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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, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Hey, God, bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social medium, and you can

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Speaker 1: come visit us in person. I'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services, but I'd

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 1: this cat and mouse that died on the same day

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Speaker 1: and went to heaven. After a few weeks, Peter saw

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Speaker 1: the mouse and asked how he liked it. He said, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's great, but it's so big. I wish I could

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Speaker 1: get a pair of roller skates. Peter said, no problem,

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Speaker 1: got him some skates. A few weeks later, Peter saw

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Speaker 1: the cat ask him how he liked it. He said, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's fantastic. And just when I thought it couldn't get

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Speaker 1: any better, I discovered the meals on wheels. Say it

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Speaker 1: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 1: what it says I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 1: I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 1: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 1: boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: an atmosphere of praise. We're all creating an atmosphere around

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Speaker 1: us by what we're thinking, what we're saying, our attitude.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to go around negative. Look at this doctor's report,

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Speaker 1: This traffic is bad, and these people did me wrong.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you're sending out, you're going to draw in. If

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Speaker 1: you're creating a negative atmosphere, that's going to attract discouragement,

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Speaker 1: defeat bad breaks. But when you create an atmosphere of praise,

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Speaker 1: when you're always thanking God for what he's done, you

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Speaker 1: get up in the morning or thinking that I'm alive today,

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Speaker 1: my beautiful children, Thank you that goodness and mercy are

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Speaker 1: following me. Thank you that I'm surrounded by your favor. Lord,

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Speaker 1: Thank you that You've made me invisible to the enemy.

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Speaker 1: That faith filled atmosphere is going to draw in favor,

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Speaker 1: good breaks, peace. Pay attention to what kind of atmosphere

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Speaker 1: you're creating. You can't complain and see breakthroughs. You can't

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Speaker 1: go around talking about problems. Hou's not going to work out.

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Speaker 1: This challenge is too big and reach your potential. That

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Speaker 1: negative atmosphere is stopping your victory. The scripture says that

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Speaker 1: God inhabits the praises of his people. He doesn't inhabit complaints.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't inhabit worry, frustration. Why is this taking so long?

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Speaker 1: These children are getting on my nerves. That doesn't get

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Speaker 1: God's attention. But when he hears you talking about his greatness,

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Speaker 1: praising when you could be complaining, declaring his promises, when

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Speaker 1: you're up against giants, thanking him that he's working when

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Speaker 1: nothing is changing, That's when God says, let me step in,

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Speaker 1: let me fight this battle. Let me make a way,

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Speaker 1: bring promotion, healing, and favor. One version says God is

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Speaker 1: enthroned when we praise him. When you're full of praise,

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Speaker 1: you're building a throne for God to sit on. When

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Speaker 1: you go through the day, grateful, focused on what's right,

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Speaker 1: to people, that's not just having a positive attitude. You're

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Speaker 1: inviting God into your life, into your circumstances, into your emotions.

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Speaker 1: When you're up against challenges that seem too big, dreams

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Speaker 1: that look impossible, you'll be tempted to worry, live, stress, complain.

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Speaker 1: But the best thing you can do is give God praise.

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Speaker 1: It may be too much for you, but it's not

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Speaker 1: too much for him. David said, magnify the Lord with

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Speaker 1: menify your problem, Magnify your God. Thank him for who

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Speaker 1: he is. Lord. I thank you that you're the all

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Speaker 1: powerful creator of the universe. I think that you're the

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Speaker 1: great I am. Lord. You're my provider, my healer, my protector,

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Speaker 1: Not begging him, God, you got to do something. Not

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Speaker 1: going to do? That's attracting the wrong things. Switch over

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Speaker 1: into praise. That's what attracts the most powerful force in

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Speaker 1: the universe. Victoria and I were at a nursery recently.

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Speaker 1: Was this huge place with several acres of all kinds

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Speaker 1: that flower puts off a sweet smell that attracts the bees.

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Speaker 1: There's something called nectar that the flower produces that creates

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Speaker 1: There were other flowers they looked just the same. They

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Speaker 1: the scripture says, our praise goes up as a sweet

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Speaker 1: smelling aroma before God. When you give God praise, you're

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Speaker 1: putting off that aroma that attracts God. God can smell praise,

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Speaker 1: comes to you. He smells that sweet smelling aroma. He

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Speaker 1: hears you thanking him, going around grateful, talking about how

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Speaker 1: blessed you are, declaring his promises. This is another day

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Speaker 1: the Lord has made. I'm gonna live this day happy Father,

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Speaker 1: thank you that. As for me and my house, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna serve the Lord. Yes, I have some problems for God.

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Speaker 1: I thank you that You're bigger than anything that I'm facing.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine God saying to the angels, I smell something,

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Speaker 1: Do you smell it? There's a sweet smelling aroma coming up.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go find where it's coming from. Your praise

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Speaker 1: will attract God. He'll pass over all these other people

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Speaker 1: and find the praiser. He'll find the one that has

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Speaker 1: a report of victory, the one that's talking about how

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Speaker 1: big their God is and not how big their problem is.

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Speaker 1: But I wonder if what you're putting off is attracting

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Speaker 1: God or causing him to pass by. Well, Joel, this

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Speaker 1: inflation is so bad, and my back's been hurting. These

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Speaker 1: people at work get on my nerves, and I can't

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Speaker 1: stand driving in that traffic. Instead of a sweet smelling aroma.

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Speaker 1: That's putting out an odor. That attitude stinks. I can

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Speaker 1: hear God saying, go get me. Some are fresheners. Go

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Speaker 1: pick up some odor eaters. That stink pushes God away.

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Speaker 1: We've all met people. We're not around them fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 1: and we can tell they're bitter. They're a worrier. They're

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Speaker 1: a complainer. They're angry. Instead of a sweet smelling aroma, grateful, joyful,

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Speaker 1: good natured, they're putting out an odor. Their attitude stinks.

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Speaker 1: Their words are negative. They're focused on what's wrong. They're

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Speaker 1: expecting the worst. Don't let what you're putting out keep

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Speaker 1: you is you. If you live negative, bitter, jealous, worried, angry,

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Speaker 1: none of those things attract God. You need God to

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Speaker 1: reach the fullness of your destiny. You can't do it

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Speaker 1: on your own. When you create an atmosphere of praise,

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Speaker 1: It's interesting how smells work. We had an animal that

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Speaker 1: died behind our fence in our backyard, raccoon or squirrel something.

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Speaker 1: But the smell was so bad, the stints so strong,

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Speaker 1: so powerful, so offensive, that it drove me away. Well,

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Speaker 1: Victoria used to make this chocolate cake. It was so good, homemade,

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Speaker 1: right out of the box. It was amazing. When I

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Speaker 1: I could smell the aroma of the cake. She didn't

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Speaker 1: have to tell me she made one. She didn't have

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Speaker 1: to come announce. Joel, I cook something for you. My

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Speaker 1: nose knew exactly what she'd done. That smell drew me

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Speaker 1: That's how powerful smells are. I was pushed away from

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Speaker 1: this sweet smelling chocolate cake in the oven. What is

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Speaker 1: your life putting off? What is your attitude putting off?

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Speaker 1: What are your words putting off? Sweet smelling aromas? Are

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Speaker 1: you creating odors? Stinky attitudes, negative talk, worried all the time.

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Speaker 1: That's pushing God away? If you want to attract favor, joy, peace, creativity.

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Speaker 1: Start sending up some praise. Start thanking God for what

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Speaker 1: he's done. Start bragging on his goodness. Start declaring his

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Speaker 1: victory over your life. See, you can't be neutral all

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Speaker 1: the time. I'm not gonna say anything negative. I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna complain. That's good. You're not putting out any odors.

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Speaker 1: But you need to send up some aromas. Lord, thank

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Speaker 1: you for waking me up this morning. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: giving me breath to breathe thinking that I'm healthy. Thank

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Speaker 1: it for my family, for opportunity, for protection, for your favor.

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Speaker 1: That's creating an atmosphere of praise. That's what attracts the

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Speaker 1: most high God. And the scripture talks about making melody

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Speaker 1: in your heart. We're all making something. Some people are

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Speaker 1: making sadness thinking about what they've been through, what wasn't fair,

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Speaker 1: what they lost. That's drawing in more sadness, more discouragement.

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Speaker 1: this problem. That's drawing in more stress, more heaviness. Why

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Speaker 1: praise in your heart instead of these children are so

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Speaker 1: much trouble. Lord, thank you for blessing me with children today.

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Speaker 1: It's a pain to go to work. Lord, Thank you

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Speaker 1: get ahead. Lord, Thank you that you're my provider. You

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Speaker 1: make streams in the desert. But this medical report's so bad,

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Speaker 1: you're restoring health back into me. What are you sending

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Speaker 1: up odors or aromas? What are you creating an atmosphere

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Speaker 1: atmosphere of victory, an atmosphere of abundance. I was watching

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Speaker 1: a bush. He stands up and scares them. It's all

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Speaker 1: without them even thinking about it. The scripture says, out

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Speaker 1: when you're under pressure. About ten percent of the people

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Speaker 1: when they were scared, instead of cursing, the first thing

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Speaker 1: they screamed was Jesus. Same situation, but one's cursing, one's praising.

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Speaker 1: What's the difference. It depends on what you're full of.

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Speaker 1: You won't be full of something either worry, thou bitterness, complaints,

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Speaker 1: or you can be full of praise, full of thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: full of faith, hope and victory. I want us to

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Speaker 1: be soul filled with praise that even in unexpected difficulties,

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Speaker 1: the first thing we do is calling the name of

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Speaker 1: the Lord. We declare his goodness, we talk about how

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Speaker 1: great he is. In my early twenties, I was driving

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