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Speaker 1: Hi, this is joelan Victorium.

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Speaker 1: God bless you today and enjoy the message. God bless you.

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about this single man. He was sitting on an airplane

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Speaker 2: next to a beautiful single lady. They struck up a

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Speaker 2: She said, well, I like Native American men with their

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Speaker 2: Jewish men they're so brilliant and successful. And I like

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Speaker 2: good old boys from the South with their long Southern drawl.

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Speaker 2: What's your name, he said, My name is Geronimo Earnstein,

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Speaker 2: but my friends call me Bubba. Say it like you

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Speaker 2: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 2: says I am, I have what it says I have,

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Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do today.

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

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess 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.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about death to

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Speaker 2: the negative. We all have discouraging thoughts telling us what

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Speaker 2: we can't do, how we're not going to get well,

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Speaker 2: we'll never meet the right person. Sometimes people speak negative words,

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Speaker 2: say things that can limit our life. A friend of

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Speaker 2: mine wanted to become a doctor, but he was told

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Speaker 2: by his high school counselor that he wasn't smart enough,

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Speaker 2: If we let these negative comments play in our mind,

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Speaker 2: to be. No one can make you think something. You

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Speaker 2: get to choose what you're going to dwell on when

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Speaker 2: those lies come saying you're not attractive, you.

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Speaker 2: You can dwell on it, let it poison you, or

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Speaker 2: of day. In the scripture, David faced all kinds of opposition,

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Speaker 2: people speaking defeat over him, thoughts saying that he had

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Speaker 2: never reached his destiny. How did he keep his mind

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Speaker 2: enemies lay traps for me. They make plans to ruin me.

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Speaker 2: Deaf to their threats. I choose to hear nothing at all.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to reach your potential, you have to

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Speaker 2: Ear and out the other. That's what my friend did

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Speaker 2: Don't let them talk you out of what God put

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Speaker 2: You've been fearfully and wonderfully made. When God created you,

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Speaker 2: Your life will move in the direction of your most

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Speaker 2: You're moving toward good breaks, divine connections. I am fearfully

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Speaker 1: Confidence, strength, honor or. I am healthy and whole.

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Speaker 2: You're moving toward health, vitality. Pay attention to what you're

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Speaker 1: That's where you're going.

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Speaker 2: Well, Joel, this pandemic has really slowed my business. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if we're going to make it. You're moving toward.

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Speaker 1: Failure like struggle. Why don't you turn it around? Father?

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Speaker 1: Thank you that whatever I touch will prosper and succeed.

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Speaker 2: That what was meant from my harm, You're turning to

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Speaker 2: Try some new thoughts. What God said about you?

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Speaker 1: You said it's not good to be alone.

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Speaker 2: So Lord, thank you that you have someone awesome come

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Speaker 2: in my way. It's significant that Samuel anointed David in

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Speaker 1: And it would go down.

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Speaker 2: But the next day it was more swollen, the next

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Speaker 2: even more. I took it to the veterinarian and they

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Speaker 2: gave some antibiotics and said it should get better.

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Speaker 1: A week later it.

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Speaker 2: Was even more swollen, looked like a big growth. This

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Speaker 2: time they put a scope up its nose. They discovered

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Speaker 2: that a fly had laid an egg in the rabbit's

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Speaker 2: nasal passage. That larva was growing and about to hatch.

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Speaker 2: Once they removed the larva, the rabbit was fine. This

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Speaker 2: is the way the enemy works. He tries to plant

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Speaker 2: lies in our mind, negative comments. You're too small, David,

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Speaker 2: you're just a boy, Joe. You'll never get the compact center.

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Speaker 2: The opposition's too big, Gyrus, it's too late. Just accept it.

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Speaker 2: It's not going to work out if we believe these lies.

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Speaker 2: Dwell on the doubt. They will infect our thinking. And

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Speaker 2: this is what happened to Gideon in the scripture. He

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Speaker 2: was hiding in the wine press afraid. An angel came

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Speaker 2: to him and said, mighty hero, the Lord is with you.

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Speaker 1: You are to lead the people of.

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Speaker 2: Israel against the Midianites. Kiddeon thought, I'm not a mighty hero.

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Speaker 2: He said to the angel, I can't lead this army.

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Speaker 2: I come from the poorest family. I'm the least one

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Speaker 2: in my father's house. You can tell what he'd been

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Speaker 2: listening to. You can't do anything great. You come from

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Speaker 2: the wrong family. There's nothing special about you. If you

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Speaker 2: let that play long enough, it will infect your thinking.

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Speaker 2: The angel spoke faith in the Gideon, convinced him to

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Speaker 2: change his mind and believe he was a mighty hero.

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Speaker 2: He went on to do great things. But how many

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Speaker 2: of us have believed the lies. You're not that talented,

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Speaker 2: you're not attractive, you can't be successful. You need to

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Speaker 2: ask yourself, why do I feel this way? Who told

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Speaker 2: you you can't do great things? Who told you you

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Speaker 2: can't get well? Who told you you've gone as far

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Speaker 2: as you can?

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Speaker 1: That wasn't God, That was a lie. That's infecting your thinking.

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Speaker 2: The way you get rid of the infection is by

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Speaker 2: dwelling on what God says about you. You are strong,

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Speaker 2: you are talented, you are valuable. Your future is bright,

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Speaker 2: your dreams are on the way. Now, the next time

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Speaker 2: one of those lies come, just say no, thanks, that's

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Speaker 2: not for me. You have to guard your mind. Don't

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Speaker 2: let any infection get in. Start being deaf to the negative,

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Speaker 2: to the discouraging thoughts, death to the naysayers.

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Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe.

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Speaker 2: And declare like Gideon, that infection is going to clear up,

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Speaker 2: and you're going to become a mighty hero like David,

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Speaker 2: despite what people have said about you.

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Speaker 1: You're going to defeat giants. You're going to.

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Speaker 2: Defy the odds and go places you've never dreamed.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus's name, and.

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Speaker 2: If you receive it, can you say amen, I'd like

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Speaker 2: of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 1: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 1: you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 2: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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