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Speaker 3: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading

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Speaker 3: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future.

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Speaker 3: I hope you enjoy this message. The other day, I

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Speaker 3: got a phone call and the voice on the other

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Speaker 3: end of the phone said, Victoria, I gotta tell you something,

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Speaker 3: but don't worry about what I'm going to tell you. Well,

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Speaker 3: automatically my worry was kicked in. That was my first response.

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Speaker 3: I thought, Oh my gosh, what do I have to

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Speaker 4: You See, that's what happens.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes our worry automatically kicks in without us even knowing it.

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Speaker 3: We just worry when a concern or a care comes

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Speaker 3: into our life.

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Speaker 4: Now, this particular problem.

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Speaker 3: Was not huge, it wasn't monumental, but it was a

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Speaker 3: be resolved. So I had to push pause for a

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Speaker 3: moment and make a decision. Was I going to let

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Speaker 3: this concern overtake me, cause my mind to just spin

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Speaker 4: Was I going to ruin my entire day because of

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Speaker 3: Or was I going to say, God, you got to

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Speaker 3: help me with this situation. God, I got to present

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Speaker 3: this to you. You know everything about me. You said

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Speaker 3: you'd fight my battles for me. Now, God, I am

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Speaker 3: giving this to you, and I'm going to try to

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Speaker 3: rest and hear everything you would want me to hear

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Speaker 4: You see, we have to make this choice.

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Speaker 3: How are we going to handle this thing called worrying?

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Speaker 4: To just work it in our minds?

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Speaker 3: You know, sometimes I when I worry, it's like I'm

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Speaker 3: and working it in my mind. I heard worry was

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Speaker 3: but it's getting you nowhere. We're just working it and

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Speaker 3: Because how we handle worry and stress it's going to

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Speaker 3: in the Bible named Mary and Martha. You can find

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Speaker 3: their story in Luke. Mary and Martha are two sisters.

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Speaker 3: They had a brother. They were obviously, from what the

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Speaker 3: And he said to her, Martha, Martha, why are you

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Speaker 4: She's chosen that one thing. She's chosen the better way.

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Speaker 4: But be of good cheer. I have already overcome the world.

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Speaker 3: I guess when you look at that scripture, you can say,

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Speaker 4: I still have these troubles and these concerns. But this

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Speaker 3: That you shouldn't take your responsibility seriously. He wasn't saying

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Speaker 3: he was saying is all these concerns, all these crisis,

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Speaker 4: That's the better way to handle worry and stress. That's

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Speaker 3: I believe that Mary somehow figured out the better way,

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Speaker 3: is my chance right now to empty out the concerns and.

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Speaker 4: See, that's the better way.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever planned a birthday party or a holiday

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Speaker 3: so stressed out that you made your own self miserable

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Speaker 3: and maybe some of your friends and family as well.

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Speaker 3: There's a better way to handle the stresses of life.

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Speaker 3: The word worry comes from an old English word in

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Speaker 4: Meant to strangle, to strangle.

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Speaker 3: I think that's an amazing interpretation of that word, because

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Speaker 3: worry and stress literally chokes.

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Speaker 3: It literally pressures us in every relationship.

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Speaker 4: That we have. It steals our joy. Think about it.

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Speaker 4: Jesus was at Martha's house.

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Speaker 3: She couldn't even enjoy the fact that Jesus was there.

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Speaker 4: She missed the whole beauty of the moment.

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Speaker 3: She couldn't calm down, relax and be peaceful. She allowed

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Speaker 4: See, it was an attitude that changed.

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Speaker 3: Worry doesn't change anything but your personality. It changes your disposition.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't make the situation better. Actually, it makes the

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Speaker 3: make some suggestions. I said, look, you need to get

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Speaker 3: I thank you Lord that my son will come home safely.

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Speaker 5: You see, worry pulls us away from God's power, but

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Speaker 5: worship and praise draws us to him, and it changes

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Speaker 4: I have a good news to report. Six years servant.

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Speaker 3: In the military, and her son came home safely. He

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Speaker 3: So, when I had these concerns, in these troubles, I

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Speaker 3: And I begin to put those troubles in that balloon,

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Speaker 4: And I look at that balloon and I let it.

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Speaker 3: thank you that you're bigger than all these troubles. Thank

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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna give them to you.

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Speaker 3: These troubles are just gonna go right at your feet, Jesus, You're.

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Speaker 3: You see, sometimes I have to admit sometimes I have

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Speaker 3: Do what you gotta do, Do what you gotta do

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