May 17, 2024 • 62 mins
Unlock the secrets to a life of victory and peace as Angela and I guide you through the transformative journey of "Possessing a Winning Mindset." In our latest episode, we delve into the art of embracing a mindset anchored in spiritual strength and positivity. Forget the temporary fixes; we're here to offer you enduring wisdom from the Scriptures that promise to reshape your reality and guide you towards a path of personal growth and unwavering confidence in God's plan.
Have you ever wondered how to rise above life's distractions and ascend to new heights? Join us as we explore the powerful practices essential for cultivating a victorious attitude, drawing parallels to the eagle's flight high above life's 'weeds.' Embrace the art of positive thinking, learn to soar with the mindset of Christ, and step into the authority as conquerors that God has bestowed upon us. Angela and I share heartfelt insights on how to arm yourself with humility, wisdom, and empathy to navigate through life's multifaceted battles with grace.
This episode is a wellspring of encouragement, where we discuss the incredible impact of renewing your mind with God's word. We unpack the truths of Colossians 3:9-10 and the radical transformation that occurs when we shed our old selves and embrace our new identity in Christ. Discover the profound shift from selfishness to generosity, and how honest labor, edifying speech, and extending grace can profoundly impact your life and the lives of those around you. So tune in, let your spirit be uplifted, and equip yourself with a mindset that not only seeks victory but lives it out every day.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, welcome, welcome everyone.
Welcome back again to DailyBread, the Daily Bread podcast,
and I'm excited to be here withmy co-host.
We are Dr Jarrell and AngelaStokely.
Thank you for that pound andexplosion on the backside with
the five finger wiggle.
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We are here today and excitedto be with you, thank you.
Come on in, relax just a littlebit and get your mind and heart
ready to be empowered in theword of God, with a, with a
muscle of scripture that will bedesirable to your spiritual
palate and will, hopefully, willcause your inner man to swell
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with fullness of joy and hope inthe word of God.
Welcome, welcome once again toDaily Bread.
I want my co-hosts to kind ofgreet you and welcome you on the
day.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yay, hey everybody, so glad you are here.
We are excited to share thisword with you on the day, and we
pray that you are empowered tobe your best self for the glory
of God.
After this, after this I likethat.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I like that.
It is always refreshing to behere with you.
Thank you, of course.
As always, you look sobeautiful, thank you.
You're radiant, you're shiningand I'm blessed to have you.
Okay, I need to calm down, foxy.
Foxy wife and partner of 32years.
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We have been together and upsand downs and seeing God do so
many powerful, amazing things,so we're glad to be here with
you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Welcome in once again to our podcast.
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So, all right, got thepreliminaries out of the way.
It is good to be here with youonce again.
Actually, you're ready, I'mready.
Are you ready?
All right, you're going to giveus a word of prayer as we get
ready to dive in.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Absolutely Join me, Lord.
We bless and thank you.
We just give you glory, god,god for who you are.
We thank you that you createdus the way that you created us
and that you've provided for usthe way that you have.
We thank you for your veryexistence.
We thank you, god, that nothingis left undone.
Nothing is left unnoticed.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Thank, you God.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Nothing has been missed, god, we just give glory
notice.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Thank you, lord God.
Nothing has been missed.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
God.
We just give glory to the LordNow.
God, I thank you that you'vegiven us this opportunity to
come here to share your wordwith your people.
God, our prayer is that youwill anoint us afresh in this
moment, god, to serve yourpeople what it is that you have
in mind for them.
In the mighty name of Jesus andthen, god, we pray that your
people will have ears to hearwhat the spirit of the Lord has
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to say and then God, I want toreceive your word, right in the
place where they are, that theywill make the change, hallelujah
, that is necessary for them tobe everything you've called them
to be.
Now, god, have your way in thispodcast.
Have your way with your people,wherever they are listening.
God have your way they.
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Ultimately, you get all of theglory all of the glory all of
the honor and all of the praise.
Yes, it is in your son, jesusname that we pray.
Amen, amen and amen.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Amen, hallelujah, amen.
May the presence of the Lordfall on you as you are listening
in and tuning in on the day.
May the power of God fill you,may the word of God feed you.
In the mighty name of Jesus.
May the glory of God fall onyou and a fresh, anointing May
that be a fresh word come out ofyour mouth in the name of Jesus
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, prophesying good over yourlife, prophesying well over your
family, decreeing abundance andoverflow in all godly things.
In the name of Jesus, in yourlife, I just feel like rebuking
the enemy off of somebody rightnow and telling you that no
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weapon formed against you shallprosper.
I don't know what you're upagainst, but I believe your back
is up against the wall and somethings and some negotiations
and some contracts and somedealings Rent is due, some
things going on in court.
In the mighty name of Jesus, Ijust decree the favor of the
Lord on your life.
This is not the end.
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This is a turnaround,hallelujah.
You may be coming out of aclosed chapter, but what I need
you to know is that you'reopening up a new book in the
name of Jesus, and I want you toknow, though it may look bleak
in front of you and though youmay be dealing, hallelujah, with
some terror in your life, Iwant you to know you're going to
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survive and you're coming outof this to the glory of God, and
there's a story in your bellythat shall make it onto the
pages and make it onto TV, andmake it onto media and make it
onto Instagram that God's goingto use you to his glory, joseph.
He's going to use you.
Daniel, he's going to use youto his glory, joseph, he's going
to use you.
Daniel, he's going to use you.
Shadrach, he's going to use you.
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Moses, he's going to use you.
Elijah, he's going to use you.
Paul, he's going to use you.
Deborah, he's going to use you.
Mary, he's going to use you.
Hallelujah.
Martha, he's going to use you.
Hallelujah, glory to God.
Sarah, he's going to use you.
Asila and Procola, he's goingto use you in the mighty.
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I just decree good over you.
I don't care what you're facingand what you're dealing with.
All your days are going to getbetter because we believe with
you, we decree with you, wecommand it forth with you, in
the mighty name of Jesus.
So I got to let this go.
Father, bless my sister who islistening and bless my brother
who may be struggling.
Thank you for it now, in Jesusname.
Amen, I mean.
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You know what Sometimes you gotto tune in the daily bread just
to get a powerful prayer tomove you through.
I felt the anointing of Godmoving me to do that.
Amen, Hallelujah Pastor.
Amen, Hallelujah Pastor.
You're looking at me like Jesusis in the room up in here.
Come on now.
You look like I'm done.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The girl for prayer is in the room.
I always have to just do thatso that prayer didn't be the
thing.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Come on now.
Prayer be the thing.
If God is leading, the prayerbe the thing.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Prayer, be the thing God is leading the prayer be the
thing.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
All right, so we pray .
You came here today looking fora word, because that's what we
have, and so today we're stillin this series, pastor,
possessing a winning mindset,and I want to let you introduce
this teaching.
But I will have to say topeople we're not talking about
the next three steps to make yougive you more capacity to do
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something.
We're concerned with you andthe mind in your mind,
hallelujah, which is yourthoughts.
The brain is the muscle, thebrain is the organ, but the mind
is the thought life of thebrain, and we're concerned about
your mind.
Mental health is a big issueeverywhere.
There's enough stress to goaround.
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We are fighting every morning,sometimes just to get up,
sometimes just to go to work, tohave peace, just to ride home
with sanity, and not just gethome and just quit and give up,
not to just get home and climbin the bed or get a drink and
just go to sleep, but we're alsostriving to have a mindset of
success, a mindset to win.
All of that comes down to havingyour mind renewed, like the
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mind of Christ.
So when we talk about a winningmindset, this is not just nine
more strategies for you to dosomething, but it is about
becoming who God has called youto be, and we think in order to
do that, you have to have themind of Christ coming.
Who God has called you to be,and we think, in order to do
that, you have to have the mindof Christ.
So we've been talking aboutpossessing a winning mindset.
When you hear that and youtranslate that into your
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everyday life things you have toface, goals that you have set,
sometimes the past that may betrying to haunt you how do you
translate, you know, possessinga winning mindset?
You know, in a practical, youknow way, to even to even begin
to think about that and considerthat for where you are and what
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you're trying to do in liferight now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, you know, I think there's several different
things, there's several, severaldifferent things, and so much
went off in my mind as you askedthat question.
And for me, I think I'll startwith this one, because I feel
like it highlights who I am, butit comes from this posture.
When I think about possessing awinning mindset, I think about
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posture, I think about thisplace in this way that I'm
choosing to be, you know, and itbecomes more about being than
it is doing.
And if I can be in a posturethat says I am constantly going
to possess this, then I don'thave to work so hard.
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Don't have to work so hard.
You understand what I'm sayingwhen I put myself in a place of
a posture of having a um, awinning mindset.
And so because the other thingis is because I don't like to
feel bad, I don't like to feelnegative things, I don't like
negative emotions, I don't likeany of that.
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That's just not my thing.
It is the force behind why Iwork hard to maintain a posture
of a winning mindset.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Because I think we have to get to that place where
we know these are the thingsthat I want, these are the
things that I don't want.
And so chaos and drama andmessiness and all of the stuff
like I don't like feeling down,I don't like feeling depressed,
I don't like feeling angry, Idon't like those feelings.
So I work at putting myself ata place where I can have a
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mindset that debunks thosefeelings.
Now there is that reality thatyou're going to feel what you
feel and I allow that feeling tohappen most times, but I'm
always because I have thisposture of winning, having a
winning mindset.
It automatically kicks me intothis process of putting the
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right thing on my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You understand what I'm saying, right right, and so
I think that there are again.
I'll go back to the originalstatement.
I think there are many things,but I think for me it starts
with what my posture is and thenit goes into what I do and
don't want you know what I'msaying and I think all of that
plays into really positioningmyself to have a winning mindset
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, like I.
I heard that report, I heardthat information.
I am aware it's not, you know,being in this place of being a
loop, you know, elusive or youdon't know or being ignorant to
anything.
It's yep, I heard that, Irecognize that and I have these
feelings, but I don't want tokeep these feelings, right, you
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know.
So I have to shift in my mindto say, well then, what do you
want?
Right, you know, I want to feellike that I can be an overcomer
in this area.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
What does God's word say about being an overcomer?
That's it right there, you know.
And then I'm looking in theword for a word to then put on
my mind.
That's then going to regulatemy emotions, even though I know
what the information is, I knowwhat the facts say, I know what
the report is.
I can see calamity in someareas, but in order for me to
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have what it is that I said thatI want, I need the right thing
on my mind.
The right thing on my mind isgoing to produce the thing that
I said that I want.
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I am.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'm a huge proponent of peace.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
When I think about scripture, the fact that Jesus
gave his only begotten son andthat Jesus is the Prince of
Peace and he is the one thatresides on the inside of us,
then I have access to peace atany time, but it's depending
upon what I choose to do.
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Do I lend myself to worry, Do Ilend myself to the negative
thinking or do I lend myself toworry?
Do I lend myself to thenegative thinking or do I lend
myself to the positive thinkingthat's going to get me to that
place of peace?
As you know, the scripturetalks about be anxious for
nothing, but through prayer,with supplication and
thanksgiving that your requestsbe made known unto God and the
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peace of God.
The recipe there you know.
And because I desire peace, Iam mindful of that scripture and
I strive to hurry up and getthere when my peace is or when I
find myself without peace beingactive in me.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Wow, it takes me to a question.
So our topic today is practicalsteps to cultivate positive
thinking habits.
So once something that you saidsay it reminded me ofing a
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positive mindset and all dayjourney and all day challenge it
is, and why so?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It is because things are happening all day.
Right there are there'sopportunities.
You know, I think about thescripture that says we all will
have the opportunity of beingoffended.
Offense is going to come Right,somebody is going to always.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I can't let us go past it.
I want you to come, I need youto say that again.
Say that again.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Offense is always going to come.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What's going to come Offense?
What is offense?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
When someone does something against you.
Come on, yeah, so we haveplenty of opportunities.
The word of God says that wehave plenty of opportunities to
be offended.
The beauty is that we don'thave to receive the offense.
It's just like what scripturetalks about the weapon will form
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, but it won't prosper.
The weapon shows up, but itwon't do what it came to do.
The offense shows up, but inthose moments we have to decide
am I going to take that in Rightor am I going to identify that
for what it is and am I going topush that back out so that I
don't walk away an offendedindividual?
You know what I'm saying.
So it is.
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So things are going to happen.
Some is going to cut you off intraffic.
Somebody may send you a textand they worded incorrectly, and
so it feels like they're comingat you, but on the other end of
the text it could just bebecause they're having a bad day
and they don't know how tocommunicate their emotions.
But if you are not mindful ofmaintaining a winning mindset,
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you can easily snap off, youknow, and, and lose it over
something.
Somebody said that, just itcame out the wrong way.
You know what I'm saying.
Or maybe they said it, admittedthat way, yeah, but it's
because something's broken inthem, it's because something is
undone in them.
You know when we, when werealize and become convinced, as
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we talked about in the lastepisode, that we want a winning
mindset.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, I want it, I want it.
Look here, look here.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
When I want something , we do what is necessary to get
it and keep it.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
When we really want it.
Come on and see the way you'redescribing this validates the
whole idea that the winningmindset is a kingdom.
Yes, because you're talkingabout overcoming offense.
Yes, you're talking aboutpracticing patience,
self-control.
These are not concepts to teachyou how to be more successful
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at building a business.
These are concepts to teach youhow to be more successful in
everything that you do, bypossessing this overcomer
mindset and possessing the mindof Christ, because he had to
overcome it all and that's whatgave him that winning mind.
He was always winning at beingGod-like.
He was always winning atpossessing wisdom.
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He was always winning atpossessing a humble mind.
He was always winning atpossessing a mind of care,
empathy and sympathy, a mind oflove, grace and truth, and
that's what brought him into anydimension.
When you have that overcomingmindset of Christ, you can move
into different dimensions andplateaus and peaks and pinnacles
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and be grounded in wisdom andwise counsel and strategy to the
glory of God, and not just foryourself.
And what is what is profitableto the pocket, but more so what
is profitable to the purpose,and that's that's what it's all
about that was that feltprophetic.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'm going to just say that because you know, I like
to.
I like to make sure that peopledon't miss that.
If you, you know, go back andlisten, rewind, go back and
listen to what he just said.
That felt very prophetic to meand I don't want us to miss that
.
And, as you were saying that,one of the things that rose up
in my spirit and I think this isa great nugget for us to take
away is that Jesus didn't getcaught up in the weeds.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He didn't get caught up in the weeds and sometimes
that's my word Don't get caughtup in the weeds.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And sometimes that's my word Don't get caught up in
the weeds.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Sometimes our downfall comes in getting caught
up in the weeds.
Wow, and that's where we getmessed up and that's where we
lose our footing.
To have the right mindsetbecause we'll go digging all
down in weeds.
Ain't nothing in there, Ain'tnothing in there, but probably
some snakes, some more weeds,some things that are all
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convoluted and twisted up, somedirt and some stuff you don't
even want to deal with.
So why go hanging out in theweeds?
You know I think about you know, when we talk, when we talk
about the Eagle, we talk aboutthe Eagle.
They go high.
We've got to get out of thischicken mindset where we're
squabbling down here in the dirtand looking down here in the
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dirt at things.
So what that happened?
That's weed stuff.
You got to rise higher, figureout what's happening up in the
heavenly realm, what's what'shappening at a higher level,
because that stuff down there isnot.
It is not profitable.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'm about to say girl .
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Come on girl me.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Girl, woman of God.
Yes, sir, that thing is someaty, that's so old.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh, I feel that, anointing for it, I feel that
anointing for it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That is so powerful?
Because, as you're talking, I'mthinking about everything down
in the weeds.
We have dominion over?
Come on, do you know that whenyou're talking, I'm thinking
about everything down in theweeds we have dominion over?
Come on, do you know that whenyou're walking through weeds, do
you know how many spiders, bugs, worms, caterpillars, snakes,
creeping, crawling, things thatyou're just stepping on as you
walk, that you're just walkingright past, that would scare you
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if you was down in the weedslooking at it up close?
You're stepping on the stuffthat would scare you when you
bypass the weeds.
Come on, come on, come onsomebody.
Come on and walk tall intowhere you're going.
You know, as you were talkingabout that, it helped me to
realize that when you don't havean overcoming mindset meaning
you're walking in a defeatedmindset and you're down in the
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weeds, your vision is blocked.
Yeah, absolutely, because weedsare typically tall.
If I'm in the weeds, I can't see, you can't see, See, you can't
see.
And if the enemy can snap yourcapacity to see where you're
going, to see what the futurecould be, to see the good that
lies ahead, you're already done,you're already defeated.
He has already annihilated youand crippled you, and he has
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already pinned you to the groundand crippled you, and he has
already pinned you to the ground.
But my Bible says you are morethan a conqueror.
That means that that phrasemore than a conqueror in in
Greek competition embolizes andsymbolizes a Victor who has his
foot on the opponent's neck.
That's what it means by morethan a conqueror.
You all the way under my feet,to the point.
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You can't even you dead.
My foot is on you and you needto understand something you have
dominion over those weedsituations and weed minded
people.
So go ahead and walk, you know,tread on serpents and scorpions
, and nothing shall by any meansharm you.
That's what Jesus told hisdisciples and apostles.
And boy, we better get to thissubject, because we are gone
right now.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
we better get to this subject because we are gone
right now, but it's good though.
But it's good Because that'spractical.
It's still practical, it'sstill a practical thing for us
to do Come up to the next level,my brother.
Oh, my God, that's good.
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Take our rightful position,take the position that Jesus
came to give us, and that ishaving he restored our authority
, he restored our domain, and sowe've got to come out of those
weeds so that we take ourrightful position in the kingdom
of God.
And I'm going to say thisbecause I keep feeling it,
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because we get caught up in whatwe feel like.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
What you feel like has nothing to do with what is.
I wish I had a mic in my hand,I would have dropped it.
Because, just because you don'tfeel like you are more than a
conqueror, my Bible and you justsaid it says that we have the
power to walk on the head ofserpents.
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So because you don't feel likea conqueror doesn't mean it's
not true, because you have thepower to do what you need to do.
Glory to God.
So I can feel less than I canfeel counted out, but my Bible
says I've been grafted in Comeon.
You understand what I'm sayingso our feelings don't always
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dictate what is real, and we'vegot to move from the place of
well, I don't feel like anovercomer, I don't feel like
this, I don't feel like that.
That is when we have to get towhat we're talking about, and
that is that winning mindset.
But what did the word of Godsay?
What did the word of God sayand I'm going to tell you this
is my one of my sayings too it's, it's, it's the word, is what
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the word says, and then it'swhat we say.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And I'm just going to say somebody lying and it ain't
the word, it is not God, and sowe've got to let God's word be
true and every man alive, andthat includes ourselves
sometimes.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
This makes me think about, you know, the practice of
bringing my feelings and myemotions in alignment with my
promise.
Yes, I got to fear my emotionslike a car or like steering
cattle.
I have to get into action.
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I have to activate you do, comeon somebody my authority,
because it's not just going tohappen, man.
I have to activate what I havebeen given to steer my emotions
into my devotion.
Oh yes, sir, I got to steer myemotions into my devotion.
I got to steer my problem intomy promise.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I got to do it.
I have to do it Because it'snot going to just get over there
on its own.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Come on, it's not going to get on its own, it's
not going to get over there onits own.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And again, I think sometimes those are the missing
pieces.
We don't want to do the workthat's required and that is why
we feel so defeated because wewon't just do the thing that's
in the word of god to do.
Sometimes we don't have thepeace.
We talked about the scripturelast time, how, or maybe it was
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today, I can't remember.
But the the um that we're notsupposed to have anxiety.
Right?
Don't have anxiety, don't worryabout anything.
We can pray, supplicate, makethanks, I mean and have
Thanksgiving.
We don't want to do that part.
Let every request be made knownunto God so that the peace of
God can keep your heart and mind.
We don't want to do that part.
We want God to do it all.
We don't want to supplicate, wedon't want to have Thanksgiving
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.
We just want God to be.
You know, just show up becauseyou know I'm hurting.
Just show up because you know.
But what have you said?
I feel the Holy Ghost.
What have you said lately?
What have you said?
What petitions have you laid atthe throne of God?
What things have you placedbefore him?
You want your child to bebetter, you want your job to be
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better, but have you put thosepetitions before the Lord?
Oftentimes we're frustratedabout not having results in
areas we ain't done nothingabout.
Come on, we just internalizing.
We're in the weeds.
We're internalizing Down in theweeds.
I can't believe this happenedto me.
Oh, this is messed up, oh thisis unfair.
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But have you put the petitionsof what you want before your
father, who not only hears yourprayers, but who also answers?
So then, what are wecomplaining about?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I'm just saying this thing is so powerful.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
You reminded me of one of the Psalms where David
said this poor man cried out andthe Lord heard me and delivered
me out of all of my trouble.
All of them, this poor man,cried out.
So we have to learn the powerof a collapse and a cry.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Come on, because sometimes you've got to drop
down to the flow, baby.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
If you can't push yourself to pray but you're
going through and you're wearyand you're stressed sometimes,
you've just got to fall straightdown in the flow.
Because when he calls himself apoor man, that is an indication
that he humbled himself.
He categorized himself asnothing.
I'm just this poor man.
See, that is an indication thathe humbled himself.
He categorized himself asnothing.
I'm just this poor man.
See, that's humility.
And see, when you collapse downin that flow, that's humility.
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You got to understand acollapse and a cry.
This poor man cried out, tearsin his face.
He was saying God, if you don'tmove, I'm done.
If you don't do it, it won'tget done.
I've tried it and it don't work.
You got to learn the power of acollapse and a cry and give
that thing to God, because ifyou don't, let me tell you
something Thoughts driven byemotion will suicide you.
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Thoughts driven by emotion willabort your mission.
Talk about a blindside.
Driven by emotion Willblindside you.
They will blindside you.
So you've got to get over intothe habits of practicing a
positive mindset.
Now we're 30 minutes in Ain'treading, no scripture.
Let me give it to you here.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Philippians, 4.
Verse 8.
We said that in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Okay, come on, pastor , give it to him.
You want me to read it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah, you go ahead.
I'm two chapters.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Okay, Philippians 4.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I think my Bible must have flipped.
Finally, brothers and sisters,whatever is true, whatever is
noble, whatever is right,whatever is pure, whatever is
lovely, whatever is admirable,if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy, think about suchthings, and that's in the NIV.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Oh my God, Can you, can you?
Yeah, okay, so that was verseeight.
Right, you know what gets meabout this verse all the time I
can't get past the word whatever.
I love it and we're going toget to the deepest stuff, but
this word, whatever keeps me.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, whatever is lovely.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Because God, because we all have a file of God's
history of goodness in our lives.
We have a memory bank ofsomething God did that was good.
And so this passage ofscripture is saying listen when
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you're trying to make it, whenyou're trying to come through,
listen whatever you can think of.
That includes little big oldnew that nobody saw.
Internal, external, whateverListen.
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God has made such a way out forus.
He said whatever Okay.
He says whatever Listen to this.
He said whatever OK.
He says whatever Listen.
He said whatever things aretrue, yeah, anything, just
what's true.
God is good.
That's true.
Yeah, jesus came for me.
Yeah, that's true.
So if I take that when I'mtrying to have a pattern of a
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positive mindset and I gotnegative thoughts and I'm
stressed and I'm fatigued andI'm failing, I'm dealing with
failure.
I'm a hardest self critic.
I have limiting self beliefswhen all that is going on in my
head, if I could just think onthe truth that Jesus came to set
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me free and I'm free, thatright there.
If I drop down and it says ifthere's any virtue in it, that
means if there's any good inwhat you're thinking about.
And if it said if there's anyvirtue in it and if it's
anything praiseworthy aboutJesus saving your soul, go ahead
and give praise right there.
Go ahead and get that on yourmind to shift you from negative
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to positive.
Anyway, that, just that word.
Whatever always gets you.
It's not a category it doesn'ttalk about.
You don't have to be elite, youdon't have to be a preacher,
teacher, you don't have to bethe boss, you don't have to be
on top, whatever, whatever youcan think about.
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So typically, when I readthrough these instructions
whatever things are true, noble,just pure, lovely you know I
look for something deeper.
I hear it, but it's not reallysaying enough for me.
So I broke them down as Istudied, I took each one and I
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added some context, somescripture to them for us to look
at.
So it says whatsoever thingsare true.
Let's look at truth and how touse truth to cultivate positive
thinking.
So I have Colossians 3 and 9.
If you can get that one, Icould get the other one in
Ephesians 4 and 25.
So Colossians- Colossians 3.
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Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Verse 9.
Do not lie to each other, sinceyou have taken off your old
self with its practices.
Oh my God, do not lie.
Come on To each other, sinceyou have taken off your old self
with its practices.
That's good.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, and to see I'm I'm balling on it A lot of ways
with this, but but stop lying,that's good.
Stop stop the lying that'sgoing on in your head.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yep.
Okay, that's so good, that's sogood, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
If it's not for your good, if it's not the word of
God, it's a lie.
Yep, first of all, I like that.
Stop believing the lies of theworld, stop believing the lies
of the enemy, and listen.
Stop believing the lies ofpride and lust and flesh that's
going on on the inside of you,oh my God.
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When we, when we, when we wearour masks and when we fail to be
human and when we fail to bereal with one another, then
we're missing what thatscripture says.
It says stop lying to oneanother.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, read it again, stop lying to one another.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, read it again, pastor, stop lying to one
another.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off
your old self with its practice.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
So when we put on the new man, we walk in truth.
So it's basically saying totransition your life to a life
of truth Yep, walk in truth, yep, Walk in truth, absolutely.
Jesus says I am the way, I amthe truth and I am the life.
And if any man is to go to thefather, he is to go through me.
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And God wants us to walk intruth.
And when you walk in truth, youdevelop a positive mindset
because you have no fear, you'renot letting lies exist anywhere
in your life, so you're notworried about what's going to
come your way, what people aregoing to do to you, because you
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live a life of truth.
I've been true, I've been truebefore Everybody.
This is talking aboutpracticing authenticity.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
It is yeah, I like that.
That's really good.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And practicing vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Both of those are uncomfortable.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I was just going to say both of those are
uncomfortable and more oftenthan not we have a hard time as
people doing both of thosethings than not we have a hard
time as people, doing both ofthose things.
One of the things that you said,and then I want you to continue
.
When you were talking, I forgotexactly what you were just
talking about, but this is thethought that I had.
Sometimes we are blinded to ourown realities and one of the
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things that I like to encouragepeople to do, and I've been
doing this for years.
In your prayer time, in yourdevotional time with the Lord,
one of the most powerfulquestions or one of the most
powerful things to ask God isLord, show me me, show me me,
because we can't bring beforeGod the things that need to be
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fixed, that we don't think arebroken.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
If we don't realize that we have some shadiness in
our character, if we don'trealize that there are some
things about us that are reallynot pleasing to God and they've
been, I feel, the Holy Ghost,they've been with us so long,
they've been with us so longit's become a staple in our
personalities Then we don't knowto bring those things to God,
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for him to fix them or help usto fix them.
So one of the things that Ithink is really important is
that when we spend our time withGod, no matter where you are in
your Christian journey, startnow, been saved 300 years,
whatever.
It is always powerful to sayGod, show me, me, because
there's always an opportunityfor your old man to try to start
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.
Try to start showing up andcreating ways in you that you
don't recognize, because it'sbeen a part of who you are, who
you've been or who you used tobe for so long you don't even
recognize it.
And sometimes we need God toreveal those ugly areas in our
life so that we can do somethingabout them.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
That is so powerful?
Because what Paul is getting atright here in Colossians 3 is
taking off the old manpermanently and putting and
putting on the new man andsetting aside all the ways of
the old man.
See, sometimes we try to keepsome of the ways of the old girl
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, that's right.
Or some of the ways of the oldguy yeah, especially when it
comes to dating, did I?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
say that you did out loud.
I'm getting ready to helpsomebody.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
God said your dating life will come together the way
he wants it to when you stopdating like the old girl did.
When you stop dating like theold guy does, because in all the
areas where we take off the oldman or the old woman, the
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greatest struggle is in datingRelationships.
I want to say relationshipsbecause sometimes we are quote,
unquote dating oh my God, theauthorities on our job.
Because we're trying to getmore like the old girl does or
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the old guy.
So we have all these nicetiesand flirts and you know we work
to impress a certain personbecause we want them to give us
something.
But my Bible tells me the earthis the lowest and the fullness
thereof, and the world and theythat dwell therein.
So I don't have to play the oldman game and I don't have to
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wear the clothes of the oldperson to get something, when
the new man has an abundance ofthings waiting on him in Christ
Jesus as an inheritance ofAbraham, under the Abrahamic
covenant that God would be withme and then, where I go, he
would bless me and he wouldmultiply me.
Come on in here, somewhere andeverywhere my foot trod, joshua.
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God commanded a blessing to beright there.
So in my new man, in my spiritman it's all things according to
life and godliness, and my oldman is all things according to
death and corruption.
Yeah, absolutely so we can't beflea flicker, old football
player.
We can't dab back into the oldman, dab back into the new man.
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But Paul is talking aboutliving in truth, in God and
sincerity, and leaving that oldperson behind with all the
deception of his or her of theflesh man's mindset and I think
sometimes the hardest part ofthat.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
What just really hit me is that, because a lot of
times, certain behaviors andcharacteristics were obtained as
survival mechanisms, timesletting those go for the fear of
not being able to survive, notrealizing that God's got us
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regardless.
God's got us in ways we can'teven imagine and the truth of
the matter is and I definitelyfeel this straight coming from
Holy.
Ghost.
And the truth of the matter is,is that those things that may
have been used, they reallydon't work.
Survival mechanisms, that'swhat we call them.
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They've been things that we'veused in our past lives that we
think work, and they reallydon't work.
They really do not work.
And God, I believe that if wekeep trying to hold on to those,
god's going to show us how muchthose things really don't work.
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And, I hear, for our good, theydon't work for our good.
So we've got to be willing tostrip ourselves of all of the
little things that we puttogether in the name of
protecting ourselves, because hesays I am your protector.
He says in the word, the wordsaid that he's a present help in
the time of trouble, so there'snothing that we need to try to
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manufacture.
Oh, my god, because he's gotour back.
Uh, goodness and mercy followsus all the days of our life.
He's already encamped angelsaround us, he's got us covered
and we've got to learn how to beokay with God's process of
protecting us.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Oh, my God.
Let me read verse 10 here.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Let me read.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Colossians 3.
You read verse 9.
I'm going to read verse 10.
He says it says I got to startwith verse 9,.
I'm going to read verse 10.
He says and have put I got tostart with verse 9.
Do not lie to one another.
Since you have put off the oldman with his deeds, don't just
say I'm born again and stillhave the same habits and
patterns.
And then it says and have puton the new man who is renewed.
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Watch this knowledge accordingto the image of him, who created
him.
Deeds.
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You have got to get freshrevelation, new knowledge, new
thinking in your head about lifeand about you and about what
God has in store for you andabout your purpose and about who
.
You need the new knowledge.
You need knowledge of God'sword to replace knowledge of the
world, of who you are,knowledge of the world of how to
get ahead.
Knowledge of the world of whoyou are.
Knowledge of the world of howto get ahead.
Knowledge of the world of howto survive when you become born
again man.
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You got to change all that andyou got to start getting
knowledge of Christ.
Listen to what it says.
It says and is renewed inknowledge.
Watch this According to theimage of him who created you.
You got to get the knowledge.
You got to get God's thinkingin your head about you, your
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life, your kids.
Ooh Lord, help me right now.
I wish I could preach this.
I wish this was a sermon.
I'd lose my mind up in here.
I want some sermon, holy Ghostrevelation about this right here
, because somebody got a littlebitty old man a little bitty old
old used to be person on theirshoulder telling them what to do
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all the time.
You got to kill that personbecause that is a body of sin.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
I was just saying trying to keep them around,
feeling like you need that inorder to protect yourself, and
you don't.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I hear the Lord said this is why you got to read your
Bible In order to protectyourself.
And you don't.
I hear the Lord saying this iswhy you got to read your Bible.
No, this is why you have toread your Bible, because how in
the world would you know whatGod has in store for you, who he
has called you to be, how muchhe loves you and the angels
that's encamped around you, andthe power and dominion that you
walk in, and the power of yourwords to speak and things come
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to pass, and how God calls youinto purpose through dreams and
visions, and how God workedthrough people of old.
How do you know that if youdon't get that knowledge in your
head of how the new man shouldact Absolutely, how the new
woman should raise her childrenmy God, come on how the new
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woman is supposed to be a wife.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Is it safe to say that that's your, your journey,
that's your testimony?
Because it's definitely mine.
It wasn't until I delved intothe word of God that I figured
out who I was.
I had no idea of who I was.
I had you know.
And then, as you, as you, asyou learn that and you get that
revelation and it's so muchbigger than you can even imagine
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, and you're like on the brink.
So am I about to laugh at that?
Because really, are you goingto just settle?
Are you going to?
You know what I'm saying?
Are you going to just let thatsettle in?
And I want to encouragesomebody that, once you delve if
you've not done that, I want toencourage you, as, as a
possible said, delve into theword of God to find out what God
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says about you.
If you came from, um, maybe youcame from an abusive environment
, or maybe you came from abeautiful environment, but there
may not have been very manycomments, very many comments
about who you are.
Maybe there was not reiterationof who God says you are, what
he created you to do, or to callthis on your life, and instead,
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maybe there was just given toyou a roadmap that says, okay, I
think you should be a lawyer, Ithink you should be a doctor, I
think you should be this, andit didn't really come from the
Lord, it just came from peoplearound you.
I want and it and it didn'treally settle.
I want to encourage you delveinto the word of God and when
God reveals who you are in hisword, I want to encourage you.
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When it seems like it's so muchbigger, just sit with it.
Just sit with it and trust.
God knows what he's talkingabout.
As you go along the way, itwill be revealed more and more
and more.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
I just I summarize what you said with this delve
into the truth of God's word,absolutely Delve into the truth
of God's word.
We, the scriptures, build up onthat in Ephesians 4, starting
in verse 25.
And it says because we'retalking about, how do I
cultivate, what are thepractical steps to cultivate
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this?
Positive thinking habits.
Now, watch this.
This is going to be sopractical.
This is going to blow somepeople away, but pay attention.
It requires consistency anddetermination to get there.
Watch this.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
And this one is still on truth right.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Yeah, this is still on truth.
This is still on possessing it,said whatsoever, things are
truthful.
Talking about possessing thatmindset, whatsoever, things are
truthful.
It says in Ephesians, chapterfour, verse twenty five
Therefore, putting away lying.
Why does this keep coming up?
Why does the Bible keep talkingabout lying?
How much lying is going on inthe world right now?
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A lot.
Look how much God cares aboutthe lies we tell, because he
wants us to walk in truth,absolutely.
Oh my God, do you know that inthe Gospels, jesus said, when he
got ready to ascend and go tobe what God?
He said he was going to sendthe comforter and he said he is
the revealer of truth, becauseGod has given you the Holy
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spirit so that you can walk intruth, because he's going to
show you the truth and he'sgoing to tell you the truth and
he's going to show us the waysof truth.
But the Bible keeps talkingabout lying.
Like what, like.
Stop lying, like what, stoplying.
It says put away lying.
Let each one of you speak truthwith his neighbor.
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Oh, that is so powerful.
Look, for we are members of oneanother.
Now, what's this?
Verse 26 and on.
So here's the practical stuffBe angry and do not sin.
Do not let the sun go down onyour wrap.
That's practical, it is.
You want to know how to havethis positive mindset?
Be angry and don't sin.
This is how you cultivatepositive mindset.
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Absolutely, because you'regoing to be mad, angry at people
all the time, angry about this,angry about that.
Anger prevents a positivemindset.
It really does.
Angers prevent you fromfocusing, from thinking, from
having vision, from being fluid.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
It takes too much energy to be angry.
It takes too much of yourenergy to be angry.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Oh, my God, and it takes away energy.
Watch this.
Don't let the sun go down onyour wrap Okay, forget, nor give
place to the devil.
Don't let the sun go down onyour wrath Okay, forgive, nor
give place to the devil, he saysdon't even give any place to
the devil.
What, yeah?
Okay, we don't have time, butI'm going to read some of this
stuff.
Let him who stole steal nolonger.
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We're talking about practicalnow.
Don't stop stealing.
Oh Jesus, wait a minute.
People are like I don't steal,wait a minute.
Do we really steal, right?
Oh God, okay, watch this, itsays.
But rather let him labor,working with his hand.
What is good?
That he may have something togive him who has need?
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Look how practical it is yourpossessions, your wealth, your
prosperity.
Come on, we're talking aboutcultivating these positive
thinking habits.
We ought to look at money as achannel to bless others.
It is, oh, my God.
Okay, let no corrupt wordproceed at your mouth.
But what is good for necessaryedification, that it may impart
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grace to hearers.
So get things on your mindthat's going to bless somebody,
to say that's beautiful.
Not cuss them out.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
So powerful?
It's powerful because the morewe do good towards someone, the
better we feel.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
And I think people miss that, because we sometimes
and always say, no, I'm going toget you back for what you did
to me, and we focus on beingvengeful.
But if we had a mind of Christ,if we had the positive mindset,
then we would know that theBible says not to be a vengeful.
I mean not to be vengeful.
God's like I will repay.
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That's not our job.
It's not our job to berevengeful.
So we have, we have, we havehired ourselves on for the wrong
employment.
Wow, you understand what I'msaying.
Wow, when we take on, I'm goingto get you back.
Well, what if everybody got usback?
Oh my God, for the things thatwe've done knowingly and
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unknowingly.
You know what I mean.
And so we have to make surethat we don't fall into that
trap.
I got to get you back.
No, no, no, no.
What about grace?
What about mercy?
See, those are characteristicsof Jesus Christ.
What about those things, jesusChrist?
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What about those things?
But we have to tear throughthis flesh and tear through the
old ways, and tear through thepride and tear through the
arrogance.
But sometimes the tearing isexactly what God needs for us to
do to tear through all of yourlittle fleshy ways that are not
doing you any good for what hewants to do in your life, and
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oftentimes we are holding ourown selves up because we won't
practice the practical things.
Extend grace, if for nothingelse, because grace has been
extended to you.
Extend mercy, if for nothingelse, because mercy has been
extended to us.
We did we forget, oh my god?
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Did we forget the wretches thatwe are?
Did we forget, you know?
And I think, if, if we cansometimes just take a beat, take
a beat, I think we can getourselves in a better place, a
better headspace, and be morewilling to give it, because
that's going to make me feelgood.
The joy that I have to give andto share, because what happened
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is is that God showed me, isthat he's created in me who I
asked him to create.
I used to be a very selfishindividual.
I was spoiled, so the worldrevolved around me and in my
mind as a young person, and so Ineeded that streak in me to be
broken.
I didn't want to be that person.
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I didn't see how it wouldprofit me being who I needed to
be for God, and so what I saidLord, help me to be a giver
because before I would give, Ihad to, you know, digitize some
stuff in my brain.
I was like, wait a minute, arethey worthy?
Do they need that?
Do they?
And you understand what I'msaying.
Very critical, very, all ofthat.
And God helped me with that.
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So now when I give, I'm soexcited about giving and I give
credit to God for that, becausehe helps me to transform my
heart in that way.
You know what I mean.
And so when you give, it makesyou feel good, wow, because now
you've been a hand of God in theearth realm, now you've been an
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extension of Jesus Christ to bea blessing to someone who was
in need, an organization that'strying to do something for the
Lord, and God chose you.
When God says, sow a seed, Iget excited about that.
Two things One, god, you knowyou can trust me.
And number two, I'm glad thatyou want me to be a part of
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whatever this is that I'm sowinginto.
That makes me excited.
So we have to learn thesepractical things, especially in
even in giving, giving grace,giving seed, giving care, giving
support.
Yes, let God wreck yourbeautiful organized agenda,
because he wants to do that,because he wants to know that
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your agenda will not become anidol.
He wants to know that his wordis going to be more important
than what you had planned to dothat day.
God will work your stuff justlike that, and we have to learn
to be okay with that.
Jesus, we do oh my God, give it,give it.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
Wow, I'm just.
I'm blown away at the directionthat God took this teaching and
thank you for being a vesseland being willing to let God use
you in that way.
Again, we we're talking aboutpossessing a winning mindset.
We've been talking about how tocultivate this positive
thinking.
Building up is for an eight.
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Some things are true and justlovely good report.
Think on these things and Iwant to suggest to all of you
who are listening right now besure to go back and study that
Philippians 4 and 8 and go downthrough all of those practices,
whatever is just, whatever istrue, whatever is of a good
report.
Research each one of them inScripture and the Scripture
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references that talk about being.
Just Talk about, so that youcan get a deeper understanding
as we are attempting our best topresent this on today.
But man, oh my God, walking intruth, giving all things, taking
off the old man.
You want to talk aboutpossessing a mindset.
Take off the old man.
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You want to talk aboutpossessing a winning mindset.
Take off the old man completely, put on the new man and just
practice repentance.
It's not about perfection.
You're going to mess up so manytimes.
I mess up, but I'm quick torepent.
I'm quick to repent.
But see, you can't walk aroundsin conscious.
That's what you don't want todo, because when you're sin
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conscious you are no longergrace conscious.
I don't walk around all daysaying, god, I'm sorry, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, I'm paying toomuch attention.
I have.
Every sin you're ever going tocommit has already been forgiven
.
If Christ has has died for thesins of the world, he was even
slain.
The bible says he was slainbefore the foundation of the
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world and then he died on thecross for the sins of the world.
That includes those who wereliving on earth before he got
here, while he was here andafter he was gone.
Absolutely so your children'schildren's sins, when they
accept Christ, have already beenforgiven Absolutely.
So you don't walk around sinconscious.
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That's the old man.
You walk around grace conscious.
Absolutely.
That means I have already beendelivered and set free.
Yeah, I am the righteousness ofGod by the blood of Jesus Christ
, absolutely of God.
By the blood of Jesus Christ.
So I'm no longer a sinner,trapped in a sin nature, always
conscious about what I'm doingwrong.
No, I am free in him.
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I am the righteousness of God.
I have received unmerited favorand I am accepted right in this
terrible flesh that I'm in.
I'm accepted by God and in thisbeautiful flesh that I'm in
because he gave me this body toexecute his will.
And even though there's no goodthing in me, that don't mean
I'm bad.
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I'm still good because my bornagain nature's inside of me and
God is using this flesh, throughmy spirit man, to get his will
done.
Come on, somebody.
Hallelujah.
So take off the old, all of theold, please.
Let us do this together.
As we're winding down our timewe have about 45 seconds I'm
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going to let Pastor A close usout.
We got so much more to talkabout.
Tune in for the next session,as we're going to continue this
series possessing a winningmindset, that kingdom mindset.
I think this is going to havefive series.
Possessing a winning mindset,that kingdom mindset.
I think that's going to havefive or six parts.
So tune in for the next sessionas we prepare to close.
Pastor A, what do you got?
Speaker 2 (59:38):
You know.
I think I would just encourageyou to remember that it's a
process.
It's a process.
It's a process.
It doesn't happen overnight.
We don't get there as fast aswe want to be, and I've learned
in 20, 30 years, however long,that we don't get there as fast
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as we want to, because God knowsa deeper truth about us that we
don't yet know.
Because God knows a deepertruth about us that we don't yet
know, and he knows what we canhandle.
He knows when we're ready, nomatter how many times out of our
mouths we say that we're ready.
He knows where our heart issuesare.
He knows the things that areahead of us.
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That's going to trip us up ifhe doesn't allow us to marinate
or stay in the oven a little bitlonger.
So strive not to get frustratedto a point of anger and sin
with the process, but just trustthat God knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
I love that.
I love listening to your voice.
You ought to be on the radiodoing voiceovers for books and
commercials.
I keep hearing that God can youorder my stuff, you got that
voice.
If y'all out there you needsomebody to do a voiceover, read
your book.
You got to pay.
I'm not here.
You ain't getting it for free.
I'm just going to tell you Comeon, guys.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
The woman is busy.
It is a business deal.
Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
But, boy, you got the voice, though we praise.
Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
God, thank you.
I'm so glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
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All right, welcome, welcome everyone.
Welcome back again to DailyBread, the Daily Bread podcast,
and I'm excited to be here withmy co-host.
We are Dr Jarrell and AngelaStokely.
Thank you for that pound andexplosion on the backside with
the five finger wiggle.
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Come on in, relax just a littlebit and get your mind and heart
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muscle of scripture that will bedesirable to your spiritual
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Welcome, welcome once again toDaily Bread.
I want my co-hosts to kind ofgreet you and welcome you on the
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Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yay, hey everybody, so glad you are here.
We are excited to share thisword with you on the day, and we
pray that you are empowered tobe your best self for the glory
of God.
After this, after this I likethat.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I like that.
It is always refreshing to behere with you.
Thank you, of course.
As always, you look sobeautiful, thank you.
You're radiant, you're shiningand I'm blessed to have you.
Okay, I need to calm down, foxy.
Foxy wife and partner of 32years.
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many powerful, amazing things,so we're glad to be here with
you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Welcome in once again to our podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We do this for you.
We do this to share with ourbrothers and sisters in the Lord
and to help build up thekingdom of God, as you are with
us today.
We pray for that.
You've been in this series thatwe're starting in.
This is part three ofpossessing a winning mindset,
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So, all right, got thepreliminaries out of the way.
It is good to be here with youonce again.
Actually, you're ready, I'mready.
Are you ready?
All right, you're going to giveus a word of prayer as we get
ready to dive in.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Absolutely Join me, Lord.
We bless and thank you.
We just give you glory, god,god for who you are.
We thank you that you createdus the way that you created us
and that you've provided for usthe way that you have.
We thank you for your veryexistence.
We thank you, god, that nothingis left undone.
Nothing is left unnoticed.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Thank, you God.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Nothing has been missed, god, we just give glory
notice.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Thank you, lord God.
Nothing has been missed.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
God.
We just give glory to the LordNow.
God, I thank you that you'vegiven us this opportunity to
come here to share your wordwith your people.
God, our prayer is that youwill anoint us afresh in this
moment, god, to serve yourpeople what it is that you have
in mind for them.
In the mighty name of Jesus andthen, god, we pray that your
people will have ears to hearwhat the spirit of the Lord has
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to say and then God, I want toreceive your word, right in the
place where they are, that theywill make the change, hallelujah
, that is necessary for them tobe everything you've called them
to be.
Now, god, have your way in thispodcast.
Have your way with your people,wherever they are listening.
God have your way they.
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Ultimately, you get all of theglory all of the glory all of
the honor and all of the praise.
Yes, it is in your son, jesusname that we pray.
Amen, amen and amen.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Amen, hallelujah, amen.
May the presence of the Lordfall on you as you are listening
in and tuning in on the day.
May the power of God fill you,may the word of God feed you.
In the mighty name of Jesus.
May the glory of God fall onyou and a fresh, anointing May
that be a fresh word come out ofyour mouth in the name of Jesus
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, prophesying good over yourlife, prophesying well over your
family, decreeing abundance andoverflow in all godly things.
In the name of Jesus, in yourlife, I just feel like rebuking
the enemy off of somebody rightnow and telling you that no
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weapon formed against you shallprosper.
I don't know what you're upagainst, but I believe your back
is up against the wall and somethings and some negotiations
and some contracts and somedealings Rent is due, some
things going on in court.
In the mighty name of Jesus, Ijust decree the favor of the
Lord on your life.
This is not the end.
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This is a turnaround,hallelujah.
You may be coming out of aclosed chapter, but what I need
you to know is that you'reopening up a new book in the
name of Jesus, and I want you toknow, though it may look bleak
in front of you and though youmay be dealing, hallelujah, with
some terror in your life, Iwant you to know you're going to
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survive and you're coming outof this to the glory of God, and
there's a story in your bellythat shall make it onto the
pages and make it onto TV, andmake it onto media and make it
onto Instagram that God's goingto use you to his glory, joseph.
He's going to use you.
Daniel, he's going to use youto his glory, joseph, he's going
to use you.
Daniel, he's going to use you.
Shadrach, he's going to use you.
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Moses, he's going to use you.
Elijah, he's going to use you.
Paul, he's going to use you.
Deborah, he's going to use you.
Mary, he's going to use you.
Hallelujah.
Martha, he's going to use you.
Hallelujah, glory to God.
Sarah, he's going to use you.
Asila and Procola, he's goingto use you in the mighty.
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I just decree good over you.
I don't care what you're facingand what you're dealing with.
All your days are going to getbetter because we believe with
you, we decree with you, wecommand it forth with you, in
the mighty name of Jesus.
So I got to let this go.
Father, bless my sister who islistening and bless my brother
who may be struggling.
Thank you for it now, in Jesusname.
Amen, I mean.
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You know what Sometimes you gotto tune in the daily bread just
to get a powerful prayer tomove you through.
I felt the anointing of Godmoving me to do that.
Amen, Hallelujah Pastor.
Amen, Hallelujah Pastor.
You're looking at me like Jesusis in the room up in here.
Come on now.
You look like I'm done.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
The girl for prayer is in the room.
I always have to just do thatso that prayer didn't be the
thing.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Come on now.
Prayer be the thing.
If God is leading, the prayerbe the thing.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Prayer, be the thing God is leading the prayer be the
thing.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
All right, so we pray .
You came here today looking fora word, because that's what we
have, and so today we're stillin this series, pastor,
possessing a winning mindset,and I want to let you introduce
this teaching.
But I will have to say topeople we're not talking about
the next three steps to make yougive you more capacity to do
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something.
We're concerned with you andthe mind in your mind,
hallelujah, which is yourthoughts.
The brain is the muscle, thebrain is the organ, but the mind
is the thought life of thebrain, and we're concerned about
your mind.
Mental health is a big issueeverywhere.
There's enough stress to goaround.
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We are fighting every morning,sometimes just to get up,
sometimes just to go to work, tohave peace, just to ride home
with sanity, and not just gethome and just quit and give up,
not to just get home and climbin the bed or get a drink and
just go to sleep, but we're alsostriving to have a mindset of
success, a mindset to win.
All of that comes down to havingyour mind renewed, like the
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mind of Christ.
So when we talk about a winningmindset, this is not just nine
more strategies for you to dosomething, but it is about
becoming who God has called youto be, and we think in order to
do that, you have to have themind of Christ coming.
Who God has called you to be,and we think, in order to do
that, you have to have the mindof Christ.
So we've been talking aboutpossessing a winning mindset.
When you hear that and youtranslate that into your
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everyday life things you have toface, goals that you have set,
sometimes the past that may betrying to haunt you how do you
translate, you know, possessinga winning mindset?
You know, in a practical, youknow way, to even to even begin
to think about that and considerthat for where you are and what
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you're trying to do in liferight now.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, you know, I think there's several different
things, there's several, severaldifferent things, and so much
went off in my mind as you askedthat question.
And for me, I think I'll startwith this one, because I feel
like it highlights who I am, butit comes from this posture.
When I think about possessing awinning mindset, I think about
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posture, I think about thisplace in this way that I'm
choosing to be, you know, and itbecomes more about being than
it is doing.
And if I can be in a posturethat says I am constantly going
to possess this, then I don'thave to work so hard.
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Don't have to work so hard.
You understand what I'm sayingwhen I put myself in a place of
a posture of having a um, awinning mindset.
And so because the other thingis is because I don't like to
feel bad, I don't like to feelnegative things, I don't like
negative emotions, I don't likeany of that.
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That's just not my thing.
It is the force behind why Iwork hard to maintain a posture
of a winning mindset.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Because I think we have to get to that place where
we know these are the thingsthat I want, these are the
things that I don't want.
And so chaos and drama andmessiness and all of the stuff
like I don't like feeling down,I don't like feeling depressed,
I don't like feeling angry, Idon't like those feelings.
So I work at putting myself ata place where I can have a
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mindset that debunks thosefeelings.
Now there is that reality thatyou're going to feel what you
feel and I allow that feeling tohappen most times, but I'm
always because I have thisposture of winning, having a
winning mindset.
It automatically kicks me intothis process of putting the
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right thing on my mind.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
You understand what I'm saying, right right, and so
I think that there are again.
I'll go back to the originalstatement.
I think there are many things,but I think for me it starts
with what my posture is and thenit goes into what I do and
don't want you know what I'msaying and I think all of that
plays into really positioningmyself to have a winning mindset
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, like I.
I heard that report, I heardthat information.
I am aware it's not, you know,being in this place of being a
loop, you know, elusive or youdon't know or being ignorant to
anything.
It's yep, I heard that, Irecognize that and I have these
feelings, but I don't want tokeep these feelings, right, you
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know.
So I have to shift in my mindto say, well then, what do you
want?
Right, you know, I want to feellike that I can be an overcomer
in this area.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
What does God's word say about being an overcomer?
That's it right there, you know.
And then I'm looking in theword for a word to then put on
my mind.
That's then going to regulatemy emotions, even though I know
what the information is, I knowwhat the facts say, I know what
the report is.
I can see calamity in someareas, but in order for me to
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have what it is that I said thatI want, I need the right thing
on my mind.
The right thing on my mind isgoing to produce the thing that
I said that I want.
Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I am.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'm a huge proponent of peace.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
When I think about scripture, the fact that Jesus
gave his only begotten son andthat Jesus is the Prince of
Peace and he is the one thatresides on the inside of us,
then I have access to peace atany time, but it's depending
upon what I choose to do.
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Do I lend myself to worry, Do Ilend myself to the negative
thinking or do I lend myself toworry?
Do I lend myself to thenegative thinking or do I lend
myself to the positive thinkingthat's going to get me to that
place of peace?
As you know, the scripturetalks about be anxious for
nothing, but through prayer,with supplication and
thanksgiving that your requestsbe made known unto God and the
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peace of God.
The recipe there you know.
And because I desire peace, Iam mindful of that scripture and
I strive to hurry up and getthere when my peace is or when I
find myself without peace beingactive in me.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Wow, it takes me to a question.
So our topic today is practicalsteps to cultivate positive
thinking habits.
So once something that you saidsay it reminded me ofing a
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positive mindset and all dayjourney and all day challenge it
is, and why so?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It is because things are happening all day.
Right there are there'sopportunities.
You know, I think about thescripture that says we all will
have the opportunity of beingoffended.
Offense is going to come Right,somebody is going to always.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I can't let us go past it.
I want you to come, I need youto say that again.
Say that again.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Offense is always going to come.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
What's going to come Offense?
What is offense?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
When someone does something against you.
Come on, yeah, so we haveplenty of opportunities.
The word of God says that wehave plenty of opportunities to
be offended.
The beauty is that we don'thave to receive the offense.
It's just like what scripturetalks about the weapon will form
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, but it won't prosper.
The weapon shows up, but itwon't do what it came to do.
The offense shows up, but inthose moments we have to decide
am I going to take that in Rightor am I going to identify that
for what it is and am I going topush that back out so that I
don't walk away an offendedindividual?
You know what I'm saying.
So it is.
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So things are going to happen.
Some is going to cut you off intraffic.
Somebody may send you a textand they worded incorrectly, and
so it feels like they're comingat you, but on the other end of
the text it could just bebecause they're having a bad day
and they don't know how tocommunicate their emotions.
But if you are not mindful ofmaintaining a winning mindset,
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you can easily snap off, youknow, and, and lose it over
something.
Somebody said that, just itcame out the wrong way.
You know what I'm saying.
Or maybe they said it, admittedthat way, yeah, but it's
because something's broken inthem, it's because something is
undone in them.
You know when we, when werealize and become convinced, as
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we talked about in the lastepisode, that we want a winning
mindset.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Well, I want it, I want it.
Look here, look here.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
When I want something , we do what is necessary to get
it and keep it.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
When we really want it.
Come on and see the way you'redescribing this validates the
whole idea that the winningmindset is a kingdom.
Yes, because you're talkingabout overcoming offense.
Yes, you're talking aboutpracticing patience,
self-control.
These are not concepts to teachyou how to be more successful
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at building a business.
These are concepts to teach youhow to be more successful in
everything that you do, bypossessing this overcomer
mindset and possessing the mindof Christ, because he had to
overcome it all and that's whatgave him that winning mind.
He was always winning at beingGod-like.
He was always winning atpossessing wisdom.
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He was always winning atpossessing a humble mind.
He was always winning atpossessing a mind of care,
empathy and sympathy, a mind oflove, grace and truth, and
that's what brought him into anydimension.
When you have that overcomingmindset of Christ, you can move
into different dimensions andplateaus and peaks and pinnacles
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and be grounded in wisdom andwise counsel and strategy to the
glory of God, and not just foryourself.
And what is what is profitableto the pocket, but more so what
is profitable to the purpose,and that's that's what it's all
about that was that feltprophetic.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I'm going to just say that because you know, I like
to.
I like to make sure that peopledon't miss that.
If you, you know, go back andlisten, rewind, go back and
listen to what he just said.
That felt very prophetic to meand I don't want us to miss that
.
And, as you were saying that,one of the things that rose up
in my spirit and I think this isa great nugget for us to take
away is that Jesus didn't getcaught up in the weeds.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
He didn't get caught up in the weeds and sometimes
that's my word Don't get caughtup in the weeds.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And sometimes that's my word Don't get caught up in
the weeds.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Sometimes our downfall comes in getting caught
up in the weeds.
Wow, and that's where we getmessed up and that's where we
lose our footing.
To have the right mindsetbecause we'll go digging all
down in weeds.
Ain't nothing in there, Ain'tnothing in there, but probably
some snakes, some more weeds,some things that are all
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convoluted and twisted up, somedirt and some stuff you don't
even want to deal with.
So why go hanging out in theweeds?
You know I think about you know, when we talk, when we talk
about the Eagle, we talk aboutthe Eagle.
They go high.
We've got to get out of thischicken mindset where we're
squabbling down here in the dirtand looking down here in the
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dirt at things.
So what that happened?
That's weed stuff.
You got to rise higher, figureout what's happening up in the
heavenly realm, what's what'shappening at a higher level,
because that stuff down there isnot.
It is not profitable.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I'm about to say girl .
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Come on girl me.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Girl, woman of God.
Yes, sir, that thing is someaty, that's so old.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Oh, I feel that, anointing for it, I feel that
anointing for it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That is so powerful?
Because, as you're talking, I'mthinking about everything down
in the weeds.
We have dominion over?
Come on, do you know that whenyou're talking, I'm thinking
about everything down in theweeds we have dominion over?
Come on, do you know that whenyou're walking through weeds, do
you know how many spiders, bugs, worms, caterpillars, snakes,
creeping, crawling, things thatyou're just stepping on as you
walk, that you're just walkingright past, that would scare you
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if you was down in the weedslooking at it up close?
You're stepping on the stuffthat would scare you when you
bypass the weeds.
Come on, come on, come onsomebody.
Come on and walk tall intowhere you're going.
You know, as you were talkingabout that, it helped me to
realize that when you don't havean overcoming mindset meaning
you're walking in a defeatedmindset and you're down in the
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weeds, your vision is blocked.
Yeah, absolutely, because weedsare typically tall.
If I'm in the weeds, I can't see, you can't see, See, you can't
see.
And if the enemy can snap yourcapacity to see where you're
going, to see what the futurecould be, to see the good that
lies ahead, you're already done,you're already defeated.
He has already annihilated youand crippled you, and he has
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already pinned you to the groundand crippled you, and he has
already pinned you to the ground.
But my Bible says you are morethan a conqueror.
That means that that phrasemore than a conqueror in in
Greek competition embolizes andsymbolizes a Victor who has his
foot on the opponent's neck.
That's what it means by morethan a conqueror.
You all the way under my feet,to the point.
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You can't even you dead.
My foot is on you and you needto understand something you have
dominion over those weedsituations and weed minded
people.
So go ahead and walk, you know,tread on serpents and scorpions
, and nothing shall by any meansharm you.
That's what Jesus told hisdisciples and apostles.
And boy, we better get to thissubject, because we are gone
right now.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
we better get to this subject because we are gone
right now, but it's good though.
But it's good Because that'spractical.
It's still practical, it'sstill a practical thing for us
to do Come up to the next level,my brother.
Oh, my God, that's good.
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Take our rightful position,take the position that Jesus
came to give us, and that ishaving he restored our authority
, he restored our domain, and sowe've got to come out of those
weeds so that we take ourrightful position in the kingdom
of God.
And I'm going to say thisbecause I keep feeling it,
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because we get caught up in whatwe feel like.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
What you feel like has nothing to do with what is.
I wish I had a mic in my hand,I would have dropped it.
Because, just because you don'tfeel like you are more than a
conqueror, my Bible and you justsaid it says that we have the
power to walk on the head ofserpents.
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So because you don't feel likea conqueror doesn't mean it's
not true, because you have thepower to do what you need to do.
Glory to God.
So I can feel less than I canfeel counted out, but my Bible
says I've been grafted in Comeon.
You understand what I'm sayingso our feelings don't always
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dictate what is real, and we'vegot to move from the place of
well, I don't feel like anovercomer, I don't feel like
this, I don't feel like that.
That is when we have to get towhat we're talking about, and
that is that winning mindset.
But what did the word of Godsay?
What did the word of God sayand I'm going to tell you this
is my one of my sayings too it's, it's, it's the word, is what
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the word says, and then it'swhat we say.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
And I'm just going to say somebody lying and it ain't
the word, it is not God, and sowe've got to let God's word be
true and every man alive, andthat includes ourselves
sometimes.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
This makes me think about, you know, the practice of
bringing my feelings and myemotions in alignment with my
promise.
Yes, I got to fear my emotionslike a car or like steering
cattle.
I have to get into action.
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I have to activate you do, comeon somebody my authority,
because it's not just going tohappen, man.
I have to activate what I havebeen given to steer my emotions
into my devotion.
Oh yes, sir, I got to steer myemotions into my devotion.
I got to steer my problem intomy promise.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I got to do it.
I have to do it Because it'snot going to just get over there
on its own.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Come on, it's not going to get on its own, it's
not going to get over there onits own.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And again, I think sometimes those are the missing
pieces.
We don't want to do the workthat's required and that is why
we feel so defeated because wewon't just do the thing that's
in the word of god to do.
Sometimes we don't have thepeace.
We talked about the scripturelast time, how, or maybe it was
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today, I can't remember.
But the the um that we're notsupposed to have anxiety.
Right?
Don't have anxiety, don't worryabout anything.
We can pray, supplicate, makethanks, I mean and have
Thanksgiving.
We don't want to do that part.
Let every request be made knownunto God so that the peace of
God can keep your heart and mind.
We don't want to do that part.
We want God to do it all.
We don't want to supplicate, wedon't want to have Thanksgiving
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.
We just want God to be.
You know, just show up becauseyou know I'm hurting.
Just show up because you know.
But what have you said?
I feel the Holy Ghost.
What have you said lately?
What have you said?
What petitions have you laid atthe throne of God?
What things have you placedbefore him?
You want your child to bebetter, you want your job to be
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better, but have you put thosepetitions before the Lord?
Oftentimes we're frustratedabout not having results in
areas we ain't done nothingabout.
Come on, we just internalizing.
We're in the weeds.
We're internalizing Down in theweeds.
I can't believe this happenedto me.
Oh, this is messed up, oh thisis unfair.
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But have you put the petitionsof what you want before your
father, who not only hears yourprayers, but who also answers?
So then, what are wecomplaining about?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I'm just saying this thing is so powerful.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
You reminded me of one of the Psalms where David
said this poor man cried out andthe Lord heard me and delivered
me out of all of my trouble.
All of them, this poor man,cried out.
So we have to learn the powerof a collapse and a cry.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Come on, because sometimes you've got to drop
down to the flow, baby.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
If you can't push yourself to pray but you're
going through and you're wearyand you're stressed sometimes,
you've just got to fall straightdown in the flow.
Because when he calls himself apoor man, that is an indication
that he humbled himself.
He categorized himself asnothing.
I'm just this poor man.
See, that is an indication thathe humbled himself.
He categorized himself asnothing.
I'm just this poor man.
See, that's humility.
And see, when you collapse downin that flow, that's humility.
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You got to understand acollapse and a cry.
This poor man cried out, tearsin his face.
He was saying God, if you don'tmove, I'm done.
If you don't do it, it won'tget done.
I've tried it and it don't work.
You got to learn the power of acollapse and a cry and give
that thing to God, because ifyou don't, let me tell you
something Thoughts driven byemotion will suicide you.
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Thoughts driven by emotion willabort your mission.
Talk about a blindside.
Driven by emotion Willblindside you.
They will blindside you.
So you've got to get over intothe habits of practicing a
positive mindset.
Now we're 30 minutes in Ain'treading, no scripture.
Let me give it to you here.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Philippians, 4.
Verse 8.
We said that in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Okay, come on, pastor , give it to him.
You want me to read it.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah, you go ahead.
I'm two chapters.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Okay, Philippians 4.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I think my Bible must have flipped.
Finally, brothers and sisters,whatever is true, whatever is
noble, whatever is right,whatever is pure, whatever is
lovely, whatever is admirable,if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy, think about suchthings, and that's in the NIV.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Oh my God, Can you, can you?
Yeah, okay, so that was verseeight.
Right, you know what gets meabout this verse all the time I
can't get past the word whatever.
I love it and we're going toget to the deepest stuff, but
this word, whatever keeps me.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Yeah, whatever is lovely.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Because God, because we all have a file of God's
history of goodness in our lives.
We have a memory bank ofsomething God did that was good.
And so this passage ofscripture is saying listen when
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you're trying to make it, whenyou're trying to come through,
listen whatever you can think of.
That includes little big oldnew that nobody saw.
Internal, external, whateverListen.
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God has made such a way out forus.
He said whatever Okay.
He says whatever Listen to this.
He said whatever OK.
He says whatever Listen.
He said whatever things aretrue, yeah, anything, just
what's true.
God is good.
That's true.
Yeah, jesus came for me.
Yeah, that's true.
So if I take that when I'mtrying to have a pattern of a
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positive mindset and I gotnegative thoughts and I'm
stressed and I'm fatigued andI'm failing, I'm dealing with
failure.
I'm a hardest self critic.
I have limiting self beliefswhen all that is going on in my
head, if I could just think onthe truth that Jesus came to set
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me free and I'm free, thatright there.
If I drop down and it says ifthere's any virtue in it, that
means if there's any good inwhat you're thinking about.
And if it said if there's anyvirtue in it and if it's
anything praiseworthy aboutJesus saving your soul, go ahead
and give praise right there.
Go ahead and get that on yourmind to shift you from negative
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to positive.
Anyway, that, just that word.
Whatever always gets you.
It's not a category it doesn'ttalk about.
You don't have to be elite, youdon't have to be a preacher,
teacher, you don't have to bethe boss, you don't have to be
on top, whatever, whatever youcan think about.
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So typically, when I readthrough these instructions
whatever things are true, noble,just pure, lovely you know I
look for something deeper.
I hear it, but it's not reallysaying enough for me.
So I broke them down as Istudied, I took each one and I
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added some context, somescripture to them for us to look
at.
So it says whatsoever thingsare true.
Let's look at truth and how touse truth to cultivate positive
thinking.
So I have Colossians 3 and 9.
If you can get that one, Icould get the other one in
Ephesians 4 and 25.
So Colossians- Colossians 3.
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Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Verse 9.
Do not lie to each other, sinceyou have taken off your old
self with its practices.
Oh my God, do not lie.
Come on To each other, sinceyou have taken off your old self
with its practices.
That's good.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Yeah, and to see I'm I'm balling on it A lot of ways
with this, but but stop lying,that's good.
Stop stop the lying that'sgoing on in your head.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yep.
Okay, that's so good, that's sogood, that's so good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
If it's not for your good, if it's not the word of
God, it's a lie.
Yep, first of all, I like that.
Stop believing the lies of theworld, stop believing the lies
of the enemy, and listen.
Stop believing the lies ofpride and lust and flesh that's
going on on the inside of you,oh my God.
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When we, when we, when we wearour masks and when we fail to be
human and when we fail to bereal with one another, then
we're missing what thatscripture says.
It says stop lying to oneanother.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, read it again, stop lying to one another.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, read it again, pastor, stop lying to one
another.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off
your old self with its practice.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
So when we put on the new man, we walk in truth.
So it's basically saying totransition your life to a life
of truth Yep, walk in truth, yep, Walk in truth, absolutely.
Jesus says I am the way, I amthe truth and I am the life.
And if any man is to go to thefather, he is to go through me.
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And God wants us to walk intruth.
And when you walk in truth, youdevelop a positive mindset
because you have no fear, you'renot letting lies exist anywhere
in your life, so you're notworried about what's going to
come your way, what people aregoing to do to you, because you
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live a life of truth.
I've been true, I've been truebefore Everybody.
This is talking aboutpracticing authenticity.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
It is yeah, I like that.
That's really good.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
And practicing vulnerability.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Both of those are uncomfortable.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I was just going to say both of those are
uncomfortable and more oftenthan not we have a hard time as
people doing both of thosethings than not we have a hard
time as people, doing both ofthose things.
One of the things that you said,and then I want you to continue
.
When you were talking, I forgotexactly what you were just
talking about, but this is thethought that I had.
Sometimes we are blinded to ourown realities and one of the
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things that I like to encouragepeople to do, and I've been
doing this for years.
In your prayer time, in yourdevotional time with the Lord,
one of the most powerfulquestions or one of the most
powerful things to ask God isLord, show me me, show me me,
because we can't bring beforeGod the things that need to be
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fixed, that we don't think arebroken.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
If we don't realize that we have some shadiness in
our character, if we don'trealize that there are some
things about us that are reallynot pleasing to God and they've
been, I feel, the Holy Ghost,they've been with us so long,
they've been with us so longit's become a staple in our
personalities Then we don't knowto bring those things to God,
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for him to fix them or help usto fix them.
So one of the things that Ithink is really important is
that when we spend our time withGod, no matter where you are in
your Christian journey, startnow, been saved 300 years,
whatever.
It is always powerful to sayGod, show me, me, because
there's always an opportunityfor your old man to try to start
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.
Try to start showing up andcreating ways in you that you
don't recognize, because it'sbeen a part of who you are, who
you've been or who you used tobe for so long you don't even
recognize it.
And sometimes we need God toreveal those ugly areas in our
life so that we can do somethingabout them.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
That is so powerful?
Because what Paul is getting atright here in Colossians 3 is
taking off the old manpermanently and putting and
putting on the new man andsetting aside all the ways of
the old man.
See, sometimes we try to keepsome of the ways of the old girl
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, that's right.
Or some of the ways of the oldguy yeah, especially when it
comes to dating, did I?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
say that you did out loud.
I'm getting ready to helpsomebody.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
God said your dating life will come together the way
he wants it to when you stopdating like the old girl did.
When you stop dating like theold guy does, because in all the
areas where we take off the oldman or the old woman, the
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greatest struggle is in datingRelationships.
I want to say relationshipsbecause sometimes we are quote,
unquote dating oh my God, theauthorities on our job.
Because we're trying to getmore like the old girl does or
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the old guy.
So we have all these nicetiesand flirts and you know we work
to impress a certain personbecause we want them to give us
something.
But my Bible tells me the earthis the lowest and the fullness
thereof, and the world and theythat dwell therein.
So I don't have to play the oldman game and I don't have to
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wear the clothes of the oldperson to get something, when
the new man has an abundance ofthings waiting on him in Christ
Jesus as an inheritance ofAbraham, under the Abrahamic
covenant that God would be withme and then, where I go, he
would bless me and he wouldmultiply me.
Come on in here, somewhere andeverywhere my foot trod, joshua.
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God commanded a blessing to beright there.
So in my new man, in my spiritman it's all things according to
life and godliness, and my oldman is all things according to
death and corruption.
Yeah, absolutely so we can't beflea flicker, old football
player.
We can't dab back into the oldman, dab back into the new man.
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But Paul is talking aboutliving in truth, in God and
sincerity, and leaving that oldperson behind with all the
deception of his or her of theflesh man's mindset and I think
sometimes the hardest part ofthat.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
What just really hit me is that, because a lot of
times, certain behaviors andcharacteristics were obtained as
survival mechanisms, timesletting those go for the fear of
not being able to survive, notrealizing that God's got us
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regardless.
God's got us in ways we can'teven imagine and the truth of
the matter is and I definitelyfeel this straight coming from
Holy.
Ghost.
And the truth of the matter is,is that those things that may
have been used, they reallydon't work.
Survival mechanisms, that'swhat we call them.
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They've been things that we'veused in our past lives that we
think work, and they reallydon't work.
They really do not work.
And God, I believe that if wekeep trying to hold on to those,
god's going to show us how muchthose things really don't work.
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And, I hear, for our good, theydon't work for our good.
So we've got to be willing tostrip ourselves of all of the
little things that we puttogether in the name of
protecting ourselves, because hesays I am your protector.
He says in the word, the wordsaid that he's a present help in
the time of trouble, so there'snothing that we need to try to
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manufacture.
Oh, my god, because he's gotour back.
Uh, goodness and mercy followsus all the days of our life.
He's already encamped angelsaround us, he's got us covered
and we've got to learn how to beokay with God's process of
protecting us.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Oh, my God.
Let me read verse 10 here.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Let me read.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Colossians 3.
You read verse 9.
I'm going to read verse 10.
He says it says I got to startwith verse 9,.
I'm going to read verse 10.
He says and have put I got tostart with verse 9.
Do not lie to one another.
Since you have put off the oldman with his deeds, don't just
say I'm born again and stillhave the same habits and
patterns.
And then it says and have puton the new man who is renewed.
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Watch this knowledge accordingto the image of him, who created
him.
Deeds.
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You have got to get freshrevelation, new knowledge, new
thinking in your head about lifeand about you and about what
God has in store for you andabout your purpose and about who
.
You need the new knowledge.
You need knowledge of God'sword to replace knowledge of the
world, of who you are,knowledge of the world of how to
get ahead.
Knowledge of the world of whoyou are.
Knowledge of the world of howto get ahead.
Knowledge of the world of howto survive when you become born
again man.
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You got to change all that andyou got to start getting
knowledge of Christ.
Listen to what it says.
It says and is renewed inknowledge.
Watch this According to theimage of him who created you.
You got to get the knowledge.
You got to get God's thinkingin your head about you, your
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life, your kids.
Ooh Lord, help me right now.
I wish I could preach this.
I wish this was a sermon.
I'd lose my mind up in here.
I want some sermon, holy Ghostrevelation about this right here
, because somebody got a littlebitty old man a little bitty old
old used to be person on theirshoulder telling them what to do
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all the time.
You got to kill that personbecause that is a body of sin.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
I was just saying trying to keep them around,
feeling like you need that inorder to protect yourself, and
you don't.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I hear the Lord said this is why you got to read your
Bible In order to protectyourself.
And you don't.
I hear the Lord saying this iswhy you got to read your Bible.
No, this is why you have toread your Bible, because how in
the world would you know whatGod has in store for you, who he
has called you to be, how muchhe loves you and the angels
that's encamped around you, andthe power and dominion that you
walk in, and the power of yourwords to speak and things come
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to pass, and how God calls youinto purpose through dreams and
visions, and how God workedthrough people of old.
How do you know that if youdon't get that knowledge in your
head of how the new man shouldact Absolutely, how the new
woman should raise her childrenmy God, come on how the new
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woman is supposed to be a wife.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Is it safe to say that that's your, your journey,
that's your testimony?
Because it's definitely mine.
It wasn't until I delved intothe word of God that I figured
out who I was.
I had no idea of who I was.
I had you know.
And then, as you, as you, asyou learn that and you get that
revelation and it's so muchbigger than you can even imagine
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, and you're like on the brink.
So am I about to laugh at that?
Because really, are you goingto just settle?
Are you going to?
You know what I'm saying?
Are you going to just let thatsettle in?
And I want to encouragesomebody that, once you delve if
you've not done that, I want toencourage you, as, as a
possible said, delve into theword of God to find out what God
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says about you.
If you came from, um, maybe youcame from an abusive environment
, or maybe you came from abeautiful environment, but there
may not have been very manycomments, very many comments
about who you are.
Maybe there was not reiterationof who God says you are, what
he created you to do, or to callthis on your life, and instead,
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maybe there was just given toyou a roadmap that says, okay, I
think you should be a lawyer, Ithink you should be a doctor, I
think you should be this, andit didn't really come from the
Lord, it just came from peoplearound you.
I want and it and it didn'treally settle.
I want to encourage you delveinto the word of God and when
God reveals who you are in hisword, I want to encourage you.
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When it seems like it's so muchbigger, just sit with it.
Just sit with it and trust.
God knows what he's talkingabout.
As you go along the way, itwill be revealed more and more
and more.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
I just I summarize what you said with this delve
into the truth of God's word,absolutely Delve into the truth
of God's word.
We, the scriptures, build up onthat in Ephesians 4, starting
in verse 25.
And it says because we'retalking about, how do I
cultivate, what are thepractical steps to cultivate
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this?
Positive thinking habits.
Now, watch this.
This is going to be sopractical.
This is going to blow somepeople away, but pay attention.
It requires consistency anddetermination to get there.
Watch this.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
And this one is still on truth right.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Yeah, this is still on truth.
This is still on possessing it,said whatsoever, things are
truthful.
Talking about possessing thatmindset, whatsoever, things are
truthful.
It says in Ephesians, chapterfour, verse twenty five
Therefore, putting away lying.
Why does this keep coming up?
Why does the Bible keep talkingabout lying?
How much lying is going on inthe world right now?
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A lot.
Look how much God cares aboutthe lies we tell, because he
wants us to walk in truth,absolutely.
Oh my God, do you know that inthe Gospels, jesus said, when he
got ready to ascend and go tobe what God?
He said he was going to sendthe comforter and he said he is
the revealer of truth, becauseGod has given you the Holy
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spirit so that you can walk intruth, because he's going to
show you the truth and he'sgoing to tell you the truth and
he's going to show us the waysof truth.
But the Bible keeps talkingabout lying.
Like what, like.
Stop lying, like what, stoplying.
It says put away lying.
Let each one of you speak truthwith his neighbor.
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Oh, that is so powerful.
Look, for we are members of oneanother.
Now, what's this?
Verse 26 and on.
So here's the practical stuffBe angry and do not sin.
Do not let the sun go down onyour wrap.
That's practical, it is.
You want to know how to havethis positive mindset?
Be angry and don't sin.
This is how you cultivatepositive mindset.
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Absolutely, because you'regoing to be mad, angry at people
all the time, angry about this,angry about that.
Anger prevents a positivemindset.
It really does.
Angers prevent you fromfocusing, from thinking, from
having vision, from being fluid.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
It takes too much energy to be angry.
It takes too much of yourenergy to be angry.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Oh, my God, and it takes away energy.
Watch this.
Don't let the sun go down onyour wrap Okay, forget, nor give
place to the devil.
Don't let the sun go down onyour wrath Okay, forgive, nor
give place to the devil, he saysdon't even give any place to
the devil.
What, yeah?
Okay, we don't have time, butI'm going to read some of this
stuff.
Let him who stole steal nolonger.
(50:42):
We're talking about practicalnow.
Don't stop stealing.
Oh Jesus, wait a minute.
People are like I don't steal,wait a minute.
Do we really steal, right?
Oh God, okay, watch this, itsays.
But rather let him labor,working with his hand.
What is good?
That he may have something togive him who has need?
(51:05):
Look how practical it is yourpossessions, your wealth, your
prosperity.
Come on, we're talking aboutcultivating these positive
thinking habits.
We ought to look at money as achannel to bless others.
It is, oh, my God.
Okay, let no corrupt wordproceed at your mouth.
But what is good for necessaryedification, that it may impart
(51:28):
grace to hearers.
So get things on your mindthat's going to bless somebody,
to say that's beautiful.
Not cuss them out.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
So powerful?
It's powerful because the morewe do good towards someone, the
better we feel.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
And I think people miss that, because we sometimes
and always say, no, I'm going toget you back for what you did
to me, and we focus on beingvengeful.
But if we had a mind of Christ,if we had the positive mindset,
then we would know that theBible says not to be a vengeful.
I mean not to be vengeful.
God's like I will repay.
(52:07):
That's not our job.
It's not our job to berevengeful.
So we have, we have, we havehired ourselves on for the wrong
employment.
Wow, you understand what I'msaying.
Wow, when we take on, I'm goingto get you back.
Well, what if everybody got usback?
Oh my God, for the things thatwe've done knowingly and
(52:31):
unknowingly.
You know what I mean.
And so we have to make surethat we don't fall into that
trap.
I got to get you back.
No, no, no, no.
What about grace?
What about mercy?
See, those are characteristicsof Jesus Christ.
What about those things, jesusChrist?
(52:52):
What about those things?
But we have to tear throughthis flesh and tear through the
old ways, and tear through thepride and tear through the
arrogance.
But sometimes the tearing isexactly what God needs for us to
do to tear through all of yourlittle fleshy ways that are not
doing you any good for what hewants to do in your life, and
(53:13):
oftentimes we are holding ourown selves up because we won't
practice the practical things.
Extend grace, if for nothingelse, because grace has been
extended to you.
Extend mercy, if for nothingelse, because mercy has been
extended to us.
We did we forget, oh my god?
(53:33):
Did we forget the wretches thatwe are?
Did we forget, you know?
And I think, if, if we cansometimes just take a beat, take
a beat, I think we can getourselves in a better place, a
better headspace, and be morewilling to give it, because
that's going to make me feelgood.
The joy that I have to give andto share, because what happened
(53:57):
is is that God showed me, isthat he's created in me who I
asked him to create.
I used to be a very selfishindividual.
I was spoiled, so the worldrevolved around me and in my
mind as a young person, and so Ineeded that streak in me to be
broken.
I didn't want to be that person.
(54:17):
I didn't see how it wouldprofit me being who I needed to
be for God, and so what I saidLord, help me to be a giver
because before I would give, Ihad to, you know, digitize some
stuff in my brain.
I was like, wait a minute, arethey worthy?
Do they need that?
Do they?
And you understand what I'msaying.
Very critical, very, all ofthat.
And God helped me with that.
(54:39):
So now when I give, I'm soexcited about giving and I give
credit to God for that, becausehe helps me to transform my
heart in that way.
You know what I mean.
And so when you give, it makesyou feel good, wow, because now
you've been a hand of God in theearth realm, now you've been an
(55:01):
extension of Jesus Christ to bea blessing to someone who was
in need, an organization that'strying to do something for the
Lord, and God chose you.
When God says, sow a seed, Iget excited about that.
Two things One, god, you knowyou can trust me.
And number two, I'm glad thatyou want me to be a part of
(55:21):
whatever this is that I'm sowinginto.
That makes me excited.
So we have to learn thesepractical things, especially in
even in giving, giving grace,giving seed, giving care, giving
support.
Yes, let God wreck yourbeautiful organized agenda,
because he wants to do that,because he wants to know that
(55:44):
your agenda will not become anidol.
He wants to know that his wordis going to be more important
than what you had planned to dothat day.
God will work your stuff justlike that, and we have to learn
to be okay with that.
Jesus, we do oh my God, give it,give it.
Speaker 1 (56:05):
Wow, I'm just.
I'm blown away at the directionthat God took this teaching and
thank you for being a vesseland being willing to let God use
you in that way.
Again, we we're talking aboutpossessing a winning mindset.
We've been talking about how tocultivate this positive
thinking.
Building up is for an eight.
(56:28):
Some things are true and justlovely good report.
Think on these things and Iwant to suggest to all of you
who are listening right now besure to go back and study that
Philippians 4 and 8 and go downthrough all of those practices,
whatever is just, whatever istrue, whatever is of a good
report.
Research each one of them inScripture and the Scripture
(56:50):
references that talk about being.
Just Talk about, so that youcan get a deeper understanding
as we are attempting our best topresent this on today.
But man, oh my God, walking intruth, giving all things, taking
off the old man.
You want to talk aboutpossessing a mindset.
Take off the old man.
(57:10):
You want to talk aboutpossessing a winning mindset.
Take off the old man completely, put on the new man and just
practice repentance.
It's not about perfection.
You're going to mess up so manytimes.
I mess up, but I'm quick torepent.
I'm quick to repent.
But see, you can't walk aroundsin conscious.
That's what you don't want todo, because when you're sin
(57:33):
conscious you are no longergrace conscious.
I don't walk around all daysaying, god, I'm sorry, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, I'm paying toomuch attention.
I have.
Every sin you're ever going tocommit has already been forgiven
.
If Christ has has died for thesins of the world, he was even
slain.
The bible says he was slainbefore the foundation of the
(57:55):
world and then he died on thecross for the sins of the world.
That includes those who wereliving on earth before he got
here, while he was here andafter he was gone.
Absolutely so your children'schildren's sins, when they
accept Christ, have already beenforgiven Absolutely.
So you don't walk around sinconscious.
(58:15):
That's the old man.
You walk around grace conscious.
Absolutely.
That means I have already beendelivered and set free.
Yeah, I am the righteousness ofGod by the blood of Jesus Christ
, absolutely of God.
By the blood of Jesus Christ.
So I'm no longer a sinner,trapped in a sin nature, always
conscious about what I'm doingwrong.
No, I am free in him.
(58:37):
I am the righteousness of God.
I have received unmerited favorand I am accepted right in this
terrible flesh that I'm in.
I'm accepted by God and in thisbeautiful flesh that I'm in
because he gave me this body toexecute his will.
And even though there's no goodthing in me, that don't mean
I'm bad.
(58:58):
I'm still good because my bornagain nature's inside of me and
God is using this flesh, throughmy spirit man, to get his will
done.
Come on, somebody.
Hallelujah.
So take off the old, all of theold, please.
Let us do this together.
As we're winding down our timewe have about 45 seconds I'm
(59:19):
going to let Pastor A close usout.
We got so much more to talkabout.
Tune in for the next session,as we're going to continue this
series possessing a winningmindset, that kingdom mindset.
I think this is going to havefive series.
Possessing a winning mindset,that kingdom mindset.
I think that's going to havefive or six parts.
So tune in for the next sessionas we prepare to close.
Pastor A, what do you got?
Speaker 2 (59:38):
You know.
I think I would just encourageyou to remember that it's a
process.
It's a process.
It's a process.
It doesn't happen overnight.
We don't get there as fast aswe want to be, and I've learned
in 20, 30 years, however long,that we don't get there as fast
(01:00:03):
as we want to, because God knowsa deeper truth about us that we
don't yet know.
Because God knows a deepertruth about us that we don't yet
know, and he knows what we canhandle.
He knows when we're ready, nomatter how many times out of our
mouths we say that we're ready.
He knows where our heart issuesare.
He knows the things that areahead of us.
(01:00:32):
That's going to trip us up ifhe doesn't allow us to marinate
or stay in the oven a little bitlonger.
So strive not to get frustratedto a point of anger and sin
with the process, but just trustthat God knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
I love that.
I love listening to your voice.
You ought to be on the radiodoing voiceovers for books and
commercials.
I keep hearing that God can youorder my stuff, you got that
voice.
If y'all out there you needsomebody to do a voiceover, read
your book.
You got to pay.
I'm not here.
You ain't getting it for free.
I'm just going to tell you Comeon, guys.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
The woman is busy.
It is a business deal.
Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
But, boy, you got the voice, though we praise.
Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
God, thank you.
I'm so glad you said that.
Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Thank you all for tuning in once again to Daily
Bread Daily Bread with yourhosts, dr Terrell and Angela
Stokely.
Please pray for us.
Please continue to share,download and give this good word
to someone who may need it.
We're in the word of God and Ithink really saying something to
touch some folks would be ablessing to their lives,
(01:01:32):
especially from our journeys.
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Bye-bye.
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