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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victorian. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget I have a new book out, fifteen Ways

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Speaker 2: and encouraged by it. We love you so much and

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Speaker 2: we hope you enjoyed the message.

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Speaker 1: God bless you, and it said joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. And if you're ever in the Houston area,

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: But thank you so much for tuning in today. Thank

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Speaker 1: you again for coming out. I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny and I heard about this middle aged woman.

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Speaker 1: She had a heart attack and on the operating table

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Speaker 1: she asked God if this was it. God said, no,

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Speaker 1: you have forty more years. Upon recovery, she decided to

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Speaker 1: stay in the hospital and have a facelift, tummy tuck, liposuction,

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Speaker 1: and extreme makeover. Two months later, as she was leaving

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Speaker 1: the hospital, she was hit by a car and killed.

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Speaker 1: Got to heaven, said God. I thought, she said, I

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Speaker 1: had forty more years. God said, I'm sorry I didn't

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Speaker 1: recognize you. Hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 1: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 1: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 1: will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about activating faith

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Speaker 1: and not fear. All through the day, we have the

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Speaker 1: choice to believe that either God is in control and

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Speaker 1: good things are in store, or we can go around worried, negative,

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Speaker 1: expecting the worst. I hear people say, I'm afraid I'm

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Speaker 1: going to get laid off. I'm afraid my marriage is

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Speaker 1: not going to last. I'm afraid my children are going

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Speaker 1: to get into trouble. They don't realize it, but they're

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Speaker 1: activating fear instead of faith.

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Speaker 2: Fear and faith have something in common.

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Speaker 1: They both ask us to believe something is going to

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Speaker 1: happen that we cannot see. Fear says that pain in

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Speaker 1: your side is the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Your grandmother died from. It's going to be the end

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Speaker 2: of you.

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Speaker 1: Faith says that pain is not permanent, it's only temporary.

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Speaker 1: Fear says business is slow, you're going to go under.

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Speaker 1: Faith says God is supplying all of my needs. Fear

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Speaker 1: says you've been through so much, you're never going to

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Speaker 1: really be happy again. Faith says, my best days are

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Speaker 1: still out in front of me.

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Speaker 2: Here's the key.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you meditate on is what's going to take root.

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Speaker 1: If you dwell on that fear all day, you let

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Speaker 1: it play again and again in your mind, then you

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Speaker 1: give it a right to become a reality. That's what

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Speaker 1: Job said. The thing I feared came upon me. Fear

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Speaker 1: is using your faith in the wrong direction. Your faith

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Speaker 1: will work in the negative just as well as it

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Speaker 1: will the positive. I was at the doctor's office with

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Speaker 1: our daughter Alexandra one time, and as the doctor was

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Speaker 1: examining her, he began to talk about how bad the

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Speaker 1: flu season was and how he gets it every year.

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Speaker 1: I said, doctor, do you really get it every year?

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Speaker 1: He said, yeah, Joel, it's just automatic with me, something

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Speaker 2: He was so convinced he was expecting it.

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Speaker 1: Six weeks later, we were scheduled to go back for

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Speaker 1: Alexandra's checkup. His office call said, don't come today. The

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Speaker 1: is working. He got just what he was believing for

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Speaker 1: Just as faith can bring in good things, fear can

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid I'm going to get the flu. You just

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Speaker 1: You just invited a lay off. No turn it around.

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Speaker 1: Quit inviting defeat, sickness, bad breaks, and start inviting victory

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Speaker 1: Years ago, I was facing a situation that had the

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Speaker 1: Every morning when I woke up, the first thought that

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Speaker 1: That's the way fear is. It will try to dominate

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Speaker 1: and use that same energy to believe, I will turn

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Speaker 2: When I heard that, I gained a new perspective.

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Speaker 1: I realized that fear, worry, negative thinking is not just

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Speaker 1: Read an article in the paper a while back about

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Speaker 1: a twenty four year old marine He was about to

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Speaker 1: report to his second tour of duty in Iraq. Before

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Speaker 1: Family friends, they tried to encourage him. Don't say that, Yes,

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Speaker 1: you're going to make it out, he said, Now I

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Speaker 2: This is going to be the end.

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Speaker 1: Before he left, he wrote farewell letters to his wife

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Speaker 1: convinced in his thinking, but he acted on that fear.

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Speaker 1: Three months later, while he was on a mission, just

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Speaker 1: like he thought, he hit a landmine and lost his life.

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Speaker 1: The thing he feared came upon him. But I wonder

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Speaker 1: what would have happened if he were to replaced that

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Speaker 2: What if he'd have gone around saying, Father, thank.

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Speaker 1: You that no weapon formed against me were prosper Lord,

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Speaker 1: you promised your angels would watch over me and keep

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Speaker 2: My foot against a stone. I don't know. Maybe he

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Speaker 2: would still be here, but I know this. When you

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Speaker 1: Fear, you are giving what you're fearing the right to

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Speaker 1: come to pass. The scripture talks about how when any

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Speaker 1: two of us agree, it shall be done. That's a

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Speaker 1: promise that when we stand in faith with another believer,

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Speaker 1: God will do what he said. Well, I believe that

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Speaker 1: principle is true even in the negative. When the enemy

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Speaker 1: puts a thought in your mind, if you agree, then

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Speaker 1: your agreement is what gives it the power to come

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Speaker 1: to pass. But if you don't agree, you turn it around.

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Speaker 1: The thought says your children are going to get into trouble. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't agree. My children will be mighty in the land.

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Speaker 1: My children will fulfill their destiny. You just stop that

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Speaker 2: No, I don't agree.

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Speaker 1: God has a hedge of protection around me, a bloodline

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Speaker 1: that the enemy cannot cross. Well, that sickness is going

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Speaker 2: It's been in your.

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Speaker 1: Family line for three generations. No thanks, I don't agree

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Speaker 1: with long life. God's going to satisfy me.

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Speaker 2: Here's the key. Don't come into agreement with the fear.

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Speaker 2: If you don't agree. The only way it can come

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Speaker 2: to pass is if God gives it the permission.

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Speaker 1: And if God does, you can rest assured it's not

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Speaker 2: It's gonna work for you.

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Speaker 1: Now, pay attention to what you're coming into agreement with.

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Speaker 1: When our son Jonathan was a little baby, I was

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Speaker 1: holding him at a restaurant while we were eating. This

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Speaker 1: older couple came up and started complimenting us on how

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Speaker 1: good Jonathan was and how quiet he was being. But

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Speaker 1: just before they left, the man turned around and said,

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Speaker 1: but you just wait till he gets to be about

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Speaker 1: two years old. He'll turn into a different person.

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Speaker 2: He's good now, but the terrible twos are coming.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say thank you so much for your

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Speaker 1: encouragement and lifting my spirits. I told Victoria, I don't

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Speaker 1: receive that. I don't agree with that. I am not

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Speaker 1: letting that take root into my spirit. I said, for us,

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Speaker 1: now gonna be the terrible twos. It's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: terrific twos.

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Speaker 2: Do you know we never had a.

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Speaker 1: Problem when he was two, three, four, he got to

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Speaker 1: be about ten, people started saying, just wait till he

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Speaker 1: gets to be a teenager. You're talking about a headache, trouble,

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Speaker 2: Just wait.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan is almost eighteen years old. Now, our daughter Alexandra

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Speaker 1: is fourteen. Do you know they still hadn't started cursing, lying, stealing, fight,

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Speaker 1: still hadn't caused us any problems. Next thing, people say,

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Speaker 1: Wait till he's legal, Joel, Wait till he hits forty

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Speaker 1: that midlife crisis, Wait till he's seventy five. No, I

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Speaker 1: bad breaks, disappointments. I'm activating my faith and not my fear.

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Speaker 1: If you expect your children, your loved ones, to get

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Speaker 1: It's like this lady I heard about every night for

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Speaker 1: years and years. Practically she thought she heard a burglar

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Speaker 1: up at least once a week and go make sure

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Speaker 2: One night she thought she heard some noise.

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Speaker 1: Honey, wake up, somebody's down in our kitchen. He got

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Speaker 2: This time.

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Speaker 1: When he walked downstairs, he was staring down the barrel

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Speaker 2: His eyes got so big.

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Speaker 1: The burglar said, don't make a sound, just give me

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Speaker 1: the burglar. The burglar turned around, was about to run off.

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Speaker 1: He said, wait a minute. You can't go yet. You

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Speaker 1: expecting you for thirty years. Friends don't go through life

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Speaker 1: expecting disappointments, bad breaks, disasters. That's putting faith in the

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Speaker 1: fear that allows it to become a reality. Second Timoth,

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Speaker 1: That was good, wasn't it? Two Timothy One? Point seven

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Speaker 1: says God has not given us a spirit of fear,

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Speaker 1: but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.

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Speaker 1: The amplified says a disciplined mind. In other words, we're

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Speaker 1: not going to overcome fear and live a powerful, victorious

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Speaker 1: life if we're not disciplined in our thought life.

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Speaker 2: That's where the main battle is taking place. Your mind

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Speaker 2: is the bull's eye of the enemy's target.

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Speaker 1: If he can control your thoughts, he can control your

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Speaker 1: whole life. If you don't guard your mind, it will

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Speaker 1: default back to these thoughts of fear, worry, anxiety, negativity.

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Speaker 1: Last week, a mother asked me to pray.

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Speaker 1: She said, Joel, I'm so worried. I'm afraid he's going

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Speaker 1: to get into trouble. I'm afraid he's going to start

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Speaker 2: This is the way fear is.

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Speaker 1: Fear presents itself much bigger than it really is. It

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Speaker 1: will tell you all the worst case scenarios to try

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Speaker 1: and say, Fear, I know your tricks. You're all bark

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Speaker 1: I know the truth. There's nothing really to you. That's

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Speaker 1: how you activate faith and not fear. When you do this,

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Speaker 1: the greatest force in the universe goes to work. Those

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Speaker 1: problems may be big, but our God.

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Speaker 2: Is much bigger. Your obstacles may be high, but we

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Speaker 2: serve the Most High God. When thoughts of fear, worried, doubt,

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Speaker 2: negativity come, you got to.

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Speaker 1: Rise up, say like David, I will not fear. I

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Speaker 1: will not worry, I will not be uptight.

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Speaker 2: I will not.

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Speaker 1: Dwell on the negative. Look that fear in the eyes.

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Speaker 1: So to speak and say, you don't intimidate me. I

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Speaker 1: know who I am, and I know whose I am.

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Speaker 2: Remember, fear is like a fog.

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Speaker 1: It'll always look much bigger than it really is. You

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Speaker 1: have a pain in your side, fear will tell you

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Speaker 1: that's permanent, that's terminal. You guys, well start planning your funeral. No,

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Speaker 1: the truth is you just ate too much pizza the

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Speaker 1: night before. It's no big deal. But fear will exaggerate it.

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Speaker 1: Tell you what if your company starts laying people off?

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Speaker 2: You better worry? What if that pain is serious?

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Speaker 1: No, you need to look at fear and say get lost,

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Speaker 1: hit the road.

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Speaker 2: I don't have time for you, friends.

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Speaker 1: Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your

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Speaker 1: time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you. You are

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Speaker 1: a child of the Most High God.

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Speaker 2: Dare to say like David, I will not fear. Think

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Speaker 2: of this.

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Speaker 1: If the things we fear can come upon us, as

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Speaker 1: the scripture says, how much more can the things we

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Speaker 1: have faith for come upon us. God's power is so

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Speaker 1: much greater than the enemy's power. When fear knocks, let

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Speaker 1: faith answer the door. Don't come into agreement with fear.

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Speaker 1: Stay disciplined in your thought life. This is the reason

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Speaker 1: many people are down, discouraged negative. They're not guarding their mind.

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Speaker 1: That's where the real battle is taking place. If you'll

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Speaker 1: learn to activate faith and not fear, then I believe

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Speaker 1: and declare, just like that young couple that had a baby,

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Speaker 1: God is going.

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Speaker 2: To bring your dreams to pass. He's going to pour

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Speaker 2: out floods of his favor.

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Speaker 1: You will overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become

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Speaker 1: everything God's created you to be. In Jesus Now, if

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Speaker 1: you receive it, can you say him in today. We

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Speaker 1: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart.

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Speaker 1: I make you my lord and savior. Friends, If you

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Speaker 1: prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again.

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Speaker 1: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes life can make you feel like you were just

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Speaker 3: living in the dark. Even your prayers don't feel like

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Speaker 3: they are making it to heaven. But God is listening

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Speaker 3: and his light is about to shine.

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Speaker 1: We know God is all powerful that he can answer

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Speaker 1: any prayer, but sometimes we don't know what to pray.

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Speaker 2: We don't think we deserve God's goodness.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we're inconveniencing him, or he has more important things

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Speaker 1: to deal with. But God is earned about every detail

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Speaker 1: As you make these prayers your own, pray with confidence,

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Speaker 2: The universe, go to work. I hope you'll bequest your

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