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Many Voices One Truth With Tracy Taris · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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  So with all those announcements being said, I am super excited.
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  Excited to share with you my friend Tracy Terrace, she is an
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  author and a marriage and a relationship therapist and we
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  get to talk about her book called many voices one.
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  Truth sifting through competing noise that interferes with the
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  savior's voice and it's so good. You guys, we talked about how to
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  know you're listening to God's voice and determining truth from
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  the lies and Techniques for healthy thought patterns and
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  basically how she puts it is how to turn off the broadcast of the
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  enemy's voice and turn up the voice of the Savior, Jesus
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  Christ. And I love this conversation.
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  We all need God's voice to be so much louder than what is going
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  on around us. So here we are.
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  We're going to dive into the conversation that I have with
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  Tracy. Hi Desi.
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  Welcome to she speaks life. I am so excited.
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  You're here today. Thank you for having me.
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  Jamie, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, I love the title of your
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  book, many voices one truth sifting through competing noise
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  that interferes with the savior's voice and before we
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  dive in I love to start us off with asking each guest.
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  What is your favorite scripture verse and why Jeremiah 33:3 and
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  it says call to me, and I will answer you and tell you things,
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  wonderful things, you do not know.
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  And the reason that's my favorite voice, scripture verse
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  is because it's a promise from God.
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  Like, if we call to him and ask him whatever it is, we need to
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  know. He promises to tell us the
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  things that we don't know and the things that we need to know,
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  you know, and he's kept it. Thomas and and one of the
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  reasons I wrote the book is to help people to tune in to the
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  frequency of his voice. Yeah.
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  And I think that's a common thing that most people struggle
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  with like, how do I know it's from God?
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  How do I know that it's his voice and not my voice or, You
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  Know, The Enemy attacking me? So, you know, let's talk a
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  little bit about your background.
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  You're a licensed therapist. Your you have a masters in
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  Clinical Psychology in Physically in a marriage and
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  family and you have a bachelor's degree in journalism and
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  broadcasting and so you help people work through the negative
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  thoughts and you know, patterns that can just really cause
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  confusion for most people and really you know, stop them from
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  growing. And so what you do is you go
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  through these steps And these tools that will help us to grow
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  in our relationship with God and connect with him.
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  So, I would love for you to just start us off with maybe a little
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  more about who you are, your story.
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  What brought you to write this book?
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  Well, I am a child of God and a wife and mother.
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  I'm a disciple of Jesus and I might, I'm originally from new
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  Orleans Louisiana. So, I grew up, you know, in the
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  suburbs outside of New Orleans and moved to California.
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  In my adult years. And I live here with my husband
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  and my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter.
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  She's married and has a child. So I'm also a grandma.
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  And the thing that brought me to read this book are to write.
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  This book, was one of my younger sisters, had a crisis.
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  And my response, my internal response had me really
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  evaluating what I believed about myself and and we're you know,
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  looking at what thoughts that I have that contribute to that
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  belief, you know? And and I thought I had dealt
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  with all of that because one of the reasons I became a therapist
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  is because I went to therapy and it worked.
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  So at first, I would send everyone to the therapist that I
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  went to. But then one day God said to me
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  I need you to be a therapist. It was out of the blue and I ran
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  it by my husband and three of my closest friends and each of
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  their response was something along.
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  A lines of I could totally see you doing that.
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  So, I just applied to grad school and got into Azusa
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  Pacific, which is a private Christian University.
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  Because if I was going to study psychology I wanted it to be
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  from a Biblical and Christian Perspective so that's where I
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  went. But getting back to writing the
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  book, I old really old beliefs started surfacing beliefs that
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  you know that I was evil and no good.
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  And and what was Triggering that was because when I was there, I
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  had a memory of being told when I was a little girl that I was
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  going to die young. And although I had done away
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  with that belief and put it aside, it was still deep in the
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  recesses of my mind and of my heart.
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  And so seeing my one of my baby sister's almost died.
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  It brought that belief that, you know, I would die.
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  And so I wanted to run away from that.
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  It was just very It was a it's a lot to see, one of your
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  siblings, go through something. And so, deep down, I just wanted
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  to get back home to California to my loving husband and the
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  safety of my own home and my children.
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  And so it made me feel bad. Like it made me feel bad that I
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  wanted to get away and get back to my safety.
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  So it made me feel so guilty and sad.
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  And I started having suicidal thoughts which just seemed to
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  come out of nowhere but it Was all of this stuff, the childhood
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  memory, wanting to escape it, feeling bad for wanting to
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  escape it. And so, I called a friend of
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  mine, and she listened patiently and she said, you Tracy, none of
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  what you're feeling, has nothing to do with all this stuff that's
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  going on. It has more to do it what you
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  believe about yourself. And so that was really, you
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  know, how when something says something and it resonates so
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  profoundly that it just kind of slows you down on the inside and
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  slow motion. Yeah.
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  It got me to thinking like, you know, I do believe that I am
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  saved, but why do I still believe maybe I am going to
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  help? Why do I still believe I am evil
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  or no good or something like that?
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  And so it really made me sit down and really think through
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  all of that and I realized, well, duh, A lot of people, I
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  mean, my whole profession is about, you know, working with
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  people's beliefs and how to manage their thoughts.
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  You know, most of us think that the things that threw us for a
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  loop are the situations. In circumstances that we go
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  through but they're not. It's what we think about those
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  situations and circumstances is how we're processing it.
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  What thoughts that you know from our past are being re triggered
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  and how do we manage and cope with that is what will cause us
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  to feel a certain way or what will cause us to behave a
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  certain way. So I just thought that you know,
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  this book is really needed and I need to write it like if the
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  original working title of the book was called belief.
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  Beyond belief because it's one thing to believe what God says.
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  But it's another thing to believe it so much that it's in
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  the fiber of your being that, you know, what he says is true,
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  you know, I'm totally and that's where the transformation
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  happens, right? It is, yeah.
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  So what do you do personally to get into the frame of mind of
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  thought examination? Yeah, my my thought life is part
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  of my daily quiet time. Like each morning, I get up and
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  I set aside time to be with the Lord in scripture and to pray
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  when I was younger as a Christian, I would be praying
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  for like an hour and a half two hours.
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  And I just I realized that I couldn't do that.
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  Like I had, I lost, I would get up super early in the morning.
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  So I started dividing Like Mondays.
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  I pray for certain things and people to all the way.
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  Ooh, the week, you know, I'll pray for certain things, but
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  part of my self care and spirit care is if, you know centering
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  prayer, which is a form of contemplative prayer, nowadays,
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  we call it mindfulness and meditation, but mindfulness is
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  not the same as meditation. It's just mindfully being aware
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  of what you're doing in the moment and where you're at and
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  meditation is more, you know, contemplative or are being in
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  prayer. So one of the forms that I you
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  and I don't do it every day. It's just different forms of
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  contemplative prayer that I engage in to help with my
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  thought processes and to manage my thoughts and keep myself,
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  calm, and centered and centering prayer is one of them where
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  you're just sitting quietly for 20 minutes, you can sent to the
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  Lord Jesus presence, and you allow him to bring up whatever
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  he's going to bring up, as you're sitting quietly with your
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  eyes closed, you have a focus word or phrase and when my My
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  mind wants to roam and Go in different areas.
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  I'll bring it back, bring my mind back to that, Focus word or
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  phrase and there. And then when I come out of it,
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  I'll journal what came to me, sometimes I'll start journaling
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  in the middle of it because it's coming to me, you know, in such
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  a profound way that I have to write it down.
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  But I think just like exercise and sleep, the things that we do
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  everyday like we rest every day that keeps us going and rested
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  and functional. We we exercise everyday that
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  keeps us healthy and balanced praying and and using tools like
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  contemplative prayer keeps the anxiety at Bay, it keeps your
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  mind clear enough so that you can focus on one thing and one
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  thought at a time instead of being pulled in a million
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  directions, at one time. Yeah, so good.
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  I mean that's how I learned. How to hear God's voice.
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  I remember intentionally sitting there and just waiting and I
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  started to practice like the training, my heart ears.
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  You know, to hear his voice and I I didn't have a word
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  necessarily like you were saying to focus on which I think is so
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  great. But as my thoughts would Drift.
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  I would go back to God. I want to hear your voice.
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  I want to know you and, you know, just giving that time to
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  God. To just sit, there is so
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  essential and hearing his voice. I love and your book, then
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  analogy of voices, and broadcast networks.
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  Can you expand a little bit more on that?
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  Well, when I grew up, we had only four television channels.
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  Cable was around when I grew up, but we didn't have cable.
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  We only had ABC, CBS and NBC. They were called The Big Three.
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  And then, we have the P, public one PBS.
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  And so, I thought, you know, one day I was thinking about how,
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  you know, just as you're watching, television, and tuned
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  into this network, or that Network, you get to choose which
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  one you'll tune in to whether it's ABC, CBS or NBC, BC or
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  whatever. So, in the same vein, whatever
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  brought is broadcasting to your mind, whatever networks are
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  vying for your attention because all of the television networks
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  by for your attention as well with programming and commercials
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  and whatnot. But the networks that the major
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  networks and our minds that Vie for our Attention, our self
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  Satan savior or Society, so self Satan Society.
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  Savior in the book. I have save your last because
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  yeah, Jesus is competing for your attention to, but he is the
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  still Small Voice and you have to choose to tune into him.
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  You have to do these contemplative things.
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  You have to be in the word because the other voices are
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  very loud and very demanding. Like the South voice can either
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  be good for you or bad depending on what experience or what from
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  your past and even present is informing you The Satan voice,
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  that's the enemy of your soul and that's the biggest liar of
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  all. Three the self voice can lie to
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  based on your experiences and and whatnot and Society can be
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  either good or bad as well. Like depending on what you're
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  tuned into. Like, you know, there's a lot of
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  people on social media that do really good things and get out
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  really good information to try to help people and that's fine.
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  You know, when you're listening to that and getting good from it
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  or applying it in a great way. But if it's leading you to
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  self-destructive, behaviors are competition or being hard on
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  yourself, then it's not a good source for you.
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  The only voice that is good all the time and that is true.
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  All the time is the voice of the savior.
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  He is the one that you can depend on 24/7.
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  And the reason I say 24/7 is because even when you're
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  sleeping, you know, the Bible says, you know, the, you know,
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  God counsels. Your heart when you're asleep.
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  So even when you're sleeping you can depend on the savior's
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  voice. Yeah.
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  Wow that's good. And they all start with us like
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  you happen to bring all that to the letter as so that we could
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  remember those those those so good.
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  Okay. So do you have a set of
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  scriptures to recommend somebody who on how to manage their
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  thought life? Well, my favorite one, Jeremiah
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  33:3, Romans 12:2, renew your mind.
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  Any scripture that talks about, you know, casting down
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  imaginations. Like in second, Corinthians 10:5
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  like those are some of my favorites but if your viewers or
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  listeners were to Google, you know, scriptures that helped me
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  with my thought life. There's you can pull up so many
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  different ones, but the thing about reading those scriptures
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  is you have to do what they say. You have to To apply what you
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  learn and so what that means, like, say for instance, in
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  Romans, where it says, renew your mind, what that practically
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  means is to identify any thought or thought process that needs to
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  go, that's not edifying. You that's not helping.
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  You draw closer to God and to others.
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  That's not helping you believe about yourself.
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  What God says to believe, you write it down and then you find
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  a Truth and I would find a truth from your life.
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  Like if there is one person in your life that has edified you,
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  that has given you the communication that you are loved
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  that you are wanted that you are adored, it doesn't have to be a
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  parent, it could be a sibling, it could be a loved aunt or
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  Uncle. It could be a teacher.
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  And then I find a scripture that says the same thing, you know,
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  you are mind and I love you. I believe that's an Isaiah 40,
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  you know. It's the only We place it says,
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  I love you. I mean he's telling us, he loves
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  us throughout the word but going find that scripture where God
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  says I love you you know and make sure it's a version like an
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  IV that will have it written that way you know.
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  So it's all at your Reese is all at your fingertips.
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  One of the interventions that I do in my practice with teenage
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  girls is I have them right, create a jar.
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  And in that jar, we Found scriptures that tell them who
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  they are. According to what Christ says,
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  according to what God says, and we tear them into strips, fold
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  them up and put them in the jar. And so they get to take the jar
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  home. And on any given day every day,
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  they should, you know, pull out one and take it.
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  Read it, take it with them to school, slip it in their back
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  pocket, so they could pull it out every once in a while.
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  But on specially on days that's particularly hard or difficult,
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  they can take They can do that and pull it out to remind
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  themselves of who God says they said, you know, says they are.
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  And even saying, I believe, I believe Lord God help me
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  overcome my disbelief. And I got that idea from my
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  youngest daughter when she was, I think about in fourth or fifth
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  grade she made, what's called what she called a boredom jar.
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  And in the boredom jar, she had written down on pieces of paper,
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  different things that she can do when she was bored during the
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  summer months. Make sure you can't go to the
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  beach every day and all day. You can't go to the park every
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  day all day and so she would have called out different things
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  that she can do, so that she wouldn't give in to vorderman.
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  I just thought that was genius and started using it with some
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  of the older girls in my practice.
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  So God, okay. Let's talk about how your book
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  can draw a reader into a deeper relationship with the Lord.
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  And more connected was the process and that So when you get
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  the book, what I would do is read it like, don't skip over
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  the first chapter is because the first few chapters talk about
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  the differences between each voice and they, that they help
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  you to recognize the thoughts that you're having and where
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  each of, those thoughts are coming from weather itself.
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  Whether it's Satan, whether it's Society or whether it's the
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  Savior and then later in the book and really throughout the
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  book, there are different Exercises that you can do.
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  And many of those exercises are based on what I do here in my
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  therapy practice, when I'm helping people.
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  A lot of them come from something called cognitive
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  behavioral therapy, which is a form of therapy.
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  I use in my practice, cognitions have to do with your thoughts
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  and how your mind works and behavior has to do with the
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  behaviors. You choose as a result of what's
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  running through your mind. So a lot of the exercises are
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  rooted in CBT, which is cognitive behavioral therapy.
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  And or and or prayer practices that I've learned on prayer
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  Retreats that I've attended over the year, most of over the
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  years, most of them are contemplative forms of prayer.
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  So when you read it, don't just take note of it like, don't just
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  because when you read it, if it is something that your soul
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  needs, it will resonate with you.
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  And you'll think, oh, what a great idea.
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  This is so good, but it's only information unless you apply it.
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  So In many of the practices I number them out, 1234 do this.
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  Then this actually sit down and do it, you know, even if the
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  doing is recognizing of thought and changing it to a different
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  thought or are an eternity of thought, and it's good to find
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  not something that's just positive because positivity
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  helps, but it only helps for a little while.
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  Your mind will go back to, you know, what it believes.
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  So the idea is to change the belief using the the truth of
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  the word of God and in some cases using the truth of what
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  you've experienced. Like, my grandmother thought
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  that I was the end all and be all, you know, she just thought
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  I was the best thing since life, sliced bread.
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  And I forgot that I was valued along the way going to school
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  and, you know, experiencing things through my peers and
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  growing up and experiencing disappointment, somehow I forgot
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  that I was loved dearly loved and wanted.
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  I started Remembering that when I became a disciple of Jesus,
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  and when I started reading the Bible and applying it, but it's
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  like, you, you have to apply whatever it is, you learn, so
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  that you can change the structure of your thinking
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  patterns change the structure of your cognitions.
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  Yeah. Get to the root of it because
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  otherwise it's just like a Band-Aid.
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  Like you're saying, it's temporary.
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  Okay. What is the biggest tool someone
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  can have for managing their thoughts?
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  Truth. Truth is the biggest tulle.
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  Yeah, thinking through what am I thinking about and writing it
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  down and then asking yourself. Well when were there times in my
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  life? What is the evidence that this
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  isn't true? Or what is the evident that this
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  hasn't always been true? Or this isn't always true and
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  then if you can find a scripture to match it and the internet,
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  the algorithms are very Savvy. You can put in whatever you You
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  want, however, you want to phrase something and you'll find
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  you. No answer.
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  So if you put in scriptures for helping me change my thought
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  patterns it'll lead you to scriptures for that.
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  So if the belief that your fighting is I am not good
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  enough. If you were to think it through
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  times of, well I was able to get through this project or
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  accomplish that task or I've gotten alkyl AIDS from my peers.
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  My peers. Think I do well.
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  You can also write those down, you know, and examples of those
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  because the brain wants evidence.
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  Like, it doesn't just want, you know, you to just say positive
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  things, it wants evidence. So when you're doing this, what
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  you're doing is challenging that thought or belief and then right
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  into Google or whatever is your favorite search engine
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  scriptures? That tell me that I am good
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  enough and then you will get some of the scriptures that I
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  named earlier and and others like there's one site.
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  I can't think of it. I think it's called Bible verse.
• 24:58
  But it's whatever you put in they'll give you 100 scriptures
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  for it. Somehow they're able to find 100
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  scriptures for that that topic, you know.
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  Yeah. Another one I really like I
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  think as God questions or something questions about God
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  and you can just type in a question and then it comes with
• 25:19
  bit of wisdom but then scripture verses all to back it up and so
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  that was a good. One.
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  Okay, so how would somebody if they're, you know, learning to
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  hear God's voice? How can they determine God's
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  voice their own, boys? The enemy's voice?
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  Yeah, well, each each of the voices have their own chapter in
• 25:41
  the book and I go, you know, through it quite extensively on
• 25:45
  self-esteem, society and savior. But I'll give you like a little.
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  I'll give your listeners a little something from each self.
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  In the book, I talk about how self can be the self channel.
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  Can be an affiliate of either the god, Network or the Satan
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  Network, depending on what it is you're thinking about if you are
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  having thoughts that are disparaging and that tear you
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  down, it's probably coming from your experiences of people
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  telling you that or you developing beliefs and making
• 26:17
  agreements with that belief over time.
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  And so that's usually from the Satan voice.
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  If a network, if you are able to yes, I am worthy.
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  Yes, I do have value, let that may be coming.
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  That's coming from the Holy Spirit and it may also be coming
• 26:37
  from the self affiliate, but it's from the edifying
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  experience incident at a supplying people in your life.
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  Satan will always lie to you. You know, he rushes you in the
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  in the book. I say he's like a used car
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  salesman. Even where, you know, it's like
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  act now by now, like anything. That's any thought that's
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  running through your mind to get you or force.
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  You to make some kind of decision without using your
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  god-given ability to Think Through.
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  Like we are the only creatures created by God, that you know,
• 27:08
  can think through and God wants you to think through.
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  He gave you a mind so that you can use it and turn things over
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  in your mind, because what is good for one person may not
• 27:19
  necessarily be good. For you.
• 27:21
  So if there's thoughts that's getting you to just make some
• 27:25
  kind of rash or rust decision, more than likely, it's coming
• 27:29
  from Satan. Thoughts of comparison, thoughts
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  of society is the only the other one that can be an affiliate of,
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  you know, Satan or savior. I think God uses media and
• 27:44
  social media, like people vilify, media, and social media.
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  And there's a lot of disparaging things that come through the
• 27:50
  Media and through social media but there's a lot of good as
• 27:54
  well. You kind of have to weigh what
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  you're thinking about and what you're feeling.
• 27:58
  If it's if you see something in the media or social media that
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  prompts you to take care of yourself or give to others or
• 28:07
  take care of others. And that's a good thing.
• 28:09
  But if you're comparing or you feel less than or you feel not
• 28:12
  as good as then, don't listen to that the savior's voice you
• 28:17
  know, will tell you that you are wanted you or a And You Are
• 28:22
  Holy, you know, through your connection with Christ through
• 28:25
  the Holy Spirit and things like that.
• 28:28
  But again, like each of the chapters go into much more
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  detail about how you can learn how to tell the difference
• 28:34
  between each one of them. Yeah, it's so good.
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  Is there anything else you'd like to share about the book?
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  And I always like to end us with a take away something that the
• 28:46
  listener can ponder on or take action in.
• 28:49
  Yeah, what I hope. For this book is that people
• 28:52
  will start to listen to the savior's voice more than they
• 28:56
  listen to all of the others. And what I would want your
• 29:00
  listeners to know is that you are loved, you are wanted you or
• 29:05
  dearly want it. Like, I, I mentioned Jeremiah
• 29:09
  33:3 as my favorite scripture. I have lots of favorite
• 29:13
  scriptures but one of my new favorite is the entire John 14
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  and 15, because it's Jesus, talking.
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  Through that whole thing. If you want to know some of the
• 29:23
  stuff that the Savior has to say, refer to John, you know, 14
• 29:27
  and 15. And he's talking about how much
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  he wants to give to you. Like if you ask in his name and
• 29:34
  for his sake, he's talking about how much, you know, you are
• 29:39
  wanted and how much you are loved and and the role of the
• 29:43
  Holy Spirit and tuning in, you know, to the holy spirit.
• 29:46
  So referring to those two chapters and really taking your
• 29:51
  time, those two chapters will help you to grow to believe and
• 29:56
  hopefully making agreement. Because the way it happens, the
• 29:59
  way life happens, is something will happen to you.
• 30:02
  You will have a thought about it, you will develop a belief
• 30:05
  and if that belief is there long enough, and it's, then you make
• 30:08
  an agreement with it. And once it's an agreement, it's
• 30:11
  all in the neurocircuitry of your brain and that works both
• 30:15
  ways. It works with negative and bad
• 30:17
  stuff, but it also works with affirming and Things as well.
• 30:22
  Train yourself to make agreements with the truth of
• 30:26
  God's word and make agreements with the truth of who he says
• 30:30
  you are. And so I that's what I really
• 30:32
  hope that, you know, people who read the book and people who
• 30:35
  listen to this cast will take away for themselves.
• 30:40
  Amen, it's so good. Thank you, Tracy.
• 30:43
  Where can people connect with you and get this awesome book?
• 30:46
  The book is available on Amazon and if you put in my name, AC
• 30:51
  Terrace TR AC y t as in. Tom AR is, it'll come right up.
• 30:56
  You can put in the title, many voices, one truth, but other
• 31:00
  books will come up as well as that one.
• 31:02
  But so go straight to my name, to go straight to the book and
• 31:05
  I'm on Instagram, my private practice is healing the Mind and
• 31:09
  Spirit. So on Instagram, it's at
• 31:11
  healing, the Mind and Spirit. It's also on Twitter at at
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  healing the Mind and Spirit and I have a website Spirit.
• 31:21
  So like I said, we're a group private practice.
• 31:24
  So if you are in the state of California and you want some
• 31:27
  therapy, you can go on the website, look at our staff, and
• 31:31
  there's the BIOS that are there. You can choose which one you
• 31:34
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• 31:37
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• 31:52
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• 32:14
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  So anyone in the state of California, you can call.
• 32:20
  So great. Well, you're doing some amazing
• 32:23
  stuff for God's kingdom and I appreciate you coming on here
• 32:28
  and sharing all your wonderful wisdom and your personal story.
• 32:32
  Thanks Tracy, thank you so much for having me.
• 32:35
  Jamie, I've enjoyed being here. Thank you so much for listening
• 32:40
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• 32:44
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  next time my friend. I hope God reveals himself
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  through your own life story.