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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.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoyed today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your line.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord, weig exalt you in this place, said

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Speaker 2: we honor you today.

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Speaker 3: Amen, He's a good God.

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Speaker 2: I was talking to a girl the other day who

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Speaker 2: had had a breakup in her relationship, and she was

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Speaker 2: so disheartened. She said that she thought this relationship was

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Speaker 2: on the right track. She thought that it could even

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Speaker 2: be headed towards marriage. And then one day he came

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Speaker 2: to her and he said, I'm taking a job in

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Speaker 2: another state. Well, she was so discouraged. She thought, what's happening.

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Speaker 2: When she began to think about how he could leave

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Speaker 2: so quickly, it began to demoralize her. She thought, Wow,

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Speaker 2: I'm not as special as I thought I was. I

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Speaker 2: guess he didn't love me like I thought he loved me.

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Speaker 3: She said.

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Speaker 2: I began to dwell on these thoughts and I became

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Speaker 2: more discouraged.

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

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Speaker 2: Trying to make sense of it all, trying to figure

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Speaker 2: it all out.

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Speaker 3: What happened? What did I do?

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Speaker 2: She said, I got to the place where I didn't

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Speaker 2: even want to go hardly go to work. I certainly

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Speaker 2: didn't want to go out with any friends. I found

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Speaker 2: myself just staying at home a lot. And she said,

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Speaker 2: one evening, I turned on the television and I saw

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Speaker 2: your ministry.

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Speaker 3: She says.

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Speaker 2: As I began to listen and listen to the messages,

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Speaker 2: I began to regain a sense of who I was.

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

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Speaker 3: this that I thought was so good.

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Speaker 2: She said, I realized what I had been doing was

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Speaker 2: I had been so focused and so attentive to what

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Speaker 2: had happened to me that I wasn't understanding what was

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Speaker 2: happening in me.

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Speaker 3: She said.

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Speaker 2: I had been so hurt, I had been so discredited.

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Speaker 2: I felt so all along what was happening to me

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Speaker 2: was causing what was happening in me to.

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Speaker 3: Totally destroy my life, she said. I didn't want to

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Speaker 3: do anything.

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Speaker 2: She said, and as I became encouraged, she said, that

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Speaker 2: discouragement left in how rose. She said, I literally got

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Speaker 2: to the place where I could look myself in the mirror,

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Speaker 2: and like myself again.

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Speaker 3: She said, little, my little, She said.

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Speaker 2: I'd get up in the morning and I would look

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Speaker 2: in the mirror and she would say, you are beautiful,

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Speaker 2: you are talented, you are valuable. She said, I begin

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Speaker 2: to have this fun person come back into my life,

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Speaker 2: the person I really was.

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Speaker 3: And she said, I got so excited. I got it.

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Speaker 3: I got encouraged to get.

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Speaker 2: Up in the morning and look at myself and tell

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Speaker 2: myself how well I was doing. You see, I love that,

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Speaker 2: she added this. And I can't leave this out, she said.

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Speaker 2: And I would say to myself, God is going to

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Speaker 2: bring the right person across my path because.

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Speaker 3: I'm in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 2: I love the fact that she did something about her discouragement.

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Speaker 3: She made a choice.

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Speaker 2: She took what she received on the inside, the encouragement

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Speaker 2: she got from the ministry, and she began.

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Speaker 3: To encourage herself.

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Speaker 2: It says in Exodus six that when Moses was going

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Speaker 2: to leave the children of Israel out of captivity, which

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Speaker 2: God had promised would happen, when he went to them

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Speaker 2: to tell them that this was their time. This was

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Speaker 2: the moment that God was going to cause them to

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Speaker 3: The scripture says this.

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Speaker 2: It says that they were too discouraged to believe. They

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Speaker 2: believe that what God could do for them. So that's

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Speaker 2: a sad statement to discouraged to believe. But I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what it shows me. It shows me the power

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Speaker 2: of discouragement in our life. It shows me that when

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Speaker 2: we become discouraged, we can't even get the faith to

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Speaker 2: an obstacle. You see, discouragement is heaped on us and

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Speaker 2: we can't see. You know, it's very interesting because the

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Speaker 2: young girl that I talked about, when she began to

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Speaker 3: Had changed on the outside.

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Speaker 2: That man didn't come back to her life, but everything

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Speaker 2: had changed on the inside. And when hope rises in

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Speaker 2: your heart, faith causes you to act, Faith causes you.

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Speaker 3: To move forward.

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Speaker 2: The scripture tells us that David, the mighty man of God,

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Speaker 2: who faced challenge after challenge, learned this secret. He encouraged

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Speaker 2: He took this place inside of him that he had

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Speaker 2: the things of God, and he was able to take

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Speaker 3: He was able to look.

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Speaker 2: At the face of discouragement and say, no, my God

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Speaker 2: can supply all of my needs.

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Speaker 3: My God can get me through this.

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Speaker 2: You see, at one point in David's life, everybody had

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Speaker 2: turned against him. Even the men that were fighting battles

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Speaker 2: with him were so down and discouraged that they turned

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Speaker 2: to David and they said, we want to stone you.

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Speaker 2: They were looking for someone to blame for the difficulties

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Speaker 3: David had no one around.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's great when your family is there to

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Speaker 2: encourage you, when your friends are there to encourage you.

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Speaker 2: But what happens when no one's there to encourage you.

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Speaker 2: You know what I believe, I believe we shouldn't depend

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Speaker 2: on other people to encourage us. I believe our main

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Speaker 2: source of encouragement should come right from the inside of us.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine my husband trying to encourage me

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Speaker 2: every time I'm discouraged. You know what, if I went

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Speaker 2: to Joel every time that I was discouraged, he'd probably

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Speaker 2: lock himself in a closet and not come out. You See,

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Speaker 2: we've got to learn to encourage ourself every day. We've

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Speaker 2: got to remember what God has done in our life.

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Speaker 2: We have to understand that we have to get in

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Speaker 2: of Almighty God. God created you and he made you.

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Speaker 2: And if you believe that about your life, then when

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Speaker 2: you criticize yourself, you might as well be criticizing your creator,

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Speaker 2: the one who made you.

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Speaker 2: See, if you can criticize his creation, then what you're

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Speaker 2: doing is criticizing the Creator because he made you, he

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Speaker 2: formed you, he fashioned you just the way you should be. See,

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Speaker 2: when you encourage yourself, what you're doing is you're saying,

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Speaker 2: Thank you God that You've made me to be more

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Speaker 2: than a cauquer in Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 3: But I'm an overcomer.

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Speaker 2: Because you've backed me up, because I have your word

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Speaker 2: It's so easy sometimes to see the good qualities in

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Speaker 2: other people yet ignore the good qualities in ourself.

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

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Speaker 2: The good things in ourself, and we need to applaud

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Speaker 2: even the smallest accomplishments. You know, maybe you feel like

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Speaker 2: you're a procrastinator and there's been a project that you've

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Speaker 2: been putting off. Well, when you begin to start that project,

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Speaker 2: even if you don't finish, applaud yourself. You know, what

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Speaker 2: about that diet you've been trying to stay on? Listen

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Speaker 2: when you have a good day, applaud yourself. What about

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Speaker 2: the addiction that you're overcoming when you see yourself trying listen?

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Speaker 2: Cry in your own efforts with the success, applaud yourself.

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Speaker 3: You see, we've.

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Speaker 2: Got to learn to applaud even the smallest accomplishments in

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Speaker 3: When we applaud ourself, you know what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: We're not being boastful, we're not being egotistical and prideful.

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Speaker 2: We're building confidence and faith in ourself. Too often we

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 2: But I want to tell you something. Don't go around

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Speaker 2: looking at all the times you blew it. Applaud yourself

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Speaker 2: for all the things you've done well by yourself some flowers.

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Speaker 3: Celebrate yourself. You've been made in the image of God.

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Speaker 2: You've got to understand when you celebrate yourself, you're celebrating

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Speaker 2: God on the inside of you. See, it's so important

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Speaker 2: that we do this. You know, life doesn't always turn

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Speaker 2: out the way we planned. And maybe today you can say, well,

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Speaker 2: not everything has gone my way. But can I encourage

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Speaker 2: you with this? You're still here, You're still full of purpose,

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Speaker 3: Full of value. You can still get to where God

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Speaker 3: wants you to be.

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Speaker 2: You can't live negative and expect to have a positive life.

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Speaker 2: You can't dwell on everything that you can't do and

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Speaker 2: expect to go out with strength and courage to do it.

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Speaker 3: You see, we're all in the process. That is the truth.

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Speaker 2: Every one of us in here is in a certain

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Speaker 3: Encouraged along the way.

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget the time we were in another state

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Speaker 2: had done an interview with this journalist, and I'll never forget.

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Speaker 2: He got in the car. We all piled in the car,

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Speaker 2: you know what, I did a good job, he said,

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Speaker 2: I did everything that I knew to do. I said

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Speaker 3: I did the very best that I could.

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Speaker 2: And we had a friend with us, and a little

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Speaker 2: later he said, Chuel, you know when you affirmed yourself

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Speaker 2: after that important interview, he said, it reminded me of

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Speaker 2: how negative I am towards my own self. He said,

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Speaker 2: I thought about, what if that was me that just

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Speaker 2: came out of that interview.

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

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Speaker 2: I would have probably thought I didn't say the right

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Speaker 2: The courage to affirm yourself, he said, it was such

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Speaker 2: a freedom for me. It made me realize that I

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Speaker 2: can affirm myself because see the truth is, we can

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Speaker 2: only do the best that we can do. Today, and

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Speaker 2: if we'll do the best we can do today, whether

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Speaker 2: to do better tomorrow. You See, my husband is one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest encouragers that I think I've ever seen.

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Speaker 3: He's encouraged people all over the world.

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Speaker 2: And I believe one of the greatest secrets to his

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Speaker 2: He practices finding the best in himself. See, when you're

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