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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 1: your life.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you Lord.

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Speaker 2: We do believe Father showing up has made a difference.

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Speaker 2: As we sing that song, I just want to remind

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Speaker 2: us about something. See, God has given us his grace.

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Speaker 2: He's covered us all of our failures and all of

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Speaker 2: our mistakes.

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Speaker 3: He's never gonna fail us.

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Speaker 4: He's always gonna love us. What a beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Position to be in, such a secure position to be in.

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Speaker 2: In fact, when you think about that, it makes you

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Speaker 2: want to do better, It makes you want to rise higher.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the scripture says it's the goodness of God

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Speaker 2: that leads us to repentance. You could say it like this,

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Speaker 2: it's the goodness of God that works in us and

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Speaker 2: makes us better, makes us into the people He's called

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Speaker 2: us to be. See the same goodness, the same love,

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Speaker 2: the same unfailing love.

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Speaker 3: It not only is for us, but it's for those

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Speaker 3: around us.

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Speaker 2: It's for our family, it's for our spouses, our children,

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Speaker 2: our relatives, our neighbor. You see, God blesses us and

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Speaker 2: gives us this, not to hold on to it for ourselves,

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Speaker 2: not to say all this is so great God. No,

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Speaker 2: he blesses us so that we can spread the blessing,

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Speaker 2: so that we can give the favor, so that we

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Speaker 2: can be that conduit on this earth. It's called the

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Speaker 2: hands and feet of Jesus. And I want us to

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Speaker 2: believe with all of our heart that we are so

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Speaker 2: covered and so loved that we are able to do

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Speaker 2: the same for other people. I want to talk today

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Speaker 2: about our families, making sure we are covering our families,

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Speaker 2: making sure we are loving them, considering them, not just

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Speaker 2: putting them on our to do list, but putting them on.

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Speaker 4: Our to love list every day.

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Speaker 2: Are you loving the gifts that God has giving you?

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Speaker 2: You see, children, the Bible says that they're a heritage,

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Speaker 2: They're a gift from God. See, we're not just supposed

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Speaker 2: to work for them. We're supposed to enjoy them. We're

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Speaker 2: supposed to celebrate with them. Our spouses, they are a

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Speaker 2: gift from God. They are someone to help us grow

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Speaker 2: and learn and live life together. Are we putting them

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Speaker 2: on our love list every single day. I've been married

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Speaker 2: to Joel for thirty years, and I got to tell

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Speaker 4: Because you know it's fine.

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Speaker 2: At first, you can get all excited, you have a

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Speaker 2: little goosebumps. Everything is so wonderful. But as years go by,

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Speaker 2: you have to continue to stir up the love and

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Speaker 2: the excitement. I have to remind myself I cannot quit

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Speaker 2: being Joel's biggest cheerleader. I can't quit telling him how

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Speaker 2: I can't quit being my very best so that I'll

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Speaker 2: reflect the very best on him. You see, one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest ways to love each other is to live

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Speaker 2: at our very best, to set the tone.

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Speaker 4: For the life we want to live.

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Speaker 2: You see, you set the tone and the atmosphere for

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Speaker 4: You're not a thermometer.

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Speaker 2: A thermometer measures the temperature, but a thermostat sets the temperature.

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Speaker 4: It sets the tone.

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Speaker 2: And God has empowered every one of us through his love,

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Speaker 2: his grace, his mercy, to set the tone and the

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Speaker 2: It says in Hebrews ten twenty four. Let us consider

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Speaker 2: how we may spur one another on towards love and

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Speaker 2: good deeds. You see, if you can spur someone on

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Speaker 2: in God's love, listen, those good deeds will follow. If

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Speaker 2: you can strengthen them in God's love, then their life

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Speaker 4: You see, it was the love that.

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Speaker 2: Raised Jesus from the dead. Love is powerful, Love covers all.

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Speaker 2: Love is the end all be all. When you don't

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Speaker 2: think about that scripture and I think to myself, how

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Speaker 2: That means I have to meditate on it. I have

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Speaker 2: I consider, I meditate, I dwell what works.

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Speaker 2: You know, when I think about how to spur or

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Speaker 4: Of a cheerleader.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was never a cheerleader in high school, although

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Speaker 2: But I can be a cheerleader right here to my family.

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Speaker 2: I can share them on. And it's not so much

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Speaker 2: The attitude is a winning attitude. You see when the

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Speaker 2: scoreboard is in their favor, pom poms are up and

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Speaker 2: don't seem to be able to get it together, their

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Speaker 2: tone never changes. They have a winning tone, just a

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Speaker 2: different chant. That's when you'll hear defense, defense, But their

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Speaker 4: It's saying, hey, we can.

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Speaker 2: I have never ever seen the scoreboard down on the

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Speaker 2: out of here. I've never seen it. That's not the

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Speaker 2: attitude of a cheerleader. A cheerleader knows how to keep

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Speaker 4: And that's what I want us to think about.

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Speaker 2: What is your attitude towards those difficult situations when maybe

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Speaker 2: be able to get it together. Man, they keep fumbling

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Speaker 2: the ball. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: What do you do?

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Speaker 4: What do you do when they do score?

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Speaker 2: Do you take time to celebrate, to shout, to tell

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Speaker 4: You are of them?

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Speaker 2: You see, you got to keep this attitude in the

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Speaker 2: good times and in the bad times.

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Speaker 4: It's called consistency.

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Speaker 2: And if we're going to set the tone for our

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Speaker 2: a winner. Listen, the last thing I want to hear

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Speaker 2: I know that I'm fumbling the ball, I know that

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Speaker 2: I don't need to be told that I'm fumbling the ball.

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Speaker 4: I need someone there for me.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because the Bible says give to other people

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Speaker 2: what you want. That's a good way to keep it

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Speaker 2: all into perspective when you're facing difficulties, when you're facing

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Speaker 2: If you decide to tell them how bad they are,

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Speaker 2: that's not going to change a thing. But if you'll

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Speaker 2: get this tone, this winning tone, right, you have a

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Speaker 2: better chance of propping them up and helping them. You see,

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Speaker 2: it's our response. Are we walking in a place of peace?

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Speaker 2: Where do we get that peace? We get it from God.

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Speaker 2: You know what I said before, we get everything from God.

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Speaker 2: We can only live this life in victory by getting

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Speaker 3: You see, He's giving it to us so.

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Speaker 2: I realized when my daughter was about eight years old

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Speaker 2: how important my response was.

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Speaker 4: That it's set the tone for what would go on, Joel.

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Speaker 2: I think it was maybe his first book or second book,

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Speaker 2: and we were as a family traveling all over the country.

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Speaker 2: The publisher had set all of these books signings up

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Speaker 2: in different dates, and so they had chartered us a

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we would be in three different states in one day,

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Speaker 2: and so we have always done this ministry as a family.

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Speaker 2: So we had I had my little eight year old

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Speaker 2: the difference in the world. Now, needless to say, the

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Speaker 2: the ceiling, thanked God in heaven. I was like, ooh,

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Speaker 2: but it showed me my response is powerful. And I

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Speaker 2: tell that little story to say, your response is powerful.

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Speaker 2: Whether your child is eight years years old, eighteen years old,

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Speaker 2: or thirty eight years old, your.

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Speaker 3: Response, you set the tone. It's powerful.

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Speaker 2: When I call my mom on the phone to this day,

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Speaker 2: she literally has the power to set the tone for me,

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Speaker 2: whether I like it or not. There's a powerful thing

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Speaker 2: because it's called the anointing of being a parent. It's

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Speaker 2: just the way God made it. So I want to

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Speaker 2: spirit in the difficult times. See, it's all about our tone,

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Speaker 2: it's all about the temperature. It's all about the winning spirit.

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Speaker 2: And I believe if we will do that and we

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Speaker 2: have a great life, not only for ourselves but for

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Speaker 2: our families. Listen, if you want to pray right now,

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