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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. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's always a joy to come into your homes. We

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Speaker 1: know God has great things in store for each one

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Speaker 1: of you. And if you're ever in our area, please

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Speaker 1: stop by and be a part of one of our services.

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

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for tuning in and thank you again

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Speaker 1: for coming out today. And I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny and I heard about this elderly couple. They

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Speaker 1: were having a terrible time with their memory. They went

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Speaker 1: to the doctor and he instructed them to start writing

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Speaker 1: down everything they'd been forgetting. The next night, they were

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Speaker 1: watching television. The wife said, I sure would like a

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Speaker 1: bowl of ice cream. The husband said, I'll go get

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Speaker 1: it for you. She said, honey, you remember what the

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Speaker 1: doctor said. You better write it down. He said, I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to the kitchen. I'm not going to forget it.

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Speaker 1: He came back a few minutes later and handed her

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Speaker 1: a plate of bacon and eggs. She shook her head

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Speaker 1: and said, I should have known it. You forgot my toast.

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Speaker 1: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about blessing people with your words.

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Speaker 1: Our words have the power to lift people up or

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Speaker 1: to push people down. We can say something to make

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Speaker 1: them feel better about themselves or to make them feel worse.

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Speaker 1: And it's amazing what a simple compliment will do. When

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Speaker 1: you tell someone you look nice today, a great job

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Speaker 1: on that presentation at the office, or I really enjoy

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Speaker 1: working with you, those simple words will put a spring

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Speaker 1: in their step. It will brighten their day. It didn't

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Speaker 1: take much time, it didn't cost you anything. Yet with

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Speaker 1: your words, you just bless their life. That's the power

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Speaker 1: God has given each one of us. Every day we

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Speaker 1: should have a goal of finding at least one person

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Speaker 1: that we can encourage. Be free with your compliments, point

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Speaker 1: out what somebody's doing right, not what they're doing wrong.

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Speaker 1: There's already enough pushing people down. Let's make it our

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Speaker 1: business to lift people up, to brighten their day, to

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Speaker 1: make them feel better about themselves. I met a young

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Speaker 1: lady in Nashville. She used to attend church when she

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Speaker 1: lived here. She told how she was going through a

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Speaker 1: very difficult time. Her marriage was breaking apart, she was

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Speaker 1: very depressed, she felt so unattractive, and at one of

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Speaker 1: her lowest moments, she was leaving church on a Sunday,

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Speaker 1: walking down the corridor with hundreds of other people, and

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Speaker 1: just so happened, Victoria came walk in the other direction.

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Speaker 1: Victoria had never seen her, never met her before, but

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Speaker 1: as she passed by, Victoria stopped her, looked her in

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Speaker 1: the eyes, and said, you are so beautiful. Just five

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Speaker 1: seconds she moved on to Victoria. It was no big deal,

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Speaker 1: But that young lady told me, Victoria will never know

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Speaker 1: what she did for me that day when I felt

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Speaker 1: the most unattractive, the most unwanted. She breathed new life

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Speaker 1: back into my spirit. Week after week, all through the day.

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Speaker 1: She would play that phrase over and over, You're so beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's what helped her to stay encouraged and Proverbs eighteen

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Speaker 1: people are thirsty everywhere we go. People are lonely, they're hurting,

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Speaker 1: they've been through disappointments, they've suffered heartache and pain. God

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Speaker 1: has given us something to offer them. We have life

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Speaker 1: giving water. With our words. We can bring healing with

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Speaker 1: our words, we can tell them you're beautiful, You're amazing,

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Speaker 1: Those life giving words will break the chains of depression.

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Speaker 1: Your kind words are like pouring warm oil on the wounds.

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Speaker 1: Young man came up to the gym that we didn't

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Speaker 1: him for over twenty five years. About six months ago,

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Speaker 1: where do I know him from? He looked so familiar.

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Speaker 1: I just couldn't place him. He came up afterwards and said,

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Speaker 1: That's the most I'd ever heard him speak his whole lifetime.

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Speaker 1: He went on to tell how he was raised in

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Speaker 1: He said something that I'll never forget. He said, the

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Speaker 1: main reason I would come to the Jim Joel was

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Speaker 1: to hear you say great to see you. Because nobody

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Speaker 1: What was Bo's problem? He was thirsty. Those words were

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Speaker 1: like life giving water. Every one of you can bring

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Speaker 1: healing with your kind words. You can restore with a compliment.

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Speaker 1: You can lift somebody up by just taking time to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: great to see you. You don't know. That could be

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Speaker 1: the spark that pushes the person forward. But what is

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Speaker 1: shame to have this healing power and never use it.

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Speaker 1: Be free with your compliments. Take time to encourage people

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Speaker 1: at every opportunity. Build somebody up, Tell them I'm praying

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Speaker 1: They may seem like small, insignificant words. You could easily

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Speaker 1: so unfriendly. No, you don't know what that person's going through.

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Speaker 1: You don't know why God has brought them across your path.

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Speaker 1: When you feel that prompting to be kind to someone,

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Speaker 1: That's God wanting to use your words to bring hope, healing, restoration. Friends,

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Speaker 1: the only voice God has on this earth is our voice.

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Speaker 1: The only words God can use to bring healing and

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Speaker 1: life giving water is our words. When you reach out

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Speaker 1: to someone, you're kind, you speak encouragement, You tell them

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Speaker 1: that their best days are up ahead. God's voice is

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Speaker 1: blended with your voice. Your words become his words. The

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Speaker 1: natural takes on a supernatural. That's why you can say

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Speaker 1: something ordinary, something simple, like your beautiful, and to the

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Speaker 1: other person it's life changing. You can say great to

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Speaker 1: see you today, and to you it's nothing. But when

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Speaker 1: God takes your natural and puts his super with it,

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Speaker 1: it can impact that person's destiny. A few years ago,

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Speaker 1: Victoria and I were going through a difficult time. Some

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Speaker 1: circumstances and people had come against us. We knew we

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Speaker 1: had not done anything wrong. We were in the process

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Speaker 1: every day I would walk to lunch with some of

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Speaker 1: the people that were helping us out. It was very stressful,

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Speaker 1: very tempting to get discouraged. But as I was walking,

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Speaker 1: person after person, people I didn't even know, would come

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Speaker 1: up and encourage me. I'll never forget. A city bus

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Speaker 1: driver pulled his bus over with all these people in it,

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Speaker 1: Another car honked or horned, we love you, Joel. I

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Speaker 1: He gave me a high five and said, Joel, you

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Speaker 1: got the victory. Sounded like he's been coming to Lakewood.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere I went, people spoke faith into me. They didn't

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Speaker 1: really know what they were doing. They didn't realize they

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Speaker 1: were breathing new life into my spirit. Because on the

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Speaker 1: outside I had a smile, I didn't show it, but

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Speaker 1: and here I'm usually the one giving encouragement. Now people

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know complete strangers were pouring life giving

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Speaker 1: water into a dry, thirsty saw. Two points. Number one,

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Speaker 1: what you sew you will always reap. If you sow encouragement,

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Speaker 1: God will have the right people there to keep you encouraged.

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Speaker 1: If you give compliments, you'll receive compliments. If you help

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Speaker 1: be there to help lift you up. Number Two, you

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Speaker 1: know what they're going through. They may look fine on

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Speaker 1: to bless to heal, to restore. I've learned in difficult

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Speaker 1: times the power of a compliment, the power of an

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Speaker 1: encouraging word is greatly magnified. I've heard many times, Joel,

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Speaker 1: that that means a lot. But in the heat of

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that young lady had heard you're beautiful plenty

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Speaker 1: of times before, but in the middle of a divorce,

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Speaker 1: to hear your beautiful, those words carried much more weight.

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Speaker 1: When you see somebody that's struggling, a coworker that's discouraged,

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Speaker 1: a friend that's not up to par, more than ever,

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Speaker 1: much you love them, how you value them, how they're talented,

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Speaker 1: how they're beautiful, how they're creative. Your words can be

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Speaker 1: what keeps them going. Your compliment can put the spring

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Speaker 1: back in their step. You pulling the bus over, so

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Speaker 1: That can be what keeps them from sinking into depression. Friends,

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Speaker 1: we carry life giving water. We carry hope, healing, encouragement,

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Speaker 1: new beginnings. It's in our words. Now, I'm asking you

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Speaker 1: to pour out that water everywhere you go. Speak encouragement, speak, victory,

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Speaker 1: speak faith. Don't tell people what they're doing wrong. Don't

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Speaker 1: be critical and point out all their faults. There are

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Speaker 1: already enough critical, judgmental people in the world. Let's be lifters,

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Speaker 1: be a healer, be a restorer. Let's make people feel

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Speaker 1: better about themselves. Proverbs twelve twenty five says, a word

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Speaker 1: of encouragement does wonders. When my mom was a child,

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Speaker 1: she had polliovened. She had to wear a brace on

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