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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. Well,

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Speaker 2: God bless you so joy to come into your homes

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Speaker 2: and we love you. And if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: please stop buying be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you

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Speaker 2: again for coming out today. And I like to start

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Speaker 2: with something funny, and I heard about Tom Brady, the

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Speaker 2: star quarterback for the New England Patriots. He made it

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Speaker 2: to heaven and God showed him his house and it

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Speaker 2: was a one story, modest house on a rather small lot. Later,

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Speaker 2: Brady was looking around and he saw this magnificent house

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Speaker 2: on an incredibly big lot, and right in the front.

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Speaker 1: Was this huge statue.

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Speaker 2: Of Tim Tebow surrounded by fountains, and everything was decorated

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Speaker 2: in orange and blue, Tebo's team colors. It even had

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Speaker 2: a huge swimming pool in the shape of a broncho.

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady said, God, I don't mean to sound ungrateful,

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Speaker 2: but I've won the Super Bowl. How come his house

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Speaker 2: is so much bigger than mine? God said Tom, that's

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Speaker 2: not Tebo's house, that's my house. Hold up your Bible.

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Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive.

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

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Speaker 1: bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about hitting the

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Speaker 2: delete button. Our mind is like a computer, and how

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Speaker 2: we program it will determine how it's going to function.

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Speaker 2: You can have the most expensive, powerful computer you can find,

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Speaker 2: but if you put the wrong software in it, it's

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Speaker 2: not going to perform up to par. In the same way,

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Speaker 2: many people are not living a victorious life. Not because

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Speaker 2: their hardware is defective, not because there's something wrong with them,

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Speaker 2: but they've allowed their thinking to become contaminated.

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Speaker 1: They start believing the lies.

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Speaker 2: I'm not talented, I don't have a good personality. I've

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Speaker 2: made too many mistakes. I've reached my limits. Just like

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Speaker 2: a virus can slow down a perfectly good computer, our

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Speaker 2: wrong thinking can keep us from our destiny. If you're

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Speaker 2: going to live in victory, you've got to know how

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Speaker 2: to hit the delete button that thought comes you're just average,

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Speaker 2: you're ordinary. Delete, I'm a masterpiece. I'm one of a kind.

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Speaker 2: You've seen your best days. It's all downhill from here.

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Speaker 1: Delete.

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Speaker 2: My future will be brighter than my past. You've made

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Speaker 2: too many mistakes, you're all washed up. Delete I'm forgiven.

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Speaker 2: God's mercy is new every single morning.

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Speaker 1: Some of you.

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Speaker 2: If you just start hitting the delete button, your life

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Speaker 2: would go to a new level.

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Speaker 1: You can't go through the.

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Speaker 2: Day thinking negative thoughts and expect to live in victory.

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Speaker 2: Your life is going to follow your thoughts. Romans twelve

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Speaker 2: two says to renew your mind with God's word. That

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Speaker 2: simply means we program your software with what God says

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Speaker 2: about you. God says you're blessed, you're talented, you're equipped,

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Speaker 2: You're forgiven, You're more than.

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Speaker 1: A conquer all through the day.

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Speaker 2: That's what should be playing in our mind when thoughts

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Speaker 1: Don't give it the time of day.

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Speaker 2: I know this man that had a very successful company

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Speaker 2: for many years. Everything was going great. Then the perfect

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Speaker 2: Those thoughts were playing over and over in his mind.

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Speaker 2: You're a failure, you let people down. You've seen your

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Speaker 2: thoughts that are telling you you're a failure. See, the

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Speaker 2: enemy is called the accuser of the brethren. He'll try

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Speaker 2: accusing voices. Listen, we've all made mistakes, we all have

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Speaker 2: things that we wish we could do over. But the

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Speaker 2: Turn off the negative recording that's reminding you of everything

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Speaker 2: that you're not. Delete those thoughts and put on a

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Speaker 2: new recording. I am forgiven, I am accepted and approved

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Speaker 1: I have a bright future. I am a masterpiece.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's not our own thoughts that are holding us back.

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Speaker 1: It's the negative things other.

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Speaker 2: People have spoken over us. Words are like seeds. If

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Speaker 1: And in life, there will always be people.

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Speaker 2: Telling us what we cannot become, how we don't have

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Speaker 2: That's a wrong thought, that's keeping us from our destiny.

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Speaker 2: And I know people that had something negatives spoken over

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Speaker 2: A parent told them, you'll never be successful, a coach

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Speaker 2: Instead of hitting the delete button, they played it over

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Speaker 2: and over. Now it's keeping them from God's best. You

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Speaker 1: What are you dwelling on? What do you believe.

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Speaker 2: About yourself, your family, your future? Ask yourself, where did

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Speaker 2: God says about me in the Book of Genesis. In

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Speaker 2: the Garden of Eden, one time God couldn't find Adam,

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Speaker 2: and even God said, Adam, where are you?

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Speaker 2: We're hiding because we're naked. God answered back, something interesting,

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Speaker 2: He said, Adam, who told you you were naked?

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Speaker 1: In other words, who told you something's wrong with you?

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Speaker 2: God immediately knew they had been listening to the wrong voices.

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Speaker 2: God is saying to us today. Who told you you're

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Speaker 2: told you you've made too many mistakes? You need to

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Speaker 1: Those are the wrong voices.

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Speaker 2: They will contaminate your software.

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Speaker 1: This is what my father did.

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Speaker 2: When Daddy was seventeen years old, he gave his life

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Speaker 2: They were good people, but they were limited by their

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Speaker 1: I may be in defeat, but I am not defeated.

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

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Speaker 2: Day after day he kept hitting the delete button.

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Speaker 1: Those thoughts told him, you have no future. Delete.

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Speaker 2: God's plans for me are for good, to give me

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Speaker 2: God is making a way, opening up doors, connecting me

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Speaker 2: to the right people. He reprogrammed his software and he

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Speaker 2: went on to touch the world. Some of you are

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Speaker 2: allowing what somebody said about you to hold you back.

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Speaker 2: I've learned there will always be people to try to

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Speaker 2: our dreams, some negative voice, to try to keep your

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Speaker 1: That's why we start off every service.

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Speaker 2: By saying, I am who God says I am. What

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Speaker 2: Samuel came to David's house to choose the next king,

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Speaker 2: God can see it. Eleanor Roosevelt said, no one can

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Speaker 2: make you feel inferior without your permission. People may have

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Speaker 2: Let that bounce off of you like water off of

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Speaker 2: His father's voice came to him, saying, you're not as

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Speaker 2: good as your brother's. Delete, you're not big enough. Delete,

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Speaker 2: If David would have allowed his father's voice to become

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Speaker 2: a stronghold, we wouldn't be talking about him today. Let

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Speaker 2: me ask you, are there any viruses that are contaminating

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Speaker 2: your computer? Are you allowing what people have spoken over

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Speaker 2: you to hold you back? The scripture tells how we've

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Speaker 1: Down these strongholds.

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Speaker 2: We can't stop the negative voices from coming, but we can.

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Speaker 1: Choose whether or not we're going to dwell on them.

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Speaker 1: God's given each one of us a delete button.

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Speaker 2: I talked to a man that was raised by a

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Speaker 2: telling him what he couldn't become. And this son, in

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Speaker 1: Read about a gentleman named Daniel. He was born with

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Speaker 1: No, not Daniel. He knew how to.

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Speaker 2: call him slow, they call him Governor. Daniel Molloy is

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Speaker 1: Mind filled with thoughts of faith.

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Speaker 2: Like David, you will overcome every negative word spoken over you.

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Speaker 2: Like the governor, a limitation won't hold you back like

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Speaker 2: I believe and declare you will rise higher, accomplish dreams,

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