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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoyed a message.

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's great to be with you today.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll stay connected with us during the week

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Speaker 1: through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media. We'll

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Speaker 1: keep you encouraged and inspired. I'd like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny and I heard about this elderly couple. They

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Speaker 1: were having a terrible time with their memory. They went

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Speaker 1: to the doctor and he instructed them to start writing

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Speaker 1: down everything they'd been forgetting. The next night, they were

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Speaker 1: watching television. The wife said, I sure would like a

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Speaker 1: bowl of ice cream. Husband said, I'll go get it

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Speaker 1: for you. She said, honey, you know what the doctor said.

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Speaker 1: You better write it down. He said, I'm just going

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Speaker 1: to the kitchen. I'm not gonna forget it. Came back

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Speaker 1: a few minutes later handed her a plate of bacon

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Speaker 1: and eggs. She shook her head, said I should have

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Speaker 1: known it. You forgot my toast. Say it like you

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

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Speaker 1: 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 will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about dealing with

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Speaker 1: difficult people. I was going to title this dealing with friends, family,

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Speaker 1: and coworkers. Because someone will be difficult. Someone will get

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Speaker 1: on your nerves. A coworker that's jealous, a neighbor that's rude,

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Speaker 1: a relative that's not for you. How you handle difficult

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Speaker 1: people will determine how high you will go. If you

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Speaker 1: treat them the way they treat you, then you'll get stuck.

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Speaker 1: If they're disrespectful and you're disrespectful back, that will keep

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Speaker 1: you from going further. The scripture says you overcome evil

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Speaker 1: with good. You never overcome disrespect with more disrespect. You

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Speaker 1: never get ahead doing to others what they did to you.

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Speaker 1: That's a test of your character. God is seeing what

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Speaker 1: he can trust you with. Will you be the bigger

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Speaker 1: person and overlook the insult? Will you stay on the

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Speaker 1: high road and not get baited into conflict. You only

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Speaker 1: have so much emotional energy each day. It's not an

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Speaker 1: unlimited supply. It takes a lot of energy to get upset,

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Speaker 1: to live offended, think about what they said, try to

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Speaker 1: straighten them out. That's energy you need for your dreams,

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Speaker 1: to pursue your goals, to enjoy your family. Don't spend

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Speaker 1: it on things that don't matter. You can't control how

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Speaker 1: everyone treats you, but you can control how you respond

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Speaker 1: when someone is rude. You don't have to get upset

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Speaker 1: when they cut you off in traffic. That doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to ruin your morning. When a coworker leaves you out.

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Speaker 1: You can't control that, but you can stay in peace

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Speaker 1: knowing that God is fighting your battles. When you take

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Speaker 1: the high road, you'll not only enjoy your life more,

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Speaker 1: but you're showing God he can trust you with more influence,

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Speaker 1: with more favor. Don't go the next twenty years letting

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Speaker 1: the same things upset you. Same coworker get on your nerves,

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Speaker 1: same grumpy relative steal your joy. They may not change,

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Speaker 1: but here's the key. You can change. Sometimes we've trained

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Speaker 1: gonna lead them out. If your crazy uncle makes fun

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Speaker 1: is you're letting them control you. If they perform a

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Speaker 1: certain way, it's going to sour your day. Why don't

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Speaker 1: you take the controls back? Jesus said, stop allowing yourself

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Speaker 1: to get upset. Someone can't make you get upset. You

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Speaker 1: and some people know exactly what buttons they can push

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Speaker 1: to get you bent out of shape. Next time they

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Speaker 1: they haven't dealt with. They end up with bitterness, anger, insecurity,

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Speaker 1: bottled up on the inside. Sometimes that poison will try

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Speaker 1: to get off on you. You have to stay on

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Speaker 1: to live sour. I'm not working under people. I'm working

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Speaker 1: under God. Well, Joel. If I always take the high road,

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Speaker 1: people would take advantage of me. Oh look weak. I

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Speaker 1: have to stand up for myself. You never go wrong

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Speaker 1: by taking the high road. You never lose out when

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Speaker 1: you're kind, when you're overlooking offense, when you choose to

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Speaker 1: your enemies, it's like keeping coals of fire on their head.

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Speaker 1: You would think if we'd treat our enemies the way

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Speaker 1: they treated us, that'd be good payback. They talk bad

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Speaker 1: me out, I'm gonna leave them out. If she's rude

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Speaker 1: to me, two can play at that game, or be

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Speaker 1: rude to her. That feels good to our flesh to

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Speaker 1: by doing to others what they did to you. The

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Speaker 1: real way you see favor increased is you bless your enemies.

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Speaker 1: When you're good to those that are not good to you,

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Speaker 1: not only will you rise higher, but God will deal

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Speaker 1: with those who are not treating you right. He knows

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Speaker 1: how to heap coals of fire, how to put pressure,

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Speaker 1: how to make them think differently about you. Several times

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Speaker 1: in the scripture it refers to the believer as an eagle.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah said, you will mount up with wings like an eagle.

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Speaker 1: It's significant that God chose an eagle. An eagle can

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Speaker 1: fly higher than just about any other bird. They've spotted

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Speaker 1: eagles at thirty thousand feet in the air, up where

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Speaker 1: the big jets fly. I read where a crow is

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Speaker 1: a natural pest to the eagle. Although the eagle is

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Speaker 1: turn quicker, maneuver faster, sometimes to annoy the eagle. The

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Speaker 1: crow will follow right behind the eagle, just pestering it,

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Speaker 1: trying to cause it trouble. The eagle could turn around

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Speaker 1: and try to fight. Think I'm bigger than this crow.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to show him who I am. Instead, when

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Speaker 1: the eagle is tired of dealing with the crow, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't try to out maneuver it, moving left and right.

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Speaker 1: It simply starts flying higher and higher. The crow can't

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Speaker 1: go where the eagle can go. It can't handle that

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Speaker 1: of an altitude. Eventually it will fall away. In life,

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Speaker 1: there will always be some crows. You may work with crows,

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Speaker 1: You may have neighbors that are crows. You may be

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Speaker 1: sitting by a crow. Just laugh and they won't know it.

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Speaker 1: But there will always be people. They can get on

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Speaker 1: your nerves. They feel like it's their calling in life

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Speaker 1: to annoy you, irritate you, push your buttons. That will

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Speaker 1: continue to happen as long as you're staying down at

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Speaker 1: their level. You'll get upset, be baited into conflict, live offended.

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Speaker 1: You have to realize you're an eagle. The way you

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Speaker 1: get rid of crows is not engaging with them, but

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Speaker 1: by going up higher. Don't pay attention to what they're saying.

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Speaker 1: Quit reading the negative comments. Don't let that offense get

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Speaker 1: into conflict. You're an eagle. You're not supposed to be

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Speaker 1: Quit being frustrated by the turkeys. People that don't understand you,

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Speaker 1: people that make a lot of noise, trying to steal

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Speaker 1: your peace. Those are distractions trying to get you off course,

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Speaker 1: wasting time and energy that you need to pursue your goals.

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Speaker 1: You can't stop the crows from crowing. You can't stop

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Speaker 1: the chickens from pecking, the people being rude, the offense,

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Speaker 1: the disrespect, that grouchy neighbor, that critical coworker. But you

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Speaker 1: can spread your wings in rise higher. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to get engaged in those petty things that don't matter.

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Speaker 1: You were created to soar, designed to do big things,

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Speaker 1: to leave your mark, to be a history maker. Don't

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Speaker 1: waste your valuable time dealing with crows. It will always

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Speaker 1: be people that don't understand you, people that are not

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Speaker 1: for you, that try to hinder your calling. Yes, they'll

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Speaker 1: say hurtful things, try to make you look bad, put

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Speaker 1: you at a disadvantage. Human nature is to get in

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Speaker 1: there and fight. Straighten them out, show them what they're

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Speaker 1: made of. Don't take de bait. That's a distraction. They

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Speaker 1: don't control your destiny. They didn't breathe life into you,

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Speaker 1: they didn't choose you before you were formed in your

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Speaker 1: mother's womb. What they say cannot stop your purpose. Don't

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Speaker 1: give it the time of day, Ignore it and move forward.

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Speaker 1: You know what will happen. The crows will fall away.

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Speaker 1: They can't hang with you, they can't go where you're going.

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Speaker 1: God put greatness in you. There's a lot of negative

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Speaker 1: chatter these days. To all the social media ways to communicate,

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Speaker 1: people can express their opinions so easily, say things that

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Speaker 1: you're okay. You're not what they said. You're giving them

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Speaker 1: your power. You're engaged in a battle that you're not

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Speaker 1: supposed to be in. The crows are going to crow,

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Speaker 1: make a lot of noise, The chickens are going to peck.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be gossip, jealousy, criticism. People will have

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Speaker 1: plenty of opinions about how you were to run your life,

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Speaker 1: how you should raise your children. Successful people are so

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Speaker 1: focused on their goals, their dreams, they don't pay attention

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Speaker 1: to the crows. Quit letting that poison get in your spirit.

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Speaker 1: You have a destiny to fulfill. God has given you

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Speaker 1: the gift of life. He could have chosen anyone to

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Speaker 1: be here at this time, but he chose you and me.

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Speaker 1: Let's make the most of this day. How much time

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Speaker 1: are you wasting offended, upset, letting difficult people steal your joy.

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Speaker 1: It's time to get focused, tune out all the negative,

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Speaker 1: and run your race with purpose. Second Kings, Chapter two.

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Speaker 1: Elisha was traveling from Jericho to Bethel. As he was

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Speaker 1: said in verse twenty three, get out of here, you

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Speaker 1: bald head, mocking him again and against in the scripture,

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Speaker 1: go away baldy. Elisha could have been upset offended. He

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Speaker 1: and his men were bigger, stronger. He could have gone

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Speaker 1: the bait. He said, in effect, I'm going to stay

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Speaker 1: in peace and let God fight my battles. He understood

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Speaker 1: they were just a bunch of crows making a lot

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Speaker 1: that didn't matter. He kept going. As he walked on,

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Speaker 1: two bears suddenly came out of the woods and mauled

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Speaker 1: When you let God be you a vindicator, he'll take

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Speaker 1: care of who's trying to stop you. He'll deal with

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Speaker 1: the disrespect, the jealousy, people that are doing you're wrong.

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Speaker 1: You're an eagle. Don't come down and fight battles that

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Speaker 1: don't matter. You keep soaring, keep doing the right thing,

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Speaker 1: and God will deal with the crows, the chickens, the turkeys,

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Speaker 1: all that negative chatter, it's just noise. He cannot stop

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Speaker 1: your destiny. So forty five says God has anointed us

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Speaker 1: with the oil of joy. When you walk in your anointing,

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