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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. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media, and you can come

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Speaker 1: visit us in person. We'd love to have you be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about these four

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Speaker 1: Catholic mothers. They were bragging on their sons. The first

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Speaker 1: one said, my son is a priest. When he walks

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Speaker 1: in the room, everyone calls him father. The second one said,

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Speaker 1: my son is a bishop. When he walks in the room,

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Speaker 1: everyone calls him your Grace. The third said, my son

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Speaker 1: is a cardinal. When he walks in the room, everyone

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Speaker 1: calls him your Imminence. The fourth one said, my son

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Speaker 1: is six foot three, has broad shoulders, and is incredibly handsome.

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Speaker 1: When he walks in the room, all the ladies say,

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Speaker 1: oh my God, say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 1: is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about being happy where you are.

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Speaker 1: We can always find a reason to put off our happiness.

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Speaker 1: When my business grows, then I'll be happy when I

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Speaker 1: lose ten pounds, when I have a baby, when my

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Speaker 1: health improves, or maybe if I was married, i'd be happy.

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Speaker 1: Another person, if I wasn't married, i'd be happy. If

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Speaker 1: you're putting conditions on your happiness, you're going to live

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Speaker 1: a lot of your life unhappy because there will always

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Speaker 1: be something you don't like that bothers you, that you

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Speaker 1: wish was different. There are blessings and burdens in every season.

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Speaker 1: There are great things in your life that you could

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Speaker 1: be happy with right now. If you have your health,

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Speaker 1: your family, have a job opportunity, and there are things

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Speaker 1: you could be discouraged over. You get to choose what

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Speaker 1: you're going to focus on. If you focus on the burdens,

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Speaker 1: you're going to put off your happiness. I've got to

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Speaker 1: fix this problem before i can be happy, or I've

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Speaker 1: got to move into a better house, or i can't

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Speaker 1: be happy with this coworker. He gets on my nerves.

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Speaker 1: And when he leaves, when God moves him out of

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Speaker 1: my life, then I'll be happy. But here's the truth.

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Speaker 1: And I don't want to depress you, but he may

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Speaker 1: never leave. What if some of those burdens never change.

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Speaker 1: Are you going to spend your life unhappy, waiting for

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Speaker 1: people and circumstances to do what you want, then you'll

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Speaker 1: enjoy your life. It's the wrong way to live. You're

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Speaker 1: putting your happiness in other people's hands. You're letting your

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Speaker 1: joy be dependent on the circumstances. You have to take

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Speaker 1: control of your happiness. You are responsible to keep yourself happy.

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Speaker 1: It's not up to other people enjoy. My spouse, my boss,

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Speaker 1: my neighbor. They're the problem. They aggravate me, they leave

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Speaker 1: me out. You can't control all that. They may not change,

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Speaker 1: but you can change. You can be happy right where

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Speaker 1: you are. You can enjoy your life despite what's not

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Speaker 1: going your way. Paul said, in Philippians chapter four. I

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Speaker 1: have learned how to be content whatever state I'm in,

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Speaker 1: whether I'm a based or a bounding. He was saying,

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Speaker 1: whether I have a lot or a little, whether people

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Speaker 1: I'm still going to keep my joy. His happiness wasn't

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Speaker 1: dependent on his conditions, wasn't dependent on what people said

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Speaker 1: is in a blooming season seeing growth and promotion, then

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Speaker 1: he'd be happy. Seasons change, plans don't always work out.

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Speaker 1: People can let us down, doors can close. A mark

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Speaker 1: of maturity is that you're happy whatever state you're in.

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Speaker 1: Your happiness is not based on your circumstances. It's based

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Speaker 1: on a decision, the fact that you're a child or

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Speaker 1: the most high God. You recognize He's given you another

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Speaker 1: day to be alive and the strength to get out

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Speaker 1: You thank God for the blessings. You choose, like David,

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Speaker 1: It's a decision that we make If you're going to

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Speaker 1: I have learned how to be content. He didn't say

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Speaker 1: for me to stay happy no matter what. This took practice.

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Speaker 1: This took training, ruling over his emotions, getting up in

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Speaker 1: the morning when he didn't feel joy, things weren't going

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Speaker 1: happy today. I'm gonna enjoy where I am. He learned

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Speaker 1: to do it. My question is, have you learned how

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Speaker 1: To see the good, focus on the blessings, to start

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Speaker 1: each day positive and full of joy. The enemy would

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Speaker 1: love for us to go through life discontent, unhappy. Discover

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Speaker 1: is always something to keep us from enjoying where we are.

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Speaker 1: Don't fall in that trap. This day is a gift.

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Speaker 1: It dishonors God to go through it sour and offended,

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Speaker 1: no passion. Everything may not be perfect. We all have

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Speaker 1: things that come against us. The key is to enjoy

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Speaker 1: where you are while God is in the process of

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Speaker 1: changing things. If you don't get happy where you are,

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Speaker 1: you probably won't get to where you want to be.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to complain, live sour. When this changes, I'll

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Speaker 1: be happy. No, you can be happy right where you are.

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Speaker 1: What are you focused on? The blessings or the burdens?

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Speaker 1: If you focus on what's wrong, how long it's taken,

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Speaker 1: who hurts you, You're going to be discouraged. Change your

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Speaker 1: focus to the blessings. You're alive, you're healthy, you have

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Speaker 1: people to lie see. You never get to the place

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Speaker 1: where all the burdens are gone and all you have

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Speaker 1: her blessings. With the blessings come burdens. If you're waiting

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Speaker 1: for the burdens to leave, then you'll be happy. You'll

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Speaker 1: be waiting your whole life. In my situation, God has

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Speaker 1: taken me further than I've ever imagined. I have the

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Speaker 1: honor to speak to you, guys, and many people. He's

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Speaker 1: given me influence and resources, have a beautiful family, good health,

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Speaker 1: and extremely good looks. But with all these why you're laughing,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, but with all these incredible blessings come some burdens.

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Speaker 1: There are two or three things I could be worried

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Speaker 1: about and discouraged, over offended. How's this gonna work out?

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Speaker 1: If I dwell on the burdens, I'm not gonna have

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Speaker 1: any joy. I'm gonna go through the day discourage and worry.

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Speaker 1: Part of learning to be content is to focus on

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Speaker 1: the blessings and not the burdens. What you focus on

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Speaker 1: gets bigger. You're always thinking about the person at work

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Speaker 1: need to pay them back. You make it it bigger,

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Speaker 1: and the blessings are getting smaller. The fact is you

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Speaker 1: have a job, you have talent, you have health. Change

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Speaker 1: your focus. When Paul wrote this passage, I've learned to

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Speaker 1: be content, he was in a prison cell. He'd been

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Speaker 1: If anyone had a reason to be discontent unhappy at

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Speaker 1: least in the natural, would have been Paul. He was

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Speaker 1: beaten three times for teaching you about Jesus. He was

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Speaker 1: he was fulfilling his purpose, doing what God called him

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Speaker 1: to do. But his attitude was, these prison walls aren't

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Speaker 1: I'm focused on the blessings. I'm still alive. I still

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Speaker 1: have a purpose to fulfill. I still am in the

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Speaker 1: palm of God's hand. He couldn't leave the prison, he

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Speaker 1: that cell, Paul wrote, Rejoice in the Lord always Again,

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Speaker 1: I say rejoice. He wrote, May the God of Hope

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Speaker 1: fill you with all joy. He wrote, I think myself happy.

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Speaker 1: He was telling us the location doesn't have to determine

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Speaker 1: That doesn't dictate your joy. You determine your happiness. You

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Speaker 1: can think yourself happy, or you can think your self depressed.

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Speaker 1: You can think yourself grateful, or you can think yourself sour.

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Speaker 1: When you focus on the blessings and magnify the good

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Speaker 1: brought you to his favor, his protection, then you're going

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Speaker 1: to enjoy where you are despite what's coming against you.

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Speaker 1: And after Paul wrote that passage, I've learned to be content.

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Speaker 1: The next verse is the one we quote all the time.

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Speaker 1: He wrote it in the context of keeping your joy

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Speaker 1: gives you strength? How can I enjoy my life, Joey,

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Speaker 1: despite these burdens through Christ? How can I keep a

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Speaker 1: good attitude with this cranky coworker? Through Christ? You're not

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Speaker 1: doing it on your own. When you choose to be

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Speaker 1: and strengthen you and empower you. See, Paul wasn't happy

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Speaker 1: He didn't let the circumstances stop his happiness. You're not

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Speaker 1: and at the right time, God will vindicate you. He'll

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Speaker 1: promote you, He'll turn it around. But Paul could have thought, Man,

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Speaker 1: when I get out of this prison, then I'll be happy.

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Speaker 1: When people stop attacking me, when they understand who I

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Speaker 1: really am, then I'll be in a good mood. No,

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Speaker 1: he said, I'm happy right where I am. I'm going

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Speaker 1: It's very powerful when you are content in every situation,

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Speaker 1: when you're not waiting to be happy one day, when

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Speaker 1: I get through this trouble, when my health turns around,

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Speaker 1: you're still happy. You're still enjoying the day. You've learned

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Speaker 1: how to be content. A lady came down for prayer

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Speaker 1: husband wouldn't come to church with her. She'd been trying

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Speaker 1: Month later she was back, still worried, upset God, why

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Speaker 1: won't you do anything? Six months later, same thing. She

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to be happy until it worked out her way.

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Speaker 1: that way. You can't make people change, and you can't

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