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

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a.

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Speaker 1: Friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Praise you and.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for all that you're doing.

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Speaker 2: Ay Man, you may be seated. I want to encourage

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Speaker 2: every one of us today that if you're waiting on

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Speaker 2: a prayer to be answered, or maybe you're waiting for

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Speaker 2: some things to change in your life and it hasn't

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Speaker 2: happened for a long time and you're just waiting for

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Speaker 2: things to change so you can move on with life.

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Speaker 2: Want to encourage you to not let those things stop you.

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Speaker 2: Don't get stuck in those areas of your life. God

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Speaker 2: doesn't want you to ever get stuck. He wants you

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Speaker 2: to live with enthusiasm. He wants you to live with joy.

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Speaker 2: He wants you to live with expectancy of what He

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Speaker 2: can do in your life.

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Speaker 4: You see, sometimes.

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Speaker 2: We're way things to change. We're looking at everything around

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Speaker 2: us and we forget to look at our God. See,

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Speaker 2: the Bible says we are to wait upon the Lord

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Speaker 2: We're not to wait for all of our prayers to

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Speaker 2: be answered.

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Speaker 4: We're not to.

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Speaker 2: Wait for things to change before we can be happy.

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Speaker 2: We're to wait expectantly on.

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Speaker 4: The Lord, exciting with the anticipation.

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Speaker 2: God, I may be in a difficult season, but God,

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Speaker 2: that doesn't stop you from working in my life, you see.

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Speaker 2: With an excitement and a joy and a passion for life.

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Speaker 2: That's how God wants us to live. You know, we

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Speaker 2: sometimes we think that seems impossible. I can't be that

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Speaker 2: happy all the time, really, Victoria. The Bible says that

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Speaker 2: there is a joy in you that Jesus gave you.

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Speaker 2: He says, the joy that is in me I've given you.

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Speaker 4: You have the ability to tap.

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Speaker 2: Into the resources that God has given you.

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Speaker 4: You see.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says that the righteous are to get brighter

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Speaker 2: and brighter until the full day. We're to thrive like

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Speaker 2: a green leaf. We're not supposed to wither. Our dreams

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Speaker 2: and hopes are not supposed to wither. But we're supposed

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Speaker 2: to thrive. We're supposed to shine brighter and brighter. You're

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Speaker 2: not supposed to be dim some days and bright the others.

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Speaker 2: You're supposed to be bright, shining, You're supposed to let

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Speaker 2: the sun in the so in every single day so

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Speaker 2: that you can be bright and shiny. I think that's

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Speaker 2: a good question to ask ourselves periodically through the day.

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Speaker 2: Am I shining? Where do I feel dim? Is there

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Speaker 2: bring me down? Am I focus too much on.

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Speaker 4: A situation or change that needs to happen in my

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Speaker 4: life that I'm not shining?

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Speaker 2: Do I need to get my eyes off of this

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Speaker 2: come from from the person who created all the mountains,

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Speaker 2: who created the universe, and who can create whatever I need.

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Speaker 2: Listen where to be stars, where to let the sun in?

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Speaker 2: Listen to what it says in Isaiah forty three, eighteen

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Speaker 2: and nineteen, And this is what God spoke through the prophet,

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Speaker 2: and he said, forget the former things, do not dwell

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Speaker 2: on them. Behold, I am doing a new thing now.

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Speaker 2: Now it springs up. Can you perceive it? I am

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Speaker 2: making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

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Speaker 2: You see, there is a question that God is asking

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Speaker 2: asking us is this, do you recognize what I'm doing

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Speaker 2: in your life. You see it says, I am doing

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Speaker 2: a new thing. God didn't say I'm going to do

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Speaker 2: straight in your life, He said, I am doing a

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Speaker 2: new thing. It springs up now. See God is saying,

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Speaker 2: don't have faith when the situation takes care of itself,

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Speaker 2: because I'm doing some new things right now, right now.

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Speaker 2: But the thing is is that we have to precede it,

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Speaker 2: and in doing so sometimes we need to change our perspective.

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Speaker 4: We need to widen our lens, widen our focus. You

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Speaker 2: Some translations say look see Watch. That sounds like anticipation

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Speaker 2: to me, does it? You watch and see what the

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Speaker 2: Lord will do? See it is a new thing. I'll

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Speaker 2: never forget. Several years ago, I was going through the

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Speaker 2: This one major decision. To me, it felt like life

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Speaker 4: I can remember what I wanted to do. I wanted

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Speaker 2: I wanted to cry, I wanted to waller listen, I

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Speaker 2: One day God spoke to me and he said, you

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Speaker 2: cannot live like this. He said you were made and

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Speaker 2: out beyond this problem because I've got opportunities. Tees, I'm

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Speaker 2: doing some new things in the middle of your mess.

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Speaker 4: I am still working.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that challenge in my life went on

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Speaker 4: But during that time I.

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Speaker 3: Shook it off.

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Speaker 4: Every day I pushed through. Was it easy? No?

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Speaker 2: But I had to change my focus and change my perspective.

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Speaker 4: God, you don't want me to stay here. You've got

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Speaker 4: new things for me.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what was in those three years that

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Speaker 2: children's books. And at the end of those three years,

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Speaker 2: God vindicated me and showed me things that I never

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Speaker 4: He gave me victory. But it was a change of perspective.

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Speaker 2: It was that I wasn't gonna wear a banner of defeat,

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Speaker 2: but I was gonna wear a banner of victory over

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Speaker 2: my head. See I was changing what I was thinking.

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Speaker 2: See God had opportunity for me. But as long as

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Speaker 2: all the new things, the new opportunities, the new things

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Speaker 2: He wanted to show me and do on the inside

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Speaker 2: of me. Can you imagine if I would have given

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Speaker 2: in to defeat and discouragement and said so focused on

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Speaker 2: what I.

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Speaker 2: Do you know that I had exponential growth in my

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Speaker 2: spiritual life those three years. You see, God turned it

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Speaker 2: I was willing to shake it off. I was willing

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Speaker 2: to say, no, this doesn't have to change before I

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Speaker 2: can keep living.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: I serve a big God and He's got great things

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Speaker 2: It is in process. The printing presses have already been

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Speaker 2: turned on. It is happening now in your life. I

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Speaker 2: was speaking to a woman the other day, and I'd

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Speaker 2: all I could see was this just rigid, stiff, just

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Speaker 2: was wanting was this. Her husband had left and she

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Speaker 2: I could see was the main focus and thrust of

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Speaker 4: And I told her this.

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Speaker 2: I said, listen, do not make plans according to this

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Speaker 2: prayer being answered. Don't make plans around your life according

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Speaker 4: Don't stop living.

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Speaker 2: You see, I believe that what she was trying to

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Speaker 2: do was work it out in her own mind, figure

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Speaker 2: out how it was going to happen, and as soon

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Speaker 2: as he walked back in the door, then she could

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Speaker 2: begin to live. Then her life could go on. But

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Speaker 2: that is not what God intends for her to do,

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Speaker 2: because He's got new things springing up in her mess

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Speaker 2: right now. I said, you're too valuable, You got too

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Speaker 2: much to offer, You got gifts, you got talents.

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Speaker 4: You be the best you that you can be.

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Speaker 2: You let God grow, you learn, progress, take on new

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Speaker 2: and exciting challenges that God's got out there for you.

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Speaker 4: Be the best you can be.

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Speaker 2: I didn't tell her to quit praying. I didn't tell

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Speaker 2: her to quit believing. I said, don't get stuck. Don't

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Speaker 2: get stuck. You keep living, and I believe that God

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Speaker 2: has a word for somebody in here to.

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Speaker 4: You need to keep on living.

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Speaker 2: Don't make all your plans around that unanswered prayer. I

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Speaker 2: got new things springing up even now. He didn't say

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Speaker 2: there was not going to be wilderness. He didn't say

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Speaker 2: there wasn't gonna be some wasted things. You look at

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Speaker 4: Why me? This is a waste? What happened?

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Speaker 2: He said, I can make a way in the wilderness,

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Speaker 2: long as you widen your lens, change your perspective, don't

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Speaker 2: get narrow, and don't get so focused that the strains

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Speaker 2: where you are. I was reading about eyes strain and

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Speaker 2: problem because of all of our screens that we look

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Speaker 2: at computers, iPads, as telephones, and so. Eyestrain is when

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Speaker 2: you're reading material for so long that you'll get dry

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Speaker 2: you feel like it's blurry. That's eyestrain. And I was

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Speaker 2: reading the article and it was giving tips to alleviate

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Speaker 2: three times a day, and for ten minutes a day,

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Speaker 2: you should look out of a window. Maybe you need

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Speaker 4: See, and take on all the life around you.

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Speaker 2: It says when you do that, when you cast your

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Speaker 2: eyes and you begin to see light, trees, sky clouds,

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Speaker 2: you're watching all this stuff around you. So what it

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Speaker 2: does is it relaxes the lens of your eye. With eyestrains,

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Speaker 2: your lens flattens out. And what this exercise does is

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Speaker 2: it causes it to be more flexible.

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Speaker 4: It causes it to relax. Now, I'm not giving you.

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Speaker 2: A tip on eyestrain today, although if you have it,

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Speaker 2: that might work. What I am saying, is that same

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Speaker 2: thing parallels our life. When we begin to focus so

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Speaker 2: much on an area of our life that needs to change,

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Speaker 2: or something we want to happen, or something we want

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Speaker 2: to pray about, we get so focused in that we

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Speaker 4: We bring strain upon ourself.

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Speaker 2: And God is saying, we've got to get good at

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Speaker 2: getting up out of that situation and casting our eyes

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Speaker 2: widen our lens and take on the life that is

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Speaker 2: Is it where you're going to stay? But don't waste

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