Are You Willing To Lose?

We All Want To Win In Life. The Question We Have To Ask Ourslves Is, Are We Willing To LOse Those Things That Are Standing In The Way Of Victory?

Episode Transcript

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Mmmmmh come up walking through them?Man, Man, it's the hour where
you didn't get some pair of change. Nothn't feeling power already got to do
it. Take you. I'll treatthe worst of lights and food. Then
it get the vow HIPI stay focused, grand heart, You wouldn't They don't

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notice this the Holy water? Who'sgonna help me? Supposing to make complaining,
but in most they do the mostwhen you chose this for the ones
who I spoken? If you upwhen you're broken walking through them like man,
it's the hour where you didn't getsome pair of change. Nothing feeling
power already got to do it.Take I'll treat the words of light and

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food. Then, Greetings, God'sbeautiful people, and welcome to another exciting
episode of the Mike Minister. Our. I am your host, as always,
the Mic Minister, and you know, as always it's an honor,
it's a privilege. I counted ajoy to be with you yet again,

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and another chapter of this thing thatwe call life. As we get closer
to God, as we get betterin His word, as we get deeper
in His word, finding more meaning, finding more purpose, finding more joy,
finding more hope, finding more trustall in the things of God,
not in the things of us,not in the things of man, not
in the things of people around us, because, as we know, in
this life, people will let youdown, People will turn their back on

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you, people will lie on you. People sometimes mean well, but it
doesn't always work out well. Butwe know that God is always on our
side. We know that God lovesus. We know that God keeps us.
We know that God takes care ofus. We know that God loved
us so much he sent his onlybegotten son, that whosoever believeth in him
shall not perish, but have everlastinglife, everlasting. You know, there's

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a battery out there, says everlast, and they promote that they always
working, always ready to give youa charge. But there's no battery.
There is no charge better than whatGod can give us. So I'm encouraging
everyone on today, everyone under thesound of my voice. Everyone that's been
shared, everyone that's been liking,everyone that's been subscribing. It's our time,
y'all. It's our time to getcloser to God. It's our time

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to get more wisdom from God.It's our time. It's our time.
Aren't you ready? Having you beencrying for it. Having you been fasting,
haven't you been praying, haven't youbeen wanting, having you been searching,
haven't you been needing your time tocome? Well, I'm here to
tell you. I'm here to encourageyou. Don't give up now. Matter
of fact, if you're giving up, you can always start again, if

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you're breathing, If God allows youto see today, you still got a
chance. You still got an opportunityto do what God has set forth in
your life. You still got anopportunity to reap the benefits of being one
of God's children. You still gotan opportunity to turn this thing around.
But it's only if we get up. It's only if we give God a

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chance. It's only if we arewilling to make that move. So I
thank God. I just encouraging everyoneon the day. I know it's been
a couple of weeks since we spoke. I know I told you on the
last episode. I had just movedto a new city, just moved to
Texas, the great state of Texas, where they say everything is bigger in
Texas, And from what I've beenseeing so far, I cannot deny that

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everything ain't bigger in Texas because I'vebeen seeing it ye all. But I
thank God because it don't matter howbig Texas is. It ain't bigger than
my God. It ain't strong almightythan my God. There's nothing bigger than
God. There's nothing more important thanGod. There is nothing that should shadow
God. So we thank God.I thank God for everything. And also

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I got got you know, talkabout God, I just get happy.
It's just automatically. I hear God, I hear Jesus, I had a
holy spirit. I hear any ofthat. It lights something in me and
I'm not ashamed of it. ButI'm staying on task because I have but
some moments with you all today,So I want to make sure sure that
we get across what God has putin my heart to share with you.
But I apologize for a couple ofweeks, but I started a new job.

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I thank God for opening the door. And I'm gonna say this,
and I'm gonna be very transparent.The door that God opened wasn't the door
I've been praying for. The doorthat God opened isn't the one that I'm
looking to say, Oh yeah,God, this is the door right here.
But he opened a door. Sothe question I had to ask myself,
and I present it to you.When God opens the door, all

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we really happy. All we onlyhappy when God opens the door. We
want is see understand. Sometimes whatwe want we're not ready for yet.
Sometimes what we want we haven't preparedenough yet. Sometimes what we want it
ain't our time yet. So Godis not gonna just allow us to have
things that He know that we can'ttake care of, that we're not ready
for, that we haven't prepared tosustain. So that door that I ask

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God to open, I gotta bemore ready. That door that I'm looking
for God to open. I gotsome things to line up, some things,
some discipline to get in order inorder for me to s sustained,
because I don't want to walk throughthat door and get kicked right back out.
When I go through this door,I'm praying for God for I want
to stay there. I want tomake myself comfortable, put my feet up
on the couch on the coffee table, and nobody be upset. And even

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if they're upset, it don't matterbecause it's my door that God open.
That's how we should be about it. So if God ain't open that door
for you, yet that door thatyou're looking for. Be happy, be
content with the doors he has opened, because he opened them for a purpose.
There's something for us to learn inthat door. There's patience in that
door. There's still hope in thatdoor. We just got to be aware.
So we thank God. I thankGod for the opportunity. I thank

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God for the end. In themeantime blessings and no, blessing is just
in the meantime. But we're human. Let's be honest. We have blessings
that we are. Oh God,this is the one I've been waiting on
that we have. Okay, God, it's in time. Okay, in
the meantime, blessed. No,I still still being blessed. We're still
being blessed. You're still being blessed. I'm still being blessed. We all

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are blessed. Jesus. We justthank God for everything everything. Can't think
him enough. We just thank Godfor everything that he's doing. I pray,
I pray that you've been giving itto God more. I pray that
you've been talking to God more.I pray that you've been in his presence
more. Because in a relationship,you can't get anywhere. We talked about
relationship goals. You can't get anywherein a relationship without spending that time.

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You can't get in a relationship withoutknowing the person you in a relationship with.
The beauty of it is, thebeauty of it is in most relationships.
And I may have said this inthe last episode, but if I
didn't, it's a good point toadd on to what I already said.
In every relationship, we are showingonly part of the picture to that person

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we're in a relationship with because eitherwe don't trust or we are fearful showing
him out all. But God doesn'thold anything back from us. He put
he got in his word everything abouthim. You could find out how he
is, how loving he is.You can find out how he gives wisdom.
You can find out how he shows, how he teaches. You can
find out how its wrath is,what he does when he's angry. You
can find out just how many timeshe could get angry and still not allow

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his wrath to come. Unlike us, we're ready to cut somebody off if
they taught us wrong, they callour name wrong. But God, so
many times, even in the midstof his anger, turned back to love,
turn back to patience, turn backto temperament, turn back to understanding
for the people that were being stiffNick. So we thank God. I

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thank God for every platform that allowsthe Mike Minister to be present. Is
getting to the point now whereas Ican't remember them all, but I know
one thing. If you want tohear, if you're hearing something that encourages
you, If you're hearing something thatyou would like to share with someone,
I encourage you. Please share itwith someone. Subscribe to the show,
comment on the show. There maybe things that you want me to discuss.

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There may be some avenues or maybesomething that you've been thinking about that
may be laid on your heart.You can always always comment on any of
the platforms. You can send emailsto Mike Minister hour at gmail dot com.
I am more than willing, morethan willing, and more than happy
to talk about anything that will helpencourage God's people. Now, I don't
talk about foolishness. I don't beout here talking about the other people and

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how you shouldn't listen to this person, shouldn't listen to that person. That's
not how God touched me. Godtouched me to encourage. We got more
than enough YouTube channels. We gotmore than enough people out here talk about
this one and talk about that one. To me, I'd rather spend my
time encourage you on the right relationship. I can't tell you it takes too
much time to tell you who notto listen to all the time. But

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I know one person that trumps anybodyyou could listen to, that you desperately
and definitely need to listen to,and that is God. Because God will
make sure he tells you only theright thing. He's not gonna tell you
something out of his feelings. He'snot going to tell you something because of
his situation. He's not gonna tellyou something through the lens of what he
went through. He's going to tellyou what's best for you. And I

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had to understand this for myself,and I say God to tell you.
But God will find a way toget that word to you. It's not
going to be like how you're hearmy voice right now, And some of
us may be blessed to God allowsyou to hear their audible voice. I
have not experienced that yet, butGod talks to me in so many ways,
and when I open my eyes andopen up my open up mind.

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What's the word willingness to see thedifferent avenues that God can speak to me.
I started realizing that God had beenspeaking to me a lot, and
I was missing a lot of theopportunities because I was so focused on just
wanting him to speak a certain way. That's another point that we got to
look at in life. We getstuck sometimes with people in our lives,
especially when we're praying for people.When we try and encourage people, we
want them to see it our way. It's not about people seeing it our

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way. If our way helps themand they see it, that's fine.
But if they don't see it yourway the end of the day, you
want them to get it. Youwant them to be saved the redeem or
you just need them to see ityour way. It's something for us to
think about, but that's not whyI'm here today. I'm just so thankful
what God is doing in our lives, not just my life, but in
your life. You know. Wealways praying for those that are in the

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war zones, praying for those thatare in hospitals, praying for those that
are sick and shut in, prayingfor the kids that one thing that's happened
since I've been to Texas. Inthese few months that I've been here,
there's been an increase. Now.When I was in South Carolina, I
would hear those Amber alerts that wouldcome across your phone. Everybody gets them.

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I'm going to tell you somebody's missingon it and looking for somebody,
and that would come. You know, it wouldn't come that often, but
it'd be once or twice ff threetimes a week in South Carolina. But
since I've been to Texas, likeevery day every day there's an Amber alert
every day and sometimes twice a day. It's almost saddening how much evil is

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going on in the world. That'sjust one thing to talk about. We
could easily talk about what's going on. You could look outside your door and
your neighborhood and talk of things that'sgoing on. I saw the video where
the kid went into the Apple storeor the phone store and was just snatching
all the Apple phones off. Imean, the devil has people doing stuff
that's just fool of stuff that doesn'teven make sense. We know the process

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in that situation. We all havesat in the phone place and waiting for
them to update your information. Gotto get the SIM card to work.
Then it don't work. Your phonedon't ring, your old phone still ringing,
but you doesn't change your number,But you're just gonna grab the phone.
What was he thinking? What's gonnahappen? The devil has people out
here doing things, and we're noteven thinking about the consequences anymore. We're

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not even thinking far ahead. Weshould be thinking two or three steps ahead.
We just thinking in a moment.Society, social media, there's so
many things that are making us instant, instant gratification, instant instant. I
gotta have it now, It gottago now. If you don't go my
way down, then I can't haveit. I got to have it now.
I'm about to lose it if Idon't have it now. The only
thing you need now it's God,next to God. The only thing you

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need right now is air to breathe, because if you don't have breath right
now, then yeah, you're gonnnnadie. If you don't have God in
your life, We're gonna die.And I ain't just talking about it.
After you leave here, you bewalking around dead in your soul, dead
in your life, dead in yourmind, dead in your dreams dead in
your relationships without God. We foolourselves in two avenues. We either on

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that side where we say, andI'm saying we collectively because I pray that
everybody's listening has already given their lifeto God, trusting God in the form
of a relationship with him. Butif we're not there yet, then we
fall in these one or two ofthese categories. One category is I gotta
get this thing right. I gottaget these things right before I can come
to God. Then it's that othercategory that fool themselves to think, well,

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I can do this on my own. Just in natural life, your
car break down, you take itto somebody. Just in natural life,
if something breakdown in your home thatyou can't fix, you call somebody to
come fix it. Just in naturallife. If you have a flat tire
on the side of the road andyou don't have a spare and you don't
have a jack, you calling somebodyto help you. So in every aspect

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of life, a matter of fact, if your pay check a't right,
you can't fix that, you gottacall somebody to help get it fixed.
So in every aspect of life weneed someone. But we fool ourselves when
it comes to God and say,oh, I don't need him, or
I could do this on my own. That's a lot. That's the lot
of the devil wants you to believethat it's true, so he could truthfully
show you what damnation looks like.But we have to be smarter than that.

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We got all smart the devil.We got all smart ourselves. We
got our smart our thoughts. Wejust gotta be mindful. But those things
come with a relationship with God.So I'm gonna pivot at that point.
I want to pivot in this pointand didn't get into what I really want
us to talk about today. Sonow I'm going through a transition. I'm
going through a season where I'm findingnot only myself more and God, finding

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myself more and who I am findingmyself more, where my voice fits in
the body, and how I canutilize it to help build the body,
build up the kingdom for God.Because I'm not doing this for me.
I'm doing it because it's all myheart to do for God. And honestly,
even the times I miss during anepisode, especially when I had those
couple of months where we was off, I felt like I wasn't complete.

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I felt like there's something missing,something I should be doing. And we
should always have that tug in ourheart to want to do more for God.
You should have that tug in yourheart to want to do more for
God's people, to do more foryourself, to do more for your family.
We all want to see. Weshould all want to see everybody prosper,
everybody to get along, everybody toshow love. Not everybody's going to

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do that, but that shouldn't stopus from wanting to see it, because
if we want to see it,then we had exhibited. You exhibit what
you want seen. We can foolourselves and say your actions show really what
you want to be, what youwant seen in life. We think it's
the other way around. We thinkand not saying. In some cases,
you can't talk something. You couldtalk good reinforcement to yourself. You could

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talk positive reinforcement to yourself all day. But I'm a believer that if you
never put it action behind that,you're just talking. If a kid doesn't,
if a person, I don't haveto say a kid. If a
person doesn't decide in their mind thatthey want to change and do better in
life, I don't care how manytimes I tell them they're a good person,
so they decide in their mind tomake the action. The words I'm

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saying, it's just words. Yesit's encouraging words, but it's still just
words until action is put behind it. So I'm saying that to say,
let's make sure that we're acting howwe want things to be seen. It
says in the word treat those howyou want to be treated. Never said
in the word treat those by howyou felt you were treated. Because that's
what's going on right now. Alot of us are out here just doing

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that. But again, now I'mgoing somewhere with everything I'm saying, I'm
going somewhere, but let me bringit home, let me bring it more
to a head. So before Igo any further, we'll understand the path
that we're on. So for athought, because you always know when I
come, Mike Minister has a thoughtor question or statement that I like to

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bring forth. So today it's athought that is in a form of a
question. And my question to youis are you willing to lose? I
ask the question again, are youwilling to lose? Hmm? Now,

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in first airing that question, ifyou have any type of competitive spirit.
I played basketball all through school.I play games, I play the video
games. I'm very competitive, soI don't want to lose. The average
person does not want to lose.You ask somebody, If you ask somebody
to get in the contest, neveranybody got in the race. Never anybody
got into contest or anything and wasasked, are you willing to lose?

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And even if they were asked that, the first thing, our first natural
response is nah, I'm come towin. We say we are God's children,
we are winners. Everybody wants tobe a winner. Matter of fact,
winners get celebrated. Losers, youknow, that's how they say loser,
put the l on your fore head, lose or But the question is
are you willing to lose? That'ssomething that I want us to think about

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today. So I'm a cover,a cover couple of avenues. Now it's
a rhetorical question. Of course,you can't answer me right now. I
had to ask myself, am Iwilling to lose? The question is there
are some things in life we don'tmind losing. We don't mind losing that

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friend. Matter of fact, we'rein the season right now that a lot
of us say, oh, Yes, I don't mind losing. I'm willing
to lose. I'm willing to losecut these people off. You know what
I'm saying that don't be there forme. I'm willing to lose these friendship.
I'm willing to lose these relationships.But hmm, losing that may help

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you or you may be moving toohastily because of the things that I'm about
to bring forth that we are holdingon to that is making us view life,
view through the lens that we shouldn'tnow In some instances, some of
the people that we are losing inlife, God intends for us to lose
because you can't take everybody with you. We understand that I'm talking about the

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people that we are going out ofour way. We are making it our
we are making it our mission.In this season, I'm cutting them off.
In this season we act like wefind it our superpower. That's what
we think. Oh and this season, I no longer will take the things
up the past, and this seasonI no longer will be spoken to this
way and this season and hey,if that's that's the road you on,

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I get it. I get it. It's human thing. But the question
of it is you cut all thosepeople off these things I'm about to talk
about. If you if you stillhaven't lost these it doesn't matter who you
cut off, doesn't matter who youbring in, You're still not going to
reach your full potential of what Godwants you to be. So with that
being said, let's let's let's startoff with one thing that's I'm gonna be

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transparent. In this moment, Ihad to ask myself something one of these
things applies to me the most,and that thing is I'm gonna talk about
low self esteem? Are we willingto lose our low self esteem? Now?
Low self esteem is the comes fromeither the way not either. It

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comes from the way we look atourselves now. The way we look at
ourselves comes from experiences and people thatwe have met in life and we allowed
that to mold or shape how weview ourselves. And in my case,
my low self esteem came from thefact that when I was young, I
was raised by my grandmother, soI felt like my mother nor my father

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wanted me in that instance. Andthen watching other kids that I knew they
had their parents, or they hada parent, they had they was with
a parent, I used to goto PTO meetings, and my aunts,
who loved me, would come andthey would sit in a PTO meetings and
then my teacher be like, oh, your mother. They're telling everybody how
good their mother, how nice theirmother was. And I got to say,
no, that was my aunt.And it made me feel I go,
I have basketball games and sports eventsand my aunts would come, but

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my parents wasn't there. So itmade me feel like I was less there
because how can I be how canI be important if the two people that
made me wasn't there. Now I'mnot talking about them, and I have
no anger towards them. I'm justpainting the picture, not only that when
I was I and for those whohave never seen me, I have a

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gap in my teeth, and formy whole life, I allowed that gap
in my teeth to find me.Now, we know kids teas and stuff
of that nature. But truthfully,the teasing just compounded what was already there.
I already felt like I'm a kidthat's on the around all these other
kids, and I'm one of theif I saw one or two other kids,
but we're the only three out ofmaybe hundreds that got this gap in

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their teeth so I automatically felt different. Sometimes when God is trying to show
you that you're different and you're special, you just feel different. So that
in that case I felt less dandand there's other things that went on.
You know that that was the catalyst. That was something that started. So
I carried that view of myself throughmy whole life, even into adulthood.

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When I became a parent, whenmy daughter was born, I still was
looking at myself as less than tofrom the aspect that it was so crippling
to where I allowed my daughter,who was a blessing to me, I
felt that I wasn't worthy enough ofthat blessing when I was more than worthy
and she needed me. And therewere times where I allowed that low self
esteem to cripple me, when therewas times when I should have been standing

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on things, but I had to. I had to ask myself one day,
am I willing to lose this selfesteem so God can show me how
special I truly am? I askedyou, are you willing today to lose
your low self esteem so God canshow you how special you are. We

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have to understand that God loves us. God made us in His image,
so we have to be special.We were fearfully and wonderfully made that included
myself and I had to understand andI'm still I'm still understanding it, but
it was a point where I couldn'teven fathom that. So now that now

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that I'm understanding, now that I'veopened up my understanding to it, I
am willing to lose that low selfesteem. And let me let me be
honest with y'all. Self esteem.When you have low self esteem, you're
not gonna just wake up one dayand like, oh oh, it's people
out here getting these bbls, peopleout here doing plastic surgery. I promise
you they still got low self esteem. And you know how, I know
why because they keep going back andgetting more stuff done. So if they

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felt okay, if they felt okay, one, they wouldn't have got in
the first place. Two, ifthey felt okay for the first time,
they would be going back two andthree times. Low self esteem is a
powerful thing. It leads to depression, it leads to stagnation, It leads
to things that are total opposite ofGod. So we can't be walking around
and now self esteem when God isthe one who has made us. Are

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you willing to lose that today?Humh. Before I get to a scripture,
I want to read I got anotherone. Oh we all because this
one has fooled us into thinking thatwe gotta cut everybody off. The reason
why we feel we gotta cut everybodyoff in this season is because we spend
our whole life quote unquote people pleasing. But are you willing to lose that

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people pleasing spirit? Because the truthof the miror matter is you gotta stop
people pleasing because you can't please everybody. Matter of fact, you live with
yourself twenty four three sixty five,and sometimes you don't even like yourself.
Sometimes you look in the mirror yousay, man, I can't even please
myself. So if you can't pleaseyourself, what makes you think you could
please everybody else? As a matterof fact, the crazy thing is we'll

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spend our lives try to please peoplethat don't even want us to try to
please them, or trying to pleasepeople that don't even care that you're trying
to please them, or trying toplease people that are not even paying attention
that you're trying to please them.But you know what happens when we people
please, We're not doing the thingsthat's pleasing to God. We're not doing
the things that's pleasing to our peace. We're not doing the things that are

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pleasing to our sanity. So Ihave to ask you, are you willing
to stop please people pleasing? Becauseyou can't, but so that your life
can be pleasing to God. See, we should be pleasing God, not
people pleasing. That the beauty ofit is when you, when you,
When we live our lives to pleaseGod, when we search and we go

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to please God, life becomes moresimple. People is a group. Think
about that. People is a group. That's like being on the phone on
one phone call and you have nineother people call you while you're on that
phone call, and you're try tohave ten total conversations at one time.

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We can't do it. And evenif you do it, people gonna be
talking over each other. Somebody gonnasay something over here. You got to
pause over here. Now you golost, lost your train of thought night,
you're trying to get it back.Now you're talking to this person over
here. But if you're only pleasingGod, think about that. If I
gave if you went on your jobtomorrow and your boss said, hey,
I want to give you these tentasks or you can have this one task.

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What one would we pick? Hmm, Now I would be remissed.
There's you know, Mike Minister,not gonna come on here and not give
any scripture. I want to talkto you more today, but I have
to leave scripture with you because honestly, at the end of the day,
some people I send out scriptures textscriptures every day. It's about one hundred

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people. And I have some peoplethat tell me, man, I appreciate
you sending up that text send upthrough scriptures. That's the only time I
read the word. Now I encouragethem to read more. But understanding that
scripture is important because what we are, what we are faced with Right now,
there's a bunch of people talking aboutGod telling you what God wants,

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telling you how God is what Godis saying. But if we don't know
the word for ourselves, how weknow these people are telling the truth?
How can you? How can youknow? Again, I've said this more
than once before. You've never believedsomebody when they told you a food place
was good, so you went andtried it for yourself. I don't care
how they went on and on amatter of fact, if they went on

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too much, you'll say, inyour mind, man, it can't be
that good man. They tripping nowthey run it out. What's the word
cap? Man? That's cap ButGod ain't cap at all. The only
cap in God is the capital lettersthat I use when I write down to
the word God, G, O, D. So Scripture is important.

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Scripture is what teaches us. Scriptureis the proof that God is who he
say he is. It is.It is a mirror, and it's not
a mirror, but it can bea mirror to your life. It can't
help reflect some things back to youthat you need to either see or change
in our life. But in thiscase, and this wasn't part of it,
but in this case we got areyou willing to lose your way of

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thinking? Hmm? Are we Arewe willing to lose the way we think
things are supposed to be the waywe want them set up? Are you
willing to lose that? Because thetruth of the matter is, if you're
living and you're listening to me rightnow, and you can look at your
life and say it's not totally whereI want it to be, then that
means you should recognize that the wayyou think. The way I think isn't

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totally the right way. So arewe willing to lose our way of thinking
to adopt and to nourish the wayGod wants us to think in order to
get where God wants us to be? Spoiler alert, I say what God
wants us to be, but ultimately, what God wants us to be is
where we want to be. Soit's look at a couple of scriptures on

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today. Now this question. Isaved this one before I read the scriptures.
This is the question. Ultimately,I can stop at this question right
here, and that probably could coverthe rest of the rest of the episode,
but I won't because we had acouple more things we got to look
at. But the first question Iwant to ask you is are you willing

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to lose fear? You know,fear is one of the most powerful things
that up cripple us, prevents usfor entertaining new people, prevents us from
trying new things, prevent us fromreaching Father than what we ever reached before.
But God has addressed fear, andwhile we should be willing to lose
it Isaiah forty one and ten.The scripture reads, fear thou not for

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I am with THEE, be notdismayed, For I am thy God.
I will strengthen thee. Yay,I will help thee. Yay, I
will uphold THEE with the right handof My righteousness. So God is telling
us fear thou not because He's withus. No matter what we see in

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life, we should not be dismayedbecause God is our God. He is
our God. So no matter whatsituation that we go through, no matter
what they say about you, nomatter what happened on the jib, what
happened in life, God will strengthenus. The reason why we hold on
to the fear sadly is because somehowin there we think that fear is going

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to help us. Oh, Igot it. You know it never has.
It's crippled us in every corner.But for some strange we have allowed
fear to be so strong that itmakes us afraid to reach to God.
Isn't that amazing? The thing thatwe want to get lost out of our
life has crippled us to the pointthat we won't reach to get rid of
it. Think of that for amoment. All you want to lose.

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Who wants to hold on to somethingthat cripples them. Who wants to hold
on something that stopped them from reachingYou know that you know that place in
life you want to get to whereyou're able to bless others. Fear is
stopping you from getting there. Butwe holding on to it for what?
Why are we holding on to it? What is it? How is it
helping us? We fool ourselves ofsaying, well, I don't fool with
other people. I don't let peoplein because of what happened before. So

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you mean to tell me you allowedthis boogeyman is no longer in your life
to control your life now. Hmmm. Fear. Now, Now, let
me say this and be very direct. Fear is us powerful thing. Fear
is powerful. I'm not not sayingthat it isn't. But I said earlier
there is nothing more powerful than God. So if your fear is overriding your

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God in your life, that meansyou know where you're spending your time.
We have to get to the placewhere we are willing to lose it.
We have fooled ourselves into thinking thishesitation, this reservation that we keep holding
on to, is going to protectus from the pain that we experienced before.
But the crazy thing is, Yeah, it might protect you from new

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pain, but it's still keeps thatold pain there. It still keeps that
hope away from you. How areyou going to get the encouragement if you're
too fearful to reach for it.Hmm, that's what we have to think
about. But just to touch onto bring that home. Proverbs twenty nine
twenty five says, just in casesomebody's listening and saying, well, I
need that fear. That fear haskept me okay, Well, Proverbs twenty

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nine and twenty five tells us thatthe fear of man bringeth a snare,
but whoso puteth his trust in theLord shall be safe. So the question
is do you want to walk throughthe rest of your life going through snares
or do you want to be safe? Are you willing to lose? Now?

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In that, I want to asktwo more items before I let you
go on today, to see ifyou're willing to lose now. This this
is dousing because this is I've beentouching on this pretty much off and on
throughout this whole power. This onehere is really holding us because the world,

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the world is really based off thisright now, I see it in
just about every avenue that I see, with the exception of the cat videos
and the little voiceovers that those arefunny. I'm a silly person. I
like funny stuff. Anything that canmake you laugh and not think about the
bad things in life. I'm allfor it. Now we have to focus,
and we do have to think aboutthose things, but we don't have

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to allow it to overtake us.But are we willing? Are you willing?
Am I willing to lose our anger? Who? What you made me
mad? Asking me that? MikeManson? What do you just ask me?
If I'm willing to do you understandwhat my anger do? My angers
will keep people up off my back. You don't understand she They won't understand

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me until I start getting angry.And when I get angry, I won't
like me if I'm angry, becausewhen I get angry, I don't turn
green. But I'm angry now I'myelling at you. Now, none of
my stuff, none of them I'mtrying to say, any of my points
are getting over because all you seeis the anger. And now people acting
like they ain't hear me laughing,but really didn't because I was talking angrily.

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We have allowed anger to rare itshead too many times in our life
at the wrong time. You knowwhat's funny. We will get angry at
how people talk to us. Weget angry at how people lie on us.
We'll get angry that people call usout our name and all this right,

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you never got angry with yourself orallowing now yourself to get angry about
those things. And I won't sayangry, because then that just bets angry.
You never looked at yourself and wondered, why did I allow that person
to make me upset? I don'teven talk to that person. That person
don't even know me. Why amI angry that I allowed that person's anger

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to make me angry? You everever been one day having a good old
day and you allowed someone else's angermake you upset even worse than that.
Before you got upset, you acknowledgehow silly they anger look. But the
more you tuned in on their anger, it made you angry. Hmm.

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That is crazy. But just incase, just in case you think or
we have fooled ourselves to think thatthis anger helps us, because especially in
this season, anger, anger andfear is with making us cut people off.
The anger that they cause us,and the fear that they're gonna do
it again. We're not letting peoplein because I'm still angry at what other

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people did to us, and I'mfearful that you might do what that person
did. See how this is working? But understand James one and twenty James.
The first chapter in the twentieth versetells us that for the wrath of
man worketh not the righteousness of God. How do we know? Name me
a time you've been angry with someoneand you prayed that God. Name me

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a time you was angry with someoneand they called you and you answered their
call. All let's say you answered. Let's say you answered. Okay,
you answered and you answered, andyou were nice, You were godly,
you were holy, You were speakinglife into the situation. M Name you
a time you was angry with someoneand someone else spoke to you about that

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person, and you spoke glowing.It was just giving them their flowers.
Name you one. I'm pretty surewe all be honest with ourselves. We
can't, so anger does not workthe righteousness of God. I'm pretty sure
if we all think in our mindsbecause we like to be angry, we
like to be angry what people didus. We'd like to tell people what's

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happened to us. I've been theretoo, But I'm more than sure,
in the midst of our anger thatwe really be honest, there was a
time you said something out the wayto somebody that did nothing to you out
of your anger. I'm pretty sureit was a time you had a thought
that was a thought you know,good and well God didn't put in your
head because you was angry. Everwish somebody breaks wouldn't work? Yeah,

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let's be real about this. See, we like the sugar coat stuff.
You ever wish that somebody relationship toreup? You ever wish somebody lose their
job? Hm, Love don't righteousnessdon't make you think those things. Never
does. And also understand, pleasehe asked the seven And now I'm not
gonna read it. I hope thatyou go and read it. But it

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tells us that we shouldn't be ina rush in our spirit to be angry,
because when we were in a rushto be angry, we look like
fools. A matter of fact,I say, the rest in the bosom
of fools. So think about thetimes when somebody made you angry, Let's
say, how we say somebody pissme off. You lot somebody to piss
you off, and now you actinga fool in front of everybody. You
think the people that didn't know whatyou was angry about gonna want to hear

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what you was angry about after theysee how foolish you looked. Hmm.
That's what happens a lot of timeswhen we follow our lives. We are
defending a lie. You know it'sa lie. You ain't got angry,
and I get a fool in frontof everybody. What you think people are
gonna say, Oh, that hadto be it's the truth to that.
Ain't the way in the word youthat angry, Hugh, that upset if
it wasn't truth to it. Sowe got to be mindful of these things

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that we have in our lives thatwe're not willing to lose. We have
to be mindful of these things thatwe're holding on to that mean us no
good. But we keep holding onto them thinking that tomorrow we're gonna wake
up and somehow it's gonna help us. It ain't helped you in the twenty
years you was holding on to it, But somehow tomorrow I guarantee you.
I put attack in your hand andI tell you to close your hand.
As soon as you feel the pain, you want to let go. But

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it's amazing how many times we closeour heart to the pain and keep keep
feeling that same pain, but won'tlet it go. Hmm. But ultimately,
these are things, and there's manymore things I could have covered today,
but I wanted to touch on thoseparticular things because we got to take
these things one step at a time. I can't give you ten things to

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look at and expect you tomorrow startworking on ten things. It steps to
this. There's levels to this.So we start mastering this level and God
will let us go up another level. If we keep stumbling on this level,
God gotta leave us on this leveland allow us to get it right.
So the question is how long wewant to keep Because see, the
funny thing is if you're not willingto lose, you're gonna keep losing.

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M last one I want to askon today is are you willing? Are
we willing? Am I willing tolose our life? Matthew sixteen to twenty
five says for whosoever will save hislife shall lose it and whosoever will lose

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his life for my sake shall findit. M Now. When I read
that scripture, of course, Iread it for a batim, and I'm
like, man, you gotta beready to die. You know us who
was up the world before and everybodywasn't saved, bigger k I said,
I'm ready to die. We waslike we was chatting us on. I
used to sing it too ready todie, not thinking about what we're saying.

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We ain't ready to die. Weare not ready to die. Only
people really that truly be ready todie. Now, there's Christians out there
that's ready in waiting for God tocome back. Now. I'm waiting for
him to come back. But Iain't never told God take me now.
I'm ready to go now, Lord, I never told God that because I'll
be lying. There's things I wantto see still, things I want to
do, just being honest, andI'm pretty sure the average person is that

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way. But then I started thinkingabout how that applies to me now,
how that applies in this season thatwe're in, in this life that we
live now. In Biblical times,the disciples had to be literally willing to
die. They were losing their lifefor talking about Jesus, for praising Jesus

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and what he did on this earth. They were losing their lives, being
hunted down like animals and killed,but they were willing to die. They
were willing to lose their life sothat they could gain it. Truth is,
we're out here. We can't takepeople talking about us. We're so

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worried about our life. If somebodycall a name wrong, don't talk about
name, you can't talk about me. We're not even willing to go through
a little bit of talking about withoutus ready to lose it. So imagine,
are we willing to lose what wethink our life should be? And
we want to be prosperous. Youwant to be rich, and God says,
no, I need you to livea simple life. Are you willing

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to lose that? Are you willingto lose? Now? When I say
lose friends, not lose friends becauseyou think they wrong and all that I'm
talking about, lose friends because theywon't follow Jesus. Are you willing Because
See the truth of the matter iswe'll sometimes put God on the back burner
because we want to lose certain peoplein our lives, in our life,

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but in God's life, the lifethat He has for us. He don't
want them people there, and it'snot for me to be questioning God.
God knows why he don't want themthere. But are we willing to lose?
Am I willing to give up whatI think I want my life to
look like in order to find outwhat God wants to look like? I

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am encouraging us on today. Thereare things in our lives. There are
things that we're holding onto. Thereare things that we're still allowing to sit
and fester that we need to bewilling to lose in order to gain You
can't You can't gain muscle without wantingto lose the extra weight. You can't
want to gain on your job withoutlosing some of your extra time, some

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of your leisure time. To getto where you want to be. We
can't get to that next level ifwe're not willing to lose some of the
comforts that we're enjoying now. Icould never have put the first podcast together
if I wasn't willing to lose thefear I had, or the feeling of
not knowing enough to bring it forth? Am I still learning? Is there
still more for me to learn?Yes? There is but you have to

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be willing to let certain things gothat are not of God in order to
obtain the things of God. Ifyou're not willing to lose your fear,
if you're not willing to lose yourself, if you're not willing to lose your
low self esteem, the people pleasingattitude that we have, how can God
fill us in with the wisdom thathe needs? How can he fill us
with the blessings? Why should hefeel us? Why should he give us

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those things? And we're not willingto lose the things that he first told
us he didn't want us to havein the first place. I'm encouraging you
on today to really heed when I'mspeaking to you today, because we are
losing, because we're not willing tolose. I pray something was saying today

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to encourage you to let go ofthat thing that's allowing you to keep losing
in this life so you can getwhat God has for you. Let us
pray, Dear Heavenly Father, wethank you as only we know how God.
With our lips, with our hearts, with our minds, with our
spirits, with our lives. Wejust know that you always mean the best

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for us. God, and youalways have our best interests at heart,
that you're always protecting and watching overus. God, we ask your forgiveness
for any way we fell short ofyour grace and your mercy. God,
but understanding that you will always beon our side and you always here to
redeem and keep us. So wethank you. I ask that you touch
everyone under the side of my voice. I ask that you encourage everyone under
the sound of my voice. Askthat you strengthen everyone under the sign of

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my voice. Even those that didn'thear me before, never heard me,
have no concern of hearing me.God, I ask that you touch them
and only way that you know how. We thank God for everything that you're
doing. Actually, you touch thewars of the land, touch the hunger,
touch the sickness, touch the children, touch the atmosphere of God.
Bring more love to your people,allow us to praise you more, spend

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more time with you, get inyour word, worship you like never before.
God. I just speak Father,that your your spirit just ruling our
lives, your spirit ruling our hearts, your spirit rule in our minds.
We thank you for everything that you'redoing in our lives. God, that
you continue to keep us continue tohelp us grow closer to you and closer
to each other. We thank youfor this and many other things. We

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give you all the praises in yourson Jesus name. We pray Amen and
Amen. Remember God loves you,and so do I be blessed. M

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comeing up, welcome through them,my man. It's the hour where you
didn't get some pair of change thatdoesn't feel the power already got to do
it. Tell you I'll treat thewords of light and food. Then it
get the vow you stay focused,growing heart you when they don't notice this
the only water who gonna help me? Pops to make complain and put in

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most. They do the most whenyou chose this for the ones who I
spoken if you when you're broken walkingthrough them, my man, it's the
our where you didn't get some pairof change, doesn't feel the power already
got to do it. Take ontreat the words of like some food.
Then it gets the power