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Soul healing begins with understanding the intimate connection between our hearts and minds. What we think shapes how we feel, and what we feel influences what we think—a powerful cycle that determines our response to trauma, abuse, and victimization.

The most liberating truth for anyone who has experienced abuse or violence is this: what happened to you says nothing about your worth and everything about the perpetrator's damaged heart. Their actions stem from their own depravity, their unresolved wounds, their spiritual darkness—not from anything lacking in you. This perspective doesn't minimize your pain but frees you from the burden of self-blame that so many victims carry.

Looking at Jesus' response to his accusers provides a powerful model for healing. Even as he suffered horrific violence from the very people who had once praised him, he responded with compassion: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." He recognized their spiritual blindness without taking their actions personally, though he personally bore the consequences of their cruelty. This demonstrates a spiritual strength we can cultivate—the ability to seek understanding without excusing wrongdoing.

The dangerous cycle of victimization turns victims into perpetrators when left unaddressed. Without proper healing, those who experience violence often perpetuate it; those bullied frequently become bullies. Breaking this cycle requires disciplining our thought life, filling our minds with truth rather than revenge fantasies, and cultivating peace even amid turmoil. There's a crucial distinction between seeking justice (which promotes healing) and pursuing revenge (which keeps us bound to bitterness).

Your healing journey begins with recognizing that "thoughts run your life" and intentionally feeding your soul with God's promises rather than ruminating on past hurts. This spiritual discipline transforms your inner landscape from battleground to garden, allowing God's peace to guard your heart and mind. No matter what's been stolen from you—joy, security, dignity—restoration is possible when you choose the path of spiritual growth over self-destruction.

Share your thoughts or questions at truthdrips@yahoo.com and join us next time as we continue exploring pathways to healing and wholeness.

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Dina LaFargue Augusti (00:00):
Greetings and welcome to another episode
of the Drip Line, where love andhealing will flow into your
soul.
Tune in and take a listen, comealong this journey, allowing
love and truth to permeate yourentire being.
Hopefully, the message sharedtoday will touch your heart,

(00:24):
bringing you closer to yourhealing, empowering you for your
daily life and helping you movethrough the process
successfully.
The heart and mind are mostdefinitely tied together.
In today's message I want us toreflect on that relationship,

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how the heart feels what themind is thinking and how
whatever we're thinking canevoke emotions.
So, now just take a littlemoment and put your hand on your
heart, be very still.
What is it telling you rightnow?

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What's your first thought asyou place your hand over your
heart?
Did you close your eyes?
Did your eyes fill with tears?
Did you grit your teeth becauseyou're filled with anger?
What did you feel and what areyou feeling right now?

(01:33):
What thoughts started to runacross your mind when you did
that?
And what thoughts are runningacross your mind right now?
Is your imagination runningback and forth through the last
moments of peace that you had;to the last time you really felt

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joy, or to what you wish youwould have done in a moment of
rage or victimization, a momentof terror, anger, or fear?
Or did it run across thethoughts of what you could have
done, what you should have done,what you wanted to do but

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didn't do?
Are you persecuting yourselfright now?
Is it running back and forth inanger and bitterness and
feelings of betrayal?
You see, the heart and the mindare interconnected,
intertwined, and wrapped up inone another.

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They are inseparable.
So where your heart is is whereyour thoughts lie many times.
So what do you find yourselfthinking about day in and day
out, over and over again, thathas an impression on your
thought life?
What are you doing in responseto all those thoughts?

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Are you truly analyzing howmuch time you spend on something
negative?
Could be that your mind isrunning over and over and over
again on the same things, thesame events that are truly
producing nothing but negativity.

(03:21):
So whatever your heart and mindare doing together, it's a
conspiracy.
.
In the Bible, in the Gospel ofLuke, chapter 6, verse 45, it

states (03:36):
"a good person, out of the good treasure of their heart
, produces good, and the evilperson out of the evil treasure
produces evil.
Fear can come out of theabundance of a fearful heart.

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What one's mouth speaks is whatone might do.
So my point today is that Iwant you to realize that if you
have been a victim of someone'sgaslighting, physical, emotional
or mental abuse, or if you'vebeen a victim of random

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perpetrated violence, is toremember that those perpetrators
, those criminals, are actingout of their own damaged hearts,
perhaps fractured minds, and ittruly really has hardly
anything to do with you as aperson at all.
It has nothing to do with whoyou are, and so I don't want you

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to take it personally, and ifyou have to stop thinking it was
your fault, even though you'refeeling it personally, even
though it personally happened toyou, it was more about that
person's character and depravity.

(05:07):
See, when Jesus was beingcrucified by the people, those
very people that a week earlierwere praising him and crying out
Hosanna, hosanna, in thehighest, they were the ones that
brought him to Pilate to ensurethat he would be crucified.
And subsequently, Jesus waswhooped and beaten to the point
of not even being recognizable.

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He got the brunt of the crowd'sanger and the brunt of all
their negative emotions anddepravity.
He was whipped and crucified.
He stood in front of a crowdthat misunderstood him, but he

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understood them.
He understood their depravityand the condition of their
hearts.
He understood that it was thatwhich provoked them to lash out
at the very one that could helpthem, the very one that could
bring healing, the very one thatcould save them from themselves
, from their own oppression.

(06:10):
One of the last statements thathe made before he died was,
"Father, forgive them, for theyknow not what they do.
And this can be found in Luke,chapter 23, verse 34.
Jesus expressed compassion,mercy, and forgiveness to his

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very accusers; to the ones whobrought him to his own execution
, to the point of death on thecros s.
They rallied around him,whooping and yelling and

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screaming beyond recognition atthe thrill of seeing this man,
this perfect man, suffer.
It's like the crowd was filledwith fervor to see someone
tormented and tortured.
How depraved is that?

(07:16):
The one who is without sin,this perfect man who expressed
perfect love and tenderness toeveryone, despite their title or
stature in life.
He was the one who was willingto help and to heal.
Yet he was indicted, he wasridiculed, he was despised, he
was misunderstood amongst hisown friends and family.

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He was hunted down.
He was brutally beaten andstripped of his dignity, and yet
it was not in his heart to lashout to seek revenge.
We didn't hear him yelling orscreaming at the crowds.
We didn't hear him begging formercy.
We didn't hear him accusinganyone of anything.
He was quiet.

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He was having a conversationwith his father.
He was willing to die to self,to die to his flesh.
He was willing to allow theprocess to unfold.

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He was willing to allow hisspirit man rule.
He was willing.
He remembered who he was andwho sent him, who made him.
He realized what it was allabout, and it was about us.
It's hard for most of us to dobecause we don't want to forgive

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.
We feel no one is worthy offorgiveness.
We want to lash out.
We respond in anger.
We often respond violently.
We want vengeance.
Now, I'm not saying that I'venever felt any of those feelings
and I'm not judging anyone forfeeling the need for vengeance
or for feeling rage or extremehurt.

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Being a victim has no words.
Being a victim of any crime orform of abuse is something that
is hard to describe, becausethere's a multitude of feelings
and they're all wrapped up andintertwined and they can be
expressed in many ways and mostof it is not positive.

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One emotion can overlap overanother; fear, anger, hatred,
triggers push and poke at thepain and at the injuries.
So no, I'm not judging anyonefor feeling angry or sad or
helpless or hopeless, or feelingunforgiveness or wanting
revenge.

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My point is to help anyone whois suffering now, who has
suffered, to help you saveyourself; to take on the posture
that Christ took, to take on aposture of peace, to find peace
within oneself, to come to termswith what you've experienced

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and to remember what Jesusexperienced was not about him -
it was about our salvation.
It was about our redemption.
Jesus died to self and hedidn't allow his flesh to
overcome because he knew whathis destiny and his mission was.
And he knew that his accuserand his executioners didn't know

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God, didn't know him, didn'tunderstand him; that their
criminality, that theirdepravity ruled their spirits,
their souls.
It was their lack ofself-control, it was their lack
of character, it was a lack ofhaving tools to overcome, that
causes an abuser or a criminalto do what they do.
It's a lack of knowing - it'signorance.

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People can be career criminalsand act without any regard for
anyone.
Pure hate, pure malice.
And they thrive off of seeingothers suffer.
You have to realize that.
Career abusers do that too.
They have no care about anybodyelse.

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And if they do care, they don'tcare to control themselves,
because feeding that rage, thatinner hurt, is more important.
It's taken over, it runs theirsouls.
No one else and nothing elsematters but trying to fill the
void and trying to feed thataddiction; the addiction to the
anger, the addiction to the fear.

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But only one thing will trulyfill that void and that's the
love of God.
So it's a heart matter, it's anissue of the heart, their own
fractured minds and not yours.
Too often victims of crime andabuse question their own hearts,
question their own character,question their own self-worth

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and believe that something mustbe wrong with them.
That happens too often and it'sgot to stop.
It's a natural response to tryto become a better person
because you've been abused -it's been studied.
You can't be perfect enough foran abuser.

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It's hard to avoid theirviolence no matter what you do.
It's hard to not be a victim ofsomeone else's rage, or greed,
or fear.
Relationships all over the worldare fractured.
Events are happening in thisworld right now because of

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fractured minds, depraved souls.
Ongoing events are causingpeople to act - I won't say act
out of character, but the innercharacter, the inner thing that
has never been dealt with, comesout.
The atmosphere becomes polluted.

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The soul of the victim is atrisk.
It shouldn't happen.
The perpetrator, the criminal,has accomplished their goal if
the victim allows the incidentto rule them and to destroy them

(13:29):
.
Do not let the real enemydestroy you.
The true enemy is the one whocan shape your soul with hate,
bitterness, rage, unforgiveness,self-hate, self-loathing,
hopelessness, a multitude ofinsecurities, fear and

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self-destruction.
It's not the person, it's thespirit that's influencing the
person.
It's the weakness in the personthat allows those forces to
rule their behavior.
A war is not against flesh andblood, it is not.
A war is against principalitiesand powers and rulers of

(14:13):
darkness and spiritualwickedness in high places.
The person is the vessel andnot the power behind the
victimization or the violence.
Think about that.

(14:34):
I want to remind every listenerover and over again that that's
where the war is.
The war is in the spirit andcan be lost in the natural.
Healing comes in knowing somepeople have become captives of

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spiritual warfare.
Healing comes in knowing thatpeople are bound and victims.
Don't be another victim thatbecomes another victimizer.
Did I just make up a word?
We have to realize that peoplebecome captive of depravity and

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their own bitterness, fear, andrage and their own
victimization, which turns intocontrolling forces that manifest
, that manifest in that person'spersonality and actions.
They become the person'semotions and become out of
control.
They manifest because thatperson was never given the
coping skills or the knowledgeof Christ to be able to overcome

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and to heal and to deal withtheir own tragedies.
So don't become someone else'stragedy.
We've heard that being bulliedcauses people to become bullies
and that's because they were notgiven the support or the coping

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skills to maintain a healthysense of self and security,
without overreacting, withoutbecoming excessive in trying to
protect their mind and theiremotions.
But healing will come with theword of God.

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Healing will come with taking apositive mindset.
Healing will come by seekingpeace in the midst of the storms
, in the midst of a violentenvironment or detrimental
atmosphere.
Nothing is easy.

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No, I'm not saying it's goingto happen just like that, not at
all.
But it's a practice, andpractice makes perfect.
It's a necessity.
It's a discipline that isnecessary because Because if you
don't discipline your mind andemotions, you lose yourself, you
lose .
, You you lose control andyou're a person that can become

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tossed to and fro, fro and pokedand prodded into acting
contrary to godly character,contrary to what is healthy.
In the book of Proverbs, chapter4, verse 23, it states, "Be
careful what you think, becauseyour thoughts run your life.
Be careful what you life= thinkbecause your thoughts run your

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life.
So, if you think of revenge,revenge it is - but revenge only
brings violence right.
Revenge speaks of anger.
Revenge speaks of bitternessand hate, and unforgiveness.

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Revenge does not say, I'mhealed.
Revenge does not say, I knowwho I am in Christ.
Revenge does not say I'm okay.
Revenge references everythingunhealthy.
It says, " I need to seesomeone else hurt like I hurt.
And it can manifest in so manyways that the person that hurts

(18:19):
you would never even know youmight lash out on somebody else,
it might manifest in otherbroken relationships.
So if you're living with sayingI need to get back, the world
owes me, you're walking down thewrong road.
Your thoughts are in the wrongplace.

(18:41):
In the book of Philippians,chapter 4, verse 7, it says the
peace of God, which surpassesall understanding, will guard
your hearts and minds throughChrist Jesus, and the peace of
God, which surpasses allunderstanding, will guard your
heart and mind through ChristJesus.
The And the of God can whichsurpasses all understanding will

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guard your heart and mindthrough Christ Jesus.
The peace of God overcome anynegative emotion, any negative
situation, and we must practiceit.
We must develop the disciplineto direct our thought life
towards peace, towards Christ,because it says through Christ
Jesus, through him, we canovercome all things, we can do

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all things.
We must develop a mind ofChrist.
It's really a command.
If we have the mind of Christ,we are less easily provoked.
Remember we are created inGod's image.
If you don't know that, yes, weare.

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It's written in the first bookof the Bible.
Bible, Genesis, .
God to create male and femalemen - man his image, like him,

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and he is love.
Lovedoesn't seek revenge.
Love doesn't seek to destroy,whether it's someone else or
yourself.
We don't want to become whatthe enemy wants us to become.
Remember that we don't want tothink like the enemy.
We don't want to lust for whatthe enemy lusts for.

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We don't want the enemy toprovoke us to becoming like the
enemy, like our victimizers,like our perpetrators, like the
ones who hurt us over and overagain.
So,, we have ! have the minds ofChrist.
We have to be disciplined andbuilt up in our soul man and our
spirit man to say no, I'm notgoing to cave in.

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I'm going to act in love andpeace.
I'm going to be an ambassadorof peace.
I'm going to allow God to be mystrength.
So hear me from from anycriminality,
So, not saying we're to succumbto any abuser.
I'm not saying life's we're tojust be okay with everything

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that has happened.
No, I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying that we have tolive with the abuser or that we
have to excuse any criminalbehavior.
No, we - have the right toseek justice from any
criminality.
No, we have the right to seekjustice from any criminality for
any criminality, any abuse.

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We have the right to seekjustice and to get justice, but
that's different than revenge.
I'mSo I'm not also telling you to

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make certain decisions aboutyour life circumstances.
I'm only trying to help youmanage and handle your emotions
in a most effective and positivemanner.
Whatever course of action youtake in your life to stay or not
stay, sanity despite how to getjustice that's your decision.
But I'm saying whateverdecision is made, make it with

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the Lord.
Again, I'm not tellingpowerful, what to do, because
there are so many variablesinvolved in situations and I'm
not going to cross that line.
I'm not here both, I'm notspeaking to your specific
situation.
I'm speaking to your frame ofmind.

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I'm speaking to your soul'slife; that within your heart and
mind, that you feel, the peaceof act to dwell healthily
respond, yourself, to moveforward in a healthy manner for
yourself, to help change yourinner atmosphere, to help shape

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your conscious thoughts and evenyour subconscious ones.
Contemplate these things.
Whether you suffer one incidentof violence or you're in an
ongoing situation, gaining soulstrength, gaining spiritual

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strength, is essential toovercoming negative situations,
abusive environments.
Stay with the word of God.
The word of God will help youmaintain a sense of sanity
Despite any victimization thatis occurring or has occurred in
your life.
You must know, and I'm sure youknow, the mind is extremely

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powerful and words have power.
Words shape things.
Words come from the mind andwords also feed the mind.
You have control over both andyou must maintain control over

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both to prevent evil situationsand circumstances from owning
your soul and destroying yourlife, from dictating how you
think and how you feel and howyou act and how you respond and
how you move forward and how yousleep or don't sleep.
Your stability, your sense ofself, your ability to maintain a

(24:38):
sense of self, to maintain ahealthy mindset so that you can
function productively,prosperously so that they don't

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destroy you, and so you don'tdestroy them.
You must be able to develophealthy relationships and
friendships and positive workrelationships, positive family
relationships.

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positive relationship withyourself, despite your
environment.
- no might be isolated or! feellike you're in isolation.
You might have isolatedyourself because says, "esist or
anger, but isolation is neverhealthy on So, ongoing, lasting
basis.
Consider it.
Take a look at your personality.
Do you lash out?
Do you understand where youremotions come from?
Do you understand .
It's sad or moody?
Do you understand where youremotions come from?
Do you understand why you'resad or moody?
Do you see habits developingbecause of what's happened to
you that really aren't healthy?
We shouldn't want to go in anydirection that is extreme.
Moderation is key Moderation.
Extreme anger, extreme fear,extreme bitterness.
No, we must flee.
The Lord says resist the deviland he will flee from you.
So when you recognize thatyou're responding in extreme
ways or that you've taken onhabits that are not So, healthy,

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flee from them, turn away fromthem.
If ?

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.
It's essential, it's absolutelynecessary to feed your soul
God's promises, to seek God out,to chase after God, to check
your character, to check thehealth of your heart, to check
your thought life.
It's essential to accept God'swords and his teaching by
knowing that we can becomeChrist-like, that we can
overcome.
We must strive to have a mindlike Christ.
We must strive to have .

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Christ.
That blessings, means day withhim, quality time with yourself
, for you.
Day success, because God'sword never fails.
Being in his presence willchange you.
So if we fill our minds withhim, we're not filling our minds
with hate.
If we fill our minds withthoughts towards him, we're not
filling our minds with the anger.
If we're filling our minds withhim, we're not filling our
minds with self-deprivation,we're not filling our minds with
God.
What are we filling them with.
It's contrary to God's will tofill ourselves with negative
thoughts and experiences,because they do shape us.
Self-talk is important.
The words we choose to speakabout ourselves and our
circumstances are very important.
They have an impact on ourbodies.
So we have to build ourselvesup and check those frivolous
daydreams that are filled withviolence and negativity.
Fill our daydreams with truefood, food for our soul, which
is God's word, his future thathe God's, his God's that he has.
Daydream about him Day.
They dream about the blessings,they dream about the love that
he has for you.
They dream about the futurethat he has, about the love that
he has, the promises.
They are endless and thinkingon him never fails us.

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Prosper, we feed our bodies withnutritious foods! And building
a prospering, body and our soulsneed healthy food, and that's
the word of God.
So feed, because feed.
You cannot overdose on God'sword.
You cannot overeat God's word.

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It's impossible.
You cannot overdose.
You will not find yourself inthe emergency room by overdosing
on God's word, god's presence,god's peace.
It is nutrition once soul,your "have and your.
body We \ .

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" .
Prosper in mind, body, soul andspirit, and when we're
prospering we feel it.
We feel it in our minds.
Our words change.
Our behavior changes.
Because Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life.
We feed our souls with lifewhen we feed ourselves with his
word and try to emulate hischaracter.
But see, he's our strength.
He will do it for us.
Once we say, have your way, wedon't even have to put that So,
effort in.
Once we say God, your will belife, done and we of , or can

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you, that know abundant life.
Because he says we can.
It is his desire to see usprosper.
It ishis desire to see us living in
abundance.
Our soul prospers when ofprosper in him.
So we can go down thought- orwe can go down the other.
But I say choose life.
God says, choose life, notdeath.
Choose life.
Do not choose truthdrips@ yahoo.
com thinking contrarily to God'swill and way.
We cannot peace, our daysthinking on what has ! happened
over and over again.
We can't spend our daysthinking about revenge or what
would have, could have, shouldhave.
It's the thief that does that.
We are stealing from ourselveswhen we do that.
We don't want our lives to bespent in darkness.
So whoever has tried to stealyour joy, steal your life or rob
you of peace or kill.
You Know that within God'shands there is life and there's
abundant life and there's hopefor your future.
It's no blaming the victim.
I want us to practice theself-help, a practicing
life-saving measures, which isworking on our thought, life,

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working on our emotions, that wecan live in abundance and
that's to live in Him.
If you have any comments, youcan comment to the podcast or
you can send an email totruthdrips at yahoocom.
But until next time, be blessed, be at peace and be in love.

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