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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.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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

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Speaker 1: your homes, 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: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you

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Speaker 1: again for coming out today. I'd like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about this lady. She's surprised

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Speaker 1: a burglar in her kitchen late one night, and she

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Speaker 1: was home alone, didn't have any weapon, didn't know what

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Speaker 1: she'd do, and finally she thought, I'll just say a

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Speaker 1: scripture verse. She shouted out Acts two thirty eight. The

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Speaker 1: burglar suddenly froze in his tracks, wouldn't move, and soon

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Speaker 1: the police arrived, and they were amazed that a woman

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Speaker 1: with no weapon could do this. They said to the burglar,

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Speaker 1: what was it about that scripture that had such an

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Speaker 1: effect on you? He said, scripture? What scripture. I thought

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Speaker 1: she said she had an axe in two thirty eights.

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Speaker 1: Hold your bible up, 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 drop it. We all

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Speaker 1: have had negative things happen to us. People did us wrong,

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Speaker 1: the company laid us off. A clerk was rude to us.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to go through life offended in self pity,

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Speaker 1: blaming others, blaming ourselves, even blaming God. And because we're

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Speaker 1: always looking back, reliving the negative, we end up carrying

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Speaker 1: around all this baggage that weighs us down. The best

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Speaker 1: things we can learn to do is drop it. Let

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Speaker 1: it go, whether it happened twenty years ago or twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes ago. Don't carry negative baggage from yesterday into today.

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Speaker 1: You won't live a victorious life if you're always reliving

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Speaker 1: what didn't work out, who hurt you? The mistakes you've made.

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Speaker 1: The reason it's called the past is because it's over.

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Speaker 1: It's done, it's history. Now do your part and let

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Speaker 1: it go. Well, Joel, they've betrayed me, they walked away,

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Speaker 1: broke my heart. That's why I'm bitter, That's why I'm upset. Well,

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Speaker 1: they hurt you once, don't let them continue to hurt

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Speaker 1: you by always thinking about it. As long as you're

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Speaker 1: dwelling on that, it's going to keep you from the

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Speaker 1: new things God wants to do. God said he would

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Speaker 1: give you beauty for those ashes. He said he would

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Speaker 1: pay you back for that injustice. But you have to

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Speaker 1: drop the hurt, dwelling on it, quit reliving it, move forward.

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Speaker 1: There is a new beginning in front of you. But

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Speaker 1: God will not release new opportunities as long as we're

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Speaker 1: holding on to old hurts, old failures. You may have

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Speaker 1: a lot of negative things in your past. You had

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Speaker 1: a rough childhood, you lost a loved one, your business

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Speaker 1: didn't make it. You could easily go around with a

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Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder, not trust in anybody, bitter, resentful.

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Speaker 1: But everything you've gone through has deposited something on the inside.

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Speaker 1: You're not defined by your past you're prepared by your past.

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Speaker 1: You may not realize it, but you came out stronger,

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Speaker 1: with more confidence, greater experience. If that hadn't have happened,

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't be prepared for the new levels that are

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Speaker 1: coming your way. Don't have that poor O me, look

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Speaker 1: what I've been through attitude. I've heard it said. You

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Speaker 1: cannot be both. You may have made a lot of mistakes.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of regrets. You blew your marriage,

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Speaker 1: didn't raise your children right. She can't do anything about yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Living guilty and condemned doesn't make it any better. You

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Speaker 1: have to drop it. If you'll get rid of that

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Speaker 1: negative baggage, you'll not only feel that heaviness release off

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Speaker 1: of you, but then you'll step in to the new

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Speaker 1: things that God has in store. The scripture says where

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Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom, not

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Speaker 1: where the spirit of the Lord was. If you're always

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Speaker 1: thinking about yesterday, last month, last year, there's no freedom there.

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Speaker 1: That's where the spirit of the Lord was. This is

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Speaker 1: a new day. There are new victories, new opportunities, new relationships.

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Speaker 1: Quit living in what was and come over into what

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Speaker 1: is now. There is freedom for you. Right now, there

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Speaker 1: are new beginnings, joy, peace, victory, and crying over what

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Speaker 1: happened yesterday doesn't bring freedom. Living in regrets of what

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Speaker 1: you could have been, what you should have done, doesn't

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Speaker 1: do anything productive. Being offended, angry, upset over what didn't

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Speaker 1: to drop it and move forward. You may be a

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Speaker 1: a prisoner of your past. Nothing that's happened to you

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Speaker 1: is a surprise to God. Before he laid out the

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Speaker 1: plan for your life, he already knew every person who

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Speaker 1: every setback, God has already arranged to come back for

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Speaker 1: every disappointment, a new beginning for every failure, restor for

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Speaker 1: all the ashes He has beauty. You have to put

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Speaker 1: your foot down and say that's it. I may have

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Speaker 1: gone through some disappointments, i may have made some mistakes,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not going to waste the time I have

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Speaker 1: left worried about what I could have done better, bitter

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Speaker 1: over who hurt me, upset over what didn't work out.

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Speaker 1: I'm stepping out of the walls and I'm coming over

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Speaker 1: into the ear is. I'm dropping the offense, dropping the guilt,

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Speaker 1: dropping the failure, dropping the hurt. I'm not living my

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Speaker 1: life with any more baggage. I'm going to live my

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Speaker 1: life free. Here's the key. If somebody hurts you, if

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Speaker 1: you'll give it to God, he'll be your vindicator. Or

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Speaker 1: if you've made mistakes and we all have, quit beating

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Speaker 1: yourself up and receive God's mercy. It's new every morning.

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Speaker 1: If there are some things you don't understand, you worked

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Speaker 1: your best but your marriage didn't make it. Instead of

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Speaker 1: to say, God, I don't understand it, but I trust you.

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Speaker 1: Not gonna live better. I'm not gonna go through life

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Speaker 1: forward knowing that my best days are still up ahead.

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Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes says, better is the end than the beginning. You

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Speaker 1: may have had a rough start, but you don't have

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Speaker 1: to have a rough finish. Better is the end. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you went through a disappointment. Somebody broke your heart, the

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Speaker 1: medical report wasn't good. Don't get stuck on what happened yesterday.

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Speaker 1: God is saying something better is coming. There may be

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Speaker 1: some rough places in the middle, but don't stay focused

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Speaker 1: on the betrayal. Better is coming. The loan didn't go through.

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Speaker 1: Don't go around in self pity. Better is coming. You

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Speaker 1: prayed and believed, but the medical report wasn't good. That's

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Speaker 1: one report. But God has another report. He says something

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Speaker 1: better is coming now. Don't cancel out the better by

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Speaker 1: If your mind is always in yesterday, you're going to

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Speaker 1: move in that direction. You can't go forward looking backwards.

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Speaker 1: If you're always thinking about who hurt you, what didn't

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Speaker 1: bad the medical report is, you're going to get stuck.

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Speaker 1: Receive this into your spirit. Better is coming, Joy is coming,

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Speaker 1: healing is coming, breakthroughs are coming, Victory is coming. Paul

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Speaker 1: said it this way in Philippians. I focus all of

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Speaker 1: my energies on this one thing, forgetting what lies behind

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Speaker 1: and reaching forward to what lies ahead. Here's a man

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Speaker 1: who wrote almost half of the New Testament. He could

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Speaker 1: have said, I focus all of my energies on being

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Speaker 1: a better writer, on developing my leadership skills, on impacting

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Speaker 1: the culture in a greater way. He said, in effect,

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Speaker 1: what's more important than all of that is forgetting what

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Speaker 1: lies behind. He knew if we went through life carrying

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Speaker 1: negative baggage, we would miss our destiny. Paul had a

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Speaker 1: He was beaten with these rods, shipwrecked, gone without food

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Speaker 1: and shelter, on and on. If he had not learned

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Speaker 1: this principle, he would have become bitter, angry, God, why

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Speaker 1: is this happening to me? It's not fair. He felt

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Speaker 1: it so strongly. One translation of that verse I quoted

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Speaker 1: he said, I have not attained it all yet, but

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Speaker 1: this one thing I do forgetting what lies behind. He

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Speaker 1: was saying, I'm not all I should be, but one

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Speaker 1: thing I have down thing I'm good at. I know

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Speaker 1: how to let go of the past. He was an

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Speaker 1: expert at dropping it. But sometimes we spend more energy

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Speaker 1: What if we were to do like Paul and start

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Speaker 1: focusing our energies on moving forward, dropping the offense, dropping

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Speaker 1: the guilt, dropping the hurt. How do you drop it?

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Speaker 1: Stop thinking about it and stop talking about it. Don't

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Speaker 1: relive the negative things that have happened to you. The

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Speaker 1: reason some people never see the better is because they're

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Speaker 1: always opening up old wounds. Every week they called their friend.

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Speaker 1: Can you believe what they did to me? That happened

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Speaker 1: twenty seven years ago, They're still dragging it up like

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Speaker 1: it happened yesterday. If you're going to get free, you

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Speaker 1: need to not only drop it, you need to bury it,

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Speaker 1: have a funeral for it, put it away once and

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Speaker 1: for all. Make it decision. You're not gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: it another time. When you're tempted to just zip it up.

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Speaker 1: That betrayal, that failure, that disappointment is dead. You buried it,

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Speaker 1: you had a funeral. It's over, it's done. It's in

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Speaker 1: the past. Now. If you go dig it up, it's

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Speaker 1: going to stink. It's not only going to make your

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Speaker 1: when you carry around stinky stuff. You may not realize it,

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Speaker 1: but that makes you unpleasant. When you're bitter, you push

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Speaker 1: people away. When you're offended, angry, living guilty, it pushes

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Speaker 1: your life, leave the baggage. A couple of months ago,

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes later, Victoria came back to where I was sitting.

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Speaker 1: She said, what in the world does that smell? Steek's

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Speaker 1: so bad? Back here? She saw I had my shoes off,

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Speaker 1: She said, Joel, put your shoes back on. It steaks

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Speaker 1: really bad. I said, oh, my feet don't steak. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't smell anything. I'd been back there ten or fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: But here's my point. Sometimes when we stink, we don't

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Speaker 1: know it. When we carry around bitterness, unforgiveness, guilty, angry

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Speaker 1: at our neighbor. You may not realize it, but that's

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Speaker 1: stinking up your life. That's pushing people and opportunities away.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you get the stinky stuff out. There's an

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Speaker 1: amazing future in front of you. There's beauty for ashes,

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