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Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer. Know that we're praying

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Speaker 1: for you, and we know God has awesome things in store.

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Speaker 1: So great having you with us. Enjoy the message today. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you always a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 1: and be a part of one of the services. I

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again

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Speaker 1: for coming out today. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 1: and I heard about this man. He was sitting on

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Speaker 1: an airplane next to a beautiful single lady. They struck

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Speaker 1: up a conversation and he asked her what kind of

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Speaker 1: men she liked. She said, well, I like Native American

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Speaker 1: Indian men with their high cheek bones and their golden

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Speaker 1: tan skin. Plus I like Jewish men, they're so brilliant

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Speaker 1: and successful. And then I like good old boys from

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Speaker 1: the South with their long Southern drawl. What's your name,

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Speaker 1: he said, My name is Geronimo Bernstein, but my friends

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Speaker 1: call me Bubba. Hold up your Bible, 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

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Speaker 1: have 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'll boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about keeping your

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Speaker 1: walls up. It's easy to go through life letting everything

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Speaker 1: get on the inside, offended by what somebody said, worried

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Speaker 1: about a problem at work, upset because of a negative report.

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Speaker 1: We can't stop all these things from happening. The key

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Speaker 1: is to have walls built up so we don't allow everything.

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Speaker 1: In the scripture says to build yourself up. One translation

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Speaker 1: says to edify yourself. The word edify is where we

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Speaker 1: get the word edifice, meaning building. This is saying, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to stay encouraged, if you're going to enjoy

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Speaker 1: where you don't allow the negative, the offense, the worry,

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Speaker 1: the frustration into your spirit person. We only have so

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Speaker 1: much emotional energy each day. You will have opportunities to

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Speaker 1: spend it on things that don't matter. Stuck in traffic,

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Speaker 1: stressed out, frustrated, you are spending emotional energy that you

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Speaker 1: need for your own goals, your own dreams, or upset

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Speaker 1: about what somebody said about you, thinking about how you're

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Speaker 1: going to pay them back, calling a friend. Can you

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Speaker 1: believe they said that that's emotional energy you're not going

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Speaker 1: to have for your own family to play with your

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Speaker 1: children at night. It's not only doing you a disservice,

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Speaker 1: you're doing them a disservice. You've got to put some

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Speaker 1: in peace, God will fight your battles for you. And

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Speaker 1: this is the reason many people don't enjoy life. Coworkers

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Speaker 1: not treating them right sours the whole day. A problem

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Speaker 1: at home. They're so worried. It's constantly on the forefront

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Speaker 1: of their mind. There's always something keeping them offended, frustrated, stressed.

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Speaker 1: It's like a dark cloud follows them everywhere they go.

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Speaker 1: That cloud would leave if you would quit letting that

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Speaker 1: You can't stop people from saying things. You can't prevent

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Speaker 1: all the negative, but you don't have to allow that

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Speaker 1: to get into your spirit. You can dismiss it and say,

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Speaker 1: you know what. I'm not dwelling on it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: what ifs, wondering why they said. That proverb says, above

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Speaker 1: let everything in. You've got to be proactive and put

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Speaker 1: some walls up, guard what you dwell on. Be selective.

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Speaker 1: What you give your time and attention to your destiny

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Speaker 1: is too important to allow poison in. The Truth is,

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Speaker 1: we all have challenges, we all have things that come

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Speaker 1: how it's not going to work out, and they think

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Speaker 1: juicy details. It feeds our flesh, but it poisons our spirit.

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Speaker 1: A man said to me a while back, Joel, I

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Speaker 1: heard so and So was talking about you. He said that,

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Speaker 1: philosophy is Just give me the bottom line, Joey. He

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Speaker 1: thinks you're a lousy person. That's fine. I can handle that. Now,

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Speaker 1: the cliff notes, give me the condensed version. Here's why.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot easier to keep the poison out if

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Speaker 1: get on social media. Don't go on the internet and

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Speaker 1: Young people students don't read everything written about you at school.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of bullying these days through the Internet,

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Speaker 1: go there. It's very tempting to think, well, let me

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Speaker 1: poison you. You end up defensive, trying to overcompensate, insecure. No,

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Speaker 1: don't even go there. There are enough issues to deal

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Speaker 1: And if you do hear people talking about you, pay

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Speaker 1: instead of getting upset, instead of feeling badly about yourself. Remember,

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Speaker 1: they don't talk about ordinary people. They talk about exceptional people.

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't be talking about you unless you were a

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Speaker 1: cut above. Take it as a compliment. In a race,

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Speaker 1: nobody focuses on the people in last place. Nobody finds

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Speaker 1: All the focus is on the winners. That's where the attention,

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Speaker 1: the study, and the analyzing, the critiquing is if people

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Speaker 1: because you're winning. You're out front, you're making a difference.

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Speaker 1: I've learned, the more favor on your life, the more

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Speaker 1: simply because of the blessing God put on you. This

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Speaker 1: simply because of the favor on Abel's life. You have

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Speaker 1: I've heard it said this way. The more vertically aligned

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Speaker 1: Can you deal with the fact that not everybody can

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Speaker 1: going to spend time seeing how I can win them over,

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Speaker 1: loose sleep thinking about what they said about me. Now,

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Speaker 1: being blessed? David faced this as a teenager. He was

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Speaker 1: stir up envy, jealousy, criticism. There was no reason for

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Speaker 1: Eliab to be jealous. David was younger, smaller, out in

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Speaker 1: David understood this principle. The scripture says, David turned and

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Speaker 1: it can keep you from the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 1: Here's the key. Don't waste your time trying to win

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Speaker 1: Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand

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Speaker 1: you that are determined to misunderstand you. Your time is

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Speaker 1: You're not the problem. It's the favor they see on

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Speaker 1: run your race, focus on your goals. God will bring

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Speaker 1: the right people into your life. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: be your friend, let them go. They're not a part

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