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Speaker 4: Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you again

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Speaker 4: for coming out today. I like to start with something

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Speaker 4: funny and I heard about this man. He was sitting

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Speaker 4: struck up a conversation and he asked her what kind

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Speaker 4: American Indian men with their high cheek bones and their

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Speaker 4: brilliant and successful. And then I like good old boys

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Speaker 4: from the South with their long Southern drawl. What's your name,

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Speaker 4: he said, My name is Geronimo Bernstein, but my friends

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Speaker 4: call me Bubba. Hold up your Bible. Say it like

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Speaker 4: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 4: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 4: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 4: I will be taught the word of God. I'll boldly

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

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Speaker 4: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 4: I want to talk to you today about keeping your

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Speaker 4: walls up. It's easy to go through life letting everything

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Speaker 4: get on the inside, offended by what somebody said, worried

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Speaker 4: about a problem at work, upset because of a negative report.

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Speaker 4: We can't stop all these things from happening. The key

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Speaker 4: In the scripture says to build yourself up. One translation

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Speaker 4: says to edify yourself. The word edify is where we

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Speaker 4: get the word edifice, meaning building. This is saying, if

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Speaker 4: you're going to stay encouraged, if you're going to enjoy

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Speaker 4: where you don't allow the negative, the offense, the worry,

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Speaker 4: the frustration into your spirit person. We only have so

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Speaker 4: believe they said that that's emotional energy you're not going

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Speaker 4: to have for your own family, to play with your

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Speaker 4: You can't stop people from saying things. You can't prevent

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Speaker 4: what ifs, wondering why they said. That proverb says, above

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Speaker 4: What you give your time and attention to your destiny

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Speaker 4: is too important to allow poison in. The Truth is,

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Speaker 4: we all have challenges, we all have things that come

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Speaker 4: how it's not going to work out, and they think

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Speaker 4: you're too much of this too. My attitude is leave

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Speaker 4: You can't put poison into you over and over and

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Speaker 4: know we make good decisions when we have good information,

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Speaker 4: juicy details. It feeds our flesh, but it poisons our spirit.

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Speaker 4: A man said to me a while back, Joel, I

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Speaker 4: heard so and so was talking about you. He said that,

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Speaker 4: I don't really want to hear it. It's not gonna

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Speaker 4: I need my emotional energy for my assignment to fulfill

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Speaker 4: philosophy is just give me the bottom line, Joe, he

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Speaker 4: thinks you're a lousy person. That's fine, I can handle that. Now,

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Speaker 4: don't give me the expanded version. He also said he

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Speaker 4: the cliff notes, give me the condensed version. Here's why.

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Speaker 4: It's a lot easier to keep the poison out if

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Speaker 4: get on social media. Don't go on the internet and

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Speaker 4: don't read everything written about you at school. It's a

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Speaker 4: It's very tempting to think, well, let me just see

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Speaker 4: end up defensive, trying to overcompensate, insecure. No, don't even

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Speaker 4: go there. There are enough issues to deal with where

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Speaker 4: give it no attention. It's a distraction instead of getting upset,

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Speaker 4: instead of feeling badly about yourself. Remember, they don't talk

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Speaker 4: Take it as a compliment. In a race, nobody focuses

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Speaker 4: You're out front, you're making a difference. I've learned, the

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Speaker 4: more favor on your life, the more opposition it will

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Speaker 4: the blessing God put on you. This is what happened

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Speaker 4: and Cain ended up killing Abel. What's interesting is Able

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Speaker 4: It's about the favor God put on you. I've heard

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Speaker 4: it said this way, the more vertically aligned you are,

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Speaker 4: It's about the blessing God put on my life. The

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Speaker 4: real question is can you handle being blessed? David faced

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Speaker 4: but one of the brothers named Eliab tried to embarrass David.

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Speaker 4: He said, in front of all the men, David, what

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Speaker 4: are you doing here? And with whom have you left

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Speaker 4: make him feel small, discredit him. He was saying, in effect, David,

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Speaker 4: You're not important. You're a shepherd boy. Don't be surprised

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Speaker 4: if God's favor on your life stirs up opposition in

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Speaker 4: We all have slingers in life. You can't go through

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Speaker 4: that you will see God's goodness in a new way,

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