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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: listening to the podcast. Twenty twenty four is going to

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Speaker 1: be an amazing year for you and your family.

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Speaker 2: Know that we're praying for you, so get ready, keep

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Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed today's message.

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Speaker 2: I want to remind us all today to not be

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Speaker 2: complainers and fault finders. Oh man, really, we don't need

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Speaker 2: to be complainers and fault finders. See, it's easy to

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Speaker 2: see what's wrong in a situation. It's easy to see

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Speaker 2: what could be done better.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: Naturally we tend to look at the negative. Just our

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Speaker 2: natural minds tend to always gravitate to the negative, and

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Speaker 2: it causes us to find fault. But we don't want

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Speaker 2: to be complainers and fault finders because we know that

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Speaker 2: it doesn't please God.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're all guilty of this. I'll be the

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Speaker 3: first one to raise my hand.

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Speaker 2: Okay, because sometimes it feels good to complain. You get

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Speaker 2: it off your chest, you're just venting. It feels good.

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Speaker 2: Why do we complain? That's one reason it feels kind

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Speaker 2: of good sometime. Okay, let's just get real about it.

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Speaker 2: We've all thought, all right, just get it off my

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Speaker 2: I think sometimes if I complain.

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Speaker 2: I'll go to Joel and I'll tell him why this

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Speaker 2: because I think I'm gonna change the situation right. But

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Speaker 2: you don't change the situation by complaining, by finding fault,

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Speaker 2: you usually make the situation worse. Like I said, we

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Speaker 2: can all think these thoughts of how we could do

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Speaker 2: don't have to give life to these thoughts. You see,

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Speaker 2: when we give life to these negative thoughts, we create

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Speaker 2: a more negative environment. We not only pollute ourselves with

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Speaker 3: We pollute other people.

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Speaker 2: We cause them to begin to think negative thoughts. It's

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Speaker 2: one wants to be around a complainer. No one wants

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Speaker 2: let's watch what we're saying. Even though it may feel

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Speaker 2: You see, I was reading this study and I thought

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Speaker 2: we literally rewire our brain to complain. You see, our

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Speaker 3: I want to be a person that has faith and hope.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're all gonna have the opportunity to complain because

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Speaker 2: Was it Moses that stopped them? Was it their enemies

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Speaker 3: No, what they thought.

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Speaker 2: Was their enemies. The things they were complaining about, the

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Speaker 3: Their number one enemy was their own murmuring and complaining.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever thought that your own murmuring and complaining

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Speaker 3: Have you ever thought how unhealthy it really is? See?

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Speaker 2: grumbling and complaining can literally change our perspective. They started

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Speaker 2: You're not gonna find it by complaining and grumbling. You're

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Speaker 3: Don't weaken your faith by your complaining.

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Speaker 2: Strengthen it by your prayer, by your petitions to God,

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Speaker 3: You see what they.

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Speaker 3: But complaining does.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't say hey, I'm grateful for what I have

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Speaker 3: It says, you know what, I don't care what I have.

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Speaker 2: Really, that's what complaining does. And the scripture says that

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Speaker 3: Complaining about God. Listen, I'm guilty.

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Speaker 2: Of complaining, But you know what, I want to watch

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Speaker 3: It isn't changing a thing. It's not doing a thing

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Speaker 2: It's only shrinking it, limiting it, and not getting me

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Speaker 4: Amen, taking that's what you feel when you look out

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Speaker 4: at majestic mountain peaks. Yes, God's creation truly is a masterpiece.

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Speaker 4: But even as you consider his handiwork, you might also

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Speaker 4: How do you overcome this?

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Speaker 1: The opinion you have of yourself is your most important opinion.

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Speaker 1: Too often we see ourselves as ordinary, not talented, unattractive.

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Speaker 1: That wrong self image is setting the limits for our lie.

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Speaker 1: An agreement with who God says you are. He calls

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