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Speaker 1: I hope you and your family are having a great summer.

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Speaker 1: Victorian are praying for you, believing for God's very best

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Speaker 1: in your life, and it's always my pleasure to be

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Speaker 1: able to share a message with you. I hope you're

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Speaker 1: encouraged and inspired today.

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Speaker 2: Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come

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Speaker 2: into your homes.

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Speaker 1: We love you, and if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 1: please stop by and be a part of one of

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Speaker 1: our services.

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Speaker 2: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: But thanks so much for tuning in, and thank you

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Speaker 1: again for coming out today. I like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny, and I heard about this teenager. You've just

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Speaker 1: gotten his driver's license. You ask his dad about borrowing

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Speaker 1: the car. His dad said, son, I'll make a deal

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Speaker 1: with you. If you'll bring your grades up, read your

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Speaker 1: Bible every day, and cut your hair, I'll let you

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Speaker 1: borrow the car. Month later, he came back and asked

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Speaker 1: about it. Dad said, well, son, you've brought your grades up,

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Speaker 1: you've been reading your Bible, but you still haven't cut

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Speaker 1: your hair. He said, well, Dad, I've been thinking about it.

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Speaker 1: Moses had long hair, Samson had long hair, even Jesus

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Speaker 2: Dad said yes, son, and they walked everywhere they went.

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Speaker 2: Hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 2: This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 3: I am.

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

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about remembering the good. Our

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Speaker 1: memory is very powerful. You can be driving in your

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Speaker 2: Of a sudden you remember a tender.

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Speaker 1: Moment with your child, a hug, a kiss, could have

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Speaker 1: been five years ago, something funny that they did.

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Speaker 2: But when you remember it, it'll bring a smile to

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Speaker 1: You'll start to feel those same emotions, joy and warmth,

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Speaker 1: just like it was happening again. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: you can be enjoying the day, everything's going great, but

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Speaker 1: then you start to remember a sad event where you

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Speaker 1: weren't treated right, somebody did you wrong, you went through

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Speaker 2: Before long, you'll be down and discouraged. What made you sad?

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Speaker 2: Dwelling on wrong memories?

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Speaker 1: What made you happy, dwelling on right memories, and it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Our mind will naturally gravitate toward the negative. A study

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Speaker 1: showed how positive and negative memories are handled by different

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Speaker 1: parts of the brain. A negative memory takes up more space,

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Speaker 1: there's more to process. Because of this, we will remember

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Speaker 2: The example they used is a person.

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Speaker 1: Will remember losing fifty dollars more than they will remember

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Speaker 1: gaining fifty dollars. The negative carries more weight. It has

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Speaker 1: a greater impact than the positive. I can walk off

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Speaker 1: this platform and one hundred people tell me, Joel, that

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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: But then one person can say I didn't get anything

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Speaker 1: out of it. Didn't make sense to me. In the

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Speaker 2: I'd think about. That one negative comment would play over

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Speaker 1: That's how it stored in. Our brain takes up more space.

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Speaker 1: Knowing this, we have to be proactive. When the negative

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Speaker 1: Many people pull up a chair, get some popcorn, watch

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Speaker 2: Can't believe they hurt me. That was so unfair. Why

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Speaker 1: Now here's my message, that's not the only channel. There's

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Speaker 1: another movie playing. It's not your defeats, your.

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Speaker 1: It's a channel filled with your accomplishments, your victories, the

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Speaker 1: You're not going to move forward into the new things

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Speaker 2: Store if you're always replaying the negative things that have

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Speaker 1: We've all been through disappointments, set backs, and bad breaks.

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Speaker 2: You have to watch it. Learn to change the channel.

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Speaker 1: A couple of years after my father went to be

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Speaker 1: That whole night started to replay in my mind, and

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Speaker 2: I simply changed the channel.

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Speaker 1: I started remembering all the great times I'd had with

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Speaker 1: Some of you need to start changing the channel. You're

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Speaker 1: You're replaying that, you're never going to really heal. It's

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Speaker 2: Emotional wounds are the same way.

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Speaker 1: If you're always reliving your hurts, watching them on the

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Speaker 1: May be difficult. You may have had a lot of

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Speaker 1: unfair things happen. But when you look back over your life,

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Speaker 1: can you find at least one time where God's done

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Speaker 1: Reporter asked me not long ago, what my biggest regret was,

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Speaker 2: I'm not dwelling on that channel. I don't go there.

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Speaker 1: Sure we all make mistakes, we all do things we

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Speaker 1: remember what you've done right, the times you've succeeded your victories,

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Speaker 1: the times you overcame the temptation, the times you went

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Speaker 1: The reason some people are not happy is they remember

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Speaker 1: every mistake they've made since nineteen twenty seven. They got

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Speaker 1: they do it for him. Do yourself a big favor,

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Speaker 1: change the channel. Quit dwelling on how you don't measure up,

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Speaker 1: and you should have spent more time with your children

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Speaker 1: growing up, and you should have been stronger, more disciplined,

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Speaker 1: resisted that temptation. No, you may have fallen, but dwell

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Speaker 1: You may have made a poor choice, but dwell on

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Speaker 1: the fact that you've made a lot of great choices.

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Speaker 1: You may have some weaknesses, but dwell on the fact

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Speaker 1: You're not going to become everything God's created you to be.

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Speaker 2: If you're against yourself.

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Speaker 1: You have to retrain your mind, be disciplined about what

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Speaker 1: you allow yourself to dwell on. Those negative memories take

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Speaker 1: that channel. Several years ago, I was playing basketball with

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Speaker 2: We've done this for many years, one on one, him

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Speaker 1: This day, for the first time, he beat me fair

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Speaker 2: I said, oh yeah. Jonathan went up for a shot

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Speaker 2: I remembered my victory.

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Speaker 1: First thing that came to my mind was not how

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Speaker 1: It's because I've trained my mind to remember the good.

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Speaker 1: You know, some people won the game, but they remember

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Speaker 1: we've trained our mind. It depends on what channel we're watching.

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Speaker 1: I cannot find one place in the scripture where it

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Speaker 1: tells us to remember our defeats. Remember our failures, remember

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Speaker 1: on your victory channel. Remember how God gave you that

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Speaker 1: it looked pretty bad. Remember when you went through that loss.

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Speaker 1: You should have had a nervous breakdown, but you felt

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Speaker 1: a supernatural strength. And here you are today, better than ever.

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Speaker 1: Recall the many miracles God has done for me. I

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Speaker 1: cannot stop thinking about them. They are constantly in my thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Notice they're supposed to be constantly in our mind. The

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Speaker 1: mistake we make too often is we remember what we

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Speaker 1: we forget what we should be remembering our victories, our accomplishments,

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Speaker 1: the times God's brought us through. In the Old Testament,

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Speaker 1: God commanded them to have certain festivals, certain celebrations. One

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Speaker 1: of the main reasons is so they would remember what

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Speaker 1: how God brought them out of slavery, how God defeated

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Speaker 2: They were required to remember.

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Speaker 1: Now the place talks about how they put out memorial stones.

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Speaker 1: These were big boulders we might call them historical markers

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Speaker 1: today that reminded them of specific victories. Every time they

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Speaker 2: We thank you for all the things you've done in

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Speaker 1: Lord, we remember how you have delivered. That's time and

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Speaker 1: Recall all the times God has promoted you, put you

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