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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry.

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Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Mother that we're here and in your love. Amen.

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Speaker 3: So how's your outlook on life today? Do you get

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Speaker 3: up this morning ready to embrace the day? I believe

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Speaker 3: that you did. But you know, there's too many people

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Speaker 3: that allow their circumstance to dictate their attitude. They don't

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Speaker 3: even realize that their attitude is a choice that they

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Speaker 3: make every single day. See, the Bible tells us to

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Speaker 3: consistently and constantly put on this fresh new mental attitude. See,

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Speaker 3: we choose the way we see life. We can either

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Speaker 3: look at what's good in life and decide to be

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Speaker 3: grateful about that, or we can look at what didn't

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Speaker 3: work out and how things didn't go our way and

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Speaker 3: allow it to give us a negative perspective on life.

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Speaker 3: We've all heard that saying the glass half full are

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Speaker 3: the glass half empty? You see that saying is so

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Speaker 3: timeless because it makes such an amazing point see, the

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Speaker 3: water in the glass is the same amount. It's just

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Speaker 3: how one chooses to see the water that makes all

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Speaker 3: the difference in the world. I know this girl that

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Speaker 3: kind of always had a bend towards negative. You could

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Speaker 3: ask her how you doing today, and it was almost funny.

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Speaker 3: You could predict she was going to start telling you

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Speaker 3: the things that were going wrong in her life. One day,

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Speaker 3: she said, oh, I was late to work. I had

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Speaker 3: to take my children to the doctor. The doctor didn't

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Speaker 3: open till nine o'clock. She said, Now I have to

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Speaker 3: stay late at the office because there's so much work

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Speaker 3: for me to do. And you know, you're listening to

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Speaker 3: this and it almost makes you grin because you're thinking you're kidding.

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Speaker 3: Right Then she goes on to say, my house is

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Speaker 3: a disaster when I get home late from work. My

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Speaker 3: husband doesn't know how to work the vacuum cleaner, he

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Speaker 3: doesn't know to how to work the dishwasher, on and on.

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Speaker 3: And you know, when you listen to this, you realize,

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Speaker 3: you know what, she probably got a pretty good husband.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I know her husband, and he's a good man.

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Speaker 3: He has a good job, he works hard, he loves

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Speaker 3: to take the kids out on Saturdays and she can

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Speaker 3: have the whole house to herself. But instead of looking

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Speaker 3: at the richness in her life, she chooses to look

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Speaker 3: at the negative. And when you begin to focus on

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Speaker 3: the negative, you know what you see more negative. And

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Speaker 3: when you see this negative, it's like swimming against the current.

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Speaker 3: It's just a struggle. It's difficult and it's hard. I

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Speaker 3: believe that we need to learn how to manage our thoughts.

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Speaker 3: We need to learn how to rearrange our thoughts so

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Speaker 3: that we can literally see what we have and then

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Speaker 3: enjoy what we have. The other day, I walked past

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Speaker 3: one room in my house. It's my living room, and

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Speaker 3: sometimes when I go in there, I think I don't

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Speaker 3: like the way this room looks. In fact, I thought

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Speaker 3: I wish I could just get rid of all this

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Speaker 3: all found myself walking by the past the room several times,

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Speaker 3: better just go in there and rearrange the furniture. So

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Speaker 3: I began shifting the furniture, putting towels under the legs

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Speaker 3: sat on the couch. I thought, I've never seen that

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Speaker 3: The way that curves are around there. You see, I

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Speaker 3: was able to have a fresh new attitude about that room.

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Speaker 3: I was able to see it differently because I've rearranged it.

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Speaker 3: And just the way I rearranged my furniture, we need

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Speaker 3: to rearrange our thoughts. We need to push our thoughts

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Speaker 3: when you get down and discouraged, you need to recognize

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Speaker 3: what it is and you need to stop and think

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Speaker 3: what am I thinking about? And I think oftentimes we

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Speaker 3: need to rearrange our thoughts in simple ways. One, we

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Speaker 3: need to be grateful, but sometimes we just need to

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Speaker 3: change the atmosphere that we're in. Have you ever been

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Speaker 3: to just say, isn't that beautiful what God has created?

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Speaker 3: To just stop and think about something differently, you see.

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Speaker 3: I believe sometimes if we'll simply just change our routine,

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Speaker 3: maybe there's some things that we're doing that we need

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Speaker 3: to not be doing anymore. A friend of mine said

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Speaker 3: How I'm just being so mundane about it. She said,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to choose a few new people to go

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Speaker 3: In fact, she got a new little group, and she said,

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Speaker 3: I had so much fun just getting in a new

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Speaker 3: and she said, I had a new perspective. I was

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Speaker 3: ready to tackle that day. It was so refreshing. You see,

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Speaker 3: sometimes we just need to get a new outlook on

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Speaker 3: what we already have. I heard about this man who

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Speaker 3: was really down, he was really discouraged. He went to

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Speaker 3: one of his pastors at the church and he told him,

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Speaker 3: he said, my life is just I just don't have

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Speaker 3: The pastor said, come on into my office and let's

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Speaker 3: pulled out this legal pad of paper. He drew a

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Speaker 3: take this little test. He said, on the right side,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to put all your assets, all the things

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Speaker 3: that are good in your life. On the left side,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to put your challenges, your problems, your disappointments.

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Speaker 3: The man just kind of hung his head and he said,

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm not going to have anything right in

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Speaker 3: my life. The pastor said, let's just go ahead and

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Speaker 3: take the test. He said, you know, I am so

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Speaker 3: sorry to hear that your wife passed away. He looked

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Speaker 3: alive and she's healthy. He said, really, He wrote on

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Speaker 3: He said, that's a shame that your house burnt down.

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Speaker 3: The man looked at him and he said, what are

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Speaker 3: man said, where are you getting all this ridiculous information?

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Speaker 3: The pastor looked at him, and then he wised up,

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Speaker 3: and he realized he's trying to show me a new perspective,

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Speaker 3: a new way of thinking. By the time they finished

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Speaker 3: their little session, that man had listed several things on

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Speaker 3: his life, and he left there with a good attitude

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Speaker 3: and a spring in his step. Amen, have you ever

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Speaker 3: heard that saying that says your attitude determines your altitude?

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Speaker 3: What that means is is there our attitudes have a

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Speaker 3: direct correlation with the success in our life. Have you

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Speaker 3: ever met somebody with just a good attitude. They always

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Speaker 3: saw the solutions and not the problems. They felt like

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Speaker 3: be around that person. See, your attitude can determine your altitude.

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Speaker 3: All of you know the story about Joshua and Caleb.

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Speaker 3: They were two of the twelve spies that Moses picked

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Speaker 3: God had promised the Israelites when they left Egypt. And

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Speaker 3: so Joshua and Caleb and ten other spies were directed

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Speaker 3: what the people were like, look at the vegetation. He

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Speaker 3: even said, bring back some of the vegetation so we

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Speaker 3: So the twelve men went into the land of Canaan.

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Speaker 3: They were there for forty days. They collected these huge grapes,

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Speaker 3: they saw these amazing pomegranates, they saw the people. They

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Speaker 3: you imagine they just went in and spread that. Well,

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Speaker 3: It's amazing how your attitude can affect what you see.

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Speaker 3: Joshua and Caleb, although they had a good report, that

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Speaker 3: And do you know the Lord told Moses, he said,

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Speaker 3: Egypt because of your bad attitude. You're murmuring, You're complaining

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Speaker 3: Promised Land. The Bible says that the forty days that

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Speaker 3: those men were examining the Promised Land, that's how long

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Speaker 3: that the children at Israel were going to wonder in

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Speaker 3: going to wonder forty years in the wilderness. Now, can

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Speaker 3: I tell you the ones with the good report, Joshua

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Speaker 3: and Caleb, the ones with the attitude, if we can

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Speaker 3: They were of a different spirit. One version says, an

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Speaker 3: This is what Caleb said. He said, listen, I'm stronger

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Speaker 3: When they thrived in the wilderness for forty years, the

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