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Welcome to the podcast.

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Well, hey guys, we are at the B teaching number two in this whatever I'm doing.

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Started last week talking about thoughts.

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I have since our last video as far as the teaching video goes.

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I have started a podcast.

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I can share that information later.

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I have also started a YouTube channel where these videos will be on YouTube as well as

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Facebook.

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Anyhow, I am open to feedback.

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If you listen to my stuff, don't worry about it.

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If you do though, I am open to feedback.

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I would like to hear some people's thoughts or even if there are questions, maybe you

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have questions you want me to dive into or whatever.

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Anyhow, we are going to continue talking about thoughts.

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We ended last week talking about this and this is still what I am talking about with

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our teenagers.

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As I mentioned last teaching video I did, all I am trying to do at this moment is take

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what I teach to my teenagers on Wednesday night and then bring it to here to teach it

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here to a larger audience or whatever.

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I mean I don't know.

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I could also use this for our teens if we ever have bad weather and can't meet together.

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Then this would be an option of a way to still keep that momentum going.

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Because momentum, once you get it going, it is one of those things you don't want to

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let up.

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You don't want to just skip a week or what have you because sometimes the momentum that

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you have is harder to get back when you start missing and canceling things.

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Sometimes life happens and you don't have a choice but that is just one of them.

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This episode will be posted on the podcast probably in a couple of weeks.

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My game plan is hopefully to do a podcast per week to get it uploaded.

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I am not a professional at this.

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This is something totally new.

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It is a new territory for me.

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So if anybody has suggestions of how to make things better, I am all for it.

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I am just hoping, again, this is not something to boast me.

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If I help one person then it was worth it to me.

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That is really my biggest thing.

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I am coming to realize I have a voice and I am going to use my voice to proclaim the

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gospel of Christ.

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We want to start with this.

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60,000 thoughts.

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60,000 thoughts.

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That is the number of thoughts the average person approximately has per day.

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I want to go back to the whole thing that started this and it was the idea of seeing

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the Facebook post of thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits,

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habits create your character and character leads you to your destiny.

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So basically ultimately if you want to change the trajectory of your destiny you have to

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start with your thoughts.

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You have to start with your mindset.

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That is again why Romans 12-2 to go back and I want to go back and read that.

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So let me pull those notes up real quick.

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Romans 12-2 and I am going to read the passion translation.

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It simply says this.

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Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you.

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But be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think.

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If you remember back to the last video I talked about if you have ever been around renovations.

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Any type of renovations that you have it can cause chaos, it can cause stress and all sorts

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of things.

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I know this because my wife and I have done this in 2024 and it was chaos.

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It was not saying anything bad about the company that did it.

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It is just the process of renovations.

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But this is how you have to renew your mind.

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You have to allow the Holy Spirit and you have to come into agreement with the Holy

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Spirit and allow him to totally reform your thinking to tear out things that does not

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belong that is contrary to what God says about you and what the Father says about you and

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declares over you and help you to come into agreement with the truth of what He says about

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you.

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And that is much easier said than done but I promise you the finished work of that looks

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much better than where you started at.

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Continue Romans 12 it says a total reformation of how you think this will empower you to discern

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God's will as you live a beautiful life satisfying and perfect in his eyes.

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I am sitting here reading this and I feel like maybe I should stop at some point and

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maybe I do it in the next video and talk about things such as humility and pride and what

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the difference would be here.

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And some different wording and stuff like this maybe take a deeper dive because here

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is the thing I am not in a hurry with this.

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So if we need to slow down backtrack and kind of get a better foundation because foundation

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is going to be key as we move forward.

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So maybe get a better foundation for us as far as our thoughts and different things of

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That may be what I go for next.

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I will just kind of take the Holy Spirit and let him kind of lead this.

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So now let's pick back up from last week and let's start with this week.

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I want to use Baxter Kruger's phrase again that behavior follows perceived identity.

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How you see yourself and we talked about this last week how you see yourself is very critical.

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That's why you need to know how the Father sees you and come into agreement with how

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He sees you and how He feels about you.

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That is the key to walking this out.

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Is allowing Holy Spirit, walking with Holy Spirit and coming into agreement with what

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He has to say about you.

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This is metanoia.

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Again we have the word repent in our Bibles that should never been translated repent.

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It's the word metanoia.

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It means to come back to your senses, come back to your original design and your original

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blueprint that God has established in your life.

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I read this the other day and I believe it fits for this teaching and this journey that

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we're on and all that.

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It said this, all sin is a belief that produces an action that is incongruent with our identity.

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I talked with my teenagers about this last week about how it seems like the church wants

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to go after the fruit that we see and not root issues.

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I asked them, I believe it's this past week, I asked them, I said, what do you call sin?

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And I'll let you think about that for a moment.

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You can pause this if you'd like and just think.

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If someone was to ask you what is sin, what would you begin to ramble off?

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Because they begin to say things such as lying and having idols and different things such

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as that, which is exactly what I expected them to say.

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But those things are not sin.

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That is the fruit of sin in your life.

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The actual sin is you begin to buy into a lie that the enemy has spoken to you that

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goes contrary and contradicts what God has said about you.

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And when you begin to believe something that goes against what God has said about you,

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every time that's the original sin and it will every time produce fruit that we would

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call and classify as sin.

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I hope that makes sense.

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And I'll read it again that all sin is a belief, it's a belief in your mind that produces an

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action that is incongruent with our or your identity.

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Sin produces the fruit and that seems, and this is what I told them, it seems like the

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church wants to focus on what is produced.

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It wants to focus on the fruit and never deal on the root issues of things.

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And I believe when Jesus walked this earth, when he began to speak to people, he was beginning

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to speak to root issues of their sin and not just simply the fruit.

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He would ask them hard questions.

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He would say things that didn't make sense all the time, but I believe what he was doing

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was trying to speak to the root of the problem and not just deal with the fruit that we see.

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Because if you don't fix the root issue, we'll never be able to fix the fruit that

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is seen in your life.

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One of the things that we ended on last week was the truth that we have been given the

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mind of Christ.

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It's according to Philippians 2.16.

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And that's something that I don't know that we understand.

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I know I personally don't understand and grab hold of the magnitude of having the mind of

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Christ inside of us and accessible to us and by us.

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But that's the fact is we have been given the mind of Christ on the inside of us that

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we can tap into if we're willing to listen.

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So I'm going to go back to Philippians to learn kind of how to think tonight.

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I will talk about that in just a moment.

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But I'm going to go back to this 60,000 thoughts per day fact that I've learned when studying

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this.

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I don't know how they figured this stuff out.

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I don't know what techniques they have and all of that.

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But it says the average person has approximately 60,000 thoughts per day.

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If you think about that, that's a high number.

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The concerning part of that 60,000 number is that they say 75% of that are negative

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thoughts.

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It went on to say 95% I believe it was were repetitive thoughts.

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So that means if you've got 60,000 thoughts, 95% are repetitive and 75% negative, you're

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having a lot of repeating negative thoughts throughout your day.

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And here's the thing.

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You can't control 60,000 thoughts that come into your mind.

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I mean if it was just 10% of that, 6,000 thoughts, I would probably, I would have to

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still say you can't control 6,000 thoughts that come through your mind per day.

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That is crazy to think about that kind of number.

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But it makes sense now even more so of why Scripture tells us to renew your mind with

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the Word of God.

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Allow the Holy Spirit to totally renovate your thought process and your thinking.

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Your mindset is the compilation of your thoughts.

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Your thoughts again, we learned last week, ultimately lead you to your destiny.

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Your thoughts have incredible power to shape your life and the lives of others because

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your thoughts and interpretations of circumstances directly influence your beliefs and ultimately

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influence your actions.

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Think about fear.

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I did some different studies as far as fear and anxiety goes.

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Fear is experience in your mind.

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This is fascinating to me.

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Fear is experience in your mind but it triggers a strong physical reaction in your body.

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As soon as you recognize fear, the small organ in the middle of your brain, I'm not in the

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medical field, I'm not trying to pronounce these words.

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But as soon as you recognize fear, that small organ in the middle of your brain goes to

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work and alerts your nervous system, which sets your body's fear response into motion,

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stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline are released, your blood pressure and heart

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rate increase, you start breathing faster, even your blood flow changes.

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Blood actually flows from your heart and into your limbs making it easier for you to start

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throwing punches or run for your life.

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It's preparing for what we call the fight or the flight.

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As some parts of your brain are revving up, others are shutting down.

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When that little organ in the brain sends fear, the cerebral cortex, that area of the

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brain that harnessed reasoning and judgment, becomes impaired.

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So fear impairs you.

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So now it's difficult to make good decisions and you can't think clearly when you're in

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fear.

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It starts in the mind, but it affects every part of your body.

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No wonder why Jesus repeatedly says, do not fear, have no fear for I am with you.

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You got to get out of that cycle of fear.

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Anxiety was another one.

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It's yet another thing that affects the mind.

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They say anxiety is considered a psychological condition with a strong neurological basis,

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meaning it primarily manifests through mental experiences, but it is heavily influenced

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by brain activity and neurotransmitter imbalances within the nervous system.

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Essentially, it's a complex interaction between the mind and the brain, or the body and the

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mind.

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So fear and anxiety, that's just two examples guys, two examples of things that can attack

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you in your mind, but it affects your entire body.

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It affects all sorts of parts of your body and internally, different things that, I

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mean it just messes you up.

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But it helps us understand why God tells us to renew our minds consistently.

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We don't see Jesus walking around in fear.

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We don't see Jesus battling anxiety, so there has to be something that we're not getting

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here to cause us to become more like Christ to where fear and anxiety does not get to

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dictate our lives.

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And again, a lot of this stuff is easier said than done.

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It's easy to talk about people that have anxiety, but until you've actually been around somebody

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and understood that it's not a choice.

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I mean it can cripple you just like that.

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And it's not something that they're excited about.

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It's a stronghold, it's something that messes with them.

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And you can't beat people down because they deal with it.

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I mean come on now.

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Take my glasses off.

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I want to read Philippians 4, I'm going to read 68, I'm going to read starting with the

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Passion Translation and what kind of take it from there.

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But it says, it says, don't be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing.

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Be saturated in prayer throughout each day.

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And this goes back to a conversation I've had with teens before when the Scripture talks

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about praying continuously.

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We all know we can't go through our days praying out loud consistently.

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But what you can do is consistently walk with an attitude of prayer.

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You can consistently saturate your life in prayer so that you have a prayerful mindset

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throughout your entire day.

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Keeping in communication with heaven and allowing Holy Spirit to have, and people that

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have walked with the Spirit and know there's a lot of times you can have an internal dialogue

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with Holy Spirit.

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In fact, in my past, you're even preached about this recently or said this in one of

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the sermons.

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While you're talking to someone, you can have an internal dialogue with Holy Spirit in that

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same encounter.

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If you're ministering and preaching, you can have an internal dialogue with Holy Spirit

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while you're ministering and you're preaching.

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And it says, be saturated in prayer through each day, offering your faith filled requests

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before God with overflowing gratitude.

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Tell him every detail of your life.

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Then God's wonderful peace that transcends human understanding will guard your heart

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and guard your mind through Christ Jesus.

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Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real.

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This goes back to the heaven, that attitude of prayer as you're walking through your day

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and you're battling these thoughts.

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Keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real.

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It goes on to say, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful

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and kind, and fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God praising him always.

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Now to kind of wrap this up, there's other scriptures I could read.

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I've got, um, amplify, let me read this out of the mirror too, I think this is powerful.

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Let no anxiety about anything distract you.

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Rather translate moments into prayerful worship and soak your request in gratitude before

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God.

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And in this place of worship and gratitude, you will witness how the peace of God within

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you, echoes the awareness of your oneness in Christ Jesus beyond the reach of any thought

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that could possibly unsettle you.

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Just like the sentry guard secures a city, watching out in advance for the first sides

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of any possible threat, your deepest feelings and the tranquility of your thoughts are fully

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guarded there.

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Now let this be your conclusive reasoning.

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Consider that which is true about everyone as evidenced in Christ.

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Live overwhelmed, and I'll catch this, this is powerful, live overwhelmed by God's opinion

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of you.

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Teach yourselves, with the revelation of righteousness, realize God's likeness in you.

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Make it your business to declare mankind's redeem innocence.

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Think friendship.

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Discover how famous everyone is in the light of the gospel.

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Mankind is in God's limelight.

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Ponder how elevated you are in Christ.

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Live overwhelmed by God's opinion of you.

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Now let's go back to that 60,000 number.

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And again, I would take just 10%, the 6,000.

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You can't control 60,000 thoughts that come through your mind.

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That's something you can't do.

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So stop trying.

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Just because you had an ugly thought come through, don't let that define who you are.

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It's just part of living, part of humanity.

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You can't control the thoughts that come in.

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What you do get to control, what you do have responsibility of, is what thought you actually

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dwell on.

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That is your responsibility.

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You get the choice to make each and every day as those 60,000 thoughts flood your mind.

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You get to decide what thought I'm going to dwell on.

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And when you're thinking about that, you need to take the thoughts that come in.

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And when the thought begins to try to attach itself to you, put it to the Philippians test,

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as I like to say.

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Let's go back to the Passion and look at it.

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Is this thought authentic?

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Is it real?

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We play a lot of what if games in our mindsets.

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What if, what if this, what if that, what if this goes wrong?

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What if it don't?

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What if actually everything works the way it's supposed to?

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What if we actually understood that he who began a good work in us is faithful and just

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to see it, to see it to completeness?

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What if we actually believe that?

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What if this actually works out this time?

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What if the promotion actually comes through?

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What if the healing actually happens this time?

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What if the breakthrough is actually happening while you're talking right now?

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We can play the what if scenario, but flip the what if scenario to the positive side.

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So is it authentic?

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Is it real?

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Is it honorable?

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Is it admirable?

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Is it beautiful?

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Is it respectful?

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Is it pure?

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Is it holy?

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Is it merciful and kind?

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And if it's not guys, that's the key.

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If it doesn't meet that criteria, if it doesn't meet God's opinion about you, if it's having

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this beat down mentality and looking down on yourself, then it's not God's opinion of

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you.

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Then that is the thought that you kick to the curb.

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This is the thought that you get rid of and you find the next thought, the thought that

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declares his goodness over you.

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The thought that comes through and proclaims who you are in him.

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The thought that comes through and proclaim who you are, how he sees you.

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That's the thought you begin to breathe on and give life to.

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The other thoughts that come through and don't line up with this, stop dwelling on it.

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Move on.

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Get out of your own head.

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This is how important thoughts are.

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I don't know if I got to this with our teenagers last Wednesday, but I'm going to get to this

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and then I'll wrap this thing up.

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If you look at 2 Corinthians 10-3-5, it says, for although we live in the natural realm,

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we do not wage a military campaign employing human weapons using manipulation to achieve

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our aims.

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Instead, our spiritual weapons are energized with divine power to effectively dismantle

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the defenses behind which people hide.

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We can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant

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attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God.

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We capture like prisoners of war.

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This is the key I want you to hear.

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We capture like prisoners of war every thought that is in and that's not right.

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Every thought that insists that it bow in obedience to the anointed one.

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We capture like prisoners of war every thought and insist that it bow in obedience to the

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anointed one.

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When those thoughts come through, you have the responsibility as a child of God to capture

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every thought that comes in.

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And if that thought does not line up with his word, like a prisoner of war, you insist

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that it bow to the obedience of the anointed one.

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You insist that it bow down to the Christ in you and don't give life to it.

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That's the key guys and that's where I'm going to stop this video tonight.

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I feel like that's enough to chew on for a whole another week until I get to do another

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one of these.

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That's enough to chew on.

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Take the thoughts that come in.

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Go read Philippians.

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Go study it for yourself.

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It's Philippians 4 6 through 8 that tells you what to think about.

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Keep your thoughts continually fixed on things that's authentic, a real, honorable, admirable,

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beautiful, respectful, pure, holy, merciful and kind and fasten your thoughts on every

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glorious work of God praising him always.

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Every thought you can't control.

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So stop trying to do that.

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Get out of that.

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You can't do that guys.

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You can't control the thoughts that come through your mind, but you do get to control

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what thoughts you dwell on.

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You get to control what thoughts you give life to.

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You're talking to someone I have no idea clearly.

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I think I said this beginning.

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I have no idea what I'm doing as far as a podcast and even this I have no idea what

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I'm doing.

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I'm just trusting the Holy Spirit to lead me to guide me to help teach me.

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That's all I know to do.

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And no, he's given me a voice.

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I'm just trying to use it and I could sit here and allow myself to be defeated and think

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I'm not good enough for this.

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Trust me.

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Why my wife does have to hear that sometimes and she has to kick me and remind not literally

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kick me, but has to remind me who I am and that I am capable of doing things such as

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this.

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I was so proud.

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I believe it was Friday night when I actually did the whole podcast thing.

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Actually downloaded my own podcast on Apple Podcast.

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I was quite proud.

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You can say what you want, but I was proud of myself.

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Leave me alone.

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My podcast.

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But anyhow, take your thoughts, renew them, get in his word.

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You can't, this goes back to last week.

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You can't change your thoughts if you don't change what you're putting inside of you.

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Find out what he says about you.

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How does he see you getting along with him?

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Pray, say, Lord, show me how you see me.

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What do you see in me?

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And let him answer you guys.

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Then every thought that comes through you begin to take control over it.

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You decide which one you give life to.

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Father, I thank you.

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I thank you for every listener.

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I thank you for anyone who watches this and has kept up with this.

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I pray that you would infiltrate their minds with what you say about them with God's thoughts

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today.

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Show them how you see them.

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Reveal yourself to them in them.

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And we praise you, Jesus.

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You guys be blessed.

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Have a blessed week.

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I hope this minister's to you.

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Give me a like, love, whatever the things they're called, just so I can know that there's people

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watching this.

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If it meant something to you.

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I appreciate it.

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And if it makes a difference in one person's life, then it's worth every moment I spend

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right here at this desk.

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Keep blessed guys.