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Speaker 4: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 4: of Houston, Texas, right here at Lakewood. But so glad

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Speaker 4: to have you today. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 4: and I heard about this minister. He was driving down

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Speaker 4: The officer came up to the window and smelled alcohol.

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Speaker 4: He saw a thermist and said, sir, what are you drinking.

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Speaker 4: The minister said, just water. Officer, he asked to see

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Speaker 4: the thermiston. He took one sniff and said, smells like

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Speaker 4: wine to me. The minister said, what do you know?

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Speaker 4: Jesus did it again? Say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 4: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 4: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 4: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about peaceful on purpose. If

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Speaker 4: you're going to live in peace, it's not going to

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Speaker 4: happen by accident. Every day we have opportunities to get upset,

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Speaker 4: to be offended, to live worried life, happens. People get

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Speaker 4: on your nerves, unexpected bills of family members in the hospital.

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Speaker 4: then you're going to have peace. Then you're going to

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Speaker 4: stop worrying. You'll be waiting your whole life. God never

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Speaker 4: promised that he would keep us from difficulties. He never

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Speaker 4: said that we wouldn't have storms. But he did say

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Speaker 4: he would give us peace in the midst of the storms.

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Speaker 4: He calls it a peace that passes understanding. That means,

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Speaker 4: despite what's going on around you, you still have peace.

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Speaker 4: The medical report wasn't good, but I'm not worried. I

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Speaker 4: know God has me in the palm of his hand.

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Speaker 4: I didn't get the promotion that I worked for, but

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Speaker 4: You have to protect your peace. You weren't created to

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Speaker 4: your cares on the Lord. You have to learn to

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Speaker 4: When you rest, God goes to work. But when you work,

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Speaker 4: God rest, if you try to be God, God will

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Speaker 4: step back and say, Okay, you figure it out, you

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Speaker 4: not going to worry. I'm not going to live stressed.

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Speaker 4: be still and know that you are God. That's when

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Speaker 4: God goes to work. In the scripture, David faced all

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Speaker 4: kinds of opposition. People came against him. Enemies were trying

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Speaker 4: but he understood this principle. He said, the Lord is

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Speaker 4: version says by the RESTful waters. He was saying, the

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Speaker 4: in your spirit. It can be chaotic all around you, traffic, people, problems, drama,

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Speaker 4: Worry is a thief. It will rob you of your

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Speaker 4: rob you of your creativity. You don't make good decisions

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Speaker 4: when you're worried. If you allow it, worry can keep

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Speaker 4: add one inch to our life by worrying. If we could,

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Speaker 4: some of us would be twenty three feet tall. What

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Speaker 4: are you worried about? What's keeping you awake at night?

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Speaker 4: What's stealing your joy? It's time to come back to

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Speaker 4: the still waters. When you get quiet, when you're in peace,

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Speaker 4: we worry, we're making our problem our God. What you

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Speaker 4: see as the biggest thing in your life. In one sense,

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Speaker 4: that's your God. If you worry about your health night

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Speaker 4: Do yourself a favor. Take the worry off the throne,

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Speaker 4: take the sickness off the throne, take the financial difficulty

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Speaker 4: Use that same energy to thank God that he's still

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Speaker 4: in control. Every time you're at tempted to worry, turn

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Speaker 4: over into praise, switch over into things that are of

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Speaker 4: a good report. You have to guard your mind. This

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Speaker 4: is where the main battle is taking place, because good thoughts,

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Speaker 4: they don't ought to come into our mind most of

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Speaker 4: negative things like, oh man, that pain in your side,

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Speaker 4: that's dangerous, same thing your grandmother died from. You'll never

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Speaker 4: get married. You've been single so long, you'll never get

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Speaker 4: past this bad break. All the odds are against you.

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Speaker 4: The easy thing to do is to believe those lies.

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Speaker 4: Start dwelling on it. What if I don't get well,

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Speaker 4: what if the report isn't good, what if I can't

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Speaker 4: make those payments. Don't fall into that trap. Your life

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Speaker 4: is going to fally your thoughts. If you live worried, anxious, uptight,

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Speaker 4: you're inviting discouragement, bad breaks, negativity. You have to turn

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Speaker 4: Think him that no weapon formed against you will ever prosper.

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Speaker 4: When I look back over my life, most of the

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Speaker 4: over again, what would I do differently. I told them

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Speaker 4: I would trust God more, I wouldn't lose sleep, worried

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Speaker 4: wonder how many things you'll worried about that are never

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Speaker 4: I did not want that big, ugly sign in front

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Speaker 4: I measured the distance from the corner, got the exact length.

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Speaker 4: Sure enough, that sign was going to be right by

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Speaker 4: I worried about that sign, thought about how bad it

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Speaker 4: Then I had an idea. I thought, I'm going to

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Speaker 4: And I got a big six seven foot tree planted

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Speaker 4: neighbors thought, boy, those people are strange. But I knew

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Speaker 4: month went by, my bush grew bigger and bigger. About

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Speaker 4: two years later, the city finally came and put the

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Speaker 4: problem that never happened. Every time I drove up to

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Speaker 4: my house, I thought, there's my worry tree. Are you

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Speaker 4: trying to solve a problem that hasn't happened? Well, Joel,

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Speaker 4: what if I get laid off next year? What if

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Speaker 4: you don't, but you spend a whole year worrying about it?

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Speaker 4: What if I never get married? What if you do?

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Speaker 4: How much time are you worrying? What if this pain

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Speaker 4: about something that God had already taken care of. He

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Speaker 4: an ally instead of an enemy. Some of the things

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Speaker 4: in to what God has already done. Friends, don't let

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Speaker 4: This is a new day. No more worrying for me.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you to take that off the throne and

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Speaker 4: use that same energy to thank him that he's working

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Speaker 4: you'll experience peace that passes understanding. No matter what happens

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