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

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message.

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Speaker 2: So good. How you in church today you may be

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Speaker 2: seated praise God. You know, I find it so interesting

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Speaker 2: to hear people give the secret to their success. You know,

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Speaker 2: people will say there's that one thing that I did,

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Speaker 2: or you pick up a magazine and you see what

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Speaker 2: is the secrets to their success, and they'll list them,

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Speaker 2: But you always want to know what's that first thing,

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Speaker 2: what's that one thing. I always like to just kind

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Speaker 2: of learn from people. I like to know what they're doing.

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Speaker 2: The Bible says iron sharpens iron as one man sharpens another.

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Speaker 2: The Apostle Paul, who wrote three quarters of the New Testament,

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Speaker 2: shared his secret. He said, there's one thing that I do.

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Speaker 2: You can find it in Philippians three twelve. He says,

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Speaker 2: the one thing I do is forgetting the things that

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Speaker 2: are behind and pressing towards what is in front of me. See,

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Speaker 2: the apostle Paul knew when he was looking back he

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Speaker 2: couldn't press forward. He said, I let the things go

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Speaker 2: that are behind me. I don't look back. What he

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Speaker 2: was saying was, I don't go back to my old mistakes.

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Speaker 2: I don't relive my failures. He said. The most important thing,

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Speaker 2: the thing that has helped me the very most, is

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Speaker 2: to not look back. Don't look back would be his

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Speaker 2: number one statement. Juel and I used to play racketball

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Speaker 2: all the time. We love that game so much. It's

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Speaker 2: a fast game, and many of you know the game

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Speaker 2: of racketball. The court it's like a room with four

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Speaker 2: walls around it in a ceiling. It's a great game,

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Speaker 2: fast game. You play it with a shorter racket and

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Speaker 2: a really bouncy ball. But there's one safety ring to

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Speaker 2: this game that you must adhere to, and that is

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Speaker 2: don't look back at the ball. You cannot look back

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Speaker 2: at the ball because that ball comes with such furious

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Speaker 2: speed from the back wall that it can literally smack

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Speaker 2: you in the face and cause you injury. A player

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Speaker 2: was playing racketball and they looked back and that ball

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Speaker 2: smacked them right in the eye and they lost their eyesight.

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Speaker 2: I was like freaked out, Like every time I got

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Speaker 2: in the court, I was like, give me some goggles.

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Speaker 2: I remember thinking, Victoria, look forward, don't look back. Play

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Speaker 2: the ball that's in front of you. If it goes

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Speaker 2: behind you, don't worry. You'll always get another chance to

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Speaker 2: hit the ball. See, racketball is a forward facing game.

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Speaker 2: No matter where you are on the court, you just

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Speaker 2: keep looking forward. You just keep playing the ball at hand.

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Speaker 2: You See, life is a little bit like a racketball game.

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Speaker 2: You can't look back at your past failure, your past mistakes.

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Speaker 2: You can't live and I wish I was. I wish

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Speaker 2: it could have been, because those past mistakes will hit

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Speaker 2: you in the face, just like that racketball can cause

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Speaker 2: you injury and damage when you look back and live

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Speaker 2: in the past. Those past mistakes can cause damage. They

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Speaker 2: can ruin your relationships, They lower your self esteem, They

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Speaker 2: knock the confidence right out of you. They will smack

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Speaker 2: on your job. That past will not help you move

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Speaker 2: forward in the future. See, I don't want my past

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Speaker 2: smacking me in the face. See that sounds funny, but

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Speaker 2: that's the truth. You cannot move forward if you're looking backwards.

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Speaker 2: You cannot do anything about your past. No one can,

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Speaker 2: but we can do something about it our future. We

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Speaker 2: can play the ball that's in front of us, but

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Speaker 2: the ball that's in back of us is not going

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Speaker 2: to help us any So I want to encourage you

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Speaker 2: with what the apostle Paul said, don't look back. It's

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Speaker 2: very simple. We cannot look back because it's going to

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Speaker 2: gain us nothing. The Bible says that God will turn

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Speaker 2: your ashes into beauty. He says that he will make

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Speaker 2: up what the enemy meant for evil, and he'll turn

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Speaker 2: it around and use it to your advantage. God has

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Speaker 2: a plan for your past, but he can't work in

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Speaker 2: your past. Because God works in the now, He works

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Speaker 2: right now. So I encourage each and every one of

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Speaker 2: us to train ourself in this game of life. Don't

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Speaker 2: be taken out by your past. Don't be taken out

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Speaker 2: by the things that are behind you. Don't allow them

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Speaker 2: to cause you injury and defeat. Don't look back at

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Speaker 2: because that really doesn't matter. There's a ball in front

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Speaker 2: of you right now, and if you'll hit it, and

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Speaker 2: you'll swing at it, you're gonna make it. You're gonna

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Speaker 2: make it. I was talking to a man the other

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Speaker 2: day and he was telling me his story. That was

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Speaker 2: a pretty sad story. It was his story, though. He

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Speaker 2: told me how he had a horrible upbringing. He saw

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Speaker 2: his own brother be murdered, his girlfriend at the prime

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Speaker 2: man that had faced so many things. I was bitter,

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Speaker 2: he said, I had suicidal tendencies. He said. I was

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Speaker 2: in a bad place because I couldn't leave what had

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Speaker 2: happened to me. I couldn't get past the past. I

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Speaker 2: could not move forward, he said. But somehow, one day

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Speaker 2: I woke up and I began to cry out to

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Speaker 2: Almighty God. I begin to say, God, help me move

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Speaker 2: to begin running. He began to run. So he would

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Speaker 2: get up, put on his tennis shoes, put on his

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Speaker 2: jogging clothes, and he would go out and he'd begin

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Speaker 2: to run. And he said, when I would run, I

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Speaker 2: running towards my future. He said it was every day.

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Speaker 2: With every run, he said, I saw God in front

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Speaker 2: of me. Helping me. Now, that was his story, that

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Speaker 2: was his way. That's how he practiced closing the door

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Speaker 2: to his past, he said, as I would reach him

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Speaker 2: press he said, I was able to accomplish things in

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Speaker 2: my life that I never thought possible. Then he began

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Speaker 2: to tell me. I went back to school, he said,

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Speaker 2: I finished college. I went on to medical school. He says,

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Speaker 2: Now I practiced medicine and through it all, I have

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Speaker 2: thirty five employees at my clinic.

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Speaker 1: So he was.

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Speaker 2: Able to press past his upbringing the challenges that he faced.

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Speaker 2: But he called out to God, and you too can

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Speaker 2: press past anything that's trying to hold you captive. Anger, bitterness, unforgiveness.

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Speaker 2: If there's anything that keeps causing you trouble, I want

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Speaker 2: to tell you today, figure out how you too can

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Speaker 2: get past it, because your dreams can come true. You

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Speaker 2: can't accomplish everything God's called you to accomplish, but you've

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Speaker 2: got to call out to God and say, God, train me,

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Speaker 2: help me move past it. You know, maybe you just

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Speaker 2: need to quit talking about it. Maybe you need to

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Speaker 2: get away from a few people that keep bringing it up.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there is something that God can lead you to

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Speaker 2: do that have caused you to break through and shut

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Speaker 2: the door to that past. See today. I think that's

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Speaker 2: an incredible number one secret to any success and to

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Speaker 2: maintaining success. And that is what Apostle Paul told us

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Speaker 2: in Philippians to don't look back, but press forward, and

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Speaker 2: you too can gain the victory. Amen. Man, He's an

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