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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks.

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Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 3: We believe you're going to have an.

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Speaker 1: Awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 4: God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast or YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 3: We'd love to have you be a part of one

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Speaker 3: of our services. But I'd like to start with something funny.

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Speaker 1: And I heard about this teenager that just got his

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Speaker 1: driver's license and he asked his father about borrowing the car.

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Speaker 1: His father said, son, I'll make a deal with you.

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Speaker 1: If you'll bring your grades up, read your Bible every day,

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Speaker 1: and cut your hair, I'll.

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Speaker 4: Let you borrow it.

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Speaker 1: He came back in a few weeks and ask about

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Speaker 1: the car, and the father says, son, you brought your

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Speaker 1: grades up, you've been reading your Bible, but you still

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Speaker 1: haven't cut your hair. The son said, Dad, I've been

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Speaker 1: thinking Moses had long hair, Samson had long hair, even

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Speaker 1: Jesus had long hair. The dad said, yes, son, and

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Speaker 1: they walked everywhere they.

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Speaker 4: Went say like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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

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

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about removing infected thinking. We all have to deal with

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Speaker 1: thoughts of doubt, worry and insecurity, and thoughts that tell

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Speaker 1: us you're not going to get well, you'll never break

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Speaker 1: the addiction, you can't accomplish your dream.

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Speaker 3: It's just a thought, seems harmless.

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Speaker 1: The truth is negative thoughts are like infection. If you

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Speaker 1: make the mistake of dwelling on them, letting it play

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Speaker 1: over and over, it's like you're inviting it in. You're

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Speaker 1: giving it permission to become a reality. And what's holding

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Speaker 1: many people back is their thinking is infected. Studies show

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Speaker 1: that forty seven percent of adults cognitive time is spent

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Speaker 1: ruminating on bad things that have happened in the past,

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Speaker 1: or worried about what might happen in the future.

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Speaker 3: Nearly half of our time, we have the negative dominating

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Speaker 3: our thoughts. We wonder why we.

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Speaker 4: Don't have joy, don't have peace, why we feel stuck?

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Speaker 3: It's the infection.

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Speaker 1: Well, Joel, I don't think I'll ever get well, that's

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Speaker 1: an infected thought.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've made too many mistakes. God could never bless me.

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Speaker 3: Now that infection is distorting your vision.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not attractive, I don't have a good personality.

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Speaker 3: As long as the infection is there, it's going to

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Speaker 3: limit your life.

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Speaker 1: And the scripture says to bring every thought into captivity.

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Speaker 1: Have to lock up those negative thoughts. Don't give them

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Speaker 1: free reign in your mind. They may seem harmless, but

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Speaker 3: They're infectious.

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Speaker 1: They will poison your attitude, contimidate your self image, cloud

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Speaker 3: Has your thinking become infected?

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Speaker 1: Are there areas in your life where you believe you're

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Speaker 1: not talented in offering, come from the wrong family, You

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Speaker 3: That's all infection. You were created to.

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Speaker 1: Live happy, healthy, to rise higher. The good news is

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Speaker 1: you can get rid of the infection. It may have

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Speaker 1: held you back, but it's not permanent. Start locking up

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Speaker 1: those thoughts. Quit dwelling on all the negative, discouraging, destructive,

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Speaker 1: Start filling your mind with thoughts of hope, thoughts of faith,

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Speaker 1: thoughts of victory. I have some friends that decided to

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Speaker 1: One night, the husband noticed a new mole on his

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Speaker 1: removed the tick, and of course she's very relieved. Well,

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Speaker 1: Took test after test trying to find out what was wrong.

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Speaker 1: They finally diagnosed her with lime disease. Lime disease comes

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Speaker 1: from a tick bite. When a tick is not removed

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Speaker 3: These parasites that invade.

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Speaker 1: The organs and cells, they live and grow and causing

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Speaker 3: You never knew it happened. A tick is the size

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Speaker 3: would think this is harmless. He could not stop me.

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Speaker 1: Yet that little tick carries such powerful infection it can

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Speaker 1: become to building. It's the same principle in our thoughts.

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Speaker 1: They can seem harmless, just a little whisper. You're not valuable,

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Speaker 1: You're not as bard as your cousins. You'll never overcome

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Speaker 1: this problem. It's not some big announcements, some great offense

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Speaker 1: where it's so obvious. The enemy is very subtle, just

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Speaker 4: You don't feel the bite. You hardly even know it happened.

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Speaker 3: It's just a suggestion. But if you let that thought stay,

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Speaker 3: you start to dwell on it. Maybe I'm not worthy,

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Speaker 1: Have seen my best days, and maybe I don't have

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Speaker 1: the talent that I need.

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Speaker 3: Before long, that little lie is going to create major infection.

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Speaker 1: It's going to poison your self, imagy, contaminate your attitude,

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Speaker 1: distort your vision. The scripture says it's the little foxes

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Speaker 1: that spoil the vines with the tick. If you remove

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Speaker 1: parasites that infect the organs and cause all that damage.

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Speaker 1: It's important to deal with thoughts quickly, don't let them

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Speaker 1: Before long, you'll see yourself going downhill. You'll see yourself

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Speaker 1: at your own funeral. Well, you'll never meet the right person.

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Speaker 1: You'll always be single. If you let that infection take root,

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Speaker 1: just a little discouragement. No thoughts can carry infection. Thoughts

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Speaker 1: can contamidate your future. That's why the scripture tells us

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Speaker 1: to guard our mind. You can't stop the negative thoughts

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Speaker 3: If my friends would have known that was a.

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Speaker 1: Tick, they would have pulled it off immediately. They wouldn't

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Speaker 3: No thanks, you're not welcome here.

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Speaker 1: The longer we wait, the more damage, the more infection.

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Speaker 1: When I was twelve years old, one summer day, I

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Speaker 1: went to play baseball with my friends and we rode

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Speaker 1: we were so hot and sweaty. One of my friends said,

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Speaker 1: it was too dirty, but all my friends took off running.

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Speaker 1: We jumped off the docks and swam about fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: and felt so good and refreshing. I waited a couple

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Speaker 1: That night, I took a shower and was about to

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Speaker 1: Even since one hundred and fifty degrees, I am not

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Speaker 1: Paul swam there many times.

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Speaker 1: I guess ticks even know what tastes good.

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Speaker 3: But with a tick, it doesn't do any harm unless.

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Speaker 1: It attaches itself to what's called a host. It needs

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Speaker 1: but as long as it's receiving nourishment from the host.

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Speaker 4: They call it a blood meal.

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Speaker 3: Then it'll progress to the next stage.

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Speaker 1: When it reaches that final stage, then it can release

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Speaker 1: the infection into the blood streams. Same way in our thinking.

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Speaker 1: When negative thoughts come.

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Speaker 3: The enemy needs a host.

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Speaker 1: He needs someone that will welcome that thought, entertain it,

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Speaker 1: and make it feel comfortable. He brings thoughts of fear, worry, doubt,

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Speaker 4: Will you host it?

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Speaker 1: He has that thought, you'll never rise any higher man,

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Speaker 1: You've seen your best days. Those thoughts won't do any harm.

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Speaker 1: If you don't welcome them, you don't dwell on it.

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Speaker 1: The only power he has is when he finds someone

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Speaker 1: one time it's good to be a bad host. You

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Speaker 1: have to say, hey, tick, hey worry, hey defeat.

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Speaker 3: You are not welcome here. You're not gonna feed off

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Speaker 1: You're not getting my nutrients, my faith, my joy, my vision.

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Speaker 3: You have to starve the negative thoughts. They have no

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Speaker 3: effect if you don't feed them.

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Speaker 1: But think about that tick feeding off of your own blood,

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Speaker 1: only to turn around and infect you. It's trying to

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Speaker 1: develop into a stage where it can release the parasites,

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Speaker 1: and if the host is not aware, if the host

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Speaker 1: is passive and complacent, then like what with my friends

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Speaker 1: years later, they're dealing with very difficult issues. Could have

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have cost this infection. I know a man that

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Speaker 1: The counselor was basically telling him, you're not that talented,

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Speaker 3: Who told me I don't deserve to be blessed? Who

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Speaker 3: Like that tick that poisoned my friend, you have to

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Speaker 1: Quit feeding your fears, quit feeding the guilt, feeding the doubt,

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Speaker 1: That's why we start off every service saying, I am

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Speaker 3: Well, Joe, this sounds good, but I think I've.

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Speaker 1: Get rid of that tip. Quit letting it contamidate to

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Speaker 1: Everyone froze you could hear a pin drop. That was

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Speaker 3: The boy didn't know what to say.

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Speaker 1: He'd heard all the talk about how he was an outcast,

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Speaker 3: I can see the resemblance so strongly.

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Speaker 1: You're a child of Almighty God. Today a stronghold was

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Speaker 1: broken off of his life. All that infection that had

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Speaker 1: Thirty years later, that young boy was elected governor of Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: if there's some kind of infection in your thinking. What

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Speaker 1: people have said, what you've been through, lies The enemy

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Speaker 4: You let the tick stain.

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Speaker 1: You've been feeding the infection in welcoming the insecurity, hosting

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Speaker 1: today is your day to be free. That infection is

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Speaker 1: about to clear up things that are point and your joy,

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Speaker 1: Healing is coming, wholeness, freedom, and victory.

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Speaker 1: No more feeding the negative, No more dwelling on the

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