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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. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you, and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Oh bless you. It's

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

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Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week through our daily

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

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Speaker 1: visit us in person. We'd love to have you be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. But I'd like

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Speaker 1: to start with something funny. And I heard about this

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Speaker 1: teenager that just got his driver's license and he asked

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Speaker 1: his father about borrowing the car. His father said, son,

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Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you. If you'll bring your

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Speaker 1: grades up, read your Bible every day, and cut your hair,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you borrow it. He came back in a

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Speaker 1: few weeks and ask about the car, and the father says, son,

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

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Speaker 1: but you still haven't cut your hair. The son said, dad,

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Speaker 1: I've been thinking. Moses had long hair, Samson had long hair,

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

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Speaker 1: and they walked everywhere they went say 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. I can do

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

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about removing infected thinking. We

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Speaker 1: all have to deal with thoughts of doubt, worry and insecurity,

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Speaker 1: and thoughts that tell us you're not going to get well,

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Speaker 1: It's just a thought, seems harmless. The truth is negative

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Speaker 1: thoughts are like infection. If you make the mistake of

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Speaker 1: dwelling on them, letting it play over and over, it's

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Speaker 1: like you're inviting it in. You'll give it permission to

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Speaker 1: become a reality. And what's holding many people back is

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Speaker 1: their thinking is infected. Studies show that forty seven percent

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Speaker 1: of adults cognitive time is spent ruminating on bad things

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Speaker 1: that have happened in the past, or worried about what

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Speaker 1: might happen in the future. Nearly half of our time,

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Speaker 1: we have the negative dominating our thoughts. We wonder why

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Speaker 1: we don't have joy, don't have peace, why we feel stuck.

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Speaker 1: It's the infection. Well, Joel, I don't think I'll ever

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Speaker 1: get well, that's an infected thought. Well, I've made too

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Speaker 1: many mistakes. God could never bless me. Now that infection

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Speaker 1: is distorting your vision. Well, I'm not attractive, I don't

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Speaker 1: have a good personality. As long as the infection is there,

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Speaker 1: it's going to limit your life. And the scripture says

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Speaker 1: to bring every thought into captivity. You have to lock

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Speaker 1: up those negative thoughts. Don't give them free reign in

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Speaker 1: your mind. They may seem harmless, but you need to

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Speaker 1: see them in a new light. They're infectious. They will

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Speaker 1: poison your attitude, contamidate your self, image, cloud your vision.

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Speaker 1: Has your thinking become infected? Are there areas in your

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Speaker 1: life where you believe you're not talented in offering? Come

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Speaker 1: from the wrong family, You could never live in that

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Speaker 1: nice neighborhood. That's all infection. You were created to live happy, healthy,

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Speaker 1: to rise higher. The good news is you can get

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Speaker 1: rid of the infection. It may have held you back,

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Speaker 1: but it's not permanent. Start locking up those thoughts. Quit

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Speaker 1: dwelling on all the negative, discouraging, destructive, Start filling your

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Speaker 1: mind with thoughts of hope, thoughts of faith, thoughts of victory.

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Speaker 1: I have some friends that decided to resaw their front yard.

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Speaker 1: Their grasp was never really healthy, so they doug it

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Speaker 1: Lime disease comes from a tick bite. When a tick

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Speaker 1: It's the same principle in our thoughts. They can seem harmless,

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Speaker 1: bard as your cousins. You'll never overcome this problem. It's

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Speaker 1: not some big announcements, some great offense where it's so obvious.

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Speaker 1: The enemy is very subtle, just like that tick. You

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Speaker 1: It's just a suggestion. But if you let that thought stay,

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Speaker 1: you start to dwell on it. Maybe I'm not worthy,

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Speaker 1: little lie is going to create major infections. It's going

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Speaker 1: to poison your self, imagy, contaminate your attitude, distort your vision.

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Speaker 1: The scripture says it's the little foxes that spoil the

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Speaker 1: never gonna get well. You saw the medical report. Before long,

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Speaker 1: you'll see yourself eighty years old, still single, lonely. Discourage,

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Speaker 1: do yourself a favor. Remove that thought quickly may seem harmless,

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

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

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Speaker 1: brother Paul swam there many times. He never got one.

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

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Speaker 1: or a person. By itself, the tick won't do any damage.

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Speaker 1: But when it finds a host, it feeds off their blood.

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Speaker 1: That's what causes it to grow. There are three stages

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

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Speaker 1: seventeen years old. He didn't know any better. He believed

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Speaker 1: to try to discourage you. Speak defeat, tell you what

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Speaker 1: They need someone to welcome them, to feed them. Then

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Speaker 1: they'll grow and become a reality. But what people say

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Speaker 1: about you doesn't determine who you are. It's what you

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Speaker 1: to stand. That's what this young man did. He became

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