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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's always a joy to come into your homes. And

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Speaker 1: if you're ever in our area, please stop buy and

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. I promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for tuning in and thank you again for

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Speaker 1: coming out today. I like to start with something funny

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Speaker 1: and I heard about this middle aged woman. She had

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Speaker 1: a heart attack on the operating table. She asked God

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Speaker 1: if this was it. God said, no, you have forty

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Speaker 1: more years. Upon recovery, she decided to stay in the hospital,

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Speaker 1: have a facelift, tummy tuck, life costruction, extreme makeover. Two

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Speaker 1: months later, as she is leaving the hospital, she was

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Speaker 1: hit by a car and killed. She got to Heaven

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Speaker 1: said God, I thought you said I had forty more years.

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Speaker 1: God said, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you. A hold

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Speaker 1: up your Bible, say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: talked the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about having continual joy. We

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Speaker 1: all face difficulties in life, challenges at work, people that

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Speaker 1: are hard to get along with their stress, traffic, disappointments.

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Speaker 1: If we're not careful, we'll let the pressures of life

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Speaker 1: become negative, discouraged, But we weren't created to endure life.

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Speaker 1: We were created to enjoy life. And we can't control

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Speaker 1: what happens on the outside, but we can control what

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Speaker 1: happens on the inside. And happiness for a lot of

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Speaker 1: people is based on their circumstances. It's the weekend. I'm happy,

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Speaker 1: my spouse is treating me better. I'm happy, traffic wasn't

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Speaker 1: too bad. I'm happy. But joy is not dependent on

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Speaker 1: what's happening around you. Joy is deep down within you.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't mean we'll be jumping up and down every day,

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Speaker 1: but there's a calm delight. You'll content. You're at peace.

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Speaker 1: You know God's fighting your battles. You could be upset,

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Speaker 1: but you have a smile on your face. Things are tough,

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Speaker 1: but you're not complaining. Your attitude is life is good.

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Speaker 1: I'm thankful to be alive. When you live like that,

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Speaker 1: you're tapping into the joy this on the inside. John

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Speaker 1: chapter four. Jesus said to the woman at the well,

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Speaker 1: I will give you living water. He described it in

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Speaker 1: verse fourteen. This water will become a spring welling up,

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Speaker 1: bubbling continually within you. There is a well of joy

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Speaker 1: up and continually flow. Why don't we all have joy?

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Speaker 1: There's something we have to do. Ephesians five says, be

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Speaker 1: ever filled with the spirit. Notice you don't get filled

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Speaker 1: one time and then you're done. It says be ever filled.

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Speaker 1: This means on a regular basis, we have to keep

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Speaker 1: filling ourselves up. How do we do it? The next

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Speaker 1: verse says by speaking to yourself in songs, making melody

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Speaker 1: in your heart, and by being thankful. The way to

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Speaker 1: in your heart all through the day. On the inside,

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Speaker 1: we should be singing. This means in our attitude, we're grateful.

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Speaker 1: In our thoughts, we're always thinking about God's goodness. Cooking dinner,

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Speaker 1: you're humming the tune to a song, mowing the lawn.

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Speaker 1: You're whistling as you go along driving to work. This

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Speaker 1: is going to be a great day. Lord. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: about my future. In some way, You're always making melody

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Speaker 1: in your heart, thinking about God's goodness, thanking him for

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Speaker 1: your life, your family, your job. Every time you do this,

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Speaker 1: something is happening. You're not just being positive, just having

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Speaker 1: a good attitude. You're being filled back up. God is

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Speaker 1: pouring into you peace, strength, favor, victory. See. Life takes

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Speaker 1: things out of us, stress, disappointments, traffic. We have to

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Speaker 1: develop this habit of being ever filled well, Joel, I

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Speaker 1: went to church on Sunday. I got filled up for

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Speaker 1: the week. That's good, But one time is not going

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Speaker 1: on Monday morning, a coworker aggravates you. Monday afternoon, your

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Speaker 1: pressures of life are going to push you down, steal

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Speaker 1: your joy. It's like a helium balloon, if you've ever

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Speaker 1: gotten one for your birthday. The first few days, the

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Speaker 1: a few days the balloon starts to sink down, a little,

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Speaker 1: get a little smaller. Day after day it goes lower lower.

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Speaker 1: Eventually it's on the ground, won't rise at all. There's

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Speaker 1: same way, every time we complain we're leaking free time,

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Speaker 1: we get stressed out, we're leaking free time. We worry

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Speaker 1: That's why we have to become ever filled. Next time

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Speaker 1: of complaining, Lord, I want to thank you that you're

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Speaker 1: directed my steps. I believe I'm at the right place

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Speaker 1: at the right time. Instead of leaking, you just got

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Speaker 1: filled back up. You got stronger. Maybe your child is

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Speaker 1: causing your trouble. Instead of worrying thinking about how it's

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Speaker 1: never going to work out all through the day, Lord,

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Speaker 1: serve the Lord. Lord, you said the seed of the righteous,

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Speaker 1: my children will be mighty in the land. What could

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Speaker 1: deflate you instead will inflate you. Perhaps the medical report

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Speaker 1: wasn't good. You could easily be depressed, live in self pity.

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Speaker 1: But in instead, in your thoughts, you're constantly thinking, Lord,

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Speaker 1: you are good. Thank you that you're my healer. Thank

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Speaker 1: Because you're making melody in your heart, You're going to

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Speaker 1: stay encouraged. That well of joy will keep bubbling up,

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Speaker 1: giving you the strength to fight the good fight of faith.

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Speaker 1: But too many people have developed a habit of being negative,

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Speaker 1: seeing the worst, worrying. You can develop this new habit

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Speaker 1: of keeping a song in your heart. You have to

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Speaker 1: look for ways you can be grateful in your everyday life.

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Speaker 1: Brushing your teeth in the morning, Lord, thank you for

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Speaker 1: In your thoughts, you're always meditating on God's goodness. It's

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Speaker 1: easy to do just the opposite. Focus on what's wrong.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't take much effort to go toward the negative. I

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Speaker 1: don't like my job. These people get on my nerves,

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Speaker 1: do is work around here. Can I tell you you're making

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Speaker 1: and start making melody in your heart. You may not

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Speaker 1: at least you have a job. If you'll be grateful

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Speaker 1: supposed to be. You may have some big obstacles, people

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Speaker 1: circumstances coming against you, but you don't have to live

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Speaker 1: your battles. Thank him that she's making your crooked places straight.

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Speaker 1: don't see away, but God, I know you have a way.

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Speaker 1: You've done it for me in the past. I know

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Speaker 1: have continual joy. When you have joy, you have the

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Speaker 1: to accomplish your dreams. I learned this principle from my father.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere he went under his breath, he was always either singing, praying,

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Speaker 1: or he would be whistling. He loved to whistle the

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Speaker 1: tune from the Andy Griffith Show. I heard that hundreds

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Speaker 1: but he had a joyful attitude. When he was whistling,

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Speaker 1: he was saying God, I love you, thank you for

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Speaker 1: what you've done in my life. That was his way

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Speaker 1: of making melody in his heart. Vacuuming the house, you

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Speaker 1: Am a Friend of God. Go into the grocery store,

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Speaker 1: go there whistling with the song of praise in your heart.

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Speaker 1: My brother Paul, every time he comes in the back

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Speaker 1: my father. He's never in tune, but he's happy. And

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Speaker 1: my grandmother used to do this same thing. We'd go

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Speaker 1: coming to church with my grandfather. She was always making

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Speaker 1: seeing my grandmother upset, worried, frustrated, even when things didn't

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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about me and musical I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: a lifestyle of being thankful, seeing the best, always thinking

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Speaker 1: good things are in store even in difficulties. We're not complaining.

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Speaker 1: We're thinking God that he's bigger than our problem. We're

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Speaker 1: thinking him that what he started he'll finish in our lives.

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Speaker 1: At our house, we have a lot of birds on

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Speaker 1: the outside, especially at certain times a year, cardinals, blue jays, robins.

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Speaker 1: Early in the morning, usually about a half hour before sunrise,

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Speaker 1: they start singing and singing. It sounds like a symphony.

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Speaker 1: There are so many different kinds of birds, different sounds.

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Speaker 1: It's right outside our bedroom window. Many mornings they are

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Speaker 1: so full of joy they're almost annoying. As I listen

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Speaker 1: with beautiful music. Those birds don't seem like they have

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Speaker 1: of oil has gone down, cost of living is gone up,

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Speaker 1: like their creator is watching after them. The other morning,

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Speaker 1: coming down so harden. I was lying in listening to

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Speaker 1: it all, thinking, boy, this is a good time to

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Speaker 1: those birds start to sing. I thought, you have got

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