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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 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 1: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in.

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Speaker 3: Your line falling you you, We love you, Lord. It's

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Speaker 3: good to be in the house of the Lord, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You may be seated. Have you ever felt restless? Maybe

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Speaker 2: you felt anxious. You're just not content. You don't even

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Speaker 2: know what it is. It's just something that's just stirring

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Speaker 2: inside of you.

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Speaker 3: You know. I think we all have been there.

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Speaker 2: In fact, sometimes we don't even realize it's what it

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Speaker 2: is that we're not content. We just think there's something

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Speaker 2: more and we're looking for it. Maybe you're struggling to

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Speaker 2: get that promotion. You're working hard at work. Man, you've

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Speaker 2: got your eye on that promotion. Oh, you're just going

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Speaker 2: for it. You're getting a little out of balance. You

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Speaker 2: just don't feel satisfied even though you're headed in a

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Speaker 2: right direction. Or maybe you're you're at home and you've

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Speaker 2: got children and they're in diapers and you're thinking, I'm

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Speaker 2: exhausted huh, I need something else, I need something, and

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Speaker 2: you begin looking for it. You know, a lot of

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Speaker 2: times we can look for things to fill our spaces

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Speaker 2: in all the wrong places.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we think we need something, so we go after it,

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Speaker 2: but it can't fill that space that longing to make

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Speaker 2: us content.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: The only thing that can fill that space is Jesus.

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Speaker 2: It's God inside of us.

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Speaker 3: But we're so used to going so fast that we forget.

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Speaker 2: What the source of our strength is, the source of

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Speaker 2: our meaning and our purpose. Because sometimes we try to

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Speaker 2: be the source of our meaning and our purpose.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we can look to food to fill those spaces.

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Speaker 2: Some people look to alcohol because it numbs them.

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Speaker 3: Just let me have a break here. You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we are looking for any distraction to cause us

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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting because social media can be a

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Speaker 2: great distraction. You can forget all your problems and check

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Speaker 2: out someone else's life. You can almost live vicariously through

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Speaker 3: But you know, it's interesting about that.

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Speaker 2: It's fun unless you're there for the wrong reasons, unless

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Speaker 2: you're trying to escape your life to find someone else's life,

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Speaker 2: to find meaning and purpose, because once that's over, you

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Speaker 2: usually leave more discontent than you can. You usually leave

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Speaker 2: more sad than you can. I've experienced it.

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Speaker 3: I've been looking at.

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Speaker 2: All these other people's great life and I think, Man,

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Speaker 3: I'm comparing their.

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Speaker 2: Best life with my worst life. I'm contemparing a moment

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Speaker 3: With all my life.

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Speaker 2: You see, don't run after something else looking for something

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Speaker 2: to fill this space.

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Speaker 3: Only Jesus can fill it. It doesn't matter if.

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Speaker 2: You're well off, if you're successful, you've got.

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Speaker 3: To find contentment.

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Speaker 2: Because sometimes we think, if this will happen, I'll be

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Speaker 2: be happy. I'll be successful. But can I tell you

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Speaker 2: that line of success is always moving.

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Speaker 3: It's always moving.

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Speaker 2: If you're chasing success, you're never going to catch up

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Speaker 2: with it because it's always moving.

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Speaker 3: You can ever have enough. You don't feel like, well,

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Speaker 2: Gonna suffer for Jesus, I'm stripping it all off. I'm

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Speaker 2: giving it all away because that's not gonna fulfill you either.

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Speaker 2: Because if you're trying to do something for Jesus, how

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Speaker 2: to show it's not gonna work for you. It's not

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Speaker 2: I've done for you today, Because see it's not what

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Speaker 3: It's what Jesus has done for you.

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Speaker 2: That's what Jesus is done for you.

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Speaker 2: The only thing that will fill these spaces is Jesus Christ.

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Speaker 2: And when you're feeling anxious, restless, discontent, can I encourage.

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Speaker 2: With the words from the apostle Paul found in Philippians four.

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Speaker 2: He said this, He said, he was writing. This is

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Speaker 2: interesting because he was writing to the church at Philippi.

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Speaker 3: To the church. And this is what he was saying.

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Speaker 3: He says, I know what it is to be in need,

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Speaker 3: I've been without and I've had more than enough.

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Speaker 2: And he says, I have learned the secret of being

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Speaker 2: content in every situation. I've learned the secret.

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Speaker 3: Don't you know? They were leaning in. We all want

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Speaker 3: to know the secret.

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Speaker 2: Secret to weight loss, secret to a happy life, secret

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Speaker 2: to a better marriage. He said, I've learned the secret

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Speaker 2: to be content in every situation. Can I tell you

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Speaker 2: contentment will fix your situation. Contentment is a powerful state

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Speaker 2: of being. And Paul says, I have learned this and

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Speaker 2: now I'm going.

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Speaker 3: To share it with you. He says, this is the secret.

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Speaker 2: He said, I can do all things through Christ, who

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Speaker 3: I can do it all. I can make it my

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Speaker 2: With Christ strengthen in me. You see his profound secret.

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Speaker 2: And what he had learned was the fact that it

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Speaker 2: was Christ in him, the hope of glory. It was

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Speaker 2: I can through him. I can through him. I can't

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Speaker 2: apart from him. I'm a mess. Apart from him. I'm

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Speaker 2: in prison apart from him, But with him, the prison's

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Speaker 2: not getting in me because I'm full of Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 3: I may be in a tough spot.

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Speaker 2: I may be in a place I don't like, but

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Speaker 2: you know what, I'm useful to the Kingdom of God.

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Speaker 2: I love Paul's writings because he was always saying, listen,

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Speaker 2: you know today is to be with Christ.

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Speaker 3: You know, if I go, that's great.

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Speaker 2: But if I'm staying I'm not letting the circumstances get

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Speaker 2: in me. If I'm here on earth, I'm gonna be

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Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. I'm gonna walk with purpose and destiny,

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Speaker 2: knowing that he doesn't waste one thing in my life.

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Speaker 2: I am so grateful that Paul didn't give up in prison.

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Speaker 2: I'm so grateful he didn't let prison take him captive.

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Speaker 2: But he said, I am in prison, but God is

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Speaker 2: I can do all things. I can bear all things,

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Speaker 2: and I'm useful to the Kingdom of God. So He's

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Speaker 2: shared with us the secret of contentment, which is powerful

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Speaker 2: in our life.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but sometimes it takes me

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Speaker 2: a little while to learn a lesson. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how long it took Paul to learn this lesson, because

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Speaker 2: he said he had to learn it. He said, I

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Speaker 2: had to learn this, And now that I have learned

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Speaker 2: it and experienced it, guess what, I'm sharing it with you.

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Speaker 3: He's saying this, though, I can share the secret.

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Speaker 2: With you, but you've got to dig into the mystery

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Speaker 2: of it. You've got to go after it yourself. You've

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Speaker 2: got to experience it yourself. It's called maturity. He said,

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Speaker 2: I've actually come to that place that I've learned something.

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Speaker 3: It's okay if it takes us.

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Speaker 2: A long time to learn. I can have somebody tell

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Speaker 3: They can tell me.

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Speaker 2: I can hear something over and over again, and then

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Speaker 3: One day I actually get it. Paul is saying, I'm

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Speaker 3: giving you the secret. Go get it, Go get it.

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Speaker 2: You see, when you're content, you're powerful to shed a

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Speaker 2: little more light on this contentment. Paul tells us this

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Speaker 2: in Philippians. For he says, don't be anxious for anything.

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Speaker 2: What is the opposite of content? Anxious, discontent, restless. Don't

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Speaker 2: be those things. Here's the remedy, he says. Don't be

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Speaker 2: anxious for anything, but by prayer, petition, with thanksgiving in

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Speaker 2: your heart, let your request be made known to God,

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Speaker 2: and the peace of God, the promise of peace will

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Speaker 2: guard your heart and mind. In Christ Jesus, he said,

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Speaker 2: I'm in this prison, but can I tell you what's

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Speaker 2: between me and these bars is peace. I'm gonna embrace

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Speaker 2: the place that I'm in and I'm gonna move forward now.

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Speaker 3: He said this.

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Speaker 2: He says I give thanks in all things. He didn't

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Speaker 2: say I give thanks for all things. I really don't

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Speaker 3: Yay, I'm in prison. It is great.

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Speaker 2: Been shipwrecked, beat No, these things happened to him. He

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Speaker 2: was in those circumstances. He didn't give thanks to God

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Speaker 2: for those circumstances. He gave thanks to God that God

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Speaker 3: But there was an outcome, There was a promise I

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Speaker 2: You see, sometimes we try to rush through those bad

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Speaker 2: what Paul was trying to share with us, Your contentment

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Speaker 2: does not have to come from your circumstance.

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Speaker 3: How many of you women in here. You're a mother,

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Speaker 3: and you remember those diaper.

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Speaker 2: Days and it was just about exhausting to change another

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Speaker 2: one of those diapers. But then when you got past it,

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Speaker 3: They weren't as exhausting as they thought they were.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind having one more diaper to change. Maybe

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Speaker 2: your sophomore in college, you can't wait to get to graduate.

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Speaker 2: While I am on my way to graduation. You graduate,

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Speaker 2: then you realize it was difficult. It really wasn't that bad.

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Speaker 3: Kind of like it better than the real world. You see.

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Speaker 2: Contentment is not complacency. I just want to say that

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Speaker 2: contentment's not complacency. You should be ambitious. You should want

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Speaker 2: to succeed, you should want to have purpose for Christ Jesus,

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Speaker 2: you should want to move forward.

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Speaker 3: God put that in us.

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Speaker 2: People told us have dominion, su do your situations. It's

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Speaker 2: not complacency. But the problem is if you can't enjoy

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Speaker 2: where you are right now and what you have right now,

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Speaker 2: you're being cheated. That's not the best for your life.

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Speaker 2: Don't be missing the now to get to the later.

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Speaker 2: Don't miss the now to get to the later.

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Speaker 3: You know, even when it's tough, That's what Paul said.

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Speaker 2: It's tough in here, but I've developed, I've matured, and

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Speaker 2: I've learned some things.

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Speaker 3: No matter what you're going through right now, there's a

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Speaker 3: lesson in it. There's something to take from it. Listen.

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Speaker 3: If you go through it and you don't learn through it,

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Speaker 3: there's a problem.

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Speaker 2: God wants to reveal his mysteries, his grace, his purpose

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Speaker 3: That is not a great subject. Is it not fun

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