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How I Meditate on Scripture to Change My Mindset (5 Steps) · Success by the Book

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Success by the Book Podcast, the place where Christians who want to experience the extravagant goodness of God in all areas of their lives come from mentorship.
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SPEAKER_00: I am your host, Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Inna, and I'll be unpacking the secrets I have learned from the Word of God over the last two decades.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's dive in.
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SPEAKER_00: Today I am going to show you how to meditate in scripture and how to use this process of meditation to change your mindset.
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SPEAKER_00: And you can do this every single day.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, why am I taking the time to do this?
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SPEAKER_00: Um, uh, for a number of reasons.
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SPEAKER_00: Our minds are so interesting, and if we don't learn to govern them, they will govern our entire lives.
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SPEAKER_00: So I want you to think about this.
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SPEAKER_00: Elijah was such a powerful prophet of God.
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SPEAKER_00: He is somebody who prayed down fire, right?
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SPEAKER_00: He is the person who, you know, caused it to not rain in Israel for three years and all of that, called down fire.
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SPEAKER_00: And the same person who called down fire right after he did that is the same person who said, Lord, kill me.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not better than my ancestors, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And is the same person.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, I run a company where I help doctors build profitable six, seven, eight-figure businesses.
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SPEAKER_00: And I recently did a study looking at people from startup all the way to 10 million in revenue.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know something nobody outgrows?
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody outgrows imposter syndrome, mind drama.
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SPEAKER_00: Am I good enough to do something like this?
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SPEAKER_00: Who am I to do this?
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SPEAKER_00: Like this shows up everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is to show you that we need to constantly work on our minds if we are people who are going to be victorious.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the deal.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're somebody who prays, also be somebody who works on their mind.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't pray only.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, we talk here about being mature enough to be able to hold the and so I pray and I'm someone who works on my mind.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we've seen what happened with Elijah.
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SPEAKER_00: We've talked about all these doctors, and the Bible in Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23, says, Guard your heart with all diligence.
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SPEAKER_00: It determines the course of your life.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this is not something that we leave to chance.
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SPEAKER_00: This is not something that we're like, what will be will be.
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SPEAKER_00: This is not something you'll say, oh, I'll just pray.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't really want to do all that mindset stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: God, in his word, allowed his scriptures to stay there to educate us on the importance of working on this beautiful tool he gave us called our minds.
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SPEAKER_00: And one of the ways he gave us to guard our mind is this habit called meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: And you may say, oh man, you know, I've heard about meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: I've watched Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Una's video on meditation and all of that stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: I want you to have that level of expectation of what we're about to do now, for you to say, Oh my goodness, my mind is about to be completely changed.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm about to understand meditation in an even better place so I can use it and transform my life, transform every aspect of my life.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, we talk about Joshua all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: Joshua had a very important task, and and he was supposed to take the children of Israel into the promised land, something that Moses couldn't do, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So he had this ginormous task ahead of him.
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SPEAKER_00: And think of who his boss was.
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SPEAKER_00: His boss was somebody who brought 10 plagues on Egypt.
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SPEAKER_00: His boss was somebody who struck a rock, a rock and water came out of it.
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SPEAKER_00: His boss was somebody who led the people of Israel, and there was a pillar of cloud by day to keep three million people cool.
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SPEAKER_00: And then there was a pillar of fire by night.
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SPEAKER_00: Like he did all of these things.
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SPEAKER_00: He was a great man, and he had to be his, you know, his successor.
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SPEAKER_00: And what did God tell him?
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SPEAKER_00: God could have given him a lot of strategy.
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SPEAKER_00: God said, This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate there in day and night.
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SPEAKER_00: That ooh, it was that's what he led them to.
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SPEAKER_00: So meditation is not this cool Christian thing we do, so we're not anxious.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: It is so powerful.
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SPEAKER_00: It is a force that puts your mind in the right state to be a tool working for you, not a weapon working against you.
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SPEAKER_00: So, in the name of Jesus, I declare that on this call, you're about to get revelation that will turn your world right side up, that will help you meditate in an optimized and effective way, in such a way that every single day you can move your own life forward by partnering with God with this habit called meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
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SPEAKER_00: And if you received it, type amen in the chat.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So rather than just tell you what to do, um, because I've done videos on this, right?
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SPEAKER_00: I want us to do it together.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we're gonna actively meditate.
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SPEAKER_00: So this is not a session where you're just passive, like let's see what Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Uno will say, and all of that stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: We want to look into the word, we want to meditate together.
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SPEAKER_00: This is active and we're gonna have such a great experience together, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, now let us start from a few truths that you have to understand.
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SPEAKER_00: And I think I'm gonna start that by let me read Joshua chapter one, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: That's not the scripture we're meditating on, but let's set, let's do some stuff here, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Because we're gonna learn how to act as Christians.
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SPEAKER_00: Says um Joshua chapter one, verse eight.
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SPEAKER_00: This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, shall not depart from where your mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: This book of the law shall not depart out of where your mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: The word of God needs to always be coming out of your mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: The word of God should never depart from your mouth, never depart from your mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: You need to be speaking the word always.
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SPEAKER_00: The word of God does not depart out of my mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm constantly speaking the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night.
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SPEAKER_00: It didn't say twice a day, it said day and night, aka always, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: That you may observe to do according to all that is written in that in it, for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you'll have good success.
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SPEAKER_00: So the word of God, we're speaking the word of God, we're meditating the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: But now the word that is try that is translated meditate here is the word haggar, h-a-g ar.
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SPEAKER_00: And what it means, it means to mutter, right?
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SPEAKER_00: To mutter, which is speaking, to murmur, saying under your breath, to growl, to make a lot, a low sound with your mouth.
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SPEAKER_00: So he was like, so I'm saying all of this to say a huge part of meditation is speaking.
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SPEAKER_00: A huge part of medication meditation is speaking, is saying the word, is speaking, is saying the word, and all of those things.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I just want to set that as a thing.
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SPEAKER_00: So you have to understand that a quiet Christian is a defeated Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: A quiet Christian is a defeated Christian, a victorious Christian is a Christian who is speaking the word.
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SPEAKER_00: By the stripes of Jesus, I am healed.
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SPEAKER_00: I am the head and not the tail.
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SPEAKER_00: I am above only and not beneath.
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SPEAKER_00: I will not forget the Lord my God, for it is Him who gives me power to get wealth.
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SPEAKER_00: God satisfies me with long life because I live in the secret place of the Most High.
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SPEAKER_00: I abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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SPEAKER_00: A thousand will fall at my side, ten thousand will fall at my right hand, but it will not hurt me because I'm diligent.
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SPEAKER_00: I stand in honor before kings in the name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Like Stephen, people cannot resist the word and the spirit by which I speak.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is just speaking the word.
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SPEAKER_00: The word does not, this is why you read the word, you read the word to speak the word.
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SPEAKER_00: You read the word to speak the word, right?
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SPEAKER_00: So a quiet Christian cannot be a victorious Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: A quiet Christian is a defeated Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: So I want to invite you today to decide not to be a quiet Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: You want to be someone who is a talking Christian, a talking Christian, speaking spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: A quiet Christian is a defeated Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: A quiet Christian will have a life full of weeds because while you are being quiet, Satan is not quiet.
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SPEAKER_00: While you're being quiet, you're saying yes to everything that is spoken about you because you kept quiet.
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SPEAKER_00: You cannot be a quiet Christian, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: So if your tongue is given to you as a tool that triggers victory.
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SPEAKER_00: Your tongue is a gift given to you, it is a tool given to you that you need to use to trigger victory.
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SPEAKER_00: You have to speak the word.
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SPEAKER_00: If there is a challenge that comes against your life in this day when we have AI, you just go to Claude, you're like, give me all the scriptures on healing, give me all the scriptures on prosperity, give me all the scriptures that say talk about what God will do with my kids.
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SPEAKER_00: Give me all the scriptures on long life, give me all, and you start speaking and speaking and speaking.
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SPEAKER_00: You can't afford to be quiet, it is too expensive.
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SPEAKER_00: It's too expensive.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm a speaking spirit, I'm a speaking spirit, I'm a speaking spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, now the thing we're not gonna cover today is how to choose what to meditate on.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, that doesn't mean like you meditate, you meditate, you gotta get a lot of out of it.
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SPEAKER_00: But I did a um, I did a I did a video on prescriptive medic meditation, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, so how do you choose the word of God to go all in on to meditate?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so right after this, that's the next video that you want to watch.
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SPEAKER_00: But we're gonna pick, I'm gonna pick a scripture for all of us, and this is a scripture that's good for everybody.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're a human being, this is good for you, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: So let me give you the steps, and then we're gonna do the steps together.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I told you I'll give you five steps.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, so here are the steps.
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SPEAKER_00: Number one, meditation, number one, you pray for revelation.
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SPEAKER_00: You pray for revelation because even though though the Bible is written in a language you understand, the Jesus said, the words I speak to you, their spirit and their life, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like you can catch the letter of the word, but catching the spirit of the word requires the Holy Spirit interpreting for you, teaching you all of that stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's prayer, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: Give me revelation of this scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: So let me read a scripture for you here.
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SPEAKER_00: This was um um, this is from Psalm 119.
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SPEAKER_00: So David, David was the author of this.
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SPEAKER_00: Psalm 119, verse 18.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from your law.
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SPEAKER_00: Now remember, they didn't have the Bible, they had the law, right?
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SPEAKER_00: That's what they had documented the first five books of the Bible and all of those things.
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SPEAKER_00: So he knows, like I can read it, I understand what the words say.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not illiterate, but Lord, open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from your law.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the attitude.
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SPEAKER_00: If you come to the word of God with the attitude of, oh, I've read this before, I know this, oh, my pastor preached about this last Sunday, all this stuff, you get nothing out of it.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, you get something, but you limit what you get out of it.
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SPEAKER_00: You need to be this person who is like, Lord, open my eyes.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I've read this 150 times.
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SPEAKER_00: Open my eyes, open my eyes.
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SPEAKER_00: If you stay hungry, you'll continue getting fed.
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SPEAKER_00: If you show up as full, nobody's gonna feed you.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So the first part is praying.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, first part is praying.
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SPEAKER_00: Psalm 119, verse 18.
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SPEAKER_00: First part is praying, second part is reading.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, let's say writing, okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Second part is writing out the scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, must you write the scriptures to meditate?
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SPEAKER_00: No, you must not.
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SPEAKER_00: However, how many of you where you decided, okay, I'm gonna take time, I'm gonna meditate in the word of God, or maybe even you're just gonna read the word of God, and your mind goes everywhere, it goes into your fridge, you know, and and and the water you're gonna drink later, it goes into your fridge, is looking at the lunch you're gonna have, you're thinking about a conversation you're gonna have at work and all, like your mind is everywhere except on the scripture that you're supposed to be reading or meditating on, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I add writing because what writing does is it forces me to slow down and bring my mind to where I am, bring my mind to the scripture that I'm looking for.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, looking at in fact, there was a time I scripted, I wrote the entire book of Proverbs.
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SPEAKER_00: And there were words, I'll write this.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I have never, I have never seen this word before.
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SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, I have read the book of Proverbs at least three times from this particular Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: But because, and my mind goes fast, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Like that's just a thing, it's like that's the way my mind goes, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And so writing it forces me to be there, it forces me to focus, it forces me to do that.
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SPEAKER_00: So a lot of times when I want to meditate, I start with writing so that I I like mind, come here, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And so, so number one is praying for revelation, number two is mind my writing, and that's just a focus, it's a focus hack.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so so I write the scripture out, forces me to think, forces me to do all of that.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, when I first started meditating, when I learned about meditation and the power of it, I had a notebook for meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: And so the writing was a huge part of it.
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SPEAKER_00: Like I come and I fill up a page with the one verse that I'm meditating on because it forces me to think, it forces me to focus, all of those kind of stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so there's no right or wrong, you don't have to fill the page, you don't have to do whatever, just do whatever you need to do.
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SPEAKER_00: This is all about how do we engage with the word and look at the word long enough so it's rewiring the way we think.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, so second is writing.
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SPEAKER_00: And let me show you something, right?
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SPEAKER_00: When I did the when I wrote out the book of Proverbs, let me show you what made me do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Because I saw something and I was like, this is so insane.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so Deuteronomy chapter 18.
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SPEAKER_00: Hold on, let me pull it up.
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SPEAKER_00: Deuteronomy chapter 18.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, this was what they did after they installed a new king.
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SPEAKER_00: So you know how they said, Oh, they made Solomon the king after his father David, all this stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: Look at what they did.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, Deuteronomy oh 17 from verse 18.
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SPEAKER_00: Also it shall be when he, being the king, sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book from the one, from the one before the priests and the Levites.
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SPEAKER_00: Understand this.
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SPEAKER_00: A king is installed, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Is crowned, and one of his first assignments is to write out the entire law.
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SPEAKER_00: So Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
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SPEAKER_00: They write all of it out and have their own copy.
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SPEAKER_00: And not only do they write it out, they write it out before the priests, the Levites.
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SPEAKER_00: So the Levites are inspecting to make sure they're transcribing the right thing.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how how devoted God wanted them to his word.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, we may not be, you may not be the king of your country or whatever, but the Bible does call us kings and priests.
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SPEAKER_00: We are royalty, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And so I'm like, oh, if that's good for kings, that's good for me too, right?
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SPEAKER_00: And that's what made me actually sit and write out the book of Proverbs.
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SPEAKER_00: In the process of writing, it's like deep thinking, deep meditation.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's a really good thing.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you if it's not something you do, add it to what you do.
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SPEAKER_00: And you might say, someone might be tempted here to think, oh, it doesn't take all that.
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SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
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SPEAKER_00: There's this thing, my my husband and I say, and we say it for fun, which is the energy must be spent.
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SPEAKER_00: The energy you have must be spent.
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SPEAKER_00: So you can spend it doing something silly or you can spend it going deep in the word.
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SPEAKER_00: You can spend it doing something silly, or you can spend it reading a book that'll move your life forward.
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SPEAKER_00: You can spend it, you know, typing Facebook comments that are more than all the scriptures you could have been writing, or you can write scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: You see what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Like the the energy will be spent.
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SPEAKER_00: So when you find profitable things, spend your energy on profitable things.
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SPEAKER_00: This is how we go further, faster.
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SPEAKER_00: We waste less time and we use time to do the things that move us forward.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so number one, pray for revelation.
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SPEAKER_00: Never approach the word of God like, I got this.
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SPEAKER_00: If you got this, the Lord will just let you have just that.
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SPEAKER_00: No more for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Number two, write it.
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SPEAKER_00: Get in the habit of writing scripture, it won't hurt you.
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SPEAKER_00: Help the people in your world write scripture, it won't hurt them either.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Number three, read for understanding.
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SPEAKER_00: So that so you're not just reading the words, but you're reading to get it.
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SPEAKER_00: So if there's a word that you can define, you pull up the dictionary and you look at the word.
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SPEAKER_00: You you you you play it out.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, what does this actually mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
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SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna we're gonna act it out now, right?
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SPEAKER_00: We're gonna do it with the scripture right now.
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SPEAKER_00: So, so um pray, write it out, read, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And that also includes reading from from different translations, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Because some translations make it hit better.
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SPEAKER_00: You're like, oh, I see, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Then number four, declare it.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, you're a speaking spirit, speak the word, be a speaker of the word.
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SPEAKER_00: When you see yourself, you start feeling sad, you start feeling worried, it's a time to speak.
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SPEAKER_00: When you start wondering, like, well, what if that goes wrong?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a time to speak.
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SPEAKER_00: You look at your kid, what if they don't turn out right?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a time to speak.
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SPEAKER_00: You're in your business, it seems like things are not going the way they should go.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a time to speak.
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SPEAKER_00: It looks like things are going the way they they need to go, it's a time to speak.
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SPEAKER_00: When is a time to speak the word?
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SPEAKER_00: All the time.
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SPEAKER_00: This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate there in day and night.
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SPEAKER_00: And we understand that that word meditate there is the word haggar.
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SPEAKER_00: That means to mutter, means to murmur, means to growl, means to say the word of God under your breath.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And then number five is visualize it.
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SPEAKER_00: Visualize it being your reality.
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SPEAKER_00: Guys, okay, we're my cousins, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: We visualize all day.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just that it's random.
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SPEAKER_00: It's random.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes it's what Satan gave us.
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SPEAKER_00: Like when I talk to people who've ever been sick, right?
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SPEAKER_00: I always try to point out what I know that Satan's already doing with them.
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SPEAKER_00: He's like, oh, and this thing is gonna get complicated and it's gonna lead to this other thing, and you're never gonna be well for the rest of your life.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know, imagine now your children are not gonna have a father, and now your mother is going to be alive and have to bury her kid.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, and what are we doing?
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SPEAKER_00: Visualizing raw material Satan gave us, visualizing the things he's given us to be afraid of.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, in the same way, you can visualize the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: So if the word of God says, With long life, I sat with long life, I'll satisfy you, you can go and you can visualize your 90th birthday party.
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SPEAKER_00: I do that all the time.
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SPEAKER_00: If the Bible says, for it is I who have given you power to get wealth, you can imagine yourself, you can visualize yourself wealthy.
19:33
SPEAKER_00: If it says, Go and make disciples of all nations, you can visualize yourself living a life of global impact.
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SPEAKER_00: If it says and the words I give to you, their spirit and their life, imagine your words being spirit and life.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you see what I'm saying?
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SPEAKER_00: Like if it says, Oh, and Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed, on how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who are oppressed of the devil, and Jesus says that the Father sent me, so I send you.
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SPEAKER_00: You can imagine being anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power and going about doing good and healing all who are oppressed of the devil.
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SPEAKER_00: Like paint pictures with the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: We painted this during COVID, or we did this a lot on a rise and shine during COVID because here's all this stuff happening, and we're like, a thousand will fall on my side, ten thousand will fall on my right hand, and it will not hurt me.
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SPEAKER_00: And you can imagine that, right?
20:23
SPEAKER_00: They're reading the news, they're doing all these things, they're co-workers who got sick.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying imagine the co-workers being sick, right?
20:29
SPEAKER_00: But what I'm saying is, and then you're like, and you were there, and nothing happened.
20:34
SPEAKER_00: Do you guys see what I'm saying?
20:35
SPEAKER_00: So you visualize the word.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: Um, Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Amanda talked about this in the group where she went to speak on a stage and all this stuff.
20:43
SPEAKER_00: You can visualize yourself going on stage and crushing it and all of those things.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: You can do that, you can visualize closing deals, you can visualize all these things, right?
20:55
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so we are always painting pictures anyway, so we might as well gain the discipline of painting pictures with the word of God, not with the words that don't line up with the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes?
21:11
SPEAKER_00: Okay, beautiful.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: So those are five steps.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: Now we can expand it.
21:15
SPEAKER_00: There's, and guys, I really like I don't want this to be dogma.
21:19
SPEAKER_00: I want you to, I want you to think about it.
21:21
SPEAKER_00: This process of meditation we're talking about is think of it as immersing yourself in the word of God, immersing yourself in the word of God.
21:29
SPEAKER_00: So the word of God becomes your default thinking, becomes your default speaking, and leads to default actions that are aligned with the word of God.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: It's immersion.
21:39
SPEAKER_00: So for some of you, I'm like that.
21:42
SPEAKER_00: For some of you, you sing a lot and you make up songs a lot.
21:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, you take the word of God, you're meditating in and turn it into your own song.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: I do that every day.
21:51
SPEAKER_00: I just think you just turn it into a song and I'm declaring it and all of those things, right?
21:56
SPEAKER_00: You can do that.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: Some of you are artsy, you like to draw.
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SPEAKER_00: My my daughter, one of my daughters is like that, and you can start creating drawing pictures that are it's kind of like a picture telling a story about a verse that you're reading.
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SPEAKER_00: Do that.
22:09
SPEAKER_00: So what I'm saying is it doesn't just stop at the five.
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SPEAKER_00: Like for some of you, those are things that you can do.
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SPEAKER_00: Go for it.
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SPEAKER_00: The idea is immersing yourself in the word of God.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: So let's play around with the scripture here.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be self-hone.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: All right.
22:28
SPEAKER_00: So I am going to pull this up in.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: I'm going to pull this up in on my phone because I want to look at multiple translations.
22:39
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
22:39
SPEAKER_00: So you can use whatever you use.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: I like to use Bible Hub.
22:43
SPEAKER_00: That's kind of where you know I go if I want to pull up multiple translations.
22:47
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
22:49
SPEAKER_00: So let us do this with this scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, Romans chapter 12, verse 2.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: This is a scripture that is good for everybody.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
23:01
SPEAKER_00: This is an everybody scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Manda said, I did this, and my daughter said, Mom, what are you singing?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yeah.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: You can teach her to do the same thing.
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SPEAKER_00: Make it up.
23:09
SPEAKER_00: Make it up.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
23:11
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so what we're going to do, we'll start from the beginning.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: Father, we're about to look into your word.
23:18
SPEAKER_00: And Lord, I pray for myself and I pray for everyone here that you open our eyes to see.
23:24
SPEAKER_00: Let veils be torn.
23:26
SPEAKER_00: Let us see the scripture the way you see it.
23:29
SPEAKER_00: Lord, your word was given to us to put us on top.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: Give us light.
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SPEAKER_00: Illuminate your word.
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SPEAKER_00: So we walk away from here, able to use this truth to become who you called us to be.
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SPEAKER_00: In the name of Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
23:46
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: All right.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: So that's step one, right?
23:49
SPEAKER_00: We pray.
23:50
SPEAKER_00: We trust God.
23:51
SPEAKER_00: We trust God for insight.
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SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: This scripture, I probably first started really reading this scripture 26 years ago.
24:00
SPEAKER_00: And the prayer I just prayed, that was not me praying, you know, for camera time.
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SPEAKER_00: That was me trusting God.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, Lord, as we open it, open my eyes to see.
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SPEAKER_00: It gives me illumination.
24:13
SPEAKER_00: That is the humble heart that is required to continue to receive from God.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: Pride, God, the Bible says God resists the proud.
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SPEAKER_00: If God is the one resisting you, where does your help come from?
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
24:25
SPEAKER_00: So we're not proud.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: All right.
24:26
SPEAKER_00: Hi, Dr.
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SPEAKER_00: Foley.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let's look at this.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is Romans chapter 12, verse 2A.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, it's not even the whole verse.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: Now I'm going to skip the writing part, right?
24:41
SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, if we if we were all on Zoom, maybe we would do that together.
24:45
SPEAKER_00: But the writing part I would do, but now we're all in, we're all focused.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: So I'm good.
24:49
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
24:50
SPEAKER_00: So let's start, let's do the reading part.
24:52
SPEAKER_00: And I'm going to start off with the New King James translation.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, and do not, and and when you read, you want to read.
25:03
SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't know if you've ever heard this quote that questions are the answer.
25:07
SPEAKER_00: Questions are the answer.
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SPEAKER_00: You want to read and you're constantly asking, what does this mean?
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SPEAKER_00: What does what does this mean?
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SPEAKER_00: What does this mean for me?
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SPEAKER_00: How does this apply?
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
25:16
SPEAKER_00: You're you're constantly asking questions as you read.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how you get the answers.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
25:21
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
25:21
SPEAKER_00: So, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
25:31
SPEAKER_00: This is such a powerful scripture.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
25:33
SPEAKER_00: So, New King James, don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
25:42
SPEAKER_00: Now, what this automatically tells me, because it says, don't do this, do this, right?
25:47
SPEAKER_00: What it means is I have two options.
25:50
SPEAKER_00: There is no middle ground.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: The Bible did not offer a middle ground.
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SPEAKER_00: So I can be conform to this world or I can be transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: These are the two options.
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SPEAKER_00: I can be conform to this world, which I don't want to do.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a recipe for going to hell and living in hell on the way to hell.
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SPEAKER_00: So be conformed, conform to this world, or be transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, so write off in the chat.
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SPEAKER_00: Which one do you choose?
26:20
SPEAKER_00: What do you choose?
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SPEAKER_00: You want to be conformed or you want to be transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, there's so now it's like, oh, there are two options.
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SPEAKER_00: That's it.
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SPEAKER_00: Be conform to the world or be transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: There are only two options.
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SPEAKER_00: This is automatically telling us this is serious.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: This is serious.
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SPEAKER_00: Conformed or transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: Which one do we want?
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SPEAKER_00: Now, if we look further, it says, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: And it tells you how by the renewing of your mind.
26:58
SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: So I can be conformed or I can be transformed.
27:05
SPEAKER_00: But if I'm going to be transformed, the pathway for transformation is the renewing of my mind.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, so if we trace this backwards, what that means is if I say no to renewing my mind, I have said no to transformation, and I have said yes to being conformed to this world, and I have said yes to being an enemy of God, right?
27:35
SPEAKER_00: Friendship with this world is enmity with God.
27:38
SPEAKER_00: You guys know that scripture, right?
27:39
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: So I hope somebody else is going like, wait, what?
27:44
SPEAKER_00: What just happened?
27:47
SPEAKER_00: What just happened here?
27:49
SPEAKER_00: I can be conformed or transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: But if I will be transformed, the path to transformation is renewing of the mind.
27:58
SPEAKER_00: So if I want to be transformed, it's not by saying I want to be transformed.
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SPEAKER_00: You can say it, but you also have to say yes to renewing your mind.
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SPEAKER_00: I must say yes to renewing my mind.
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SPEAKER_00: If I say no to renewing my mind, I'm saying no to transformation, and I'm saying yes to being conformed to this world.
28:17
SPEAKER_00: And that means I can never be a sign and wonder.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: I am not going deeper in God, I'm not going to live a life of global impact.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to manifest the blessing.
28:25
SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to do anything like I'm going to look exactly like the word, the world.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: And I'll look exactly like the world, even if I'm going to church.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: And this is all this is shocking, but it's true.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: Even if I pray.
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SPEAKER_00: If I pray and I say I'm not going to renew my mind, I like praying, but I ain't going to read the Bible.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
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SPEAKER_00: Not going to be transformed.
28:48
SPEAKER_00: So I will be conformed.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: Woo wee.
28:58
SPEAKER_00: So it's like, wait a whole minute.
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SPEAKER_00: What just happened here?
29:02
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: Let's do some more reading.
29:06
SPEAKER_00: Let's do some more reading.
29:07
SPEAKER_00: Let's read this from the amplified.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, and do not be conformed any longer.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't do not be conformed to this world any longer with his superficial values and customs.
29:22
SPEAKER_00: What does this automatically say?
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SPEAKER_00: Don't be conformed.
29:26
SPEAKER_00: I am supposed to be different.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm supposed to be like wanting to be a follower of Jesus and then wanting to be like everybody else, not wanting to stand out, is not a thing.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: They already told you, don't be conformed.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm supposed to be different.
29:45
SPEAKER_00: Like their supernatural superficial values and customs, I don't subscribe to those.
29:51
SPEAKER_00: That means when I say, well, everybody's doing that, I'm a Christian.
29:55
SPEAKER_00: I don't do what everybody does.
29:57
SPEAKER_00: I'm called to not conform.
30:01
SPEAKER_00: Don't conform.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: Be different.
30:05
SPEAKER_00: Don't conform.
30:07
SPEAKER_00: Be different.
30:08
SPEAKER_00: Don't be like everybody else.
30:10
SPEAKER_00: Be different.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't say yes to what everybody else is saying yes to.
30:14
SPEAKER_00: You're supposed to be different.
30:19
SPEAKER_00: You're supposed to be so when you say, huh, everybody's doing that, you should go like, well, I wonder how we're supposed to do that.
30:25
SPEAKER_00: I wonder how we are, like we in the kingdom.
30:28
SPEAKER_00: I wonder how we're supposed to do that.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: Because the way the world does it, we're not called to do it like that.
30:32
SPEAKER_00: We're not called to run our marriages the way they do.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: We're not called to raise our kids the way they do.
30:36
SPEAKER_00: We're not called to run our finances the way they do.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: We're not called to manage our health the way they do.
30:41
SPEAKER_00: We're not meant to do anything the way they do.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: Don't be conformed.
30:47
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
30:49
SPEAKER_00: And do not be conformed to this world any longer with its superficial values and custom, but be transformed and progressively changed.
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SPEAKER_00: Be progressively changed.
31:09
SPEAKER_00: Hang on.
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SPEAKER_00: That means I ain't called to be perfect.
31:15
SPEAKER_00: I am not called to be perfect.
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SPEAKER_00: I am called to change progressively.
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SPEAKER_00: Do you know how free it is?
31:24
SPEAKER_00: That means I don't need to be perfect today, but today I need to be better than yesterday.
31:30
SPEAKER_00: I don't need to be perfect today, but today I need to be more transformed than yesterday.
31:38
SPEAKER_00: I can't commit to perfection, but I can commit to being better every day.
31:44
SPEAKER_00: I can be better every day.
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SPEAKER_00: And you can put your head in your pillow and put your pretty self to sleep every night, knowing I grew today, I transformed today, I made progress today, I became better today.
31:59
SPEAKER_00: And that is all that God asks for me.
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SPEAKER_00: God is not holding a sledgehammer waiting to take me out because I'm not perfect.
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SPEAKER_00: God is, but at the same time, he's not looking for me to stay the same.
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SPEAKER_00: You stay the same.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, God knows me.
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SPEAKER_00: No, he's calling me to be better, he's calling me to transform every day, and I can commit to that.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, yay, I can be better every day.
32:22
SPEAKER_00: I can do that.
32:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay, this is so good.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
32:28
SPEAKER_00: But be transformed and progressively changed as you mature spiritually by the renewing of your mind.
32:38
SPEAKER_00: Then Amplify puts this in parentheses, focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes.
32:45
SPEAKER_00: Now we live in a time where we're saying, oh, we're the dispensation of grace.
32:49
SPEAKER_00: We can live any way we want.
32:50
SPEAKER_00: And God understands.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: I am called to focus on godly values.
32:56
SPEAKER_00: I am called to be godly.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: I am called to grow in godliness every single day.
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SPEAKER_00: I am called to be more like God every day.
33:05
SPEAKER_00: And I can commit to that.
33:07
SPEAKER_00: I can practice one thing every day to make me more like God.
33:12
SPEAKER_00: I can practice forgiving.
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SPEAKER_00: I can practice believing in people.
33:17
SPEAKER_00: I can practice giving.
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SPEAKER_00: I can practice all of these things.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: I can be better every day.
33:23
SPEAKER_00: I can take the fruit of the spirit and practice walking in love and practice cultivating joy and practice living at peace and practice being kind and practice having self-control.
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SPEAKER_00: I can do that.
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SPEAKER_00: I can be better every day.
33:37
SPEAKER_00: Okay, we are only in two translations.
33:38
SPEAKER_00: Let's see, let's do one more.
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SPEAKER_00: Or maybe we do two more.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: Um, NLT.
33:46
SPEAKER_00: Let's do new living translation.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, don't copy.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't copy.
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SPEAKER_00: There's you see them on social media, there's the way they behave.
34:05
SPEAKER_00: Don't copy.
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SPEAKER_00: You see them in school, don't copy.
34:09
SPEAKER_00: They're with you at work, don't copy.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world.
34:18
SPEAKER_00: You're called to be different, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.
34:28
SPEAKER_00: So, what did it say?
34:29
SPEAKER_00: It says, Let God transform you by changing the way you think, because God can try to change the way you think, and you say no.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: He's he anointed your pastor to preach to you.
34:38
SPEAKER_00: You come on a rise and shine, you hear all this stuff, you come on success by the book, you hear all this stuff, and you're like, Well, I know the word of God says it, but we don't do that.
34:47
SPEAKER_00: We allow God to change the way we think, we allow him to change the way we think.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: When we see things that we think that don't line up with the book, we're gonna let his book change our minds.
34:58
SPEAKER_00: I am here to change my mind.
35:00
SPEAKER_00: I wake up every day to change my mind, I read the Bible to change my mind.
35:03
SPEAKER_00: I show up in prayer and God highlights things and I change my mind.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: My job is to change my mind.
35:09
SPEAKER_00: And if I can change my mind, I can become a new person.
35:11
SPEAKER_00: If I become a new person, I'm transformed.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: If I'm transformed, I'm not conformed.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
35:16
SPEAKER_00: And then I can be that sign of wonder, I can be that masterpiece God called me to be.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: I can manifest as the king and priest he called me to be.
35:23
SPEAKER_00: I can be above only and not beneath.
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SPEAKER_00: I could be the light of the world, the salt of the earth.
35:27
SPEAKER_00: I can be all of these things if allowing him change the way I think.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
35:34
SPEAKER_00: Now, this one is not in Bible Hub, but I remember the Message Bible has a lovely, lovely translation of this verse.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: So let's read it in the message Bible.
35:45
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so let me pull it up here.
35:48
SPEAKER_00: It says, Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit that you fit into it without even thinking.
36:07
SPEAKER_00: Don't become so well accustomed, uh so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.
36:17
SPEAKER_00: Which means if I don't take the time to audit what I'm thinking, if I don't take the time to look at God's word, which is the blueprint, I will fit into my culture without even thinking.
36:33
SPEAKER_00: Because it's all around me.
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SPEAKER_00: It's at work, it's on social media, it's on the internet, it's in my email, is it at the store I go to, is where I have the restaurant where I go to eat, is everywhere.
36:43
SPEAKER_00: So can you conform without even thinking?
36:46
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
36:47
SPEAKER_00: So what do I need to do?
36:49
SPEAKER_00: It then means that me transforming by the renewing of my mind needs to be intentional, it needs to be active, it needs to be focused, it needs to be diligent.
37:03
SPEAKER_00: I am not going to accidentally casually be transformed.
37:09
SPEAKER_00: Because the default setting is for me to get so well adjusted to my culture that I fit into it without even thinking.
37:20
SPEAKER_00: Right?
37:21
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so what does that mean?
37:23
SPEAKER_00: It means I take time to study the word, it means I take time to focus on the word, it means I take time to do audits.
37:30
SPEAKER_00: What do what am what are what are my dominant thoughts about marriage?
37:36
SPEAKER_00: What are my dominant thoughts about raising kids?
37:38
SPEAKER_00: What are my dominant thoughts about being a student?
37:41
SPEAKER_00: What are my dominant thoughts about um the relationships that I have?
37:44
SPEAKER_00: What are my dominant thoughts about health and long life?
37:47
SPEAKER_00: What am I like?
37:48
SPEAKER_00: I'm asking this to make sure I didn't fit into my culture without even thinking.
37:56
SPEAKER_00: Guys, do you see that we're still in the reading part?
38:00
SPEAKER_00: Do you see how much juice is in half a verse?
38:04
SPEAKER_00: We're not even reading the whole verse.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Do not become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.
38:15
SPEAKER_00: So don't do that.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead, so it tells us what to do now.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't do that, do this.
38:20
SPEAKER_00: Instead, fix your attention on God.
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SPEAKER_00: And fixing your attention on God is in all the ways.
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SPEAKER_00: It's in prayer, it's in worship, it's in hosting his presence, it is in reading his word, it is in seeking him for direction, it is in obedience.
38:37
SPEAKER_00: Focus on him, focus on his word.
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SPEAKER_00: In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
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SPEAKER_00: That's John chapter 1, verse 1.
38:48
SPEAKER_00: So when you fix your attention on the word, what are you doing?
38:50
SPEAKER_00: You're fixing your attention on God.
38:53
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so so now that is reading, reading, reading.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, now we're gonna come to the next part, which is um let's do visualizing.
39:08
SPEAKER_00: Let's pick this, um, let's pick this from New King James, okay?
39:13
SPEAKER_00: Now let's look at the let's look at the visualization part of it.
39:17
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is a movie, like a movie starts with an idea, and then somebody writes a script and adds arms and legs and and all this other stuff, right?
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SPEAKER_00: To it, okay.
39:28
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's do it with the New King James version.
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SPEAKER_00: And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove um by the renewing of your mind.
39:45
SPEAKER_00: So let's let's stop there, okay?
39:47
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so so if we look at the thread, it means the world's standard is one standard, God's standard is another standard.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: So I can conform, I could be transformed into the person who flows with his standard, and the pathway there is the renewing of my mind, okay?
40:04
SPEAKER_00: And so the renewing of my mind is the work, the transformation is the outcome.
40:12
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you guys see that?
40:14
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I'm not gonna spend my time visualizing the negative, okay?
40:16
SPEAKER_00: I'm not visualizing the conform part, I'm visualizing the transform part.
40:20
SPEAKER_00: So, what that means is in every way, I should have an experience that is different from the experience of the world because I'm transformed.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: I'm a different person, I'm a new person, and I get different results, and because I'm with God, I get God-level results, right?
40:36
SPEAKER_00: So there's so many ways you can play this.
40:38
SPEAKER_00: I want you to think of it this way: I can say, Oh, what does that mean for all nine areas of my life?
40:42
SPEAKER_00: And so I can start with the spiritual.
40:45
SPEAKER_00: And so people are like, you know, I struggle to pray, I can't hear from God, I can't do all of those things.
40:51
SPEAKER_00: That's, you know.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: But if I'm a transformed person, what does the Bible say?
40:57
SPEAKER_00: That my sheep, they hear my voice.
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SPEAKER_00: So how come as someone who's renewed their mind with the word of God?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm somebody who can hear the voice of God, I'm somebody who could be led by God, um, I'm somebody who has a deep relationship with God.
41:12
SPEAKER_00: Like David, you know, I could write about me that how, you know, like my as the deer pants after the water, so my soul hungers after you.
41:20
SPEAKER_00: You can actually imagine yourself like that because that's what transformed you looks like, right?
41:26
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh my goodness, that is so amazing.
41:29
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm renewing my my mind with the word, and this is what my walk with God looks like.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: Whoa, right?
41:38
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and then I can say, okay, now my family, okay, so out there, there's all these statistics, one and two marriages end in divorce and all of this stuff, and you know, this percentage of kids, they go to college and they forget their faith and all of those things.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: But if I would spend time renewing my mind, right, the Bible talking about it says that a threefold, a threefold cord is not easily broken.
42:03
SPEAKER_00: So if there's a marriage between a man and a woman, twofold cord is easily broken.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: If there's a Christian marriage, which is a marriage between God, man, and a woman, because God is involved in it, right?
42:13
SPEAKER_00: God is an authority in it, then it's not easily broken.
42:17
SPEAKER_00: And so I can hold that thing of I'm gonna be 90, and at 90, I forget how many years we'd have been married for, and we're there, and our marriage is strong and it's better than ever.
42:26
SPEAKER_00: And if he said the path of the just shines brighter and brighter, so not only are we married for that long, but every week, month, year, our marriage gets better and better.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: I can then paint that picture.
42:37
SPEAKER_00: Where is that picture coming from?
42:39
SPEAKER_00: From this same scripture, from this same scripture, and then my kids and like, oh, and he said, and like children are like arrows in the quiver of a mighty man, and they and they'll answer the enemy in the gate, right?
42:52
SPEAKER_00: And God identifies us as a God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: So he's a generational God, so he's my God, so he'll be the God of my kids.
42:58
SPEAKER_00: And and he says, My children will be taught of the Lord, and great will be their peace.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: So I can imagine my kids being led by God.
43:04
SPEAKER_00: And when God leads you, he leads you along the best pathway for your life.
43:07
SPEAKER_00: So God is leading them along the best place with their lives, and their lives are signs and wonders, and in all night areas of their own lives, they're prospering, and all of those kind of things.
43:16
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, whoa, you know, when it's time for them to get married, they're making the right decisions and all of these things.
43:21
SPEAKER_00: And then I can come down to my health.
43:23
SPEAKER_00: And oh, you know, because I renew my mind and I'm transformed, then with long life, he satisfies me by the stripes of Jesus.
43:31
SPEAKER_00: I'm healed.
43:32
SPEAKER_00: That same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in my mortal body, so he gives life to my mortal body.
43:37
SPEAKER_00: So here's me, you know, picking up my grandbabies.
43:40
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm strong at all at this age and stuff.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: Like I'm just visualizing that.
43:45
SPEAKER_00: Do you guys see that?
43:46
SPEAKER_00: And then I can come to my finances and I come to my business, and I'm like, oh, that is God that gives me the power to get wealth, and that God gives me favor, and that favor causes me to succeed in everything I lay my hands to do.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: And he said it, he said in you know in in Psalm chapter one that those people who meditate in the world day and night, they're like trees planted by the riverbank, and everything they lay their hands to do prospers.
44:10
SPEAKER_00: And so I'm looking at my businesses and they're prospering and all of that stuff, irrespective of the economy, irrespective of the experience of others, because I'm not conformed, I'm transformed.
44:18
SPEAKER_00: What are we doing?
44:19
SPEAKER_00: We're visualizing one verse, and this is the thing: the more you meditate, the more you can link the scriptures together to build this story arc.
44:26
SPEAKER_00: It's wild, it's so good.
44:31
SPEAKER_00: It's so good, and I can legit take it to every aspect of my life.
44:35
SPEAKER_00: Like you can do this, or you can be afraid of everything that might happen.
44:40
SPEAKER_00: They're both meditation.
44:43
SPEAKER_00: You can do this, or you can do it in the negative.
44:45
SPEAKER_00: Oh, and this won't work, and that won't work, and this is what it will be like, and then you know, and then my house will go into foreclosure and all this stuff, and all this stuff is the same thing.
44:53
SPEAKER_00: It's a movie, conform, it's a movie, transform.
44:55
SPEAKER_00: They're both movies.
44:56
SPEAKER_00: Now we get to choose what movies we watch.
45:00
SPEAKER_00: We get to choose what movies we watch.
45:03
SPEAKER_00: So can you imagine if you take the time to do this every day?
45:10
SPEAKER_00: Like, I even want to ask the question, right?
45:14
SPEAKER_00: If you did this every day, some version of it, like if you notice the visualization piece, that probably took two or three minutes, right?
45:21
SPEAKER_00: And you drive, you drive and go around and stuff like that, there are movies playing in your mind.
45:26
SPEAKER_00: The question is, what movie?
45:28
SPEAKER_00: Never allow yourself to watch a movie of something that doesn't line up with the word of God.
45:36
SPEAKER_00: Never watch a movie that you created in your mind based on a script that is against the word of God.
45:43
SPEAKER_00: Why would you use this beautiful, wonderful mind God gave you for your good to imagine yourself dying young?
45:49
SPEAKER_00: Imagine your kids turning on you, imagine failing that exam.
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SPEAKER_00: Imagine, like, why?
45:55
SPEAKER_00: No, it's given to us for transformation.
45:59
SPEAKER_00: It is a tool that can change us.
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SPEAKER_00: Meditation is a tool, renewing your mind is a tool, changing your mind is a tool that can change you.
46:11
SPEAKER_00: How do you get transformed so you're so different from the world?
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SPEAKER_00: Have results that don't make sense, changing the way you think.
46:20
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so if you did this every day, if you did this every day for a year, what do you think will happen to your life?
46:29
SPEAKER_00: Because listen to me, transformation is available to you.
46:34
SPEAKER_00: Being a sign and a wonder is available to you.
46:38
SPEAKER_00: Having a life that looks like the Bible, it is available to you.
46:42
SPEAKER_00: The things God promised you, they are available to you, but they're contingent on you doing the work of changing the way you think.
46:52
SPEAKER_00: You doing the work of meditation, you doing the work of having a mind governed by the world of God.
47:00
SPEAKER_00: If you will do it, you will turn into a person you do not recognize.
47:06
SPEAKER_00: You don't recognize.
47:08
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so how what would it be?
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SPEAKER_00: Unrecognizable.
47:12
SPEAKER_00: I would be a new person, amazing life, right?
47:16
SPEAKER_00: Amazing life, totally new person.
47:19
SPEAKER_00: So it is sign and a wonder.
47:21
SPEAKER_00: So if we can be totally new people, if we could be signs and wonders, if we could be totally transformed, why don't we just do it?
47:28
SPEAKER_00: Like let's let's talk less and do more.
47:30
SPEAKER_00: Let's go for it.
47:31
SPEAKER_00: Let's just do it.
47:32
SPEAKER_00: Let's make a commitment to do the work of changing our mind.
47:38
SPEAKER_00: That is within the realm of possibility for us.
47:40
SPEAKER_00: There are many things we can do, there are many things we may not have access to, but this this we can do it.
47:45
SPEAKER_00: It costs us nothing, it costs us nothing but time that God so graciously gives us every single day.
47:52
SPEAKER_00: So let's do it.
47:54
SPEAKER_00: Let's do it.
47:54
SPEAKER_00: Why not?
47:55
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
47:56
SPEAKER_00: All right.
47:56
SPEAKER_00: So meditation is mandatory for the person who wants to be a sign and a wonder.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not optional, it's mandatory.
48:12
SPEAKER_00: You want to change, you want to have breakthroughs, you want to have a life that looks like the Bible, you want to be able to say, Lord, at the end of your life, Lord, I completed down to last deal, last detail, everything you assigned me to do.
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SPEAKER_00: You want to say that?
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SPEAKER_00: Meditation is mandatory.
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SPEAKER_00: Scriptural meditation, governing your mind by the word of God, training your mind on how to think, watching movies that are have this script came straight out of the word of God is mandatory.
48:41
SPEAKER_00: It's mandatory.
48:42
SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay.
48:43
SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna leave you with one assignment and one picture.
48:51
SPEAKER_00: And it's a picture I want you, I want you to hold.
48:53
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
48:56
SPEAKER_00: Every single day we do some version of this on Horizon Shine.
49:00
SPEAKER_00: Now you will notice, you will understand why I tell you to type a lot, I tell you to declare a lot, we put scriptures, we our prayers are all scripture-based.
49:08
SPEAKER_00: We do Bible study once a week.
49:10
SPEAKER_00: Why are we doing all these things?
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SPEAKER_00: We're doing this to change the way you think.
49:14
SPEAKER_00: That's why we can come on Horizon Shine every single morning and say, we know that we're leaving this place different.
49:20
SPEAKER_00: Why?
49:20
SPEAKER_00: Because the way we think changes, so we change.
49:24
SPEAKER_00: The word of God goes out, so we change.
49:26
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
49:26
SPEAKER_00: If you do not join us, Arise and Shine is it's a prayer and word movement.
49:32
SPEAKER_00: We show up every morning at six o'clock, we pray, we pray in the spirit, we study the word, we make declarations based on the word, we do all of these things, we do it every single day, 365 days a year.
49:45
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
49:45
SPEAKER_00: And I, if you're not part of us, I want you to understand this is for you.
49:50
SPEAKER_00: This is something that God has built so that your life can change every single day.
49:57
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so dcgeorgia.org forward slash prayer.
50:00
SPEAKER_00: If you're not a part of us yet, come join us, come pray every morning.
50:04
SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you something.
50:06
SPEAKER_00: If I charge$10,000 a year for a rise and shine is too cheap.
50:11
SPEAKER_00: Now it's free.
50:12
SPEAKER_00: Don't get me get don't get twisted.
50:13
SPEAKER_00: I'm just trying to show you the amount of value God packs into a rise and shine for us every single morning.
50:20
SPEAKER_00: And you get to pray every day, you get to look at the word every day, you get to change the way you think every day, you get to do all of these things.
50:26
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
50:27
SPEAKER_00: So success by the book is not a complete package in itself.
50:30
SPEAKER_00: Success by the book has a Siamese twin called a rise and shine.
50:34
SPEAKER_00: You're not part of it, you come join us.
50:36
SPEAKER_00: It will rock your world.
50:38
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
50:39
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
50:40
SPEAKER_00: So I told you I'll give you that and I'll give you a picture.
50:42
SPEAKER_00: This is the picture I want you to leave you with.
50:44
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
50:44
SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
50:46
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter how where you're starting from, it doesn't matter if you are under ground zero.
50:51
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if you're all the way at top at the top.
50:54
SPEAKER_00: Please hear me.
50:55
SPEAKER_00: There is an infinite amount of change, transformation that is available to you.
51:03
SPEAKER_00: Infinite amount.
51:04
SPEAKER_00: Like you may say, oh, you know, the thing is the limitation I have is this, this.
51:08
SPEAKER_00: You don't have limitations.
51:11
SPEAKER_00: They look that way.
51:13
SPEAKER_00: But when you start changing the way you think, the things that were impossible for you become possible.
51:19
SPEAKER_00: The things were not that were not available to you become available.
51:23
SPEAKER_00: The things that, oh, people in my family don't do things like this.
51:26
SPEAKER_00: These are things that all become available to you.
51:30
SPEAKER_00: So listen to me.
51:33
SPEAKER_00: Listen to me.
51:38
SPEAKER_00: Meditate in this every day.
51:41
SPEAKER_00: Meditate in this multiple times a day.
51:45
SPEAKER_00: When you have downtime, you're doing laundry, you're driving, you're taking a walk.
51:49
SPEAKER_00: Let the word of God be your meditation.
51:51
SPEAKER_00: Let the word of God come out of your mouth.
51:53
SPEAKER_00: When challenges show up, go like, ah, whoopsie, I know what to do with you.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: You go and find seed from the word of God that you're going to meditate on and you're going to think about and you're going to paint movies with, and you do it and do it and do it.
52:07
SPEAKER_00: Don't ever get discouraged because you think, oh, this is not happening fast enough.
52:10
SPEAKER_00: Ooh, this hasn't changed enough.
52:12
SPEAKER_00: Don't let any of those things discourage you.
52:14
SPEAKER_00: The thing that you're doing is working.
52:17
SPEAKER_00: And all you have to do is keep getting better every day.
52:21
SPEAKER_00: And sow as much seed.
52:22
SPEAKER_00: See, the word says, as long as the earth remains, seed time and harvest will not cease.
52:27
SPEAKER_00: That's Genesis 8.22.
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SPEAKER_00: Keep sowing the seed of meditation.
52:31
SPEAKER_00: Keep sowing the seed of changing your mind.
52:33
SPEAKER_00: Why?
52:34
SPEAKER_00: The harvest is transformation.
52:36
SPEAKER_00: You don't have direct control of the harvest, which is transformation, but you have direct control of the seed.
52:42
SPEAKER_00: You know how much seed, how often you're going to sow that stuff.
52:46
SPEAKER_00: So meditate.
52:46
SPEAKER_00: Meditate.
52:47
SPEAKER_00: You want more transformation?
52:48
SPEAKER_00: Meditate more.
52:49
SPEAKER_00: You want more transformation?
52:51
SPEAKER_00: Meditate more.
52:51
SPEAKER_00: You want more transformation?
52:53
SPEAKER_00: Speak more.
52:54
SPEAKER_00: Just keep at it.
52:55
SPEAKER_00: You have control over that.
52:57
SPEAKER_00: You have control over that.
52:59
SPEAKER_00: Go all in on it.
53:00
SPEAKER_00: And I am telling you, you can become everything God has called you to be.
53:05
SPEAKER_00: And God has not called you to be small.
53:07
SPEAKER_00: It is no small thing He called you to be.
53:09
SPEAKER_00: He calls you a child of God.
53:11
SPEAKER_00: He calls you his masterpiece.
53:13
SPEAKER_00: He calls you a king and a priest.
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SPEAKER_00: He calls you a royal priesthood.
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SPEAKER_00: He calls you head and not the tail, above only not beneath, a sign and a wonder.
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SPEAKER_00: He's called you for greatness.
53:24
SPEAKER_00: When he made the first man, the first couple, he said, and God blessed them.
53:28
SPEAKER_00: He empowered them to prosper and said, Be fruitful, multiply.
53:32
SPEAKER_00: And that's not only with kids, that's with the things he's put on the inside of you, bring them out and touch the whole world with them.
53:39
SPEAKER_00: There is so much greatness locked up on the inside of you, my friend.
53:42
SPEAKER_00: And meditation is one of the ways you unlock it and you become the light of the world, the salt of the world, the flavor that the world has been waiting for.
53:52
SPEAKER_00: It is not outside your reach.
53:54
SPEAKER_00: Those visions God has shown you, those dreams you've had, it is not outside your reach.
53:58
SPEAKER_00: You've got to do what He said to do.
54:02
SPEAKER_00: Renew your mind.
54:04
SPEAKER_00: Do you see how much came out of one half of a verse?
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SPEAKER_00: One half of a verse.
54:11
SPEAKER_00: So our job is to meditate and meditate and meditate and sow the seed and sow the seed and say it out of mouth and paint the picture and write it in a book and it overwhelm our minds with the word of God.
54:24
SPEAKER_00: Change the way we think, and everything will change for us.
54:27
SPEAKER_00: I am rooting for you, Father.
54:29
SPEAKER_00: I pray over every single one here.
54:31
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I pray that every time they take the time to meditate, that you will meet them there.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: You will open up the word to them, you will give them revelation, you will give them insight that will change them forever, that will damage every limiting belief, that will show them who you call them to be, that day by day they become more and more of who you call them to be.
54:51
SPEAKER_00: So they can do more and more of what you call them to do, so they can have more and more of what they could you call them to have.
54:56
SPEAKER_00: And so every single one of us on that day when we stand before you, we will be able to look at you and say, Father, what a ride.
55:04
SPEAKER_00: We glorified you on the earth by completing down to the last detail what you assigned us to do.
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SPEAKER_00: We became everything you called us to be.
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SPEAKER_00: We became signs and wonders.
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SPEAKER_00: We showed off your glory, we manifested the blessing in all nine areas of our life.
55:16
SPEAKER_00: We aggressively advanced your kingdom.
55:18
SPEAKER_00: We went deeper with you and we always kept the main thing, the main thing.
55:21
SPEAKER_00: And that's gonna be your testimony.
55:23
SPEAKER_00: And if you believe that, say amen.
55:25
SPEAKER_00: If this has helped you in any way, I would love for you to join the movement and share this episode with your friends, family, and the Christians in your world.
55:33
SPEAKER_00: By doing this simple thing, you could be changing the trajectory of someone's lives, their family, and their community.
55:39
SPEAKER_00: That makes you a world changer and they will love you forever.