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Speaker 1: Hi, it's joln Victoria. What a joy to be with

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Speaker 1: you today. We always counted an honor. Know that we're

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Speaker 1: praying for you and your family. We sure hope you

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Speaker 1: enjoy this podcast today and we just are praying for

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Speaker 1: you and know that God is for you, so enjoy

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Speaker 1: today's message. Well, God bless you. Great to be with

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Speaker 1: you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with us

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Speaker 1: during the week through our daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media,

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Speaker 1: and you can come visit us in person. We'd love

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Speaker 1: to have you be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this lady. She's surprised a burglar in her house

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Speaker 1: late one night, and she was home alone, didn't have

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Speaker 1: any kind of weapon. She didn't know what to do. Finally,

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Speaker 1: she decided, I'll quote a scripture verse. She shouted out

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Speaker 1: Acts two thirty eight. The burglar froze in his tracks,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't move, and the police soon arrived. And we're amazed

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Speaker 1: that a woman with no weapon could do this. They

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Speaker 1: asked the burglar, what was it about that script that

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Speaker 1: had such an effect on you? He said, scripture?

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Speaker 2: What scripture?

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Speaker 1: I thought? She said she had an axe in two

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Speaker 1: thirty eighths. All right, y'all say it like.

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Speaker 2: 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 recepted. 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 the sound that opens heaven.

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Speaker 1: Every person has a sound. With our words, we're creating

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Speaker 1: an atmosphere. Some people's sound is worry, what if it

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Speaker 1: doesn't work out? Other people their sound is discouragement it's

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Speaker 1: never going to change, or a sound of not enough,

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Speaker 1: I can't get ahead. Those sounds will keep you limited.

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Speaker 1: That atmosphere will bring defeat and life. But there is

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Speaker 1: a sound that Heaven responds to, a sound that brings healing,

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Speaker 1: favor and breakthroughs. It's the sound to praise. The scripture

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Speaker 1: says God inhabits our praises. God shows up not when

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Speaker 1: you complain, not when you talk about how big the

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Speaker 1: problem is, but when you talk about how big our

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Speaker 1: God is. One version says God is enthroned when we

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Speaker 1: praise him. When you go around thanking God for his

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Speaker 1: on the throne, not the worry, not the discouragement, not

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Speaker 1: the problem. You're making him bigger than anything that comes

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Speaker 1: against you. That's the sound that causes angels to go

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Speaker 1: to work. That's the sound that opens prison doors in

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Speaker 1: the midnight hour, just as Paul and silas. That's the

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Speaker 1: sound that turns enemies into footstools, that takes that stumbling

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Speaker 1: block and makes it in to a stepping stone. What

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Speaker 1: sound are you creating, Oh Joe man, it's been rough.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't look like my child will ever get back on course.

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Speaker 1: words to describe the situation. Use your words to change

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Speaker 1: I thank you that as for me and my house,

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Speaker 1: we will serve the Lord. By that. I thank you

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Speaker 1: that you're supplying all of my needs. You said even

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Speaker 1: sound that gets God's attention. You can't talk defeat and

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Speaker 1: have victory. You can't talk sickness and have hell get.

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Speaker 1: You have to change your atmosphere. You're creating an environment

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Speaker 1: for either God to work to open the heavens, bring

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Speaker 1: Paul said in Ephesians, be continually filled with the spirit,

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Speaker 1: We're supposed to be making melody in our heart. That

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Speaker 1: means joyful, cheerful, a song of praise, always thanking God

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Speaker 1: do this continually. One version says to be ever filled.

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Speaker 1: This is not something you do ever once in a

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Speaker 1: you'll thank God. When this medical report changes, then you'll

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Speaker 1: be grateful. This should be a lifestyle under your breath

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Speaker 1: Know how about Lord, thank you for blo bless me

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Speaker 1: All the people at my office, they get on my nerves.

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Speaker 1: I thank you that you're my vindicator, that you're fighting

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Speaker 1: my battles. Gord, thank you that you're preparing that table

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Speaker 1: in the presence of my enemies. Start speaking his promises,

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Speaker 1: sound of praise, sound of thanksgiving. When God hears that

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Speaker 1: melody coming from your heart, he sends angels with answers, favor,

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Speaker 1: how you will outlast the opposie. Not by complaining, not

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Speaker 1: He's looking for that song of praise. That's what he

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Speaker 1: All the forces of darkness cannot stop you. I've heard

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Speaker 1: it said, complain and remain or praise and be raised.

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Speaker 1: problem that's going to keep you where you are? I

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Speaker 1: midst of all this clamor, I could hear some cardinals

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Speaker 1: They lift your spirit. They have a joyful song, a

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Speaker 1: Both birds were in the same environment, same backyard, same weather,

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Speaker 1: You can choose your sound. You can go through the

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Speaker 1: you something your friends may not tell you. Nobody wants

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Speaker 1: about their problems. You're pushing away the good people in

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Speaker 1: Not only that it's keeping you from opportunity and promotion.

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Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor. Tell the crow in you you're done.

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Speaker 1: You're not welcome here. You're not going to run my life.

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Speaker 1: You get up in the morning and the crow shows up.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to go to work.

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Speaker 1: I can't stand my boss. These kids get on my nerves.

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Speaker 1: That's the crow. They let me come in, Let me

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Speaker 1: You're in retirement. You are permanently done. I don't need

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful for my family.

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Speaker 2: Father.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for choosing me before I could even choose you.

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Speaker 1: That's making melody in your heart. That's the sound Heaven

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Speaker 1: Crowing about it, complaining will keep your stuff.

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Speaker 2: But when you're a cardinal.

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Speaker 1: Making melody a joyful spirit, that's what activates God's goodness.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that crows gravitate toward what's dead. They're scavengers.

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Speaker 1: that they make that squawking sound. If you're focused on

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Speaker 1: If you're dwelling on relationships that didn't make it, who

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Speaker 1: hurt you, mistakes you've made, you're not going to have

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Speaker 1: stay ever filled dwelling on your disappointments and who let

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Speaker 1: Nothing that's happened to you has stopped God's purpose for

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Speaker 1: God has seen every injustice, every herd, every person that

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Speaker 1: for the injustice. No more complaining self pity. It's not fair, bitterness,

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Speaker 1: the crow sound. That's noise. Crows talk about the problem,

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Speaker 1: Crows react to the environment, Cardinals rise above it. The

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Speaker 1: one of us. You get to choose your voice. David

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Speaker 1: all times. His praise will continually be in my mouth.

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Speaker 1: David was saying, in effect, I'm going to be a cardinal.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna choose to make melody. I'm gonna focus on

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Speaker 1: the greatness of my God. I'm gonna declare his promises

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Speaker 1: over my life. Well, David had every reason to be

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Speaker 1: being overlooked by his father. When Samuel came to choose

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Speaker 1: the next king, he could have been offended. Man my

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Speaker 1: old father doesn't believe in me, but he didn't let

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Speaker 1: but God will call you in. They may discount you,

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Speaker 1: but God will cause you to shine. King Saul was

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