. He

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Speaker 5: didn't even realize he had said it. I didn't make

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Speaker 6: And so I went home and I wrote it down.

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Speaker 5: I thought, here's another example of how God has directing

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Speaker 5: thing I did, typed it out, put it away in

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Speaker 5: my files. I don't want to forget that. Fifty years

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Speaker 5: from now, I'll pass it down to my grandchildren. It's

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Speaker 5: another way of saying, here's something that God is doing

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Speaker 5: in our family life. And it may not always be

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Speaker 5: something big, just something little, but you know it's God.

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Speaker 5: You bump into somebody, they introduce you to another person,

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Speaker 6: Write that down.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you're driving down the freeway, see a billboard and

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Speaker 5: God at work in your life. Write that down, and

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Speaker 5: then on a red getter basis, you need to get

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Speaker 5: God has done in your life.

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Speaker 6: You're talking about encouraging you.

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Speaker 5: When you start reading about how God opened up this

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Speaker 5: healed you there.

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Speaker 6: That's going to build your faith.

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Speaker 5: Learn to meditate on these good things, and especially in

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Speaker 5: our times of difficulty, especially when we're tempted to get discouraged,

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Speaker 5: we need to get that notebook out and read it

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Speaker 5: again and again and again, get it deep down on

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Speaker 5: the inside of you. If you do that, you will

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Speaker 5: not go through the day discouraged and defeated. You will

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Speaker 5: know that you know that, you know that God is

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Speaker 5: in control of your life. He's got you in the

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Speaker 5: through with the victory. And this is what they did

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Speaker 5: back in the Old Testament. You remember how they used

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Speaker 5: to always carry around their staff. Really, that staff was

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Speaker 5: more than a walking stick.

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Speaker 6: It was more than just.

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Speaker 5: Something to keep the wild animals away. Back in those days,

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Speaker 5: and of course they didn't have paper and files and

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Speaker 5: computers like we have today. And one of the ways

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Speaker 5: they kept important records and important events is that they

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Speaker 5: would carve that on their staff.

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Speaker 6: They would etch it in there. That was their personal record.

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Speaker 6: For instance, on this.

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Speaker 5: Date, we defeated the Amalekites. On this date, my son

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Speaker 5: was born. On this date, God gave us water out

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Speaker 5: of a rock. On this date, God delivered us out

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Speaker 5: of bondage. Their staff was literally a record of their.

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Speaker 6: History with God.

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Speaker 5: Think about when Moses parted the Red Sea.

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Speaker 6: What did he do? He held up his staff.

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Speaker 5: He was saying, God, I thank you for all you've

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Speaker 5: done in the past, and I hold this staff up,

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Speaker 5: remembering how time and time again you've delivered us supernaturally.

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Speaker 6: You've worked in our lives.

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Speaker 5: And we just thank you that you're going to do

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Speaker 5: it again. They were remembering the good things God had done.

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Speaker 5: That staff was kind of like their journal. You remember

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Speaker 5: when David went to face Galaphath. He didn't just take

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Speaker 5: a slingshot and some stones. The Bible says he took

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Speaker 5: his staff. Why because his staff had his history with God.

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Speaker 5: No doubt on that staff he had exed ind there.

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Speaker 6: On this date, I killed a lion with my bare hands.

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Speaker 6: God gave me that victory.

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Speaker 5: On this date, I killed a bear all by myself.

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Speaker 5: When he went to face Goliath, he made sure he

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Speaker 5: took his staff because that reminded him how much God

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Speaker 5: had helped him.

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Speaker 6: In the past.

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Speaker 5: And I can imagine just before he went out to fight,

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Speaker 5: he read over it one more time. His attitude was, God,

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Speaker 5: you did it for me back then, and I know

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Speaker 5: you're gonna do it for me now.

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Speaker 6: And some of you today you need to get your

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Speaker 6: staff out.

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Speaker 5: You're facing some big obstacles in your life, and instead

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Speaker 5: of sitting around getting depressed wondering how it's ever gonna

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Speaker 5: work out, you need to.

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Speaker 6: Start meditating on how far God's already brought you. Start

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Speaker 6: dwelling on your victories.

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Speaker 5: Start thinking about the times you've killed the lion in the.

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Speaker 6: Bear, so to speak, in your own life now. I

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Speaker 6: don't know.

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Speaker 5: Maybe there were a few lines that David didn't kill.

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Speaker 5: Maybe there were a few bears that.

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Speaker 6: Got the best of him.

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Speaker 5: But you notice he wasn't talking about it. He wasn't

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Speaker 5: sitting around thinking, oh, yeah, Golia, it's pretty big. And

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Speaker 5: one day I did get beat up by Josiah's sister. No,

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Speaker 5: his mind wasn't focused on that. He was focused on

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Speaker 5: his victories. He was meditating on how God had helped

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Speaker 5: him in the past. You know the story he went

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Speaker 5: out there and defeated Goliath, and I'm sure it's that

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Speaker 5: in his staff.

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Speaker 6: He put that in his journal.

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Speaker 5: Here's another thing that God has helped me to do.

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Speaker 5: I want to encourage you today to get your staff out.

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Speaker 5: Start remembering the great things that God has done in

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Speaker 5: your life. You may not be as far as you

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Speaker 5: would like, but when you look back, you need to

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Speaker 5: remember how God has led you, protected you, promoted you,

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Speaker 5: increased you all along the way.

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Speaker 6: Don't take that for granted.

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Speaker 5: When something good happens, you know it's from God. Write

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Speaker 5: it down and then get that book out again and

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Speaker 5: again and again. Read over that, meditate on it, get

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Speaker 5: it deep down on the inside. Friends, there's power in

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Speaker 5: remembery and if you'll use your memory for the right purposes.

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Speaker 6: To recall your victories, recall your successes, recall what God

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Speaker 5: Then that's gonna build your faith no matter what comes

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Speaker 5: against you in life.

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Speaker 6: Just like David, you'll rise above it. You'll know if

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Speaker 6: God did it for you once, he'll do it for

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Speaker 6: you again. Amen. Do you receive it today? I know

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