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Speaker 5: You believe what you say about yourself more than what
Speaker 5: anyone else says about you. When you hear yourself day
Speaker 5: after day, I am healthy, I am talented, I am confident,
Speaker 5: I am valuable. It's changing how you see yourself Over time,
Speaker 5: You're going to become what you're saying. You are who
Speaker 5: you are in part today because of what you've been
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Speaker 5: God bless you, and thanks so much for letting us
Speaker 5: come into your homes. We are praying for you and
Speaker 5: your family for God's very best. I like to start
Speaker 5: with something funny, and I heard about this pastor and
Speaker 5: he bought a new horse. He trained it to respond
Speaker 5: to praise the Lord meaning giddy up, and Hallelujah meaning woe.
Speaker 5: Every time he said praise the Lord, the horse took
Speaker 5: off running. When he said Hallelujah, it would quickly stop.
Speaker 5: One day he was out riding, the horse got spooked
Speaker 5: took off running straight toward a cliff, go in full blast.
Speaker 5: In the panic, he couldn't remember what he had taught
Speaker 5: the horse. He said, Bless God, Glory, Amen.
Speaker 4: Nothing happened.
Speaker 5: At the last moment, he shouted Hallelujah, and the horse
Speaker 5: came to a screeching halt, just inches before.
Speaker 4: The edge of the cliff.
Speaker 5: He breathed a sigh of relief and said, Praise the Lord.
Speaker 4: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 5: I am what it says I am, I have what
Speaker 5: it says I have, I can do what it says
Speaker 5: I can do today.
Speaker 4: I will be taught the word of God.
Speaker 5: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 4: bless you.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about blessing yourself.
Speaker 5: We hear a lot about blessing others, being good to friends,
Speaker 5: complimenting a family member, helping a neighbor.
Speaker 4: That's all good.
Speaker 5: We should bless others, but it's also important to bless yourself.
Speaker 5: When we hear bless yourself, that can sound odd and
Speaker 5: self centered. I can't bless myself. I want somebody else
Speaker 5: to bless me. Importantly, I want God to bless me.
Speaker 5: But the scripture says in Isaiah, he who invokes a
Speaker 5: blessing on himself shall do so by saying.
Speaker 4: The way you bless.
Speaker 5: Yourself is to say what God says about you. I
Speaker 5: am strong, I am talented, I am forgiven, I am healthy,
Speaker 5: I am valuable, I am a masterpiece. Those are not
Speaker 5: just positive affirmations. You just invoked a blessing on yourself.
Speaker 5: When you speak it out, you give life to what
Speaker 5: you're saying.
Speaker 4: It's not enough to just think this.
Speaker 5: You don't bless yourself by just dwelling on positive thoughts.
Speaker 5: Nothing happens until you speak. When you say I am blessed,
Speaker 5: blessings come looking for you. When you say I am prosperous,
Speaker 5: good break start heading your way. When you say I
Speaker 5: am healthy, health starts tracking you down. You can't wait
Speaker 5: until you feel that way. Then you're going to say it.
Speaker 5: When the medical report turns around, then I'll say I'm healthy.
Speaker 4: It's just the opposite.
Speaker 5: You have to declare you're healthy before the health is
Speaker 5: going to show up. You have to say I am
Speaker 5: confident before you're going to feel confident. If you'll say
Speaker 5: it long enough, what happens is those words get down
Speaker 5: in your spirit. You believe what you say about yourself
Speaker 5: more than what anyone else says about you. When you
Speaker 5: hear yourself day after day, I am healthy, I am talented,
Speaker 5: I am confident, I am valuable. It's changing how you
Speaker 5: see yourself. Over time, You're going to become what you're saying.
Speaker 5: You are who you are in part today because of
Speaker 5: what you've been speaking over your life now all through
Speaker 5: the day. You need to develop this habit of blessing yourself.
Speaker 5: You don't have to do it in front of other people,
Speaker 5: but when you're in the shower. Father, thank you that
Speaker 5: I am creative, I am attractive, I am a great father.
Speaker 5: I have a good person driving to work. Lord, thank
Speaker 5: you that I'm forgiven. I'm redeemed that your mercy is bigger.
Speaker 4: Than my mistakes.
Speaker 5: Before you go to bed, I am valuable. I am
Speaker 5: one of a kind. I have seeds of greatness. Every
Speaker 5: time you say that, it's getting deeper in your spirit.
Speaker 5: It's becoming more ingrained in your thinking, and studies tell
Speaker 5: us that we move toward what's in our subconscious mind
Speaker 5: without even thinking about it. You're being pulled toward what
Speaker 5: you're saying. That's why it's so important to pay attention
Speaker 5: to what you're speaking over yourself. Other people may say
Speaker 5: things about you, but nothing is more powerful.
Speaker 4: Than what you say about yourself.
Speaker 5: I can tell you all day long you're a victor
Speaker 5: and not a victim.
Speaker 4: That's good.
Speaker 5: That's helping your thinking, but it's nothing compared to when
Speaker 5: you say I am a child of the Most High God.
Speaker 5: I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I am a masterpiece,
Speaker 5: handpicked by the creator of the universe. You keep declaring
Speaker 5: that and you can't stay insecure, feeling unworthy.
Speaker 4: That will get down in your spirit.
Speaker 5: You'll put your shoulders back, hold your head up, hie,
Speaker 5: and you'll go places that you've never dreamed. Are you
Speaker 5: blessing yourself or you're just waiting for God to bless you,
Speaker 5: waiting for your spouse to make you feel valuable, waiting
Speaker 5: for that addiction to go away. Maybe the reason it's
Speaker 5: not happening is you're not invoking the blessing on yourself.
Speaker 5: You're not declaring what God says about you in the
Speaker 5: face of that addiction.
Speaker 4: You need to declare, I am free, I am whole.
Speaker 5: Greater is he that's in me than what's trying to
Speaker 5: stop me, Not just one time, but all through the day,
Speaker 5: week after week, month after month. Keep blessing yourself, keep
Speaker 5: declaring your free, keep speaking victory. As you do that,
Speaker 5: you may not be able to see it, but eat
Speaker 5: them is coming your way. The scripture says you will
Speaker 5: eat the fruit of your words.
Speaker 4: Whatever you're saying, that fruit is developing. The fruit is growing.
Speaker 5: It's significant that God uses fruit as the example because
Speaker 5: fruit doesn't develop overnight.
Speaker 4: It takes time.
Speaker 5: This is showing us you have to keep speaking it,
Speaker 5: keep blessing yourself. Don't be moved by what's not changing.
Speaker 5: You may not see results in a week, but things
Speaker 5: are happening that you can't see.
Speaker 4: We have some lemon trees in our backyard.
Speaker 5: The lemon start off as a little white flower, no
Speaker 5: resemblance of a lemon. Over time, that flower changes into
Speaker 5: a little round ball, about the size of a pea.
Speaker 4: Month after month, it grows.
Speaker 5: In a year or so, it's a big, beautiful yellow lemon.
Speaker 5: As you keep saying what God says about you, those
Speaker 5: words are taking root. That freedom you're speaking is developing.
Speaker 5: That health you're declaring, the talent, the confidence, the discipline,
Speaker 5: it's growing. You're going to come to a point where
Speaker 5: you see what you've been saying. You're not speaking it
Speaker 5: by faith anymore. Now it's a reality. You're going to
Speaker 5: eat the fruit of your words. That's why every day
Speaker 5: you need to spend time blessing yourself. It's good when
Speaker 5: others encourage you, it's good when they pray for you,
Speaker 5: but their words don't have the authority as your words.
Speaker 5: What you say about yourself, you're giving it the right
Speaker 5: to come to pass. When we wake up Each morning,
Speaker 5: most of us brush our teeth, take a shower, pick
Speaker 5: out our clothes, get dressed. We may spend half an
Speaker 5: hour getting our physical body ready for the day, but
Speaker 5: often we don't spend any time getting our inner person
Speaker 5: ready for the day. Our mind, our spirit, our emotions.
Speaker 5: What if you took a couple of minutes every morning
Speaker 5: before you leave the house and say what God says
Speaker 5: about you, make this declaration of faith.
Speaker 4: You can download it on our website. I am blessed,
Speaker 4: I am prosperous.
Speaker 5: I am redeemed, forgiven, talented, creative, disciplined, focused, confident, secure, prepared, qualified, motivated, valuable, free, determined, equipped, empowered, anointed,
Speaker 5: accepted and approved. Not average, not mediocre. I am a
Speaker 5: child of the Most High God. We say that every
Speaker 5: service at Lakewood. It's because it's easy to forget who
Speaker 5: we are. Life tries to push us down, tell us
Speaker 5: what we're not, what we can't do, how we failed.
Speaker 5: Sometimes our own thoughts tell us we're not attractive.
Speaker 4: Nothing good is in our future.
Speaker 5: If you let those lives play, it will keep you
Speaker 5: from your purpose. But if you'll make this declaration several
Speaker 5: times a day, month after month, it will get down
Speaker 5: in your spirit, and you will become who God created
Speaker 5: you to be. When you're constantly saying what God says
Speaker 5: about you, it will bring down strongholds.
Speaker 4: That are keeping you back.
Speaker 5: It will get rid of impurities that are contaminating your
Speaker 5: self image. You'll begin to see yourself the right way, redeemed, forgiven, strong, victorious.
Speaker 5: I talked to a man that was raised in a
Speaker 5: dysfunctional home. He was told by his father that he
Speaker 5: would never amount to anything, that he wasn't smart enough,
Speaker 5: he'd never be successful. For forty years he believed those lies.
Speaker 5: He stayed at the lowest level position at the company
Speaker 5: where he worked, never thought he could rise higher. After all,
Speaker 5: he was told that he didn't have the talent. One
Speaker 5: day he heard what I'm telling you. Instead of agreeing
Speaker 5: with what people said about him, he started speaking what
Speaker 5: God said about him. I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Speaker 5: I have seeds of greatness. I am full of potential.
Speaker 5: As he spoke what God said about him, he began
Speaker 5: to see himself in a new way. He became more confident,
Speaker 5: New gifts started to come out. Other people started to notice.
Speaker 5: He got promoted again and again. After thirty years of
Speaker 5: being stuck at that low level position. Today he's running
Speaker 5: his whole department.
Speaker 4: He has several.
Speaker 5: Hundred people under him. Now, people may tell you that
Speaker 5: your average nothing special about you. The good news is
Speaker 5: what you say about yourself overrides what other people say.
Speaker 4: Don't let once.
Speaker 5: Someone spoke over you keep you from becoming who you
Speaker 5: were created to be. Don't go around repeating those lies.
Speaker 5: I'm not that talented. I've reached my limits. I'll never
Speaker 5: accomplish my dreams. Zip that up and speak blessings over
Speaker 5: your life. The Scripture says, with our words, we can
Speaker 5: bless or we can curse.
Speaker 4: We can lift up, or we can push down.
Speaker 5: My question is, are you blessing yourself or are you
Speaker 5: cursing yourself? Are you speaking words of faith, life victory,
Speaker 5: or are you speaking defeat mediocrity.
Speaker 4: I'm so undisciplined.
Speaker 5: I'll never lose this weight, I'll never break this addiction.
Speaker 5: I'm unattractive, I'll never meet the right person. You may
Speaker 5: not realize it, but you're cursing yourself. You're speaking defeat
Speaker 5: into your future. You have enough people in life against you.
Speaker 5: Don't be against yourself. There are forces of darkness. Trying
Speaker 5: to keep you from your destiny. Don't give them any fuel.
Speaker 5: Pay attention to what you're saying about yourself. You can't
Speaker 5: talk defeat and have victory. You can't talk lack and
Speaker 5: have abundance. You can't talk sickness and have help. You
Speaker 5: may be undisciplined right now, but the way to change
Speaker 5: is not by telling how bad you are putting yourself down.
Speaker 5: That's inviting more difficulties. Start speaking victory. Don't curse yourself anymore.
Speaker 5: Start blessing yourself. I am disciplined, I am determined, I
Speaker 5: am strong.
Speaker 4: I will break this addiction. I will get back in shape.
Speaker 5: A friend of mine struggled with smoking for many years.
Speaker 5: He tried to quit again and again wasn't able to
Speaker 5: do it. He was constantly saying, it's too hard, I'll
Speaker 5: never break it. I don't have the will power. He
Speaker 5: came down for prayer and he was very hard on himself,
Speaker 5: very critical. He told me how he was undisciplined, and
Speaker 5: how he had quit for a few months and went back,
Speaker 5: and how he wasn't going to be able to break it.
Speaker 5: He didn't realize he was cursing himself. I told him
Speaker 5: what I'm telling you. You have to change what you're saying.
Speaker 5: You have to start bl blessing yourself every day, start
Speaker 5: saying I am strong, I am disciplined. This addiction doesn't
Speaker 5: control me. He tried this different approach. While he was smoking.
Speaker 5: He would say Lord, thank you that I am free.
Speaker 5: Hats would tell him, are you kidding? You're not free,
Speaker 5: You're just as addicted as you were before. The scripture says,
Speaker 5: let the weak say I'm strong. Don't describe the weakness.
Speaker 5: Call in strength, call in freedom, call in favor. About
Speaker 5: six months later, something interesting happened. He started to not
Speaker 5: like the taste of the cigarette. He thought it was
Speaker 5: a bad batch. The taste got worse and worse. He
Speaker 5: got to the point where he couldn't stand it. He
Speaker 5: stopped smoking.
Speaker 4: Today, he's been free for over eight years.
Speaker 5: It all started when he stopped cursing himself and he
Speaker 5: started blessing himself.
Speaker 4: Are you speaking negative over yourself?
Speaker 5: Are you putting yourself down, talking about how you don't
Speaker 5: measure up, what you can't do, how you'll never be free.
Speaker 4: Do yourself a favor.
Speaker 5: Quit cursing yourself and start blessing yourself. If you keep
Speaker 5: being negative, towards yourself. It will keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 5: In the Book of Numbers, the king of Moab hired Balim,
Speaker 5: the prophet, to go curse the Israelites. The king knew
Speaker 5: the Israelites were stronger and more powerful. He thought if
Speaker 5: he could get Balim to curse them, then the Moabites
Speaker 5: would be able to defeat the.
Speaker 4: People of Israel.
Speaker 5: But God told Balim to only say what the Lord says.
Speaker 5: When Balim arrived, instead of cursing the Israelites, he blessed them.
Speaker 5: The king was so upset, he said, you don't understand.
Speaker 4: I'm paying you to curse them.
Speaker 5: This happened three times, but every time Balem blessed them.
Speaker 5: He told the king, I cannot curse what God has
Speaker 5: already blessed. One thing God was showing us is the
Speaker 5: enemy cannot curse you. You are God's property. He's already
Speaker 5: put a blessing on you. People bad breaks how you
Speaker 5: were raised. What's coming against you? Cannot stop your destiny.
Speaker 5: You've already been set apart, favored, equipped, empowered by the
Speaker 5: creator of the universe.
Speaker 4: But here's the key.
Speaker 5: Since the enemy can't curse you, he'll try to deceive
Speaker 5: you into cursing yourself. He'll do his best to try
Speaker 5: to get you to go through life speaking defeat over yourself.
Speaker 4: I'm not that talented.
Speaker 5: I'll never meet the right person. I've made too many mistakes.
Speaker 4: He can't curse you. Don't you dare do it for him?
Speaker 5: Don't you dare curse yourself The next time you're tempted
Speaker 5: to say something negative about yourself, your future, your looks,
Speaker 5: your abilities, Zip it up. When you're against yourself, you're
Speaker 5: in agreement with the enemy. When you bless yourself, you're
Speaker 5: in agreement with God. You were created in his image.
Speaker 5: He didn't make any mistakes. You didn't get short changed.
Speaker 5: He wasn't having a bad day when he made you.
Speaker 5: He knew every fault you would have. He knew the
Speaker 5: areas you would struggle in. Quit beating yourself up, living unworthy,
Speaker 5: receive his mercy, and move forward with your life. You
Speaker 5: have the talent you need. You come from the right family.
Speaker 5: You are well able to reach your destiny. Now start
Speaker 5: blessing yourself. When you're tempted to say something negative, turn
Speaker 5: it around. You're not attractive. I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Speaker 5: You've made too many mistakes. I am forgiven, I am redeemed,
Speaker 5: I am restored. You'll never be successful, you'll never reach
Speaker 5: your limits. I am surrounded by favor. God is taking
Speaker 5: me from glory to glory. My latter days will be
Speaker 5: better than my former days. Are you blessing yourself or
Speaker 5: are you cursing yourself? A destiny to fulfill, there's a
Speaker 5: calling on your life, an assignment that only you can accomplish.
Speaker 4: We need what you have.
Speaker 5: We need your gifts, we need your talent, we need
Speaker 5: your smile, we need your love. This world won't be
Speaker 5: as bright a place as it should be without you shining,
Speaker 5: living the full, abundant life.
Speaker 4: That you were created to live.
Speaker 5: There was a young man in the scripture named Jeremiah.
Speaker 5: God gave him the promise that he would be a
Speaker 5: great prophet and he would speak to nations. Jeremiah was young.
Speaker 5: He didn't see himself as a leader. He came from
Speaker 5: an average family, didn't have a great education, wasn't trained
Speaker 5: to speak in front of people. But God never asked
Speaker 5: you to do something and then doesn't give you the
Speaker 5: ability to do it. You may not feel qualified, you
Speaker 5: don't think you have the talent, the odds are against you.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't have.
Speaker 5: That opportunity if you weren't already equipped you. But you
Speaker 5: have to call it out. You have to start blessing yourself.
Speaker 5: You'll be tempted to talk about all the reasons why
Speaker 5: you're not able. It's too big, you don't have the resources,
Speaker 5: you come from the wrong family.
Speaker 4: Or don't curse yourself.
Speaker 5: Jeremiah said, God, I can't speak to nations.
Speaker 4: I'm too young. I wouldn't know what to say. God
Speaker 4: didn't say that's fine.
Speaker 5: Understand God said Jeremiah, say not that you're too young.
Speaker 5: God immediately stopped his negative words.
Speaker 4: He stopped him from cursing himself.
Speaker 5: God knew if Jeremiah would have gone around saying I
Speaker 5: can't do this, I don't have what it takes.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid he would have missed his destiny.
Speaker 5: Be careful what you're saying about yourself. You are prophesying
Speaker 5: your future. The odds may be against you, but God
Speaker 5: is for you. Say not, I'll never break the addiction.
Speaker 5: Say not, I'll never meet the right place person. Say not,
Speaker 5: I can't start my business.
Speaker 4: Zip that up and get an agreement with God. Psalm
Speaker 4: thirty four.
Speaker 5: Says, do you want a long, good life, then watch
Speaker 5: your tongue, keep your lips from telling lies. We think
Speaker 5: that only means don't tell lies to other people, don't
Speaker 5: be dishonest, but it also means don't tell lies about yourself.
Speaker 5: Don't go around saying things that contradict what God says
Speaker 5: about you. I'm just average. I don't have a good personality.
Speaker 5: I'll never do anything great. Can I say this respectfully?
Speaker 5: That's telling lies. God didn't create anyone average. When he
Speaker 5: breathed life into you, he put greatness on the inside.
Speaker 5: He's destined you to leave your mark, to overcome that challenge,
Speaker 5: to outlast the opposition, to take your family to a
Speaker 5: new level. Now, if you're going to see this good, long,
Speaker 5: prosper amazing life, then you have to do something very important.
Speaker 5: Watch your tongue, be careful what you say about yourself.
Speaker 5: You can't curse yourself and live a blessed life. You
Speaker 5: can't put yourself down and rise up to who.
Speaker 4: You were created to be. When my father went to
Speaker 4: be with.
Speaker 5: The Lord, I knew I was supposed to step up
Speaker 5: and pastor the church, but I didn't feel qualified. I
Speaker 5: had never ministered before, hadn't been a seminary. I was
Speaker 5: afraid and insecure. My father had this big personality, strong
Speaker 5: and confident.
Speaker 4: I'm more quiet and reserved.
Speaker 5: I had plenty of opportunities to talk about what I
Speaker 5: was not, what I couldn't do, and how I didn't
Speaker 5: measure up, and how intimidated I was. But one thing
Speaker 5: I learned growing up is to not speak the negative.
Speaker 5: You may think it, but don't verbalize it. Instead of
Speaker 5: saying what I felt, I said what God said about me.
Speaker 5: I am strong in the Lord. I can do all
Speaker 5: things through Christ. I've been raised up for such a
Speaker 5: time as this. I didn't feel anointed, but all through
Speaker 5: the day under my breath, Father, thank you that I
Speaker 5: am anointed. Thoughts told me nobody's going to show up,
Speaker 5: nobody's going to listen to you, Joel Father, thank you
Speaker 5: that people are being drawn to me, that your favor
Speaker 5: is causing me to stand out. When they turn me on,
Speaker 5: they can't turn me off. Instead of cursing myself agreeing
Speaker 5: with the enemy, I kept blessing myself. Most of what
Speaker 5: I was saying at the time wasn't true. I wasn't strong, confident, qualified,
Speaker 5: But over time, little by.
Speaker 4: Little I became what I was saying. I ate the
Speaker 4: fruit of my words.
Speaker 5: Are there areas in your life that you're cursing yourself
Speaker 5: instead of blessing yourself. You'll be amazed at what will
Speaker 5: happen if you'll watch your tongue.
Speaker 4: The Israelites had been in.
Speaker 5: Slavery for four hundred years when God supernaturally brought them out.
Speaker 5: The powerful Faiah and all of his army couldn't keep
Speaker 5: them in captivity. God sent the plagues, parted the red Sea,
Speaker 5: drowned their enemies, gave them water out of a rock
Speaker 5: in the desert. He brought them to the promised land.
Speaker 5: They finally made it to this place they had dreamed about.
Speaker 4: They were next door.
Speaker 5: All they had to do was go in and take
Speaker 5: the land God promised them the victory. Moses sent twelve
Speaker 5: men to spy out the land. Ten of them came
Speaker 5: back said, we don't have a chance. There are giants
Speaker 5: in the land. We felt like grasshoppers compared to them.
Speaker 5: The scripture says they brought back an evil report. It
Speaker 5: seems like evil is a strong word.
Speaker 4: A negative report makes more.
Speaker 5: Sense, but God called it an evil report. It's because
Speaker 5: when you get in agreement with the enemy and curse yourself.
Speaker 4: It can keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 5: The Israelites had seen the favor of God in amazing ways.
Speaker 5: Yet the spies came back and said, we're like grasshoppers.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 5: They were sons and daughters of the Most High, God
Speaker 5: favored equipped anointed. The problem is they started telling lies.
Speaker 5: They started agreeing with the enemy, cursing their future. The
Speaker 5: enemy couldn't stop them with his power. He had to
Speaker 5: deceive them into cursing themselves. They never did make it
Speaker 5: into the promised land. The enemy has no new tricks.
Speaker 5: He can't keep you from your destiny. He can't stop
Speaker 5: God's plan for your life. God has blessed you. The
Speaker 5: enemy cannot curse you.
Speaker 4: Now. The question is.
Speaker 5: Are you going to curse yourself? Don't fall into that trap.
Speaker 5: Speak victory over your life.
Speaker 4: Luke.
Speaker 5: Chapter one, an angel appeared to a man named Zachariah.
Speaker 5: He told him that his wife, Elizabeth was and to
Speaker 5: have a baby. They were to name him John. Elizabeth
Speaker 5: had been bearing her whole life. They were both way
Speaker 5: up there in years. Didn't seem possible, Zachariah said to
Speaker 5: the angel, how can this happen? I'm too old and
Speaker 5: my wife is way past the child bearing years. Are
Speaker 5: you sure you have the right people, the angel said Zachariah,
Speaker 5: I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of Almighty God.
Speaker 5: What he says will come to pass. But God knows
Speaker 5: the power of our words.
Speaker 4: He knows if we go.
Speaker 5: Around cursing ourselves, talking about what we can't do, how
Speaker 5: impossible it is, how we're too old, too young, too shy,
Speaker 5: too short, then we'll never become.
Speaker 4: Who we were created to be. God needed this child
Speaker 4: to be born.
Speaker 5: To fulfill a prophecy from earlier. So God did something unusual.
Speaker 5: The angel said Zachariah. Since you doubted, you will remain
Speaker 5: silent and not be able to speak until the is born.
Speaker 5: God literally shut his mouth. Zachariah left there, unable to speak.
Speaker 5: God was about to do something Zachariah had never seen,
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Speaker 4: I wonder if there.
Speaker 5: Are promises we're keeping from coming to pass because we're
Speaker 5: speaking the negative, verbalizing our doubts, cursing ourselves. A year later,
Speaker 5: Elizabeth gave birth to a baby boy, just like the
Speaker 5: angel said. Her friends and relatives were so excited they
Speaker 5: came over to the house to celebrate. One of them
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Speaker 5: his name is John. They said, John. Nobody in your
Speaker 5: family is named John. He should be named Zachariah, after
Speaker 5: the father. They looked at Zachariah. He still couldn't speak,
Speaker 5: so he wrote it on a tablet.
Speaker 4: His name is John.
Speaker 5: Like with Zach, God is about to do something that
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