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Speaker 1: Hi, this is joelan Victorium. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy,

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Speaker 1: the message. Well, God bless you. It's great to be

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Speaker 1: with you today, and I hope you'll stay connected with

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Speaker 1: us throughout the week. We have a daily podcast that

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Speaker 1: you can download. You can go to our YouTube channel

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Speaker 1: watch the messages anytime, or of course, you can follow

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Speaker 1: us on social medium. I promise you this, We'll keep

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Speaker 1: you encouraged and inspired. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks again

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Speaker 1: for coming out in person. I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny and I heard about this reporter. He was

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Speaker 1: visiting churches across the nation. While in the Northeast, he

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Speaker 1: saw a gold phone on the wall with a sign

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Speaker 1: that said calls ten thousand dollars per minute. He asked

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Speaker 1: the pastor what it meant. The pastor explained that it

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Speaker 1: was a direct line to Heaven. If you were willing

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Speaker 1: to pay the price, you could talk directly to God God.

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Speaker 1: He continued visiting different churches, seeing the same gold phone,

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Speaker 1: same sign, When he finally made it to Texas, he

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Speaker 1: saw the phone, but the sign said calls twenty five

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Speaker 1: cents per minute. Intrigued, he asked the pastor why it

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Speaker 1: was so much cheaper. The pastor said, you're in Texas now,

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Speaker 1: it's a local call. And all the Texans said, Amen,

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Speaker 1: here we go, y'all. This is my Bible. I am

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: boldly confessed. My mind is alert, my 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. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 1: staying positive toward yourself. The most important relationship you have

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Speaker 1: is the relationship with yourself. Too many people don't like

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Speaker 1: who they areocus on their faults and weaknesses. They relive

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Speaker 1: their mistakes and failures. They wish they were different, if

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Speaker 1: they were taller, had a better personality, look like their cousin.

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Speaker 1: Instead of accepting themselves as a masterpiece made in the

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Speaker 1: image of God, they're critical toward themselves and they wonder

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Speaker 1: why they're not happy, why they don't have good relationships.

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Speaker 1: It's because they don't like themselves. If you don't get

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Speaker 1: along with you, you're not going to get along with

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Speaker 1: other people. Jesus said, love your neighbor as you love yourself.

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Speaker 1: You can't love others if you don't first love yourself.

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Speaker 1: The best thing you can do for your family, for

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Speaker 1: your friends is be good to you. Be kind to you,

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Speaker 1: Be merciful to you, be forgiving to you, be loving

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Speaker 1: to you. You're good to others. Why aren't you good

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Speaker 1: to you? You don't criticize your friend. Why are you

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Speaker 1: criticizing you? You compliment your coworker. When's the last time

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Speaker 1: you complimented yourself? You admire their talent, Why don't you

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Speaker 1: admire your talent? Start being good to you. That's not

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Speaker 1: being selfish, that's not arrogant, that's loving yourself. Too many

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Speaker 1: people go through life against themselves, feeling wrong on the inside.

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Speaker 1: I heard someone say I discovered the enemy. It was me.

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Speaker 1: Are you your enemy? Are you defeating yourself, limiting your dreams,

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Speaker 1: sabotaging your relationships all because you don't like you. You

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Speaker 1: have enough people and circumstances against you. Don't be against

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Speaker 1: yourself when you wake up in the morning. Don't lie

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Speaker 1: you don't like about your looks. Relive your mistakes. Why

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Speaker 1: didn't I finish college? I should be more disciplined. I

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Speaker 1: lost my temper yesterday. Instead of focusing on what's wrong

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Speaker 1: with you, start focusing on what's right with you. You may

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Speaker 1: have weaknesses, you've made mistakes. We all have, but there's

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Speaker 1: a lot more right with you than there is wrong

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Speaker 1: with you. Dwelling on the negative doesn't help you to

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Speaker 1: do better. Beating yourself up for past mistakes doesn't move

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Speaker 1: you forward. The better you feel about yourself, the better

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Speaker 1: You can't give away what you don't have. If you're

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Speaker 1: in turmoil on the inside, mad at yourself, critical, condemned,

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Speaker 1: that's what you have to give. If you're hard on yourself,

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Speaker 1: you'll be hard on others. If you don't forgive yourself,

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Speaker 1: how can you get along with your family. The best

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Speaker 1: It starts with you. You well, Joel, I have all

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Speaker 1: these faults, these weaknesses. Once I overcome, once I learn

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Speaker 1: If you're waiting to perform perfectly before you feel good

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Speaker 1: You have to accept yourself while you're in the process

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Speaker 1: of changing. God knew you would have weaknesses. He made you.

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Speaker 1: You're not a surprise to him. He's not in Heaven

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Speaker 1: there would be things you struggle with. You're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to beat yourself up because you haven't arrived yet. I

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Speaker 1: be some area we need to improve in. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I believe God will leave weaknesses on purpose, so will

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Speaker 1: have to depend on him. He's changed you from glory

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Speaker 1: to glory. Learn to enjoy the glory that you're in

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Speaker 1: right now. You may not be where you want to be,

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Speaker 1: to look back and thank God for how far He's

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Speaker 1: already brought you. It takes a mature person to say

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Speaker 1: way to where God is taking me. One time, someone

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Speaker 1: this to sound arrogant, but I couldn't think of anything.

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Speaker 1: And sure, there are plenty of areas I need to improve,

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Speaker 1: I need to change, I need to grow. My point is,

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Speaker 1: I'm a masterpiece. I'm made in the ema of Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: Life is too short to go through it against yourself.

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Speaker 1: I like who God made me to be. It's very

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Speaker 1: powerful when you can say you like yourself. Not I

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Speaker 1: like myself. After I lose twenty pounds, after I learned

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Speaker 1: to keep my mouth closed, after I've become more patient.

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Speaker 1: God accepts and deproves you right where you are, faults

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Speaker 1: and all mistakes, shortcomings, not when you overcome, but right now.

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Speaker 1: He knows you're on a journey. He's changing you. Little

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Speaker 1: by little. He accepts you. Now you have to accept yourself.

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Speaker 1: He approves you. You have to approve yourself. When our

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Speaker 1: during that game, during that game, he got around me

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Speaker 1: Jonathan said, Dad, tell everyone what happened last week. I said,

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Speaker 1: wasn't on the front of my mind. My failure wasn't

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Speaker 1: success is what stood out. It's all in how we

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Speaker 1: train ourselves. Some people are focused on their losses, their flaws,

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Speaker 1: they're negative toward themselves. The wrong images are always playing.

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Speaker 1: You need to focus on your victories. Focus on the

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Speaker 1: times you succeeded. You resisted the temptation, You were disciplined,

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Speaker 1: You felt like telling them all, but you bit your tongue.

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Speaker 1: You went the extra mile at work. You excelled in

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Speaker 1: You can't become who you're created to be if you're

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Speaker 1: circumstances may be against you. People will come against you.

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Speaker 1: You can overcome those things. The problem is if you

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Speaker 1: keep you from your destiny. God has given us different gifts,

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Speaker 1: who God has made you to be. And sure, there

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Speaker 1: are areas we can improve, in areas where we can grow,

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Speaker 1: I'm naturally more quiet and reserved. My personality is laid

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Speaker 1: don't get upset often. That's all natural to me. Well,

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Speaker 1: when my father went to be with the Lord, I

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Speaker 1: but I didn't feel qualified. I had never ministered. I

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Speaker 1: He was dynamic, forceful. I would see other ministers that

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Speaker 1: not as talented as they are. Here's the key. God

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Speaker 1: If you needed a different personality, he would have given

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Speaker 1: different parents, it would have happened. Quit comparing and run

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Speaker 1: your race. I was tempted to feel inferior, not strong enough.

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Speaker 1: That worked from my father. That's who he was. But

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Speaker 1: God makes us individuals. You have to be comfortable in

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Speaker 1: Don't covet what someone else has. If you had their gifts,

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Speaker 1: their personality, their looks, it wouldn't help you, it would

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Speaker 1: and wonderfully made. Walk in your anointing. Be confident with

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Speaker 1: your gifts, Let your personality shine. It's not another person

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Speaker 1: you to go through life trying to be an imitation,

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Speaker 1: you can do you. You're not annointing to be someone else.

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Speaker 1: The anointing on your life, the favor, the blessing, is

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Speaker 1: to be you. You want to activate the favor. You

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Speaker 1: won't see the abundance if you're trying to be something

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Speaker 1: You are holy, you are blameless, You are without faults.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, If you receive it, can you say amen? Today?

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Speaker 1: Just say it, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 2: but even as you consider his handiwork, you might also

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Speaker 2: How do you overcome this?

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Speaker 1: The opinion you have of yourself is your most important opinion.

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