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Speaker 1: I'd like to start it with.
Speaker 2: Something funny, and I heard about this kindergarten teacher. She
Speaker 2: was trying to explain to her students about self esteem.
Speaker 2: She said to her class, anyone who feels like you're dumb,
Speaker 2: please stand up. She didn't think anyone would stand, and
Speaker 2: she'd make the point how no one is dumb. About
Speaker 2: that time, little Johnny stood up. Shed ah, No, Now
Speaker 2: what am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: She said?
Speaker 2: Now, Johnny, do you really feel like you're dumb? He
Speaker 2: said no, ma'am. I just hate to see you standing
Speaker 2: there all by yourself.
Speaker 1: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 1: it says I have.
Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 2: I will be talked to word of God. I'll boldly
Speaker 2: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I
Speaker 2: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about refusing negative seeds.
Speaker 1: We all have.
Speaker 2: Voices that are trying to keep us from our destiny.
Speaker 2: And sometimes it's people telling us what we can't become
Speaker 2: and how we're not going to accomplish the dream. It
Speaker 2: may be experts, they have all the training, all the skills.
Speaker 2: They're telling us the facts. Medical science says you're not
Speaker 2: going to get well or you don't have the qualifications
Speaker 2: for this position. You watch the news and you hear
Speaker 2: all the comments about the economy and inflation, division viruses.
Speaker 1: This can bring fear and worrying what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Words are like seeds.
Speaker 2: If you dwell on them long enough, they'll take root
Speaker 2: and become a reality. The good news is you get
Speaker 2: to choose what gets planted in your soil.
Speaker 1: The scripture says to guard your mind.
Speaker 2: That's saying, don't let just any seed get in there,
Speaker 2: be selective. If that seed is negative, discouraging, bringing fear,
Speaker 2: pushing you down, don't give it the time of day.
Speaker 1: You need to say no thanks. I refuse that seed.
Speaker 2: I'm not letting that defeat take root in my soil.
Speaker 2: And sometimes people don't realize they're doing it. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: about that diagnosis. My grandmother died of the same thing.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't take that new position if I were you.
Speaker 2: It's way over your head. Are you still single? I
Speaker 2: don't know if you're ever going to meet anyone. Do
Speaker 2: yourself a favor. Let that go in one ear and
Speaker 2: out the other. If you start dwelling.
Speaker 1: On it, what if I don't get well?
Speaker 2: Maybe this is over my head. I'm worried that I'm
Speaker 2: not going to meet someone. You're giving that seed permission
Speaker 2: to become a reality. Don't let the doubt from other
Speaker 2: people keep you from your destiny. You have to tune
Speaker 2: out all the negative. Can't do it. Not able never
Speaker 2: going to happen.
Speaker 1: Limiting words. They may speak that, but you don't have
Speaker 1: to receive it. If you don't dwell on it, those
Speaker 1: words will die stillborn. They will have no effect on you.
Speaker 2: Victoria and I were at a restaurant one time, and
Speaker 2: our son, Jonathan, was six months old, and he was
Speaker 2: laying in a little carrier in the seat next to me.
Speaker 2: About thirty minutes later, this older couple got up to.
Speaker 1: Leave, and they came over to our table.
Speaker 2: The lady said, we were just admiring your little baby
Speaker 2: in how good he is, how he just lies there
Speaker 2: so peaceful and quiet, and we thank them. Then the
Speaker 2: husband said, but just wait till he gets to be
Speaker 2: two years old.
Speaker 1: He'll turn into a tyrant.
Speaker 2: You better enjoy it now because he's going to be
Speaker 2: a lot of trouble. Those terrible twos are coming. We
Speaker 2: just waved and said goodbye. Thought don't let the door
Speaker 2: hit you as you leave. Something rows up in me.
Speaker 2: I told Victoria, I don't receive that. He doesn't determine
Speaker 2: our future. His opinion is not our reality. Not going
Speaker 2: to be the terrible twos, going to be the terrific twos,
Speaker 2: the awesome threes, the fabulous fours. Don't get in agreement
Speaker 2: with negative things people speak over you. What they're saying
Speaker 2: may be true for a lot of people, but you're
Speaker 2: the exception. You're the one to have awesome children. You're
Speaker 2: the one to get well where the medical report says
Speaker 2: you want. You're the one to break the addiction, to
Speaker 2: take your family to a new level, to see favor
Speaker 2: that people could never imagine. If this is going to happen,
Speaker 2: you have to be selective in what gets planted in
Speaker 2: your soil. When these negative seeds come, it's real easy.
Speaker 1: Refuse it.
Speaker 2: Don't dwell on it, don't go around talking about it.
Speaker 2: Don't start expecting it to happen. Keep your mind filled
Speaker 2: with positive, hopeful, faithful thoughts. David was seventeen years old
Speaker 2: when he heard Goliath taunting the Israelites. This giant stood
Speaker 2: over nine feet tall, and he was the champion of
Speaker 2: the Philistine army. None of the Israelites dared to face
Speaker 2: him when he came.
Speaker 1: Out shouting his threats. They all ran and hid well.
Speaker 1: David was half his size, he had no.
Speaker 2: Training, no armor, but he went to King Saul and
Speaker 2: told him that he wanted to face Goliath. Saul said
Speaker 2: to David in first Samuel seventeen, David, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You're just a boy. He's been a warrior since he
Speaker 1: was a youth. He was saying David, what are you thinking.
Speaker 2: You don't have a chance, You're too small, you're not qualified.
Speaker 1: This is way over your head.
Speaker 2: Whenever you're on the verge of a new level, negative
Speaker 2: seeds will come to try to talk you out of it.
Speaker 1: David had a choice to let those words take root.
Speaker 1: I'm just a boy, I'm not up to par I
Speaker 1: can't do this. Or was he going to guard his mind,
Speaker 1: not let the doubt.
Speaker 2: The inferiority, the opinion of Saul talk him out of
Speaker 2: his destiny.
Speaker 1: This was a defining moment. David could have walked away,
Speaker 1: went back home. He could have missed who.
Speaker 2: God created him to be had he not learned this principle.
Speaker 2: And we see David defeating Goliath as the great victory,
Speaker 2: and that's when God took him to a new level.
Speaker 2: But the real victory took place when he didn't let
Speaker 2: Saul's demeaning words keep him from stepping up. Had he
Speaker 2: not refused the negative seeds, he would have never made
Speaker 2: it to Goliath. Before you conquer your giant, before you
Speaker 2: reach a new level, there will be a Saul trying
Speaker 2: to discourage you, a Saul telling you you can't get well, man,
Speaker 2: you can't start your business. You'll never break that addiction,
Speaker 2: You'll never meet the right person. Your real victory is
Speaker 2: when you refuse the doubt, refuse what the naysayers are
Speaker 2: telling you. You have to win the battle in your
Speaker 2: mind before you'll defeat your giants. Too many people get
Speaker 2: talked out of ever seeing their Goliath because they listen
Speaker 2: to Saul. You would think that Saul would be excited
Speaker 2: that someone finally stepped up.
Speaker 1: To fight Goliath.
Speaker 2: He had been taunting the Israelites for forty days. Now
Speaker 2: this young man, David had the courage to take him on.
Speaker 2: Surely Saul would say, that's awesome, David, you can do this.
Speaker 2: We're all behind you. But when God puts big things
Speaker 2: in your heart, don't expect everyone to cheer your own.
Speaker 2: Don't expect all your friends, all your family to encourage you,
Speaker 2: tell you how great you are.
Speaker 1: That's when the Sauls will show up.
Speaker 2: People that cast negative seeds try to get you to
Speaker 2: doubt and second guess yourself, discredit you, make you feel small,
Speaker 2: like you don't measure up. Don't let those seeds take root.
Speaker 2: People don't determine your destiny.
Speaker 1: God does. When he called you, he didn't check with people.
Speaker 2: He didn't consult with your friends, your neighbors, your boss,
Speaker 2: your family, or your enemies to decide if they think
Speaker 2: you can do it.
Speaker 1: Are you big enough, smart enough, talented enough. He put
Speaker 1: things in you that other people can't see. Don't get
Speaker 1: upset with them if they think you can't do it.
Speaker 2: You're just a boy. You don't come from the right family.
Speaker 2: They're looking at the outside. They're judging from a human
Speaker 2: point of view. But God has put things in you.
Speaker 1: That will defy the odds.
Speaker 2: His favor will cause you to go places you could
Speaker 2: never go on your own. They may think all you
Speaker 2: have is a slingshot. You don't have a chance. What
Speaker 2: they can't see is that slingshot, with the blessing of
Speaker 2: God will bring down giants. It's just a boy, yes,
Speaker 2: but a boy with the favor of God can become
Speaker 2: the King of Israel. God wouldn't have allowed the giant
Speaker 2: if you weren't well able to defeat it.
Speaker 1: The giant is a sign that a new level is coming.
Speaker 1: But here's the key.
Speaker 2: Before that happens, King Saul will show up. The real
Speaker 2: test is not Goliath. The real test is Saul. The
Speaker 2: negative words, the doubt, the fear, the insecurity, trying to.
Speaker 1: Get you to question yourself.
Speaker 2: Question whether you really heard God, Question if you really.
Speaker 1: Have what it takes.
Speaker 2: Dismiss the doubt, refuse those negative seeds.
Speaker 1: You're at a defining moment.
Speaker 2: You're on the verge of stepping to a new level,
Speaker 2: the verge of seeing God do something.
Speaker 1: You've never seen.
Speaker 2: Are you gonna shrink back and let people's opinion talk
Speaker 2: you out of it, let the fear the doubt take root,
Speaker 2: or you're gonna do like David, dismiss it and move
Speaker 2: forward to end faith into the awesome future God has
Speaker 2: in store. When my father passed in nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 2: i'd only ministered one time and worked behind the scenes
Speaker 2: for seventeen years. I never wanted to be up in
Speaker 2: front of people. I liked being in the background. But
Speaker 2: I knew that I was supposed to step up and
Speaker 2: pasture the church, and it didn't make sense to my mind.
Speaker 2: I didn't have the training, and I wasn't necessarily qualified,
Speaker 2: and I didn't have a big personality like my father.
Speaker 1: But I took that step of faith, and I started.
Speaker 2: Speaking on the weekends, and I was so nervous and
Speaker 2: so unsure of myself.
Speaker 1: I would finish one message and.
Speaker 2: Walk off the platform so relieved, and the next thought
Speaker 2: would come, what are you going to speak on next week?
Speaker 2: What if you have nothing to say? What if no
Speaker 2: one comes? What if people don't like you? What if
Speaker 2: the church goes down? The enemy loves to bring the
Speaker 2: what ifs? Have you noticed it's always the worst case scenario.
Speaker 2: What if that pain in your little toe is cancer?
Speaker 2: What if your company lays you off and you can't
Speaker 2: pay your bills?
Speaker 1: What if your child doesn't pass that class?
Speaker 2: These negative seeds, it cause worrying, anxiety when.
Speaker 1: You can't really enjoy your life.
Speaker 2: Instead of letting them take root, why don't you turn
Speaker 2: the what ifs around and dwell on the best case scenarios.
Speaker 2: Dwell on something hopeful, something that builds your faith. What
Speaker 2: if no one comes? What if the church explodes? What
Speaker 2: if you never get well? What if you recover and
Speaker 2: feel better than ever? What if your child doesn't pass?
Speaker 2: What if he makes the honor law? What if you
Speaker 2: never meet anyone? What if they show up this week?
Speaker 2: What if you get laid off, What if you get
Speaker 2: a promotion, What if you start your business. What if
Speaker 2: you step into abundance and favor that you've never seen.
Speaker 1: Quit letting the negative play in your mind.
Speaker 2: You choose which seeds get planted in your soil.
Speaker 1: You have to take control of your thought life.
Speaker 2: A few weeks after I started ministering, I was in
Speaker 2: the front lobby after the service. I just come off
Speaker 2: the platform and I was walking behind these two ladies.
Speaker 2: They didn't know I was there. I overheard them talking.
Speaker 2: One said he's not as.
Speaker 1: Good as his father.
Speaker 2: The other answered about yeah, I don't think the church
Speaker 2: is going to make it. I was already insecure, worried
Speaker 2: about what people thought, wondering.
Speaker 1: Was I good enough.
Speaker 2: That was like the worst thing that could have happened.
Speaker 2: When I heard that, I felt fears shoot through my body,
Speaker 2: almost like a panic.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not going to work out. I don't
Speaker 1: have what it takes.
Speaker 2: As I was processing it all, something rose up in me,
Speaker 2: like waking up a sleeping lion. I felt a boldness,
Speaker 2: a confidence, a power that I had never felt before.
Speaker 2: I thought to myself, you ladies don't know who I am,
Speaker 2: and you don't know what God put in me. You
Speaker 2: weren't there when he formed me in my mother's womb.
Speaker 4: You weren't there when he called me, anointed me, and
Speaker 4: empowered me. You weren't there when he crowned me with
Speaker 4: his favor. You may think that I can't do it,
Speaker 4: but I don't.
Speaker 1: Need your approval.
Speaker 2: You don't think I have what it takes, that I'm
Speaker 2: just a boy. But there's a slingshot. You can't see.
Speaker 1: There's a giant that's about to come down. I was
Speaker 1: at a destiny moment.
Speaker 2: If I would have let their seeds take root, I
Speaker 2: would have talked myself out of it. If I'd have
Speaker 2: kept dwelling on that you're not like your father, You're
Speaker 2: not good enough, it's not going to last, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be up here today. I was on the verge of
Speaker 2: a new level of my destiny. Getting the Compact Center
Speaker 2: wasn't the real battle. The real battle was not letting
Speaker 2: those two women convince me that I didn't have what
Speaker 2: it takes. Now look back now, and I think, how
Speaker 2: did I not let them discourage me?
Speaker 1: I was so unsure of myself.
Speaker 2: But in those destinies moments, the grace of God will
Speaker 2: always be there to empower you. The scripture says when
Speaker 2: the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of
Speaker 2: God will raise up a barrier. It wasn't a coincidence that,
Speaker 2: out of the thousands of people of church that morning,
Speaker 2: it just so happened I walk behind those two ladies.
Speaker 2: I could have walked behind someone and said that was
Speaker 2: great today. I sure enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: That was a test.
Speaker 2: Before you accomplish the dream, the enemy will make sure
Speaker 2: there will be negative seeds before your health turns around,
Speaker 2: before your child gets back on course, before you break
Speaker 2: that addiction.
Speaker 1: These seeds of.
Speaker 2: Doubt and discouragement. Can't do it, not good enough, never
Speaker 2: gonna happen. Don't believe those lies. Turn it around and
Speaker 2: declare what God says about you. When thoughts tell you you've
Speaker 2: seen your best days, nothing good is in your future. Father,
Speaker 2: you said, my latter days will be better than my
Speaker 2: former days. You said, but the path of the righteous
Speaker 2: gets brighter and brighter.
Speaker 1: Your children are never going to get back on course.
Speaker 2: Just accept it. Know as for me and my house,
Speaker 2: we will serve the Lord. Father, Thank you that my
Speaker 2: children are.
Speaker 1: Mighty in the land.
Speaker 2: You're never gonna have that baby you've been trying for
Speaker 2: so many years. Father, you said in Psalms that you
Speaker 2: would make me the happy mother of children. So Lord,
Speaker 2: I think that my baby is on the way. March
Speaker 2: chapter five, Jesus was walking by the shore and a
Speaker 2: man named Gyros came and fell at his feet and said, Jesus,
Speaker 2: my little girl is very sick. She's about to die.
Speaker 2: Please come to my house and pray for her. And
Speaker 2: Jesus said that he would, but along the way he
Speaker 2: kept getting delayed.
Speaker 1: That's when the woman came.
Speaker 2: Up with the issue of blood, touched the edge of
Speaker 2: his robe, and she was healed, and Jesus stopped and
Speaker 2: talked with her. All this time Gyros was thinking, please hurry,
Speaker 2: we don't have a lot of time. About that time,
Speaker 2: these messengers came up to Jyris, saying, we're so sorry,
Speaker 2: but your little girl has died.
Speaker 1: There's no use bothering Jesus anymore.
Speaker 2: The scripture says Jesus overheard what the messenger said, but
Speaker 2: he ignored their comments.
Speaker 1: Notice the principle.
Speaker 2: You may overhear some negative words, overhear negative reports, but
Speaker 2: you have to learn to ignore them. Don't dwell on it.
Speaker 2: You're not denying the problem, you're not acting like it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't exist, but you're not letting it take root.
Speaker 2: You can't have faith if there's doubt and fear, worried
Speaker 2: about this medical report and Joel the experts.
Speaker 1: Say it's not going to work out. Sometimes take this
Speaker 1: in the right sense.
Speaker 2: You have to turn your mind off, lean not to
Speaker 2: your own understanding. Yes, youse common sense that there are
Speaker 2: things we face where there is no solution in the natural.
Speaker 1: If you try to figure it out, you're going to
Speaker 1: get confused. Discoura is. Talk yourself out of it. You
Speaker 1: can't stop that. You heard it, but take the next
Speaker 1: step and ignore it. Don't dwell on it.
Speaker 2: Jesus went in and prayed for the little girl, and
Speaker 2: she came back to life, a great miracle. There may
Speaker 2: be things in your life right now that look dead.
Speaker 2: Every circumstance says it's too late. You're never going to
Speaker 2: get well, never accomplish your dream, you never see your
Speaker 2: family restored. But God has the final say. When you
Speaker 2: believe all things are possible, don't give those negative seeds
Speaker 2: any room in your soil. When you're in a battle,
Speaker 2: when you're up against those giants, you need your heart
Speaker 2: filled with hope, with faith, knowing that God is bigger,
Speaker 2: knowing that he's fighting your battles, that he's making ways
Speaker 2: where you don't see away see the messenger said it
Speaker 2: was too late, but they were wrong. The little girl
Speaker 2: was healed. Saul said, David, you're just a boy. You
Speaker 2: can't defeat Goliath.
Speaker 1: But Saul wrong. David won. Those two ladies said that
Speaker 1: I couldn't minister, but they were wrong. Here I am.
Speaker 2: The experts told my mother that she had terminal cancer,
Speaker 2: a few weeks to live, but they were wrong.
Speaker 1: Forty two years later, she's still alive.
Speaker 2: People told us that we would never get the Compact center,
Speaker 2: that the city.
Speaker 1: Would never let a church have it, but they were wrong.
Speaker 1: Here's my point.
Speaker 2: In each of these situations, if the people would have
Speaker 2: let the negative seeds take root, then what the others
Speaker 2: were saying would.
Speaker 1: Have been true. David wouldn't have defeated Golia.
Speaker 2: Jyrois's daughter would have died. My mother wouldn't have been healed.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have become a minister. The determining factor wasn't
Speaker 2: what other people said. It's whether we let it take root.
Speaker 2: We control what we allow in our soil. I'm asking
Speaker 2: you to Refuse the negative seeds. Refuse the doubt, refuse
Speaker 2: the fear. Refuse limitations that people put on you. My
Speaker 2: grandmother on my father's side of the family was a
Speaker 2: very feisty woman. She only stood four feet eleven inches tall,
Speaker 2: but she would fight a tiger.
Speaker 1: She lived out in the country her whole life.
Speaker 2: If you've ever seen the Beverly Hillbillies, she was granny.
Speaker 2: Her name was Ellie May. She chewed tobacco, she dipped snuff.
Speaker 2: I come from a very sophisticated family. I'm so glad
Speaker 2: my sister Lisa finally quit. But when my grandmother was
Speaker 2: up there in years, she went to the doctor for
Speaker 2: a checkout. He said, miss Ostein, I'm sorry to tell
Speaker 2: you this, but you have the beginning stages.
Speaker 1: Of Parkinson's disease.
Speaker 2: Well, my grandmother didn't know what Parkinson's was, but she
Speaker 2: knew she didn't want to have anything to do with it.
Speaker 2: She got up off the table, bristled back and said,
Speaker 2: listen here, sir, I.
Speaker 1: Do not have Parkinson's disease.
Speaker 2: I refuse to have it, and besides, I'm too old
Speaker 2: to have it.
Speaker 1: He looked at her like she was a little bit crazy.
Speaker 1: And she was. But do you know my grandmother never.
Speaker 2: Did have Parkinson's disease. If she had it, the symptoms
Speaker 2: never showed up. Now, I know you can't wish things away,
Speaker 2: but something happens when you don't let the seed take root.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying bury your head in the sand, deny reality.
Speaker 2: I'm saying, don't let it get down in your spirit
Speaker 2: where it becomes your default setting.
Speaker 1: You always think it. I have this disease. I'm limited.
Speaker 2: No, your body is a temple of a most high God.
Speaker 2: See any sickness, any addiction, any pain as foreign.
Speaker 1: You don't belong here. You are not welcome. I am
Speaker 1: God's property.
Speaker 2: See doctors tell us what medical science says. They give
Speaker 2: us diagnosis based on skill and expertise and training, and
Speaker 2: they help us to get well. But at times they
Speaker 2: come to limitations. There's nothing more they can do medically speaking.
Speaker 2: While we respect the diagnosis, that's one report. But there's
Speaker 2: another report from the God who created you, from the
Speaker 2: God who made you in his own image, from the.
Speaker 1: God who knew you before you were.
Speaker 2: Formed in your mother's womb. He's called Jehovah Raphah, the
Speaker 2: Lord your healer, Isaiah said, who will.
Speaker 1: Believe the report of the Lord? In life? We have
Speaker 1: different reports.
Speaker 2: Here's the medical report, here's my financial report, and here's
Speaker 2: what King Saul says. And here's what those two jerks
Speaker 2: I mean, those two ladies said, No, we get to.
Speaker 1: Choose which report we're gonna believe.
Speaker 2: He'll never be as good as his father. That's one report,
Speaker 2: but there's another one.
Speaker 1: I can do all things through Christ. I am strong
Speaker 1: in the Lord.
Speaker 2: God being for me is more than the world being
Speaker 2: against me.
Speaker 1: Why don't you choose the report of the Lord.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna get well. That sickness is permanent, learn
Speaker 2: to live with it. There's another report. God is restoring
Speaker 2: health back into me. I will live and not die
Speaker 2: with long life. God will satisfy me. Well, you'll always struggle,
Speaker 2: You'll always have lack, not enough.
Speaker 1: How about this report? I will lend and not borrow.
Speaker 1: My cup runs over.
Speaker 2: I live under the open windows of heaven blessings that
Speaker 2: I cannot contain. What seeds are you letting take root?
Speaker 2: What you're dwelling on is what's going to come to pass.
Speaker 2: I talked to a woman that was pregnant with triplets
Speaker 2: and because of some other complications. It was considered a
Speaker 2: very high risk pregnancy. They sent her to a group
Speaker 2: of doctors that specialized in this. She was told that
Speaker 2: she would be bedridden after three months of pregnancy and
Speaker 2: that the babies would be born at least four months prematurely.
Speaker 1: They'd seen this happen again and again.
Speaker 2: She was respectful, but she didn't let that seed take root.
Speaker 2: She told the doctors that she is going to be
Speaker 2: the exception, that her babies were going to be born
Speaker 2: full term, and she was not going to be bedridden.
Speaker 1: They looked at her like, yeah, right.
Speaker 2: At one point, the main doctor said, you're going to
Speaker 2: get gestational diabetes, something that occurs during pregnancy that can
Speaker 2: lead to long term diabetes. He said, it's not if
Speaker 2: you get it, it's when you get it. You have
Speaker 2: all the signs, it's just a matter of time. She
Speaker 2: asked the doctor very politely to not pronounce things over
Speaker 2: her that have not yet happened.
Speaker 1: She said, I'd prefer you to.
Speaker 2: Say the statistics indicate that you will get gestational diabetes.
Speaker 1: She didn't want that defeat being spoken over her.
Speaker 2: You can't always keep it from coming, but you don't
Speaker 2: have to let it take root. They thought she was
Speaker 2: kind of odd, But do you know she carried the
Speaker 2: triplets the full nine months. She was never bedridden, She
Speaker 2: drove herself to the hospital to deliver, and she never
Speaker 2: did get gestational diabetes. Now these same doctors call her
Speaker 2: the miracle Mom. They said, We've never seen anyone like you.
Speaker 2: It's amazing what God will do if you don't let
Speaker 2: negative seeds take root. Whose report are you gonna believe?
Speaker 2: The report of the Lord or the report of people?
Speaker 2: People are limited. God is unlimited, people are natural. God
Speaker 2: is supernatural. People look at facts, statistics, what's supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: God goes beyond normal logic.
Speaker 2: He parts red seas, He brings little girls back to life.
Speaker 2: He turns a shepherd boy into a king. He gave
Speaker 2: Sarah a baby at eighty years old. He took Joseph
Speaker 2: from a slave in prison to the prime minister of Egypt.
Speaker 1: Who knows where God is going to take you.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen, heard, or imagined what He has in store.
Speaker 2: You may not see how it can happen, but you.
Speaker 1: Don't have to feel figure it out.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is believe, and God will
Speaker 2: cause you to defye The odds are negative seeds.
Speaker 1: Limiting your future.
Speaker 2: Take inventory of what's growing in your soil. You may
Speaker 2: need to uproot some things. God can still do what
Speaker 2: he promised, but you have to get in agreement with
Speaker 2: him before you go to that next level. The enemy
Speaker 2: will send these negative seeds.
Speaker 1: To hold you back.
Speaker 2: See to doubt, SiGe, you can't do it, SiGe, you
Speaker 2: won't get well.
Speaker 1: Seed.
Speaker 2: You'll never defeat alive a seed. You can't get up
Speaker 2: in front of people. There will be these defining moments.
Speaker 2: What you do with the seed will determine whether you
Speaker 2: step into your greatness or whether you shrink back in
Speaker 2: fear pass these tests.
Speaker 1: Start refusing negative seeds.
Speaker 2: Don't let what people speak over you determine your future.
Speaker 2: Don't let what the expert said cause you to live
Speaker 2: in doubt.
Speaker 1: Don't let your own thoughts talk you out of what
Speaker 1: God put in your He believe his report. He wouldn't
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Speaker 2: You in that situation if you weren't already equipped, empowered,
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Speaker 2: you are qualified, you are valuable, You are victorious. Now
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Speaker 1: If you'll do this. I believe and declare.
Speaker 2: Like David, You're gonna defeat giants like Jyrus, God's gonna
Speaker 2: do what looks impossible like the miracle.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna defy the odds and see God show out
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Speaker 1: Healing favor, breakthroughs.
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Speaker 2: you receive it, can you say amen? I want to
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