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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan 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 going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 1: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. I'll promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll make you feel right at home. I like

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Speaker 1: to start with something funny, and I heard about this pastor.

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Speaker 1: He bought a new horse. He trained it to respond

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Speaker 1: to praise the Lord meaning giddy up, and Hallelujah meaning woe.

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Speaker 1: Every time he said praise the Lord, the horse would

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Speaker 1: take off running. When he said Hallelujah, it would quickly stop.

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Speaker 1: One day, he was out riding and the horse got

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Speaker 1: spooked and took off straight toward a cliff, going full blast.

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Speaker 1: In the panic, he couldn't remember what he had taught

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Speaker 1: his horse. He said, Bless God, Glory, Amen. Nothing to work.

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Speaker 1: At the last second, he shouted Hallelujah. The horse came

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Speaker 1: to a screeching halt inches before the edge of the cliff.

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Speaker 1: He breathed a sigh of relief and said, Praise the Lord.

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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 what

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Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about the two yous. There are two people living on

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Speaker 1: the inside of each one of us. The strong, disciplined,

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Speaker 1: faith filled, big dreams you, and the negative, discouraged, not

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Speaker 1: going to happen you. We all have these contradictions consistencies.

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Speaker 1: You're a good person, you love the Lord most of

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Speaker 1: the time. You're friendly, easygoing, good morning, great to see

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Speaker 1: you today. But if someone pushes the wrong buttons, if

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Speaker 1: they're rude, hearsh, the other you can come out. He

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Speaker 1: may have been hidden for two months. You thought he

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Speaker 1: was finally gone, but he was still in there. There's

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Speaker 1: a battle constantly taking place between the two youths. The

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Speaker 1: scripture calls it between the flesh and the spirit, between

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Speaker 1: our old carnal nature, giving into our feelings, compromising, telling

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Speaker 1: somebody off, and the new redeemed nature. When you gave

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Speaker 1: your life to Christ, Paul setting Corinthians, you became a

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Speaker 1: new creation. Old things are passed away. We celebrate that.

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Speaker 1: That's good news. But here's what I've learned. The old

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Speaker 1: man may be dead, but sometimes he gets resurrected. He

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Speaker 1: may have died, but don't kid yourself. He can get

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Speaker 1: back up again. We see this in the scripture with Peter.

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Speaker 1: Peter was a faithful disciple, a close friend of Jesus,

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Speaker 1: strong committed. His name even means rock. Jesus said to him,

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Speaker 1: you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build

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Speaker 1: my church. Nobody God had more confidence in than Peter.

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Speaker 1: When the soldiers came to arrest Jesus, Peter was so loyal,

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Speaker 1: so determined to stand up for him. He pulled his

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Speaker 1: He was ready to die defending Christ. That was the

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Speaker 1: strong Peter, the faithful Peter, the rock. That would be

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Speaker 1: great if that was the only Peter. But there was

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Speaker 1: another Peter in there that came out from time to time.

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Speaker 1: When they arrested Jesus and took him to the High Priest,

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Speaker 1: Peter followed along, and he was standing outside the house

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Speaker 1: you talking about? I don't know him. Another person came

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Speaker 1: his disciples? He said it again, I'm telling you, I

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Speaker 1: They said, I know you're his disciple. I saw you

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Speaker 1: there when we arrested him. This time Peter got angry.

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Speaker 1: He started cursing, swearing, I don't know the man. Just

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Speaker 1: other Peter came out. There were two Peters in there,

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Speaker 1: The other you is in all of us. We are

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Speaker 1: It feels good to feed the flesh, but you won't

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Speaker 1: Mortify means you have to keep it dead when it

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Speaker 1: not going to let the flesh rule me. When you

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Speaker 1: old man down. And the scripture says no discipline at

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Speaker 1: to walk away. When somebody insults you, it feels good

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Speaker 1: and study for the test when your friends are out

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Speaker 1: you're comfortable all the time, you won't grow. The reason

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Speaker 1: some people are stuck is not because they're not talented,

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Speaker 1: not because they don't have favor It's because they keep

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Speaker 1: letting the old man get back up. They're not disciplined

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Speaker 1: You'll never get so spiritual that you don't have to

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Speaker 1: admitted he had to deal with his flesh on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis. Every day. We have to say no to things. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to make that comment. No I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to watch that. No I'm not going to hang

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Speaker 1: out with that friend that causes me to compromise. You

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Speaker 1: To eat. Now, I'm getting real At the mall. You

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Speaker 1: You pull into the parking lot and the aroma is

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Speaker 1: in the air. Your new man tells you walk on by.

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Speaker 1: You don't need that. You're old man. He may be dead,

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Speaker 1: but he can smell too. He'll get up and say

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Speaker 1: you need three of those. You deserve it. You can

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Speaker 1: work out extra hard tomorrow. You can pray and ask

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Speaker 1: God to take away those calories you've heard of the

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Speaker 1: walking dead. You old man may be dead, but he'll

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Speaker 1: get up and walk around. He'll try to run your life. Now,

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Speaker 1: quit telling yourself. I can't control my temper. I can't

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Speaker 1: break this addiction, Joel. I can't keep my eyes on

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Speaker 1: The reason he's controlling you is you keep feeding him.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you feed is going to grow. Every time you

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Speaker 1: give into the temptation, you're feeding it. It's getting stronger.

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Speaker 1: Every time you're impatient, offended, you lose your temper. You're

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Speaker 1: feeding the negative. Do yourself a favor. Quit feeding the

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Speaker 1: old man. Start starving the temptation, starving the offense, Starve

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Speaker 1: the negative. And it will become weaker when Joel I

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Speaker 1: try God, I just don't have the discipline of quit

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Speaker 1: telling yourself that. Philippians too, says God is working in you,

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Speaker 1: giving you the desire to obey him and the power

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Speaker 1: to do what's right. The most High God right now

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Speaker 1: is working in you. He's bigger than any temptation, bigger

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Speaker 1: than any stronghold. He created you to be free. Instead

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Speaker 1: of going through the day thing I can't do this,

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Speaker 1: always give in turn it around. Father. Thank you that

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Speaker 1: that you've given me the desire to obey. That the

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Speaker 1: forces that are for me are greater than the forces

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Speaker 1: that are against me. Get your mind going in the

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Speaker 1: right direction. That's the first step to victory. In the scripture,

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Speaker 1: David and his men had been protecting the house of

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Speaker 1: a man named Nabel. Nabel was a wealthy man that

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Speaker 1: owned a lot of sheep. It was the time of

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Speaker 1: What are you doing on my property? He sent them

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Speaker 1: away empty handed. When David heard how he had insulted them,

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Speaker 1: she was very wise. When she heard what her husband did,

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Speaker 1: suddenly died. David sent word to Abigail, asking her to

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Speaker 1: was able to meet the new man. Nabel is symbolic

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Speaker 1: of our old nature, hot tempered, rude addictions. The name

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Speaker 1: Nabel means fool. As long as the old man is alive,

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Speaker 1: I saw three ladies given high fives. That old man

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Speaker 1: is your husband. You are stuck. I'm talking about the

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Speaker 1: old man that lives in you. The bitterness, the bad attitude,

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Speaker 1: the compromise. Don't let the same issues keep you from

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Speaker 1: seeing the new man. The same unforgiveness, the same hot temper,

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Speaker 1: the same addictions hold you back for the next twenty years.

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Speaker 1: You have the grace to overcome. The temptation may be strong,

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Speaker 1: but the scripture says, where sin abounds, grace does much

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Speaker 1: more abound. That means God's grace, his enabling power is

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Speaker 1: greater than anything that's trying to stop you. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: that Mabel died ten days after Abigail did the right thing.

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Speaker 1: thing when it's hard, there will be time. Like with her,

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Speaker 1: you will come in to your tenth day where something

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Speaker 1: like it did. That bad attitude, that temper. It may

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Speaker 1: not totally go away, but it doesn't control you anymore. Now,

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Speaker 1: I wonder how much higher we would go, how much

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Speaker 1: more of God's favor we would see, if we would

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Speaker 1: saying no to things that we know are holding us back.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes a little thing can keep you from a big blessing,

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Speaker 1: a little bitterness, a little compromise, just this one friend

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Speaker 2: of any size to the ministry this month, Joel and

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Speaker 2: Victoria would like to send you this just released life

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Speaker 2: giving new daily devotional. Before your feet hit the ground

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Speaker 2: or go out the door, have your heart experience a

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Speaker 2: bit of heaven. Set your mind on the things above

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Speaker 2: with our new three Minute Mornings devotional. With this new

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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty five day devotional three Minute Mornings,

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Speaker 2: You'll experience God showering down his favor like never before.

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Speaker 2: You'll focus on the better that is coming and fully

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Speaker 2: realize the freedom of not worrying about tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Victoria, I pray for you and your family every day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your prayer and support. You're

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Speaker 1: making a difference all over the world. Remember you can

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Speaker 1: watch the services online every Sunday morning, download our daily

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Speaker 1: podcast listen on Sirius XM. But until we meet again,

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Speaker 1: mid the Lord bless you and keep you.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to request your copy of three minute mornings today.

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