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Speaker 4: what are you drinking. The minister said, just water. Officer,

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Speaker 4: what do you know? Jesus did it again? Say it

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

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

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Speaker 4: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 4: peaceful on purpose. If you're going to live in peace,

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Speaker 4: have opportunities to get upset, to be offended, to live

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Speaker 4: worried life, happens. People get on your nerves, unexpected bills

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Speaker 4: keep us from difficulties. He never said that we wouldn't

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Speaker 4: a peace that passes understanding. That means, despite what's going

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Speaker 4: if you try to be God, God will step back

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Speaker 4: In the scripture, David faced all kinds of opposition. People

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Speaker 4: It can be chaotic all around you, traffic, people, problems, drama,

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Speaker 4: Worry is a thief. It will rob you of your

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Speaker 4: rob you of your creativity. You don't make good decisions

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Speaker 4: add one inch to our life by worrying. If we could,

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Speaker 4: when we worry, we're making our problem our God what

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Speaker 4: talk about, all you think about. You're making that sickness

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Speaker 4: the throne, take the sickness off the throne, take the

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Speaker 4: financial difficulty off the throne, and put God back up

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Speaker 4: switch over into praise, switch over into things that are

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Speaker 4: are negative things like, oh man, that pain in your side.

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Speaker 4: That's dangerous, same thing your grandmother died from. You'll never

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Speaker 4: get married. You've been single so long, You'll never get

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Speaker 4: The easy thing to do is to believe those lies.

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Speaker 4: is going to folly your thoughts. If you live worried, anxious, uptight,

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Speaker 4: When I look back over my life, most of the

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Speaker 4: Somebody asked me, if I could do anything over again,

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Speaker 4: to pass. Years ago, Victoria and I received to notice

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Speaker 4: so we were all for it. We signed a petition

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Speaker 4: not want that big, ugly sign in front of our house.

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Speaker 4: had an idea. I thought, I'm going to get a

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Speaker 4: that sign is supposed to go, so at least it

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Speaker 4: will block it from our point of view. I got

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Speaker 4: help take care of this problem. Month after month went by,

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Speaker 4: the street. But instead of installing the sign in front

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Speaker 4: spent two years trying to fix the problem. What happened?

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Speaker 4: Every time I drove up to my house, I thought,

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Speaker 4: there's my worry tree. Are you trying to solve a

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Speaker 4: problem that hasn't happened? Well, Joe, what if I get

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Speaker 4: never get married? What if you do? How much time

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Speaker 4: something that God had already taken care of. He didn't

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Speaker 4: in to what God has already done. Friends, don't let

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