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Speaker 2: Fall in you, you would love you Lord. It's good

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Speaker 2: to be in the house of the Lord, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You may be seated.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever felt restless? Maybe you felt anxious. You're

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Speaker 3: It's just something that's just stirring inside of you. You know.

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Speaker 2: I think we all have been there.

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Speaker 3: In fact, sometimes we don't even realize it's what it

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Speaker 3: is that we're not content. We just think there's something

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Speaker 3: more and we're looking for it. Maybe you're struggling to

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Speaker 3: get that promotion. You're working hard at work. Man, you've

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Speaker 3: got your eye on that promotion. Oh is going for it.

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Speaker 3: You're getting a little out of balance.

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Speaker 3: Or maybe you're you're at home and you've got children

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Speaker 3: I need something else, I need something, and you begin

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Speaker 3: looking for it. You know, a lot of times we

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Speaker 3: Sometimes we think we need something so we go after it,

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Speaker 3: we're so used to going so fast that we forget

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Speaker 3: Sometimes we can look to food to fill those spaces.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting because social media can be a

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Speaker 3: out someone else's life. You can almost live vicariously through

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Speaker 3: Now he said this, He says, I give thanks in

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Speaker 3: I want to encourage you that contentment is a state

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Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with where you are.

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Speaker 3: The Webster's Dictionary says the definition of contentment is a

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Speaker 3: state of peaceful happiness. It's an attitude has nothing to

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Speaker 3: Proverbs fifteen fifteen says a content mind is.

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Speaker 2: A continual feast. It's a continual feast.

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Speaker 3: God is for you, He's not against you, That whatever

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Speaker 2: Amen. He's an awesome God. He's faithful.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a dream that's waiting to happen, but

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Speaker 4: it often feels like you'll never get there? Is your

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like our dream is so far off.

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Speaker 1: But I believe you're closer than you think.

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Speaker 3: You're on the verge of seeing things change in your favor,

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Speaker 3: It'll help you stay focused and encouraged so you can

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