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

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in

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Speaker 1: your life. Will God bless you? It is always a

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Speaker 1: joy to come into your homes. We love you and

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Speaker 1: we're praying that you're going to have a blessed, prosperous year.

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Speaker 1: If you're ever in the Houston area, I hope you'll

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Speaker 1: stop by be a part of one of our services.

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Speaker 1: I promise you will make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in today. I like to get

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Speaker 1: started with something funny each week. And I heard about

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Speaker 1: this man that was very stingy with his money, and

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Speaker 1: just before his death, he made his wife promise that

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Speaker 1: she would have him buried with the fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: he had saved. The wife reluctantly agreed. At the funeral,

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Speaker 1: just before they closed the casket, the wife put in

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Speaker 1: a small wooden box. Her friend said, surely you didn't

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Speaker 1: just put the money in there, did you? The wife said,

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Speaker 1: of course I did. I'm a Christian. I promised him

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Speaker 1: I would do it. I can't lie, so I did it.

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Speaker 1: She said, you mean you just buried fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: The wife said, I sure did. I wrote a check.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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 boldly confess.

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Speaker 1: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 1: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about breaking free

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Speaker 1: from wrong mindsets. Many times we don't realize it's our

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Speaker 1: own thinking that's keeping us from being our best. God

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Speaker 1: is constantly trying to plant new seeds in our heart,

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Speaker 1: telling us that we can accomplish our dreams. We can

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Speaker 1: break an addiction, we can overcome the past. But too often,

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Speaker 1: because of the wrong software, those seeds cannot take root.

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Speaker 1: Instead of agreeing with God and thinking can do thoughts, possibility, thoughts,

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Speaker 1: well able thoughts, we do just the opposite. We think

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Speaker 1: I've been through too much. Our software is contaminated. You

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Speaker 1: have to examine your thought life. What are you thinking about?

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Speaker 1: Have you allowed strongholds to convince you this is as

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Speaker 1: any further. Well, Joel, I'll never get well. I've had

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Speaker 1: this sickness for years, or I'll never get out of

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Speaker 1: these problems. I'm just learning to live with it now.

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Speaker 1: Recognize those are wrong mindsets that are keeping you from

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Speaker 1: rising higher. Just like a virus can contaminate a computer,

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Speaker 1: a stronghold can contaminate our thinking. One of the best

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Speaker 1: things we can learn to do is hit the delete button.

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Speaker 1: We need to clear out all but can't do it

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Speaker 1: thinking with what God says about us. God says we

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Speaker 1: are well able. God says we can do all things

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Speaker 1: through Christ. God says we are strong, talented, creative, redeemed forgiven.

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Speaker 1: You have the seed of Almighty God on the inside.

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Speaker 1: You've got to make up your mind. You're gonna break

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Speaker 1: free from every wrong mindset and you're gonna step into

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Speaker 1: a new season. You're gonna step into more favor. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna step into better health. You're gonna step into divine connections,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna step into supernatural opportunities. It may have been

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Speaker 1: good news is this is a new day and God's

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Speaker 1: for it in your thinking. Some of you have gotten stagnant.

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Speaker 1: You've given up on your dreams. You don't think you'll

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Speaker 1: You're never going to get married, You're too old. This

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Speaker 1: is the way it's always going to be. Now. You

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Speaker 1: don't allow those thoughts to take root. They will set

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Speaker 1: replace it with I am forgiving, I am redeemed. God's

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Speaker 1: mercy is new and fresh every single morning. But I

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Speaker 1: God has already lined up the right people, the right breaks,

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Speaker 1: what it says in Romans twelve, verse two. To renew

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Speaker 1: your mind with God's word. That means to reprogram your

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Speaker 1: software with what God says about you. When any kind

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Speaker 1: say no, thanks, that's not for me. That may be

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Speaker 1: You got to have that attitude of victory. You got

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Speaker 1: how little children start off so excited about life. They've

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Speaker 1: They'd been programmed for mediocrity. The dreams they once had

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Speaker 1: Who programmed me to think that I'm only average? Where

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Speaker 1: did those those thoughts come from? Could it be that

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Speaker 1: just because something seems normal to you doesn't necessarily mean

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Speaker 1: Or how about this, just because other family members had addictions,

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Speaker 1: late to change, if you will get rid of those

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Speaker 1: you can still accomplish everything that God's put in your heart.

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Speaker 1: You're not too old. Moses was eighty years old when

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Speaker 1: God called him. You haven't made too many mistakes. Jacob

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Speaker 1: to accomplish. God wouldn't have He wouldn't have given you

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Speaker 1: It's not that you cannot go any further, it's you

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Speaker 1: just convinced yourself that you cannot. Until you get rid

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Speaker 1: and clearing all that junk out, it'll keep you right

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Speaker 1: where you are. I have a friend that was cleaning

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Speaker 1: he would go right back down. It's because the ear drum,

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Speaker 1: Just this one little thing in our ear affects our

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Speaker 1: have energy, you can be coordinated. Everything else is fine,

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Speaker 1: But the good news is you can be retrained. You

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Speaker 1: You'll break out of bondages and you're going to step

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Speaker 1: and some of you. If you just get rid of

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Speaker 1: then your life is going to follow your thoughts. That's

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Speaker 1: when God's gonna pour his blessings and favor. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: God's put in your heart. It will come to pass. Amen.

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Speaker 1: Can you give the Lord a chat of praise today?

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