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

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

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the

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Speaker 1: message now.

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Speaker 2: The joy that Jesus gave us is not dependent on

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Speaker 2: what is going around on around us.

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Speaker 3: See, the joy that Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Gave us is on the inside of us. You see,

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Speaker 2: God does his work on the inside of us. When

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Speaker 2: you said yes to Jesus Christ, the outside didn't immediately change.

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Speaker 3: But the inside did.

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Speaker 2: You See, he put seeds on the inside of you.

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Speaker 2: He gave you a new heart, a new start, the

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Speaker 2: ability to take what He's put on the inside of

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Speaker 2: you and make it come out of you. See, God's

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Speaker 2: blessings start on the inside up on the outside.

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: I have a lemon tree, and when I got it

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Speaker 2: and planted it, it had no lemons on it.

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Speaker 3: It was a lemon tree, but it had no lemons.

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Speaker 3: But I took care of it.

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Speaker 2: I watered it, I fed it, I made sure that

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Speaker 2: it was you know, was in the right soil. I

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Speaker 2: did everything I could to cultivate and develop the lemons,

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Speaker 2: and sure enough that lemon tree that had no lemons

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Speaker 2: on the outside produced them from the inside. So my

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Speaker 2: lemon tree now has fruit that I.

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Speaker 3: Can eat from. And do you know, that's how joy works.

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Speaker 2: Joy is inside of us, but we must cultivate it,

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Speaker 2: we must tap into it, because there is fruit in

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Speaker 2: there that we have to eat from if we are

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Speaker 2: going to overcome the trials of life.

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Speaker 3: You see, you may be.

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Speaker 2: In a trial, may be in a difficulty, you may

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Speaker 2: have lost a loved one, You may have a child

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Speaker 2: who is who is wayward or far off, and you

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Speaker 2: feel sorrow. But do you know on the other side

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Speaker 2: of that sorrow, parallel with that is joy.

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Speaker 3: It's the fruit of joy that.

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Speaker 2: You can eat from, and it causes you to be strong,

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Speaker 2: and it causes you to stand firm, and it causes

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Speaker 2: you to overcome. And that's why joy is so important.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the Israelites, when God brought them out of

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Speaker 2: captivity from the oppression of the Pharaoh, it says in

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Speaker 2: scripture that he brought them out with joy and led

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Speaker 2: them forth in peace. You see, I believe what he

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Speaker 2: was showing us was, if you're gonna come out of

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Speaker 2: these dark places. If you're gonna stand under the trials

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Speaker 2: of life, you're gonna have to come out with joy.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to use the joy to get you

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Speaker 2: out of captivity, to get you out of those anxious thoughts,

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Speaker 2: to get you out of that defeat and discouragement. Joy

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Speaker 2: is the key of coming out. Joy is your key, and.

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Speaker 3: It's inside of you.

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Speaker 2: But it's like anything else, you have to tap into it,

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Speaker 2: you have to develop it, you have to use it.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says, in this world, you're gonna have troubles.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said that he wasn't promising us that we weren't

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Speaker 2: gonna have troubles.

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Speaker 3: But you know what he said about those troubles. He says,

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Speaker 3: here's the key.

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Speaker 4: Be of good cheer.

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Speaker 2: Be of good cheer, because I have overcome the world.

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Speaker 2: Be of good cheer, for I have overcome. You know

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Speaker 2: what he's saying. He's saying, brighten up, Brighten your face up.

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Speaker 2: One scripture says, rejoice in the Lord. And again I

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Speaker 2: say rejoice. Rejoice means to brighten you. See there's a

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Speaker 2: light on the inside of you, but you've got to

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Speaker 3: And the key to joy is this.

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Speaker 2: I really believe this, because some people just seem to

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Speaker 2: have a different personality. They can just be more joyous,

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Speaker 2: where some people maybe a little melancholy, and they have

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Speaker 2: to work on this. But the truth is, in a trial,

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Speaker 2: we all need this joy.

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Speaker 3: We all need it, so we must develop it.

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Speaker 2: Listen, I didn't take my lemon tree and put it

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Speaker 2: what it took so the lemons would come out. Then

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Speaker 2: when you need joy, you can't try to cultivate it

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Speaker 2: right away. You have to know how to tap into it.

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Speaker 2: The fruit has to already be there.

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Speaker 2: So I think every day we have to practice joy.

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Speaker 2: We have to laugh in the face of adversity. We

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Speaker 2: have to smile when there's nothing to smile about. You know,

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Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend of mine the other

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Speaker 2: She's having some difficulties with her daughter and is going

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Speaker 2: you know, as a mother in here, when your child's

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Speaker 2: not doing good, it's hard for you to do good, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you just worry. And I've watched her just

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Speaker 2: get more discouraged and more discouraged. And now I see

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Speaker 2: her health is being jeopardized, and because anxiety and stress

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Speaker 2: will jeopardize our physical be And so I begin to

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Speaker 2: talk to her the other day because I thought, you

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Speaker 2: know what, I've just watched day after day after day.

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Speaker 3: You know, I just want to encourage her.

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Speaker 2: So she we've been friends forever, I've worked with her forever.

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Speaker 2: We really love each other. So she she knows me

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Speaker 2: pretty well. But I walked in and I just started

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Speaker 2: deciding that I was just gonna make her laugh, you know.

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Speaker 2: And so I was like, hey, can I see your teeth?

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Speaker 2: seeing a little bit of her teeth, and I said,

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Speaker 2: oh man, your teeth are beautiful. Look at your smile.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen you smile in a long time. And

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Speaker 2: so I just start laughing and cracking up. And I'm

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Speaker 2: being so silly that she starts laughing, you know. So

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Speaker 2: I begin to just brighten her. I begin to encourage

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Speaker 2: her joy. See, I was simply changing the atmosphere in

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Speaker 2: her mind. I was simply changing that so that she

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Speaker 2: to her. So funny, because okay, y'all, I'm gonna just

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Speaker 2: admit something. Sometimes when I talk to you guys, like

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Speaker 2: I got this light that shining in my eye, I'm

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Speaker 2: being all serious, and I see sometimes when I watch myself,

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Speaker 3: You said, I'm talking, and I think I gotta stop that.

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Speaker 2: How can I stop that? And I told Joey said,

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Speaker 2: I don't mean to, because I'm such a happy person

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Speaker 2: and I but I just all of a sudden start

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Speaker 2: frowning trying to And jol said, oh, it's gonna take

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, hello, mister encouragement.

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Speaker 2: So I read that if you put a pencil in

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Speaker 2: say if you'll change your facial expressions, it does something

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Speaker 2: to you emotionally. So what I've started doing was sitting

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Speaker 2: So I thought about that, and I had took two

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Speaker 2: pencils with me when I was talking to my friend, and.

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Speaker 3: I said, I said, look look at this and put

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Speaker 3: a pencil in my mouth, and look out. It makes

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Speaker 3: me smile. I said, here, you put this pizle in

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Speaker 3: your mouth. I said, I washed it.

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Speaker 2: We're both standing there looking at each other with pencils

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Speaker 2: in our mouths. But can I tell you the atmosphere changed.

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Speaker 2: The joy came, the blessing came, the problems.

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Speaker 3: Seemed to be smaller. You see, the joy was there

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Speaker 3: to be her strength.

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Speaker 2: And I begin to tell her about the promises of

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Speaker 3: God, the things that really produced that joy.

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Speaker 2: And I said, you know, you're worried about your child,

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Speaker 2: and that's certainly understandable, but I want to explain something

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Speaker 2: to you that I truly believe your child, your daughter,

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Speaker 2: what she's going through right now, God has given her

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Speaker 2: the grace to go through it. God has given her

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Speaker 2: the grace to go through it. He hasn't given you

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Speaker 2: the grace that she has. He's given you the grace

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Speaker 2: to help her through it. But you can't help her

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Speaker 2: through it with a long face. You can't help her

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Speaker 2: through it with discouragement. God wants you to stir up

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Speaker 2: your joy. He wants you to bring a sense of

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Speaker 2: happiness and joy and elation to her life. You need

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Speaker 2: to elevate and push that joy up for her and

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Speaker 2: for yourself. Do you know when you push joy up,

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Speaker 2: it signals victory. It's like when a god runs and

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Speaker 2: throws his hand up. It's because he has victory.

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Speaker 3: We need to change our posture and let.

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Speaker 2: The joy come out in our life.

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Speaker 3: We need to.

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Speaker 2: Put a pencil in our mouth if necessary, because God.

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Speaker 3: Works through our joy.

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Speaker 2: He brought them out with joy because he knew they

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Speaker 3: They didn't even know all the things they were gonna face.

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Speaker 2: But if they could go out with joy, if they

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Speaker 3: Be there for them, would be their strength. So I

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Speaker 3: wan encourage every one of us today to practice.

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Speaker 2: Joy every day. Look at what your face is saying.

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Speaker 2: What is it signaling to your body and your mind?

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Speaker 2: What are you thinking about the Kingdom of God starts

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Speaker 2: within us and it flows out of us and.

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Speaker 3: That's what brings the blessing. So I encourage you.

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Speaker 2: Don't let life's difficulties push your joy down. You push

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Speaker 2: your joy up because it signals victory.

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Speaker 3: Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God.

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Speaker 4: God has put a specific dream in your heart. Maybe

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Speaker 4: it's a dream for a better career, a blessing that

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Speaker 4: enables you to bless others, to be in a healthy,

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Speaker 4: loving relationship, to launch your own business or ministry endeavor.

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Speaker 4: We all have dreams, but sometimes setbacks and opposition can

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Speaker 4: rob us of our dreams. So how do you make

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Speaker 1: One way you know it's a God given dream is

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Speaker 1: you can't accomplish it on your own. We never thought

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Speaker 2: When you believe what God put in your heart, that's

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Speaker 2: when He steps in and makes ways where you never

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