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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the podcast, and we want to

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Speaker 2: tell you how much we love you. Trusted You're going

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Speaker 2: to have a blessed Christmas season with you and your family.

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Speaker 2: Know that we pray for you every day. Just speak

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Speaker 2: in God's blessings and favor.

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Speaker 3: We love you, we are praying for you, and we

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Speaker 3: hope you have a very merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the podcast today. God bless you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for letting us come into your homes for the

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Speaker 2: next little while. So I know we love you, and

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Speaker 2: we come with good news each week because we know

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Speaker 2: that God is a good God. He's got a good

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Speaker 2: plan for each of our lives. And so thanks for

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Speaker 2: tuning in today. And if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: I hope you'll come out and see us. Come take

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Speaker 2: a look at our new facility. It's really beautiful. We'll

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Speaker 2: make you feel right at home. But thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for tuning in today. I'd like to get started each

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Speaker 2: week with something kind of funny. And I heard about

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Speaker 2: this country grandmother. She was known for her faith and boldness,

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Speaker 2: and she'd get up in the morning and go out

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Speaker 2: on her front porch and she'd sing and even shout

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Speaker 2: praises to God. Her next door neighbor was kind of sarcastic.

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Speaker 2: He said, you're just wasting your time. No such thing

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Speaker 2: as God. One day he decided to prove his point,

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Speaker 2: and he took a bag of groceries and put it

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Speaker 2: When that grandmother got up the next day and saw it,

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Speaker 2: first thing she did was shall praise the Lord. And

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Speaker 2: he stepped out from behind the tree and he kind

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Speaker 2: of laughed. He said, God didn't give you those groceries.

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Speaker 1: I put them there. I told you wasting your time.

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Speaker 2: She looked up to heaven and said, thank you, Lord,

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Speaker 2: You not only sent me the groceries, but you made.

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Speaker 1: The devil pay for it.

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Speaker 2: All right, come on, hold up your Bible, say it

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Speaker 2: like you mean it today. Ready, this is my Bible.

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

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

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be talked the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I'll never be the same.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking about being determined to enjoy our lives.

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Speaker 2: I believe one of the main keys is to simply

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Speaker 2: learn to stay in a positive mindset.

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Speaker 1: Our thoughts are so important.

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Speaker 2: You can't go around thinking negative thoughts and expect to

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Speaker 2: live a positive life. Your life is gonna follow your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: And too many people go through the day worried and

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Speaker 2: full of fear, focused on their problems, not expecting anything good.

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately, that's exactly what happens. We draw in what

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Speaker 2: we constantly think about, just like a magnet. If you

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Speaker 2: if you'll learn to think thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Of hope and faith and victory.

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Speaker 2: If you'll dwell on the fact that you are more

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Speaker 2: When you do that, you draw in the good things

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Speaker 2: of God. And every day we have to choose what

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Speaker 2: You want to be happy, you want to see things change,

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Speaker 2: but your thinking is messed up. Understand, God is a

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Speaker 2: positive god. There is nothing negative about him, and so

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Speaker 2: When you're negative, it's like you're swimming upstream. Everything's going

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Speaker 2: In other words, this big mass of air is always

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Speaker 2: His jet stream is always positive. He's got a great.

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Speaker 2: He wants you to succeed. He wants you to overcome

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Speaker 2: if that thought is negative and discouraging, you need to

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Speaker 2: never gonna get well. You heard what the doctor said.

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Speaker 2: See, our life is kind of like a car. We

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Speaker 2: have a forward gear, we have a reverse gear, and

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Speaker 2: But if you can just switch over into the positive,

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Speaker 2: all the forces of darkness can't keep you from going forward.

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Speaker 2: You will begin to make progress. But it all starts

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Speaker 2: right here. And the scripture says here in Colossians three,

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Speaker 2: verse two is from the amplified to set your mind

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Speaker 2: and keep it set on the higher things. I believe

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Speaker 2: the higher things are the positive things. When you get

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Speaker 2: mind for success, Set your mind for victory. Set your

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Speaker 2: mind that you're going to enjoy this day. Get into

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Speaker 2: the gent stream of God. The reason it's so important

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Speaker 2: And very often, right when you first wake up, all

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Speaker 2: don't you dare dwell on that junk. You've got to

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Speaker 2: be on the offensive. If you don't set the tone

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Speaker 2: You need to boldy, declare this is gonna be a

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Speaker 2: See one man gets up and says, good morning, Lord.

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Speaker 2: I challenge you to get up in an attitude of faith.

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Speaker 2: You can program your mind for victory. I read about

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Speaker 2: We can precondition our mind for success or for failure.

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Speaker 2: They've preconditioned their mind to fail. They're always thinking about

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Speaker 2: what they can't do well. Joel, I could never quit smoking.

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Speaker 2: Plans to succeed. See, I've already planned on having a

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Speaker 2: good day to day. I've preconditioned my mind to enjoy

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Speaker 2: this day. I'm doing good up here. I'm planning on

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Speaker 2: having fun this afternoon. I'm planning on overcoming any obstacle

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Speaker 1: I preconditioned my mind for it.

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Speaker 2: And some people they don't realize it, but they have

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Speaker 2: preconditioned their mind to have a lousy day. When they

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Speaker 1: Already time to get up, I feel like I just

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Speaker 2: They'll lie there for thirty minutes thinking about how miserable

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Speaker 2: The negative farmer would say, yeah, but if it keeps

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Speaker 2: Then when you go back to that river in your mind,

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Speaker 2: whole new river full of positive, faith filled thoughts. That

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Speaker 2: You said you always caused me to tryumph, so I

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Speaker 2: It'll get easier and easier every time. Maybe that thought

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Speaker 2: See, you've got to get this new river of faith

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Speaker 1: And some of you have spent year after year digging

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Speaker 2: And if it's gonna change, you're gonna have to make

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Speaker 1: Set on the good things of God.

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Speaker 2: You've got to quit expecting the worst, quit looking at

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Speaker 2: can do. Well, you say, Joel, I'm just naturally kind

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Speaker 2: You can see it all through the scriptures. The Book

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Speaker 2: We will never defeat them. And do you know that

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Speaker 2: negative report spread like wildfire throughout the rest of the camp.

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Speaker 2: Before long, all two million people or so were negative.

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Speaker 1: They were complaining, murmuring.

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Speaker 2: Finally they said, let's just go back to Egypt where

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Speaker 2: we came from.

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Speaker 1: It's not even worth trying.

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Speaker 2: Well, when those other two spies came in, Joshua and Caleb,

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Speaker 2: they had a totally different report. They said, yes, Moses,

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Speaker 2: the people are big, but we know our God is bigger.

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Speaker 2: We are well able to take the land. Let us

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Speaker 2: go up at once and possess it.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 2: Negative people see the problem. Positive people see the possibility.

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Speaker 2: Negative people focus on their giants. Positive people focus on

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Speaker 2: their God. Joshua and Caleb had that attitude of faith

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: They had that can do spirit.

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Speaker 2: And what's interesting is those other two million people, they

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Speaker 2: were so negative. They never did make it into the

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Speaker 2: Promised Land because of that wrong attitude. They wandered around

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Speaker 2: out there for some forty years. And do you know

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Speaker 2: the only two out of that whole group that ever

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Speaker 2: did make it in were Joshua and Caleb. It's the

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Speaker 2: same thing today. If you stay focused on the negative

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Speaker 2: and what's wrong and what you can't do, you'll never

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Speaker 2: make it into your promised land. And really, anybody can

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Speaker 2: see what's wrong. Anybody can see the problem. But we

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Speaker 2: need to do like Joshua and Caleb and focus on

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Speaker 2: the solution. Focus on your possibilities, find the good you've

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Speaker 2: got to choose to keep your mind set on the

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Speaker 2: higher things. Sometimes we don't even realize it, but we

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Speaker 2: approach things from such a negative point of view.

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Speaker 1: Even the way we ask questions.

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Speaker 2: You could ask in a positive way or a negative way,

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Speaker 2: and that will determine very often the other person's response.

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Speaker 2: For instance, how many times do we say you wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be able to help me this afternoon, would you? Or

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Speaker 2: you couldn't give me a ride to work tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: Could you? You know, shaking our head no the whole time?

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Speaker 2: Or you wouldn't want to listen to my business proposal

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Speaker 2: or see my presentation.

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Speaker 1: Would you?

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Speaker 2: No? Don't ask in the negative, turn it around and

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Speaker 2: ask from a positive point of view. All the studies

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Speaker 2: show us how you ask the question will greatly influence

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Speaker 2: the answer. And if you ask in a negative way, subconsciously,

486
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Speaker 2: you're affecting that other person and they are much more

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Speaker 2: likely to answer you in the same way that you've asked.

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Speaker 2: I read about this experiment that was done with this

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Speaker 2: young army soldier. He was working in the cafeteria there

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Speaker 2: on the base. He was at the end of the

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Speaker 2: serving line. They're in the mess hall, and he was

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Speaker 2: in charge of serving the fruit. And so the first

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Speaker 2: hundred people that came by, he said to them, you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't want a bowl of apricots, would you? Ninety percent

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Speaker 2: of them declined, only ten people wanted more. Well, the

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Speaker 2: next hundred people that came by, he changed the question

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Speaker 2: and he said, would you like.

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Speaker 1: To have a bowl of apricots?

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Speaker 2: Fifty percent of them responded yes. This next group he

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Speaker 2: even changes around a little more. He said, do you

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Speaker 2: want one bowl of apricots? Or do you want two

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Speaker 2: bowl of apricots? And do you know, fifty percent wanted

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Speaker 2: one bowl, forty percent wanted two bowls, and only ten

504
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Speaker 2: percent decline. And see, just by changing the way he

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Speaker 2: asked it from the negative to the positive. Just by

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Speaker 2: rephrasing it, he went from ninety percent declining to only

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Speaker 2: ten percent declining good information. Now I know, Victoria, you

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Speaker 2: wouldn't want to go to the mall this week?

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Speaker 1: Would you? Y'all? Pray for me? I have a ninety

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Speaker 1: percent chance.

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Speaker 2: Learn to stay positive, learn to stay hopeful, Expect good

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Speaker 2: things in your life. I know too many people today

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Speaker 2: They live by Murphy's law.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard it?

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Speaker 2: It goes like this, Nothing is as easy as it looks.

516
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Speaker 2: Everything takes longer than you would think, and if anything

517
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Speaker 2: can go wrong, it will and at the worst possible time. No,

518
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Speaker 2: if you live with that kind of negative attitude, you

519
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Speaker 2: are inviting failure. You are asking for trouble and heartache

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Speaker 2: and mediocrity. You got to quit expecting things to not

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Speaker 2: work out. Quit expecting people to treat you badly.

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Speaker 1: Change your frame of mind.

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Speaker 2: Expect to get some good breaks this week. Expect your

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Speaker 2: plans to succeed. Expect whatever you touch to prospers. You

525
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Speaker 2: know for some reason it doesn't happen. Don't get all sour,

526
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Speaker 2: don't go back to Murphy's law. Well, I should have

527
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Speaker 2: known it was gonna take me this long. Should have

528
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Speaker 2: known this wasn't gonna work out. Should have known if

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Speaker 2: I went to that big church, I wouldn't get a

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Speaker 2: good parking spot. No, stay out of a negative, stay hopeful,

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Speaker 2: put a smile on your face. God is still in

532
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Speaker 2: control of your life. Really, we need to get rid

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Speaker 2: of Murphy's law. In fact, we should take just the

534
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Speaker 2: opposite of it. Our attitude should be nothing is as

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Speaker 2: difficult as it looks for me, and if anything good

536
00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 2: can happen today, it will, And if it's gonna happen

537
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Speaker 2: to anybody, it'll happen to me.

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Speaker 1: That's the attitude we need to have.

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Speaker 2: You go out with that kind of attitude of faith,

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Speaker 2: and you will draw into good things of God.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you what kind of frame of mind

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Speaker 1: do you live in? Positive? Negative? Are you in neutral?

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Speaker 2: Just taking whatever life brings you a way? Now, you've

544
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Speaker 2: got to stay aggressive when it comes to controling your

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Speaker 2: thought life.

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Speaker 1: You gotta make sure you keep them running in a

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Speaker 1: positive direction.

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Speaker 2: Nobody can do this for you. When you first get

549
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Speaker 2: out of bed. You need to set your mind in

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Speaker 2: the right direction. And the scripture says, no matter what

551
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Speaker 2: comes against you, keep your mind set. The good news

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Speaker 2: is nobody can make us live negative. Nobody can make

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Speaker 2: you live discouraged. If you'll just choose to think thoughts

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Speaker 2: of peace and joy and victory, You're gonna live a positive,

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Speaker 2: victorious life.

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Speaker 1: I really believe the root.

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Speaker 2: Cause of many of our problems is in our thinking.

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Speaker 2: Learn to precondition your mind for success. Precondition your mind

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Speaker 2: to overcome any obstacle that comes your way. Why don't

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Speaker 2: you plan on having a good week this week? Why

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Speaker 2: don't you plan on being a blessing to somebody today?

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Speaker 2: Why don't you plan on overcoming anything that might come

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Speaker 2: your way?

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Speaker 1: It all starts right here.

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Speaker 2: If you will keep your thoughts going in the right

566
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Speaker 2: direction and stay in that attitude of faith, then you're

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Speaker 2: gonna be like Joshua and Caleb. You won't wander around

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Speaker 2: like all those other people. You'll make it into your

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Speaker 2: promised land. You'll see the good things of God in

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Speaker 2: your life. Amen, how many of you receive it today?

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Speaker 1: You never lie.

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Speaker 2: I suppose our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make.

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Speaker 1: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I 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, get in a good Bible based church, keep.

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Speaker 1: God first place. He's going to take you places that

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Speaker 1: you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a dream that's waiting to happen, but

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Speaker 4: it often feels like you'll never get there? Is your

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Speaker 4: dream to start a business, to see a loved one

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Speaker 4: come to the Lord? Are you asking God? Will it

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Speaker 4: ever happen?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it feels like our dream is so far off.

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Speaker 2: But I believe you're closer than you think.

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Speaker 3: You're on the verge of seeing things change in your favor,

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Speaker 3: new doors opening, the right people showing up.

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