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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joelan Victoria. Thanks for listening to our

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 2: How many of you, like me, want to go from

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Speaker 2: just knowing the promises of God to walking into the

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Speaker 2: promises of God. It's one thing to know something, it's

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Speaker 2: another thing to use what you know to get where

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Speaker 2: you need to be. You see, God has already reserved

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Speaker 2: a seat for you. He's already carved out places for you.

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Speaker 2: He's already reserved territories for you to conquer and for

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Speaker 2: you to occupy. We know that that God has things

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Speaker 2: for us. That's a promise, But how we get to

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Speaker 2: that promise is up to us. God was speaking to Joshua.

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Speaker 2: He was telling telling him, Joshua, I have a place

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Speaker 2: that I want you to go. But there's going to

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Speaker 2: be two enemies that you're going to face. Now you

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Speaker 2: all know the story. Joshua and Moses were brought out

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Speaker 2: of captivity and were being transformed or are being journeyed

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Speaker 2: to the Promised Land. So they came out of captivity,

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Speaker 2: but they wondered in the desert. So they came out

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Speaker 2: of something, but they never fully got to where God

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Speaker 2: had promised them. So it was Joshua's tern. Moses had

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Speaker 2: died and Joshua was standing in a place that he

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Speaker 2: had stood before. Again. God spoke to Joshua and he said, Joshua,

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Speaker 2: I want you to listen carefully to my instructions. I

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Speaker 2: want you to listen carefully. There's two enemies that you're

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Speaker 2: going to face. Listen to what he said in Joshua.

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Speaker 2: He said, Joshua, be strong and courageous. Then he went

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Speaker 2: on to say, do not be afraid and do not

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Speaker 2: be discouraged. For the Lord, your God is with you

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Speaker 2: wherever you go. Okay, he broke it down for Joshua.

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Speaker 2: He said, Joshua, this is what you need to be

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Speaker 2: strong and courageous. He said, Joshua, this is what you

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Speaker 2: don't need to be afraid and discouraged.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: God made it clear, Joshua, I'm taking you to a

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Speaker 2: place that you're going to occupy, but you can't be

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Speaker 2: afraid and discouraged. God wasn't making a simple suggestion. He

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Speaker 2: wasn't saying that, don't be afraid, don't be discouraged, be strong.

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Speaker 2: No God commanded Joshua, he said, Have I not commanded? You?

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Speaker 2: Have I not commanded you? Do not be afraid, Do

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Speaker 2: not be discouraged. You know. He didn't say, Joshua, don't

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Speaker 2: feel discouragement, don't feel fear. What he was saying was, Joshua,

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Speaker 2: don't identify with fear. Don't let it become part of

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Speaker 2: your identity. Don't let discouragement define you. He was saying,

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Speaker 2: don't hang around with fear and discouragement too long. He says,

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Speaker 2: because you're going places see so many times, you know,

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Speaker 2: we think, wow, these giants, they saw these giants. He

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Speaker 2: was saying. It's not the giants, it's not the Hittites,

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Speaker 2: it's not the Canaanites, it's not the jeb Besides, it's

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Speaker 2: not even the Cellulites that you need to be afraid of.

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Speaker 2: He said, Joshua, your biggest enemy is fear and discouragement.

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Speaker 2: Fear and discouragement. You know, sometimes when we feel fear,

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Speaker 2: we entertain it. Fear causes us to be discouraged. And

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Speaker 2: if you hang around with fear and discouragement long enough,

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Speaker 2: it's interesting how you can wrap it in a circumstance.

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Speaker 2: This is the reason this is happening to me. We

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Speaker 2: can literally take fear and we can make it such

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Speaker 2: an excuse that we can literally put a face to it.

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Speaker 2: We can name it. See, it's Sarah in the office.

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Speaker 2: That's why I can't get ahead. It's my husband. He's

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Speaker 2: been pushing me down. He won't let me blossom. I'm

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Speaker 2: not as talented as other people. That's why I'm not

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Speaker 2: where I should be. It's my finances. Man, if I

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Speaker 2: had more finances, I could do so much more. You See,

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Speaker 2: we create scenarios and situations, but at the root of

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Speaker 2: every one of these is fear. And fear causes discouragement,

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Speaker 2: and discouragement causes us to be tormented. It causes us

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Speaker 2: to sit down instead of move forward. See, we cannot

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Speaker 2: let fear be an excuse for our life. God has

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Speaker 2: already given us the promise. He's already said, here's the promise.

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Speaker 2: It's optional if you're gonna get there. And he's saying,

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Speaker 2: your enemies are fear and discouragement. You know, I was

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Speaker 2: talking to a girl the other day and she said,

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Speaker 2: I'm in this ministry, but it just seems like that,

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Speaker 2: you know what, no one will let me do what

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Speaker 2: I want to do, and you know it's hard for me.

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Speaker 2: I feel it difficult. I'm just gonna quit. I have

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Speaker 2: seen so many people quit give up a position because

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Speaker 2: of people. The first time that I ever spoke in church,

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Speaker 2: I was afraid. I was scared. I wrapped that up

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Speaker 2: in an excuse. I became discouraged. I remember it's Sunday again.

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Speaker 2: It was like a black cloud was following me around.

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Speaker 2: I named it, I got an agreement with it. I

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Speaker 2: was miserable. Then I realized, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what, it's fear.

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Speaker 2: It's fear. It's wrapped up in all these other things,

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Speaker 2: but it's fear that is the root of why I'm miserable.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you think about it. We've got to

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Speaker 2: recognize fear and discouragement and we have to unwrap it

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Speaker 2: for what it is. See, it was the enemy trying

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Speaker 2: to steal my destiny. And can I tell you he's

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Speaker 2: gonna try to stop what what God has started in

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Speaker 2: your life anyway he can. He'll use people, he'll use circumstances,

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Speaker 2: he'll make it look like something else. But the root

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Speaker 2: of it all, it is fear. Fear always raises its

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Speaker 2: head as lack, not enough. I'm not enough, I don't

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Speaker 2: have enough. There is lack in this situation. That's why

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Speaker 2: I can't do it. It's always based out of black

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Speaker 2: and not enough, not good enough, not having enough. Listen,

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Speaker 2: do you feel discouraged? Sometimes? What are you fearful of?

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Speaker 2: Enemy's way of stopping you. See, too often we're fighting people,

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Speaker 2: We're fighting our circumstances, and God is saying, don't fight people,

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Speaker 2: fight fear and discouragement. Listen, don't let anything or anybody

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Speaker 2: rob you of your destiny. Don't let people steal your future. See.

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Speaker 2: God told Joshua what he should be, he should be

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Speaker 2: strong and courageous, told him what he shouldn't be, don't

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Speaker 2: be fearful, don't get discouraged. And then he told him

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Speaker 2: how to do it. He said, Joshua, you won't fight

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Speaker 2: fear and discouragement. One way and one way only is

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Speaker 2: when you take hold of my word, when you get

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Speaker 2: it out of your mouth, when you chase discouragement and

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Speaker 2: fear off with what I say. When you get it

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Speaker 2: into your thinking and you become you meditate on it,

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Speaker 2: and you let it drop down in the very depths

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Speaker 2: of who you are. See, God didn't leave the building

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Speaker 2: because you're facing a hard time, You're facing people who

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Speaker 2: are difficult. He said, I will be with you wherever

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Speaker 2: you go. And if God will fight Joshua's battles, God

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Speaker 2: will fight your battles too. See, it was not the

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Speaker 2: fact that they were going to starve in the wilderness,

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Speaker 2: first to death in the wilderness, get blocked by the enemy.

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Speaker 2: We know that. Open the Red sea, he struck water

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Speaker 2: out of a rock. God turned things. He let Quell

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Speaker 2: come into the camp so that they could eat. See

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Speaker 2: that wasn't a problem. The resources, the battles weren't a problem.

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Speaker 2: God said, don't worry about all this stuff. You fight

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Speaker 2: fear and discouragement with the word of God, because I'll

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Speaker 2: be with you everywhere you go. I'm not gonna leave you.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna forsake you. I love what it says

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Speaker 2: in one version, I'll never give up on you, even

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Speaker 2: when you're feeling fear, even when you're feeling discouraged. Hey,

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Speaker 2: that's not enough to make me give up on you.

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Speaker 2: I'll be there wherever you go. My promises are true.

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Speaker 2: How you get there is optional. If you'll fight fear

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Speaker 2: and discouragement, you too will get to your promised land. Amen.

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