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

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

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Speaker 2: We believe you're going to have.

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Speaker 1: An awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 3: I want to remind us to spend our time investing

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Speaker 3: in our future, don't invest in the past. Investing in

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Speaker 3: the past is when you relive your hurts, your pains,

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Speaker 3: your disappointments.

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Speaker 2: See it's easy to.

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Speaker 3: Focus on who hurts you, what didn't work out, what

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Speaker 3: mistake you've made. But you know what that is is

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Speaker 3: a big waste of time and energy. We can't do

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Speaker 3: anything about what happened in our past. It's done, it's

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Speaker 3: over with, it's finished. But we can do something about today.

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Speaker 3: And when you begin to focus on what you can

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Speaker 3: change and not what you can't change, that is a

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Speaker 3: good investment in the future. You know, we weren't designed

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Speaker 3: to carry around a lot of unnecessary negative baggage, and

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Speaker 3: sometimes we fill our bags with bitterness, resentment, heartache. But

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Speaker 3: can I tell you that you've got to get up

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Speaker 3: every day and let that stuff go. Forgive the people

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Speaker 3: who offended you release them forgive yourself. You see, when

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Speaker 3: you are wayed down with all of this junk, it's

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Speaker 3: hard to see where you're going.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to even be ready to get there.

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Speaker 3: One time, Joel and I we had scheduled back to

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Speaker 3: back work trips. We really don't ever do this, but

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Speaker 3: this just happened to be an instance that we did this.

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Speaker 3: We had come home from a week out and we

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Speaker 3: came back in and we only had like two hours

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Speaker 3: to be at home, and then we'd have to turn

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Speaker 3: around head back to the airport. Well, on the way home,

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Speaker 3: all I could think about was those dirty clothes in

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Speaker 3: my suitcase. There was a week's worth of dirty clothes

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Speaker 3: in my suitcase. When I got home, I dumped all

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Speaker 3: those dirty clothes and I began to refresh my suitcase.

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Speaker 2: Something amazing happened.

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Speaker 3: Where I was tired and anxious on my way home

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Speaker 3: just thinking about all that in my suitcase, I became refreshed,

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Speaker 3: and you know what, I was prepared to go on

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Speaker 3: my next trip because I had exchanged that dirty clothes

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Speaker 3: with fresh new clothes. And do you know a lot

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Speaker 3: of times we get so wayed down with this emotional

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Speaker 3: baggage of clutter that's full of pain and heartache, that

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Speaker 3: we lose our passion and excitement for living. In fact,

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Speaker 3: we're not even prepared where God wants us to go.

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Speaker 2: We're just too way down and anxious.

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Speaker 3: Can I tell you that you need to refresh your

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Speaker 3: emotional baggage every single day.

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Speaker 2: You need to learn to.

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Speaker 3: Travel light because I can tell you this, where you're

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Speaker 3: going it's far more important than where you've been. But

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Speaker 3: you can't be way down from the past. You know,

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Speaker 3: too often people don't even enjoy what they're doing today.

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Speaker 3: They can't enjoy the opportunities that they're living in today

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Speaker 3: because they're too focused on yesterday. There was a woman

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Speaker 3: who had been divorced for a couple of years, and

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Speaker 3: the possibilities. But she made a mistake when she went

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Speaker 3: It was because she was so hurt by her first husband.

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Speaker 3: You know, after a while. That man told one of

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Speaker 3: her friends, he said, you know, she's so focused on

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Speaker 3: what happened to her, she can't move forward. We're not

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Speaker 2: So he decided that he was just going to quit

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Speaker 3: Because she made the mistake of living in the past.

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Speaker 3: She failed at an opportunity that she had for her future. See,

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Speaker 3: when you carry negative baggage into your relationships, you can

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Speaker 2: See, we've got to decide that it's time to let

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Speaker 3: It's time to put it in the past, to shut

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Speaker 2: And do you know, in life, you're not going.

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Speaker 3: To be able to walk through open doors until you

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Speaker 3: close the doors that are behind you. When you're holding

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Speaker 2: Mistakes you've made, it'll get you stuck. It's like a

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Speaker 2: trap you can't get out of.

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Speaker 3: Years ago that the way hunters used to trap monkeys

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Speaker 3: was holding on to those bananas, he couldn't get his hand.

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Speaker 3: You see, he could have just simply let the bananas go,

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Speaker 2: See, we can't let yesterday trap us.

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Speaker 3: We cannot be trapped in the past when God has

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Speaker 3: a bright future. Unfair things happen to all of us.

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Speaker 3: We experience loss, we all make mistakes, People hurt us,

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Speaker 3: we become offended. But we have to make a decision

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Speaker 3: that we're not going to invest in those things. You see,

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Speaker 3: we'll have negative seasons. The Bible says that trouble will come.

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Speaker 3: We will have seasons of disappointment, seasons that we don't

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Speaker 3: always care for. We can't allow that season to define

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Speaker 3: our life. We can't wear the labels of that season.

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Speaker 3: You see, We've got to put our foot down and

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Speaker 3: say no more. God wants to give you beauty for ashes,

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Speaker 3: the scripture says, but you cannot receive the beauty if

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Speaker 3: you don't give God your ashes. The best way is

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Speaker 3: to give God your hurts, your pains, and then open

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Speaker 3: up wide so that you can receive the beauty that

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Speaker 3: He has in store for you. The scripture says, this,

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Speaker 3: think on these things, things that are good, things that

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Speaker 3: are pure, things that are trustworthy of a good report. See,

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Speaker 3: these are the things we are supposed to set our

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Speaker 2: When we set our mind on the.

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Speaker 3: Good things that God has for us, When we begin

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Speaker 3: when we begin to count our blessings. That is investing

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Speaker 3: can make. I want to say it one more time,

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Speaker 3: let it go, Just let it go. If there's anything

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Speaker 2: Let it go. Because God's got.

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Speaker 3: Bigger and greater things in your future, and where you're

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Speaker 3: going is way more important than where you've been.

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Speaker 3: I just want to take an opportunity right now for

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Speaker 3: every one of us to let go of the ashes,

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Speaker 3: to release them to God. You know, we can hear

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Speaker 3: can receive our bright future. So right now, just through

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Speaker 3: your eyes of faith, let's just pray, Father, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Right now we've heard this message. We know it to

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Speaker 3: God, we've experienced this phenomenon of living in our past

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Speaker 3: fresh new opportunity. God, you said that your mercies are

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Speaker 3: fresh and new every single day, So Father, we want

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Speaker 2: We want to unload that emotional.

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Speaker 3: want to refresh our mental aspect in our mental life. Father,

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Speaker 3: we want to know that you are for us and

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Speaker 3: not against us. So we declare right now Father, as

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Speaker 3: we let go of the ashes, we are receiving your beauty.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Father for good opportunity. Thank you for great families,

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Speaker 3: a fresh new mental attitude. Thank you Father that you're

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Speaker 2: Thank you for everything that you're doing and everything that.

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Speaker 1: We all have hopes and dreams and things we're believing for,

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Speaker 1: But what God has in store for you is more

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