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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. Reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Now, God bless you. It's a joy to come into

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Speaker 1: your homes. We love you.

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

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Speaker 2: But thanks so much for tuning in and thank you

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Speaker 2: again for coming out today. And I like to start

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Speaker 2: with something funny and I heard about this wealthy man.

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Speaker 2: He was known for being eccentric. He's having a big

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Speaker 2: party at his house and in his backyard he had

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Speaker 2: a huge pool filled with alligators and sharks. He said

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Speaker 2: to the guests, anyone that'll swim across my pool, I'll

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Speaker 2: give you anything you want. In a few minutes, there

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Speaker 2: was a big splash and a man was in there

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Speaker 2: going ninety to nothing, dodging alligators, maneuvering around the sharks.

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Speaker 1: He made it to the other side just.

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Speaker 2: In the nick of time and got out as frantic

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Speaker 2: as the wealthy man said, I can't believe it. You're

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Speaker 2: the bravest person I've ever met. Now, what is it

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Speaker 2: that you would want? The man said, what I want

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Speaker 2: more than anything else is the name of the person

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Speaker 2: that pushed me in. Hold up your bibles and say

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Speaker 2: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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

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

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Speaker 2: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 2: being selective with what you feed yourself.

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Speaker 1: Our ears and our eyes are the gates to our soul.

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Speaker 1: What we watch, what we listen.

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Speaker 2: To, who we associate with that's constantly feeding us. You've

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Speaker 2: heard the saying you are what you eat. If you

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Speaker 2: to be very healthy, why you're feeding yourself the wrong

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Speaker 2: things In the same way, if you're watching things that

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Speaker 2: are unwholesome, listening to things that are dragging you down,

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Speaker 2: hanging around people that gossip. Then, because you're feeding your

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Speaker 2: inner man junk food, you're not going to be as

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Speaker 2: strong and become all that God's created you to be.

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Speaker 2: You have to be extremely careful as to what you

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Speaker 2: take in. Today, more than ever, we have opportunity to

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Speaker 2: feed on wrong things. There are over five hundred channels

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Speaker 2: on television, We have the Internet, smartphones, magazines, billboards. Every

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Speaker 2: place we turn there's information trying to influence us. It's

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Speaker 2: not all bad, there's nothing wrong with being entertained, but

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Speaker 2: you have to stay on guard. With the good, wholesome

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Speaker 2: airing out their dirty laundry, showing you all the conflict,

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Speaker 2: the backstaffing, the jealousy, the dysfunction. With so many outlets,

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Speaker 2: the shock value keeps getting turned up higher and higher.

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Speaker 2: What we thought was far out and bizarre twenty years

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Speaker 1: It's just totally normal that shock value.

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Speaker 2: Yes it can get your attention, Yes it can be

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Speaker 2: entertaining in a sense, but it's also filling your mind

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Speaker 2: trash in, you're going to get trash out. If you're

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Speaker 2: watching programs where people are constantly compromising, being unfaithful in relationships,

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Speaker 2: into your subconscious mind. Little by little is becoming more

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Speaker 1: Really no big deal.

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Speaker 2: A few years ago, a young man walked into his

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Speaker 2: One of the biggest doors we open is through our

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Speaker 2: eyes watching things that are unwholesome. Proverbs fifteen says, only

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Speaker 2: what you eat. Take inventory of what you're feeding yourself.

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Speaker 2: What are you watching, what are you listening to? What

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Speaker 2: kind of values is that portraying? Is it building you up?

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Speaker 2: make the necessary changes, don't feed on trash.

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Speaker 1: When you watch something on television.

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Speaker 2: You watch a movie, it's just like you're inviting those

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Speaker 2: their dirty laundry? Some of what's on TV today is

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Speaker 2: to appeal to the lowest common denominator. People fighting with

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Speaker 2: family members, all kinds of bizarre situations. It's kind of

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Speaker 2: getting set lower and lower. Do yourself a favor, Stay

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Speaker 2: far away from that, no matter how off the wall

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Speaker 2: it gets. I was at a grocery store a few

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Speaker 2: Details Inside, I thought, no thanks, I am not a

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Speaker 2: Only a fool feeds on trash.

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Speaker 2: Life is too short, your time is too valuable to

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Speaker 2: one nineteen says, God keep me from paying attention to

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Speaker 2: what's worthless every time we turn on the television.

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Speaker 1: We should pray that prayer.

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Speaker 2: God, keep me from what's worthless every time we get

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Speaker 2: me not to waste my time getting hooked on something

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Speaker 2: that's not adding any value to my life. Here's what

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Speaker 2: I've learned. If you're not elective in what you watch,

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Speaker 2: the television will determine your character.

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Speaker 1: The television will determine who you are. Statistics tell us

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Speaker 1: the average.

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Speaker 2: Person will spend more time watching television than anything else

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Speaker 2: ten years of our life will have been spent watching TV.

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Speaker 2: By the time a child graduates from high school, he

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Speaker 2: will have watched eighteen thousand hours of television compared to

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Speaker 2: You choose something wholesome, something that's going to strengthen their value,

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Speaker 2: read where the number of violent acts during prime time

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Speaker 1: If you plant your.

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Speaker 2: Children in front of the television, they may grow.

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Speaker 1: Into something that you don't like.

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Speaker 2: Very often, television glamorizes the wrong things. Most marriages portrayed

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Speaker 2: ninety one percent of intimacy shown on television is outside

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Speaker 1: Nine times out of ten.

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Speaker 2: What's glamorized is the affair, that's the fun, that's the passion,

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Speaker 1: You only live once. If you watch that long.

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Speaker 2: Enough, it's going to chip away at what you know

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Speaker 2: is right. If you're not careful, it'll cause you to

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Speaker 2: That's television determining your character. Be selective when something comes

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Speaker 2: change the channel. That's why God created the remote control.

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Speaker 2: button swift on. If not, you're feeding the flesh. Anytime

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Speaker 2: you feed the flesh, it's going to lead you away

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Speaker 2: from God's best. The scripture says, it is the thought

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Speaker 2: life that pollutes us. If we watch the wrong images,

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Speaker 2: just been disciplined in what you watch. I like to

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to let that pollute me.

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Speaker 2: The other day, I was at a hotel gym working out,

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Speaker 1: I asked the young.

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Speaker 2: too important, your future is too bright to let something

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Speaker 1: It's just entertainment. Yes, it may be.

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Speaker 2: Entertaining you, but it's filling you with all kinds of

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Speaker 1: Years ago, there was.

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Speaker 2: A very popular cable television show where every other word

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Speaker 1: And this person I knew he was hooked. He loved watching.

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Speaker 2: It, and he was trying to convince me why it

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Speaker 2: was okay. He said, Joel, if you can just get

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Speaker 1: Of a biscuit that's halfway edible.

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Speaker 2: But you know as well as I do, it's not

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Speaker 1: Little morsel of something good. You're better than that.

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Speaker 2: You are a temple of the most high golf called chosen, appointed, approved.

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Speaker 1: Now do your best to keep your temple pure.

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Speaker 2: When I was younger, I had a sports car that

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Speaker 1: I took great care of it.

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Speaker 2: It was a performance car, had a big engine. I

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Speaker 1: In the engine. Every three months. I would change the

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Speaker 2: I put the high performance oil in it, not regular oil.

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Speaker 2: But this oil cost about twice as much as regular oil.

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Speaker 2: I practically have them memorized. But that's what helps me

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Speaker 2: He understands the importance of feeding himself live food. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: what your thoughts will feed you is dead. You cannot

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Speaker 2: sit inactive. Put something in you that will feed you victory.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be my messages. It can be

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Speaker 1: somebody else's. They're not as good as mine, but feeds

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Speaker 1: you something life. I'm only kidding.

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Speaker 2: I read where the average American spends four hundred hours

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Speaker 2: Many people use that time to feed themselves the wrong things.

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Speaker 1: And I like to listen to the news.

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Speaker 2: I like to stay informed, but I've learned the news

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Speaker 2: doesn't keep you built up. Once you hear what you

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Speaker 2: need to know, you need to move on and.

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Speaker 1: Use that time to feed yourself life.

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Speaker 2: Listen to something that's going to help you grow, something that's.

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Speaker 1: Going to inspire you to be better.

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Speaker 2: One study showed that if you'd take that same drive

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Speaker 2: time and listen to good teaching CDs, then after three years,

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Speaker 2: it's the equivalent of spending two years in college. People

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Speaker 2: tell me all the time, Joel, I listen to your

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Speaker 2: messages while I run each day while I'm at the gym.

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Speaker 2: One lady said, Joel, I listen to you every night

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Speaker 2: before I go to bed. You always put me right

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Speaker 2: to sleep. I thought, thanks a lot, but I love

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Speaker 2: the new technology with these podcasts. You can have them

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Speaker 2: downloaded to your computer and listen to the messages anytime

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Speaker 2: you want. This year, we will give away nearly sixty

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Speaker 2: million of my messages.

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Speaker 1: It's all free of charge.

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Speaker 2: All you've got to do is sign up and it'll

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Speaker 2: come every week to your computer and it's a brand

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Speaker 2: new message that will feed you life.

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Speaker 1: You should take advantage of it.

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Speaker 2: This week, I heard Victoria's cell phone going off on

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Speaker 1: It was buzzing.

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Speaker 2: Went and picked it up and the message read I

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Speaker 2: can do all things through Christ. She has programmed her

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Speaker 2: phone every two hours to send her a scripture. You

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Speaker 2: are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are more than a

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Speaker 2: conquer She calls that her text message from God. All

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Speaker 2: through the day, she's feeding herself life. Where you said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: God's never sent me a text message. Faith without works

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Speaker 2: is dead. Program at yourself. Friends, we are going to

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Speaker 2: become what we eat.

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Speaker 1: Don't feed on trash.

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Speaker 2: Be an eagle, Be disciplined, and what you watch, what

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Speaker 2: you listen to. Make a decision to get rid of

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Speaker 2: anything that's dead. Don't let that poison you. You were

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Speaker 2: created to sore some of you today. If you just

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Speaker 2: change your diet, if you just get rid of the

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Speaker 2: negative influences, you would see God's favor in a new way.

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Speaker 2: Take inventory of what you're putting in, what are you watching,

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Speaker 2: And then ask yourself a very important question, what is

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Speaker 2: this feeding me? If it's not feeding your life, don't

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Speaker 2: sit in active, be bold, make the necessary changes. If

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Speaker 2: you will be selective with what you feed yourself. I

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Speaker 2: can promise you this, you'll grow, You'll rise higher, and

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Speaker 2: I believe and declare you'll become everything God's created you

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Speaker 2: to be and you're going to have everything God intended.

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Speaker 1: For you to have. Amen. Do you receive it today?

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Speaker 1: We never like to close.

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Speaker 2: Our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me?

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

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