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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're gonna have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoyed a message.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we are grateful people.

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Speaker 3: Amen. I want to encourage us all today to have

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Speaker 3: a peace maker's heart, a peace maker's heart, the heart

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Speaker 3: of a peace maker. You see, we all want to

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Speaker 3: live in peace. We all want people to be at

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Speaker 3: peace with us. We want peace in our families, we

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Speaker 3: want peace in our homes. But the way we're going

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Speaker 3: to have peace is to make peace. Peace Maker is

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Speaker 3: a compound word, peace maker. We should be the maker

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Speaker 3: of peace, the maker of peace.

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Speaker 1: You see. We have the.

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Speaker 3: Ability to draw the line in the sand and say

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna step over this line of into strife,

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Speaker 1: And how do we do that?

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Speaker 3: The Bible says we make peace, we make unity through

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Speaker 3: the bond of peace. See, it's our responsibility, no one.

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Speaker 3: We don't have to depend on anyone to make peace

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Speaker 3: for us. It's our responsibility to resolve the differences and

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Speaker 3: the conflicts in our life honoring God. See, that's what

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Speaker 3: a peacemaker does. He honors God. It's an attitude. And

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Speaker 3: that's why I described it as developing a heart of

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Speaker 3: a peacemaker, because it's an attitude that we have to develop.

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Speaker 3: It's something that we have to realize is our responsibility.

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Speaker 3: See Jesus gave a sermon on the mound, and he

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Speaker 3: gave all the beatitudes, and he told about these beatitudes,

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Speaker 3: you could call them. These are attitudes that bring the

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Speaker 3: blessings of God in our life. And he said in

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Speaker 3: Matthew five nineteen, he said, Blessed are the peace peacemakers,

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Speaker 3: for they shall be sons of God. Blessed are those

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Speaker 3: who are willing to let go of an offense. Blessed

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Speaker 3: are those who don't walk in the pathway of conflict.

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Speaker 3: Blessed are those who don't have to have their way

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Speaker 3: reconcile our differences and honor God. See it's about unity,

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Speaker 3: and the only way we're going to find unity is

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Speaker 3: because we all know that ain't happening. We're all from

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Speaker 3: different backgrounds, we have different opinions, different ways of doing things.

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Speaker 3: So we have to learn that peace is what's going

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Speaker 3: to buy us together. You know, it's so interesting in

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Speaker 3: and wife The interesting thing is this. We start out good.

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Speaker 3: We have the same goal in mind. We want to

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Speaker 3: be successful at this task. We want to have peace

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Speaker 3: have financial security. These are all common goals that we

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Speaker 3: You see, those are the things that's at the end

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Speaker 3: binds us together in unity that brings the happiness, the achievement,

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Speaker 3: place in your spirit that says, I am a peacemaker,

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Speaker 3: and because I'm a peacemaker, I can trust God to

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Speaker 3: we all need. We're all gonna face challenges along the way.

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Speaker 3: Those challenges are getting along with people because we all

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Speaker 3: want our way. We all want to do it our way,

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Speaker 2: We've got to allow them to be right.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't mean that you have to agree with everything that

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Speaker 3: you wrong. It makes you a peacemaker. It makes you

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Speaker 3: have to be willing to be a peacemaker. I looked

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Speaker 3: Sounds like the characteristics of Jesus, doesn't it. It sounds

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Speaker 3: could be reconcilers of peace. When Joel and I were

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Speaker 3: we were at a meeting and he was talking to

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Speaker 3: this gentleman and I came up a few minutes into

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Speaker 3: he was going on and on, and to me, some

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Speaker 3: we got to go. So as we were leaving a

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Speaker 3: I said to Joel, I said, hey, you know, who

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Speaker 3: And you know, I didn't know what I thought about it.

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget what he said. He said, Victoria, I

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Speaker 3: wasn't put on this earth to straighten everybody out. You know,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna remember that. Have you ever interjected in a

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Speaker 3: I just wish I wouldn't have said anything. We ought

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Speaker 3: to adapt that motto. I wasn't put on this earth

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Speaker 3: we have to have difficult conversations, but it's not about

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Speaker 3: having our way. It's about saying, God, I want to

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Speaker 3: let someone else be right and God, it doesn't have

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Speaker 3: to be done my way. There is more ways to

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Speaker 3: God says, you're not blessed when you're right. You're not

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Speaker 3: be at peace with all men. Let's be instruments of peace,

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Speaker 3: because there's a blessing in the life of a peacemaker. Amen. Amen,

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Speaker 3: He's an awesome God.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the stresses of life can feel like you're just

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Speaker 2: getting by. God wants to bless us, but how do

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Speaker 2: you move from barely enough to just enough to more

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Speaker 1: We all face difficulties and people that are hard to

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Speaker 1: live stressed out. Much of our frustration is we're trying

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Speaker 1: us that don't have to. I'd love to send you

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Speaker 1: to live more peaceful and enjoy each day.

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Speaker 2: You can move from stressed to blessed and fully realize

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Speaker 2: God's goodness, favor, and blessings. As our way of saying

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Speaker 2: opportunity and blessing every day. Now expect, declare, and receive

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Speaker 2: a blessed not stressed, over the top outpouring in your life.

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Speaker 1: How much time are you spending worried, upset and frustrated.

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