Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to
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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in today. I'd like to start
Speaker 1: with something funny each week, and I heard about this
Speaker 1: minister that was out bear hunting. He searched and searched
Speaker 1: all through the woods, but didn't see any sign of
Speaker 1: a bear. Finally, in frustration, he threw his gun down
Speaker 1: and went down to the stream to cool off. About
Speaker 1: that time, he saw this huge, grizzly bear racing toward him.
Speaker 1: He fell on his knees and said, God, please protect me.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you God to convert this bear in to
Speaker 1: a Christian. Miraculously, the bear frozen its tracks, put up
Speaker 1: both paus toward the heavens and said, thank you Lord
Speaker 1: for this food I'm about to eat.
Speaker 2: All right, hold up your bibles. Let's say it like
Speaker 2: you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what
Speaker 2: it says I am. I have what it says I have.
Speaker 2: I can do what it says I can do. Today
Speaker 2: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly
Speaker 2: confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about
Speaker 1: the importance of getting rid of negative mindsets. Every one
Speaker 1: of us has what I call our anchor thoughts. These
Speaker 1: are the core thoughts that we believe about ourselves. Has
Speaker 1: to do with our self image, how we approach life.
Speaker 1: These thoughts come with us out even really having to
Speaker 1: think about them. We believe them so long it's just
Speaker 1: like we're on autopilot. But the problem with some people
Speaker 1: is their anchor thoughts are negative. When they're on cruise control,
Speaker 1: so to speak. They go around thinking, I'm unattractive, I'm undisciplined,
Speaker 1: I'll never get out of these problems. You can't trust anybody.
Speaker 1: They don't realize it's their own thinking that's keeping them
Speaker 1: in mediocrity. You cannot have negative anchor thoughts and expect
Speaker 1: to live a positive life all through the day. The
Speaker 1: thoughts that should be coming up in us or I
Speaker 1: am blessed, I am victorious, I am valuable, I am talented.
Speaker 1: People like me I have the favor of God. If
Speaker 1: we're going to live in victory, our anchor thoughts have
Speaker 1: to be positive. Now, I want you to pay more
Speaker 1: attention to what comes up in you naturally. What do
Speaker 1: you expect each day? Do you go out with enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: excited about the day, or do you just drag around thinking, Ah, nothing, day,
Speaker 1: I've got to go to work. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about yourself? Down deep? Are you pleased with who you are?
Speaker 1: Do you know that you're valuable? Are you proud of
Speaker 1: your accomplishments? Or is that thought constantly playing You've blown
Speaker 1: it too many times, You're not where you should be,
Speaker 1: you haven't used your potential. No, those are the wrong
Speaker 1: anchor thoughts, and if we don't get rid of them,
Speaker 1: they will set the limits for our life. The good
Speaker 1: news is we can develop new anchor thoughts. The way
Speaker 1: we do it is when the negative thought comes back
Speaker 1: telling us that we've blown it too many times. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a lousy day. You don't have anything
Speaker 1: to look forward to. Instead of dwelling on that and
Speaker 1: letting it take root, you got to turn it around,
Speaker 1: get on the offensive, and start declaring, this is going
Speaker 1: to be a great day. I have a bright future,
Speaker 1: I am forgiven, I am valuable. God is pleased with me.
Speaker 1: Speak word words of faith over your life. That's one
Speaker 1: of the best ways to get rid of a negative
Speaker 1: anchor thought and form a new one, even if you
Speaker 1: do it under your breath. When that negative thought comes,
Speaker 1: you can interrupt it by speaking out just the opposite.
Speaker 1: But so many people today are stuck in a rut.
Speaker 1: They don't realize it's not normal to go around feeling
Speaker 1: wrong about themselves, not expecting anything good. But they've done
Speaker 1: it so long that's what comes up naturally. The only
Speaker 1: way we will change is by changing our thinking. We
Speaker 1: have to reprogram ourselves with the right information. See, our
Speaker 1: mind is just like a computer. You can go out
Speaker 1: and buy the most expensive powerful computer you can find.
Speaker 1: It can have the most memory, it can be the fastest,
Speaker 1: have all the latest gadgets, but if you program that
Speaker 1: computer with the wrong software, it's not going to function properly.
Speaker 1: We've all heard about these computer virus says they can
Speaker 1: get into a perfectly good computer and start to contaminate
Speaker 1: the software. Before long, your computer's slow, you can't access
Speaker 1: your files. All these problems occur not because it's not
Speaker 1: a good computer, not because it's defective or it was
Speaker 1: made improperly. No, it all happens because somebody reprogrammed the software.
Speaker 1: Somebody messed with the insides and filled it with a
Speaker 1: bunch of junk. Well, in the same way, you and
Speaker 1: I were made in the image of Almighty God. He's
Speaker 1: our manufacturer. When God created us, he made us to
Speaker 1: be victorious. From the very beginning. You have been programmed
Speaker 1: for success, for joy, for peace, for victory. But the
Speaker 1: problem sometimes is we've allowed the enemy to get in
Speaker 1: and reprogram our software. We've made the mistake of believing
Speaker 1: his lies. Like I'll never be successful, Joe, I don't
Speaker 1: have the education, I'll never be had. Y'all got so
Speaker 1: many problems, Or I don't feel good about myself because
Speaker 1: I've had so many unfair things happen all this junk
Speaker 1: is contaminating our software. Now we're not expecting good things.
Speaker 1: We have low self esteem, we feel inferior. But understand
Speaker 1: there is nothing wrong with you. Just like that computer,
Speaker 1: you are not defective. You are not a mistake. When
Speaker 1: God made you, he said you were good. The problem
Speaker 1: is not the hardware, it's the software. You have to
Speaker 1: change your thinking. You have to know deep down in
Speaker 1: here you have worth, you have value, and no matter
Speaker 1: what's come against you, you are a victor and not
Speaker 1: a victim. Now I know people that have I know
Speaker 1: people that have been through rejection and unfair things, and
Speaker 1: they allow that negative recording to play over and over.
Speaker 1: You're not good enough, you don't have what it takes.
Speaker 1: It's your fault. They go around with low self worth,
Speaker 1: low self esteem. Now, you may have been through unfair things,
Speaker 1: people may have rejected you, but don't allow anyone or
Speaker 1: anything to keep you from knowing who you really are.
Speaker 1: You are a child of the most High God. God
Speaker 1: has breathed his very life into you. You have his
Speaker 1: royal blood flowing through your veins. People may have tried
Speaker 1: to push you down. You may have been in an
Speaker 1: abusive relationship where somebody was always telling you what you
Speaker 1: couldn't do and what you weren't going to become. But
Speaker 1: understand that didn't change who you are. You are still
Speaker 1: the apple of God's eye. You are still his most
Speaker 1: prized possession. It doesn't matter how unfair it was. God
Speaker 1: still has a great plan for your life. He still
Speaker 1: has you in the palm of his hand, and He's
Speaker 1: promised if we will stay in faith, if we'll get
Speaker 1: rid of the negative anchor thoughts, he will take what
Speaker 1: was meant for our harm and he will use it
Speaker 1: to our advantage. I talked to a young man a
Speaker 1: while back. He was so insecure, felt so inferior, and
Speaker 1: it stemmed from the fact when he was born his
Speaker 1: parents really wanted a little girl. He was the youngest
Speaker 1: of five brothers, and of course his parents loved him,
Speaker 1: but deep down he felt like he was a mistake.
Speaker 1: His parents weren't planning on having any more children. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he showed up. He said, Joel, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I'm supposed to be here. I
Speaker 1: was an accident to begin with, and my parents wanted
Speaker 1: a little girl. On and on, all these thoughts were
Speaker 1: playing in his mind. You're a mistake. You're not valuable,
Speaker 1: you don't have anything to offer. No, please don't believe
Speaker 1: those lies. The scripture says in Jeremiah, God saw you
Speaker 1: before you were ever formed in your mother's womb. He
Speaker 1: knew you and planned out your life before you ever
Speaker 1: showed up on planet Earth. You are not a mistake.
Speaker 1: You're not an accident. You are a person of divine destiny.
Speaker 1: You have an assign There is something you can accomplish
Speaker 1: that nobody else can. That's why your fingerprints are not
Speaker 1: like anyone else's. You are an original and people may
Speaker 1: have rejected you, but know this, God has already accepted
Speaker 1: and approved you. And just because something unfair happened, that
Speaker 1: didn't change God's plan. You're still wearing your crown of favor.
Speaker 1: You still got on your robe of righteousness. And I
Speaker 1: love what David said. Even if my mother and my
Speaker 1: father forsake me, God will adopt me as his very
Speaker 1: own child. What am I saying today? Don't let what's
Speaker 1: happened in your past contaminate your software. When those lies
Speaker 1: come telling you you're not valuable. God doesn't care about you.
Speaker 1: Why would he allow that to happen? No, just turn
Speaker 1: it around. God. I know you are good. You promised
Speaker 1: in Isaiah you would pay me back double for every
Speaker 1: unfair thing that's happened. So God, I want to thank
Speaker 1: you that I'm coming out with twice the joy, twice
Speaker 1: the peace, twice the victory. God, I believe my future
Speaker 1: is so bright I need sunglasses to look at it.
Speaker 1: Let's reprogram our computers. Let's get rid of all the viruses.
Speaker 1: I heard a story about a lady that constantly struggled
Speaker 1: with her self worth. She didn't feel like she was
Speaker 1: good enough, like she ever fit in, and she went
Speaker 1: around with no sense of purpose, wondering why she was here.
Speaker 1: Come to find out, these insecurities came from the fact
Speaker 1: of being born out of wedlock. Her mother and father
Speaker 1: were not married, and one day she saw on her
Speaker 1: birth certificate that little box that was checked not legitimate.
Speaker 1: Those words became ingrained in her thinking as a child
Speaker 1: and a teenager. Even when she got married. She told
Speaker 1: how she felt so insecure. Every time she tried to
Speaker 1: move forward, those words would ring out in her mind.
Speaker 1: You're a mistake, you weren't wanted, you're not legit, you're
Speaker 1: not valuable. She didn't know any better. She believed it.
Speaker 1: Year after year. It was keeping her in bondage, affecting
Speaker 1: her personality, affecting her marriage. One day she heard me
Speaker 1: talking about what I'm telling you today, that you don't
Speaker 1: have to believe those lies. Your worth and value doesn't
Speaker 1: come from people. It comes from Almighty God. And she
Speaker 1: said on the inside, it was like something exploded. The
Speaker 1: scripture says, when you know the truth, it will make
Speaker 1: you free. That day she recognized that one thought was
Speaker 1: holding her captive. She decided to do something about it.
Speaker 1: When that lie came back, telling her that she had
Speaker 1: no value, she was a mistake, had no future. Instead
Speaker 1: of dwelling on it and letting it depress her, she
Speaker 1: started talking back to the enemy. She said, no, I
Speaker 1: am not a mistake. I am not an accident. God
Speaker 1: chose me before the foundation of the world. I am valuable,
Speaker 1: I am accepted, I am approved. I know I have
Speaker 1: bright future. She started speaking these words of faith over
Speaker 1: her life. She told how she never left the house
Speaker 1: in the morning without saying, no weapon formed against me
Speaker 1: will prosper. I have royal blood flowing through my veins,
Speaker 1: and no matter what my birth certificate says, I know
Speaker 1: I am legitimate. I am a child of the Most
Speaker 1: High God. You know what happened. A new self image
Speaker 1: began to form. She began to see herself as God
Speaker 1: saw her, accepted, approved, valuable, more than a conquer. It
Speaker 1: didn't happen overnight, but little by little she got more
Speaker 1: and more confident. Today she's totally free. But the fact
Speaker 1: is she could still be back where she was, low
Speaker 1: self esteem, low self worth if she had not made
Speaker 1: this decision to rise up and shake off the negative,
Speaker 1: destructive thoughts. You can do the same thing. Some of
Speaker 1: you have been through unfair situations and now you're just
Speaker 1: sitting back in mediocrity. You don't really feel good about yourself.
Speaker 1: But listen, today is a new day. Why don't you
Speaker 1: do what she did. Draw that line in the sand,
Speaker 1: shake off the destructive thoughts, and start declaring every day
Speaker 1: I am the apple of God's eye. I have a
Speaker 1: future and a destiny. I know good things are in store.
Speaker 1: You got to get your anchor thoughts up if you
Speaker 1: want to come up higher. I read where these researchers
Speaker 1: tested children ages two to four. They found that ninety
Speaker 1: five percent of them were highly creative and capable of
Speaker 1: abstract thought and imagination, and they were amazed at the
Speaker 1: high percentage of bright, intelligent, innovative children. But what's interesting
Speaker 1: is they tested those same children at seven years of
Speaker 1: age and they found that only five percent were still
Speaker 1: highly creative. Their conclusion was simple. The children had been
Speaker 1: beaten down by life. They had been told what they
Speaker 1: couldn't do and what they weren't going to become, and
Speaker 1: now they had developed these negative anchor thoughts. The fact
Speaker 1: is the same thing can happen to every one of
Speaker 1: us if we don't stay on the offensive. Life has
Speaker 1: a way of trying to push us down through rejection, disappointments, setbacks,
Speaker 1: and if we're not careful, we look up and we're
Speaker 1: not expecting good things. We don't feel good about who
Speaker 1: we are. We've given up on our dreams. Now we've
Speaker 1: got to learn to get back to our original setting.
Speaker 1: I know one time with my computer, I got it
Speaker 1: so far out of whack. I tweaked it here and
Speaker 1: tweaked it there, and I got into areas that I
Speaker 1: knew nothing about and made some adjustments, and after about
Speaker 1: six months I had to have somebody come over and
Speaker 1: put my computer back to the original factory settings. After all,
Speaker 1: nobody knows more than the manufacturer about how that computer
Speaker 1: is supposed function. Well, that's what I want to help
Speaker 1: you do today. Get you back to your original factory settings.
Speaker 1: They're found right here in God's word, our creator, our manufacturer,
Speaker 1: says this about you. You are blessed, you are anointed,
Speaker 1: you are equipped, you are valuable, you are talented, you
Speaker 1: are creative. You have the favor of God. Whatever you
Speaker 1: touch will prosper and succeed. You are strong in the Lord.
Speaker 1: You are well able to do what God has called
Speaker 1: you to do. That's getting you back to your original
Speaker 1: factory settings. Well, you say, Joe, I don't feel like that.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of problems. I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of unfair things happen to me. No, this is what
Speaker 1: faith is all about. You may not feel it, but
Speaker 1: you need to start believing it. Start talking like it,
Speaker 1: start walking like it, start thinking like it. Then God
Speaker 1: can bring that to pass. Too often, like these children,
Speaker 1: we've allowed the pressures of life to push us down.
Speaker 1: We go through a disappointment. We think it's never gonna
Speaker 1: get any better. I've reached my limits. Or maybe somebody
Speaker 1: mistreats us somebody lies about us. We go around down
Speaker 1: thinking life's just not fair. All these things, little by
Speaker 1: little are trying to contaminate our software. We look up
Speaker 1: and we're not expecting good things. We lose our sense
Speaker 1: of worth and value. The good news today is you
Speaker 1: getting a tuna. We're getting you back to your original settings.
Speaker 1: But you've got to do your part and quit dwelling
Speaker 1: on the negative lies and start dwelling on what God
Speaker 1: says about you. It says in Psalms all day long
Speaker 1: we should meditate on God's word. That means we should
Speaker 1: go around thinking, I am blessed, I am valuable, I
Speaker 1: am victorious. God always causes me to try out, what
Speaker 1: are we doing reprogramming our computer? When that lie comes
Speaker 1: telling you you're not gonna be blessed, don't listen to him.
Speaker 1: You don't, You've made so many mistakes. No, talk back
Speaker 1: to the enemy. I am forgiven, I am redeemed, I'm
Speaker 1: the righteousness of God. He has made me worthy. You
Speaker 1: got to replace the negative thoughts with thoughts of hope,
Speaker 1: thoughts of faith, thoughts of victory. When we get up
Speaker 1: in the morning, the first thing we should do is
Speaker 1: set our minds in the right direction. Just like you
Speaker 1: reboot your computer every once in a while to get
Speaker 1: rid of all the jump, we should get up and declare,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a great day. I am strong,
Speaker 1: i am anointed. I'm ready for anything that comes my way.
Speaker 1: That's what the scripture says in Colossians three, verse two.
Speaker 1: Set your mind and keep it set on the higher things.
Speaker 1: I found. If you don't set your mind the first
Speaker 1: part of the day, the enemy will set it for you.
Speaker 1: That's why we have so many viruses and so many
Speaker 1: negative anchor thoughts. I mean, how many times have we
Speaker 1: waken up and the thought comes to us it's going
Speaker 1: to be a lousy day. You got so many problems.
Speaker 1: You lost your temper last week. Your boss doesn't even
Speaker 1: like you. If you don't stay on the offensive and
Speaker 1: set your mind in the right direction, you'll go out
Speaker 1: and have a lousy day. Many people don't realize you
Speaker 1: don't have to dwell on every thought that comes to
Speaker 1: your mind. You can choose what you're going to think about.
Speaker 1: If the thought is negative and discouraging, you should immediately
Speaker 1: get rid of it and then replace it with a positive,
Speaker 1: faith filled fault. If you're not disciplined in your thought life,
Speaker 1: you will never live a life of victory. And that's
Speaker 1: why the scripture says we have to guard our minds.
Speaker 1: We have to know how to cast down these strongholds,
Speaker 1: because what happens is when we dwell on a negative
Speaker 1: thought long enough, it gets a hold of us and
Speaker 1: it'll keep us from God's best. I know people that
Speaker 1: have had a parent or another authority figure in their
Speaker 1: life speak negative things over them. They didn't know any better,
Speaker 1: they believed it, they went around dwelling on it, and
Speaker 1: today it's setting the limits for their life. Just the
Speaker 1: other day, a man came up to me and he
Speaker 1: told how his father was very negative toward him. The
Speaker 1: father never encouraged him, never said anything good about him,
Speaker 1: but he's always putting him down, telling him what he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to become. And those words are like seeds.
Speaker 1: When we speak them out, they take root, and whether
Speaker 1: or not they come to pass depends on if we
Speaker 1: water them by continually thinking about them and constantly dwelling
Speaker 1: on it. But just because somebody has spoken something negative
Speaker 1: over you doesn't mean it's going to come to fulfillment.
Speaker 1: It depends on what you do with it. You have
Speaker 1: the final say. Nobody can keep you from your destiny
Speaker 1: except you. And if someone has spoken negative words over
Speaker 1: your life, a parent, a coach, a spouse, a teacher,
Speaker 1: don't allow it to take root by constantly dwelling on it.
Speaker 1: This gentleman let his father's words keep him in mediocrity
Speaker 1: for years. They became a stronghold in his mind. He
Speaker 1: told how even on his father's deathbed, the father looked
Speaker 1: at him and said, you're never gonna amount to anything.
Speaker 1: Look at your brother. He didn't, and you want either.
Speaker 1: Those words cut like a knife. For years, he was angry, bitter, insecure,
Speaker 1: afraid to step out and take a new position. He
Speaker 1: had all these bondages because of those negative words. And
Speaker 1: we know how a father's words or parents' words carry
Speaker 1: incredible weight in a child's life. But the good news
Speaker 1: is God's word supersedes man's word. Now, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, he heard me speaking the blessing over people's lives,
Speaker 1: kind of like I'm doing today, telling you that you're equipped,
Speaker 1: you're annoyinged, you're well able, And he said some and
Speaker 1: broke loose on the inside. All of a sudden, he
Speaker 1: realized he didn't have to be bound by those words.
Speaker 1: He did what we're talking about. He said today, Joel,
Speaker 1: I am free. I'm not angry, I'm not bitter, I'm blessed,
Speaker 1: I'm happy, and I'm rising to new heights. What did
Speaker 1: he do? He reprogrammed his computer. He got rid of
Speaker 1: the viruses. Friends, don't let other people keep you from
Speaker 1: fulfilling your destiny. It's not up to them, it's up
Speaker 1: to you. It's great when we have other people encourage
Speaker 1: us and cheer us on. I was blessed to be
Speaker 1: raised by parents that loved me and spoke good things
Speaker 1: over my life. But if you didn't get that, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to keep you from becoming all God's created
Speaker 1: you to be. Your earthly father may not have spoken
Speaker 1: positive things over you. You may not have received the love,
Speaker 1: the affection, the affirmation you needed. But let me tell
Speaker 1: you what your heavenly father says. He says he's proud
Speaker 1: of you. He says you can do all things through Christ.
Speaker 1: He says your best days are not behind you, but
Speaker 1: they're still out in front of you. Why don't you
Speaker 1: get in agreement with God and start declaring every day
Speaker 1: I am blessed I am valuable. I do have a
Speaker 1: bright future. We've got to get back to our original
Speaker 1: factory settings. I'm asking you to not let other people,
Speaker 1: don't let time, don't let unfair circumstances cause you to
Speaker 1: forget who you really are. Now, I know this gentleman
Speaker 1: was in his fifties, and he felt like he had
Speaker 1: wasted all these years. Now he was on the right track,
Speaker 1: but he had these other dreams that he thought he
Speaker 1: was too old to pursue. Now, I told him about
Speaker 1: an article I had read. These researchers dug up a
Speaker 1: bag of seeds that they found enclosed in an air
Speaker 1: tight capsule. These seeds were over twenty five hundred years old.
Speaker 1: They were amazed at how well preserved the seeds were,
Speaker 1: and in their curiosity, they decided to plant one to
Speaker 1: see if it could still be alive. Much to their amazement,
Speaker 1: that little seed, over twenty five hundred years old, in
Speaker 1: a few days, took root and over time blossomed into
Speaker 1: a full, beautiful plant. That tells me the dreams God
Speaker 1: has put in your heart, the seeds of hope, the
Speaker 1: seeds of victory. They may have laid dormant here after year,
Speaker 1: but you got to know the seed is still alive.
Speaker 1: It's just waiting for someone to believe, for someone to
Speaker 1: put the right actions behind it. Some of you think
Speaker 1: you've blown it too many times. Life hasn't treated you fair.
Speaker 1: You think you got to sit back and settle for mediocrity.
Speaker 1: God is saying it's never too late. The seed may
Speaker 1: have been pushed down by people that didn't believe in you.
Speaker 1: It may have been delayed by unfair circumstances. Maybe it
Speaker 1: didn't take root because of your own poor choices. But
Speaker 1: the good news is, just like that little seed came
Speaker 1: to fruition after twenty five hundred years, God still has
Speaker 1: a way to bring your dreams to pass. Now. I'm
Speaker 1: asking you to get your hopes up, quit listening to
Speaker 1: the negative voices. If you'll get your thoughts going in
Speaker 1: the right direction, you can still become everything God's created
Speaker 1: you to be. I heard the story about a young
Speaker 1: African American boy. He grew up extremely poor in the
Speaker 1: projects in the natural. He had no chance, no education,
Speaker 1: no money, no future. He was being raised by a
Speaker 1: single parent mom as a young child. His father was
Speaker 1: never there and the mom had to work two or
Speaker 1: three jobs to try to make ends meet, so nobody
Speaker 1: was in the home to give him guidance and direction.
Speaker 1: He got off into some wrong areas, breaking into cars, stealing,
Speaker 1: running with the wrong crowd. One time, as a young man,
Speaker 1: early in the morning, he was sneaking out of his
Speaker 1: room so he wouldn't have to go to school, and
Speaker 1: one of his cousins that lived there with him said, oh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, skip school. I won't tell anybody. After all,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna make anything out of your life. Nobody
Speaker 1: in this family has. He told how that hit him
Speaker 1: the wrong way, that made him mad. He thought to himself,
Speaker 1: I'm going to prove him wrong. That day, something new
Speaker 1: was birthed on the inside. Instead of getting bitter and
Speaker 1: letting those negative words take root, he saw it as
Speaker 1: a challenge. As a young man, he joined the job Corps.
Speaker 1: One thing they offered was boxing. He went to the
Speaker 1: gym and told the head coach that he wanted to box.
Speaker 1: The coach asked him if he had any experience. He
Speaker 1: said no, I've never boxed before, and the coach was
Speaker 1: very rude to him. He said, well, don't waste my time, kid,
Speaker 1: I've got all these experienced boxers to train. Leaving the
Speaker 1: gym that day, feeling dejected and discouraged. An assistant coach
Speaker 1: pulled him over to the side and he said, hey,
Speaker 1: you come back tomorrow and I'll be your trainer. He
Speaker 1: gave him a brand new pair of boxing shoes, the
Speaker 1: first gift he had ever received. Long story short. One
Speaker 1: year later, George Foreman won the Olympic gold medal. He
Speaker 1: went on to become the heavyweight champion of the world,
Speaker 1: and today, among other things, George Foreman is the pastor
Speaker 1: of a church. He gives all the credit to the Lord.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny When that cousin that told him
Speaker 1: he would never amount to anything saw him when the
Speaker 1: gold medal. He came up to him and said, I
Speaker 1: always knew you could do it. What am I saying today?
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