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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend, reappreciate you, and pray for

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Speaker 1: God's very best in your life. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. And if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be a

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Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll

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Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this kindergarten teacher.

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Speaker 1: She was teaching her students about self esteem, and she

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Speaker 1: said to the class, anyone that felt dumb, she asked

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Speaker 1: them to stand up. She didn't think anybody'd stand. She'd

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Speaker 1: make the point how no one is dumb. But about

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Speaker 1: that time little Johnny stood up, she thought, oh no,

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Speaker 1: Now what am I going to do? She said, Now, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: do you really feel like you're dumb? He said no, ma'am.

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Speaker 1: I just hate to see you standing there all by yourself.

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

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

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Speaker 1: it says I have I can do what it says

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today, I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about being a barrier breaker. So often we let our environment,

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Speaker 1: how we were raised, people's expectations of us set the

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Speaker 1: limits for our life. We adapt to what's around us.

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Speaker 1: If you take an oak tree seed and plant it

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Speaker 1: become what it was created to be. Not because there's

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Speaker 1: something wrong with the seed, but because of the environment

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Speaker 1: that it's in. It's easy to just fit in, go

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Speaker 1: with the crowd, be like everyone else. But God didn't

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Speaker 1: create you to be average. He created you to stand out,

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Speaker 1: to go beyond the norm, to leave your mark on

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Speaker 1: this generation. You have seeds of greatness on the inside.

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to go further than the people that raised you.

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to live better, be more successful, set a

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Speaker 1: new standard. You may be in an environment where people

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Speaker 1: have addictions, low self esteem, depression, poverty. You can't stop that.

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Speaker 1: But here's the key. Don't let that become normal in

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Speaker 1: your thinking. If you accept that as who you are,

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Speaker 1: it will keep you from your destiny. And the scripture

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Speaker 1: talks about how we are in the world, but we

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Speaker 1: are not of the world. You may be in a

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Speaker 1: limited environment, but you don't have to be of it.

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Speaker 1: Don't let that environment get in you. If you see struggle, lack,

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Speaker 1: poverty long enough, your mind can become conditioned to think

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Speaker 1: have enough. No, that's where you are. That's not who

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Speaker 1: you are, and that may be what's been normal. The

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Speaker 1: good news you're a burial breaker. You have the power,

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Speaker 1: the favor, the talent, the ability to break out, to

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Speaker 1: go further. God breathes his life into you. He calls

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Speaker 1: you the head and not the tell Don't let your

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Speaker 1: mind become conditioned for mediocrity. Don't let that change who

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Speaker 1: that business, you don't have the resources, you'll never afford

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Speaker 1: to put their limitations on you. You have to put

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Speaker 1: gonst set a new standard. It starts in our thinking.

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Speaker 1: are not going to accept mediocrity. Why don't you take

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Speaker 1: the limitations off yourself. You have so much potential, break

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Speaker 1: He'll use bad breaks, negative comments, people circumstances to try

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Speaker 1: can rise to the next level. Many people have let

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Speaker 1: Instead of breaking out, They've adapted to their environment. I

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Speaker 1: saw a study that was done with fleas. Researchers put

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Speaker 1: they didn't even try. Sometimes, like these fleas, because of

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Speaker 1: the environment we're in. Times we've tried and felled what

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Speaker 1: You were not created to live contained to get stuck

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Speaker 1: recondition your mind. That's what happened to a friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: He got off to a rough start in life. He

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Speaker 1: mother had her own struggles. Because of this poor home situation,

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Speaker 1: he was labeled by the state as a child at risk.

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Speaker 1: That phrase from the time He's a Little Boy had

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Speaker 1: at risk. He became at risk. If you believe you've

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Speaker 1: reached your limits, then you have. If you believe you'll

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Speaker 1: never get well, then you won't. Because your mind has

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Speaker 1: become conditioned with limitation, it will keep you from your

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Speaker 1: you can do it in your own ability, but you're

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Speaker 1: not on your own. You have the most powerful force

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Speaker 1: overcome bad habits, to be free from generational curses. People

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Speaker 1: God labels you well, able, equipped, anointed, creative, a masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: The good news is people don't determine your destiny. God

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Speaker 1: does what they said about you. The environment you're in now,

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Speaker 1: how you were raised, cannot keep you from your purpose.

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Speaker 1: God is already taken into account every detail of your life,

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Speaker 1: every bad break, every negative comment, how you were raised.

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Speaker 1: If you will stay in faith, instead of holding you back,

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Speaker 1: it will propel you forward instead of defeating you. It'll

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Speaker 1: make you stronger. God knows how to take what was

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Speaker 1: One day, this young man got in trouble in school

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Speaker 1: at possibility? She said, you are full of potential. You

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Speaker 1: His whole life, he had heard just the opposite. His

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Speaker 1: stronghold was broken in his thinking. He reconditioned his mind. Today,

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Speaker 1: at possibility. My friend del Toro McNeil's right here on

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Speaker 1: But don't let that spirit rub off on you. That

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Speaker 1: barrier breaker. You are not limited by your education, by

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Speaker 1: how you were raised by that environment. God has destined

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Speaker 1: the next level. This is what happened with my father.

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Speaker 1: He was raised very poor on a cotton farm during

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Speaker 1: the Great Depression. At Christmas time, his family was the

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Speaker 1: Every circumstance said he would stuck. He'd have to stay

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Speaker 1: But instead of adapting to that environment, his attitude was,

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Speaker 1: this is not my destiny. I am better than this.

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Speaker 1: I refuse to live mediocre wearing hand me downs, receiving

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Speaker 1: I have potential, I have creativity. The most tied God

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Speaker 1: breathed life into me. Now as a teenager, he left

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Speaker 1: took us to a new level. He was a barrier breaker.

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Speaker 1: He knew he was made for more instead of just

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Speaker 1: fitting in be like everyone else. Why don't you start

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Speaker 1: seeing yourself as a barrier breaker, as the exception. You're

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Speaker 1: supposed to stand out, You're supposed to rise higher. Maybe

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Speaker 1: everyone in your family is depressed. Accept you. You broke out.

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Speaker 1: You're happy, You're full of joy. Everyone is addicted. Accept you.

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Speaker 1: You're free, you're clean, You're helping others. Everyone is struggling,

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Speaker 1: Good breaks are chasing you down, Opportunities are looking for you.

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Speaker 1: Your gifts and talents are coming out in greater ways.

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Speaker 1: Why is that you're the exception. Not arrogantly like you're

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Speaker 1: you were made for more. See if my father would

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Speaker 1: be standing here today. Are you accepting things that are

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