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Speaker 5: appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 5: We love you, and we know God rewards the people

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Speaker 5: that seek after Him. I believe that's you, or you

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Speaker 5: started each week with something kind of funny, and I

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Speaker 5: heard about this old country farmer. He was taking his

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Speaker 5: set their tent up and quickly fell asleep. The middle

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Speaker 5: what do you see. The nephew said, I see millions

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Speaker 4: He said, I know that, But what does that tell you?

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Speaker 5: Astronomically, that tells me there are billions of galaxies. Meteorologically

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Speaker 5: that tells me is going to be a beautiful day.

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Speaker 5: Theologically that tells me God is a great creator.

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Speaker 5: The old farmer shook his head, said, it tells me

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Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says, I am. I have what

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Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 5: He said, Joel, if you worry about this and you

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Speaker 4: Joel, if you'll just believe, if you'll just.

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Speaker 5: Trust me, I'll not only bring you out, but I'll

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Speaker 5: I hear people say, well, Jeel, I'm afraid I'm going

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Speaker 5: I heard about this man. His friends decided to play

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Speaker 4: That's one report. But I've got another report.

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Speaker 4: Now I've learned, just.

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Speaker 4: You're not catching doom and gloom. You're catching hope. You're

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Speaker 5: When you get around other peaceeople that are blessed and

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Speaker 5: multiply and get blown way out of proportion. For instance,

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Speaker 5: you have that pain in your side, it's nothing, you

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Speaker 5: just had too much for dinner.

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Speaker 4: But that thought will come. That's cancer. Your mother had it,

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Speaker 4: your grandmother had it. Now it's your time.

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Speaker 5: If you swallow that lie, go around worried and discouraged.

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Speaker 5: Before long, you'll start to see yourself in the hospital.

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Speaker 5: You'll see yourself not able to take care of your children.

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Speaker 5: You'll see yourself at your own funeral. No, you've got

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Speaker 5: to cast down those wrong imaginations. Don't let negative pictures play.

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Speaker 4: On the movie screen of your mind. You are the owner.

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Speaker 4: You've got the remote control. Change the channel.

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Speaker 5: If you're gonna let your imagination run wild, let it

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Speaker 5: run wild in the right direction. Put on the movie

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Speaker 5: of you accomplish in your dreams. Show the scene of

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Speaker 5: you overcoming that obstacle. See yourself, healthy, prosperous, rising higher.

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Speaker 5: You've got to do it by faith in the natural.

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Speaker 5: It may look like your family is never going to

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Speaker 5: stay together, but your attitude should be I'm changing the channel.

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Speaker 5: I'm not watching that movie. I see my family restored.

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Speaker 5: I see my children excelling. I see us fulfilling our destiny.

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Speaker 5: You've got to choose the right channel. Some of you

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Speaker 5: today you would go to a new level if you

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Speaker 5: just be more disciplined in your thought life and not

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Speaker 5: allow those negative images to constantly play. I heard about

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Speaker 5: this twenty three year old woman. She went to the

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Speaker 5: grocery store and got some groceries, and she got back

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Speaker 5: in her car and sat down, and she heard a

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Speaker 5: loud noise and felt something hit the back of her head.

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Speaker 5: She thought she had been shot. She reached up and

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Speaker 5: felt what she thought were her brains coming out.

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Speaker 4: She initially passed out.

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Speaker 5: She woke up a few minutes later and sat there

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Speaker 5: motionless for over an hour, holding the back of her head.

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Speaker 5: A gentleman walked by and noticed that something was wrong.

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Speaker 5: He called the police. The police showed up and asked

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Speaker 5: her to open.

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Speaker 4: The car door.

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Speaker 5: She said she couldn't, she had been shot and she

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Speaker 5: was holding her brains in The police broke open the

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Speaker 5: window and they discovered a can of Pillsbury biscuits had exploded.

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Speaker 5: That dough had hit the back of her head. That's

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Speaker 5: what she thought was her brains. Don't let your imagination

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Speaker 5: run wild in the wrong direction.

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Speaker 4: That is a true story.

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Speaker 5: And I've got to tell you she was blonde. But

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Speaker 5: some of us today, you are not even listening to me.

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Speaker 4: Now. Some of us today kind of feel like we've

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Speaker 4: been shot.

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Speaker 5: The economy's bad, we got a health issue, got this

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Speaker 5: big problem. God is saying you're fine. It's not what

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Speaker 5: you think. It's just a loud noise. But this too

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Speaker 5: shall pass. Put on the right channel. Don't allow those

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Speaker 5: negative images to play in your mind. I remember about

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Speaker 5: a year after I first started ministering, the church was

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Speaker 5: really growing, and we decided to take a step of

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Speaker 5: faith and start a second Sunday morning service. And so

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Speaker 5: I announced that on the first Sunday of the year

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Speaker 5: two thousand, we were going to start this new morning service.

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Speaker 5: And that was in October, and so I had several

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Speaker 5: months to think about it. And during that time I

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Speaker 5: had all these negative thoughts come telling me that it

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Speaker 5: was a big mistake, nobody was gonna come, and I

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Speaker 5: was gonna get there and look.

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Speaker 4: Like a fool.

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Speaker 5: All these fears were coming against my mind. Now, I

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Speaker 5: did my best to stay in faith, but one night

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Speaker 5: I had a dream A better description would be a nightmare.

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Speaker 5: And in this dream, it was that first Sunday of

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Speaker 5: the new service. When I walked out to minister, there

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Speaker 5: was not one person in the auditorium, not Victoria, not

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Speaker 5: my mother, not one choir member, not one usher, nobody.

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Speaker 4: I woke up in a cold sweat.

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Speaker 5: The enemy was working overtime on my mind. He said, Joel,

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Speaker 5: there's still time to cancel it. You can still call

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Speaker 5: it off and maybe halfway save face. It was very

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Speaker 5: difficult to get that image of an empty auditorium out

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Speaker 5: of my mind. I didn't tell anybody about the dream,

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Speaker 5: but I's a little bit worried about it. The week

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Speaker 5: of that first service, I saw my mother. I was

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Speaker 5: talking to her and just kind of asked her nonchalockly,

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Speaker 5: trying to get some information.

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Speaker 4: Out of her.

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Speaker 5: I said, Mother, are you coming to the new service

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Speaker 5: this weekend? She said, Joel, does it start this week?

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Speaker 5: I thought, dear God, that dream might have been a prophecy.

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Speaker 5: I said, yes, it starts this week, mother, and you

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Speaker 5: need to bring your friends, enemies, cousins, relatives, and ancestors.

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Speaker 5: I had to do what I'm asking you to do.

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Speaker 5: When those negative images came up. I kept changing the channel.

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Speaker 5: I made up my mind. I wasn't going to watch

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Speaker 5: the empty auditorium channel. I wasn't going to watch the

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Speaker 5: defeat channel. I wasn't choosing the fear channel. I put

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Speaker 5: on a different movie. Through my eyes of faith, I

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Speaker 5: saw that place full. I kept telling myself, this fear

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Speaker 5: is just a fog. It's trying to intimidate me. But

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Speaker 5: I know there's nothing really to it. I pulled up

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Speaker 5: the first Sunday of the year two thousand. I got

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Speaker 5: there like an hour early. I'll never forget. When I

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Speaker 5: pulled in, one parking lot was already totally full. There

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Speaker 5: were over six thousand people at that new service. They've

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Speaker 5: been coming ever since then. What am I saying? You've

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Speaker 5: got to cast down those wrong imaginations. Let those negative

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Speaker 5: pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You've

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Speaker 5: got the remote control.

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Speaker 4: Change the channel.

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Speaker 5: Don't be talked into having a down year. I'm trying

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Speaker 5: to talk you into having a great year. There is

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Speaker 5: no obstacle too big for you, no enemy too powerful.

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Speaker 5: Our God is all powerful, and you may not see

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Speaker 5: how it can happen.

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Speaker 4: But don't use your energy to worry. Use your energy to.

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Speaker 5: Believe God has brought you through in the past and

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Speaker 5: He is gonna bring you through in the future. Surround

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Speaker 5: yourself with people of faith, people that speak victory into you.

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Speaker 5: If you'll be disciplined in your thought life and learn

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Speaker 5: to choose faith instead of fear, let me just declare it.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna overcome every obstacle. You're gonna defeat every enemy,

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Speaker 5: and you're gonna see every dream, every promise God put

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Speaker 5: in your heart, it will come to pass.

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Speaker 4: Amen. Do you receive that today? I know you do.

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Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 4: you my Lord and savior.

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