Joel Osteen - Developing A Habit of Happiness

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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And of course you know these are just jokes. They're
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And I heard about this lady.

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She had a heart attack and on the operating table
she said, God, is this it?

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And God said no, You've got forty more years.

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So after recovery, she decided to stay in the hospital
and have a major face length liposuction, tummy tucking Moore
an extreme makeover. Two months later, when she checked out.
She was walking down the street and got hit by
a car and killed. She got to heaven and said, God,
I thought I had forty more years. God shook his
head and said, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you. All right,

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hold up your bible. Say it like you mean it.
This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
I have what it says I have. I can do
what it says I can do.

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Today I will be taught the word of God.

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I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
bless you. I want to talk to you today about
developing a habit of happiness. Many people don't realize how
we approach life. Our attitude, our demeanor, our joy, our peace.

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Much of this is learned behavior. These are habits that
we have formed throughout the years. And our mind is
just like a computer. How we program it is how
it's going to function. And if we've spent years worrying
or getting upset when things don't go our way, focusing
on what's wrong rather than what's right, then these negative

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patterns are going to keep us from really enjoying our lives,
and many of the habits that we have today we
learn from our parents or from the people that were
around us growing up. The studies all tell us that
negative parents.

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Are going to raise negative children.

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And if your parents focused on what's wrong, maybe they
live stressed, out, uptight, discouraged. There's a chance you may
have developed some of these same negative mindsets. Now Here,
too many people say, well, Joel, this is just who
I am. I'm just a worrier, I'm just uptired, I'm
just not that friendly. Now, please understand those are habits

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that you have developed, and the good news is they
can be changed. You can reprogram your computer, you can
get rid of a negative mentality, and you can develop
a habit of happiness. And the scripture says here in
First Thessalonians five verse sixteen, rejoice in the Lord always.
One translation simply says be happy all the time.

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Think about it.

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That means, no matter what comes our way, we should
have a smile on our face.

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We should get up each morning excited about that day.

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And even in our negative circumstances, we need to learn
to keep a positive outlook. I know too many people
today they're waiting for all their circumstances to get worked
out before they decide to be happy, Joel, as soon
as I get a better job, as soon as my
child straightens up, as soon as my health improves. Now,
bottom line is, if you're going to be happy, you

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need to make a decision to be happy right now.
Happiness does not depend on our circumstances.

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It depends on our will. It's a choice that we make.

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And a person that's developed this habit of happiness, no
matter what comes against them, they rise above it.

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They don't let it still their joy.

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I've seen people go through some of the most negative,
unfortunate situations, and yet at the time you would never
even know they were having a problem. They had a
smile on their face. They've got a good report, they're positive,
they're energetic.

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Yet other people in similar.

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Circumstances they're down, depressed, discouraged, worried. What's the difference. It's
all in how they've trained their mind. One person has
developed this habit of happiness. They're hopeful, they're trusting, they're
believing for the best. The other person has trained their
mind to see the negative. They're worried, they're frustrated. It
all starts right here. And if we're going to develop

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this habit of happiness, we've got to learn to just
go with the flow instead of getting frustrated. We've got
to believe that God's in control of our lives instead
of living stressed out and worried. And we've got to
be grateful for what we have other than complaining about
what we don't have. Really, it boils down to you
have to stay on the positive side of life. And understand,

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God did not create a single negative person.

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He didn't make any.

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Of us to live depressed, stressed out, worried, frustrated.

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We were created to be happy. We were created to
be at peace, to be content, to enjoy our lives.

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And we're supposed to be an example of what it
means to live a life of faith.

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When people see us.

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They should see so much joy, so much peace, so
much happiness.

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That they would want what we have. Now, I want
to ask you today.

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To examine your own life. Are you as happy as
you know you should be down in here? Do you
get up each day excited about your future? Are you
enjoying your family, enjoying your friends? If not, find out
what's stealing your joy what's causing you to get upset?

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Why are you worrying?

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Identify what it is, take inventory, and then take it
one step further and start retraining your mind in those
particular areas. Don't go the next ten years getting upset
over the exact same things. For instance, maybe your husband
or your wife does something that irritates you, kind of
gets on your nerves, and normally it just ruins the
rest of your day. Well, the fact is you cannot

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control that person. They may not ever change. I hope
they do, But don't you go the rest of your
life allowing that to steal your joy, change your approach,
retrain your mind, and next time that happens, instead of
falling into that trap getting all upset, just say no,
I'm not gonna go there.

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That's not worth getting frustrated over. I'm gonna keep my peace.
I'm gonna stay happy anyway.

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What I'm saying today is we do not have to
allow our circumstances to steal our joy. And really, life
is way too short to go around day after day negative, discourage, depressed.
Now you need to reprogram your computer. You need to
get rid of these wrong mindsets. And do you know
so many times, you could make a small change and

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it'll make a huge difference in your life.

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Some of you.

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All you need to do is make a minor adjustment
in your attitude or a minor adjustment and how you
treat people a minor adjustment, and how you respond to problems.

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If you'd make this small change and.

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Develop these new mindsets, you'd see your joy, your.

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Happiness go to a whole new level.

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Years ago, the Russian scientist named Pavlov did an experiment
with his dogs.

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He was studying their habits.

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And how they responded to certain situations, trying to learn
more about human nature, and every time he went to
feed them, he would ring a bell, and when the
dogs saw the food, they'd get very excited and start salivating.
They couldn't wait to eat, and over the next couple
of weeks, every time he fed them he made sure
he first rang that bell, and over time the dogs

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associated the ringing of.

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The bell with the presence of food.

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Well, a couple of weeks later, he decided to try
something different. He started ringing the bell at odd times
when he wasn't feeding them. Wanted to see what they
would do, and every time he rang the bell.

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Even though there was no food.

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Dogs couldn't smell anything, couldn't see anything, didn't matter, the
dogs still started salivating in their minds they were about
to eat.

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It happened time and time again.

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It became known as a conditioned response, and I believe
many times that's just what happens to us.

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We've allowed ourselves to.

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Have all these negative conditioned responses. For instance, we get
stuck in traffic and without missing a beat, our blood
pressure shoots sky high. We get all upset, or we
get up in the morning we don't feel excited, so
without thinking twice, we just dragged through the day in
a sour mood.

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Or maybe at the office.

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Somebody doesn't speak to us, somebody kind of ignores us.

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Instead of letting it go giving.

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Them the benefit of the doubt, we get offended, go
around in self pity. It's just like clockwork. We're conditioned
to respond in a certain way. The only reason it
had happens is because we've been doing it year after
year after year. We've developed these negative mindsets and many
times I've seen that's what's.

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Stealing our joy.

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And I'm asking us today to take inventory and let's
retrain these negative responses. You get up in the morning,
you may not feel very excited, you may feel depressed,
you may not feel like going to work.

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But instead of doing what.

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You normally may do and drag through the day thinking
nothing good ever happens to me, this is gonna be
a lousy day. No break out of that rut. That's
a conditioned response. That's exactly what the enemy wants you
to keep doing.

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And you need to throw him a curve.

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Next time you get out of bed and you don't
feel too hot, no matter what those circumstances look like,
you need to say with David, this is the day.

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The Lord has made.

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I'm gonna enjoy it. I'm gonna be happy today. You
need to just speak that out by faith. Every time
you do that, you are retraining your mind. You are
forming a new habit, and it'll get easier and easier.
And just as we can all these negative habits defeat discouragement,
getting upset, self pity, we can form a habit of happiness.

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We can develop a habit of even enjoying every single day.
And I believe that every one of us can come
up higher in this area. You may be happy, but
you know what, you can even be happier. Raise the bar,
train your mind to see the good, be grateful for
what you have, and get rid of any negative conditioned response. Friends,

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there's too much sadness in our world today. Many people
are even sick physically because they are living.

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So stressed out, uptight and worried. And I know.

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Sometimes depression is caused by a chemical imbalance, but I
see too many people dragging around defeated, depressed, all because
they've developed the wrong habit of focusing on the negative.
They focus on their problems, they focus on what's wrong,
They focus on what.

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They don't have. Listen, you've got to learn to change
your focus.

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You can have the smallest part problem, but if you
stay focused on it, it'll get bigger and bigger and bigger.
It'll steal your joy, steal your peace, It'll steal your happiness.
Look away from that. Don't magnify your problem, magnify your God.
You got to get out of doubt and come over
into faith. Get out of that discouragement, come over into joy.
Make a decision with me today that you're going to

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live your life happy. And when I say happy, I
don't mean that we're laughing all the time. That's not
really realistic. I'm talking about we're content. In fact, one
definition of joy is calm delight. That means we're at peace,
We've got a smile on our face. We're excited about
our future. Yes we have problems, Yes we all have

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obstacles to overcome, but we're not worried about it. We
know God's in control. We know He's got us in
the palm of his hand. I love that scripture. If
God be for us, who dare even be against us?
But the whole key is we must retrain our mind
away from these negative conditioned responses.

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I mean, I know.

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People that practically get depressed every Monday morning.

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They don't like going to work. It's called the Monday
morning blues.

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And really, when you think about it, there is nothing
any different about Monday than any other day of the week.
They've just developed the wrong habit of dreading that particular day.
I even read where we are seventy percent more likely
to have a heart attack Monday morning than any other
time of the week. They did all this research, all
they can figure out is people are just more uptight,

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more stressed out on Monday than any other time a
wrong mindset we've developed. I've seen people anytime they get
stuck in traffic, it'll just ruin the rest of their day.
Yet at the same time, there'll be a car next
to them, and that person is singing a song of praise,
probably one of you. They've got a smile on their face.
They're enjoying that day. The only difference is in how

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they train their minds. One person has trained their mind
to relax, to go with the flow, they know God's
still in control. The other person that's trained their mind
to be upset, to be rigid, to fight against.

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Everything that doesn't go their way.

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Even leaving out of here today, you can say, man,
look at all the cars. Look at all the traffic.
It's gonna take me forever. Or you can say, man,
look at all the cars. Isn't it great? How many
people came out to worship God. It's all in how
we used to see it. If you complain about the traffic,
the officer is gonna get your name. We're gonna put
you up on the big screen next week. I love

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what the apostle Paul said. I have learned how to
be content no matter what state I'm in. Think about it,
he said, I have learned. In other words, he was saying,
this didn't happen automatically. I had to train my mind
to stay at peace. I had to train my mind
to look on the bright side, had to train my
mind to focus on the good. Same thing we have

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to do. Happiness is not going to fall on us.

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It's a choice we have to make, and.

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Really being positive doesn't necessarily come naturally. We have to
make that decision, and I believe it's a daily choice.
Our mind, left alone most of the time will drift
toward the negative. I see it happen all the time.
If we don't stay on the offensive, little by little,
we get more and more sullen. We don't smile as much,

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We're not as much fun to be around. We start
to find faults, we start to get critical. No, stay aggressive.
Don't allow these negative habits to form. When you get
out of bed in the morning, you need to make
yourself put a smile on your face. You've got to
set the tone right at the very start of the day.

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I found out this.

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If you don't set the tone, the enemy will set
the tone for you.

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Hey, you say, Joel.

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If I smile if I play like I'm in a
good mood, I'm just faking it because really I'm depressed.

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I got so many problems.

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So you've got to realize when you smile, that's an
act of faith. When you smile, you're sending a message
to your whole body that everything's going to be all right.
If you will just dig your heels in and no
matter what your s circumstances look like, start having this
positive attitude of faith, then you're so in a seed
for God to work in your life.

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I read about this couple.

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They were in college studying to get their degrees, and
they lived in this apartment complex, and next door to
them was this other young college couple. They became very
good friends. They had a lot in common. The only
difference was this second couple seemed to get all the breaks.
They lived in the corner apartment. It was much bigger
and nicer than the other ones. They had their apartment

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furnished with brand new furniture. This other couple just had
a table and a bed, barely had any furniture. This
one couple they wore nice clothes, the latest fashions, while
the other couple they just wore the same clothes again
and again, and at one point both of the men
were trying to get an assistant teaching job there at
the university, but once again the second man got it.

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This first young man was just so frustrating, couldn't seem
to get any breaks. And to top this all off,
at Christmas time, this second couple they were given a
brand new, fancy sports car from their parents.

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This first couple, they just had an.

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Old, beat up pickup truck, didn't have any air conditioning,
was hot and humid. And he told how many times
they'd be driving to class in the morning, sweat and miserable,
and they'd look over and see their friends in that
brand new sports car.

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Just like pouring salt on the wound. This one on.

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Week after week, and this young man got more and
more negative, more and more depressed. He started complaining about it.

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Before long, he.

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Was at odds with his wife. They started arguing in fighting.
They'd never had problems before. But see, that's exactly what happens.
Negative attitudes will spread to every area.

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Of our lives. They'll start to drag us down.

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One day, this young man was in his statistics class
there at the campus, and he'd spent several hours entering
all this data into his computer. He was working on
this very long, complicated equation. He had to get the
numbers all lined up, got him in the right order,
the right column, and then he hit the computer asking
it to give him the answer. When he did, he

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sat back and folded his arms. He thought it would
take maybe ten or fifteen minutes for the computer to
calculate all that information, but much to his surprise, when
he looked up, the computer was already finished. He couldn't
believe it. He thought, man, it took me hours to
put this in. The computer gave him the answer in
less than one tenth of a second. Now about that time,
the college professor came by and noticed that he looked

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kind of perplexed, and he asked him what was wrong,
and the young man said, well, nothing's wrong. I just
spent all this time putting this in the computer, and
I don't really see how it could calculate it this fast.
And the professor said, well, that's easy. Let me explain,
and he told how the computer takes every bit of data,
takes every number, and it gives it either a positive

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electrical impulse and then stores it away or it gives
it a negative electrical impulse and then stores it away.
Then the computer simply recalled the information and combines it
in the right order. But the reason it can do
it so quickly is because the information has already been categorized.

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Then the professor said something that really got the young
men's attention. He said, the computer works much like the
human brain. Before anything ever goes into our mental computer,
before any.

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Site, sound, taste, feel.

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Intuition, before it gets stored up here, it's first either
stamped positive or it stamped negative. Then that sensation is
permanently stored in our memory. And that's why sometimes you
can't remember a person's name, but you can remember how
you felt about that person. The professor went on to say,
but unlike a computer, every person develops a habit of

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mainly programming their mind positive or negative.

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When he said that, a light turned on in that
young man.

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He realized he was sitting around making himself miserable without
even knowing it. He was stamping every single thing negative.
They've got a bigger apartment negative, they've got a better car, negative,
they get all the breaks negative. He began to see
the reason he wasn't enjoying his life was because everything
he was putting in was negative.

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And what you put in is what you're going to
get out.

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And you may have negative circumstances, maybe you didn't get
good breaks, maybe you didn't get the position you were
longing for. But instead of just automatically stamping it negative
and storing it away, or your attitude should be, I
know God has something better in store for me. I
know when one door closes, God's going to open up
another door. When you do that, you just took that

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negative situation, you turned it around and stamped it positive,
stored it away. Even in our most difficult times, maybe
you lost a loved one. I know that can be painful,
but our attitude should be I know where they are.
They're at a better place, a place of joy, a
place of peace. When we do that, we're stamping it positive.
Pay more attention to what you're feeding yourself. Are you

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storing away more positive or more negative some of you?
If you don't make these changes, you're not gonna live
a happy life because you cannot keep putting everything in
negative self pity, discouraging poor old me, and expect to
live a positive, happy life. Well Joel, I got caught
by train last week. I missed an important meeting. No,
just turn it around, father. I thank you that you

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have me at the right place at the right time.
I am not gonna get depressed. I believe you're directed
my steps and you're gonna turn it around and use
it for my good. When you do that, you're stamping
it positive. That's how we can develop a habit of happiness.
I read where there's something in our brain called a
reticular activating system has to do with our memory, with

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our habits, and basically it's a function where our mind
eliminates the thoughts and the impulses that it deems unnecessary.
For instance, one time, my sister used to live in
a town home right beside the railroad tracks, and every night,
two or three times a night, that train would come
roaring by blowing its horn. It literally shook that place,

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and every time it would wake Lisa up. But as
the weeks went by, she got more and more used
to that, and when she'd hear the train in the
middle of the night, even subconsciously, she would tell her mind,
I don't need this, I don't want to wake up.
This is unnecessary information. In the first couple of weeks,
the mind just continued to send the message, but Lisa

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just wouldn't.

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Respond to it. She just kept tuning it out.

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And the way this reticular activating system works is after
a while, the mind says, you know what, they don't
need this information. They're not responding, they're not paying attention,
so we're not even going to send it any longer.
Several months later, Lisa was able to sleep all through
the night. I remember one time I stayed at her
house when that train came by in the middle of
the night. I bet you I jumped three feet off

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the bed. It sounded like the world was coming to
an end. And here I look over there and Lisa
just sleeping like a baby, sound asleep, got drool running
down the side of her face. But what's the difference
between her and me. The fact is that reticular activating
system in her mind has kicked in and it's not
sending her those messages any longer. And my point is,

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I believe that we can train our mind in such
a positive fashion that when these negative, discouraging thoughts come,
they won't affect us anymore. When that thought of fear comes,
learn to tune it out like Lisa did. That depressing
thought is going to be a lousy day. Tune it out,
and if you'll keep it up, before long, your mind's
going to say, you know what, they don't need this information.

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They're not paying attention. Don't even send the thought of fear.
Don't even send the thought of worry.

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Just like that train.

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I believe we can tune it out so long that
our mind won't even send us any of those negative
messages anymore. Really, all we should be tuned into are
thoughts of joy, thoughts of peace, thoughts of faith, thoughts
of hope, thoughts of victory. That's that's what happens when
we stamp everything positive.

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I see too many people today.

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Their thinking is so out of balance that their mind
is working totally against them.

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It's doing exactly opposite of what it should do.

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It's tuning out everything good, and it's only tuning in
the worry, the fear, the pain of the past, the negative.
And it's all because that's what they're choosing to dwell on.
That's what they're grasping hold of. Listen, you've got to
learn to tune that junk out. You've got to retrain
your mind. Well, Joel, it's my children. They're not doing good.

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They got off course. I'm so worried about it. No,
just turn that around. Father, Thank you that my children
are blessed. They're making good decisions. I declare what your
word says. As for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord. Kind of tune that junk out. Well, Joel,
it's my finances. Yes, it's so high. Business is slow.
I don't see how I'm gonna make it. No, tune
that out and start tuning in. God is supplying all

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of my needs. He's Jehovah Jarrah, the Lord, my provider.
Everything I touched prospers and succeeds.

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I am blessed.

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I cannot because see, we got a break free from
these negative habits in our mind, discouragement, self pity, getting upset,
and let's start developing this habit of happiness.

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I was watching the news the other day.

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They were interviewing these people that had come out of
the hurricane. Person after person came up and told their story,
and most of them were very negative, very bitter, blaming people,
blaming the government, blaming God.

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But about that time, this one.

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Young lady stepped up to the microphone, and you could
tell there was something different about her. She had a
big smile on her face, looked like she had a
glow about her. I mean, you could see the joy
and the peace on her life. And the reporter asked her,
somewhat sarcastically, Okay, tell us your story.

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What's wrong.

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She said, no, nothing's wrong. I'm not here to complain.
I'm simply here to thank God that I'm still alive.
I'm here to thank God that I've got my health.
I'm here to thank God that my children are And
you can tell that the reporter was kind of taken back.
I mean, this lady was a breath of fresh air.
And everybody had been complaining about not having any power,

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no electricity, and it was very hot, so they didn't
have any air conditioning. And the reporter asked her, well,
what about your power? You have any air conditioning. The
lady said no, I not only don't have any power,
I don't even have my home. It was swept away
in the flood. But she said, I'll tell you what
I do have. She reached down and picked up her Bible.
She said, I have my hope, I have my joy.

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I have my peace, she said, I know God is
on my side. See that lady chose to take a negative,
unfortunate situation, somehow, some way she turned it around and
she stamped positive on it. She refused to tune in
those thoughts of self pity. She refused to allow her

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negative circumstances to steal her joy. She was saying, in effect,
I know God's still in control of my life. He said,
A little sparrow would not fall to the ground without
him seeing it, so I know he's watching over me.
I know he's gonna take.

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Care of me and my kids.

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And it's my prayer that you and I would come
to that same place where we would be so peaceful,
so trusting, so at rests, so positive that our mind
wouldn't even bother sending.

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The negative messages.

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Our mind would think, you know what, they're not gonna
pay attention. It's not gonna be any use unless you
save our time and energy. Friends, let me challenge you
train your mind to see the good, get rid of
any of these negative conditioned responses. Everybody around you may
be complaining. You may have a good right to live
depressed and worried and in self pity. But I'm asking

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you to walk away from that and make a decision
to develop a habit of happiness. Learn to go with
the flow, believe God's in control of your life, find
the good in every situation. If you'll do what the
scripture says and simply be happy at all times, I
can promise you this. You're not only in you or
your life more, but you'll rise higher and higher. God

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will pour out his blessings in favor and you'll live
that life of victory he has in story.

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Amen here you receive it today. Well, I know you do.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
But we never like to close our broadcast without giving
you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.
Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I
repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make
you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that
simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in

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a good Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's
going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 2 (27:53):
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We'll see you next time.