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Speaker 4: and heard about this mother. She had two young boys

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Speaker 4: Pastor said to the first young boy, son, where is God?

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Speaker 4: He sat there silently, He asked again, where is God?

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Speaker 4: out the door, ran home and said to his brother,

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Speaker 4: God is missing. And they think we did it. Say

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Speaker 4: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 4: no more distractions. The older we get, the more we

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Speaker 4: realize we're not going to be here forever. Life is

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Speaker 4: But when you realize how fast time is going, it

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Speaker 4: Your assignment has an expiration date. Your time on this

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Speaker 4: to every critic, every negative comment, try to convince people

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Speaker 4: not going to like you. Everyone's not going to accept you.

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Speaker 4: Quit trying to convince someone to understand you that's determined

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Speaker 4: talk them into it, they are not for you. They

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Speaker 4: are a distraction. Well, Joe, these people at work are

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Speaker 4: saying negative things about me. They're trying to make me

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Speaker 4: look bad. It's not your job to straighten them out.

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Speaker 4: Let God fight your battles. Let God be your vindicator.

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Speaker 4: You're not supposed to engage in every conflict. Don't fight

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Speaker 4: You have to keep your face set. Takes discipline to

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Speaker 4: a mark of honor. It's easy to get in conflict, upset, offended,

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Speaker 4: when you're never going to see them again? That coworker

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Speaker 4: They told him whoever killed the giant would get the

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Speaker 4: exempt from taxes. With that one victory, David's whole family

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Speaker 4: not saying to be passive and don't fight any battles.

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Speaker 4: it just feed your ego you paid them back, you

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Speaker 4: made them look bad, or will it propel you into

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Speaker 4: After you straighten them out, someone else will start talking.

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Speaker 4: Here's what I've learned. Nobody talks about people that aren't

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Speaker 4: see the gifts, the influence, the fever on your life,

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Speaker 4: the brighter the light, the more the heat. The higher

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Speaker 4: your purpose. Before David faced Goliath, his father asked him

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Speaker 4: him is he knew which battles to fight. He didn't

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Speaker 4: engage in every conflict. Paul said in Romans, as far

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Speaker 4: as you can live at peace with everyone, it doesn't

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Speaker 4: say that you're always going to have peace with every

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Speaker 4: person don't want to have peace with you. David's brother

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Speaker 4: with him. Well, Georg, shouldn't I go the extra mile?

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Speaker 4: Shouldn't I be the bigger person? Yes? But if you

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Speaker 4: do all that and they still don't want peace, you

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Speaker 4: need to move on. You have a destiny to fulfill.

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Speaker 4: Your assignment is waiting on you. You can't worry about

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Speaker 4: I'm all for being nice, but at some point you

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Speaker 4: have to put your foot down and say you may

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Speaker 4: have a problem with me, no disrespect, but I don't

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Speaker 4: have time to have a problem with you. I don't

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Speaker 4: reach your destiny. Genesis twelve. God told Abraham to leave

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Speaker 4: someone wouldn't understand. When they arrived the land wouldn't sustain

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Speaker 4: both he and Lot, all their flocks and herds. Their

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Speaker 4: Lot wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. Finally,

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Speaker 4: scripture says, after Lot left, God said to Abraham, look

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Speaker 4: around all the lands you see, I will give it

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Speaker 4: Lot left, when Abraham finally did what he knew he

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Speaker 4: Why don't you get rid of the lots? Quit being

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