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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's great to be with you today,

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Speaker 1: and I.

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Speaker 2: Hope you'll stay connected with us during the week through

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Speaker 2: our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you

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Speaker 2: can come visit us in person. We'd love to have

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Speaker 2: you be a part of one of our services. I'd

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

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Speaker 2: about this archaeologist in New York. He dug down ten

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Speaker 2: feet and found copper wiring dating back one hundred years.

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Speaker 2: He concluded that New Yorkers had a telephone network over

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Speaker 2: one hundred years ago. Not to be outdone, and archaeologists

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Speaker 2: from California dug down twenty feet and found copper wiring

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Speaker 2: dating back.

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Speaker 1: Two hundred years.

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Speaker 2: He concluded that Californians had a communication network one hundred

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Speaker 2: years earlier than New Yorkers. Upon hearing this, bubb from

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Speaker 2: Texas dug down thirty feet on his farm and found

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Speaker 2: absolutely nothing. He concluded three hundred years ago, Texans had

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Speaker 2: already gone wireless. All right, y'all 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 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 2: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God

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Speaker 1: bless you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about clear vision.

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Speaker 2: Many people are not reaching their potential, not because they're

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Speaker 2: not talented, not because they don't have favor.

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Speaker 1: It's because their vision is limited. They don't see themselves.

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Speaker 2: Accomplishing their dreams, being blessed, living healthy.

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Speaker 1: But you will never rise any.

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Speaker 2: Higher than the way you see yourself through your eye

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Speaker 2: as of faith.

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Speaker 1: You need to see yourself.

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Speaker 2: The way you want to be. You may be fighting

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Speaker 2: an illness, but you need to see yourself healthy.

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Speaker 1: You're struggling in your finances, you need.

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Speaker 2: To see yourself out of death with an abundance, being

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Speaker 2: a blessing to others. If you're dealing with an addiction,

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Speaker 2: don't let that negative image take root. Don't see yourself defeated, dysfunctional,

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Speaker 2: can't break it. Get a new image, See yourself free,

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Speaker 2: see yourself whole, See yourself as an overcomer. Your inner

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Speaker 2: vision is setting the limits for your life. The pictures

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Speaker 2: you keep in front of you in your imagination, that's

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Speaker 2: what you're moving toward, even subconsciously, just like a magnet,

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Speaker 2: you're being pulled toward what you're seeing. You may struggle

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Speaker 2: with low self esteem. Sometimes you feel inferior, like you

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Speaker 2: don't measure up. You have to change that picture. Get

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Speaker 2: in agreement with how God sees you. He said you

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Speaker 2: are fearfully and wonderfully made. He calls you a masterpiece,

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Speaker 2: one of a kind. Why don't you get your image

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Speaker 2: in line with God's image. If you'll change your pictures,

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Speaker 2: you'll change your life. If you'll have the right inner vision,

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Speaker 2: see yourself strong, talented, favored with the bright future, then

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Speaker 2: you'll reach the fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 1: How do you see yourself lacking? Negative, a victim. I've

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Speaker 1: been through so much.

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Speaker 2: Life's not fair. I'm just struggling to make it. That's

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Speaker 2: the wrong picture. God said he has beauty for those ashes.

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Speaker 2: He said he'd pay you back double for the unfair things.

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Speaker 2: Get rid of the image of a defeated you, a

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Speaker 2: a blessed you. How happy you are coming out better

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Speaker 2: to you. You're moving toward the picture you have in

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Speaker 2: your mind. Make sure that picture is something that you want.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes on my phone, I'll go through the pictures and

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Speaker 1: That one's blurry, that one's not frame right, that one has.

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Speaker 2: My brother Paul in it, That one I don't look good.

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Speaker 1: Have you noticed you can have a picture with six

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Speaker 1: other people, but you zoom in to see how you look.

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Speaker 2: If you don't look good, if it's not flattering, those

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Speaker 1: Delete.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to see myself that way. How about

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Speaker 2: having that same attitude when it comes to the pictures

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Speaker 2: in your mind, that image comes up of you inferior, unattractive,

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Speaker 2: not talented. Delete no room in my files. I see

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Speaker 2: myself as valuable, a masterpiece, one of a kind. That

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Speaker 2: image of you lonely, never meeting anyone, no companionship.

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Speaker 2: I see myself happily, married, having children, loving, laughing, dreaming.

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Speaker 2: That picture comes up with you, sick, weak, enduring, don't

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Speaker 1: Get a new image.

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Speaker 2: See self healthy, strong, vibrant, accomplishing dreams. See a lot

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Speaker 2: of people want a better life. But you can't give

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Speaker 2: birth to what you haven't conceived. You have to conceive

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Speaker 2: it on the inside. Then God can bring it to

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Speaker 2: pass on the outside. When my mother was diagnosed with

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Speaker 2: terminal cancer, she was very frail, her skin was yellow,

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Speaker 2: her voice was weak. There was nothing medically speaking that

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Speaker 2: trying to dominate her mind.

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Speaker 1: She told how in the middle of the night, thought said,

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Speaker 2: Be buried in that new pink dress you just bought.

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Speaker 2: She had to fight those negative images. One thing she

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Speaker 2: did is she put pictures of herself up all over

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Speaker 1: She had her wedding.

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Speaker 2: Pictures on the refrigerator in the den, on her bathroom mirror,

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Speaker 2: she had a picture of her riding a horse in Montana.

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Speaker 1: She had a big smile, having so much fun.

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Speaker 2: I came home from college and thought, what are all

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Speaker 1: Do you know what my mother was doing?

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Speaker 2: She was creating a new image on the inside.

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Speaker 1: When she looked in.

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Speaker 2: The mirror, she saw death staring back at her, defeat, sickness,

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Speaker 2: I'll never get well. But when she looked at those pictures,

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Speaker 2: she saw herself the way she wanted to be, healthy, vibrant,

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Speaker 2: enjoying her family. What you see, the image you're creating

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Speaker 2: in your mind, is what you're moving toward. My mother

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Speaker 2: felt weak, but she saw herself strong. The diagnosis was

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Speaker 2: living a long life. It didn't happen overnight, but she

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Speaker 2: started moving toward that image she had in her mind.

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Speaker 2: She got better and better, with no medical explanation.

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Speaker 1: Today, forty two years later, she's just like.

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Speaker 2: Those pictures she saw, healthy, whole and vibrant. Pay attention

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Speaker 2: to the images you're seeing. You can't see yourself sick

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Speaker 2: and get well. You can't see yourself with.

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Speaker 1: Lack and struggle and have abundance.

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Speaker 2: You need to see yourself blessed, the head and not

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Speaker 2: the tail, lending and not borrowing. You can't see the

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Speaker 2: dream being too big, giant, too strong, the addiction too great.

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Speaker 2: You need to see yourself as well able as a

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Speaker 2: giant killer, a history maker, a barrier breaker. I was

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Speaker 2: one morning coming to church.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, there was this huge downpour.

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Speaker 2: Didn't start off a little slow, sprinkle a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I reached over and turned my windshield wipers on like

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Speaker 1: But nothing happened. They didn't move. I looked out and

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Speaker 2: I jiggled the lever, pushed it, penagled it, but still nothing.

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Speaker 2: Here I'm going sixty miles an hour and I have

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Speaker 2: was just driving blind, hoping that I wouldn't hit another car.

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Speaker 2: There wouldn't be a ditch or something parked on the shoulder.

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Speaker 2: By the grace of God, it was all clear, and

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Speaker 2: My engine was working fine, my tires were fine, my

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Speaker 1: I had all this ability.

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Speaker 2: To move forward, this vehicle, this horse power, But.

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Speaker 1: My vision was blurry.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't see this seemingly small thing kept me from

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Speaker 2: where I was going. The same way in life, you

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Speaker 2: were full of potential. God has given you gifts and talents.

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Speaker 2: He's lined up the good breaks, the right people, everything

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Speaker 2: you need to fulfill your purpose. For sometimes we're not

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Speaker 2: seeing our greatness because.

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Speaker 1: Our vision is limited.

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Speaker 2: We've let how we were raised, what someone said, the

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Speaker 2: bad break, the betrayal, cloud our future. The problem is

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Speaker 2: not with who you are, You're a masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: It's with what you can see.

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

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Speaker 2: make sure your windsher wipers are working. You have to

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Speaker 2: constantly be clearing out things that.

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Speaker 1: Are hindering your vision.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you got off course and you made some mistakes,

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Speaker 2: and now guilt and shame will try to block your vision. Man,

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Speaker 2: you don't deserve to be blessed. Look what you did,

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Speaker 2: You're unworthy. Just accept where you are. Now, get your

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Speaker 2: windsher wipers working. You're forgiven, You're redeemed. God's mercy is bigger.

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Speaker 1: Than your mistakes.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't remember the negative things of your past. Now

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Speaker 2: you have to do your part.

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Speaker 1: Clear out the guilt, clear out the shame.

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Speaker 2: Start seeing yourself as worthy as forgiven, as a child of.

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Speaker 1: The most High.

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Speaker 2: Or perhaps discouragement is clouding your future. You've been through disappointments,

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Speaker 1: You're not expecting things to improve. Get your windshield wipers working.

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Speaker 1: You have not seen your best days.

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Speaker 2: The enemy wouldn't be fighting you if he didn't know

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Speaker 2: something awesome was in store. That's why he's trying to

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Speaker 2: limit your vision so you don't see the amazing future

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Speaker 1: Do yourself a favor, wipe that away.

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Speaker 2: I love what Paul prayed in Ephesians, that the eyes

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Speaker 2: of our understanding would be enlightened so we could see

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Speaker 2: the amazing future to which we've been called. He was praying,

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Speaker 2: in one sense, that our windshield wipers would work, that

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Speaker 2: our vision, that the eyes of our understanding would be clear.

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Speaker 2: Your vision may have been clouded, but what people have

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Speaker 2: said negative words.

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Speaker 1: You're too small, you're too not talented enough, you don't

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Speaker 1: have what it takes.

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Speaker 2: Lady told me how she went to a job interview,

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Speaker 2: this position that she really wanted, and she was qualified, she.

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Speaker 1: Had the training.

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Speaker 2: They came back and said, I'm sorry, you just don't

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Speaker 2: She let those words start to cloud her vision, thinking

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Speaker 2: I'm lacking, I'm at a deficit, I'm not at the

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Speaker 2: par I told her what I'm telling you, get your

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Speaker 1: Working.

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Speaker 2: People don't determine your destiny. What they said doesn't stop

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Speaker 1: Something better coming now.

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Speaker 2: You can see yourself defeated, failing not enough, or you

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Speaker 2: That's a sign that God's about to take you higher.

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Speaker 2: To see yourself at new levels, going where you've never gone,

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Speaker 2: It's out of your league. People may tell you you

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Speaker 2: I can't imagine having a good jar joy in my

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Speaker 2: business with inflation the stock market down. Can't imagine my

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Speaker 2: health improving after what the doctor said. Can't imagine this

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Speaker 2: relationship work. And I can imagine my children doing anything great.

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Speaker 2: Instead of letting your imagination work against you, why don't

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Speaker 2: you look.

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Speaker 1: Out through your eyes of faith and let it work

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Speaker 1: for you.

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Speaker 2: God created the universe, he spoke worlds into existence.

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Speaker 1: He's not limited by what limits us. The right attitude is.

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Speaker 2: It may seem unlikely, but I can imagine me getting

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Speaker 2: healthy God did for Joels mom. I can imagine me

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Speaker 2: to find the odds out, running, playing, living a long life.

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Speaker 2: I can imagine me paying my house off. I can

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Speaker 2: imagine my business expanding. I can imagine leaving an inheritance

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Speaker 2: to my children's children. Maybe you're single, you'd like to

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Speaker 2: get married. It's been a long time. The enemy would

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Speaker 2: love to paint that picture of you lonely, discourage, left out.

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Speaker 2: No delete that picture, create a new image. I can

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Speaker 2: imagine me happily married. I can imagine someone awesome, tall, dark, handsome, godly, fun,

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Speaker 2: friendly and rich, I can imagine you're thinking that I

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Speaker 2: might as well say it. I can imagine laughing, loving,

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Speaker 2: a blessed marriage. I can imagine my children excelling. I

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Speaker 2: can imagine them leaving their mark. But yes, I've had

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Speaker 2: this addiction a long time.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, I.

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Speaker 2: Can imagine me breaking it this year. I can imagine

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Speaker 2: me free, whole and clean.

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Speaker 1: If you watch all the.

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Speaker 2: News these days and negative report to economy, maybe a

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Speaker 2: recession that can cloud your vision, you have to look

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Speaker 2: out through your eyes of faith. I can imagine having

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Speaker 2: a blessed year, a productive, bountiful, abundant, fever field year. Friends,

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Speaker 2: God is going to take you further than you've ever dreamed.

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Speaker 2: But it's going to start on the inside. Like with Jeremiah,

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Speaker 2: He's asking you, what.

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Speaker 1: Do you see?

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Speaker 2: What image do you have of yourself? Your family, your

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Speaker 2: finance is your future. You're moving toward that picture you

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Speaker 2: have in your mind. Maybe you're unlimited because you're not

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Speaker 2: seeing the right things.

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Speaker 1: Your vision has been clouded.

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Speaker 2: My encouragement is get those windshield wipers working, clear out

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Speaker 2: all the negative, limited, not enough, too big, never gonna happen, and.

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Speaker 1: Go back to what God says about you.

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Speaker 2: You need to see yourself prosperous, blessed, healthy, in shape,

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Speaker 2: achieving goals, building the kingdom, being a blessing, not a

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Speaker 2: grasshopper image having wings but can't fly, but an eagle image, soaring, overcoming, accomplishing,

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Speaker 2: a victor and never a victim. If you will see it,

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Speaker 2: I believe and declare.

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Speaker 1: You will be it.

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Speaker 2: God is about to step in and do something unusual.

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Speaker 1: New doors are about to open.

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Speaker 2: Negative situations are turning around, breakthroughs are coming, healing is coming,

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Speaker 2: favor is coming, the fullness of your destiny in Jesus'.

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Speaker 1: Name, and if you receive it, can you say men? Today?

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Speaker 2: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 2: the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 2: into my heart. I'll make 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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Speaker 2: born again. We'd love to send you some free information

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Speaker 2: on your new walk with the Lord. You can text

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Speaker 2: I hope you'll get into a good Bible based church

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Speaker 2: and keep God first place. When we face challenges, it's

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Speaker 2: easy to feel like God has forgotten about us. We

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Speaker 2: don't see anything happening. God's telling us it's not going

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Speaker 2: to work out. But God is not called the Great

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Speaker 2: I was or the Great I will be. He's called

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Speaker 2: the Great I Am. In my new book, he Is

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Speaker 2: I Am, you'll discover that God is with you in

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Speaker 2: every area of your life. I Am is always in

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Speaker 2: the present, not at a later time. God is working

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Speaker 2: in your life right now. I Am means I am

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Speaker 2: your healer. I am your provider. I am your waymaker.

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Speaker 2: Whether you're facing a challenge or pursuing your dreams, stay

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Speaker 2: in faith.

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Speaker 1: The Great I Am is right there with you.

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Speaker 3: God is for you here and now. Are you in

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Speaker 3: need of protection or provision today? Jesus assures us, I

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Speaker 3: Am the Good Shepherd. Does the path ahead seem uncertain

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Speaker 3: or dark, Jesus declares, I Am the Light of the world.

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Speaker 3: Do you feel like your career, calling or marriage just

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Speaker 3: beyond hope? Jesus promises, I Am the resurrection and the life.

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Speaker 3: With every I Am statement, you'll discover more about who

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Speaker 2: The Great I Am is behind the scenes, making ways,

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Speaker 2: opening doors, turning things in your favor. Victoria and I

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Speaker 2: want you to know we love you and we pray

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Speaker 2: for you every day. Thanks for your prayer and support

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Speaker 2: of the ministry. Your generosity is making a difference in

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Speaker 2: May the Lord bless you and keep you.

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