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Crushing Strongholds #18- 7 of 7-Day Challenge Workshop-"Living in Overflow, Overflow with gratitude!' · One Voice Many Conversations

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, hello everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Crushing Strongholds.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a podcast where we turn pain into power, trauma into triumph, and a place where we can expose the lies of the enemy and break curses through equipping believers with the truth and the word and the grace of the power of Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm so glad that you're here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We definitely want to break out into freedom and just be renewed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the way that we do that is through our voice, through our testimony, because honestly, it truly does dismantle strongholds.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so that is truly what the heart of this podcast is all about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So welcome in everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad that you're here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, today is day seven of our seven-day overflow challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are at the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We made it all the way through.
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  SPEAKER_00: Seven days in a row.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was a really, really huge challenge for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm super excited that we we have got to this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: From day one to now, it's just been amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's topic for day seven is living in overflow and overflowing and gratitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: So not only do we want to learn about overflow, but we want to learn how to continue, continue to live in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a little bit of a testimony for you today from myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Although there were like seasons in my life where I missed overflow from God because of distractions and hurt feelings, anger, resentment, pride, fear, and a lot of anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_00: And anxiety really bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: I still have anxiety, but not as bad as I used to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And many other reasons.
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  SPEAKER_00: So my cup was overflowing, but it was too consumed with going through the motions of despair and self-pity rather than um what God wanted me to have because I was working so hard, so hard to please others, and was doing so much that um I couldn't even receive God's overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I didn't even acknowledge that I was missing it because I was so overwhelmed with all my drama.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like ugh, it was a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I needed to take a load off.
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  SPEAKER_00: I did.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, yeah, I couldn't even receive God's overflow, you know, because my cup was filled with strongholds and a lot of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really had to self-evaluate and get to the very bottom of what the problem was, what is holding me back, what is keeping me hostage, what is keeping me in prison.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um these strongholds really had to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: They they seriously, seriously had to be destroyed, crushed.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to get rid of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really wasn't easy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had um to spend a lot of time with God, and I had to do a lot of search, searching in the word, and I had to get connected and be around the right people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to get around people that were going to actually encourage me, not discourage me, people that were gonna lift me up, not knock me down.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's really important that you pay attention to like who you're around, who you're getting discipleship through, um, and where that's coming from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the enemy definitely can put people in your path that maybe not should be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they might be there for a moment, a a quick part of the season that you're in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you don't have to stay attached to everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, I've had to learn that the hard way, um, because I just really wanted um people to care about me and like me and accept me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um it was really hard for me to understand that people really didn't have to do that if they didn't want to.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's times in my life when I just wasn't very likable, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So struggling with that myself, I had to tear down those strongholds brick by brick, you know, each episode, each um every single stronghold had to come down because one would be attached to another, be attached to another, be attached to another.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was just like a mangled mess of strongholds keep me from God's overflow, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I literally allowed the enemy to keep whispering to me that I was never good enough, um, that I don't matter, and that you have to um um my my computer's going crazy, sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um all my notes are disappearing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um okay, sorry about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I apologize for that pause.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyhow, um he he had all these lies that were hung over to my hung over my head because I literally believed what was being said about me all the time, all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I never fit in, I would never measure up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um no one would ever care about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of these things just hung on to me for so, so, so very long.
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  SPEAKER_00: But once I recognized this, um I slowed down and sat back and I kind of I just evaluated, evaluated myself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not always an easy thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you've ever been given an assignment where you had to do an evaluation on yourself, like at a job performance, where they say, before I give you your raise or whatever, I want you to do your own job performance to see where you think you're at.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's really not always as easy as you think, because sometimes I think we think we do a really good job, but sometimes we need a little bit of help.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in my life with my strongholds, I needed a little bit of help.
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  SPEAKER_00: Actually, I needed a lot, and I needed it from God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I needed it from coaching, I needed it from um pastors and from people that just cared about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, people that actually could pour into me is what I really needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And God did that through overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: He sent people and put people in my life's life and in my path where I could receive that overflow to where I could actually start believing that I mattered.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was really important because you can get into a really, really, really dark place.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, some things had to change.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I no longer listen to the lies of the enemy or the negative people around me, or even my own thoughts at times.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's times when I had to literally put my own thoughts on the shelf because I was like, yeah, we're not doing this with I'm not doing this with myself today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I wake up and I'm not feeling so great, feeling so hot, and automatically the enemy jumps in on that and wants to make you feel less of yourself than what you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: God didn't design us for that, he didn't create us for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we know who we are in our identity with Christ, those lies will go away because we won't tolerate them anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: We won't put up with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, again, that overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I had to make room for what God was pouring into my life and leave the rest up to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I would just keep on taking and taking and taking, taking on this responsibility when it wasn't my responsibility to carry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, God taught me how to how to find some balance in my life, which is was very much needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he carries our burdens, and um because of that, um he allows us to walk in freedom because we're not doing it all by ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: He he's there helping us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyhow, I love to spend time with God now and worship him, and I love to learn from him.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we're gonna do today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's look at the scripture, let's get to moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that was my my testimony.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, it was a little bit long, had a couple glitches in the computer, but here, let's get the word of God out and let's dive into the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna start in 2 Corinthians, which is all of my scripture today is in the New Testament, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Corinthians is gonna be right in the middle of where we're learning today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So 2 Corinthians 9 and verse 8, it says, And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you always having all sufficiency in all things may have an abundance for every good work.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God wants us to have a lot of abundance, and everything that He gives us is sufficient.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's not lacking, He's not gonna, he's not gonna shortchange you or not give you the necessary tools to do things, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's really important that you understand that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna now let's look at um second, or not second, Colossians, okay, Colossians 3, 16.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, it says, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching, and abonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, we're supposed to be, as we're gaining overflow from God, we're supposed to be enjoying that, and we're supposed to be out have an outpouring of joy and happiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're supposed to be worshiping and praising and singing um hymns to God because He's He's given us so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: He and He's given it to us so so abundantly that we need we should be doing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: We should have grace in our heart, we should have joy on us.
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  SPEAKER_00: When people see us, they should say, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what that person has, but I want that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how happy we should be that people want and desire something that we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, let's talk about one more scripture, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: And this one's important.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did talk about this already, but I think it's super important that we talk about it again.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um I'll explain why in just a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, John in the Gospels 10 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, John 10 10.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says the the thief does not come except to steal, kill, and destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have come, God, you know, sending Jesus, I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: More abundantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what that means to me isn't just the life that we have here on earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's given us abundant life.
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  SPEAKER_00: That means everlasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's going to give us eternal life.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we don't just get, we don't just get help here on earth.
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  SPEAKER_00: We get to go into the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: We get to keep going after after this life is over and we go on to the next one.
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  SPEAKER_00: We get eternal life, we get eternal salvation.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the overflowing, that's the more abundant that God gives us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the devil wants to destroy that because he doesn't want you to go there.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants you going somewhere else, like straight to hell, like literally to hell.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants to grab you and take you with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't care at all about you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: He really doesn't.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's amazing that when we think about God's abundancy and his overflow, it's a lifestyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not just something that you live in a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Overflow is a lifestyle, it is continual.
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  SPEAKER_00: It and it's meant to constantly be continual, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the challenge for you guys today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, as y'all know, throughout the whole week, every single day I've given you a challenge, and I don't think they've been hard.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, maybe some of you might have found them hard, but they were, I thought they were pretty simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was trying to go easy on y'all.
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  SPEAKER_00: But today's challenge is a little bit different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, out of all the challenges this week, I would say this one is the hardest.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, why not save the best for last, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what can we take away from this whole entire week?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, overflow comes from God, and He wants to bless us abundantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we've learned that this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so for today's final challenge, I want you to write your own personal declaration.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that look like?
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  SPEAKER_00: Your own declaration and it of overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Write your own personal declaration of overflow, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then I want you to pin it up somewhere where you can see it and read it every day until you personally can see the change and overflow in your own life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's a challenge, that's a tough one because that's something now you have to continue on with.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this seven-day overflow challenge finale is ends today.
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  SPEAKER_00: But your overflow doesn't have to.
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  SPEAKER_00: What does that need to look like for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you need to do in it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do you need to go with it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, also before we go into prayer, I want to remind you that wherever you saw this um this episode today, wherever you're watching from, whatever platform you're on, whether it be Facebook, TikTok, um YouTube, uh, Spotify, wherever you're at, if you could just do me a favor, go in and like it, comment, share it with five people, at least five people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe more.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to share it with more people, let's share the word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get that scripture out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get John 1010 out there so that people can also overflow with abundance.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, God wants us to have that joy and that overflow that He wants to give us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And not just a little bit, but more abundantly than before.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, how do we get that to people?
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  SPEAKER_00: We share it, we share these messages, we share the gospel, we share the Word of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just ask that you do that today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's part of your challenge today.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you could please do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also, if you haven't done this yet, out of the seven days, go to my website, crushingstrongholds.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go in and fill out the welcome section and put in there overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know that you um are jumping on my web page, so or my website, whatever you want to call it, um, because it because you watched these episodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to thank you so much for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's go into prayer today, and as we wrap up, because I really want to pray with you guys and uh take this time um just to give glory to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Heavenly Father God, help us, help us, Lord, to remove any distractions that we have.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us to be constantly and continually keeping our mindset on you and our focus on you for what you have for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us, Lord, to walk in your grace and your love and your overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Help us to stay focused on you so we stay full enough to overflow onto others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for your word and just thank you for your abundant overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when we don't deserve it, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're just so faithful.
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  SPEAKER_00: You you don't withhold your promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't tease us or channelize us, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just you just fulfill your word with what you what you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: You say it and you do it, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We thank you for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we just ask that you just help us um to continually flow onto others, Lord, and that we just share your word, your gospel, and your truth, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: We love you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just thank you for um blessing us abundantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for this last seven days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for getting us through it, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just really appreciate it, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really appreciate it, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just am so blessed that you helped me to get through this whole challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, we love you, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you prayed that, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being here today with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you are not saved, if you're not a Christian, if you just stumbled across this podcast by accident and you're wondering what is this all about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is this God of abundance?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is this Jesus we're talking about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I want to share the salvation prayer with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you if you feel like in your heart something's pulling on you and you feel like, hey, I want that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want, I want that joy, I want the abundance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I just want to pray the salvation prayer with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some people call it a sinner's prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I call it the salvation prayer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's pray that together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pray it out loud, please, because the enemy can't hear your thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you speak it out loud, the enemy has to flee.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we want.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want the enemy to be gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need him to get.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's pray this out loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dear God, I come to you admitting that I'm a sinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe that your son Jesus died on the cross to take away my sin.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also believe he rose from the dead so I can be justified and made righteous through faith in him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, I choose to follow you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I ask that you fill me with the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for saving me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you prayed that prayer today, congratulations and welcome to the kingdom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you're part of the family.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that that is super, super, super exciting.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, again, if you did pray that prayer, I want you to go to crushingstormworlds.com and fill out the welcome section.
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  SPEAKER_00: Put in the notes, I accepted Jesus, and if you do that, I'm going to send you a gift.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to um just give you a little bit of encouragement, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, if you are a new Christian, it's a good idea to get into a word-believing church as well as in the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people go, well, where do I start?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do I start in this big old book?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's 66 books in here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where do I begin?
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  SPEAKER_00: I would start with the Gospels because that's the life of Jesus Christ: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would read those gospels.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of similarities throughout those four gospels, and you're gonna learn a lot about Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna learn a lot about your savior.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's important that when you're you're you're getting saved, that you know who your savior is.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want you to understand who Jesus is.
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  SPEAKER_00: So look him up, dive in there, and um yeah, start reading.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyhow, thank you for joining today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining Crushing Strongholds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, today's episode, as we as we close out this week, this week's seven-day challenge.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope um you're able to gain some new perspective, okay, as well as get closer with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know for me, I got closer with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: This whole week challenge, even though God was already overflowing in my life, it just intensified.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was so amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had such a good week doing this, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: I loved it actually.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I know I definitely will do it again because it was just so amazing, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've truly enjoyed sharing all of this with you and all of the time that I've I've given into this with you as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've enjoyed sharing every bit of it with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I also have learned a lot about overflow, and I pray that you have learned a lot about overflow too, so that you can you can bless others because God wants to bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um not not just in the season you're at in, but in any season that you're in.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we always say in and out of season because we go in and out of seasons, but you're always in a season.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're never really out of season.
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  SPEAKER_00: So um, wherever you're at, God wants to bless you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And can and he wants you to continue to grow and he wants you to continue to overflow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, anyhow, until next time, um God bless and take care.