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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast and thanks

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: Well, God bless you always our joy to come into

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Speaker 2: your homes. We love you, We know God has great

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Speaker 2: things in store. And if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: I hope you'll stop by and be a part of

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Speaker 2: one of our services. I promise you we'll make you

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Speaker 2: feel right at home. But thanks for tuning in, and

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Speaker 2: thank you again for coming out today. And I like

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Speaker 2: to start with something funny each week. And I heard

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Speaker 2: about this pastor and song leader that weren't getting along

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Speaker 2: begin to spill over into the services. One Sunday, the

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Speaker 2: pastor spoke on being willing to change. Afterwards, the song

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Speaker 2: leader got up and led the song I Shall not

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Speaker 2: be moved. The next week, he spoke on being a giver,

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Speaker 2: and the song leader got up and led Jesus paid

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Speaker 2: it all. The next week, the pastor talked about how

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Speaker 2: we have to watch our tongues and not gossiping.

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Speaker 1: The song leader got up and led I love to

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Speaker 1: tell the story.

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Speaker 2: The pastor got so frustrated he finally resigned. He said,

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Speaker 2: Jesus brought me here, and Jesus has taken me away.

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Speaker 2: The song leader then led, what a friend we have

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Speaker 2: in Jesus. All right, hold up your bibles. Say it

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Speaker 2: like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 2: what it says I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 2: I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 2: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 2: boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about blooming where

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Speaker 2: because they don't like where they are. They don't like

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Speaker 2: their job. The people are hard to get along with.

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Speaker 2: They don't like where they live. That's not where they

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Speaker 2: get all upset. If they have to work late, that

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Speaker 1: But I've learned God is more interested.

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Speaker 2: In changing me than he is in changing my circumstances.

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Speaker 2: As long as I'm sour because I'm not getting my way,

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Speaker 2: new doors, the key is you have to bloom where

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Speaker 2: you're planet. You cannot wait till everything gets better before

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Speaker 2: you decide to have a good attitude. You have to

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Speaker 2: be the best that you can be right where you are.

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Speaker 2: Put a smile on your face. Be good to people,

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Speaker 2: even if they're not being good to you. Be grateful

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Speaker 2: want to be. When you bloom where you're planeted, you're

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Speaker 2: so in a seed for God to do something new.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says here in Psalm thirty seven, the steps

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Speaker 2: always use it for our good. That person is hard

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Speaker 2: You're developing character. You're learning to be good to people

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Speaker 2: In other words, if I get stuck in traffic, this

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Speaker 2: God has you there for a reason, so you don't

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Speaker 2: You're stable, you're consistent, You've always got a smile, You're

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Speaker 2: And what I love about this is it takes away

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Speaker 1: I know too many people that don't like their job.

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Speaker 2: They dread going to work, they dread driving into traffic,

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Speaker 2: us the power to enjoy our work. Quit telling yourself

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Speaker 1: We're being asked to do things that we don't want

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Speaker 2: without always questioning it, without walking away mumbling under our breath,

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Speaker 1: When I worked for my father.

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Speaker 2: Here at the ministry for seventeen years, I was in

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Speaker 2: One time, I got all these radio stations lined up

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Speaker 2: And he said, Joel, I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 2: But had I not been faithful where I was, had

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Speaker 1: When you pass that test of glooming, where.

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Speaker 2: God to take you where he wants to go. Well,

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Speaker 2: These coworkers, get on my nerves. They're negative, they complain.

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Speaker 2: I've been praying for three years for God to give

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Speaker 2: me another job. I don't know what's taken so long. Now,

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Speaker 2: good example to them. God may want you to let

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Speaker 2: Or maybe if you would pass that test and bloom

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Speaker 2: Let me challenge you, that is not your destiny. You

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Speaker 2: No, your lot in life is to excel, it's to

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Speaker 1: This is what Joseph did.

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Speaker 2: where he was. Let me tell you you can't keep

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Speaker 2: a good person down. God got him to where he

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Speaker 2: was supposed to be. You may be surrounded by a

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Speaker 2: bunch of weeds today, people that are not going any place,

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Speaker 2: or people that are even telling you that you're not

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Speaker 2: going to make anything out of your life. Now plug

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Speaker 2: your ears full of cotton and just bloom right where

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Speaker 2: you are. You can prove them wrong. You can be

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Speaker 2: the one to set a new standard for your family.

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Speaker 2: You can be the one to raise the bar. And

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Speaker 2: let me tell you, when.

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Speaker 1: God sees you doing what you can do. God will

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Speaker 1: show up.

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Speaker 2: And do what you can't do. He'll give you breaks

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Speaker 2: that you didn't deserve. He'll cause people to be good

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Speaker 2: to you for no reason. He'll open up doors that

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Speaker 2: no man can shut. That's his favor shining down on

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Speaker 2: your life. I read a story about a boy that

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Speaker 2: was born in extreme poverty in Puerto Rico. His name

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Speaker 2: is Juan Rodriguez. Growing up, he and his family hardly

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Speaker 2: had anything to eat. The place they were living was

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Speaker 2: nothing more than a shack. At seven years old, he

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Speaker 2: was working in the sugar cane fields, plowing behind the oxen.

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Speaker 2: Didn't look like he had much of a future. It

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Speaker 2: didn't look like he would ever get out of that environment.

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Speaker 1: But right close to his house there was.

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Speaker 2: An old rundown, beat up golf course, and one was

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Speaker 2: so intrigued by golf that he made his own golf

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Speaker 2: club out of a stick. He would use bottle caps

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Speaker 2: as the ball, and all through the day he'd go

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Speaker 2: around playing golf on his imaginary golf course. A few

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Speaker 2: years later, when one of the golfers saw how interested

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Speaker 2: he was in golf, they got him a job up

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Speaker 2: at the course, making thirty five cents a day. Whenever

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Speaker 2: Wan wasn't working, he was up there playing golf, getting

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Speaker 2: better and better, being the best that he could be.

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Speaker 1: Right where he was.

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Speaker 2: At twenty one years of age, after spending two years

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Speaker 2: in the US Army, he was hired as a full

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Speaker 2: time caddy at a golf course in Puerto Rico. One day,

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Speaker 2: a professional golfer came through and saw how talented Wan was.

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Speaker 2: This golfer took Wan under his wings and started working

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Speaker 2: with him, teaching him training him today many years later,

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Speaker 2: Juan Rodriguez is better known as Chichi Rodriguez. He went

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Speaker 2: on to win eight tournaments on the PGA Tour was

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Speaker 2: named a Senior Player of the Year. He started the

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Speaker 2: chi Chie Rodriguez Youth Foundation to help other children rise

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Speaker 2: out of defeat and poverty like he did.

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Speaker 1: What am I saying? Bloom where you're planet. Don't make excuses.

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Speaker 2: Don't go through life thinking I've got a disadvantage. I've

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Speaker 2: got too many obstacles. I'm the wrong nationality, I come

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Speaker 2: from the wrong family. I don't have the connections. I

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Speaker 2: could never get out of this environment. No, you may

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Speaker 2: not see how you can get out, but the good

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Speaker 2: news is God does he already has a way, and

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Speaker 2: your destiny is not determined by how you were raised,

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Speaker 2: or by your circumstances, or by how many odds.

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Speaker 1: Are against you.

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Speaker 2: Your destiny is determined by the creator of the universe.

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Speaker 1: And if you will take what God has.

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Speaker 2: Given you and make the most of it, just like

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Speaker 2: with chi Chie, God will open up the right doors,

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Speaker 2: He'll give you the right breaks, and he'll bring the

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Speaker 2: right people across your path. I'm asking us today to

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Speaker 2: get rid of the excuses. Quit waiting for things to change,

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Speaker 2: and then you're going to be happy. No, so is

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Speaker 2: sde and be happy right now. When you're in difficult times,

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Speaker 2: remember God's either doing a work in you or he's

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Speaker 2: using you to do a work in someone else. But

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Speaker 2: as long as you're in faith, where you are is

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Speaker 2: where you're supposed to be. Quit fighting against everything, trying

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Speaker 2: to get somewhere else, and just start being the best

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Speaker 2: that you can be.

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Speaker 1: Right where you are. If you will make this decision.

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Speaker 2: To bloom where you're planned, then you are passing the test.

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Speaker 2: God promises he will pour out his blessings in favor.

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Speaker 2: You will not only live your life happy, but God

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Speaker 2: will take you places that you've never even dreamed of,

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Speaker 2: and I believe in declare you will become everything God's

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Speaker 2: created you to be, and you will have everything God

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Speaker 2: intended for you to have.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 2: Will? We never like to close our broadcast without giving

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Speaker 2: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life?

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: Keep God first place. He'll do amazing things in your life.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes the stresses of life can feel like you're just

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Speaker 3: getting by. God wants to bless us, but how do

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Speaker 3: you move from barely enough to just enough to more

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Speaker 3: than enough?

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Speaker 2: We all face difficulties and people that are hard to

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Speaker 2: deal with. You can't eliminate all the stress, but if

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Speaker 2: you'll handle it the right way, you don't have to

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Speaker 2: live stressed out. Much of our frustration is we're trying

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Speaker 2: to control things that we can't control, letting things stress

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Speaker 2: us that don't have to.

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