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Well, God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes. If you're ever in our area, please stop by and be a part of one of our services.

Our promise will make you feel right at home. I like to start with something funny and I heard about this lady that died.

She was at the pearly gates and St. Peter said, you can't come in yet. You have to correctly spell a word. She said what word?

He said any word. So she spelled the word love, L-O-V-E. He said welcome to heaven.

Then Peter asked her if she would take his place for just a moment. He instructed her if anybody came up just to follow the same procedure.

A few minutes she sees her ex-husband walking up. She can't believe it. She said what are you doing here? He said I just had a heart attack.

Did I really make it to heaven? She said not yet. You have to spell a word correctly. He said what word? There was a long pause and she said check us Lavakia.

I want to talk to you today about empty and out the negative. It's easy to go through life holding on to things that are weighing us down.

Guilt, resentment, doubt, worry. The problem is when we allow these things in, they're taking up space for the good things that should be there.

Imagine your life is like a container. You are created to be filled with joy, peace, confidence, creativity.

But if you allow worry in, it pushes out the peace. There's not space for both. You can't go above 100%. You have a limited amount of room.

If you allow guilt to take up space, that space that you don't have for the confidence you need.

The reason some people don't enjoy their lives is because they're container. Their heart is contaminated with so many things.

They have 10% worried, stressed out over their job, 12% bitterness, mad at their neighbor, 20% guilt, beating themselves up for past mistakes, 9% jealousy, their co-worker is more beautiful.

They don't realize 70% of their container is negative. They wonder why they don't have joy, creativity, passion. They only have room for 30% of what they should have.

The scripture says, give no place to the enemy. It's not just talking about forces of darkness. That means give no place to guilt. Give no place to worry. Give no place to bitterness.

It can't come in and automatically take over. You control what's in your container. You control what you think about, what you choose to allow in.

We all have negative emotions, negative feelings. You have to make the choice. I'm not going to give this jealousy, this bitterness, this anger, valuable space and let it poison my life.

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