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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: great to be with you today, and I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week to our daily podcast,

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Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit

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Speaker 1: us here in person. We'd love to have you be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this elderly gentleman.

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Speaker 1: He'd had a hearing problem his whole life. He went

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Speaker 1: to the doctor and was fitted with this new state

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Speaker 1: of the art hearing aid where he could hear one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent. A few months later he went back for

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Speaker 1: a check up. The doctor said, Wow, your hearing is perfect.

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Speaker 1: I bet your family is so excited that you can

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Speaker 1: hear again. He said, no, I haven't told my family.

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Speaker 1: I just sit around and listen to the different conversations,

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Speaker 1: and I've changed my will three times, saying, like you

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Speaker 1: mean it, this is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about a healthy soul.

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Speaker 1: We spend a lot of time and energy taking care

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Speaker 1: of our physical body. We try to eat right, exercise,

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Speaker 1: get enough sleep, and that's all important. We want to

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Speaker 1: of our soul. We don't realize how much our emotions,

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Speaker 1: our attitudes, our thoughts are affecting us physically. The scripture says,

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Speaker 1: I wish above all things that you succeed and be

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Speaker 1: in good health even as your soul prospers. This links

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Speaker 1: being healthy physically, having energy vitality to how healthy your

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Speaker 1: soul is. If your soul is unhealthy, it's going to

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Speaker 1: spill over to the physical. If you're living stressed, worried, bitter, jilty, angry,

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Speaker 1: those negative emotions are not just affecting your relationships, your creativity,

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Speaker 1: how productive you are, but they're weakening your immune system.

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Speaker 1: Your cells are not fighting off sickness like they should.

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Speaker 1: Ninety percent of all doctor's visits to a primary care

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Speaker 1: physician or stress related. You can't sleep at night, your

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Speaker 1: food won't digest, you have ulcers. Much of that goes

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Speaker 1: back to your soul not being healthy. You're worried night

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Speaker 1: and day about that child, stressed over your finances, holding

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Speaker 1: a grudge over that person that did you wrong. You

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Speaker 1: don't realize you're making yourself sick. All that negative energy

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Speaker 1: is poisoning your soul. Because your soul is unhealthy, it

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Speaker 1: all night. Your body laid there, but your mind wrestled,

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Speaker 1: wondered reason, what if? How could I What may happen?

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Speaker 1: You're trying to control things that you can't control, trying

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Speaker 1: problem that may not even happen, or even bitter over

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Speaker 1: something that took place twenty years ago. You can't take

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Speaker 1: let anger unforgiveness, guilt, worry dominate your life. If you'll

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Speaker 1: get your soul healthy, you'll get your energy back. If

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Speaker 1: these physical elements will go. It's all interconnected. In my

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Speaker 1: went to a different doctor. He said, Joel, I know

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Speaker 1: exactly what's causing it. It's stress. You're living too uptight,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we can't see what's poisoning us. We have a

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Speaker 1: traveled several weeks to India with my father. Was working

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Speaker 1: was putting on myself. I like to go fast, work hard,

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Speaker 1: accomplish goals. Here's the key. You are responsible for your

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Speaker 1: your spouse, can't keep your soul well. Your doctor, your friends,

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Speaker 1: your parents. Nobody has control over your soul except you

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Speaker 1: in one sense, not even God. He's not going to

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Speaker 1: We can see your looks, your talent, your personality, but

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Speaker 1: Is your heart free from bitterness, offense? Or is their worry, guilt, insecurity,

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Speaker 1: self pity. Look what I've been through, Joe, I'm angry. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I have this chip on my shoulder because these people

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Speaker 1: we've gotten used to these negative emotions. We've adapted. We

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Speaker 1: so jealous? Why can't I celebrate my friend's success? Why

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Speaker 1: Or why don't I feel good about myself? Lady told

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Speaker 1: and be this huge ordeal. The men couldn't understand why

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Speaker 1: She looked inside, said why am I like this? Why

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Speaker 1: from the pains of the past, from things that weren't

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Speaker 1: That was the turning point. As she got her soul healthy,

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Speaker 1: things that are poisoning us, and we don't realize it.

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Speaker 1: ask ourselves is am I making myself sick? Am I

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Speaker 1: sabotaging my relationships? Am I limiting my potential? Holding myself

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Speaker 1: that no root of bitterness springs forth and defiles you.

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Speaker 1: It describes bitterness as a root. A root is underground,

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Speaker 1: it's going to spring forth. A bitter root will produce

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Speaker 1: bitter fruit. What's on the inside is going to show

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Speaker 1: up on the outside. We try to fix the fruit.

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Speaker 1: and get rid of the root. Proverb says, guard your heart,

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Speaker 1: for out of it flow the issues of life. One

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Speaker 1: of our main responsibilities is to keep the toxins out,

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Speaker 1: keep those roots from springing up. Offenses are going to come.

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Speaker 1: Cranky co workers will come, disappointments, hurts, jealousy, anger. You

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Speaker 1: can't stop it from coming. The question is are you

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Speaker 1: keep your soul healthy. You have to be an active gardener.

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Speaker 1: Pull up those roots, pull up that unforgiveness, pull up

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Speaker 1: that insecurity, pull up that guilt and condemnation. Don't let

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Speaker 1: worry take root, losing sleep, living stressed out. You've seen

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Speaker 1: God take care of you in the past. You've seen

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Speaker 1: He's going to do it again. He didn't bring you

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Speaker 1: are you holding onto that guilt, beating yourself up over

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Speaker 1: past mistakes? God has forgiven you. Why don't you forgive yourself.

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Speaker 1: God doesn't remember it. Why don't you quit remembering it?

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Speaker 1: God has moved on. Why don't you move on? Why

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Speaker 1: who you are. God blessing them doesn't mean he's not

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Speaker 1: to bless you. God didn't run out of favor. He

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Speaker 1: didn't forget about you. He has things in your future

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Speaker 1: better than you've imagined. But don't let that jealous root

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Speaker 1: Celebrate their success. When your soul is healthy, God can

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Speaker 1: What you didn't get that didn't stop God's plan. What

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Speaker 1: they did is not going to keep you from your purpose.

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Speaker 1: God knew it was going to happen, and he already

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Speaker 1: you beauty for the asshes, joy for the morning. Pull

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Speaker 1: your future. Don't just deal with the symptom, get to

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Speaker 1: the root. Learn to live from a place of faith. God.

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Speaker 1: I trust you. I know you're in control. You're fighting

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Speaker 1: my battles. You've ordered my steps. You have a good

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Speaker 1: plan for my life. Lord. I thank you that you're

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Speaker 1: my provider, my protector, my waymaker, my deliver my vindicator. God,

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