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When I found out that the way to overcome evil was with good, now that's something every single one of us can do.

And it's especially powerful when you're good to your enemies.

I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt.

Well, thank you for joining me today on enjoying everyday life.

And, you know, the truth is, the more of the word that you know,

and the more of it you apply to your life, the more you will enjoy every single day of your life.

Today and for the next two days, I'm going to talk about something that I think is really important.

I'm going to talk about determination. Now, let me just say first of all that we can't do

anything just by self-will apart from God helping us. So we're not talking about just, hey, just

toughen up and do it without God. But we do have to apply our determination to do the things that God wants us to do,

whether that's something that is in His Word or rather it's something that he puts on our heart.

And so in this first message today, I want to talk a lot about being determined to keep a good attitude.

I saw all the eyes go up.

That's good. That means you need it.

Keeping a good attitude no matter what is going on in your life.

And that is a challenge.

But the more spiritually mature we are, the more we're able to do that.

I don't think Jesus ever had a bad attitude.

And he certainly had a lot more test and trials than we do.

And so we're going to start by talking about Joseph,

because Joseph was a guy who started out being thrown in a pit by his brothers,

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