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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: here ever in our area, please stop by and be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I'll promise you

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

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in, and thank you again for coming

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

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Speaker 1: and I heard about these two ladies that died and

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Speaker 1: went to heaven. Peter met them at the gate and said,

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Speaker 1: you'll be happy here if you follow one main rule.

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Speaker 1: Don't step on a duck. If you step on a duck,

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Speaker 1: they make a terrible racket. A week later, one of

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Speaker 1: the ladies accidentally stepped on a duck. Peter came up

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Speaker 1: to her with this extremely unattractive man, nothing appealing about

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Speaker 1: him whatsoever, said is your punishment. You're going to be

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Speaker 1: chained to this man. Seeing this, the other lady was

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Speaker 1: very careful. A month later, Peter came up to her

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Speaker 1: with this incredibly handsome man, amazing physique, look like a

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Speaker 1: movie star, chained them together. The lady was thrilled. She

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Speaker 1: said to him, I can't believe I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I did to deserve getting chained to you. He said,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you did, ma'am, but I stepped

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Speaker 1: on a dock. 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: taught 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's name, I want to talk to

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Speaker 1: you today about keeping strife out of your life. One

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Speaker 1: of the biggest challenges we all face is getting along

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Speaker 1: with people. Because everyone is different. We have different personalities,

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Speaker 1: different temperaments, come from different backgrounds. When somebody doesn't agree

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Speaker 1: with us, or they do something we don't like, it's

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Speaker 1: easy to get in conflict with them, argue, try to

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Speaker 1: straighten them out, prove our point. Before long, we're at odds,

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Speaker 1: mad at each other, living offended. Their stress tension in

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Speaker 1: the home. What's happened. We've allowed strife in. Strife is

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Speaker 1: a spirit, just like peace is a spirit. You've walked

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Speaker 1: into a place before. You don't know anybody, you've never

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Speaker 1: been there, but you can feel the tension in the room,

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Speaker 1: in the atmosphere, there's stress, discord. Nobody said anything, but

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Speaker 1: you know something is not right. That's the spirit of strife.

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Speaker 1: If we would see it as the destructive force that

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Speaker 1: in our lives. After all, it's easy to argue, especially

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Speaker 1: with those closest to you. Let's be real. Your spouse

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Speaker 1: can get on your nerves. You love the man, you

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Speaker 1: can't live without him. Sometimes you feel like choking him.

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Speaker 1: A reporter asked Billy Graham if he'd ever thought about divorce.

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Speaker 1: He said, divorce no, but murder yes. Well, when we

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Speaker 1: let our guard down and say things that are hurtful, disrespectful, demeaning,

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Speaker 1: that's not only damaging the relationship, that's opening the door

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Speaker 1: That's why the scripture says give no place to the enemy.

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Speaker 1: Strife can't just come in when it wants bring division, disharmony,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that we should never have an argument,

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Speaker 1: never say a wrong word. That's not reality. But when

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Speaker 1: it comes a part of who we are, it becomes common.

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Speaker 1: We're constantly arguing, fighting, being disrespectful. That means we've gone

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Speaker 1: way too far. And Jesus said in March chapter three,

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Speaker 1: a home filled with strife and division destroys itself. If

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Speaker 1: you said, Joel, I wouldn't get so upset if my

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Speaker 1: all the time. No, you have to be the bigger person.

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Speaker 1: Just because somebody is doing wrong doesn't mean you have

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Speaker 1: Jesus said, blessed are the peacemakers. He didn't say blessed

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Speaker 1: tell you being right is overrated. You can be right

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Speaker 1: always win the battle, but you don't realize it's damaging

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Speaker 1: my strengths is I won't argue. Things start to get

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Speaker 1: to fight, you don't have to engage. I would rather

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Speaker 1: have peace than have my way. I would rather have

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Speaker 1: to be there. I've learned if you'll let God do

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Speaker 1: it his way, he'll change what needs to be changed.

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Speaker 1: God is the potter. We can't change people. Only God can.

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Speaker 1: These are tests that we must pass. We stay on

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Speaker 1: feel like telling somebody off. Will you put your ego

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Speaker 1: know they're wrong. The scripture says one can chase a thousand,

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Speaker 1: but two can put ten thousand to flight. When you're

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Speaker 1: in unity, the favor on your life is increased. You

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Speaker 1: are ten times more powerful when you're in agreement. This

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Speaker 1: means you have ten times the strength to withstand attacks,

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Speaker 1: to overcome obstacles. You can accomplish dreams ten times bigger,

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Speaker 1: ten times more rewarding. You will go so much further.

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Speaker 1: If you will keep unity in your home. Some of

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Speaker 1: the obstacles you can't seem to overcome, the doors that

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Speaker 1: are not opening. It may be because you're operating with

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Speaker 1: the strength of one their strife and division. You need

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Speaker 1: the ten times power to reach the fullness of your destiny,

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Speaker 1: and that person God put in your life is not

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Speaker 1: just there for companionship. There is a spiritual force released

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Speaker 1: when you live in peace and harmony. When Victoria and

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Speaker 1: I first got married, like all couples, we had to

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Speaker 1: work through some things. The scripture says the two shall

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Speaker 1: Twenty eight years later, I'm still training her. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's still training me. But we made a decision early

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Speaker 1: strife out of our home. It didn't happen automatically. We're

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Speaker 1: two different people, have two different ways of doing things.

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Speaker 1: We had to grow together, make allowances overlook some things.

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Speaker 1: Had we not stayed on the offensive and worked to

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Speaker 1: but we wouldn't be where we are When we were

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Speaker 1: believing for this place. The form of compact center. It

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Speaker 1: was going to take more than just my faith. I

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Speaker 1: needed that ten times power. This dream was so big

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Speaker 1: the only way it could be accomplished is for somebody

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Speaker 1: else to come into agreement, says in Psalms. Where there's unity,

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Speaker 1: there is a commanded blessing on your life. That's when

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Speaker 1: you'll accomplish things that you could not accomplish on your own.

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Speaker 1: If we realized what we were giving up by allowing

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Speaker 1: all these petty things to tear us apart, strife, discord,

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Speaker 1: being at odds with each other, if we really saw

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Speaker 1: how that was holding us back, we would work over

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Speaker 1: time to keep peace in our life. God has big

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Speaker 1: things in your future, but it's gonna take more than

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Speaker 1: just your faith. You're going to need the ten times

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Speaker 1: power that comes from having unity in your home. Think

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Speaker 1: agreement with your spouse ten times the influence, ten times creativity,

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Speaker 1: ten times the power. This is one of the things

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Speaker 1: that holds us back. It's not our lack of talent, education,

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Speaker 1: the background we come from. It's the fact that we're

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Speaker 1: operating on one tenth the power. What would happen if

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Speaker 1: you would draw the line into sand and say that's it.

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Speaker 1: From this day forward, I'm keeping strife out of my life.

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Speaker 1: No more arguing, no more petty fights, no more saying

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Speaker 1: disrespectful things. I'm staying on the high road. I'm not

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Speaker 1: allowing division, discord, tension in my home. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be a peacemaker. When you do that, God will release

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Speaker 1: the ten times power, favor, increase, blessing like you've never seen. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 1: If I don't stand up for myself, if I don't

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Speaker 1: look weak. It's just the opposite. When you go the

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Speaker 1: extra mile to keep strife out of your home, that's

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Speaker 1: not being weak. That's a sign of strength. The most

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Speaker 1: The most mature person is not always the one that's right.

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Speaker 1: It's the one that keeps the peace. You know what,

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Speaker 1: Arguing and having to be right really boils down to pride.

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Speaker 1: the ten times blessing than just being right. This couple

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Speaker 1: many years with no success. The lady took the infertility treatments.

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Speaker 1: They were praying, believing, doing everything they could, but still

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Speaker 1: He was very discouraged. Sitting on the flight all alone,

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Speaker 1: he said under his breath, God is not fair. I'm

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Speaker 1: to him, not out loud, but in his spirit. He said, son,

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Speaker 1: He loved the Lord. When you see him out in public,

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Speaker 1: they seemed as happy as can be, But deep down

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Speaker 1: should be. Wasn't anything big, just little things. He'd become disrespectful,

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Speaker 1: saying things that he'd know he shouldn't say, become argumentative.

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Speaker 1: he'd keep it stirred up he'd become hard to get

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Speaker 1: along with, unfriendly, not putting any effort into the relationship.

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Speaker 1: The good news is he was willing to change. He

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Speaker 1: took it to heart, he made the adjustments. A couple

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Speaker 1: baby daughter. Maybe, like my friend, you know you're not

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Speaker 1: wrong path. God is not here to condemn us to

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Speaker 1: make us feel bad about ourselves, but he will convict

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Speaker 1: us and challenge us to come up higher. Condemnation pushes

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Speaker 1: us down. Conviction is there to push us up. But

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