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This. Program is made possible by the partners

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of Joyce My or ministry's. I'm

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Joyce Meyer and I believe.

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That God can hear you everywhere

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you turn. To

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one always her was poured out on the they have

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been a cost one the first thing is. That.

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He did was a touch their mouths and so I think

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we. Need the pay some attention to

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that you know other some reason

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for that and Paul said just.

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To. Go on little bit here. Paul said Do Not

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forbid anybody to speak in tongues. So.

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If anybody tells you are, you can't

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do that Say the Apostle Paul said

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I got and how said I thank

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God that I speak in tongues more

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than you all But yet he said

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I would rather speak a few words.

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What the understanding that to speak in

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tongues all day long? Unless there's somebody

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to interpret and tell people what's being

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said so much, don't make too much

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out of it. But.

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Much don't ignore it. You

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know it's about the holy spirit not tongs.

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When I go buy a pair of tennis

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shoes, I don't going on as prepared times.

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I get killers during the times. Come with

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it. Well when you. Are

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oh my gosh I am get myself in so much. Trouble.

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When you sleep the holy

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spirit hey wouldn't give you

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the gifts. To.

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Use. For. The

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good and the prophet of all as

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he determines and desires a man and

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so don't make you really don't have

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to make too much out of any

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of the give you just freak the

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holy spirit usually god and before you

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know what you're going to be walking

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in the supernatural power and have everything

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that you need to do anything that

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got an issue to do a man.

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All right, so Let me

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just say this if you're sitting there and you're like,

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I wish I knew what you're talking about lady

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But I don't have a clue I feel about

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as lost as I can be I've

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got a book And

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if we don't have it with us it's called knowing

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God Intimately and

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it talks about all the gifts of spirit all the

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freedom of spirit I've got another book on being

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baptized in the Holy Spirit. So you get those

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and study them If

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you want to know something don't just wait for somebody

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else to come and tell you everything get

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hungry for God and dig until

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you know If

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you want to know more about what I'm talking about

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go home and get out of concordance and My

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gosh today all you got it. You can ask

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Google anything in the middle point you in the right

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direction Just gifts

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of the Spirit put it in Google and see what comes up

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and then look up all the scriptures yourself You'll

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find that it's in the Bible You

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don't have to live without power You

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do not have to live without power Power

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Power to be my witnesses

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in Jerusalem Judea's Sumerian to the ends

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of the earth when the Holy Ghost

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comes upon us we are to have

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power power to be

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able to control ourselves and to discipline

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ourselves and to Do

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what God wants us to do? All right.

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I am gonna make some effort here to calm down

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just a tad All

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right, I'm gonna tell you a story I

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See I I've done this long enough I can

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sense when the anointing is real strong on me

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and when it's maybe not quite as strong I'm

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always anointed to do what I'm doing, but There

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are times when the anointing is so strong or

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the presence of God is so strong that I

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just feel like I'm flying I mean,

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it's like, I mean, I have

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no idea what the next thing is going to be. It's going to

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come out of my mouth, but it just keeps coming out and coming

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out and coming out. It seems to help

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people. So that's just the way we go with it. We just do it that

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way. And so if

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I'm missing that, because

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I'm not like a polished public

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speaker that's gone to a

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bunch of public speaking classes, I just

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had a big mouth and

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God decided to use it. Amen.

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I was, I mean, I was always a

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fairly good communicator. I can get my point

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across and that really

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is the main

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and probably the only real strong gift that

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I have. I've got a lot of common sense,

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but I mainly just have

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this gift to communicate God's

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word. And since I don't

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do a bunch of other fancy stuff, you

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know, if this isn't working, I can't stop

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and sing a great song and just, you

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know, amaze everybody. I

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am telling you that I have to have God's

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anointing or I am in serious trouble.

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Okay. So when

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I don't have that, if

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I feel that the anointing is not strong,

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then I can't wait until I get done.

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And if I'm watching the clock, not being

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able to wait until I get done, I know that I'm

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in trouble. So that happens to

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me almost never, but occasionally

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if God's trying to get my attention about

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something, it will. You don't know it,

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but I know it. So many years

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ago, I went through a little period of

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time where I

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was teaching just like I always do,

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but I just felt like there was

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no anointing at all. And

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I hated it. Hated

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it. I felt like that everything I was saying made

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no sense at all. So

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I would say today, I just feel like there's no anointing. He

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said, what are you talking about? It was good. Everything

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was fine. I'm at least glad God hides it from

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other people. And so this went

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on for a few times when I'd

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go out and speak and I finally just I told ever said

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I don't know What is wrong with me? But

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I am NOT going to bed tonight until I find out

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so I went in my office and he went to bed and I

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Just crying out to God just tell me what was wrong.

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So what was wrong? He never showed me anything. Well

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the next day Dave said I think

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God showed me what's wrong I

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Don't you absolutely hate it when God does

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that I Don't

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want you to tell him what's wrong. I

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want you to tell me what's wrong and keep it

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between me and you Well

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the minute he said that I

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just already got all my all the way out

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like you know, what's wrong You're gonna you're

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gonna tell me what's wrong. And

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so he said So I'm

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like, okay What is it and he

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said well you remember the other day when you

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were talking about so-and-so and it was actually a

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preacher But I know and you

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said and I had said

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some not so good things about his preaching Like

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I thought he just you know kind of rambled

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and went off in a bunch of different directions

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and never really finished His point. Well, Dave agreed

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with me If

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God wasn't dealing with him And

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then not only did he not deal with Dave

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about it he tells Dave that's my problem Now

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I know that this sounds funny now, but it was

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not funny when it was happening And

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so I just I actually got madder.

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So I just went back

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to my room decided I was gonna stay up some more and so

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Took a few days, but God led me to

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these scriptures in James 3 1 through 10 that

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I'm getting ready to read you Not

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many of you should become teachers For

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you know that we who teach will be

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judged with a greater strictness. So

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I'm going to read you the rest of this in a minute for another

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purpose, but the bottom

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line is, is I

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had actually done a very

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bad thing as a teacher of

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God's Word in

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saying something downgrading about

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another person teaching God's Word.

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We don't need to be judging anybody, but if you

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want to get in trouble, you just go judge somebody

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that's doing the same thing you are. Maybe

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you're a lead vocalist in the church

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choir and you

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have a great voice and somebody

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else if they let do

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specials once in a while, you say they couldn't

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sing their way out of a paper bag. I

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don't know why they let them sing. Well

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you better start repenting fast. Are

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you all you understand what I'm saying? I

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know a doctor who talks about other doctors

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and I'm like, you

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don't know what you're doing. You need to

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be careful. See I want

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to put a little bit of reverential fear

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in all of you today that God does

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not like it when we

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gossip and slander

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other people.

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Amen? So

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I got it. I

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mean I heard God. I only did that

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one other time in my life and it was a couple of

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years after that. Same type

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of situation, same result. Sometimes

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God has to teach us things a couple of times.

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Not many of you should become teachers

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because we who teach will be judged

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with a greater strictness. For

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we all stumble in many ways. If

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anyone does not stumble in what he says,

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he's a perfect man, able to bridle his

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whole body. So, wow, what a statement. If

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anybody can control their mouth, they

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can control every other thing in their

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life. If

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we put bits into the mouths of horses so

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that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies

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as well. Two examples here.

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A bit in a horse's mouth is just a little tiny piece

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of metal. But that

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horse that can weigh as

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much as 15 to 1600 pounds can

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be controlled with that one

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little tiny piece of metal. So he's

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saying that your whole life, the direction

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of your whole life, can be controlled

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by this one tiny little thing which

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is your tongue and the words that you

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speak. Hmm,

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does anybody need this today? Okay. Second,

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they look at the ships, although they are so

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large and are driven by strong winds, they are

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guided by a very small rudder wherever

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the will of the pilot directs.

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So, the captain

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of the ship can

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stand in one part of the ship and

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with a wheel give

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direction to this gigantic

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ship by

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one little rudder that

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nobody can even see. I

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don't think we have any idea. I

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believe, I'll say for me, I don't think

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that I have any idea still, as

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much as I've studied it, talked about it,

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the real power of words, because I

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can tell you if we really did, we

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would. be a

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lot more careful about what we say. Amen.

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Now get

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out of concordance and look up

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every, just do proverbs, just read

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through proverbs and highlight every scripture

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about the mouth and words. There's

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nothing more important than the way we think and

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the way we talk. Amen.

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Verse five, so also the tongue is a small

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member, yet it boasts of great things. How

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great a forest is set ablaze by such a

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small fire. And the tongue is

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a fire, a world

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of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among

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our members, staining

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the whole body, setting on fire the

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entire course of life, and

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it's set on fire by hell. Well,

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so how do you like that? For

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every kind of beast and bird of reptile and

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sea creature can be tamed and has been

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tamed by mankind, but no

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human being can tame the tongue. It's

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a restless evil full of deadly poison. With

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it we bless our Lord and Father, and

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with it we curse people who are made

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in the likeness of God. So

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you get that? We come here,

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we sing our songs of praise. I

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love that song, our defender. All

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we do is bow down, all we do is praise

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him, all we do is worship, and we love that

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song. But then, if

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you hadn't heard this message, you won't do this now,

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but if you wouldn't have heard this message,

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there's a possibility that somebody here would have

13:38

left and you would

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have driven home with somebody and

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talked about, well, I think she

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talked too long or I think she talked too

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loud or whatever.

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I mean, we used to go

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to church and then we'd go to

13:57

lunch with our friends and have the pastor for lunch. You

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know, it was like lunch fun to

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gossip about everybody in church. We didn't know

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any better. Nobody had ever told me

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what I'm telling you here today. Does

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anybody believe what I'm saying? Amen?

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And because the tongue is

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so hard to control, why

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is it that we just

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can't hardly stand not to

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tell the thing we heard? Especially

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if it's a bad thing. Let

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me read you this. I thought this was really good. In

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ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed

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to hold knowledge in high

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esteem. One

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day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said,

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Do you know what I just heard about your

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friend? Hold

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on a minute, Socrates replied, before telling me

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anything I'd like you to pass a little

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test. I call it the triple filter test.

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Triple filter? That's right. Socrates

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continued. Before you talk to me about my

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friend, it might be a good idea to take

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a moment and filter what you're going to say.

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That's why I call it the triple filter

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test. The first filter is truth. Have you

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made absolutely sure that what you're about to

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tell me is truth? No,

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the man said, actually, it was just something I heard.

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All right, said Socrates, so you don't really even know if it's true

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or not. Now, let's try the

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second filter, the filter of goodness. Is

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what you're about to tell me about my friend

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something good? No,

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it's actually on the contrary. So

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Socrates continued, you want to tell me something bad

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about him, but you're not even sure that it's

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true. Well,

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you may still pass the test, though, because

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there's one filter left, the

15:45

filter of usefulness. Is what you want

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to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me? Well,

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no, not really. Well,

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concluded Socrates, if what you want to tell

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me is not true, not good, and not

15:57

even useful, then why bother telling me at all? Let's

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think about James 3 too again, for

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we all stumble in many ways. And

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if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he

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is a perfect man, able

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also to bridle his whole body.

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Matthew 12, 34 and 35, out

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of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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Oh I didn't mean to say that. Well it had to

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be in there for it to come out. Amen?

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And the more you think about something, the more

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likely you are to say it. You

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brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you're

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evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, the

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mouth speaks. The good person

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out of his good treasure brings forth good, and

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the evil person out of his evil treasure brings

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forth evil. So

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he's saying that if you listen to yourself

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or you listen to other people, you

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can quickly find out what kind

17:10

of person they are. Listen

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to yourself and you'll get to know yourself. Yeah,

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wow, that's about all you can say about that, isn't it? I

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mean if you gossip, you're a gossiper. If

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you complain, you're a complainer. If

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you lie, you're a liar. I'm

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not trying to make you feel bad. I

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have to apply the same thing to myself. I

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don't want to live in this dream world that

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I'm this great Christian if really

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I've got some blaring

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problems that I'm not even paying any

17:51

attention to. But

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it's so important who you hang around with. Let

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me tell you something, the people that you spend time with,

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have a real influence on your life

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because like I talked about the anointing

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I believe it's transferable and

18:06

I believe that you start getting some of

18:08

whatever you're around this

18:16

would happen with your pastor or anybody you listen

18:18

to a lot, certainly not just me but people

18:21

who listen to me a lot like

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maybe every morning while they're driving to work or

18:26

and they've done it for for years it

18:31

won't be long and you'll hear somebody say you

18:33

sound just like Joyce Meyer or

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your husband might say you're starting to act like that lady

18:40

on TV well it's

18:42

true whatever you're around a lot

18:47

you start becoming like that

18:50

so you need to be careful

18:52

who you're spending time with because

18:54

they are influencing you don't

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hang out with negative grouchy

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grumbling, gossiping, slandering

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people amen

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get around somebody that's got something

19:19

good to say somebody

19:21

that's positive why

19:26

do we say the wrong thing if

19:28

you figure it out please let

19:30

me know do you ever feel

19:32

like that emoji with the zipper

19:34

across its mouth wishing that you

19:36

could just mmm especially after blabbing

19:39

something that you wish you hadn't

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thankfully the Bible has answers to

19:44

this as well to help us

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learn to say the right things

19:48

to speak God's words those

19:50

things which bring the right results

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in our lives Joyce's

19:55

book Me and My Big Mouth shares

19:58

these important biblical principles about

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how to speak God's way right

20:02

out of his word. This is

20:05

one of the first books that

20:07

helped me become familiar with Joyce,

20:09

but I'll tell you before I

20:11

even knew who she was, this

20:13

book really taught me so much

20:15

about speaking God's Word. In this

20:18

book we can learn how to

20:20

apply biblical truth to align our

20:22

words with God's Word in order

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to experience change in our lives.

20:26

Now I love this too because

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today you'll also get the incredible

20:30

power of God's Word. This is

20:33

a children's book for our precious

20:35

little ones. This book helps kids

20:37

ages 6 to 10 years

20:40

old develop their superpowers to be

20:42

brave and strong and courageous by

20:44

memorizing Bible verses and teaching them how

20:47

to speak out loud the right things

20:49

when facing difficult circumstances. You know it

20:51

is so important for adults to know

20:53

God's Word and what's coming out of

20:56

our mouth and how

20:58

it influences those around us. So

21:00

how much better would it be

21:03

to give our children and our

21:05

grandchildren that opportunity and to help

21:07

them to start early. So get

21:09

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21:12

Kids should have a chance to be

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just kids, right? Well while in Hamburg,

21:17

Germany I hung out with some children

21:19

dealing with some really tough situations and

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we had a great time together because

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through our outreach there we're providing opportunities

21:27

they may not get at home. Take

21:29

a look at this. They

21:32

paint pictures of war. They paint

21:34

pictures of bombings of their parents. Some

21:36

of them just they paint the national

21:38

flag of the country they came

21:40

from. Some of them paint the German

21:43

flag because that's the country they are

21:45

in now. You don't need a language

21:47

because there's no language barrier if

21:49

they just paint. You

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can't tell necessarily in this neighborhood

21:54

in Germany but behind the doors

21:56

of these apartments these families are

21:58

suffering. difficult situations. They

22:01

don't often have what they need

22:03

and many have come from other

22:05

countries fleeing difficult situations. This is

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an outreach of a ministry called

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Stadt Pencil and Hand of

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Hope is so honored to be a

22:14

part of what is happening here. Our

22:17

founder, he was riding his

22:19

bicycle just right next to

22:21

a refugee camp. He thought,

22:23

well, we have to do something for these

22:26

children because they don't have anything. They picked

22:28

up the kids, drove them to church and

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the only question the kids have. When

22:32

do you come back and pick us up again?

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That couldn't be a one-time thing and it couldn't

22:37

be a thing we only pick them up for

22:39

church. We have to serve them where they live.

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Now Stadt Pencil, which translates

22:44

to City Island, takes volunteers

22:46

into refugee camps and poor

22:49

neighborhoods, offering a safe

22:51

space for kids to be kids

22:53

while experiencing the practical love and

22:55

joy of Jesus. Ben,

22:58

tell me what this area is called and a

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little bit about it. So this is

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Kestovsit, where

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a lot of people live in a

23:07

very, very small place. So there

23:11

are 6,000 people here living in points

23:13

for quite a half meters. So

23:16

it's even crowded rather than New York. Up

23:18

to 30% of the

23:21

people here are helped

23:23

by the government financially. Every

23:25

fifth kid here lives in

23:27

poverty or underneath the poverty

23:29

line. We have some kids

23:31

coming to our programs and we don't

23:33

know if they get fed at home.

23:35

So we started to have this all-you-can-eat

23:38

in our kids' club. Volunteers and

23:40

staff members post Kids Club

23:42

programs in these neighborhoods. One

24:00

of the things 10-year-old Aurora loves

24:02

about Kids Club, but some

24:04

activities are a little more beloved.

24:07

What are some of your favorite activities that you do?

24:10

Too soon slime. Too soon slime. Yeah,

24:12

I was doing slime. Slime is very fun.

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Okay. If you are looking

24:17

for a little bit more joy in your

24:19

life, try this. Hang out

24:22

with children. They will rub

24:24

off on you. And at Joyce Meyer

24:26

Ministries in Hand of Hope, we

24:28

love hanging out with children all over the world.

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And most of all, we enjoy

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sharing the love of Christ with

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them. They know you,

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you know them, you're building relationships. That

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makes a big difference, doesn't it? It

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does. It does, of course.

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The relationship is what changes people,

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what can encourage people. And

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that's why this is the main thing we

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want to do, those relationships. I once learned

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they don't care how much you

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know, unless they know how much you care. And

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that's one of the things we want to do.

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We want to show them how much we care

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about them. We tell the kids about how God

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loves them, how precious they are, that there is

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a plan for their lives, because that's just important

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for the kids to hear over and over again.

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I like the word that they tell you

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so, that you don't change and

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God loves you either way. Are

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you learning how valuable you are

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and how much God loves you?

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Yes, they teach you that every day.

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Most of the kids that come to our

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programs are from a Muslim background. That's just

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part of Hamburg culture, that we

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have many Muslim families. And

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you would think that they are against the

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Christian organizations, that they would never put their

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kids in a Christian organization. But actually, some

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of them, or most of them tell me,

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well, at least you have values. You have

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values we believe in as well. Do

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you go home and tell your parents? So they

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ask me what they learn, what they do, and

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then I tell those educators. What

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do they say? Maybe they want to come one

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day to learn. So That

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would be good. so you'd be

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difference in your family to appear

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hours with my or ministry joined

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with you and been a part

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of this entire men and three.

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Ominously started south to the fallen tears

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because it was small and the beginning

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and at one point we came to

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moment where be needed. One staff members

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has to organize the structure of the

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wall and here's an but we didn't

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have the funds for it and that

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was the moment. It was fifteen. sixteen

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years ago. Very so. it's my a

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minute three tend to have stepped in

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to finance part of the staff member.

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That's why it's so important to have

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a partner like and of hopes. Most

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of the kids who come to our programs

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they don't have the same sense of and

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life just because of the place where they

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grow up. It's a cycle and it's so

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hard for the kids to come out of

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the neighborhood. The opening their eyes to

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a future that they'll never considered a

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helping kids to be able to just

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because it's also to dream for up

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as better Lives down the road. As

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exactly and we believe as a christian organization,

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we believe that there is a plan for

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every one of them and I think that's

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just different. We can do it without God

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and without the got perspective. Just the tell

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me yes you can make it out of

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here. but knowing that there's a god who

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lost some I got was a blend for

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them even before they were born. and we

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have some teenagers and they tell me my

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life has changed because of this program. All.

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Over the world no matter where it

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as well as to whether it's Africa

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or Asia in the United States are

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right Here in Europe there are so

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many children, desperate situation, In

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Syria. that is

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cool and smiles a sign large

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they are visa were able to

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share christ with them you can

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be a part of the sales

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and if you want more joy

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in your life like i said

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you can be right here with

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you'll be helping kids over

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the world and you can make a

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big difference. So we invite you to

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pray about it and to join us

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here today. Go to joycemeyer.org, give us

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a call and I believe it's going

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to bring some extra joy to you

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at the same time. For

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more information visit joycemeyer.org. This

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program has been made possible by the partners of Joyce

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Meyer Ministries. For

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more information visit joycemeyer.org.