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[Music] There's faith and there's fear. Fear presents as a feeling, but the word “fear” actually means to take flight or to run away from. And you can feel fear and yet not be [Music] afraid. Now, maybe you have to think about that a little, but you can feel fear and yet not have to be afraid.
I'm going to ask you tonight—here's a, here's—this is the decision that I want you to make this weekend. All the money we spend to come to do these things and the offerings that we receive here don't go to pay for these conferences; they go for exactly what we tell you they're going for. They all go for outreaches. If I can just get you to make this one decision this weekend, if God can use me to help you make this one decision, it'll all be worth it. And here's what I want you to decide: Are you going to continue to let your feelings be the basis on which you make decisions, or are you going to go beyond that, live beyond your feelings, and live by the word of [Applause] God?
I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel, and I don't feel. Emotions are the believer's number one enemy besides the devil, but he used emotions, feelings, to either keep us from doing the right thing or to get us to do the wrong thing. How many of you agree that feelings get in your way a lot? And feelings out of control can cause you to make a lot of wrong decisions; that you do things because of those feelings that you then regret for many, many, many, many years. You know, one bad decision, if it's a big enough decision, can alter your entire life. Amen.
They're opposing, they're opposing forces: faith and fear. Fear gives the devil access to our lives. Faith gives God access to our lives. I, I want to say it again. I don't, I, I don't plan to hurry because I want you to get this: Fear, which if you want to make a little anagram out of it, means false evidence appearing real. Fear is what gives the devil access to your life. He lies; if we believe it, then we're deceived. That's what deception is: to believe a lie. But the thing that's interesting is whatever you believe, even if what you believe is not true, it becomes true for you. That's kind of scary when you think about it.
Now, I've learned a lot of the truth over 45 years, but I can tell you, standing here right now, that I'm still learning every day, and I probably still believe things that aren't true, but they're true for me because I haven't found out the truth about them yet. I wonder how many things you believe about yourself that aren't true, or how many things you believe about God that aren't true. You know, God's not the source of your problems, and when something bad happens in your life, it's not because God is mad at you and he's punishing you. Believe it or not, good preachers are not just out to get your [Applause] money. It's interesting to me that people talk to you about money everywhere you go, and the only place you get mad about it is in church. We ate at one of your nice restaurants today, and they brought us the bill. All we ask you to do is give something to help somebody else around the world. Why is it, why is it that people will pay sixty and seventy-five dollars to go to a concert, not think a thing about it, but when somebody's giving you life-changing word, well, they're just out to get your money. There they go talking about money again. I don't know why I got off on that, but somebody must have needed it. You know why I said it? Because the devil comes and whispers that stuff in your ear, and you believe it.
I'm going to say it again: How many lies do you think you believe? It's pretty scary, really, when you think about it. See, because I was abused, I always thought that I would have a second-rate life. I just planned it. I remember when I was a kid and my dad was abusing me week in and week out, sexually. I remember thinking, well, I, I'll never have a really good life. You know, maybe okay life, but I'll never have a really good life. But see, that was a lie from Satan, because what God has given me is a better life. I mean, seriously, not only did I not have a bad life because of it, but God took what Satan meant for harm, turned it around to my good, and I've been able to use it to help millions of people all over the [Applause] world. The devil is such a liar, and we need to not forget that. The Bible says we have to fight the good fight of faith.
Sometimes you do have to stand firm and hold on to your faith because everything that you see looks like it's not working, and everything that you feel seems like it's not working, and so many things happen to us that just don't seem to be fair. And life isn't fair, but God is. I love to teach on the character of God, and I love every part of God's character, but I think my favorite part is that God is just. And you know what that means? He makes everything that's wrong right. I love that. So you see, people really can't mistreat you and get by with it—not if you handle it God's way. And I have to throw that in there because if you don't handle it God's way, then yes, they can hurt you. If somebody hurts you and you spend your life hating them, then the devil has gotten just exactly what he wants. But if you forgive them, no matter how you feel, and you pray for them like the Bible says, and you bless them, and you would even go so far as to help them if they needed help—an enemy helping an enemy—I mean, how dumb does that feel? But we live in what seems like to be an upside-down kingdom that's actually right side up. The last will be first, and the first will be last. If you want more money, you've got to give away some of what you've got. I mean, go—you just go ahead and try to compute some of the stuff in your brain; you'll drive yourself crazy trying to figure it all out. You either get around to saying, “Look, I'm not trying to figure any of it out anymore. God, I just believe it. You said it; I believe it. Period.” Amen.
And I love the fact that God is just. I have seen him take so many things in my life that were unjust and turn them around for good, and I tell you what: He will do the same thing for you, but not if you're bitter and have a chip on your shoulder and feel sorry for yourself. Let me tell you something: Everybody has been hurt. Everybody's been hurt. Everybody's had a loss. Everybody's had unfair things happen to them. And if you walked in here tonight feeling sorry for yourself because your life has not been the way you thought it would be, then I beg you to please just leave it tonight. Don't attend one more pity party. Just tell the devil, “No, thank you. I'm turning my life around. I'm going to get thankful and grateful for what God is doing in my [Applause] life now.”
Faith is extremely important because the Bible says, “Without faith it is impossible to please God.” Wow. Because anyone who comes to him must believe. Everybody say, “Believe.” Believe. They must believe two things: Number one, that he is—that God exists; and number two, that he's good, that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. Now, don't, don't miss it: He's not just a rewarder for anybody. Not just anybody will experience the goodness of God, but those who diligently seek him. Not just those who seek him on Easter and Christmas, but those who diligently seek him. Come on. Not just those who seek God when they have an emergency. It's amazing how, when we have big trouble in our life, how we find time for God, and how somehow we're too busy the rest of the time when things are going good. Oh, if we could just learn that, whether we know it or not, we're desperate all the time. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. Without faith, we cannot receive and walk in God's good plan for our life. God has already got a good plan for your life; it's already, already planned before you ever even showed up here on planet Earth. God planned a most awesome, amazing life for you, if you would walk in it. And the way you walk in it is by learning this wonderful book that I love with all my heart, learning what's in it, and doing what it says. You know, God's plan is so simple that a two-year-old could get it: Read it, believe it, do [Applause] it.
I like the song that they sang tonight: “God's way is better.” Boy, is that ever true, man. I tried it my own way for so long. How many of you tried it your own way for so long? Some of you still are, and that's why you're here tonight. Guess what? Your way is not going to work, and God is not going to change his mind, and he's not going to feel sorry for [Applause] you. Oh, come on. We try to get God to feel sorry for us. “Well, God, I just can't take any more of this. I just—God, I'm just going to give up.” When? Hell no, you won't.
What happened to my pretty crystal glass? Well, I drink tea a lot of times, and before the meetings it kind of keeps my throat clear, but when I get lipstick around the rim of the cup and then I drink it, I get these little lines that go up here. So you got my cup over there. So my brilliant team had me a sippy cup [Applause] made. Ain't that cool? I said, “Where in the world do you get—” You can get anything on the internet, anything at all. So I have a sippy cup. Don't you love the word—I mean, I really love God's word. You know, the Bible says to meditate on the word of God. In Joshua it says, “Meditate on the word day and night, that you might observe and do according to all that's written therein, for then you shall make your way prosperous and have good success.” Meditating on the word is like chewing on it—it's like, you know, if you, if you don't chew your food well, if you swallow it whole, you don't get any of the nutrition out of it. But the more you chew it, chew it well, you not only get the flavor, but you get the nutrition, you get the vitamins. And the word is like that. The Bible says that the measure of thought and study that you give to the truth that you hear is the measure of virtue and knowledge that will come back to you again. So I'm glad you're here tonight, but I'll be honest with you: If you go off and never think again about what was said here tonight, it won't do you too much good. And that's part of our problem: We go and plop down in a seat somewhere, and we want some preacher or some teacher who's done all the work to feed us, and we get lazy and don't do anything ourselves. I'm glad you're here, but if I, if, if you said, “Look, I'm going to do one of two things: I'm either going to come in here to you, or I'm going to study myself,” I'd tell you to stay home and study yourself. You know why? Because you've got to have a personal relationship with God. You've got to get up close to God [Applause] yourself. Spend time thinking about the word, meditating on the word, roll it over and over in your mind. All that downtime you have when your mind goes to places where it shouldn't go, instead just think about the word. Let scriptures roll over and over in your mind. Oh, you've got more stuff in you than you could even possibly imagine. If I just wanted to start doing it, I could stand up here and just probably quote scripture the rest of the night, not because I've memorized it, but because I've got it down in me. And the Bible says that the Holy Spirit will bring things out of us when we need it.
In John 6:28 and 29, the disciples asked Jesus—and this is a question that we all ask a lot—“What must we do to please God? What must we do to be working the works that God requires?” And Jesus said, “This is the work that God requires of you: that you believe in the one whom he has sent.” It's not our works that God's after; he wants us to believe him. And if we believe him, we will do the good works. But here's where religion gets it mixed up: You don't do good works to get God to love you; you receive his love as a free gift, and then you want to do good works because you love him and because he loves [Applause] you. And if you never learn that, then all your—you spend all your time maybe struggling to do good things, but the reason you're doing them is not right, so you lose your reward. Because if my motive is not right, then we don't get the reward that God wants us to have. It's not so important what we're doing as why we're doing it. Amen. Why did you come here tonight? Did you come to just see what I look like in person? Yeah, sounds like some of you did. Well, now that that's over with, you can learn something. Boy, if I were you, I don't care what your plans were, I'd get myself here toor in tomorrow morning. I'd make a day out of it. Stay here tomorrow afternoon. Make the devil mad. Say, “I'm going to learn. I'm going to grow up. I'm going to be a strong Christian. I'm going to get you back for everything you've ever done to [Applause] me.”
You say, “Well, I just wish I had more faith.” Let me tell you something: Wishing will not get you anything in the kingdom of God. You don't need a wishbone; you need [Applause] a backbone. You have all the faith that you need. Every single one of you has all the faith that you need to do anything and everything that God has asked you to do, and you have all the faith that you need to go through anything that this life throws at you. “My, I can't do this. I can't do this.” Oh, yes, you can. You could amaze yourself. It's our thinking that defeats us. That's right. That's right. If you believe you can, you can; if you believe you can't, you can't. By the grace of God, I say to every one of you, Romans 12:3, “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought to, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment in accordance with the faith that God has distributed to each one.” One of you. So what he's saying here is whatever you can do, if you can do a good thing, if you have a talent or a gift, don't ever think that makes you better than somebody else, because the only reason you can do it is because God has given you the faith to do it. And let me tell you something: Humility is one of the hardest virtues to come by, and it is one of the most important ones that we can develop—to not think you're better than other people, to not look down on other people, to not critically judge other people, to not look at people and think, “Well, I would never do that.” Yeah, well, that's just about when God's going to let you fall on your face. Come on, this is good for you. We're not having dessert tonight; we're having some grow-up groceries. Amen. And you want it; you love it. You want to grow. Dessert tastes good, but you can't live on it; it'll make you sick if that's all you ever have. Well, we're given enough faith to do anything God wants us to do. Do you believe that? That you, you, you have right now enough faith to do anything that God wants you to do? I said, you have enough faith to do anything God wants you to [Applause] do.
I went through hell when I was growing up. You want to get the devil back for everything he's ever done to you? Well, you just start being good to as many people as you can be good to. You bless everybody you go near. You learn the word, and you live by it. [Applause] Amen. But we've got to choose to walk in faith. The Bible says, “Walk in faith,” and a walk is just a whole bunch of different steps put together. And so to me, those are like choices. We have to always be choosing: Am I going to walk in faith, or am I going to walk in fear? Am I going to walk in faith, or am I going to walk by how I feel? Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. When I see it, I don't need faith anymore. Faith is for the in-between. Mark 11:24 says that whatever we ask for, believe that you receive it, and you will get it. But it doesn't tell you when you'll get it. God's smart. I just think that's the cutest scripture. Once you get it, believe you have received it, even though you can't see it. It's mine; it's on its way. I believe it. Every time you get discouraged, the devil tries to tell you you're not going to get it. You see, yep, it's on its way. It's on its way. God is faithful; it's on its way. You know, everything has to have an opposing force. We wouldn't know joy without depression; we wouldn't know kindness without harshness; we wouldn't know what quiet is without noise; and on and on and on. But choice equals responsibility. And sometimes we like to take responsibility for the good things that happen in our life, but then when something goes wrong, it's not my fault; it's always somebody else's fault. You know, this is a scary scripture to me: Romans 14:23, “Whatever is not of faith is sin.” Now, he's talking about them eating meat that had been offered to idols, but there's a principle here we don't want to miss. He says, “Even though it's not wrong for you to eat it, if you eat it and you think it's wrong, it's wrong for you.” So he says, “Whatever is not of faith is sin.” So anything we do that we don't really have the faith to do, but we do it anyway, it's not just an oops; it's sin. You know, dread is a type of fear. How many things do you dread? I dread doing dishes. How many times a week do you say, “I dread this. I dread going to the grocery store.” Some of you drove a long way to get here, and you're already dreading the drive home. Come on. Some of you didn't get a good parking place, and you've got to walk a long way, and you're dreading to walk back, and you've been complaining the whole time that you didn't get the right parking place. You ought to, you ought to get down on your face and thank God you can even get in the building, that there's even something like this for you to have. Amen. Yeah, you need the book on the power of thank you. Let me tell you something: If you think I'm rough on you, I'm just as rough on myself. Dread and regret—they're both useless because they don't—they're not in the now. We regret things we did in the past; we can't do anything about them. We dread things in the future that we're going to have to do anyway, so why dread them? The devil loves it when you dread things. You can have fun no matter what you do. Took me a long time to learn that. Dave's a kind of guy—he always has fun, always. Sometimes when I don't think it's funny, he wants to have fun. And when we were young and had little kids, he'd go to the grocery store. We had one car, so he'd go to the grocery store, and we'd take all the kids, and I—it was like a nightmare. And we, we only had a certain amount of money. I think it was seventy dollars for two weeks' worth of groceries, and so I had to clip every coupon I could find and take a calculator with me and calculate everything I was buying. And you know how we are: We get all the stuff that looks good. Don't ever go to the grocery store hungry; it is a bad mistake to go to the grocery store hungry. And if you pay attention to the way they've got the store laid out, all the stuff that you really have to have is in the last rows—the milk, the eggs, the cheese, all that kind of stuff—it's in the very last row you go into. And so you've already spent too much money by the time you get there, so they're hoping you'll overspend, or you're one of those people like I used to be: You pick the things out of your cart that you can't afford to pay for, and instead of taking them back and putting them where you should put them, you put them in with the cleanser or the dish soap or something like that. Amen. You say, “What kind of crazy person leaves a head of lettuce in with the dishwashing soap?” Me. I did that. But if Dave was going to go to the store, Dave was going to have fun. And he's six-four, and so he can see things that I can't see. Like he would—he could get in one aisle, and he could see me, but I couldn't see him. And so he would pick something soft that wouldn't hurt me, like, you know, a roll of toilet paper or something, and he'd throw it over—that would hit me, and then he'd chase the kids around with the cart, and I would get madder and madder and mad—I mean, to the point where I thought I was going to explode. And I got my calculator, I got my coupons, and I'm, I'm like, “I am trying to get these groceries and get them paid for, get them in the car, get them home, put them away.” He said, “I'm just trying to have a little fun.” Now, obviously, you know, anybody can go overboard with being like that, but it's true: There's so many things that we dread that we could make fun of. Come on. Come on. “I got a backache; don't make me work [Music] hard. It hurts right there, right there.” Whatever is not of faith is sin. Okay. Now, I love Joshua 1:1-9. Not going to read every verse, but it says, “After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, who was Moses's aide.” And I love the fact that Joshua spent years doing nothing but serving Moses; then he was the one who got to take Moses's place. You say, “Well, I'm just a servant.” Well, Jesus said, “The greatest of all is the servant of all.” Amen. So he took, he took Moses's place. And in verse three—well, verse two says, “Moses my servant is dead,” which is interesting because they'd already been mourning him for thirty days, so they knew he was dead. Why did he tell them he was dead when they knew good and well that he was dead? Because he was really making a statement: He's dead. The thirty days of mourning are over; now it's time to get up and get back to the business of [Applause] living. Moses is dead; it's time to get back to work. Now, you and all these people get ready to cross the Jordan into the land that I am about to give to them. And then it says, and I, I like this translation best—I'm going to quote it out of the one I like— “Every place on which the sole of your foot shall tread, that have I already given you.” Do you know what that means? That means that out in front of me, God has already provided for this wonderful life for me to have, and for you too—a wonderful life for you to have. And even if you messed up Plan A, because God's God, he can make Plan B better. You say, “I've already messed up my life.” Ehuh, no. God is God; he can do what he wants to. So but he says, “Every place on which the sole of your foot shall tread, that have I already, already given unto you.” God has already given it, but we've got to go take it. Are you with me? God has already given it, but you've got to go take [Applause] it. I'll tell you what: The devil doesn't like this sermon tonight. [Applause] Verse five: “No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you.” Now, there's a great message there. He did not say, “You get out there, Joshua, and I want you to be just like Moses.” He said, “No, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.” You don't have to be like somebody else to be great; you just have to believe that God is with you and that whatever he wants you to do, you'll be able to do. Thank God I don't have to be like anybody else; I'm free to be me, and you're free to be [Applause] you. I love that: “As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.” Now, in verse six, verse seven, and verse nine, he says the same thing three times: “Be strong and courageous.” Verse seven, verse eight: “Be strong and courageous. Be careful to obey all of the law that my servant Moses gave you. Turn not from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.” The key to having a great life is very simple: obey God. You know, there's nothing hard about Christianity; it's very simple. You want to have a life that is so smashingly great that it will leave you with your mouth hanging open in awe? Obey God. [Applause] Do what he tells you to, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not, whether you agree with it or not. Adopt a new attitude: “I'm not going to live by how I feel; I'm going to live by your word. And it doesn't matter if I like it; it doesn't matter if it makes any sense to me. With your help, God, I'm going to do what you tell me to do.” And I can tell you, anybody that will do that, your life will turn around, and there's nothing bad that's happened to you that God won't work out for your [Applause] good. Am I pushing anybody over the edge? I mean, like, are you getting it? You know, are you—I'm ready to stop living by how I feel. I want—I'm going to live by the word. And now you know it's easy to say yes in here, but wait till the next time you want to do something and you know down deep inside God's telling you not to do it. Everybody's going to the movie that you know you shouldn't go see, but you don't want them to think you're just a Jesus freak. You don't want to think—you don't want them to think—Why do you care what people think? At least if they're thinking about you, they're leaving somebody else [Applause] alone. Yeah, you might spend the night home alone, but oh, you're going to feel so good in the morning because you obeyed [Applause] God. And I want to tell you something: Obedience, obedience is learned in the little things of life, the little things of life. And you hear me tell all my stories that you laugh at and you think are funny, but to be honest, that's where I learned—you don't have to go off to Bible college somewhere if you can't afford to go or it's not the right thing for you. If it is, go. But if it's not, you can go to the school of the Holy Ghost anywhere you live, and all you need to do is say to the Lord tonight, “I, I want to enroll in the school of the Holy Spirit. I, I want to enroll in your school. I'm happy to start in kindergarten if that's where I belong, but I want to enroll in your school, and I want to learn how to be a real Christian.” Amen. You know, God told them to go in and possess the land, and God wants you to possess the promises. But you know what the word “possess” means? If you look it up, it means to dispossess the current occupants. Wow. Now, in the Bible it says that there was a shorter route that God could have taken them to the promised land, but he took them the long, harder route because they were not ready for war. Well, now there's a lesson in what I'm getting ready to say. So they wandered…
Around out there in the wilderness, they needed the power of thank you, because all they did was murmur and complain. They wandered around out there for 40 years trying to make an 11-day trip. And if you, if you look at it, every town that they possessed, they had to fight and run off the current occupants. Jericho, the first town they took, they possessed it, but they had to first dispossess the other people who occupied it; they had to do war.
David was anointed to be king 20 years before he wore the crown. What'd he do in the meantime? He had to fight Goliath. You're going to have to learn how to defeat the Devil, and you know how you do that: by feeling fear but doing what you're afraid of. And you know, I don't mean you have to go climb Mount Everest; that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not a good swimmer, so I'm not going to get in the deep end of the pool; that's not the kind of stuff I'm talking about. I'm talking about—you have a destiny; you have a destiny, but the devil will try to get you to back off.
I waited so long to get a speaking engagement. Oh God, I wanted somebody to ask me and come preach so bad, I couldn't hardly stand it. And finally, somebody did, and I got two—not one, but two engagements—right in a row. I was going to go to Colorado, and then from there I was going to Florida. In Colorado, I was preaching with this real famous, well-known preacher, and I was overjoyed, cuz I knew he would bring in a big crowd. Well, he cancelled, and we had a snowstorm, and there was just me and a few PE, a few, a few pitiful little few people. Well, I was so discouraged, and I mean the devil told me, "Who do you think you're fooling? You ain't called to do nothing. You made this all up; this is just stupid."
So I went to Jacksonville, Florida, and there was going to be about 900 people in this conference. Now, I, I only got invited because a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend, a speaker cancelled at the last minute, and they were desperate, so they got me. And I wasn't one of the main speakers; I just had a workshop. And all the speakers sat on the front row, and there was Reverend so and so, and Bishop so and so, and Propheus so and so, and Joyce from Fenton. And I already felt like about that big. And they asked all the workshop speakers to get up and give about three minutes worth of what they were going to talk about the next day in their workshop. And I was so afraid that when I got up to speak, I opened my mouth, and when I tried to say something, just a little squeak came out, like, you know, when you're afraid, you get dry, and you feel like you got to go to the bathroom, and you sweat, and everything's just a mess. And the devil screaming in my ear, "If you had any sense, you'd get your stuff and get out of here and get back to Fenton, and you'd never stick your head out of there again. Who do you think you are? Look at that prophetess and prophet and Reverend and Joyce."
Well, you know what? I have a doctorate now, but I don't want anybody to call me Doctorate, because I'm pleased to just be Joy. Amen. Cuz just plain old Joy from Fenton can be just as anointed as Prophet of so and so. Amen. And right there, I had a decision to make; that was a, a destiny-altering decision. Was I going to open my mouth and try again, or was I going to run off that platform and go home and never stick my head out the door again? Well, obviously, I'll open my mouth again, and here I am. [Applause] Am. You got to learn to do it afraid. I tell a story in my book, and I'll tell it to you, and then I'm going to have to close. There was a woman—true story—she had just basically missed her life because of fear. Fear had stolen everything from her. She wouldn't go out at night; she was afraid of the dark. She wouldn't drive; she was afraid to drive in traffic. She didn't like to be around a lot of people, so she lived a lonely life. I mean, everything was fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. And she was a Christian, and you know the Bible says plainly, "God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound and a well-disciplined" [Applause] [Music] mind. Distraction, I rebuke you. [Applause]
And so a Christian friend of hers came over, and she was feeling sorry for herself. "I, I'm just so afraid; I just fear just steals everything from me." And the woman looked at her, and when I read this, it, it changed my life too. She said, "Well, why don't you just do it afraid?" Well, see what makes you think if you feel afraid that you still can't do something? You know what courage is? Going forward in the face of [Applause] fear. I mean, I had a guy at a conference last week, and he was there last time I had a conference in that town, and he asked me the exact same question he asked me a few years ago. So that guy is stuck. And he said to me, "I just don't know what I, I will feel that God wants to use me, but I just don't know what God wants me to do. Can you tell me how I can know what God wants me to do?" I said, "Yes, I can tell you: step out and try something." [Applause] And if it doesn't work, you made a mistake, so you step back. You say, "Well, that's not it." Then the next opportunity comes along, you try that. It's kind of like getting ready for a party. See, I'm having a party now because I'm doing what God's called me to do. I'm having so much fun; I'm having so much fun up here tonight. I would rather be doing this than anything; I would rather do this than anything in the world. But I tried other stuff. I tried street witnessing; hated that. I tried nursery work; the kids hated that. I even cleaned my Pastor's house; I hated that. I tried being his secretary; got fired. But then when I taught—ah, that fit. Amen. See, we're so afraid of making a mistake. Don't be so afraid. Well, let me just say it like this: you'll never be right if you're constantly afraid of being wrong.
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