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Come Out Better Joel Osteen · A Better Tomorrow

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  Speaker 1: This couple moved into a new neighborhood. One morning while
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  Speaker 1: they were eating breakfast, the lady looked out the window
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  Speaker 1: and saw her neighbor hanging the wash on the line
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  Speaker 1: to dry. And she noticed the wash was so dirty
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  Speaker 1: and so dingy. She said to her husband, that neighbor
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know how to wash. The clothes aren't clean. She
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  Speaker 1: must not even use detergent. Week after week, she looked
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  Speaker 1: out this window and saw the clothes and made the
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  Speaker 1: same comments about how dirty the laundry was. One morning,
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  Speaker 1: she looked out the window and the clothes were as
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  Speaker 1: clean and bright as could be. She couldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: She called her husband in, said, look, she finally learned
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  Speaker 1: how to wash. I wonder what happened. The husband smiled
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  Speaker 1: and said, honey, I got up early this morning and
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  Speaker 1: cleaned our windows. The problem wasn't that the neighbor's laundry
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  Speaker 1: was so dirty. The problem was the window the lady
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  Speaker 1: was looking out was not clean. Many times, how dirty
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  Speaker 1: our neighbor's clothes are depends on how clean our window is.
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  Speaker 1: The scripture says, to the pure, all things are pure.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're always finding fault, complaining about the traffic,
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  Speaker 1: critical of your spouse, may I suggest your window is dirty?
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  Speaker 1: The problem is not external, it's internal. You're looking through
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  Speaker 1: a tainted filter. At some point, we have to look
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  Speaker 1: in the mirror and say, maybe I'm the one that
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  Speaker 1: needs to change. Maybe I've developed a habit of seeing
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong rather than what's right. Maybe I've trained myself
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  Speaker 1: to be negative, disrespectful, hard to get along with. That's
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  Speaker 1: why it's so important every morning to put on this
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  Speaker 1: fresh new attitude. I'm excited about this day. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to go to work. I get to go to work.
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for this job. I'm not focusing on what's wrong. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for what's right in my life.
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  Speaker 1: You know what you're doing? You're cleaning your windows. 92
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  Speaker 1: year old man was moving into a senior's home. He
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  Speaker 1: could see images, but he was technically blind. His wife
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  Speaker 1: of many years had just passed, and after waiting in
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  Speaker 1: the lobby for some time, this young lady, a nurse
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  Speaker 1: came to take him to his new room. AS HE
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  Speaker 1: MANEUVERED HIS WALKER THROUGH THE HALLWAYS, THE NURSE BEGAN TO
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  Speaker 1: DESCRIBE HIS ROOM IN GREAT DETAIL. SHE SAID, IT HAS
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  Speaker 1: A BEAUTIFUL WINDOW, A BIG COUCH, A NICE DESK AREA,
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  Speaker 1: AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, HE INTERRUPTED HER AND SAID,
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  Speaker 1: I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT, I LOVE IT. SHE
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  Speaker 1: KIND OF LAUGHED AND SAID, SIR, WE'RE NOT THERE YET.
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  Speaker 1: YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE ROOM. HANG ON JUST A MINUTE.
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  Speaker 1: He said, no, whether I like my room or not
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  Speaker 1: doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged. It depends
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  Speaker 1: on how my mind is arranged. And I've already made
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  Speaker 1: up my mind I'm going to like it. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way we should live. I've already made up my mind
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy this day. I've already made up my mind
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  Speaker 1: to have a blessed year. Life is too short to
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  Speaker 1: live negative, sour, letting circumstances dictate our attitudes. Every morning,
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  Speaker 1: you need to make the decision, this is another day
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has made. I'm going to live it in faith.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be positive. I'm going to see the best.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make the most of this day. Well, Joel,
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  Speaker 1: I'm discouraged because I've had bad breaks. I had a
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  Speaker 1: rough childhood. A friend walked out of a relationship. I
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  Speaker 1: went through an illness. We can all find a reason
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  Speaker 1: to live sour, to have a chip on our shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: You have to learn to let things go. What's happened
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  Speaker 1: in your past cannot stop what God has in your future.
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  Speaker 1: God wouldn't have allowed it if it was going to
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  Speaker 1: keep you from your destiny. But if we go around discouraged,
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  Speaker 1: why did it happen? Why did this door close? That's
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  Speaker 1: going to keep us from the new things God has
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  Speaker 1: in store. The scripture says the rain falls on the
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  Speaker 1: just and the unjust. No one is exempt from difficulties.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the key. If you'll stay in faith, that
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  Speaker 1: setback is setting you up for God to show out
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Instead of being sour, put on this
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  Speaker 1: fresh new attitude. Father, you said you'd give me beauty
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  Speaker 1: for these ashes. You said what was meant for harm,
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  Speaker 1: you would turn to my advantage. So Lord, I want
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  Speaker 1: to thank you that I'm not only coming out, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to come out better. In the scripture, Job
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  Speaker 1: went through a great trial. WASN'T FAIR. HE DIDN'T DO
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  Speaker 1: ANYTHING WRONG, BUT EVERYTHING FELL APART. AT FIRST, HE HAD
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  Speaker 1: A BAD ATTITUDE. HE COMPLAINED AND WAS BITTER, BUT HE
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  Speaker 1: DIDN'T STAY THERE. When it looked like he was done,
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  Speaker 1: like there was no reason to have hope, he looked
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  Speaker 1: up to the heavens and said, I know my Redeemer lives.
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  Speaker 1: He was saying, I know God is still on the throne.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's bigger than what I'm facing. He put
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  Speaker 1: on this fresh new attitude. If he would have stayed bitter, angry, discouraged,
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  Speaker 1: we wouldn't be talking about him. When it was all
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  Speaker 1: said and done, Job came out with twice what he
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  Speaker 1: had before. In difficult times, it's tempting to get sour. Joel,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing the right thing, had this bad break.
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  Speaker 1: This setback came out of nowhere. You have to do
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  Speaker 1: like Job. Put your foot down and say, I refuse
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  Speaker 1: to go through life with a bad attitude. I am
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  Speaker 1: not going to let what happened to me, who did
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  Speaker 1: me wrong, what I didn't get, keep me from becoming
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  Speaker 1: all I was created to be. God, I know you
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  Speaker 1: being for me is more than the world being against me.
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  Speaker 1: That's what allows God to show out in your life.
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  Speaker 1: But too often, we're holding on to the hurts. the
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  Speaker 1: things we don't understand, that poisons our attitude, steals our passion.
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  Speaker 1: You have to let it go. This is a new day.
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  Speaker 1: The scripture talks about how God created you to be
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  Speaker 1: like an eagle, to soar. What's interesting is an eagle
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  Speaker 1: doesn't eat anything that's dead. Unlike other animals that will
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  Speaker 1: eat a carcass, a coyote that will eat a dead cow,
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  Speaker 1: an eagle only feeds off of live foods, swoops down
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  Speaker 1: to the ocean and picks up a live fish. If
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be an eagle, if you're going to soar,
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  Speaker 1: you can't go back to the dead things in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Too many people are feeding off of what didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: Reliving the disappointments, the mistakes, the bad breaks. When they
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  Speaker 1: wake up, first thing they think about, who hurt them,
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  Speaker 1: the people that did them wrong. Quit feeding off that
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  Speaker 1: dead food. You can't put poison into your spirit and
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  Speaker 1: live a victorious life. Let it go. That's over and done.
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  Speaker 1: Now start feeding on live food. You know what's alive?
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  Speaker 1: You know the healthiest food you can put in your spirit?
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  Speaker 1: Promises from the scripture. I am blessed and I cannot
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  Speaker 1: be cursed. I will live and not die and declare
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  Speaker 1: the works of the Lord. Thanks be to God who
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  Speaker 1: always causes me to triumph. What are you feeding on?
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  Speaker 1: Pay attention to what you're putting in your spirit. You're
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  Speaker 1: called to be an eagle, but sometimes we're acting like
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  Speaker 1: a chicken. Do you know a chicken will eat its
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  Speaker 1: own waste? A chicken feeds off of what's been discarded,
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  Speaker 1: off of what's supposed to be trash. Maybe that's why
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  Speaker 1: a chicken has wings, but it can't really fly. It
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  Speaker 1: holds on to what it should have released. You need
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  Speaker 1: to view the negative things in your life as waste. No,
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't waste it, but you're not supposed to feed
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  Speaker 1: on it. It's over. You've been through it. You've eliminated it.
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  Speaker 1: Now move on. Don't go back to what you've released.
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  Speaker 1: If you're always feeding off of what's been discarded, reliving
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  Speaker 1: old hurts, thinking about what you've lost, that's going to
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  Speaker 1: keep you from flying. But God didn't give you wings
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  Speaker 1: so you could stay on the ground. He didn't say
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  Speaker 1: you will mount up like chickens. He called you an eagle.
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  Speaker 1: He created you to soar. Don't let a wrong attitude
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  Speaker 1: keep you grounded. My father had heart disease most of
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  Speaker 1: his life. He struggled with his blood pressure. He came
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  Speaker 1: from a family that had to fight that. When I
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  Speaker 1: was a teenager, we used to go watch the Astros
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  Speaker 1: play baseball. Walking from the parking lot to the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: my father would have to stop several times and rest.
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  Speaker 1: He was out of breath. It'd been that way so long,
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  Speaker 1: that was normal to him. He eventually went to the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: and they discovered the arteries to his heart were almost
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  Speaker 1: completely clogged. The doctor said he was only operating on
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  Speaker 1: 30% of what he should be. He eventually had open-heart surgery,
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  Speaker 1: and they removed all the blockage. My father was like
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  Speaker 1: a new man. He could walk for miles. But sometimes,
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  Speaker 1: like my father, our heart has become clogged. Not physically,
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  Speaker 1: but with offense, with self-pity, with discouragement. We don't realize it,
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  Speaker 1: but we're only operating at a percentage of what we
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  Speaker 1: should be. We wonder why our marriage is stale and
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  Speaker 1: why we're not passionate about our dreams. There are contaminants.
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  Speaker 1: blocking the flow. We've allowed these poisons to clog up
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  Speaker 1: the blessings, the joy, the ideas that belong to us.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is you can get back to who
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  Speaker 1: you were created to be. You don't have to have
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  Speaker 1: a doctor. You can make these changes. If you will
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the offense, the critical spirit, the negative attitude,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get that spring back in your step. You'll not
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  Speaker 1: only enjoy life more, but you'll see favor in greater ways.
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  Speaker 1: What could you be if your heart was totally unclogged?
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  Speaker 1: How high could you fly if you didn't have contaminants
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  Speaker 1: holding you back? It's time to find out. Get up
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  Speaker 1: every morning. Start putting on this fresh new attitude. This
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  Speaker 1: day is a gift from God. It is filled with possibilities,
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  Speaker 1: new ideas, new friendships.