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Crushing Strongholds #13- Day 2 of 7-Day Challenge Workshop. Removing the Blockages. Don't be the Beaver in the dam. · One Voice Many Conversations

• 0:02
  SPEAKER_00: Hi everyone.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Crushing Strongholds.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is a podcast where we turn pain into power, trauma into triumph, and a place where we can expose the lives of the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how do we do that?
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  SPEAKER_00: We do that through the truth and by equipping believers to walk in lasting freedom through the grace and the power of Jesus Christ.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that your voice and your testimony has an impact on dismantling strongholds and as well as what this podcast is about?
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's truly the heart of this podcast.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: We want to expose the lives of the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to have our pain turned into power, our trauma turned into triumph.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: So welcome in today.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: My name is Mickey.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am a Christian life coach, and um I am your host today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm excited because this is day two, woo-hoo, two days in a row of um our seven-day challenge workshop.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, what is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a workshop where I challenge you to participate, I challenge you to meditate on God, and I challenge you just dive in deeper so that you can have overflow.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: This whole series is titled Overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to overflow, but how can we overflow onto others if we're not filled up?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: How can we do that?
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, on episode one, we talked about the source of overflow and where that came from.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: And um, we looked at Psalms 23, talking talking about where um God prepared a table for David and what that looked like, how he even did it in front of his enemies, and how he did it with so much abundance that the cup just raneth over because there was so much happening on that table, which is a metaphor for all of the abundant stuff that God did um for David.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants to give that to us, but how do we get that?
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  SPEAKER_00: So now we know where it comes from.
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  SPEAKER_00: We know it comes from God, the source comes from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But how do we do it?
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  SPEAKER_00: What happens if what happens if we um are blocked?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so today's episode, day two, day two, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yay, we made it um today two, is called removing the blockages and don't be the beaver in the dam.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, don't be that little booger, okay?
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to be that because in my life I've been that beaver.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you, but I've um caused some of my own problems in life, and it's really important that we understand that we are to um be honest and transparent as well as um know where when we need to go.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the problem, I'm the reason there's a blockage.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to share my testimony with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Each day of the week, as we're doing the seven-day challenge workshop, I'm going to share my testimony with you, and I'm going to share some scripture with you, and I'm going to give you a daily challenge, a challenge that um I want you to work through and a worksheet that comes.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: The worksheet is free.
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  SPEAKER_00: It comes with the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: It'll be in the show notes, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: As well as information to my website where you can go in there and you can drop me a line, let me know, hey, watched your podcast, and hey, I did the worksheet.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there's a little bit of homework involved with that, but it's not really hard and it doesn't take a lot of time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just gonna need a few minutes of your time in you completing that that work worksheet, okay?
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: So my testimony today, I just want to share with you that for a long, long time I prayed for breakthrough.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody kept saying, you know, people kept saying to me, your breakthrough is coming.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Your breakthrough is coming.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I kept thinking, when, Lord, when?
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: When is my breakthrough coming?
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: When is it gonna happen?
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: Struggling for years from the strongholds that kept me bound.
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  SPEAKER_00: I finally started asking God this question.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, God, please pour out, pour out your blessings, pour out your direction, pour out your peace on me, Lord.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Pour it out on me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, because something was in the way.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Something was in the way, but I just kept asking God to pour it out.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, even though that was happening, nothing seemed to move.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, then the Holy Spirit showed me something.
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  SPEAKER_00: That I was the beaver in the dam.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was I was the one.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was it was me.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had built up walls of bitterness and fear and pride and unforgiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these are things, my friend, that keeps you blocked.
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  SPEAKER_00: They keep you blocked.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's also exactly the place where the enemy wants you to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants you to stay stuck in that, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't want you to recognize that you might be the problem, you might be what's blocking your overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna talk about that today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So blocking the flow of what God is trying to release in our lives is not a good idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want to unblock that flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just like the beaver, he piles up sticks, we kind of do that with our strongholds in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: We build them up one by one by one by one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why in 2 Corinthians it actually talks about tearing down the strongholds.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to tear them down one by one, by one, by one.
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  SPEAKER_00: And like the beaver in the dam, building up all of these sticks with and and debris and whatever he's piling in there to block the water, um, as he's making his home, the beaver doesn't even, I don't think, realizes he's actually blocking the water, even though he's just creating a place for him to live.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_00: He's blocking water from other people, from or from other animals, from other sources, maybe people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we don't want to be that person because sometimes when we are blocking the dam, we're the beaver, we don't even realize we're taking the overflow away from others as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So not only do we not have anything to pour out, but we're also taken away from them when we put blockages in the way, when we have these things, when we have the fear and the bitterness and the pride and the unforgiveness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Unforgiveness is huge, it's a huge stronghold.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's so much of it going on in the world today.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people are just so worried, so offended.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're easily um offended by stuff, but they don't want to forgive people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not realizing we're all we're all humans, we all make mistakes.
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  SPEAKER_00: That the beaver that builds his home and and causes the problem doesn't even realize he's causing the problem when he builds his home.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you guys know that or not, but that's just what beavers do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's how they live, that's how they thrive.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's just something they've always always done.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I want you to keep this in mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to let my own thoughts and my wounds and my habits that created a spiritual blockage, I had to let those go.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to get a hold of myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And each one of those sticks that I placed in the river, sometimes without even knowing I'm I'm doing it, I had to remove them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how did I do that?
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: I had to do it through prayer and repentance.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: I had to repent a lot, a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people don't want to repent.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they you know, they want to think, oh, you know, I'm not that bad of a person.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: Repent anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do it anyway, just surrender all, all of it, no matter how small or how big it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just surrender, okay?
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I begin to tear down the dam and every stick, and guess what I did with it?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: I laid it at the feet of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: I literally spent a lot of time in Jesus' feet because I spent most of my life wanting to be Martha.
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  SPEAKER_00: And think of beaver, the beaver is like being a Martha.
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  SPEAKER_00: Martha was the busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, gotta get things done kind of person.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never would take a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I wouldn't take a moment, excuse me, for myself, and I wouldn't take a moment to sit with Jesus and just absorb what he had for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't get overflow because I didn't allow Jesus to overflow into me.
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  SPEAKER_00: When when Mary sits at Jesus' feet, she's getting poured into.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we want that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So one by one, he helped me remove the things that were never meant to stay in my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lots of things had to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't always easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's some things that I kind of missed, some things I still longed for, and some things I just felt such a sigh of relief that it was gone, not realizing it was even a problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just like when the beaver puts the dam or it puts his home in the middle of the dam, doesn't realize the problem he's creating.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when it's removed and it's reduced, you can start seeing the water move and the flow.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the overflow, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then things start to thrive with it, okay?
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: So then, you know, once this overflow starts coming, we start getting the peace back and our clarity.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, things become more um in our mind, we can start having better vision as to what it is that God wants to do in our life because we're not blocking God anymore from that vision.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: And we can have we can have um this fresh anointing that begins that pours through us with the with with with the flow of abundance.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you're dry for so long, think about being really, really thirsty and your mouth is dry, and then you just get that first taste of water, that's where it begins.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where the overflow starts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's then you're like, oh my gosh, your thirst is replenished.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: And it's so amazing.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes breakthrough don't come by they don't come by waiting.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Are you waiting for a breakthrough?
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: If you're just sitting around waiting, sitting around watching the clock tick-tock, tick-tock, waiting it go by, guess what's gonna happen?
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: You want to know why things didn't move in my life?
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because I sat around and waited.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: Now there are some times, the Bible says there's some times where we need to be still.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I was the Martha in this in the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: This was me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Busy, busy, busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't take time to be still so that I could be poured into.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: You don't make it effective in your life, okay?
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: We have to partner with God, and it will it will take you and God removing the obstacles, okay?
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: By praying.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: When you're praying to God and asking him to help you break through, he's gonna reveal them to you.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna say, You need to work on this, you need to work on forgiveness, you need to work on not being so bitter.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: You're kind of bitter, not even kind of, you're kind of a lot, you know.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: And and these are some areas that I really needed to work in.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: And he really showed me, hey, you're not gonna get anywhere unless you start working on this.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even though while I'm sitting at the feet of Jesus, I'm partnering with him, I'm allowing him to work through me, and I'm doing the work too by taking in, I'm taking in what he's given me, and I'm working it out for my good.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: Because God said he wants to work all things out for our good.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: So let's look at today's scripture.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um uh now that I've given you a little bit of testimony about me, because you know, once it became clear, um, and the dam, the dam started, the river started to flow and spirits start to flow mightily, it's it's a renewing, it's a refreshing renewing, and there's so much joy and happiness in it because you're not stuck in your misery, you're not stuck in your unforgiveness, and you're not stuck in your bitterness and your pride and your selfishness.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: These things start falling off from you, and God starts pouring this joy upon you, and you just look at things differently and you see things in a whole new life.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: So let's look at today's scripture.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: Today's scripture is John 4, 14.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't know where that's at, that is in the New Testament.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_00: Get the word of God, okay?
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: Get your Bibles out, get the Word out, get it in your hands.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_00: We want to make sure that we are looking at it and reading it for ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please don't take what I say from the Bible at face value, read it for yourselves.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna read it to you.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna read to you what my Bible says, and I'm reading from um the New King James Version.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: So John 4, 14 says, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Everlasting life.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, what does that mean?
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's let's break this down a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about the truths of the scripture, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what does it mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, let's start with the water that I shall give.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, in the very beginning, he says the water that I shall give.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, this water, it's not literal.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes, you know, we we there are literal facts in them in the Bible, but this is this is more of a spiritual water.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not just a sprinkle, it's it's it's an abundant water.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, specifically, um, life and satisfaction that comes from a relationship with God through Jesus.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's where that comes from.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: And and to think that, you know, he's gonna give us what give us that water.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of like when he went to the the well.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Remember when he went to met the woman at the well?
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  SPEAKER_00: And he said, If you're thirsty, drink of this water.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: I have I have a drink for you.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's different than the water that's in that well.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: That was physical water.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: He had spiritual water to give her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then he said, uh, and then in the scripture he said, shall never thirst.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: This means that whosoever uh receives the spiritual life in Jesus, you will you will find lasting a lasting fulfillment, okay?
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um completely different and unlike a physical thirst, which again and again we want, you know, we we're thirsty, but he's gonna keep replenishing us again and again spiritually, okay?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Not just not just this kind of drink, not like, oh hey, I'm gonna give you a drink of water, you're not gonna be thirsty ever again.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: In your physical realm, you will get thirsty again, so you go and get a drink of water, okay?
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's you taking your part in what you need to do.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: But when you are spiritually thirsty, God's gonna give you the water and it's gonna keep on giving it to you so that you don't thirst.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: As long as you're seeking Him out, okay?
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_00: And and He's gonna quench, He's gonna quench that that thirst, and it's gonna be permanently, permanently quenched through Christ, okay?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now, a well of water springing up in everlasting life.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_00: That is so exciting.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: What does it mean though?
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: So imagine um a well just springing up and and and bursting everywhere, okay.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you ever went to a a wishing well or a well um where you've seen the water just you know exploding out the top.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: I've seen lots of beautiful um wells in my life, and um it suggests that something is alive and moving and flowing, okay?
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just sitting there, it's not stagnant, it's not like a murky pond.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is not a murky pond, that is for sure.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: He is a well of living and and and breathing and joyful, and he's continuous, and he's definitely alive, he's alive and active, and he's continuous, and it's internal, it's an internal.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he refers to the Holy Spirit dwelling within believers, so we have Holy Spirit within us, and as long as we have the Holy Spirit in us, he's and he's he's going to dwell in us, and he's gonna continually renew and sustain.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that a great thing?
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna sustain us, and um when he does that in our walk right now, in today's life where we're at right now, this walk is gonna lead us into eternal life, which is what we want.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: We want eternal life, and we want our living, flowing waters to flow over from this life into our eternal life.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: So not only are we gonna have um an abundance here on earth, but we're also gonna have abundant life there, okay?
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: And we want that, we want a never-ending connection with God.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have that today?
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: So let's sum this up, okay?
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Let's sum it up a little bit.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: So, in the verse, living water is not just a one-and-done drink.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm not just gonna be like, here's your drink, here you go, take a drink, you're not getting any more ever again.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's not God.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: God is not a one-and-done God.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: When I put water in my hand, it makes me thirsty.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, He is a continual God, He keeps giving and giving and giving and giving and flowing over and over and over again to where your cup will run over.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna overflow because God wants to pour into you, and He also wants you, because you are service-oriented, to pour into other people.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: We were designed to do that, and God literally, in God's given purpose for our life, the assignment that He placed on us is for us to be overflowers onto other people.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: So we can't do that if we're blocking ourselves and we're blocking the water.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we we may be block put have a block in our life.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um and if the water gets around, there might be somebody else down there that's that's taking all the water and trying so that they can overflow, but we're we can't be blocking that.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: We got to get rid of the blockage in the dam.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: We cannot be the beaver, we cannot be building that up, okay?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: So Jesus is offering, he he offers something way greater than just water, okay?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: He offers a deep lasting satisfaction, and it's only found in him, it's only found in him, which brings eternal life.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it and and it's a metaphor for salvation.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it means.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're not saved, oh my goodness, if you're not saved, you need to get saved today.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_00: You need to get on board, um, join the family of God, get in there with us, okay?
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, as well as it's also an um opening and invitation, if you will, for the indwelling for the Holy Spirit, okay?
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: So in today's today's lesson, I want to give you a challenge.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: I want to challenge you guys today.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: And you're probably wondering, well, what is that challenge?
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I want you to take 10 or 15 minutes and go find a quiet place, okay?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Find a quiet place where where you have no distractions, no phones, um, no people, no whatever distracts you in your day, go away from that for 10, 10 or 15 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't need to be all day, it doesn't take all day.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, for some of you, you could probably do it in five minutes.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't really matter exactly the length of time, but just take some time in a quiet place to do this challenge.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so after meditating yesterday, remember we meditated yesterday.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to imagine God's overflow, okay?
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: Because we did that yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what would that look like if I don't have it but I want it?
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: What would that overflow look like?
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: Now, you can identify one thing.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: I think everyone can identify at least one thing, at least one thing that's blocking you from overflow.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: What is that one thing?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: What is in your way?
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_00: What's blocking your overflow?
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: What's blocking your spirit?
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: Where are you blocking your overflow to Christ?
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you don't want to be doing that, folks.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: You guys want to be overflowing.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now the question is, can you remove it?
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: That one was tough for me.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Like people could point out my flaws all day long, but could I change it?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Could I fix the problem?
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Can I take what I just built?
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: The beaver builds a great big, you know, dam and it's blocking all the water.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Can I take that back?
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: Can I take it down?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, can you do it?
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Can you remove the debris that's causing the blockage and the release in your life?
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: The release of your overflow.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: Because God wants you to have overflow and he wants you to have it today, and he wants you to have it abundantly.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: So are you doing that?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, whatever that thing is, I want you to think about it and then ask yourself, are you able to remove it?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: And if you are, do it.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Don't don't hesitate.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Don't wait.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Just do it.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: And take a few minutes and ponder this.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: Just just think about it.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what action is it gonna take for you to remove that blockage?
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: What action is it gonna take?
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then I want you to take a few moments and write it down.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: What's the blockage and what's it gonna take?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: And then do it.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: Do it.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's why this is a workshop because you have to work through it.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: This is why it's a challenge because I'm challenging you, challenging you to work through it.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I want you to work through this, okay?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to have overflow.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to have abundance.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Now, throughout the day, I want you to think about these things and I want you to let God work through you.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Let Him work in your life.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: When you start letting God work, the overflow is going to come.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: I promise you.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: When you get the scripture and you start devouring God's word, the overflow is going to come.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: The other um challenge I have for you today is um before we go into prayer, before we close out today, is I need you to go to wherever you clicked onto this podcast right here today.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: Go back there and like and share and send it to five people.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: How does your overflow happen?
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: It happens by sharing the word of God, by sharing and engaging.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: We want this overflow to go on to other people.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: So share it.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: Be the one, be the one who starts it.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: Go in there and click and be like, hey, I'm gonna pick five people.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, maybe at random, maybe someone that that's late on your heart, um, maybe someone that you know is just struggling spiritually.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you want them to have release.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone that you want to see, that you know that that is living with dry bones, that needs a cup that runneth over, be the one to give them that cup by sharing this podcast today.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Share it with them.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Five people.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I really do believe that God is gonna start flowing, not just with me, because I'm overflowing this week all week long.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give you messages all week long.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: Worksheets, and and we're gonna discuss it.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna give you scripture, I'm giving you prayer, and I want you to know that I just love you so much that I want you to be able to walk in overflow, in abundance, and God wants you to walk in that too.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, God wants that for your life.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: So let's start um the overflow right here with this message.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it day by day by day, okay?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: We need to start by sharing and engaging.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: So now I want to wrap up with the word of prayer, and I would like it if um you can either re-repeat the prayer, um, it's in the worksheet, so you can pray the prayer yourself.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Just follow along and um as I pray for you today, because I think prayer is is is mightily important, and we need to be sharing and sharing and talking to God, okay?
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's what this podcast is about.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_00: We really want um this to be an open, faithful platform where we can share openly and pray to God, okay.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know about you, but I'm not ashamed of the gospel.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not ashamed of of the word right here.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not ashamed of any of this.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_00: This is what saved me.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: There's nobody out there in the entire world that saved me but this.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's right here.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: So let me pray for you today.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: Heaven, Heavenly Father God, Lord God, we thank you.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: We thank you and we love you.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: We we love you and we we we love the outpouring of your water.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_00: The water where we can we can never run dry as long as we drink of the living well, Jesus, of your living well.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to keep the beaver in us at bay and the blockage cleared.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: So not only can we be rejuvenated, but so we can also overflow your blessings.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_00: We want to overflow onto others, Lord.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, if there are any strongholds blocking me or anybody listening to me right now, I I pray that you unblock so that your flow will um be released and that blockage can be revealed.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so that they can be removed and crushed, so we can just flow of you, Lord, and not of ourselves.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to step out of our own way, Lord.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to be removed.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Lord.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, Jesus, for your abundant love and mercy and for dying, Lord, for dying on the cross for our sins and removing the blockages, Lord, that help us to also remove any sin that hinders our overflow.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's a sinful nature that we have that blocks us, Father God.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I just ask that you help us to see it and recognize it, even if it's just one thing.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Give us all one thing today to remove and work on.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: Help us to lay it down at Jesus' feet.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: I ask all this in your mighty precious name, Father.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus, I thank you for this podcast and all who are listening in today.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I pray that everybody that is doing their worksheets, that that they're getting something out of it, Lord.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_00: And God, please pour an extra amount of blessing on each and every one of them that are listening, that are desiring and that are wanting overflow.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: Just give them a little bit extra today, Lord.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: I just ask this in your precious name, Father.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm placing my faith in that there will be some more attendees tomorrow in abundance because we are going to start sharing and overflowing onto other people, Lord.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: I just ask that you you welcome people and that they come.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: I just pray that they come, Lord.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_00: Come and listen.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'm only a gap filler, Lord.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not you.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_00: But I love you and I'm I'm I'm trying to be obedient to your word, God, and I want to do what you desire of me to do.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm not perfect at it, but God, I know that you are.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: You are the mighty creator.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: You are the one that has abundance for us, and abundance for us to share with others.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: So help us to be the overflow, Lord, today.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: And for each day this week, help us to continue to overflow each day onto others.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: And and Lord, I even pray that if if it's on someone's heart today that they want to overflow, even more so than what I've asked of them, that they do it.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: Don't let what what expectation I put on them be a blockage.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let it be opened up, God.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: We just thank you, Lord Jesus.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for everything in your precious name.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_00: So if you prayed that prayer, thank you.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you prayed with me, I appreciate that.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: And God appreciates that.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I really hope that you will get overflowed today.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: I I want to see people be freed from the blockages.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: All the dams that we build in our life, I want to see those disappear.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_00: I had so many in my life that needed tore down.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: I had a lot of work to do, guys.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't easy.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: Being transparent is not easy.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: Especially if you've hidden your whole entire life.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you need prayer for salvation, if you're not saved, if you don't know Christ as your savior, I want to share um a salvation prayer with you real quick before we close out because salvation to me um is life-threatening.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't mean that in a vulgar, scary way.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean that in an eternal way.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: Because I don't want to see anybody go to hell, okay?
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even wish hell on my worst enemy.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I know some people out there do.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_00: And please don't do that.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: Please, please, God, ask God to help you not to have that mindset.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want people to go to hell because we're all human and we all make mistakes, and none of us are perfect.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: And even the ones that have hurt us, we don't want to see them go to hell either.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: We we want to see them be able to have an opportunity to get straight out, to get the help they need, um, either through live coaching, um, jump on board and and um go to my my my website and get into um uh a coaching uh program that I offer, or you know, just out you know, go to church, get in the word, get some help.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, if you're not saved today, I want to pray this prayer with you and I'm gonna share this with you.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: It says, you know, dear God, I come to you admitting that I'm a sinner.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: I believe that your son, Lord, your son Jesus, he died on the cross to take away my sin.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: I also believe he rose from the dead so I can be justified and made righteous through his faith in him.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, I choose to follow you, and I ask that you fill me with the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for saving me in Jesus' name.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you prayed that prayer, congratulations and welcome to the family.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you also prayed that prayer, go to my website, subscribe, fill out the welcome information, and put in the notes.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: I accepted Jesus because I want to send you a free gift.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's just something small, um, just something to welcome you in the family.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm thankful that you're here.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very thankful for this podcast.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm excited for tomorrow because tomorrow's day three of the seven-day challenge that we're in.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: And tomorrow you got to stay tuned because we're gonna be talking about overflow in the valley.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: How many times do you get stuck in the valley?
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, how many times do you get stuck and just need a refill?
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna talk about that tomorrow.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: So you don't want to miss it.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: You you you you don't want to miss it.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: You want to be there, be prepared, and just um get your worksheets opened up and follow along.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: Each day we'll have the worksheet.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's a free worksheet.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: You get to keep it, you can do whatever you want with it.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you can have it in your notes, put it in a journal, whatever, whatever it will you can do to let it help you, or you can use it for whatever you want to use it for.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: Anyhow, I just want to thank you again because this is another great episode of Crushing Strongholds.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: And um, can't wait to see you all tomorrow.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: So uh my goodness.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: So take care and um God bless you guys.