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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: head hog at the trough. The secretary was offended. She said,

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Speaker 1: was thinking about making a five thousand dollars donation to

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Speaker 1: your church. She said, hang on, poor Ky just walked in.

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Speaker 1: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 1: I am what it says, I am, I have of

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Speaker 1: says I can do today. I will be talked the

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Speaker 1: word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about choosing a good mood. God created

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Speaker 1: us as emotional beings. We can all feel things. We

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Speaker 1: feel joy, excitement, passion, and we can feel sadness, sorrow, discouragement.

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Speaker 1: Feelings come to us all. But here's the key. Feelings

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Speaker 1: When you wake up in the morning, you can feel gloom, despair,

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Speaker 1: nothing good in your future. Then you get a cup

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Speaker 1: of coffee and you feel great. You're back to normal.

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Speaker 1: Feelings can change on a dime. The mistake we make

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Speaker 1: is we let feelings determine our mood. We wake up

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Speaker 1: the blas, then we go around discourage. We get stuck

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Speaker 1: in traffic. I feel upset. Someone is rude to us.

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Speaker 1: self pity. We wonder why we don't enjoy life. It's

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Speaker 1: because we're being ruled by our feelings. You can't stop

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Speaker 1: feelings from coming. But you can say feelings. You are

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Speaker 1: not the boss of me. You are not going to

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Speaker 1: control my life. When you wake up in the morning,

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Speaker 1: you may feel the blaws. I don't want to go

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Speaker 1: have so many problems. Right there, You have a choice.

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Speaker 1: or are you going to rule over those feelings and

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Speaker 1: You have to be proactive. Father. Thank you that this

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Speaker 1: is going to be a great day. I know I'm

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Speaker 1: surrounded by your favor, goodness, and mercy are following me.

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Speaker 1: You said your whole victory in store for the upright.

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Speaker 1: Don't wait for the feelings to come. Get your mind

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Speaker 1: follow your thoughts. This is what David did. He had

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Speaker 1: all kinds of trouble, armies coming against him, people slandering him.

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Speaker 1: His own son was trying to take the throne. You

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Speaker 1: can imagine how strong those negative feelings were. Discouragement, anger,

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Speaker 1: day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be

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Speaker 1: glad in it. He wasn't just being positive, he was

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Speaker 1: not going to determine my future. Your will is more

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Speaker 1: we're controlled by how we feel, that's a very surface

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Speaker 1: You can't stop negative feelings from coming, but you don't

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Speaker 1: have to get on board with them. Imagine you're at

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Speaker 1: like the people at work, your spouse gets on your nerves.

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Speaker 1: Last call for the depression Express. Too often we hand

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Speaker 1: board with those feelings. Try a different approach next time

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Speaker 1: those negative feelings say all aboard, Say no, thanks, you

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Speaker 1: My destination is joy, peace, abundance, victory. You can't stop

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Speaker 1: to have a good mood. That's how you rule your

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Speaker 1: the discouragement, and the discontentment. The Apostle Paul said, I

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Speaker 1: think myself happy. You can think yourself discouraged, think yourself bitter,

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Speaker 1: Instead of dwelling on what you don't have, what's wrong,

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Speaker 1: what didn't work out, start thinking about what God promised you. Father,

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Speaker 1: you said, my latter days will be better than my

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Speaker 1: former days. You said, I haven't seen, heard, or imagined

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Speaker 1: Instead of living worried, Father, you said, my children will

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Speaker 1: be mighty in the land. You said that from generation

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Speaker 1: to generation, we will tell of your goodness. Instead of

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Speaker 1: following your feelings, you can get your feelings to follow you.

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Speaker 1: can dwell on the negative, everything that's wrong. You're going

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Speaker 1: to draw in more negative, more discouragement. Or in the

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Speaker 1: face of those feelings, you can start thinking faith filled thoughts, positive, hopeful, uplifting.

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Speaker 1: That's what you're going to draw in, and it's important

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Speaker 1: to start the day off in faith. This is when

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Speaker 1: the enemy works over time to try to give you

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Speaker 1: the blaws. Instead of letting him set the tone. Why

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Speaker 1: You need to decide it's going to be a good

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Speaker 1: scripture says joy comes in the morning. Every morning. Joy

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Speaker 1: is waiting for you. But let me tell you what

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Speaker 1: else comes in the morning. Guilt, look at the mistakes

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Speaker 1: you've made. Bitterness, boy, they did you wrong. Discouragement, nothing

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Speaker 1: good is in your future, self pity. Why were you

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Speaker 1: raised like that? God sends joy every morning just for you,

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Speaker 1: but the enemy sends all these other things. Now you

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Speaker 1: get to choose. Here's the key. The negative is easier

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Speaker 1: letting that dictate your day. That doesn't take any effort.

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Speaker 1: But if you're going to live a victorious life, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to reach your full potential, you have to

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Speaker 1: go deeper and not be ruled by your emotions, not

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Speaker 1: let feelings dictate your day. You have to choose to

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Speaker 1: have a good mood despite the feelings. Choose joy despite

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Speaker 1: the discouragement, choose faith despite the doubt. Jeremiah said, blessed

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Speaker 1: is the person who is steady and immovable. That should

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Speaker 1: be our goal. Consistently in a good mood, consistently happy,

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Speaker 1: consistently friendly, consistently kind. We're steady and immovable. The reason

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Speaker 1: some people don't have good relationships is they're so moody.

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Speaker 1: They're always up and down. You never know what you're

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Speaker 1: stay out of their way. That's hard on your children,

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Speaker 1: that's difficult on your spouse, cold workers. They have to

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Speaker 1: wonder what you're going to be like today. You owe

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Speaker 1: start ruling over those feelings. You're in charge. They are

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Speaker 1: not the boss of you. Quit letting how you feel

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Speaker 1: choosing to be kind, choosing to be friendly, choosing to

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Speaker 1: be hopeful and Sure. You may have challenges, but God

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Speaker 1: is on the throne. He's fighting your battles while he's working.

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Speaker 1: Instead of being discouraged, worried in a bad mood, why

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Speaker 1: don't you enjoy your life? See? One of the best

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Speaker 1: testimonies we can have is we're consistently in a good mood.

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Speaker 1: We're stable, not up and down. Discouraged, defended, sour. But

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Speaker 1: You're not always going to feel this way. But maturity

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Speaker 1: is when you go beyond your feelings. You don't let

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Speaker 1: them dictate your life. You choose joy, you choose a

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Speaker 1: save some relationships. This can help you get along better

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Speaker 1: with your children. This can help you get unstuck in

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Speaker 1: this for you. You can't pray away feelings. You will

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Speaker 1: feel things, but feelings don't always tell you the truth.

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Speaker 1: In the scripture, Habaccock said, though the fig tree does

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Speaker 1: and joy in the God of my salvation. He was saying,

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Speaker 1: My crops didn't bloom, cattle was gone, felt discouraged like

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Speaker 1: came by, saying depression, defeat, discouragement, all aboard. He had

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Speaker 1: this principle. He didn't let his feelings dictate his life.

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Speaker 1: He said, no, thanks, that train's not going where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: All these negative things, crops failed, cattle gone, business down,

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Speaker 1: then one little word. Yet he was saying, all this

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Speaker 1: I rejoice yet? Will I be joyful knowing that God

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Speaker 1: is fighting my battles? You may have negative feelings. I'm

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Speaker 1: not asking you to deny what you feel. I'm asking

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Speaker 1: Yet will I rejoice? My child is Of course, I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be depressed. Yet I'm hopeful knowing God has the

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Speaker 1: So yet, will I rejoice yet? Will I have a

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Speaker 1: smile yet? Will I be good to people? Negative feelings

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Speaker 1: angels go to work when you choose to praise instead

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Speaker 1: of complain. Forces of darkness are broken when you're consistent, stable,

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Speaker 1: always in a good mood. You give the enemy a

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