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

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Speaker 4: coming out. I like to start with something funny each week.

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Speaker 4: And I heard about these three people, a Russian, an American,

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Speaker 4: and a blonde. They were talking one day. The Russian

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Speaker 4: proudly said, we were the first ones in space. The

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Speaker 4: American said, well, we were the first ones on the moon.

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Speaker 4: The blonde said that's nothing. We're going to be the

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Speaker 4: and what are you talking about. Can't go to the sun.

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Speaker 4: It's too hot, you'll burn up. The blonde said, We're

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Speaker 4: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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

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

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Speaker 4: talking the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 4: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 4: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to you today about not making mountains out

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Speaker 4: of mole hills. It's usually not the big things that

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Speaker 4: keep us from being happy. It's the small things. I've

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Speaker 4: heard it said tornadoes and hurricanes get more news coverage,

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Speaker 4: but in reality, termites do more damage. The scripture puts

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Speaker 4: Most of the time we're not dealing with some major

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Speaker 4: the little inconveniences, like not being able to find your

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Speaker 4: It's the little frustrations like your husband not picking up

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Speaker 4: where you can find it. You're convinced that she does

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Speaker 4: that's not what they worried about the most. Their greatest

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Speaker 4: inhale the cold dust so long that it co their

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Speaker 4: She said so dramatically, Oh no, you've got to be kidding.

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Speaker 4: for sure she just heard terrible news. Maybe somebody was

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Speaker 4: life threatening illness. Her husband was just like me, He said,

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Speaker 4: twenty points, no telling what yours did. All because they

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Speaker 4: issues in life to deal with without making a big

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Speaker 4: up when he promised. Let it go. This tooth shall pass.

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Speaker 4: I've seen marriages practically split apart because somebody doesn't squeeze

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Speaker 4: she couldn't stand how he chewed ice. We have to

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Speaker 4: realize the more we focus on something, the bigger it becomes.

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Speaker 4: If you focus on what you don't like about that person,

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Speaker 4: good qualities. That will irritate you more and more, and

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Speaker 4: I used to get so uptight because Victoria wouldn't leave

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Speaker 4: we have strengths in certain areas, we expect everyone around

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Speaker 4: And if we're not careful, we'll go through our whole

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Speaker 4: me to make them just like me. God wants us

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Speaker 4: And on my desk at home, I like everything perfectly

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Speaker 4: time to time when I wasn't in there, Victoria would

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Speaker 4: hen and if it wasn't, I would start harping and

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Speaker 4: making mountains out of mole hills. And if we lose

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Speaker 4: got to grow and mature to the point to where

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Speaker 4: we can say what the apostle, Paul said, and Acts

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Speaker 4: is Paul knew in his future there were challenges, obstacles, heartache.

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Speaker 4: He knew he was even headed for prison. Yet he said,

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Speaker 4: I know God is still in control. I have a

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Speaker 4: destiny to fulfill. I can't flee it, so I'm not

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Speaker 4: love the fact that Paul treated big things even as

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Speaker 4: small things. And when you view your challenges from God's perspective,

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Speaker 4: you can reduce them down to size, and even a

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Speaker 4: we're not going to make mountains out of mole hills,

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Speaker 4: we've got to learn to lighten up and see the

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Speaker 4: humor in life. Was in a hotel the other day

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Speaker 4: we had to catch a flight real soon, and so

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Speaker 4: will have free coffee. When I got off the elevator,

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Speaker 4: I went and got Victoria cup and put in it

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Speaker 4: I heard this lady's voice say, very sternly, excuse me, sir,

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Speaker 4: that will be three dollars. I turned around kind of

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Speaker 4: laughed and said, oh, I'm sorry. I thought it was free.

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Speaker 4: Can I put this charge on my hotel room? She

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Speaker 4: was still kind of aggravated. She said, no, sir, you

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Speaker 4: may not. We're not associated with the hotel. It'll be

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Speaker 4: three dollars in cash. Well, I didn't have any cash,

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Speaker 4: and I said, well, let me run up to my

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Speaker 4: She looked at me and said, how do I know

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Speaker 4: you're going to come back? I said, look at this face.

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Speaker 4: Would I lie to you? I am so innocent. I

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Speaker 4: promise i'll come back. She said, no, sir, you need

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Speaker 4: to leave something, and so I said, well, I leave

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Speaker 4: the coffee. She said, no, you've already bought that. I

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Speaker 4: can't reuse that you need to leave something else. I

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Speaker 4: only had a T shirt, jim shorts, and tennis shoes.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna leave my tennis shoes. I wasn't gonna

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Speaker 4: leave my T shirt, and I sure wasn't gonna leave

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Speaker 4: my jim shorts. She finally said, all right, well, let

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Speaker 4: me go check with my manager and see what we

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Speaker 4: need to do. As soon as she got out of

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Speaker 4: my sight, I ran to my hotel room as fast

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Speaker 4: as I could. I came back down. When I got there,

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Speaker 4: she said, I was just about to come looking for you.

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Speaker 4: Ought dear lord lady, what are you doing selling coffee?

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Speaker 4: You need to be working for the FBI. I paid

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Speaker 4: her my three dollars, and just as I was about

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Speaker 4: to leave, she said, hey, wait a minute, aren't you

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Speaker 4: that minister. I said, no, ma'am, I'm a dentist. I

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Speaker 4: wasn't about to tell her who I was. I repented later.

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Speaker 4: What am I saying? Instead of getting bent out of shape?

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Speaker 4: I forgot what I'm saying, yo, Instead of getting bent

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Speaker 4: out of shape, see the humor in life. Don't blow

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Speaker 4: things out of proportion, don't overreact. That was a five

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Speaker 4: minute problem. That wasn't worth getting stressed out over. Friend's

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Speaker 4: life is too short to go around making mountains out

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Speaker 4: of mole hills. So somebody didn't treat you right, Big deal.

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Speaker 4: Let it go. Stay in tune. So your plans didn't

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Speaker 4: Just flow with it. Maybe you've got a tough week

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Speaker 4: dreading it, do like the apostle Paul, see it from

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Speaker 4: God's perspective. Reduce it down to size. God is still

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Speaker 4: on the throne some of you today, you'd see your

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Speaker 4: life go to a new level if you just quit

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Speaker 4: making a big deal out of things that are not

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Speaker 4: a big deal. Remember it's not our job to make

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Speaker 4: everybody around us just like us. Give them the freedom

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Speaker 4: next time you have challenge, ask yourself, is this a

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Speaker 4: If you do that, you're passing the test. No matter

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