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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Well, God bless you. It's great to be

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Speaker 1: with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with

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Speaker 1: us during the week through our daily podcast, YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: social media, and you can come visit us in person.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 1: of our services. So I'd like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 1: and somebody sent me this prayer about food goes like this, Lord,

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Speaker 1: grant me the strength that I may not fall into

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Speaker 1: the clutches of cholesterol at Polyumsatriz, I'll never mutter for

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Speaker 1: the road to Hell is paid with butter. Cake is cursed,

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Speaker 1: and cream is awful, and Satan is hiding in every waffle.

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Speaker 1: Belz above is a chocolate drop. Lucifer is a lollipop.

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Speaker 1: Teach me the evil of fried chicken from the South. Lord,

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Speaker 1: if you love me, shut my mouth, say it like

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I'll never

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Speaker 1: be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you today about take care of yourself.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get so caught up meeting other people's

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Speaker 1: ourself on the back burner. The demands of work. We

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Speaker 1: have a boss to please, spouse to keep happy, pressures

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Speaker 1: of raising children. Got to get them to football, the

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Speaker 1: other one to dance, need to run to the grocery store.

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Speaker 1: Dinner has to be perfect, then off to the neighbor's

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Speaker 1: birthday party. We can't let anyone down. They're counting on us.

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Speaker 1: We have this hero mentality. We're always strong. We're always

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Speaker 1: the one that comes through that cheers them up, fixes

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Speaker 1: the problem that stays late. We're doing all these good things,

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Speaker 1: keeping everyone around us happy. The problem is we can

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Speaker 1: become depleted, drained, worn out. We're making sure everyone else

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Speaker 1: is a priority. You need to make yourself a priority.

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Speaker 1: Your first mission is to keep yourself healthy. It's not

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Speaker 1: selfish to take time for you. You need time to

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Speaker 1: get refreshed, to be re energized. You shouldn't be so busy.

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Speaker 1: You don't have time to be alone, time to laugh,

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Speaker 1: time to exercise. You need recreation. You need these things

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Speaker 1: that help you stay in balance. See when people are

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Speaker 1: making a lot of withdrawals, you have to make sure

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Speaker 1: you're putting in a lot of deposits. If you're giving

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Speaker 1: all the time and never filling back up, you're going

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Speaker 1: to be depleted. You're good to others, why don't you

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Speaker 1: be good to you? You're kind to others. Be kind

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Speaker 1: to you, be generous to you, be loving to you.

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Speaker 1: Don't live with that hero mentality. Got to be strong,

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Speaker 1: got to be at every event, got to be supermom outperform, overachieve.

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Speaker 1: I can't say no, What will they say? People will

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Speaker 1: take as much as you give them. They'll let you

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Speaker 1: work twenty four hours a day if you will. When

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Speaker 1: you'll run down, emotionally drained, physically worn out, that's not

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Speaker 1: just doing you a disservice. It's doing your family and

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Speaker 1: those around you a disservice. Not only that, it's not

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Speaker 1: Nobody can make this change except you. You have to

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Speaker 1: be the one to say, I'm going to make some

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Speaker 1: every time this friend calls, not going to live up

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Speaker 1: to the pressures and demands that are not reasonable. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna keep myself healthy. I'm gonna make sure my emotional

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Speaker 1: well being is good. And if you don't learn to say,

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna say, why don't you take a break,

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Speaker 1: Why don't you spend the evening doing whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: I'll cover for you. No, you have them trained. They're

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Speaker 1: expecting you to be there for them. The moment you aren't,

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Speaker 1: they'll say, what's going on? Where are you? Superman? Tell

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Speaker 1: them Superman went to the phone booth and turned back

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Speaker 1: into Clark Kent. Superman was tired, Superman needed rest, Superman

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Speaker 1: had to get back in balance. They may not like it,

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Speaker 1: be surprised. If you feel guilty, I should be helping.

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Speaker 1: Don't be guilted into doing things that are keeping you

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Speaker 1: When you're tired, you need rest. When you're drained, you

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Speaker 1: need to be replenished. Now, I'm not saying don't work hard.

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Speaker 1: need a break. I need a moment to recharge. There's

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Speaker 1: deposits for me. It's easy to work all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to go ninety to nothing. I like to

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Speaker 1: be productive, achieving, but I've learned I'm not as creative

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Speaker 1: if I don't have time for recreation. I'm not as

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Speaker 1: productive if I hadn't taken time to laugh with my face, amily,

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Speaker 1: play basketball. When Victoria needs to be refreshed, she goes shopping.

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Speaker 1: She'll spend three hours at the mall. Never buy a thing.

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Speaker 1: Do what replenishes you, what brings you back? In violence?

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Speaker 1: I know my brother Paul gets refreshed by crocheting. When

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Speaker 1: Jesus was on the earth, he went around healing people,

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Speaker 1: there was a need. People would come up, Will you

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Speaker 1: heal my child? Will you come to our city? Can

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Speaker 1: these demands. Imagine how he felt as the son of God.

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Speaker 1: He had this incredible power, anointing, wisdom, so much to offer.

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Speaker 1: Yet at times when he was tired, the scripture says

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Speaker 1: he would go away from the crowds up in to

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Speaker 1: He could have felt guilty. There's so many needs. People

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Speaker 1: But Jesus knew he had to take care of his temple.

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Speaker 1: No matter how annointed you are, you get tired. No

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Speaker 1: of God. Why do we think we can go all

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Speaker 1: The sun will still come up if I don't get

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Speaker 1: keep everyone happy. You're not doing yourself any favors living

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Speaker 1: out of a depleted state. Sometimes we've been doing it

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Speaker 1: we're living. You won't be as good a parent, spouse, leader,

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Speaker 1: will always be needs, always be something to do, someone

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Speaker 1: Why don't you treat yourself as good as you treat others.

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Speaker 1: You have to take care of your temple. You're not invincible.

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Speaker 1: Jesus had all the power in the world, yet in

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Speaker 1: They're good at letting people make withdraws. They work hard,

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Speaker 1: to have the stamina to overcome challenges. You want to

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Speaker 1: enjoy your family like you should. They'll be more stride conflict,

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Speaker 1: you'll be amazed at what happens. If you'll get back

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Speaker 1: not healthy. Take the cape off, get back in balance.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not other people's expectations, it's our own expectations.

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Speaker 1: we have the ability, the talent, the anointing, but you

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Speaker 1: The best thing he could do was to get recharged

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Speaker 1: things we're not even aware of. Traffic, work, deadlines, lays,

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Speaker 1: difficult people, negative news. That's all draining. That's all taking

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Speaker 1: nothing there that's when you get overwhelmed, frustrated. You're not

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Speaker 1: to tell your children, we can't play on seventeen different

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Speaker 1: In a sense, it helped us bring us back into balance,

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Speaker 1: to have a new perspective of what's important. Since two

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Speaker 1: normally on a Friday night. We'd come home Saturday afternoon,

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