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Speaker 6: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: In the Old.

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Speaker 6: truth is we all face difficulties. We all have unfair situations.

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Speaker 6: The difference is the people that are in peace, positive, hopeful,

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Speaker 6: they're not allowing the negative into their inner sanctuary. And

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Speaker 6: things can be happening on the outside. A friend died

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Speaker 6: you wrong, set back in your health, the feelings will

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Speaker 6: I didn't get that promotion. But I'm not sitting around

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Speaker 6: You have to protect your secret place. Your feelings will

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Speaker 6: Self pity, discouragement. They don't give up easily. They'll constant whispered,

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Speaker 5: They did you wrong. You have a right to be depressed,

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Speaker 6: When you have a good attitude despite what's going on

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Speaker 6: actions speak louder than our words. When we go around upset, worried, discouraged,

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Speaker 6: You can do something about it. Draw the line in

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Speaker 6: I'm serving an eviction notice to all the negative worry, offense, trouble,

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Speaker 5: The scripture says, don't let the sun go down on

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Speaker 6: It's okay to feel anger. It's okay to feel hurt,

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Speaker 6: A friend of mine is fighting cancer. He's had several surgeries,

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Speaker 6: A lady I know emailed me her husband has cancer

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Speaker 6: and we're enjoying life. The only way you could say

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Speaker 5: But I know people they're just the opposite.

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Speaker 6: They're always upset, worried, discouraged.

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Speaker 5: It's because they're allowing everything in.

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Speaker 6: It's easy to get offended, self pity, try to pay

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Speaker 6: To live out of a place of wholeness, positive confidence,

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Speaker 6: my secret place. Then God will step up and say,

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Speaker 6: all right, let me go to work. Let me be

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Speaker 6: your vindicator. You don't have to vindicate yourself. Just run

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Speaker 6: your race, stay focused on your goals.

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Speaker 5: And God will take care of your enemies.

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Speaker 6: Job says, those who hate you will be clothed with shame.

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Speaker 6: Quit letting the chatter, the jealousy, the people that are

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Speaker 6: never going to like you. Don't let that poison get

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Speaker 6: on the inside. A few years after I started ministering,

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Speaker 6: there was this person that was very against me. It

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Speaker 6: was like their mission in life to try to make

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Speaker 5: I'd never met them.

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Speaker 6: But i'd hear reports that they were making disparaging remarks,

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Speaker 5: This went on for seven or eight years.

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Speaker 6: In the natural, of course, you know, you want to

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Speaker 6: get in there and fight that battle, defend yourself.

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Speaker 5: I did just what I'm asking you to do. I

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Speaker 5: let it go. I didn't pay any attention to it.

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Speaker 6: I said, God, I am not going to let that

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Speaker 6: poison into my secret place. I'm staying in peace, I'm

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Speaker 6: keeping my joy. I didn't do it just one time

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Speaker 6: and I was done. I did it again and again.

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Speaker 5: Year after year.

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Speaker 6: That offense kept coming back knocking on the door. One day,

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Speaker 6: this person had some negative things come out about them,

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Speaker 6: some things they weren't doing right. That was the beginning

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Speaker 6: of a domino effect. Everything started to come down. They

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Speaker 6: lost their business, their influence, their reputation, their platform. Like

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Speaker 6: the scripture says, they were clothed with shame. And I'm

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Speaker 6: not happy about that. I pray for restoration for God's blessings.

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Speaker 6: But my point is, if you'll protect your secret place

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Speaker 6: and not take the bait of being offended, it will

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Speaker 6: not only not contaminate you, but God will be your vindicator.

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Speaker 6: And can I tell you, God can vindicate you better

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Speaker 6: than you can vindicate yourself. If you'll let God do

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Speaker 6: it his way, the victory will be much sweeter. Jesus said,

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Speaker 6: stop allowing yourself to be upset. Stop allowing what they

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Speaker 6: said into your secret place. Stop allowing the trouble, the turmoil,

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Speaker 6: the worry, the offense into your inner sanction.

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Speaker 5: Wear it. It doesn't belong there.

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Speaker 6: What you constantly think about, you're putting on the throne

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Speaker 6: of your life.

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Speaker 5: The key is to keep God on the throne. It's

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Speaker 5: easy to.

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Speaker 6: Put a negative medical report on the throne, go around

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Speaker 6: worried all day. Some people put the hurt, the disappointment,

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Speaker 6: what somebody.

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Speaker 5: Said on the throne.

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Speaker 6: As long as you're focused on those things, giving them

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Speaker 6: your most attention, you're going to live worried, upset. The

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Speaker 6: problem is you have your circumstances on the throne. You

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Speaker 6: need to put God back up on the throne. When

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Speaker 6: God is on the throne, you're at peace.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 6: He's your healer, he's your deliverer, he's your waymaker, he's

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Speaker 6: your vindicator. You know he'll give you beauty for those ashes,

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Speaker 6: whatever you have on the throne, that's what you're worshiping.

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Speaker 6: Are you worshiping your circumstances? Worshiping what somebody said? If

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Speaker 6: you would put God back on the throne, you would

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Speaker 6: see things begin to turn around. That's what the psalmist said.

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Speaker 6: Let God arise and his enemies be scattered. When you

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Speaker 6: put God back up on the throne, He'll take care

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Speaker 6: of anything that's holding you back.

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Speaker 5: Friends, I'm asking you to protect your secret place.

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Speaker 6: Negative things happen to us all like that ship. Nothing

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Speaker 6: on the outside can bring you down only if you

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Speaker 6: let it on the inside. Don't allow it in your

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Speaker 6: inner sanctuary, guard your heart, stay in peace. If you

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Speaker 6: do this, I believe and declare, like Mary, You're going

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Speaker 6: to rise above the negative chatter. God is going to

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Speaker 6: fight your battles, promote you, heal you, vindicate you, bring

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