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Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 6: comes a burden. You'll never come to a place where

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Speaker 6: you're problem free, no conflict, no bills to pay, everybody

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Speaker 6: celebrating you.

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Speaker 3: That's not reality.

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Speaker 6: If you don't learn to be content where you are,

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Speaker 6: you won't be content when dreams come to pass. When

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Speaker 6: God blesses you with that new house, what comes with

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Speaker 6: it is a bigger yard demo, more rooms to clean,

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Speaker 6: more to maintain. When you're blessed with that promotion, what

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Speaker 6: comes with it is more responsibility.

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Speaker 3: When you have that beautiful baby.

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Speaker 6: Nothing like it in all the world, But at three

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Speaker 6: o'clock in the morning, that baby wants to eat.

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Speaker 3: They don't do things on our time.

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Speaker 6: Now, don't pray for a bigger blessing if you're going

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Speaker 6: to complain about a bigger burden.

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Speaker 3: We love our new facility.

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Speaker 6: This is a dream come true. God did more than

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Speaker 6: we can ask or think. But with this amazing blessing

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Speaker 6: came an amazing utility bill. First time I saw it,

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Speaker 6: I thought, God, I.

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Speaker 3: Sure liked our old facility.

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Speaker 6: The good news is God wouldn't give you the blessing

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Speaker 6: if you couldn't handle the burden. You have the grace

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Speaker 6: you need for each season. Now do your part and

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Speaker 6: choose to be content. You could be in one of

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Speaker 6: the best seasons of your life right now, but you're

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Speaker 6: not enjoying it because you're focused on the burden, on

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Speaker 6: what you don't have, on how difficult it is. Because

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Speaker 6: you're waiting for things to change. You're missing the beauty

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Speaker 6: of this moment, the joy of today. Don't go through

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Speaker 6: life always wanting something else. See the gift in what

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Speaker 6: you have right now. Can I tell you we are

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Speaker 6: living in the good old days. Twenty years from now

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Speaker 6: you'll look back and say, Wow, twenty fourteen was one

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Speaker 6: of the best times of my life. Don't miss it

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Speaker 6: living discontent. Gentlemen, I know by the name of Mitch

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Speaker 6: Album wrote a great book called The Five People You

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Speaker 6: Meet in Heaven.

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Speaker 3: They turned it into a movie.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 6: Although it's not scriptural, it makes a very good point.

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Speaker 6: It's about a man in his sixties that had worked

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Speaker 6: at an amusement park his whole life. His parents owned it,

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Speaker 6: and that's all he knew. He never really wanted to

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Speaker 6: be there. He had dreams to do something bigger with

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Speaker 6: his life, but unfortunate things kept happening. He found himself

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Speaker 6: back at the amusement park. He was discontented, unfulfilled, never

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Speaker 6: felt like that's where he was supposed to be, dreaded

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Speaker 6: going to work each day. On the outside, he was

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Speaker 6: good to people, kind, generous, he'd go out of his

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Speaker 6: way to help others. But on the inside, he was unhappy,

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Speaker 6: felt like a failure in life. At one point, this

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Speaker 6: little girl was in danger on a ride, about to

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Speaker 6: be harmed, and he rushed over to helper. He saved

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Speaker 6: the little girl's life, but in the process he lost

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Speaker 6: his own life.

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Speaker 3: He was killed.

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Speaker 6: He went to heaven and was told that he would

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Speaker 6: meet five people. These people would be instrumental in helping

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Speaker 6: him to choose what kind of heaven he would have. Again,

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Speaker 6: it's not doctrinely correct, but in this book, you could

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Speaker 6: choose what your heaven would be. If you wanted to

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Speaker 6: live on a beach, in a palace in the mountains.

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Speaker 3: It was your choice.

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Speaker 6: The first man he met he had helped during the war.

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Speaker 3: The man told him how much he meant to him.

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Speaker 6: He then met three other people that he had been

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Speaker 6: good to. They expressed their heartfelt love and appreciation for

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Speaker 6: what he had done. The last one he met was

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Speaker 6: the little girl whose life he had saved. He began

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Speaker 6: to realize all of his time on earth that he

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Speaker 6: felt like he was at the wrong place, the wrong job.

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Speaker 6: He didn't like his life, but actually he was at

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Speaker 6: the right place. God had been directing his steps. He

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Speaker 6: made a difference with his life when he stepped back

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Speaker 6: and saw it from a new perspective. He chose his

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Speaker 6: heaven to be the amusement park, the place that he

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Speaker 6: had dreaded all those years. Could it be that you're

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Speaker 6: at the right place for the season that you're in,

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Speaker 6: but you're not enjoying it. Maybe, like him, if you

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Speaker 6: would step back and see it from a new perspective,

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Speaker 6: you would realize God has you in the palm of

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Speaker 6: his hand. He's directing your steps. He knows where you are,

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Speaker 6: what you like, what you don't like. And instead of

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Speaker 6: living discontented, frustrated, always wishing you were somewhere else. Embrace

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Speaker 6: the place where you are, see the good, be grateful

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Speaker 6: for what you have. Remember there's a blessing and a

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Speaker 6: burden for every season. Don't focus on the burden. You

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Speaker 6: have the grace to enjoy the blessing. If you will

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Speaker 6: make this choice that you're going to live content through

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Speaker 6: every season, blooming where you're planning, not always wishing for

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Speaker 6: something else, then I believe and declare you're going to enjoy.

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Speaker 3: Your life more.

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Speaker 6: You will rise higher, overcome every obstacle, and you will

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Speaker 6: become everything God's created you to be.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 6: Well, we never like to close our broadcast without giving

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Speaker 6: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 6: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 6: into my heart, wash me clean.

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Speaker 3: I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 6: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 3: Keep God first place.

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Speaker 6: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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