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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joeln Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoy

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Speaker 1: today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share

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Speaker 1: it with a friend, reappreciate you and pray for God's

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Speaker 1: very best in your life. God bless you, and thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for letting us come into your homes. We

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Speaker 1: are praying for you and your family for God's very best.

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 1: about this pastor. He bought a new horse. He trained

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Speaker 1: it to respond to praise the Lord meaning giddy up,

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Speaker 1: and Hallelujah meaning woe. Every time he said praise the Lord,

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Speaker 1: the horse took off running. When he said Hallelujah, it

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Speaker 1: would quickly stop. One day he was out riding, the

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Speaker 1: horse got spooked took off running straight toward a cliff,

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Speaker 1: going full blast. In the panic, he couldn't remember what

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Speaker 1: he had taught the horse. He said, Bless God, Glory, Amen.

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Speaker 1: Nothing happened. At the last moment, he shouted Hallelujah, and

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Speaker 1: the horse came to a screeching halt just inches before

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Speaker 1: the edge of the cliff. He breathed a sigh of

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Speaker 1: relief and said, praise the Lord. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 1: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about blessing yourself.

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Speaker 1: We hear a lot about blessing others, being good to friends,

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Speaker 1: complimenting a family member, helping a neighbor. That's all good.

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Speaker 1: We should bless others, but it's also important to bless yourself.

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Speaker 1: When we hear bless yourself, that can sound odd and

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Speaker 1: self centered. I can't bless myself. I want somebody else

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Speaker 1: to bless me. More importantly, I want God to bless me.

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Speaker 1: But the scripture says in Isaiah, he who invokes a

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Speaker 1: blessing on himself shall do so by saying. The way

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Speaker 1: you bless yourself is to say what God says about you.

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Speaker 1: I am strong, I am talented, I am forgiven, I

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Speaker 1: am healthy, I am valuable, I am a masterpiece. Those

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Speaker 1: are not just positive affirmations. You just invoke a blessing

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Speaker 1: on yourself. When you speak it out, you give life

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Speaker 1: to what you're saying. It's not enough to just think this.

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Speaker 1: You don't bless yourself by just dwelling on positive thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Nothing happens until you speak. When you say I am blessed,

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Speaker 1: Blessings come looking for you. When you say I am prosperous,

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Speaker 1: good break start heading your way. When you say I

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Speaker 1: am healthy, health starts tracking you down. You can't wait

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Speaker 1: until you feel that way. Then you're going to say it.

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Speaker 1: When the medical report turns around, then I'll say I'm healthy.

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Speaker 1: It's just the opposite. You have to decline you're healthy

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Speaker 1: before the health is going to show up. You have

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Speaker 1: to say I am confident before you're going to feel confident.

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Speaker 1: If you'll say it long enough, what happens is those

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Speaker 1: words get down in your spirit. You believe what you

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Speaker 1: say about yourself more than what anyone else says about you.

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Speaker 1: When you hear yourself day after day, I am healthy,

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Speaker 1: I am talented, I am confident, I am valuable. It's

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Speaker 1: changing how you see yourself. Over time, you're going to

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Speaker 1: become what you're saying. You are who you are in

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Speaker 1: part today because of what you've been speaking over your life.

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Speaker 1: Now all through the day, you need to develop this

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Speaker 1: habit of blessing yourself. You don't have to do it

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Speaker 1: in front of other people, but when you're in the shower. Father,

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Speaker 1: thank you that I am creative, I am attractive, I

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Speaker 1: am a great father. I have a good personality driving

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Speaker 1: to work. Lord, thank you that I'm forgiven. I'm redeemed

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Speaker 1: that your mercy is bigger than my mistakes. Before you

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Speaker 1: a kind. I have seeds of greatness. Every time you

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Speaker 1: say that, it's getting deeper in your spirit. It's becoming

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Speaker 1: more ingrained in your thinking. And studies tell us that

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Speaker 1: we move toward what's in our subconscious mind without even

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Speaker 1: thinking about it. You're being pulled toward what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's so important to pay attention to what

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Speaker 1: you're speaking over yourself. Other people may say things about you,

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Speaker 1: but nothing is more powerful than what you say about yourself.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you all day long you're a victor

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Speaker 1: but it's nothing compared to when you say, I am

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Speaker 1: a child of the Most High God, I am fearfully

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Speaker 1: creator of the universe. You keep declaring that, and you

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Speaker 1: can't stay insecure, feeling unworthy. That will get down in

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Speaker 1: your spirit. You'll put your shoulders back, hold your head

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Speaker 1: up high, and you'll go places that you've never dreamed.

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Speaker 1: Are you blessing yourself or you're just waiting for God

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Speaker 1: to bless you, waiting for your spouse to make you

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Speaker 1: feel valuable, waiting for that addiction to go away. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the reason it's not happening is you're not invoking the

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Speaker 1: blessing on yourself. You're not declaring what God says about

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Speaker 1: you in the face of that addiction. You need to declare,

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Speaker 1: I am free, I am whole. Greater is he that's

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Speaker 1: in me than what's trying to stop me. Not just

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Speaker 1: one time, but all through the day, week after week,

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Speaker 1: month after month. Keep blessing yourself, keep declaring your free

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Speaker 1: keep speaking victory. As you do that, you may not

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Speaker 1: be able to see it, but freedom is coming your way.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says you will eat the fruit of your words.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you're saying that fruit is developing. The fruit is growing.

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Speaker 1: It's significant that God uses fruit as the example, because

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Speaker 1: fruit doesn't develop overnight. It takes time. This is showing

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Speaker 1: us you have to keep speaking it, keep blessing yourself.

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Speaker 1: Don't be moved by what's not changing. You may not

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Speaker 1: see results in a week, but things are happening that

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Speaker 1: you can't see. We have some lemon trees in our backyard.

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Speaker 1: The lemon start off as a little white flower, no

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Speaker 1: resemblance of a lemon. Over time, that flower changes into

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Speaker 1: a little round ball, about the size of a pee.

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Speaker 1: Month after month, it grows. In a year or so,

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Speaker 1: it's a big, beautiful yellow lemon. As you keep saying

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Speaker 1: what God says about you, those words are taking root.

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Speaker 1: That freedom you're speaking is developing. That health you're declaring,

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Speaker 1: the talent, the confidence, the discipline, it's growing. You're going

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Speaker 1: to come to a point where you see what you've

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Speaker 1: been saying. You're not speaking it by faith anymore. Now

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Speaker 1: it's a reality. You're going to eat the fruit of

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Speaker 1: your words. That's why every day you need to spend

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Speaker 1: time blessing yourself. It's good when others encourage you. It's

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Speaker 1: good when they pray for you, but their words don't

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Speaker 1: have the authority as your words. What you say about yourself,

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Speaker 1: you're giving it the right to come to pass. When

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Speaker 1: we wake up each morning, most of us brush our teeth,

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Speaker 1: take a shower, pick out our clothes, get dressed. We

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Speaker 1: may spend half an hour getting our physical body ready

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Speaker 1: getting our inner person ready for the day, our mind,

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Speaker 1: our spirit, our emotions. What if you took a couple

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Speaker 1: of minutes every morning before you leave the house and

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Speaker 1: say what God says about you, make this day declaration

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Speaker 1: of faith. You can download it on our website. I

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Speaker 1: am blessed, I am prosperous. I am redeemed, forgiven, talented, creative, disciplined, focused, confident, secure, prepared, qualified, motivated, valuable, free, determined, equipped, empowered, anointed,

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Speaker 1: accepted and approved. Not average, not mediocre. I am a

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Speaker 1: child of the Most High God. We say that every

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Speaker 1: service at Lakewood. It's because it's easy to forget who

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Speaker 1: we are. Life tries to push us down, tell us

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Speaker 1: what we're not, what we can't do, how we failed.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes our own thoughts tell us we're not attractive. Nothing

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Speaker 1: good is in our future. If you let those lives play,

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Speaker 1: it will keep you from your purpose. But if you'll

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Speaker 1: make this declaration several times a day, month after month,

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Speaker 1: it will get down in your spirit and you will

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Speaker 1: become who God created you to be. When you're constantly

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Speaker 1: saying what God says about you, it will bring down

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Speaker 1: strongholds that are keeping you back. It will get rid

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Speaker 1: of impurities that are contaminating your self image. You'll begin

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Speaker 1: to see yourself the right way, redeemed, forgiven, strong, victorious.

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Speaker 1: I talked to a man that was raised in a

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Speaker 1: dysfunctional home. He was told by his father that he

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Speaker 1: would never amount to anything, that he wasn't smart enough,

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Speaker 1: he'd never be successful. For forty years he believed those lies.

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Speaker 1: He stayed at the lowest level position at the company

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Speaker 1: where he worked, never thought he could rise higher. After all,

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Speaker 1: he was told that he didn't have the talent. One

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Speaker 1: day he heard what I'm telling you. Instead of agreeing

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Speaker 1: with what people said about him, he started speaking what

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Speaker 1: God said about him. I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Speaker 1: I have seeds of greatness, I am full of potential.

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Speaker 1: As he spoke what God said about him. He began

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Speaker 1: New gifts started to come out. Other people started to notice.

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Speaker 1: He got promoted again and again after thirty years of

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Speaker 1: being stuck at that low level position. Today he's running

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Speaker 1: his whole department. He has several hundred people under him.

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Speaker 1: Now people may tell you that your average nothing special

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Speaker 1: about you. The good news is what you say about

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Speaker 1: yourself overrides what other people say. Don't let once someone

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Speaker 1: created to be. Don't go around repeating those lies. I'm

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Speaker 1: not that talented. I've reached my limits. I'll never accomplish

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Speaker 1: my dreams. Zip that up and speak blessings over your life.

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Speaker 1: The Scripture says, with our words, we can bless or

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Speaker 1: we can curse. We can lift up, or we can

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Speaker 1: push down. My question is are you blessing yourself or

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Speaker 1: are you cursing yourself? Are you speaking words of faith,

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Speaker 1: life victory or are you speaking defeat mediocrity. I'm so undisciplined,

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Speaker 1: I'll never lose this weight, I'll never break this addiction.

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Speaker 1: I'm unattractive, I'll never meet the right person. You may

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Speaker 1: not realize it, but you're cursing yourself. You're speaking defeat

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Speaker 1: into your future. You have enough people in life against you.

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Speaker 1: Don't be against yourself. There are forces of darkness trying

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Speaker 1: Pay attention to what you're saying about yourself. You can't

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Speaker 1: talk defeat and have victory. You can't talk lack and

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Speaker 1: have abundance. You can't talk sickness and have help. You

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Speaker 1: may be undisciplined right now, but the way to change

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Speaker 1: is not by telling how bad you are, putting yourself down.

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Speaker 1: That's inviting more difficulties. Start speaking victory. Don't curse yourself anymore.

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Speaker 1: Start blessing yourself. I am disciplined, I am determined, I

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Speaker 1: am strong. I will break this addiction. I will get

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Speaker 1: back in shape. A friend of mine struggled with smoking

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Speaker 1: for many years. He tried to quit again and again

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Speaker 1: wasn't able to do it. He was constantly saying, it's

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Speaker 1: too hard, I'll never break it. I don't have the

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Speaker 1: very hard on himself, very critical. He told me how

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Speaker 1: he was undisciplined and how He had quit for a

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Speaker 1: You have to change what you're saying. You have to

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Speaker 1: start blessing yourself every day. Start saying, I am strong,

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Speaker 1: I am disciplined. This addiction doesn't control me. He tried

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Speaker 1: this different approach. While he was smoking. He would say Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you that I am free. Pots would tell him,

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Speaker 1: are you kidding, You're not free, You're just as addicted

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Speaker 1: as you were before. The scripture says, let the weak

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Speaker 1: say I'm strong. Don't describe the weakness. Call in strength,

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Speaker 1: call in freedom, call in favor. About six months later,

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Speaker 1: The taste got worse and worse. He got to the

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