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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Well, God bless you. We love you, and

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Speaker 1: we know God has great things in store. We pray

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Speaker 1: for you every single day. We're believing that this year

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Speaker 1: will be your best year so far. And if you're

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Speaker 1: ever in our area, come out and see us. We'd

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Speaker 1: love to have you be a part of one of

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Speaker 1: our services. But thanks for tuning in, thanks for coming

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Speaker 1: out today. And I'd like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 1: And I heard about this housework challenged husband. He decided

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Speaker 1: he was going to wash his new sweatshirt. He went

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Speaker 1: to the laundry room and wasn't there five seconds before

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Speaker 1: he hollered out to his wife, what setting do I

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Speaker 1: put the washing machine on? She said, it depends what

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Speaker 1: does it say on your shirt? After a long pause,

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Speaker 1: he hollered back, Dallas cowboys, all right, hold up your bibles.

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Speaker 1: Say it like you mean it. This is this is

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Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I

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

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Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert,

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Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: to you today about not letting negative voices talk you

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Speaker 1: out of your dreams. Too often we settle for less

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Speaker 1: than what God's put in our hearts. We hear so

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Speaker 1: many voices telling us what we can't do and how

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Speaker 1: impossible it is, and we end up just settling where

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Speaker 1: we are. But deep down on the inside, if we

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Speaker 1: really be honest with ourselves, we know we are watering

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Speaker 1: down our dreams. What happened we let people discourage us

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Speaker 1: and talk us out of pressing forward. But one of

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Speaker 1: the most important things that I've ever learned is other

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Speaker 1: people don't set the limits for my life. People don't

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Speaker 1: have to believe in me for my dreams to come

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Speaker 1: to pass. There will always be critics in they sayers.

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Speaker 1: There will always be people telling us what we can't do.

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Speaker 1: You're too short, you're not talented enough, You've made too

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Speaker 1: many mistakes. You come from the wrong family. The negative

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Speaker 1: voices come to us all but understand other people don't

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Speaker 1: determine your destiny.

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Speaker 2: You do.

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Speaker 1: And you have to accept the fact that not everyone

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Speaker 1: is going to believe in you. Not everyone is going

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Speaker 1: to cheer you on. It would be great if all

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Speaker 1: your friends and family members stood in faith and encouraged you,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of times that's not the case. There

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Speaker 1: will always be people that say things like, you really

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna get well. My grandmother died from that

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Speaker 1: same disease. You really think you're gonna get married, You

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Speaker 1: really think your family is going to be restored. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: you have to have a faith that stands alone, a

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Speaker 1: faith that says, God, I know you with this promise

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Speaker 1: even though all the voices are negative, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to allow them to steal this seed out of my heart.

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Speaker 1: I love what the apostle Paul said there in Romans

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Speaker 1: three to three, What if they don't believe, will their

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Speaker 1: lack of faith make the faith of God of no effect?

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Speaker 1: What he was saying was, it doesn't matter if other

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Speaker 1: people don't believe. Their unbelief is not going to keep

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Speaker 1: me from believing in my dreams. And when God puts

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Speaker 1: a promise in you, it is not dependent on other people.

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Speaker 1: You don't need everyone to validate you. You don't need

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Speaker 1: their approval. They may clap a few times and smile

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Speaker 1: on the outside, but unfortunately, human nature tends to be jealous.

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Speaker 1: When you have a big dream and you're determined to

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Speaker 1: do something great with your life, very often others are envious.

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Speaker 1: This is what happened to Joseph. His brothers didn't celebrate

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Speaker 1: his dream. They did just the opposite. They sold him

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Speaker 1: into slavery. And when somebody doesn't believe in you, when

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. You really think you're going to

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Speaker 1: get out of debt? I don't see how. When those

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Speaker 1: And at times you may feel like nobody believes in you.

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Speaker 1: Your own family's not behind you, your friends are trying

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Speaker 1: you need to fulfill your destiny. This is what David

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Speaker 1: He asked David's father, Jesse, to bring in his sons

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Speaker 1: up all of his sons except David. David was the youngest.

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Speaker 1: He was out in the fields taking care of the sheep.

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Speaker 1: Jesse thought, I don't need to get David. He's so young,

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Speaker 1: talent in him that I've seen in my other sons.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. Jesse thought about how David was small in stature.

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Speaker 1: David had red hair, no doubt. His other sons were tall,

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Speaker 1: dark and handsome, kind of like me. But seriously, you

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Speaker 1: can imagine how David must have felt knowing that his

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Speaker 1: see him. He could have easily let that rejection create

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Speaker 1: When he went out to face Goliath. They said, David,

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Speaker 1: once again. David could have gotten discouraged, gone around with

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Speaker 1: He knew other people, even his own father, even and

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Speaker 1: sometimes we think we have to manipulate things to try

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Speaker 1: give me a break. No, you do not have to

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Speaker 1: to win people over, God will cause you to have

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Speaker 1: too often I found we put too much emphasis on

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Speaker 1: one person. We think they're the whole key to my success.

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Speaker 1: Without them, it's not going to happen. But some people,

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Speaker 1: have to have them to fulfill your destiny. I remember

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Speaker 1: when we were trying to acquire this place, the former

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Speaker 1: Compact Center, there was this one man that I really

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Speaker 1: wanted to win over. He was very influential, he knew

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Speaker 1: I had a friend that knew him well and he

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Speaker 1: put in a good word for us, but still nothing happened.

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Speaker 1: Month after month went by and I was still doing

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Speaker 1: win him over, and it just so happened. One day,

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Speaker 1: we ended up at an event together and I had

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Speaker 1: a few minutes to share my vision for the Compact Center.

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Speaker 1: But after a couple of sentences, I could tell he

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Speaker 1: was not for us. He was very cold and unfriendly,

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Speaker 1: almost like I was bothering him. He made the comment,

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Speaker 1: I just don't think your organization is the best use

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Speaker 1: for that facility, and I'm not going to support it.

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Speaker 1: I left their so discouraged. I thought, Man, I spent

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Speaker 1: all this time trying to get in contact, and now

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Speaker 1: but he's against us. Later that night, when I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about it, I began to realize what I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: I was putting too much faith in him. I thought

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Speaker 1: he was going to solve all our problems, he was

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Speaker 1: going to win over all of our critics. It finally

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Speaker 1: dawned on me, he doesn't have to believe in me

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Speaker 1: for my dream to come to pass. After all, God

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Speaker 1: didn't put the promise in him. He put the promise

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Speaker 1: in me. So I shook that. All we stayed in faith,

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Speaker 1: and we saw God bring it to fulfillment. It's funny.

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Speaker 1: A couple of years later, right after we had moved

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Speaker 1: have thought it was his idea. He was bragging to

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Speaker 1: his friend about how great it was. He said, Joel,

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Speaker 1: one day, I'm gonna come visit you during one of

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Speaker 1: your services. I thought to myself, great, I'll save your

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Speaker 1: seat on the very top road. What am I saying?

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Speaker 1: You don't have to try to talk people in to

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Speaker 1: believe it in you. You just stay in faith and

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Speaker 1: God will cause the right people to come into your life.

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Speaker 1: When you come across one of those naysayers, people that

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Speaker 1: going to happen, you got to do what the apostle

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Speaker 1: show what if they don't believe, I know my destiny

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Speaker 1: is tied to them, Do not allow the negative voices

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Speaker 1: and whether they take root and grow depends totally up

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Speaker 1: what we constantly dwell on. In other words, what you

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Speaker 1: very important to pay attention to what's playing in your mind.

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Speaker 1: Some people have had negative things spoken over them from childhood.

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Speaker 1: They didn't know any better, they believed it, they played

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Speaker 1: for their life. But if you're going to live in victory,

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Speaker 1: you have to be disciplined in your thought life. When

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Speaker 1: to immediately get rid of those lives. The longer you

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Speaker 1: dwell on them, the more it will affect your personality,

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Speaker 1: had been bullied at school. It talked about how years

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Speaker 1: later those negative words were still impacting many of them.

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Speaker 1: They interviewed this one man. He was in his forties.

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Speaker 1: He seemed to be a very bright, talented man, but

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Speaker 1: He had struggled in his relationships. He told how as

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Speaker 1: made fun of him and called him names slow, pogue, dumbo, fat, soul.

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Speaker 1: important what you're meditating on young people at school. Other

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Speaker 1: it was exactly the opposite. The negative voices were barely

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Speaker 1: The new voice boomed out, I can do all things

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Speaker 1: If you will meditate on the right thoughts, go around

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Speaker 1: dwelling on what God says about you, over time, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna drown out all the negative voices, and those faith

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Speaker 1: filled promises will take root and become a reality. I

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Speaker 1: am who I am today because of the seeds I've

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Speaker 1: allowed to take root down through the years. The fact

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Speaker 1: key is to learn to water the right voices. Get

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Speaker 1: up every morning and remind yourself I am who God

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Speaker 1: says I am. You are not what other people call you.

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Speaker 1: You are what you answer to. When those negative comments come,

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Speaker 1: just make a decision. I'm not dwelling on that. I

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Speaker 1: know who I am. I am a child of the

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Speaker 1: most High God. I believe today God's gonna begin to

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Speaker 1: bring out of you hidden treasures that you've had buried

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Speaker 1: on the inside for years. Things you once knew you

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Speaker 1: of it. But those dreams, those promises are still alive

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Speaker 1: on the inside. They may have laid dormant for years,

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Speaker 1: but they are still full of the life of Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: And as you stir your faith up and wa are

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Speaker 1: those seeds, They're gonna take root, and you're gonna accomplish

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Speaker 1: things that you've never even thought possible. And I know

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Speaker 1: some of you have had a lot of negative things

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Speaker 1: going to be successful. It's almost like they cursed your future.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is the blessing is greater than

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Speaker 1: the curse. They may have spoken negative things over you,

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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna speak some new words of faith and victory.

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Speaker 1: And if you'll get rid of those other strongholds and

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Speaker 1: let these new words take root, it can become a

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Speaker 1: turning point in your life. I declare over every one

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Speaker 1: of you. You are strong and courageous. You are full

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Speaker 1: of talent, creativity, and wisdom. You can accomplish every one

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Speaker 1: of your God given dreams. You walk in divine health,

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Speaker 1: You have favor with every person you meet. Everything you

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Speaker 1: touch is going to prosper and succeed. Those seeds of

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Speaker 1: greatness on the inside of you are growing stronger and stronger.

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Speaker 1: That hidden treasure is about to burst forth, and you're

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Speaker 1: going to come into new seasons of increase, new seasons

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Speaker 1: of favor, new seasons of God's blessings. You are who

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Speaker 1: God says you are. You have what God says you have,

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Speaker 1: and I declare you can do everything God says you

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Speaker 1: can do if you receive it. Can you say amen? Amen?

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Speaker 1: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, come

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Speaker 1: into my heart. I repent of my sins. I make

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Speaker 1: you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that

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Speaker 1: going to take your places you'd never dreamed of. It's

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Speaker 1: excited about Victoria's new book, Grace to Go. It'll help

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Speaker 2: My heart for this book is that you will discover

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Speaker 2: come to pass. It's not too late, The obstacles are

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Speaker 2: not too big. The grace of God equips you to

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Speaker 2: go beyond your comfort zone and overcome.

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Speaker 2: You are stronger than you think. You are not alone.

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Speaker 2: Grace is power when you receive it by faith, it

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Speaker 1: Victoria and I are so grateful to spend this time

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