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Dutch provides 24-7 access to licensed vets

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ailments and shipping is always free. With

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Dutch you'll get more time with your

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pets and year-round piece of mind when

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it comes to their vet care. Welcome

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to Fifteen Minutes in the Word

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with New York Times best-selling author

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Joyce Meyer. On today's program Joyce

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will be teaching from her study

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on the book of Coloshens. Being

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a Christian doesn't offer us a

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life without problems, but God promises

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us something even better. His grace

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and strength to rise above our

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circumstances. The book of Coloshens is

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truly a manual for understanding everything

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we have in Christ. In this

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unique Bible study Joyce will show

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us how Colosians is our guide

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to becoming more like him and

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reflecting his love, joy, peace, and

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stability to the world around us.

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Now here's Joyce with the study

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on the book of Colosians. Roman

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Sex too says, how can we who died

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to sin live in it any longer? I'm

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not going to continue in sin.

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You're not going to continue in

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sin? Because we're dead to sin. That's

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not really what I want to do.

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I don't want to be greedy. That's

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not what I want. The real

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me, the born again me is

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dead to that. And through the

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power of the Holy Spirit, my

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flesh is going to come under

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control. We were buried

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with him by baptism, and we

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were raised with him to live

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in newness of life.

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Resurrection life belongs to

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you. We're new creatures in Christ.

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All things have passed away.

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Old things have passed

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away. Old things have

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passed away. Come

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on yesterday's gone. You got

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a new life in front

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of you. God's mercy is

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new every day. And I love

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this one, John 1427. You

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don't have to beg for

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peace. Oh God give me peace.

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God give me peace. No, you

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say thank God I have peace.

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Now give me the grace

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to stop allowing myself

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to get upset and disturbed.

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Peace I leave with you.

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My own peace I now give

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him bequeathed unto you. Not as the

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world gives do I give unto you. Do

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not let your hearts be troubled

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neither let them be afraid.

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Stop allowing yourselves to

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be agitated and disturbed and

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do not permit yourselves to

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be fearful and intimidated and

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cowardly and unsettled. Everybody

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say I have peace. Oh my gosh, the

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list just goes on and on and on

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and on. For his sake. He that

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knew no sin became sin that

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we might be made the righteousness of

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God in Christ. Several people

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when they were talking to some

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of our teams that were doing

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testimonies, they happened to mention to

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me during the break that several

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people mentioned that they'd been

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having trouble thinking that God

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was mad at them and that

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some of the problems that they

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were having in their life was

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punishment from God. And

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see, that's just not true. God doesn't

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go around punishing us, he punished

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Jesus for our misdeeds. He took

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the punishment that we deserve,

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and all we need to do now,

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when we do something wrong, is repent

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and receive that forgiveness that's already ours.

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Well, the devil doesn't want you to

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know that you can live this kind

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of a free life. He wants us

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to live in fear and be

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miserable all the time. You're not wrong

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with God. You're made right with

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God through the blood of Jesus Christ.

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Now that doesn't mean you do

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everything right all the time. I

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don't do everything right all

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the time I Told you I

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heard a message about what to

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do went right outside and didn't

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do what I heard But that

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doesn't mean that now God is

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mad at me because I didn't

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do the right thing it basically

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means that I am in the process

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of change I'm between glories

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I'm going from glory to

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glory Well, I guess when I went

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outside I was stuck between two.

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I read something that was going

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to make me a little more

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glorious, but I hadn't quite put it

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on fully yet, so I got to

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think about it a little bit more.

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You know what? Please get to the

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point where you stop getting

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mad at yourself every time

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you don't behave perfectly and

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realize that if you love

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God... You've received Jesus, you

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may not be where you need

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to be, but thank God

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you're not where you used

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to be. All the fruit

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of the spirit is yours.

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Now, believe what the

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Bible says about you,

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and don't only believe

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it, confess it out loud,

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out of your mouth. Confessing

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who I am in Christ. And

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confessing, the word

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confess means to open

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your mouth and say

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something, confessing who

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I am in Christ, and

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confessing what is already

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mine in Christ, is a

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major part of my everyday

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walk with God. And I

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have been at this for probably

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39 years. It took me

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a couple of years to

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learn this. But the

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power of confessing the word

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of God and it's

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biblical Romans 417. We

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serve a God who calls those

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things that be not as though

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they are and speaks

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of things that are

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non-existent as if they already

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existed. Look at it. Romans

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417. As it is written, I have

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made you the father of

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many nations. He was talking

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to Abraham who did not

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have a child yet. I have

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made you the father of

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many nations. In the sight of

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God in whom he believed, who

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gives life to the dead and

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speaks of non-existent things as if

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they already existed. Abraham's

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name was Abraham, which

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meant high father. God changed

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his name to Abraham, which

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meant the father of many

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nations. Long before Abraham had

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a child, God was calling

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him the father of many nations

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every time he spoke his name.

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My first name is

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not Joyce, it's

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Pauline. And Pauline

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means little preacher.

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Paul was a

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little preacher and

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he did the

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Pauline epistles. My

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middle name means

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with a joyful spirit.

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So my father

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who abused me.

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Every time he called me,

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he was calling me a

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little preacher with a joyful

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spirit. Now, don't get all

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carried away with this. I

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don't know, you might, you

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know, maybe your name's Ichabat,

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I don't know, but... If you

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got a name that doesn't

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have a good meaning, that

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doesn't mean that your

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life is over, you know.

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I'm just trying to make a

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point that... What we say?

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Do you know that ultimately

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you believe more of what? you

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say than what anybody

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else says? Did you hear

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me? You believe more of

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what you say. I'm so

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stupid. I'm so dumb. Well

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you just keep it up.

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You just keep it up

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and you're going to

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get dumber and dumber

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and more stupid. I

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am so fat. Well then don't

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plan to lose any

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weight. And

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what you believe in what you say, you

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will see, as long as what you're believing

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in what you're saying is solidly found

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in the word of God. Now you

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can't just, I'm the president of the

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company. That's not the kind of

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stuff I'm talking about. But I'm

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talking about, I am the righteousness

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of God in Christ. You know

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what? The more you believe it,

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the more right behavior you're going

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to manifest in your life. How

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can you ever manifest right behavior

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if all you believe is there's

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something wrong with you? For years

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and years and years, I had one

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record playing in my head. What's wrong

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with me? What's wrong with me? What's

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wrong with me? What's wrong with me?

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What's wrong with me? And yes, every

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time I made any little teeny tiny mistake,

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I thought God was mad at me.

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I am so glad that mess is

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over in my life. And that finally

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I know who I know who I am in Christ.

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in Christ and what we do

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as flawed human beings are often

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two different things and when we

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first come to Christ they are

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radically far apart. But

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from glory to glory to

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glory to glory what we

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believe about what God says that

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we are gets closer and closer

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and we manifest more and more

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and more and more and more

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of that good behavior. Don't go

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around saying all the time,

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I'm so impatient. I'm so this, I'm

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so that. You say, well Joyce isn't

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it lying to say that I have

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things that I don't have? Now don't

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make me go all the way back

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to the beginning and start over. You

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do have them in Christ. In him,

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they belong to you. And I've

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got a good example I'm going

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to show you here in just a

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few minutes to get this point

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across. A couple more things

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I want to remind you of.

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Colossus teaches us. Keep God first

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all the time. First

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in your thoughts

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first in your

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conversation first

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in your decisions

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If you keep him

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first You'll never

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have to chase

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after things The

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blessings of God

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will chase you

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and overtake you

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You don't have to chase him, he

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will give them to you. First John

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521, little children, keep yourselves

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from idols, from anything

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and everything that would occupy

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the place in your heart that's due

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to God. Keep yourself from any

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sort of substitute for him

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that would take first place in

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your life. Amen. So let it

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be. Do you know that anything can

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become an idol in our lives? I

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have to admit that there was a

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period of time in my life way

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back when, when the ministry that

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God had given me that I

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was trying to build became

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more important to me than God

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did. I didn't mean for it to

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happen. We don't always mean for

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these things to happen, but it

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can happen. And I was so

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proud of myself because I was in

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ministry. and I was working for God

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and I was on staff at a

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church in St. Louis that was really

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popular and I just thought I was

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doing so good. And

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one day the Lord just

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clearly spoke to my heart

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and he said, you're so

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proud of yourself because

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you're working for me.

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The problem is you don't

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spend any time with me.

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So those of you that are

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in full-time ministry, be

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careful. Your ministry

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doesn't replace God in

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your life. Your ministry

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is what you do. Before

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I ever even think about

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getting a message to give

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to somebody else, I

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spend time on my stuff

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between me and God. Because

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it's useless for me to

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say something to you if

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I'm ignoring God in my own

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life with the things that he's

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trying to say to me. Amen.

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Then the Bible talks about

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in Coloshes 119 and

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20. Let's look at verse

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20. And God purposed that through

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and by the service the intervention

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of him, the son, all things,

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that includes your thing, all things

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should be completely reconciled

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back to himself, rather on

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earth, in heaven, as through him the

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father made peace by means of the

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blood of the cross. From the

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moment that Adam and Eve sinned

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in the garden, actually before

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they ever sin, because God already

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knew what they were going to

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do. God already had a plan

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to reconcile everything back to

13:33

him. God had a plan for

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man and the devil is not

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ever going to be successful in

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permanently messing it up. Thanks

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for listening. Joyce's heart is

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to help us develop a stronger

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relationship with God through deeper study of

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the Bible. Digging into the book

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of Colossus is a great way to

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start that journey. As we begin

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looking into God's word, there are many

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lessons to discover and inspiration for us

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to learn. love Jesus and walk

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with him even more closely than

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we already do. Remember as Christians

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we have everything we need to

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live a life of peace, joy

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and growth and it's all found

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in him. For more resources from

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Joyce, visit Joyce meyer.org. The Bible,

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our instruction book for life.

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Spending time in God's word will

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change our lives, but consistent and

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effective study can at times be

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challenging. That's one reason why Joyce

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is here to help. At joycemyre.org/Bible

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your study time come to life

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encouragement from Joyce. Get the most

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listening to Fifteen Minutes in the

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precious. That's why we started Dutch. Dutch

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unlimited virtual visits and follow-ups for up

15:12

to five pets. You can message a

15:14

vet at any time and schedule a

15:16

video visit the same day. Our vets

15:18

can even prescribe medication for many ailments

15:21

and shipping is always free. With Dutch

15:23

you'll get more time with your pets

15:25

and year-round piece of mind when it

15:27

comes to their vet care.