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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, reappreciate you,

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Speaker 2: and pray for God's very best in your life. So

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Speaker 2: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.

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Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buying

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Speaker 2: and be a part of one of our services. I

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Speaker 2: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. But

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

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Speaker 2: for coming out. I like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 2: I heard about this man that was walking on the beach,

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Speaker 2: and God said, son, you've been so faithful, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to grant you one special wish.

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Speaker 1: He was so excited.

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Speaker 2: He said, God, I've always wanted to go to Hawaii,

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Speaker 2: but I'm afraid to fly. So my wish is that

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Speaker 2: you would build me a bridge across the ocean. God said, son,

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Speaker 2: that's totally impossible. Think of the logistics of that. Now

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Speaker 2: take some time and wish again. He said, Okay, God,

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Speaker 2: I've been.

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Speaker 1: Divorced four time.

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Speaker 2: All my ex wives say I am so insensitive. My

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Speaker 2: wish is that I would be able to understand a woman.

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Speaker 2: I want to know why she thinks like she thinks

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Speaker 2: and why she feels like she feels.

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Speaker 1: It was a long pause. God said, do you want

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Speaker 1: two lanes or four lanes on that bridge? And all

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Speaker 1: the men said, Amen, say it like you mean it.

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

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have.

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

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Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 2: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about.

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Speaker 1: Be positive or be quiet.

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Speaker 2: Every one of us has promises that we're standing on

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Speaker 2: things that we're believing for. Maybe it's to get out

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Speaker 2: of debt, or to be healthy again, to meet the

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Speaker 2: right person, to start our own business. We know God

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Speaker 2: has spoken to us, but we don't see any sign

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Speaker 2: of it happening. Nothing is changing. It looks just like

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Speaker 2: it did six months ago. The mistake we make too

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Speaker 2: often is we start to talk ourselves out of it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'm going to get out of debt.

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Speaker 2: Business is too slow or I could never accomplish my dreams.

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Speaker 2: I'm too old, Joel, I miss my opportunity. We don't

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Speaker 2: realize our words are what's keeping the promise from coming

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Speaker 1: You cannot talk defeat and expect to have victory.

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Speaker 2: The moment you speak something out, you are giving life

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Speaker 2: to what you're saying, either good or bad. That's what

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Speaker 2: allows it to become a reality. Negative thoughts come to

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Speaker 2: every person. You can't stop the thoughts from coming. The

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Speaker 2: key is don't verbalize the negative. You may think it,

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Speaker 2: but don't speak it out. If you're not going to

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Speaker 2: say anything good about your health, your finances, your children,

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Speaker 2: your future, do yourself a favor, zip it up, don't

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Speaker 2: say anything at all, be positive or be quiet. Proverb

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Speaker 2: six says we are snared by the words of our mouth.

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Speaker 2: Do you know you can talk yourself out of your healing,

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Speaker 2: You can talk yourself out of a promotion. Negative words

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Speaker 2: can keep you from your God given destiny. This is

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Speaker 2: what almost happened to a man in the Scripture named Jeremiah.

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Speaker 2: God gave him a great promise that he would become

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Speaker 2: a prophet to the nations, but when he heard this.

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Speaker 2: He was very young and unsure of himself. He said, God,

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Speaker 2: I can't do that. I can't speak to the nations.

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Speaker 1: Why did God do that. God knew if he went

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Speaker 2: would become exactly what he was saying. So God said,

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Speaker 2: in effect, Jeremiah, zip it up. You may think it,

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Speaker 2: tell how Jeremiah changed what he was saying and he

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Speaker 1: The promise came to pass in the same way.

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Speaker 2: God has called every one of us to do something great.

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Speaker 2: He's put dreams, desires on the inside. But it's easy

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Speaker 1: Stop saying that don't curse your future.

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Speaker 2: Those negative words can keep you from God's best. And

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Speaker 2: the reason a promise is being delayed is because of

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Speaker 2: what we're saying. Imagine your answer is on the way.

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Speaker 2: God has already dispatched the angel with your healing.

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Speaker 1: Your promotion, your vindication.

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Speaker 2: But right before it gets here, God says to the angel,

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Speaker 2: The angel says, why, God, this is what you promise,

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Speaker 1: God says, no, listen to what they're saying.

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Speaker 2: They're talking about how it's not going to happen, how

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Speaker 2: the problem's too big, how it's been too long, how

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Speaker 2: they'll never meet the right person. Negative words stop God's promises. Now,

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Speaker 2: I wonder how many times we're just a couple of

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Speaker 1: From meeting the right person.

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Speaker 2: You've been praying for years that God would bring somebody

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Speaker 2: I'm too old, nobody's interested in me. God has to

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Speaker 2: say to the angel, don't go any further. The good

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Speaker 2: news is that promise is still in your future. God

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Speaker 2: didn't cancel it because we get negative. He still has

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Speaker 2: the right person for you. And if you'll zip up

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Speaker 2: they will show up. God will release what negative words

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Speaker 2: have delayed. God still has your healing, your promotion, your restoration.

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Speaker 2: Now do your part. Quit talking about how it's not

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Speaker 1: You may not see away, but God still has a way.

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Speaker 2: It may look impossible, but God can do the impossible.

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Speaker 1: Just because you don't.

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Speaker 2: See anything happening doesn't mean God is not working right now.

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Speaker 2: Behind the scenes. God is arranging things in your favor.

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Speaker 2: He's lining up the right people, he's moving the wraw

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Speaker 2: He wants you to be.

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Speaker 1: Now, don't delay the promise by speaking negative words.

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Speaker 2: Our son, Jonathan is seventeen years old and we're in

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Speaker 2: the process of applying to different colleges. Some schools only

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Speaker 2: accept five percent of the students that apply. That means,

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Speaker 2: of course, that ninety five percent of the applicants get

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Speaker 2: Think, why do we even want to apply to those schools.

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Speaker 2: It's practically impossible. More than nine out of ten get denied. Jonathan,

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Speaker 2: don't get your hopes up. I don't see how you

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Speaker 2: could get in there. If we're not careful, we'll talk

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Speaker 2: ourselves out of it. You may think those thoughts, but

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Speaker 2: don't make the mistake of verbalizing them. Learn to turn

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Speaker 2: it around. God, I know you have my son in

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Speaker 2: the palm of your hand. You've already picked out the

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Speaker 2: right college for him to attend. There may be only

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Speaker 2: a five percent chance for some schools, but God, I

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Speaker 2: know with you, there's a one hundred percent chance he'll

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Speaker 2: get in exactly where you want him to go.

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Speaker 1: God, you control the whole universe.

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Speaker 2: That's much better than going around all the odds are

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Speaker 1: Doesn't look good. I don't see how it's going to happen. No,

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Speaker 1: zip that up. If you can't be positive, at least

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Speaker 1: be quiet. You are prophesying your future.

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Speaker 2: If you say I'll never get in, then you'll never

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Speaker 2: get in. If you say this problem is going to

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Speaker 2: sink me, then it will sink you. If you say

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Speaker 2: I'll never be able to afford a nice house, You'll

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Speaker 2: never be able to afford a nice house.

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Speaker 1: You're be ensnared by the words of your mouth. Luke.

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Speaker 2: Chapter one, an angel appeared to a man named Zachariah.

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Speaker 2: The angel told him that his wife Elizabeth, was going

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Speaker 2: Zachariah was very surprised because he and his wife.

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Speaker 2: He said to the angel, are you sure this is

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Speaker 2: going to happen? It sounds great, but do you see

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Speaker 2: how old we are. To me, it just doesn't seem possible.

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Speaker 2: The angel said, Zachariah, I am Gabriel. I stand in

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Speaker 2: the presence of Almighty God, and what God says will

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Speaker 2: come to pass. But God knows the power of our words.

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Speaker 2: He knew if Zachariah went around speaking defeat, it would

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Speaker 1: So God did something unusual.

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Speaker 2: The angel said Zachariah, because you doubted, you will remain

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Speaker 2: for nine months until that child was born. Why did

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Speaker 2: God take away his speech? God knew he would go

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Speaker 1: We're too old.

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Speaker 2: God knows with our words we are prophesying our future.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times we think, well, Joe, God's God.

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Speaker 2: If he wants to bless me, he'll bless me.

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Speaker 1: No, God works by laws.

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Speaker 2: Yes, God wants to bless you, but it will not

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Speaker 2: happen if you're speaking defeat over your life. That's why

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Speaker 2: the scripture says, put a watch over your mouth. In

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Speaker 2: other words, be careful what you allow to come out

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Speaker 2: I don't think I'm ever gonna get well. I've had

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Speaker 2: this sickness for three years. Or put a watch over

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Speaker 2: your mouth. Don't prophesy that defeat.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to say anything, say what God says.

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Speaker 1: I will live and not die. God is rest store

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Speaker 1: in health back into me.

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Speaker 2: The number of my days he will fulfill. That's what

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Speaker 2: we should be saying. The thought comes you'll never accomplash

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Speaker 2: your dreams, you'll never rise any higher. You've gone as

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Speaker 2: far as you can go. You can't stop the thoughts

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Speaker 2: from coming. But you can choose to not give them

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Speaker 2: that thought will die still born. It can't take root

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Speaker 2: and become a reality.

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Speaker 1: But when you say it, you are.

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Speaker 2: Giving birth to what you're speaking All through the day.

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Speaker 2: You need to ask yourself, is what I'm about to say?

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Speaker 2: What I want to come into my life? Because what

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Speaker 2: you're saying you're inviting in. When you say I'll never

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Speaker 2: Don't think I'll ever get out of that. You're inviting defeat, mediocrity.

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Speaker 2: You need to send out some new invitations. When you

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Speaker 2: When we're marching around the walls, sometimes we go day

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Speaker 2: She said, no, all is well. She kept heading full

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Speaker 2: Oh man, let me tell you my business is so slow.

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Speaker 2: Even in her darkest hour, even when it looked.

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Speaker 1: Like her, say it by faith. All is well. It

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Speaker 2: In the natural, you should be plaining, talking about how

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Speaker 2: That's when the most powerful force in the universe goes

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Speaker 2: Talk about the size of your God. God stopped the

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Speaker 2: way even though you don't see away. My challenge today

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Speaker 2: is don't let your negative words stop what God wants

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Speaker 2: You may think it, but don't give it life by

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Speaker 2: Now, put a watch over your mouth, pay attention to

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Speaker 1: For some of you.

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Speaker 2: When you make this adjustment, God is going to release

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Speaker 1: Suddenly, things are going to fall into place.

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Speaker 2: You're going to see God's favor in a new way.

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Speaker 2: He's going to open up new doors of opportunity. I

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Speaker 1: You back is about to come crumbling down. You and

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Speaker 2: But we never like to close our broadcast without giving

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Speaker 2: Every day we make choices how we see ourselves, how

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