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Speaker 3: I like to start with something funny each week. And

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Speaker 3: I heard about these three people, a Russian, an American,

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Speaker 3: proudly said, we were the first ones in space. The

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Speaker 3: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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Speaker 3: to talk to you today about not making mountains out

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Speaker 3: too shall pass. I've seen marriages practically split apart because

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Speaker 3: say what the hustle Paul said and Acts twenty four.

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Speaker 3: None of these things move me. What's amazing is Paul

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Speaker 3: knew in his future there were challenges, obstacles, heartache. He

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Speaker 3: knew he was even headed for prison. Yet he said,

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Speaker 3: I know God is still in control. I have a

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Speaker 3: destiny to fulfill. I can't flee it, so I'm not

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Speaker 3: gonna fight it. I'm just gonna flow with it. I

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Speaker 3: love the fact that Paul treated big things even as

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Speaker 3: small things. When you view your challenges from God's perspective,

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Speaker 3: you can reduce them down to size, and even a

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Speaker 3: humor in life. Was in a hotel the other day

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Speaker 3: called room service to order Victoria some coffee. Nobody answered,

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Speaker 3: we had to catch a flight real soon, and so

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Speaker 3: I went and got Victoria cup and put in it

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Speaker 3: what she likes. As I was walking back to the elevator,

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Speaker 3: that will be three dollars. I turned around kind of

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Speaker 3: laughed and said, oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was free.

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Speaker 3: Can I put this charge on my hotel room? She

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Speaker 3: was still kind of aggravated. She said, no, sir, you

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Speaker 3: may not. We're not associated with the hotel. It'll be

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Speaker 3: and I said, well, let me run up to my

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Speaker 3: She looked at me and said, how do I know

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Speaker 3: you're going to come back? I said, look at this face.

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Speaker 3: Would I lie to you? I am so innocent. I

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Speaker 3: promise i'll come back. She said, no, sir, you need

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Speaker 3: to leave something. So I said, well, I'll leave the coffee.

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Speaker 3: She said, no, you've already bought that. I can't reuse that.

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Speaker 3: T shirt, jim shorts, and tennis shoes. I wasn't gonna

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Speaker 3: finally said, all right, well, let me go check with

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Speaker 3: soon as she got out of my sight, I ran

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Speaker 3: came back down. When I got there, she said, I

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Speaker 3: was just about to come looking for you. I thought,

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Speaker 3: dear lord lady, what are you doing selling coffee? You

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Speaker 3: need to be working for the FBI. I paid her

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Speaker 3: she said, hey, wait a minute, aren't you that minister?

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Speaker 3: I said, no, ma'am, I'm a dentist. I wasn't about

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Speaker 3: to tell her who I was. I repented later. What

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Speaker 3: am I saying? Instead of getting bent out of shape?

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Speaker 3: I forgot what I'm saying, yo, Instead of getting bent

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Speaker 3: things out of proportion, don't overreact. That was a five

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Speaker 3: minute problem that wasn't worth getting stressed. Out over friend's

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Speaker 3: life is too short to go around making mountains out

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Speaker 3: Let it go. Stay in tune. So your plans didn't

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Speaker 3: Just flow with it. Maybe you've got a tough week

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Speaker 3: dreading it, do like the apostle Paul, see it from

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Speaker 3: God's perspective. Reduce it down to size. God is still

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Speaker 3: on the throne some of you today, you'd see your

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Speaker 3: life go to a new level if you just quit

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Speaker 3: making a big deal out of things that are not

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Speaker 3: everybody around us just like us. Give them the freedom

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Speaker 3: do that, you're passing the test. No matter what comes

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Speaker 3: your way, you'll be able to say with the apostle Paul,

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Speaker 3: none of these things move me. You'll not only be

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