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Fruitful Language Joel Osteen · A Better Tomorrow

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  Speaker 1: Our words are setting the direction for our lives. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to know what you're going to be like
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  Speaker 1: five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll never get well. I'll never break this addiction. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never meet the right person. You are prophesying your future.
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  Speaker 1: You can't speak defeat and have victory. You can't talk
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  Speaker 1: sickness and have health. You can't speak lack and struggle
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  Speaker 1: and have abundance. The scripture says you will eat the
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  Speaker 1: fruit of your words. Pay attention to what you're saying
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  Speaker 1: about yourself, your family, your finances, your health. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to become what you're continually saying. That's why it's so
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  Speaker 1: important to get in a habit of speaking victory over
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  Speaker 1: your life. All through the day, I am blessed. I
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  Speaker 1: am strong. I am healthy. I'm surrounded by favor. Something
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  Speaker 1: good is going to happen to me. The fruit of
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  Speaker 1: those words are blessing, favor, abundance. It's not enough to
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  Speaker 1: just think it. We give life to our faith by
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  Speaker 1: speaking it out. When you're in tough times, you can complain,
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  Speaker 1: talk about the problem. I can't believe this happened. Or
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  Speaker 1: you can say, Father, thank you that you're fighting my battles.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you that what was meant for harm, you're turning
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  Speaker 1: to my advantage. Thank you that you always cause me
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  Speaker 1: to triumph, that I'll come out of this better than
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  Speaker 1: I was before. That's prophesying victory. That's prophesying a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your
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  Speaker 1: words to change the situation. Well, I'll never get out
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  Speaker 1: of this problem. You're inviting defeat. I'm not that talented.
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  Speaker 1: You're inviting limitations. I'll never accomplish my dreams. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have the connections. You're inviting mediocrity. You need to send
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  Speaker 1: out some new invitations. You may be struggling with depression.
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  Speaker 1: Your report should be, this is only temporary. This is
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  Speaker 1: not who I am. I am free. I am happy.
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  Speaker 1: I have a bright future. The dream may look too big,
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  Speaker 1: but I know with God all things are possible. New
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  Speaker 1: doors are about to open. Good breaks are looking for me.
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  Speaker 1: Divine connections, the right people are headed my way. Paul
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  Speaker 1: said in Ephesians, let everything you say be good and
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  Speaker 1: helpful so that your words will be an encouragement to
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  Speaker 1: those that hear them. One person that hears your words
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  Speaker 1: is you. They go out of your mouth and back
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  Speaker 1: into your own ears. If you hear them long enough,
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  Speaker 1: they'll take root in your spirit. You believe what you
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  Speaker 1: say about yourself more than what anyone else says. And
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing more powerful than you speaking victory over your
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  Speaker 1: own life. When my father went to be with the
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  Speaker 1: Lord and I stepped up to pastor the church, every
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  Speaker 1: thought told me that I couldn't minister. Joel, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the experience. You're not qualified. You're not that talented.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I've learned is to not verbalize the negative.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give those thoughts life by speaking them out. And
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  Speaker 1: instead of talking about how I felt, insecure, unqualified, intimidated,
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  Speaker 1: I said what God said about me. I can do
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  Speaker 1: all things through Christ. I am strong in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm equipped, empowered, anointed. The whole time I was saying that,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel confident. I didn't feel qualified. I felt
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  Speaker 1: just the opposite. But as I kept speaking victory, as
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  Speaker 1: I kept calling myself who God says I am, it
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  Speaker 1: took root on the inside. Over time, I started to
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  Speaker 1: feel strong, confident, well able. I started to see favor,
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  Speaker 1: new doors opening, God taking me where I've never imagined.
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  Speaker 1: What happened? I ate the fruit of my words. It
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  Speaker 1: may not happen overnight, but you have to keep speaking victory.
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  Speaker 1: Keep calling yourself healthy. Keep declaring your children are mighty
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  Speaker 1: in the land. Keep declaring those dreams are coming to pass.
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  Speaker 1: James chapter 3, it compares the tongue to a rudder
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  Speaker 1: of a ship. Verse 4 says, although a ship is
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  Speaker 1: large and driven by strong winds, it is steered by
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  Speaker 1: a small rudder wherever the pilot wants it to go.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same way with the tongue. Even though it's
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  Speaker 1: a small part of the body, it's steering your life.
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  Speaker 1: What you're saying is determining which direction you go. The
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  Speaker 1: good news is you have control over the rudder. You
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  Speaker 1: control your tongue. Are you sending your words out in
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  Speaker 1: the direction you want your life to go? I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I'm going to get well. The medical report doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look good. That's the wrong direction. Why don't you say
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  Speaker 1: what God says about you? God is restoring health back
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  Speaker 1: into me. By his stripes I am healed. I will
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  Speaker 1: live and not die. My child's been off course so long.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he'll ever make good decisions. Change your rudder.
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  Speaker 1: You're headed the wrong way. Father, thank you that my
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  Speaker 1: children are mighty in the land. You said the seed
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  Speaker 1: of the righteous, my seed is blessed. As for me
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  Speaker 1: and my house, we will serve the Lord. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: don't see how I can get ahead, Joel. Nobody in
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  Speaker 1: my family has been successful. This pandemic is going to
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  Speaker 1: put my business under. When you talk defeat, you're headed
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  Speaker 1: toward defeat. When you talk failure, lack, mediocrity, you're headed
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  Speaker 1: that way. Well, I'm praying that God will help me.
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  Speaker 1: He will help you, but you control the rudder. You're
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  Speaker 1: setting the direction with your words. Are you in agreement
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  Speaker 1: with God? He said you're blessed. Are you saying something else?
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  Speaker 1: He said you're fearfully and wonderfully made, a masterpiece crowned
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  Speaker 1: with favor. Are you calling yourself inferior, weak, not attractive?
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  Speaker 1: Start declaring what he promised. Father, you said even in famine,
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  Speaker 1: the righteous will have more than enough. You said what
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  Speaker 1: I put my hands to would prosper and succeed. When
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  Speaker 1: someone asks you how you're doing, don't go through all
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  Speaker 1: your troubles, how bad it is. Keep your ship going
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction. I'm blessed. I'm strong. I'm valuable.
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  Speaker 1: I'm favored. Think about a ship. It can be carrying
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  Speaker 1: very valuable cargo, oil, minerals, equipment, but all that valuable
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  Speaker 1: cargo is at the mercy of the small rudder of
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  Speaker 1: the ship. If the captain didn't steer the ship the
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  Speaker 1: proper way, if the rudder wasn't in the right position,
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  Speaker 1: the ship would never make it to the intended destination.
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  Speaker 1: All that cargo would go to waste. In the same way,
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  Speaker 1: you are carrying valuable cargo that When God breathed His
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  Speaker 1: life into you, He put gifts, talents, potential. You have
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  Speaker 1: seeds of greatness. You are destined to leave your mark,
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  Speaker 1: to take your family to a new level. The question
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  Speaker 1: is not, are you equipped? Are you favored? Do you
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  Speaker 1: have what it takes? Your ship is fully loaded. The
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  Speaker 1: question is, are you going to keep your rudder going
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  Speaker 1: in the right direction? Are you going to speak victory, abundance,
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  Speaker 1: new levels? Or are you going to talk like you're average?
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  Speaker 1: I can't get ahead. I never get any good breaks.
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  Speaker 1: This addiction has been in my family for years. You're
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  Speaker 1: not being limited by your circumstances. You're being limited by
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  Speaker 1: your words. Your rudder is going in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 1: What you speak, you're moving toward. When you speak victory,
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  Speaker 1: you're moving toward victory. When you speak health, you're moving
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  Speaker 1: toward health. When you speak overflow more than enough, you're
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  Speaker 1: moving toward abundance. And here's the key. You have to
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  Speaker 1: speak it before you see it. This is what faith
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  Speaker 1: is all about. The scripture says, let the weak say
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  Speaker 1: I am strong. You may not feel strong, but when
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  Speaker 1: you say I am strong, you're moving toward strength. You
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  Speaker 1: may be fighting an illness, but when you say I'm healthy,
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  Speaker 1: you're moving toward health. Perhaps you feel stuck in your career.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like you've reached your limits. But when you say
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  Speaker 1: new doors are about to open, something good is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen to me. God has taken me from glory
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  Speaker 1: to glory. You're moving toward new levels, favor, something that
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  Speaker 1: you've never seen. Are you steering your ship in the
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  Speaker 1: direction you want your life to go? Is your rudder,
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  Speaker 1: your tongue, taking you to blessing, increase, abundance? Or are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about what's not working out? How you don't
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  Speaker 1: feel that talented? The obstacles are too big? That's going
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  Speaker 1: to keep you from your destiny. In the scripture, God
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  Speaker 1: told Jeremiah that he was going to become a great
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  Speaker 1: prophet and speak to nations. But Jeremiah was young and afraid.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing he said was, God, I can't speak
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  Speaker 1: to nations. I'm too young. I wouldn't know what to say.
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  Speaker 1: God could have said, Jeremiah, I understand. This seems over
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  Speaker 1: your head. Don't worry, I'm going to help you. No,
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  Speaker 1: God said, Jeremiah, say not that you're too young. God
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  Speaker 1: told him to zip it up. He knew if Jeremiah
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  Speaker 1: kept speaking those negative words, telling himself that he was
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  Speaker 1: too young, not qualified, didn't have what it takes, that
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  Speaker 1: he would never become who he was created to be.
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  Speaker 1: Your tongue is the rudder for your life. It's determining
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  Speaker 1: the direction. Next time you're tempted to say something negative
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  Speaker 1: about yourself, your future, your children, your finances, zip it up.
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  Speaker 1: Don't steer yourself toward defeat. Say not you're too young.
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  Speaker 1: Say not you can't get well. Say not you'll never
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  Speaker 1: meet the right person. Say not you can't accomplish your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: God wouldn't have given them to you. if you weren't
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  Speaker 1: well able. Verse 9 says, God reached out his hands
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  Speaker 1: and touched Jeremiah's lips and said, I have put my
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  Speaker 1: words in your mouth. God was saying in effect, Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: say what I say about you. Don't say how you feel.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say what the experts say. Don't say what it
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  Speaker 1: looks like. Start saying what God says about you. God
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  Speaker 1: said in Psalms, he will crown the year with a
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  Speaker 1: bountiful harvest. Even the hard places will overflow with abundance.
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  Speaker 1: You can go around saying, this is such a tough year.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait till it's over. Or you can say, Father,
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  Speaker 1: thank you that even in hard times, I will have
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  Speaker 1: more than enough. Thank you that you're an overflow God,
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  Speaker 1: that you're not limited by my circumstances. You're not limited
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  Speaker 1: by the economy. Lord, I thank you that I'm blessed
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  Speaker 1: in a down year. I'm favored in a famine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: prosperous in a pandemic. I overflow. I have more than
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  Speaker 1: enough joy, more than enough strength, more than enough health.
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  Speaker 1: That's steering your ship toward increase, steering your ship toward overflow.
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  Speaker 1: I talked to a young lady. She was very successful
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  Speaker 1: in her career, but when the pandemic hit, things started
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  Speaker 1: to slow down. She was concerned about how it was
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  Speaker 1: going to work out. She heard me talking about how
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  Speaker 1: this was going to be an overflow year, how the
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  Speaker 1: economy is not our source, but God is our source.
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  Speaker 1: Something came alive on the inside. She started saying that
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  Speaker 1: all through the day, repeating it under her breath again
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  Speaker 1: and again. Lord, thank you that the economy is not
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  Speaker 1: my source, but you are my source. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: an overflow year. It looked just the opposite. Things were
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  Speaker 1: going down, decreasing, yet she was declaring increase, declaring favor,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the greatness of our God. What was she doing?
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  Speaker 1: Steering her ship in the right direction. In difficult times,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to talk about the problem, complain, be negative.
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  Speaker 1: That's when you have to dig down deep and say, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep speaking victory. God, you're my provider.
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  Speaker 1: You're my healer. You're my way maker. I may not
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  Speaker 1: see how it can happen, but I know you're still
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  Speaker 1: in control. She and her husband decided to start their
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  Speaker 1: own business. Against all odds, it took off. more than
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  Speaker 1: they ever imagined. They just closed on their first house.
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  Speaker 1: Their business continues to increase. She said in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of all this uncertainty, with people afraid, struggling, we've seen
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  Speaker 1: favor in ways we've never dreamed. That's what the scripture says.
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  Speaker 1: Even in hard times, the righteous will have more than enough.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think this would have happened if she would
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  Speaker 1: have gone around negative, complaining. Pay attention to which way
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  Speaker 1: you're steering your ship What you're constantly talking about, you're
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  Speaker 1: drawing in. When you're always bragging on the greatness of
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  Speaker 1: our God, talking about what He can do, declaring what
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  Speaker 1: He promised, you're going to draw in blessings, favor, increase.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 35 says, let them continually say, let the Lord
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  Speaker 1: be magnified who takes pleasure in the prosperity of His children.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting that they were supposed to continually say this.
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  Speaker 1: You would think they could say it once, twice, that
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  Speaker 1: would be enough. But there's something powerful when you go
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  Speaker 1: through the day, not talking about how big the problem is,
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  Speaker 1: how your back will probably never stop hurting, how you
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  Speaker 1: don't see how that child's going to turn around. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, let God be magnified who takes pleasure in
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  Speaker 1: prospering me, who takes pleasure in healing me, who takes
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in favoring me. Are you taking time to declare
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  Speaker 1: God's goodness over your life? Are you speaking victory over
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  Speaker 1: your future? It's not enough to do it every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while. It needs to become a habit where
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  Speaker 1: all through the day we're declaring that we're blessed, we're strong,
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  Speaker 1: we're healthy. When you wake up in the morning, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for another beautiful day. And Lord, thank you
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  Speaker 1: that something good is going to happen to me today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you that your favor is surrounding me. Blessings are
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  Speaker 1: chasing me down. Angels are watching over me. That you
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  Speaker 1: being for me is more than the world being against me.
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  Speaker 1: That's setting your rudder in the right direction. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be silent and reach your potential. Nothing happens until you speak.
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  Speaker 1: Your words give life to your faith. Joshua said it
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  Speaker 1: this way, this book of the law, these promises shall
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  Speaker 1: not depart out of your mouth. You shall meditate on
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  Speaker 1: them day and night. Then you will prosper and have
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  Speaker 1: good success. It doesn't say they shouldn't depart out of
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  Speaker 1: your mind. If you think positive, you'll be fine. Not
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  Speaker 1: depart out of your eyes. If you read it enough,
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  Speaker 1: it says they should not depart out of your mouth.
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  Speaker 1: If you'll keep speaking what God says about you, then
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  Speaker 1: you will have good success.