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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being with us today. I know

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Speaker 1: God sees you taking this time to learn more about Him,

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Speaker 1: to grow, and to really become all that you've created

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Speaker 1: to be. So know today that God is smiling down

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Speaker 1: on you. We love miss Death. God bless you. It's

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Speaker 1: great to be with you today, and I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast,

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Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit

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Speaker 1: us in person. We'd love to have you be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. But I like to

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Speaker 1: start with something funny, and I heard about this scientist.

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Speaker 1: He said to God, we've decided we no longer need you.

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Speaker 1: We can clone people and transplant hearts and do all

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Speaker 1: kinds of things once considered miraculous. God said, fine, but

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Speaker 1: to prove you don't need me, let's have a man

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Speaker 1: making contest. The only requirement is you have to make

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Speaker 1: man out of dirt. The scientist said great, and reached

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Speaker 1: down to pick up a handful of dirt. God said,

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Speaker 1: not so fast. Go get your own dirt. Say it

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

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

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Speaker 1: I have, 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'll boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert, my heart is recepted. 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 feed your faith.

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Speaker 1: You get to choose what grows in your life. What

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Speaker 1: you're feeding is getting stronger. If you're feeding doubt, thinking

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Speaker 1: about what you can't do, and how the obstacles are

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Speaker 1: too big, and how you're at a disadvantage. Because you're

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Speaker 1: feeding it, that doubt is getting bigger, just like you're

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Speaker 1: giving it vitamins and nutrients, helping it to grow. If

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Speaker 1: you're feeding fear, what if I get laid off, What

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Speaker 1: if I come down with that illness. I'm afraid for

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Speaker 1: my children. That fear is growing, you're helping it to

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Speaker 1: become a reality. Sometimes we're feeding insecurity. I'm not attractive,

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Speaker 1: I don't have a good personality, I'm not that talented.

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Speaker 1: We wonder why we don't have much confidence and why

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Speaker 1: we don't feel valuable. It's because we're feeding the wrong things.

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Speaker 1: You've heard the saying you are what you eat. It's

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Speaker 1: the same thing in your mind. If you feed fear,

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Speaker 1: you're going to live fearful. If you feed discouragement, nothing

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Speaker 1: goods in my future. I have so many problems. You're

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Speaker 1: going to live discouraged if you feed the past. Look

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Speaker 1: what I've been through. They hurt me. I wasn't raised right.

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Speaker 1: If you keep dwelling on what didn't work out, the

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Speaker 1: mistakes you've made, even though God has beauty for the ashes,

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Speaker 1: even though there are great things in your future, because

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Speaker 1: you're feeding the past, you won't see it. You live

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Speaker 1: bitter in regrets with no passion. Pay attention to what

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Speaker 1: you're feeding. We all have doubt, fear, insecurity, guilt, but

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Speaker 1: we also have faith, hope, confidence, value, victory. Don't feed

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Speaker 1: things you don't want to grow. You have to starve

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Speaker 1: your doubts and feed your faith. Starve the discouragement and

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Speaker 1: feed your hope. Starve the inferiority and feed your confidence.

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Speaker 1: You'll be amazed at what happens if you'll quit giving

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Speaker 1: life to the negative and start feeding the positive. The

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Speaker 1: scripture says the enemy goes around as a roaring lion.

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Speaker 1: He has this loud roar. These threats trying to intimidate

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Speaker 1: bring fear cause us to shrink back. But if you

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Speaker 1: take a lion, a big, strong, healthy animal has these

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Speaker 1: strikes fear. It's called the king of the jungle. He

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Speaker 1: rules wherever he goes. But if you were to quit

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Speaker 1: feeding that lion, you didn't give him any food for

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Speaker 1: a lion one on one when he's healthy. He's way

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Speaker 1: feeding him, it's a different story. He loses all of

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Speaker 1: his power, his strength, his control. In the same way fear, worry,

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Speaker 1: doubt can seem too powerful. We can't defeat it. It's

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Speaker 1: trying to deceive, manipulate, and limit. Now you get to

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Speaker 1: When you dwell on it, It's like you're giving him food,

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Speaker 1: making the doubt stronger, the fear, the discouragement. Do yourself

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Speaker 1: power when you quit feeding them. Instead of feeding your fears,

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Speaker 1: take that same energy and feed your hope, feed your faith,

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Speaker 1: feed confidence, feed courage, feed value. I get up every

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Speaker 1: found that fear can't stay where faith lives, Doubt can't

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Speaker 1: You hear about all these different kinds of diets and

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Speaker 1: no carb diet. You can't eat any carbohydrates people that

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Speaker 1: meat diet, a gluten free diet. I have a friend

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Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, but I'm putting you on a

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Speaker 1: very strict diet. No more worry, no more doubt, no

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Speaker 1: more insecurity, offense, bitterness, self pity, shame, regrets. Your new

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Speaker 1: diet is restricted to faith. Food. Feed your faith, feed

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Speaker 1: your hope, feed peace, feed joy, feed positive expectations. Feed

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Speaker 1: He's placed in your spirit. You're going to become what

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Speaker 1: you're feeding positive, hopeful, confidence, secure, valuable or negative, worried, doubtful, afraid, inferior.

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Speaker 1: what they've been feeding by what they're saying, their attitude,

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Speaker 1: how they respond to pressure, how they handle adversity, enjoy

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Speaker 1: just my luck seems like trouble follows me around. I

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Speaker 1: always have these disappointments. They're feeding discouragement. Another person, same circumstances.

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Speaker 1: They're feeding faith. I never get any good breaks. People

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Speaker 1: in life. They're feeding doubt. They are what they eat.

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Speaker 1: They think single, they think lonely, they think unattractive, and

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Speaker 1: is headed my way, a divine connection, somebody better than

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Speaker 1: I've imagined. They're feeding faith. They become attractive, they become favored,

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Speaker 1: this problem will never change? This sickness, this trouble at work,

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Speaker 1: this wayward child. I'm always gonna have to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: They're feeding the negative. They become more discouraged another person.

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Speaker 1: I know it's only temporary. A breakthrough is coming. Things

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Speaker 1: feeding expectancy. That's what causes God to go to work.

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Speaker 1: Years ago, there was a man that did work at

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Speaker 1: the other church, some maintenance and landscaping, some repairs, And

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Speaker 1: Every time we would talk, he would tell me how

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Speaker 1: He didn't know how he's going to be able to

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Speaker 1: In his early fifties, he was diagnosed with a terminal disease,

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Speaker 1: passed a very sad, discouraging life. I thought about how

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Speaker 1: all the defeat, the struggle, the heartache. You need to

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Speaker 1: get back on your diet. Quit eating junk food and

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Speaker 1: start eating faith food. When doubt comes saying you'll always struggle,

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Speaker 1: your dreams, never get out of debt. Just say no, thanks,

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Speaker 1: you're not on my diet. I only eat faith food. Father,

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Speaker 1: Thank you that you're supplying all of my needs. You

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Speaker 1: Don't feed that fear. It's not on your diet. Switch

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Speaker 1: Or when thoughts whisper. You're not that valuable, You're not attractive.

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Speaker 1: no thanks, that's not on my eating plan. I have

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Speaker 1: a very strict diet. I don't feed insecurity. I don't

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Speaker 1: feed inferiority. I don't feed shame and guilt, not up

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Speaker 1: to par I feed confidence. I feed value. Father, you said,

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Speaker 1: I am fearfully and wonderfully made. You call me a masterpiece,

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Speaker 1: not ordinary. I'm a child of the most High God.

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Speaker 1: You'll have a boldness, a confidence to put your shoulders back,

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Speaker 1: to hold your head up high, knowing that you're a

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Speaker 1: son a daughter of Almighty God. In the Scripture, a

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Speaker 1: If you'll do this, I believe and declare forces that

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Speaker 2: When God created the world, he did it specifically with

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Speaker 1: If you want to know what you're going to be

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Speaker 1: If you'll change your words, you can change your world.

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