Welcome to
Celebrating Life In Recover
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I'm Cheri your host.
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Today is going to be a wild
show so get a pen, paper for
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notes and put your seatbelt
on because, oh man, I'm not
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even going to tell
you because of why.
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Come and join us!
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I love this section of the show.
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Last season I had Leo Schreven
on and what was funny about
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that whole thing is that I
have had Leos tapes and his
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Power Seminar at
my house forever.
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When I first heard Leo, I
thought that is such good stuff.
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Of course as good wife
that I am, I want my husband to
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hear every word and do it.
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So I come home, Brad you
have to listen to this it is so
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good and Brad he is busy.
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He works at the University,
plays in the orchestra and he
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has just put it off,
put it off, put it off.
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The last season that Leo was
on, he listened to him, he said
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don't we have that guy's tapes?
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Now he is listening to
every one of them because, Leo
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have to say first of all
thank you for coming back.
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You so impressed Brad, he
just said everything he said is
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right on, so now he has his
own devotional time and getting
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up and he's going
through the Scriptures.
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He is trying to eat right
and all that stuff that you
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quickly went over
on the last season.
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So I want to say that on
this season lets not quickly go
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over it, let's hit some points.
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First of all for people
who haven't seen the show,
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don't know a thing
about you, who are you?
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My name is Leo Schreven
and we do a seminar called
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'All Power' and it basically
is a Bible-based seminar
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on how to master your
life physically, emotionally,
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spiritually and financially.
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Every area of life is important.
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So we have taken the position
that you can know everything
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about God, you can know
everything about truth and all
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the doctrines or whatever,
but how do you manage your
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life, how do you manage
your emotions, how do you manage
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your marriage and your finances?
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All these challenges that
people have in everyday life.
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What I love about your
program, because I always want
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to say give me a pill, give
me something, give me what ever.
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Yours is basic stuff
and you don't have to go buy
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anything. - that's right.
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The principles are all in
the Bible and once people pick
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out those principles and
start to use them it makes
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instant changes in their lives.
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It's powerful in every
area and we don't have to go for
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the pills, that is what
this whole program is about,
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addictions, people try
pills, they tried drugs,
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they try overeating
they try all this stuff.
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The principles are in the Bible.
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Once you pick up God's
principles is just like that you
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can overcome these
things and it's so exciting.
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So that is what
we share with people.
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You are like a rebellious
kid. I love that a rebellious
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kid acting out and you find God.
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In your finding God
your whole life changed.
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Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
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That is cool so we want to
start with, the reason we are
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starting to show a little
different for people at the café
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and for people in the
audience, is that I know Leo has
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a ton of stuff. We
are going to do two shows.
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We are going to do them up here.
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We are still going to
ask questions but were going
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to get right into it.
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So I want you to get right
into the first principles of
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the Power Seminar,
things you start teaching.
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And the reason, every
time I am with somebody that is
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trying to change their life
there is significant changes.
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Our thinking is twisted,
what we put in our bodies is
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is all messed up.
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Our relationships, I
have been with people
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that they choose the worst of
the worst people and they think
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why isn't God blessing us?
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Why? Because you chose a
biker that strung out on heroin.
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A great role model. - exactly!
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So start with... what
are the basics that you
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take people through?
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The first one is Paul's
basic principle of putting the
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past behind you and to
forget what's behind you and
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reach for what is before you.
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So many people carry baggage
and they want to hold onto
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it, I did this in the past.
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Who cares about
past its behind you.
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You have to get to
that breaking point.
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You know the first part of
my recovery people say that
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you needed to get a 12
step group, you need some
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self-help books, you need
to go to therapy and I spent.
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This is embarrassing to say,
because I believe your theory
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100%, but I spent 15
years looking at my past.
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And at the end of 15
years I sat there and thought,
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you know what it
shouldn't have happened.
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I'll thought that from day one.
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It's the craziest thing, I
happen to disagree with that
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too, because I think it's a
humanistic philosophy that has
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kept many people in
trenches, in bondage for years.
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They go through their past
my mommy did this, my daddy
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my uncle did this, who cares.
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Put it behind you, and
if you spent your whole life
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digging up your past you
are going to be miserable.
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Not only that you are finally
going to end up with someone
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to blame, I'm this way
because my mommy did this or my
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daddy did this and I grew
up in these circumstances.
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You are never
going to get ahead.
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So when I read my Bible God
talks about an instant heart
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plant, a heart transplant
in an instant change so when
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you apply God's
principles you have that happen
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tens of thousands of times.
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- exactly in what is interesting
to me is when I finally
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decided I was going to
trust God with my past.
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I was molested since I
was three months old, I was
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homeless by the age
of 13 and all that stuff.
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When I finally said, God I
will have to trust You on this.
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Because nobody has made sense.
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Somebody said it is
probably God's will let you went
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through that, STOP! I
don't think God intended that.
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I think that we are in a
messed up place, if you have to
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look at that stuff look
at it but ask God to show you
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something and then get on
with what you are doing today.
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There are two ways
that you can look at it.
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My brother is sheet
rocking a house right now.
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A bunch of guys
sheet rocking his house.
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They are some of the
biggest failures in your life.
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They come for a couple hours
and hang sheet rock and they
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get so doped up and drunken
crazy they have to go home.
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The one guy has a bumper
sticker - I've seen that!
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He's got a bumper sticker on
the back of his van that goes
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like this, 'Before Therapy I
Was a Complete Idiot, and Now
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after Therapy I Understand
Why and I like Myself. '
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You never going to
go anywhere with that.
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Put the past behind you and
take responsibility for your
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life and if there's one
thing we really emphasize in our
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seminar right away is that
you have to take responsibility
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for your life.
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We teach people to words,
I am. Those are Bible words.
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Who is responsible
for your life? I am!
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Who is responsible
for your future? I am!
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Who's responsible to make
the right decisions? I am!
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- who's responsible today?
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Today I can take responsibility
and quit blaming my past,
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quit blaming God, quit blaming
my circumstances and just
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say God, You have said I
can make a new beginning.
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- that was huge for me, all
of a sudden because my family
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is a mess, my parents are
addicts and everything was a
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mess, I was homeless, I was
picked up by perpetrators and
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all that stuff but as soon
as somebody said that to me,
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not said it to me and I
listened, but said it to me and
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it's sunk in that I thought
if I am then I can change it.
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It was just like this
light went off and I thought
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I wanted to say God, thank
you so much because I am not
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going to live my life defeated.
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You got it, you got it.
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We can all be winners in
the game of life simply by
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choice, and it is one of
the most awesome gifts God has
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given us, we have
the ability to choose.
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You can stay in the mud,
you can stay in the trenches,
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or you can say man, I'm a
child of God and I have been
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forgiven and cleansed and
I have a future ahead of me.
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Just by making
the right decisions.
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So that is the first thing, as
we get into people's lives you
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have to accept responsibility
for your life and you
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have to put
your past behind you.
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Some people enjoy
being on a pity trip,
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they like complaining about
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the past and what happened.
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It's almost like a
drug. - it is like a drug.
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They just want people to feel
sorry for them and everybody
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has to get past that point
where I am not on a pity trip
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anymore, I am not a victim.
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What we are boiling it
down to this victim mentality.
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Our whole culture today
is that we are victims, we're
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victims and there is
no such thing as a victim.
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A victim is a choice, I'm
sorry I'm a winner in the game
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of life, God has given me
victory, God has given me power.
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For people that are watching
I have to say, some people
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are going to feel like,
wait you don't understand.
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I want to talk to this person,
I know that this is going
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to be a hard thing because
of what you have been through,
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what I have been through.
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But as soon as you get
this, there is a freedom.
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As soon as I got that,
I did 15 years in therapy,
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15 years of looking at
stuff, 15 years of trying to
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figure things out and the
only thing I figured out is
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that it shouldn't happen.
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So as soon as I
decided that I'm going to take
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responsibility, what with
goofy to me is that I felt like
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somebody walked by me too
fast or blew on me and I was a
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mist and would disappeared
because they didn't know who
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I was outside of that damage,
outside of all that junk.
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So I felt like the Holy
Spirit said to me, which is what
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the whole show is about,
the Holy Spirit and listening to
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God, the Holy Spirit
said what do you want to do?
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It's crazy, I want to learn
to sew, take piano lessons.
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It was simple stuff so I rented
a piano and brought it to my
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house and took lessons
instead of looking at the junk.
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What do you want to do?
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You just hit a point that
was so powerful that most people
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spend their whole lives
trying to figure out what
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they don't want to do, I
don't want this, I don't want
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this or don't want this.
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What do you want out of life?
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And the
possibilities are endless.
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I wanted to learn to draw,
and I started a graphic design
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business, because I was
good, and I thought shut up.
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I didn't think I had one
gift on the planet and all of a
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sudden when God said don't
focus on your junk, focus on
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who I created, and I promise
you, your gifts are amazing.
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Absolutely
amazing. - right, right!
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Yeah, so basically when
people are willing to take
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responsibility for
life than they move forward.
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Basically there are five
areas that will really end up
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making a person successful.
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The first one is to
decide to follow God and God's
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principles and you can't
do it apart from God no matter
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how hard you try
the principal works.
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The second thing is
what you just mentioned.
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Decide what you want out of
life, do you realize that most
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people go through life and
they never decide what they
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want, what do you want
physically, what you want
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emotionally, what do
you want spiritually,
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what do you want financially?
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What do you want in your
relationship with God, in other
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words you want to go to church
once a week and sit in warm
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up you for three
hours, or do you want to be in
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a dynamic living relationship?
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Do you want to be frustrated
and angry or do you want
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to live in emotional abundance,
what do you want out of life?
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Most people never
decide and here's the tragedy.
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When you and I don't
decide what we want physically,
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mentally, emotionally,
spiritually and financially
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in our life, we end up settling
for a lot less than what we
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are capable of achieving.
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I think that is the greatest
tragedy in anyone's life.
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And others will decide for us.
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That's right, fast food
industries decide for us and
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2/3 of Americans are obese
and can't control their weight.
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The music industry
decides for us and that is why
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we are filled with
hatred and four letter words
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and everything else.
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The movie industry decides
for us, people are out of
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control with their lives
and they don't even know it
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because they never
decided what they really want.
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Then when you do
decide, take action.
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I had a dear lady come in
the other day and it was so
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funny to meet her and we had
this in a book called Cowboys
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Make Better
Preachers, you've read it.
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It's a great book for young
people teaching life mastering
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lessons, anyway she said I
really want to buy this book
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but it's $10 and
we can't afford it.
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I said stop, stop, stop
don't ever say in my presence we
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can't afford it, say
how can we afford it?
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Then your brain engages
and you will figure out a way
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to come up with 10 bucks.
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So I said to her let me
ask you a question, I said I
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perceived by talking to you
that you smoke, is that right?
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She said yeah, I said
how much do you smoke?
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She said two and
a half packs a day.
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I said does your
husband smoke? Yeah!
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How much does
he smoke? The same.
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I said well between the two
of you, you smoke five packs
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a day right? Yeah! I said
don't tell me you can't afford
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to buy a $10 book, all you
have to do is quit smoking for
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15 minutes and you can buy one.
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I said to her, do
you have a television?
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Yeah who doesn't.
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I don't, I don't have
time for it except for 3ABN.
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I said what do you
pay for television?
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She said Will we
have a satellite dish.
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I said how many
channels? 940 channels.
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I said how do you watch
940 channels, so what does that
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cost you a month? She said $149.
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I said dear lady don't tell
me you can't afford a book for
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$10, ignorance is self-inflicted
in our world today.
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It is inexcusable so when
people choose to take action
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they choose to quit
letting the music industry,
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the fast food industry, the
fashion industry control the
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their life and say I am
going to be in control by
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following God's
principles and that is the day
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they are set free.
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What is fun about being
set free is like what I said
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I decided that, when someone
said you are responsible and
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I decided that, the first
thing that happened was I just
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felt like now what?
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Because I absolutely
had no skills other than
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victimizations, that
whole lifestyle thing.
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I had to ask God, You have
to speak to me and God does.
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Open up the word, talk to
somebody else that you know has
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got it, and I don't
grab hold of anybody anymore.
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I used to if you walked
by me and I will grab a hold,
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what do you do with this?
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Now I grab a hold of people
that I know has mastered that
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in a sense, so I
just don't grab anybody.
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I want somebody that can
tell me, this is what you do.
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But grab somebody, open up
the word of God, you speak to
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God yourself and you
find somebody that is going to
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tell you how to live
differently then you have lived.
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You are looking
for a role model.
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You can have role models
in your emotional life, your
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physical life, your financial
life, your spiritual life.
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- they are all over the place.
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The neat thing is they
can save you years of pain.
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They can accelerate your
success, why re-invent the wheel
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if somebody has been successful
in their emotional life,
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in their marriage, or raising
their kids, whatever it is,
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find out what they did and
it can save you so much time.
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What is funny for a lot of
us, I'm not even talking about,
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I'm not pulling your stuff out,
I'm pulling my own stuff out.
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What is funny for a lot of
us is that we think we are so
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unique, as a molested kid,
depressed and on the street,
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I think nobody's felt this way.
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Then I talked to every single
molested person on the planet
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and they fell exactly
that way, exactly that way.
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So it's like being able
to say is first of all your
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issues are not unique,
Solomon says there's nothing
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new under the sun.
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Earl? has one of my favorite
quotes and he talks about the
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problems of the human
mind are seemingly endless.
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They have two things in
common, one is they are shared
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by most people, and two
they can be solved a lot easier
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than you might think,
once you can face them.
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How may people have
problems in their marriage?
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They've got
books, they got DVDs,
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and they have
hundreds of resources.
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How many have had problems
in their spiritual life?
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I don't have a relation
with God, there are a million
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people felt like that,
find out what they did.
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Like they got books,
they got tapes, they got DVDs,
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that is what 3ABN
is full of this stuff.
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It doesn't
matter, raising your kids.
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- call us, call
us. - exactly, exactly!
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Folks I want you to know this,
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we have all the answers, no.
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But seriously, in every
area of your life, I don't care
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what it is there are a million
people that have trod the
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way before you, all
you have to do is, how did
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they solve the problem?
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What did they do and quit
being on pity, I'm the only
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one, no you are not.
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There is so much encouragement
in that and there is fun
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in that because you realize
I can solve anything because
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a million other
people face the same problem.
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One thing that I used to do
in recovery, I did nursing so
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I did groups and all that stuff.
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I'd say to everybody
imagine, just imagine that every
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single time, let's
imagine you have a beeper on.
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Those old beepers, and
every single time you think
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something negative about
yourself, or you feel sorry for
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yourself, or old stuff
comes up your beeper goes off.
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Your job is to stop the beeper.
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At first, I said
what do you think the
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beeper would sound like?
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Somebody says I think
it would be just nonstop.
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I think it would
be just as long thing.
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When you walk around the
mall what do you think it would
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sound like if
everybody at the mall had one?
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What God wants is the
beeper to stop. Let it stop.
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Challenge everything, if
something comes in your mind,
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that is just going to come
in and tear you down again,
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don't let it
anymore, let it be gone.
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You really have to
be that aware. - yeah.
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That is what taking
responsibility for your life
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is all about, and this leads us
into another very important area
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Making decisions, when a
person takes responsibility
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for their life and put the
past behind them and all the
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things we just talked about,
they all of a sudden have a
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new tool they never had
available to themselves before
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either, that is
making good decisions.
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Everything in your life
depends on making decisions.
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This is something that I feel
very passionate about because
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I find that sometimes even
Christians circles, and I want
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to say this in the most
respectful way, we can blame God
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or we blame Satan for
certain things in our life.
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God says listen I have
given you a choice, I lay before
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you blessings and I lay
before you curses and what every
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choice you make
you reap the results.
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Especially when it comes to
making positive decisions in
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our lives, everything
depends on your decisions.
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One good decision can lead
you to a lifetime of happiness,
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and one bad
decision can obviously lead
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you to a lifetime of pain.
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I used to pray to God, God
take the decisions from me.
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He said no they're
yours. - it's a gift.
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We can see this
way back clear to the
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beginning of Lucifer.
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Lucifer rebelled against
God, right? God gave him a
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choice and when he made the
wrong choice he was cast out
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of heaven, he reap
the painful results of it.
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The same thing happens
with Eve, here is the Garden of
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Eden with the tree of
knowledge of good and evil.
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God says don't touch the
fruit, she made a bad choice.
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That has plunged us into
years of sin and darkness.
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Everything depends on our
decisions and God does not
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interfere, He tells us
how to do it, he tells us the
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principles on how
to make right choices.
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He gives us all the tools
but ultimately we get to choose
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and to me that is the most
amazing and empowering thing
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in the world today.
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I have the ability to
choose, even in my eternal life
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I get to choose and
wow, this is amazing.
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And God doesn't interfere,
once that that tool comes into
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our hands and when people grasps
it, it changes everything.
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What's really interesting
is that I look at so many
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people today, like when
you talk about most of us are
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obese and all that stuff,
is that God says that simple
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and we still eat a donut
and say how come I'm gaining
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weight? - exactly, exactly!
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How come I have a bad attitude,
because your watching 42
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hours of television and
get filled the glorification of
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people losing their
tempers and getting mad.
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A TV fast! Wow! Get rid of
it altogether except for 3ABN.
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Seriously, I have ladies coming
all the time with their broken
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marriages say my husband
is my husband that and they
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are watching six hours
of sentimental sickening
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sacramental slop soap operas.
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They did a clinical study
with in Burton by the way.
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Any woman that watches soap
operas 2 and 1/2 months, for two
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days is declared
clinically insane.
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You can't watch all the
crying and lying and cheating
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and expect to
have a happy marriage.
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Go to the bookstore and get
some good books and learn how
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to have a good relationship
and make the same decisions
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people did before.
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Don't get the book,
take a walk, take a breath.
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To me what's interesting is
that as soon as I break away
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from some of things that
have so trashed me is that
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everything around me
is edifying and uplifting,
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if I turn those things
off, God said it is all around
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you and I really will bless you.
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Exactly, it's renewing the
mind and filling it with good
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things and positive
things and happy things.
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You know the word decision,
most people don't realize
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this, can we talk about
the principles now? - yeah.
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The word decision
actually comes from a Latin word
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that means to cut off.
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It comes from were they cut
dog tails off, and I'm going
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to teach you how to
cut a dog's tail off.
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Well thank you just in
case I ever need that skill.
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You take a dog like a Doberman
pinscher that's got this
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long tail and you take 2 foot
of it is a dodgy I know it's
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going to hurt so will
do a little at a time.
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You take the first inch
and whack the dog goes woo-woo.
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Bandage him up and send
him on his way and next week
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you bring him back there
and whack, you cut the next
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little inch off, and inch
by inch and finally after two
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months the tale is gone.
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No! - You cut it
off, that is so mean.
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I take that entire tale
and whacked it off and there's
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a little temporary
pain and the dogs healed.
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The worst decision, believe
it or not comes from that word
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to cut off.
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A true decision means I'm going
to do this and cut myself off
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than any other
possibility of doing this.
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The challenges, we save
in an uncommitted generation,
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and I say that aching
with love and respect.
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We don't commit to anything
anymore, our churches, our
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marriages, our kids, nothing.
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And because we are so
conditioned this way by so many
00:19:01.30\00:19:03.66
things around us in our
environment we have forgotten
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what it feels like to
make a solid decision.
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It's like when people
come to Christ, this happens
00:19:08.30\00:19:10.24
all the time in
our life seminars.
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We invite them to except
Christ, when they sit on the
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fence their miserable and
when they finally make that
00:19:14.14\00:19:16.15
decision and they get off
the fence and say yes I'm going
00:19:16.18\00:19:18.55
to stand for Jesus, Joy
and the whole life explodes.
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So people have got to
understand that when they make
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a decision and say I'm
going to do this and cut myself
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off from any other possibility.
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Let me illustrate it this way.
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I do want to say something
with that, I thought that if
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I was going to make a
decision at cut something off,
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especially something that
I perceived gave me pleasure,
00:19:36.84\00:19:39.77
that I would just be
miserable the rest of my life.
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But what is really interesting
is God, I felt like the
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Holy Spirit is just screaming
that is just so not true.
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Somebody has lied to you
and it is like being able to say
00:19:48.57\00:19:51.03
that we are uncommitted
and we have lost because of it.
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Once you make the
commitment is the happiest
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life in the world.
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Because you become in
control again and you become
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real and present in
your own life. - exactly!
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It's powerful. - man, it's huge.
00:20:01.14\00:20:02.94
You see we liken this process
of getting on the river of life.
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Many of us get on the river
of life and we get caught up
00:20:06.18\00:20:08.42
in the current how
current events, current culture,
00:20:08.45\00:20:10.20
current fashions or whatever.
00:20:10.23\00:20:11.56
We become part of this mass
of humanity that is floating
00:20:11.59\00:20:14.06
down the river directed by the
environment rather than being in
00:20:14.09\00:20:16.67
control of it, and most people
remain in this unconscious
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state until one day the
sound of raging water wakes them
00:20:19.38\00:20:22.28
our and they realize they
are three feet away from a major
00:20:22.31\00:20:24.43
waterfall in a
boat without a motor.
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That could be cancer, that
could be divorce, that could
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be a child acting out. -
what happens they take a fall.
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They go over the waterfall
and when you fall it hurts.
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Like you say sometimes
it's a spiritual fall, you feel
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disconnected from
God like He hates you.
00:20:35.82\00:20:37.52
Or sometimes it is an
emotional fall and we end up on
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drugs or things to
keep our emotions together.
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Sometimes it's a fall on
our relationships, but what the
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point is when you fall it hurts.
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So we try to raise the awareness
in the seminars is this.
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If you look back upstream,
if you had made a different
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decision up stream, would
your life be radically different
00:20:54.11\00:20:57.09
today, and would you not
be dealing with the issues
00:20:57.12\00:20:59.12
you're dealing with today?
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Most people say Yeah, if I
made that decision up stream.
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Upstream I would have
said does anybody have an ore?
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- all right! - Because I
am sitting there with nothing.
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Do we have a little motor
that I can put on that thing?
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Right, so we just encourage
people to recognize that God
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has given you one precious
gift, it's the one thing in
00:21:16.34\00:21:18.66
your life He will not interfere
with, it is the one gift
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that sets you apart and
that is freedom to choose.
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Choose ye this day and
that pertains to every area
00:21:23.65\00:21:26.78
of your life. - even 10
years on the street I could lie
00:21:26.81\00:21:31.86
better than most people, I
can manipulate better than most
00:21:31.89\00:21:34.32
people and I would start
to say something and God would
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say Cheri, tell the
truth. I'm thinking get out!
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Because it's not going to work
here and God said to tell the
00:21:40.60\00:21:44.12
truth anyway,
tell the truth anyway.
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Almost when you start
doing that is that you literally
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change your whole body,
neuro mind, chemistry stuff.
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You do, you really do. -
it's so significant and I
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think we don't
think it's significant.
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I don't think that choosing
right is going to give me
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life, doing the right
thing is going to give me life.
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And my family, and my husband,
and the people I worship
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with, and it's just like
a ripple effect that affects
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everybody around you.
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In fact I really look like
what you say about the ripple
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effect, in fact we have
an illustration we use in our
00:22:15.43\00:22:17.26
seminar is like a rock thrown
in a pond, one good decision
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or bad decision will
have a ripple effect and goes
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on for generations sometimes.
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We have a situation in
the Middle East right now with
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war on terrorism and what
have the Arabs that hate the
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Israelis, and the Israelis
that hate the Arabs and this
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feud has been going since I was
born and people wonder where did
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this really actually start?
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It started over 4000 years
ago with one man who made some
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bad decisions, Abraham and
he decides he has to do it his
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way and help God.
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So he gets Hagar pregnant and
his wife pregnant and you have
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one dad and two
different ladies.
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These two boys grow
hating each other and they get
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married and their wives hate
each other and Isaac becomes
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the father of the Israeli
nation and Ishmael becomes a
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father of the Arab nation
and the family feud has been
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going on for 4000 years
and we are paying for it with
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our tax dollars and our
sons and daughters are dying on
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the battlefield because
4000 years ago somebody made
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a bad decision you see.
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It all matters,
everything matters.
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You can make a decision
today that can affect not only
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your life, this is where I
think the second commandment
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comes in, unto the third
and fourth generations and
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sometimes even for
thousands of years so don't ever
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underestimate the power of
this thing called decisions.
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To me I love the way you
say that, because on the other
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side of that I can
make a decision that changes
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generationally for the positive.
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My daughter has never done
a drug and I'm a drug addict,
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my mom is a drug addict, my
grandmother is an alcoholic,
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and my daughter has never
done a drug and I'm thinking,
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God I love that because I
decided it stopped with me.
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There are fives to
strategic areas when it comes to
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decisions, first
when is your core beliefs
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and your unconscious roles.
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The second one
is your lifestyle.
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The 3rd, what is your references
or experiences of life.
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The fourth is habitual
questions you ask yourself.
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The fifth one is the
emotional stage you experience.
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Those five areas, when you
make decisions in those five
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areas they influence
every other area of your life.
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By making a change in any
way in those five areas you can
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produce immediate
change in your life as well.
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Let me give you
one quick example.
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We teach our young people
all the time, don't do drugs,
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don't have pre-marital
sex, don't do that, as soon as
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you tell somebody don't do
something, what do they do?
00:24:12.78\00:24:14.52
They do it, that's why
it is called human nature.
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Here is what I find it
is. Rather than to tell young
00:24:15.88\00:24:19.75
people don't do this, why
don't we teach them to say yes
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to virtue, that is the
point you want to bring out.
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In other words I am not
going to teach my daughter to
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say no to drugs, I'm
going to teach her to say yes
00:24:26.29\00:24:28.76
to a healthy body, yes
that my body is the temple
00:24:28.79\00:24:31.17
of the Holy Spirit of God.
00:24:31.20\00:24:32.27
Because when I teach
her to say yes to virtue,
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I don't have to
worry about the drugs.
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I'm not going to teach her
to not have premarital sex.
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I'm going to teacher to
say yes to be a virgin until
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the day she gets married.
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As people are coming out
of addictions and challenges
00:24:41.21\00:24:43.20
in their life - and value that.
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Yes, exactly and have
a covenant between us.
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As people come out of addictions
we all have certain addictions
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we all have come out
with them whatever it may be.
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All in all of us in this
audience today have challenges
00:24:51.06\00:24:53.28
in our life I have
found over and over again when
00:24:53.31\00:24:55.04
you quit focusing on the
negative, don't, don't, don't,
00:24:55.07\00:24:56.83
and focus on yes,
I'm going to do this.
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It is like a farmer, if I
get a farmer out here in this
00:24:58.83\00:25:02.02
beautiful state we are
at and he is growing corn.
00:25:02.05\00:25:04.03
He is hoeing his corn
and eliminating the weeds.
00:25:04.06\00:25:06.46
I say to him what is
your primary agricultural aim?
00:25:06.49\00:25:08.85
Is it to
eliminate all these weeds?
00:25:08.88\00:25:10.42
He's got say no, no my primary
agricultural aim is to grow
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a great crop of corn.
00:25:13.41\00:25:14.56
We often teach like eliminating
the weeds was the most important
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thing in our life, no, sow
the good seed, sow the positive
00:25:18.08\00:25:20.80
decisions because when
you do that you will reap an
00:25:20.83\00:25:22.64
abundant harvest and
that's what we need to focus on.
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On that note we are going to
take a break and we are going
00:25:24.92\00:25:28.81
to let people go get a pen
and paper because you are going
00:25:28.84\00:25:31.17
to want write some
of this stuff down.
00:25:31.20\00:25:32.67
But when you get all this
stuff together, come back,
00:25:32.70\00:25:35.85
sit down and join us,
we will be right back.
00:25:35.88\00:25:37.71
Think you've seen
it all? Think again.
00:25:42.08\00:25:45.50
Cheri Peters is back
for a second season of
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Celebrating Life In
Recovery with more lives
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more stories and more miracles.
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Watch the shocking,
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Check your local
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ready for another dose
of reality, Cheri style.
00:26:05.61\00:26:09.27
When you gave the illustration
about the farmer in the
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seed, I always thought that
recovery was about the weeds.
00:26:27.38\00:26:31.13
If so isn't, if you can
get that mind shift that is a
00:26:31.17\00:26:34.12
paradigm shift that has
to happen in recovery is I
00:26:34.15\00:26:36.80
don't know what's good and that
is what I have got to find out.
00:26:36.83\00:26:40.08
As soon as I make those
decisions to choose I am not
00:26:40.12\00:26:42.54
going to focus on the weeds,
I will pull them out when I see
00:26:42.57\00:26:45.55
them, but I will not focus
on them because I want to plant
00:26:45.59\00:26:48.53
something that is incredible.
00:26:48.57\00:26:50.24
Exactly, Yep, we often see
the fruits in the addictions
00:26:50.27\00:26:54.06
and the problems or whatever.
00:26:54.10\00:26:55.22
The fruits are not the problem,
the roots are the problem.
00:26:55.25\00:26:57.46
You have to get down to
the roots and change the roots.
00:26:57.49\00:26:59.67
When you change the
roots everything becomes easy.
00:26:59.70\00:27:01.43
That is amazing. - that is fun.
00:27:01.46\00:27:02.74
When I took piano lessons
and drawing lessons and then
00:27:02.77\00:27:06.02
I decided to see
what else can I do.
00:27:06.05\00:27:09.50
I was amazed that God, it
was like He was so excited for
00:27:09.54\00:27:12.25
me to get up in the morning
because he said Cheri I want
00:27:12.29\00:27:14.83
to kiss you on the face
and I want to show you this.
00:27:14.87\00:27:17.35
It was the first time in my
life that I didn't get up with
00:27:17.38\00:27:20.96
this dread that I'm a molested
kid, and homeless and that
00:27:21.00\00:27:24.12
stuff and God said, you
are a child of God dressed in
00:27:24.15\00:27:26.79
priestly garments and I
want to send you out to change
00:27:26.82\00:27:29.43
the world, and I
am thinking Yahoo.
00:27:29.46\00:27:32.49
How cool is that, but I have
to let go of one in order to
00:27:32.53\00:27:37.41
grasp the other. - that's right!
00:27:37.45\00:27:39.15
Emotionally it is really tough.
00:27:39.18\00:27:40.81
We should go into this area
little bit too because right
00:27:40.84\00:27:43.62
now is a huge area that
all of us struggle with again
00:27:43.65\00:27:46.39
coming out a
particularly certain addictions.
00:27:46.43\00:27:48.43
Emotional, the negative
emotions that we experience
00:27:48.46\00:27:50.96
whether it is depression,
whether it is anger, whether
00:27:51.00\00:27:53.43
it is frustration, fear, all the
negative debilitating emotions
00:27:53.46\00:27:56.78
is a huge part
of people's lives.
00:27:56.82\00:27:58.48
Also that I believe can
be changed quickly by God's
00:27:58.52\00:28:01.35
principles. - and when
somebody said, when I first
00:28:01.38\00:28:04.84
started to look at emotions,
I grabbed a book by Don
00:28:04.87\00:28:08.26
Colbert called 'Deadly Emotions'
and what he says is that
00:28:08.29\00:28:11.74
you literally can kill yourself
by your anger, depression,
00:28:11.77\00:28:15.18
or whatever can cause
heart disease and stuff.
00:28:15.21\00:28:17.34
When you go into the brain
functions and all the stuff
00:28:17.38\00:28:20.39
that is tied in neuroscience,
one negative emotion can
00:28:20.43\00:28:23.28
literally trigger an entire
chemistry change in your body.
00:28:23.32\00:28:25.99
It can cause cancer or all
kinds of physical problems.
00:28:26.03\00:28:28.57
Why didn't somebody tell
me that? It's a big deal?
00:28:28.61\00:28:31.08
The things I found out is
most people don't know how to
00:28:31.12\00:28:33.76
deal with their emotions,
they don't know what is causing
00:28:33.79\00:28:35.93
their emotions and we need
to take the next couple minutes
00:28:35.97\00:28:38.07
to deal with this, it
will set the audience free.
00:28:38.10\00:28:39.92
I'm sure tens or hundreds
of thousands of people around
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the world and it will
change their life quickly.
00:28:43.38\00:28:45.20
You can take the most famous
people in the world, I don't
00:28:45.23\00:28:47.25
care if it's the Elvis
Presley's, the Marilyn Monroe's,
00:28:47.28\00:28:49.26
the Karen Carpenter's, whoever.
00:28:49.29\00:28:51.05
These people had every reason
to be happy, they had fame,
00:28:51.09\00:28:53.33
Fortune,
everything but all of them
00:28:53.36\00:28:55.40
caused their own death.
00:28:55.44\00:28:56.77
Here's the reason, they used
drugs, they used alcohol and
00:28:56.80\00:28:58.57
interestingly they used
food to change how they felt
00:28:58.60\00:29:01.32
and they paid
the ultimate price.
00:29:01.36\00:29:02.71
So I always asked
people one simple question.
00:29:02.74\00:29:04.53
What do you want out of life?
00:29:04.57\00:29:05.54
Most people won't answer
that question they give the
00:29:05.55\00:29:07.55
general answer like I want
to be married, or a lot more
00:29:07.58\00:29:09.55
money, but when
you think about it,
00:29:09.58\00:29:11.18
it is not those things.
00:29:11.22\00:29:12.52
What we're saying when I
say I want more money, or being
00:29:12.55\00:29:15.23
married, or I want a new
car, we actually want those
00:29:15.27\00:29:17.91
things they will give us.
00:29:17.95\00:29:19.56
Because when someone
wants to get married is not
00:29:19.60\00:29:21.40
marriage that you
want, it's companionship,
00:29:21.44\00:29:23.70
it's love, its intimacy.
00:29:23.73\00:29:25.29
When you want more
money what you're saying is
00:29:25.33\00:29:27.02
I want more freedom and
less worries, I want to be
00:29:27.06\00:29:28.71
able to
contribute to worthy causes.
00:29:28.75\00:29:30.15
When you think about
anything you want your life,
00:29:30.18\00:29:32.19
do you know what it
boils down to? One thing!
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It makes me feel good.
It makes me feel happy.
00:29:34.92\00:29:37.52
It makes me feel secure
so emotions or feelings are
00:29:37.55\00:29:40.17
a huge part of our life.
00:29:40.20\00:29:41.47
There are people that want
to control and people who do
00:29:44.17\00:29:46.38
not want to
control their emotions.
00:29:46.41\00:29:47.64
I'm going to teach you how
to do it with a couple minutes
00:29:47.67\00:29:49.72
from the audience,
we have fun with this.
00:29:49.75\00:29:51.77
Whenever we do a
live seminar like this.
00:29:51.80\00:29:52.96
The first thing I will do
is say will bring a guy on
00:29:53.00\00:29:54.49
the stage and say alright
folks I want you to help me
00:29:54.52\00:29:55.97
get this guy depressed, okay?
00:29:56.01\00:29:57.49
- okay I'll be the
guy. - you'll be the guy?
00:29:57.53\00:29:59.73
I don't get
depressed easy anymore.
00:29:59.77\00:30:03.37
Of course you are a child
of God and the Holy Spirit's
00:30:03.40\00:30:06.14
in you so you
can't get depressed.
00:30:06.18\00:30:07.31
Let me explain how this works.
00:30:07.34\00:30:08.31
Most people do not realize
it but every emotion you feel
00:30:08.33\00:30:11.50
or experience happens in
only one dimension of your life.
00:30:11.53\00:30:14.51
Your physical body, now most
people this has never dawned
00:30:14.54\00:30:17.48
on them, it only
happens in your physical body.
00:30:17.52\00:30:19.39
So if I were to say to
the group here, help me to get
00:30:19.43\00:30:21.81
Cheri depressed,
what would she have to do?
00:30:21.85\00:30:23.68
- and be nice to me!
00:30:23.71\00:30:25.23
How would she have to act
and the answers are always the
00:30:25.27\00:30:28.08
same, the audience will
say things like she has to hang
00:30:28.12\00:30:30.89
her head, and put
her frown on her face.
00:30:30.93\00:30:33.26
So she puts her
frown on her face right?
00:30:33.30\00:30:35.56
Then say slumped shoulders,
she slumps her shoulders.
00:30:35.60\00:30:36.89
Then wring her hands,
so she wrings her hands.
00:30:36.92\00:30:39.28
Think of all the people that
have hurt you, life's unfair.
00:30:39.32\00:30:42.23
And if you start looking at
her she looks depressed right?
00:30:42.27\00:30:45.15
The audience is laughing
at this point and here's the
00:30:45.18\00:30:49.14
amazing thing -
at my depression.
00:30:49.17\00:30:52.07
But you know you
start to feel it.
00:30:52.10\00:30:54.92
- You do and this is
what I want to point out.
00:30:54.96\00:30:56.72
To the audience listen,
everything you told me to get
00:30:56.76\00:30:59.98
Cheri depressed happened
only in one dimension, did you
00:31:00.01\00:31:03.20
notice this? It
happened in her physical body.
00:31:03.24\00:31:05.66
Did that ever dawn on you?
00:31:05.70\00:31:06.79
First of all you
put your head down,
00:31:06.83\00:31:08.66
that is your
physical body, frown now.
00:31:08.69\00:31:10.45
Slump your shoulders, physical
body, everything that got
00:31:10.49\00:31:14.40
you depressed
happened in your physical body.
00:31:14.44\00:31:16.12
Most people don't
realize that, then we do another
00:31:16.15\00:31:17.79
experiment with the audience,
we get the whole audience
00:31:17.83\00:31:19.34
having so much fun.
00:31:19.37\00:31:20.54
So we asked them to pick
partners, so everybody pick
00:31:20.58\00:31:23.04
partners and face
that person face-to-face.
00:31:23.08\00:31:24.68
Let's do it right now, just face
each other, face each other.
00:31:24.72\00:31:28.12
But the biggest happiest
smile on your face, just really
00:31:28.15\00:31:31.80
smile and now with this big
smile on your face you can't
00:31:31.83\00:31:35.44
take it off, you
have to keep on smiling.
00:31:35.48\00:31:36.92
I want you to get mad at
that person and tell them how
00:31:36.96\00:31:39.17
much you hate them
and can't stand them.
00:31:39.20\00:31:40.64
Oh Leo you know I am so
mad at you, you can't do it!
00:31:40.67\00:31:45.51
You can't do it and
here's the reason why.
00:31:45.55\00:31:47.89
The audience
cracks up when we do this
00:31:47.92\00:31:50.19
it's funny because I can
see her want to say Cheri
00:31:50.23\00:31:53.54
I hate you, I hate your
guts but it just the work.
00:31:53.57\00:31:56.16
Because my body is
sending a different message
00:31:56.19\00:31:58.71
to my brain, if I put my
physical body in a state of
00:31:58.74\00:32:01.05
happiness I can try
all I want to get angry and
00:32:01.09\00:32:03.26
I can't do it, that is
the power of the physical body
00:32:03.30\00:32:06.05
that God gave us.
00:32:06.08\00:32:07.14
99% of people have never
discovered this when it comes
00:32:07.17\00:32:09.36
to controlling their emotions.
00:32:09.39\00:32:10.88
Wait, you are saying if somebody
in the audience right now
00:32:10.91\00:32:14.32
even viewing us, that is
feeling horrible smile and see
00:32:14.36\00:32:17.66
what happens and you will
feel it even if it is a little
00:32:17.70\00:32:20.97
bit you will feel
throughout your body.
00:32:21.00\00:32:22.57
You have to, let me explain why.
00:32:22.61\00:32:24.06
Culture has taught you the
opposite of what God teaches.
00:32:24.09\00:32:26.69
Let me give you a
couple Bible verses.
00:32:26.73\00:32:27.93
Proverbs 15:13 Solomon
says the happiest face means a
00:32:27.96\00:32:31.49
glad heart, a sad face
means a breaking heart.
00:32:31.53\00:32:34.99
Now culture is the exact
opposite, or you are feeling bad
00:32:35.03\00:32:37.25
somebody hurt you, you
have permission to put on a sad
00:32:37.29\00:32:39.78
face, no, no, no. You
put on the sad face and when
00:32:39.81\00:32:42.27
you do the Bible
says you're going
00:32:42.30\00:32:43.37
to get the corresponding
emotion, a breaking heart.
00:32:43.41\00:32:46.18
If you put on a
happy face he says
00:32:46.21\00:32:47.65
you're going to
have a glad heart.
00:32:47.69\00:32:49.06
The second verses in
Proverbs 15:30 he says when
00:32:49.10\00:32:51.13
a man is gloomy,
everything seems to go wrong,
00:32:51.16\00:32:53.05
when he's cheerful
everything seems to go right.
00:32:53.09\00:32:54.91
Pleasant sights and good
reports improves the health.
00:32:54.95\00:32:58.07
So what God does - so why
does things work out for you.
00:32:58.10\00:33:01.55
I think it is because I
literally have been miserable
00:33:01.58\00:33:05.09
most of my life before God
and I refuse to live that way
00:33:05.12\00:33:08.59
anymore, I just refuse.
00:33:08.63\00:33:10.04
I want to not only be happy
myself, but I want to be able
00:33:10.08\00:33:13.35
to share that with someone
else so that they are smiling
00:33:13.39\00:33:16.63
by the time we get done.
00:33:16.67\00:33:18.02
What you are doing
with your body makes all the
00:33:18.06\00:33:20.19
difference, and
you think about this.
00:33:20.22\00:33:22.37
The culture has taught you
I can blame this person, this
00:33:22.41\00:33:24.94
person, but boss makes me
frustrated, my wife makes me.
00:33:24.97\00:33:27.77
And they did mess up,
but it doesn't matter because
00:33:27.80\00:33:30.19
I want to live life today.
00:33:30.22\00:33:31.24
I want to choose how
I have my physical body.
00:33:31.27\00:33:33.09
If I choose to put it in a
state of happiness, God says
00:33:33.13\00:33:34.76
I will get the
corresponding emotion.
00:33:34.80\00:33:36.42
I want to really nail this
because this whole addiction's
00:33:36.46\00:33:39.72
issue, most people focus
on addiction, they take drugs,
00:33:39.76\00:33:42.99
they get drunk, they
have fear or sex, gambling or
00:33:43.03\00:33:45.85
whatever it is, do you
know what the real problem is?
00:33:45.89\00:33:48.31
Why do we have two thirds
of people overweight, I will
00:33:48.35\00:33:50.74
tell you why,
people hate themselves.
00:33:50.77\00:33:52.83
They hate how they feel and
what I put drugs in my body.
00:33:52.86\00:33:55.32
Let me ask you a simple
question and see if the audience
00:33:55.36\00:33:57.78
gets it, do
drugs work? Yes or no!
00:33:57.81\00:33:59.31
Yes - yes they work.
00:33:59.34\00:34:00.72
You nailed it
because that's your past.
00:34:00.76\00:34:02.90
Most audience say that
drugs don't work, they work.
00:34:02.94\00:34:04.75
Millions of people
can't be wrong, right?
00:34:04.79\00:34:06.68
What is really interesting
is what I came off drugs and
00:34:06.72\00:34:10.34
I'm not doing drugs, I find
out that 5 million people are
00:34:10.38\00:34:14.01
taking Prozac, 5 million
people are taking tranquilizers,
00:34:14.04\00:34:17.73
3 million people are taking
sleep aids, 16,000 tons of
00:34:17.77\00:34:20.89
aspirins are being taken
a year in the United States.
00:34:20.93\00:34:24.02
It works, - the thing
is it works temporarily.
00:34:24.05\00:34:27.55
It's the same thing with
alcohol why do people go out get
00:34:27.59\00:34:29.78
drunk on a Saturday
night? Because it works.
00:34:29.82\00:34:32.24
It works
temporarily but it works.
00:34:32.27\00:34:34.39
Why do people overeat, because
it works, I feel good when
00:34:34.43\00:34:37.43
I overeat but what we don't
realize is that when I put a
00:34:37.47\00:34:40.43
drug in this body you
know what I'm actually doing?
00:34:40.47\00:34:42.79
I'm changing my physical
body, when I change the body
00:34:42.82\00:34:45.11
I behave differently.
00:34:45.14\00:34:46.69
Same thing with overheating,
same thing with alcohol,
00:34:46.73\00:34:48.08
when I put it in it
changes my body and I behave
00:34:48.11\00:34:50.37
differently and so
people are looking for drugs.
00:34:50.41\00:34:52.60
They are looking at all
these other things they do
00:34:52.63\00:34:54.03
with their bodies and
they don't realize that
00:34:54.07\00:34:55.20
God's already has
given them the answer.
00:34:55.24\00:34:56.36
Change the body to a state
of happiness and go into ever
00:34:56.39\00:34:59.57
area, walking, talking,
all these parts of our body.
00:34:59.61\00:35:02.87
I was standing in a
prudential insurance at their
00:35:02.91\00:35:06.14
corporate seminar and it
was funny because we had a
00:35:06.18\00:35:10.55
CEO come in, I was
interviewing the CEO.
00:35:10.58\00:35:12.30
This guy comes in and if
I replicated him he sat down
00:35:12.34\00:35:15.72
like this, watch my body.
00:35:15.75\00:35:16.82
Leo, I'm so
discouraged. - like you are!
00:35:16.85\00:35:25.64
He is looking at me and
says I can't seem to motivate my
00:35:25.68\00:35:30.64
employees, I can't
help but I cracked up.
00:35:30.67\00:35:34.24
I'm not supposed to
crack up and supposed to be
00:35:34.28\00:35:35.71
a professional, anyway I
said, the problem is look at
00:35:35.75\00:35:38.16
your body, but
what you are talking
00:35:38.19\00:35:39.86
your voice is giving you away.
00:35:39.89\00:35:41.50
If you talk sad, or
you talk low they are going
00:35:41.53\00:35:44.24
to feel that way.
00:35:44.27\00:35:45.24
The way you walk, watch
how people walk, they slough
00:35:45.25\00:35:47.84
along with no passion, no
purpose, no past, no future.
00:35:47.88\00:35:50.48
Try walking like that
and you're going to die.
00:35:50.51\00:35:52.34
Walk with some confidence
come put your head back and take
00:35:52.38\00:35:54.62
a deep breath of air
and see how you feel.
00:35:54.65\00:35:56.41
He goes into all these
different areas, your face.
00:35:56.45\00:35:58.54
Have you noticed that
whatever face you put on,
00:35:58.57\00:36:00.63
you get the
corresponding emotion?
00:36:00.66\00:36:02.04
Some people always
have a sad face right?
00:36:02.08\00:36:04.30
And they wonder
why they are sad.
00:36:04.34\00:36:05.60
Some people have a
worried face, and you wonder why
00:36:05.64\00:36:08.60
they're always worried.
00:36:08.64\00:36:09.64
Other people have a mean face,
make my day pal, we have all
00:36:09.67\00:36:12.96
these corresponding
emotions from these faces.
00:36:12.99\00:36:15.52
God gave you a face
but He left it up to you to
00:36:15.55\00:36:18.04
give it an expression.
00:36:18.08\00:36:19.10
But people will say
that it's just who I am.
00:36:19.14\00:36:21.07
And that's where the lie
is. - what does that mean?
00:36:21.10\00:36:23.66
It means nothing but
you hear that all the time.
00:36:23.70\00:36:25.79
It is just who I am, it
is who I have always been.
00:36:25.82\00:36:28.30
What I found out is
that was such a lie and when
00:36:28.33\00:36:31.36
I became what God wanted
me to become it was nothing
00:36:31.39\00:36:34.38
like how I was raised.
00:36:34.41\00:36:35.99
I'm actually pretty good,
pretty neat, not good in my
00:36:36.03\00:36:39.64
behavior but all of a
sudden I thought I actually like
00:36:39.68\00:36:42.76
being in my own skin now
and I never have in my life.
00:36:42.80\00:36:46.42
I can pick the people that
I want to hang around me and
00:36:46.45\00:36:49.57
people that have passion
and a love life and stuff.
00:36:49.61\00:36:52.66
I would never have thought
I could do that so when people
00:36:52.70\00:36:55.41
say this is who I am, I just
want to say somebody lied to
00:36:55.45\00:36:58.13
you because it is
not, it's so is not.
00:36:58.17\00:37:00.85
It's not what it used to be.
00:37:00.89\00:37:02.03
Look at the joy of the
Lord is your strength, look when
00:37:02.06\00:37:04.08
God says we'll mount up like
eagles, run and not be weary.
00:37:04.12\00:37:07.50
To live life 100% where God
wants us and all it takes is
00:37:07.53\00:37:10.46
following His principles,
I can choose to do with this
00:37:10.49\00:37:13.39
body whatever I
want, it is my choice.
00:37:13.42\00:37:15.34
Think about it sadness,
depression in most cases, anger,
00:37:15.38\00:37:18.88
frustration, all these
deep debilitating emotions are
00:37:18.92\00:37:22.39
our choice, I choose
not to live that way.
00:37:22.42\00:37:24.57
I choose to put the body
into a state of happiness
00:37:24.60\00:37:26.90
whether it is the way
I walk, the way I talk,
00:37:26.93\00:37:28.66
the way I smile
and move my face.
00:37:28.69\00:37:29.99
You know you have 108 muscles
in your face, it takes 104
00:37:30.03\00:37:32.84
to frown, try it!
00:37:32.87\00:37:34.28
It's hard to frown it
takes six to smile so we teach
00:37:34.31\00:37:38.96
parents in our parenting
classes, we have trigger
00:37:38.99\00:37:43.61
points that make us
feel a certain emotions.
00:37:43.64\00:37:45.70
Your kids know you trigger
points because they know just
00:37:45.74\00:37:47.65
what buttons to push.
00:37:47.68\00:37:48.85
Mine used to be 10 feet
out, you walk by anywhere in the
00:37:48.89\00:37:51.73
country I lived in
and you would hit it.
00:37:51.77\00:37:53.59
Even as someone who looks
angry, with parents all the time
00:37:53.62\00:37:59.28
they say my kids make me angry.
00:37:59.31\00:38:00.48
No they don't make you
angry take responsibility for
00:38:00.52\00:38:02.22
your life, your kids
never make you angry unless you
00:38:02.26\00:38:03.92
give them permission to.
00:38:03.96\00:38:05.40
You choose to get angry
when they say this. - exactly.
00:38:05.44\00:38:07.34
When they push certain
trigger points, all they have to
00:38:07.37\00:38:09.31
do, there's only 3 things
wrong with the physical body.
00:38:09.35\00:38:11.25
One your faces contorted,
your face is messed up.
00:38:11.29\00:38:14.15
Second thing is your words,
part of your physical body
00:38:14.18\00:38:16.40
also, children
get back in your room.
00:38:16.44\00:38:18.16
Your words out of control.
00:38:18.19\00:38:19.62
The third thing is sure
gestures, when you're angry
00:38:19.66\00:38:21.26
you're flinging your arms - her
shoulders come up to your ears.
00:38:21.30\00:38:24.16
So you have three things
wrong with your body and here's
00:38:24.20\00:38:26.99
what you do, next time
Johnny pushes your button.
00:38:27.02\00:38:28.48
You put on a smile, you talk
calmly, you have calm gestures
00:38:28.51\00:38:34.35
and little Johnny's going
to look at you and say huh!
00:38:34.38\00:38:37.14
Who is this person.
00:38:37.18\00:38:38.34
I thought this person
was going to come out.
00:38:38.38\00:38:40.65
It is simply by
controlling our physical body.
00:38:40.69\00:38:42.90
One of the first things
that God gave me permission to
00:38:42.93\00:38:46.28
look at when I felt insecure,
insecurity was my worst
00:38:46.31\00:38:49.16
thing, when you feel insecure
where do you feel that in
00:38:49.20\00:38:52.83
your body, in my shoulders,
in my chest and He said when
00:38:52.87\00:38:56.04
you start feeling that
long before it is in your face,
00:38:56.08\00:38:59.43
start bringing your body
back into a place of contentment
00:38:59.47\00:39:02.79
or joy and it is amazing.
00:39:02.82\00:39:04.99
It sounds so simple
but that's the way God is.
00:39:05.02\00:39:07.81
Exactly, this is not complicated
psychology, this is basic
00:39:07.85\00:39:11.70
Bible principles and they work.
00:39:11.73\00:39:14.23
When you get intense, when
you're breathing starts being
00:39:14.26\00:39:17.30
more shallow and rapid, take
a deeper breath to get things
00:39:17.33\00:39:20.15
going and it is amazing that
all the sudden I can respond
00:39:20.19\00:39:23.45
in a different way because
my body is not congruent with
00:39:23.49\00:39:26.72
what I am thinking.
00:39:26.76\00:39:28.61
That's what God gave us, He
gave us our physical bodies.
00:39:28.65\00:39:30.62
It's huge. - it's
huge! - it's so powerful.
00:39:30.65\00:39:32.20
We are going to open it up
for questions here at the café.
00:39:32.23\00:39:35.41
So that is my favorite part
because I know with everything
00:39:35.44\00:39:38.58
that you have
presented people have questions.
00:39:38.61\00:39:41.06
So we are going to start
with Trent, I know you had
00:39:41.10\00:39:44.10
something that
you wanted to ask Leo.
00:39:44.14\00:39:45.92
Yeah I have a
couple questions for Leo.
00:39:45.96\00:39:48.21
One, where did you
learn to talk so fast?
00:39:48.25\00:39:50.43
This is cool. - it's
my mother, it's my mother.
00:39:50.46\00:39:53.64
You ever been around
my mom you would know why.
00:39:53.67\00:39:56.78
No, at the beginning of the
program you talk about people
00:39:56.81\00:39:59.54
living in their past and
you said you have to get out of
00:39:59.57\00:40:02.15
that and let go of your past,
you can't live in the past.
00:40:02.19\00:40:05.02
The only ways to go forward,
what would be your number
00:40:05.05\00:40:08.07
one way to get out of the
past for those people you know
00:40:08.10\00:40:11.08
that live in the past
constantly and that is
00:40:11.11\00:40:13.40
all they think about.
00:40:13.44\00:40:14.41
What would be the first that
they should take and the most
00:40:14.42\00:40:16.64
important step that should
take to quit living like that?
00:40:16.68\00:40:19.36
First of all it is a choice,
and I think people ought to
00:40:19.40\00:40:22.05
take
responsibility for that choice.
00:40:22.09\00:40:23.48
I'm very keen on that,
but you cannot take the step
00:40:23.51\00:40:26.03
without God, you cannot
take it without forgiveness.
00:40:26.06\00:40:28.50
A big part of getting rid of
your past is saying that I am
00:40:28.54\00:40:31.61
willing to let God forgive
me and willing to accept the
00:40:31.64\00:40:34.18
fact that if I confess my
sins He's faithful and just to
00:40:34.21\00:40:36.72
forgive me my sins
and cleanse me from all
00:40:36.75\00:40:38.01
unrighteousness. To look at
the fact that I am clothed in
00:40:38.05\00:40:40.07
the righteousness of Jesus
and He presents me faultless
00:40:40.11\00:40:42.40
and perfect before His thorn
of glory with exceeding joy.
00:40:42.43\00:40:45.21
I have to choose to believe
the side of light and joy and
00:40:45.25\00:40:47.99
freedom of who God has made me.
00:40:48.02\00:40:50.41
There is no more condemnation
in Christ, all these things
00:40:50.44\00:40:53.21
that God does for me.
00:40:53.24\00:40:54.56
And when I choose to accept
that instead of Satan lies by
00:40:54.59\00:40:56.88
saying I'm no good and that
my past is too dark and shameful
00:40:56.92\00:40:59.17
and you are never
going to amount to anything,
00:40:59.21\00:41:00.75
why listen to the devil?
00:41:00.79\00:41:02.01
There comes a choice that
can only be done, you can only
00:41:02.05\00:41:04.68
put your past behind you
when you know what God has done
00:41:04.71\00:41:07.01
for you and you except His
forgiveness, not only from God
00:41:07.05\00:41:09.31
but to forgive yourself.
00:41:09.34\00:41:10.77
Also forgiving the
people that have so kept you in
00:41:10.81\00:41:13.50
bondage with that,
that was the hardest for me.
00:41:13.54\00:41:16.17
I took forgiveness as
being that I had to forgive them
00:41:16.20\00:41:19.57
and somehow come to grips
with what they had done to me.
00:41:19.60\00:41:23.03
God said that is not it,
forgive them and let Me deal
00:41:23.06\00:41:26.45
with that issue.
00:41:26.49\00:41:27.85
I love the people that
have hurt me in my past,
00:41:27.88\00:41:29.93
but I needed to say that I
forgive them, they have been
00:41:29.97\00:41:32.32
hurt in their past and I
don't need to understand it
00:41:32.36\00:41:34.67
but I totally have to
deal with forgiveness.
00:41:34.71\00:41:37.53
With mom, dad, whoever.
00:41:37.56\00:41:39.94
Without forgiveness is like
hating, bitterness and anger
00:41:39.98\00:41:45.03
you are trying to poison
somebody else and to kill them
00:41:45.06\00:41:50.08
but end up poisoning
yourself, you can't do that.
00:41:50.12\00:41:52.89
So it only comes by the
grace of God, and whenever it
00:41:52.92\00:41:55.66
happens it's nice.
00:41:55.69\00:41:57.20
You know a lot of people,
it that sounds like, that do
00:41:57.24\00:42:01.30
walk around holding their stuff.
00:42:01.34\00:42:03.44
Yeah I think we all know
and a lot of people like that,
00:42:03.48\00:42:06.39
Society is filled with them.
00:42:06.43\00:42:07.58
Leo I have another question,
you said there is five steps
00:42:07.62\00:42:10.31
in decision-making and if
we control those steps we can
00:42:10.34\00:42:13.00
change our lives.
00:42:13.04\00:42:14.17
One of them you said
was unconscious decisions,
00:42:14.21\00:42:16.83
what do you mean by those?
00:42:16.87\00:42:18.20
The unconscious
rules is the actual words.
00:42:18.24\00:42:20.18
Let me give you
an example of that,
00:42:20.21\00:42:21.76
it is a great question.
00:42:21.79\00:42:22.92
I get to do a lot of work with
young people and in Christian
00:42:22.96\00:42:25.95
schools, I'm not sure you're
aware of the latest statistic.
00:42:25.98\00:42:29.13
86% of Christian young people
going to Christian schools
00:42:29.17\00:42:31.86
by the time they graduate
have experimented with drugs,
00:42:31.89\00:42:34.55
alcohol and premarital sex.
00:42:34.58\00:42:36.01
Now having said that with
these kids thousands of times,
00:42:36.04\00:42:39.39
I know that they all know
that drugs are horrible choices.
00:42:39.43\00:42:42.74
They all know that
smoking is bad for them.
00:42:42.78\00:42:44.33
They all know that
premarital sex is going to cause
00:42:44.36\00:42:46.02
emotional damage and scars
for the rest of their life.
00:42:46.05\00:42:48.61
They all know it, and yet
86% of them, of Christian young
00:42:48.65\00:42:51.17
people end up doing
it. So the question is why?
00:42:51.21\00:42:54.77
The answer is
this, unconscious rules.
00:42:54.80\00:42:56.58
They think if I don't go to
a party they are going to make
00:42:56.62\00:42:58.64
fun of me, they think if I
don't have premarital sex the
00:42:58.67\00:43:00.66
guys will think I'm frigid.
00:43:00.70\00:43:01.67
They are always worried
about what other people think
00:43:01.68\00:43:04.22
about them that is an
unconscious rule and it causes
00:43:04.25\00:43:06.78
them to make many,
many painful decisions in
00:43:06.81\00:43:09.75
their lives
because they do not realize
00:43:09.78\00:43:11.34
I have this
unconscious rule there.
00:43:11.37\00:43:12.86
I have to fit in,
I have to be liked.
00:43:12.90\00:43:14.32
It's peer pressure is what
it boils down to and so when
00:43:14.35\00:43:17.74
we teach them we say hey,
I'm going to make a clear-cut
00:43:17.78\00:43:21.13
decision and here is what it is.
00:43:21.17\00:43:22.53
I don't care anymore what
anyone thinks about me except
00:43:22.56\00:43:24.90
God, and doing it God's way.
00:43:24.94\00:43:26.81
I'm going to make my own
choices and not let other peer
00:43:26.85\00:43:29.56
pressure make me
make bad decisions.
00:43:29.60\00:43:31.86
That is an unconscious
rule in our lives when we go
00:43:31.90\00:43:33.72
witnessing, when people slammed
the door in my face it is
00:43:33.75\00:43:36.09
an unconscious rule you see.
00:43:36.12\00:43:37.66
So when you make a clear
decisions, listen I'm going
00:43:37.70\00:43:39.81
to go to this house believing
there is a soul in there
00:43:39.85\00:43:41.92
to be saved for
the kingdom of heaven.
00:43:41.96\00:43:43.61
I going in there is a candidate
for heaven and I train my
00:43:43.64\00:43:46.60
brain to make that
decision rather than oh they are
00:43:46.63\00:43:48.66
going to slam
the door in my face.
00:43:48.70\00:43:49.76
See that is an unconscious rule.
00:43:49.79\00:43:50.79
In every area of our life
when you start getting control
00:43:50.82\00:43:53.05
of both unconscious rules
what a difference it can make.
00:43:53.09\00:43:55.90
My daughter is going to
public high school, and she goes
00:43:55.94\00:43:58.72
into public high school
and she believed that as a
00:43:58.76\00:44:01.27
Christian nobody
was going to like her.
00:44:01.31\00:44:03.01
So she goes in there and
she starts joining in and trying
00:44:03.04\00:44:06.74
to fit in and she
said she was miserable.
00:44:06.78\00:44:09.37
I'm miserable and I know that
God doesn't want this for me
00:44:09.40\00:44:12.74
so she turned her life over
and she started, what's really
00:44:12.77\00:44:16.07
cool, abstinence
program in her little group.
00:44:16.10\00:44:18.86
The people start being drawn
to her because they didn't have
00:44:18.89\00:44:21.66
act out around her.
00:44:21.70\00:44:22.97
So her unconscious rule
about nobody liking me for being
00:44:23.00\00:44:25.90
herself, when she was
herself she was liked more.
00:44:25.94\00:44:28.13
Just being able to challenge
those lies, the beeper has to
00:44:28.16\00:44:32.61
go off. - you bet, you got it.
00:44:32.64\00:44:34.50
Okay so Robby D.
you had some questions.
00:44:34.53\00:44:36.65
Well what do you tell someone
that has made so many wrong
00:44:36.69\00:44:39.74
choices in their lives
that they're so afraid to make
00:44:39.77\00:44:42.51
another choice, they are
like lock down and won't make
00:44:42.55\00:44:45.08
choices in life because
they have made so many wrong
00:44:45.11\00:44:47.61
choices. - they are
almost paralyzed. - yes.
00:44:47.65\00:44:49.39
They are paralyzed
so they just choose
00:44:49.42\00:44:51.00
not to make any choices.
00:44:51.04\00:44:52.70
The issue there is fear
and perhaps in the next segment
00:44:52.74\00:44:55.11
we can get into fear and
learning how to overcome it.
00:44:55.15\00:44:57.22
Because Bible says that
God does not give us the spirit
00:44:57.25\00:44:59.29
of fear but power,
love and a sound mind.
00:44:59.33\00:45:01.16
So what we are looking at
there is the symptom rather than
00:45:01.20\00:45:04.39
the root, so let's answer
that question and maybe a little
00:45:04.43\00:45:07.59
more thorough way.
00:45:07.62\00:45:08.87
It begins like anything else,
once you get rid of the fear
00:45:08.91\00:45:11.28
factor and you understand
that you can make good
00:45:11.32\00:45:13.97
decisions, that God has
empowered you with tools
00:45:14.01\00:45:16.59
to do it, if people will take
one good decision at a time.
00:45:16.63\00:45:20.13
- tiny steps. - little steps.
00:45:20.17\00:45:22.03
It's like the
old Chinese proverb,
00:45:22.07\00:45:23.35
How do you whole
elephant? One bite at a time.
00:45:23.39\00:45:25.58
I told you that I took the
music lessons, the art lessons,
00:45:25.61\00:45:28.82
it was so amazing to me.
00:45:28.85\00:45:30.49
I drew a little cup, a teacup
and it was in perspective.
00:45:30.53\00:45:34.15
I had some
shadow and perspective,
00:45:34.18\00:45:36.12
the guy was teaching us.
00:45:36.15\00:45:37.68
I looked at it and thought
man, it looks like a cup.
00:45:37.71\00:45:41.60
To someone else that was
such a simple thing, it couldn't
00:45:41.63\00:45:45.09
be life-changing, to me it
was life-changing in that it
00:45:45.12\00:45:48.03
was a gift that I had, a
skill that I had that was apart
00:45:48.06\00:45:50.93
from all this damage.
00:45:50.96\00:45:52.51
It was like we discount all
the little stuff that really
00:45:52.55\00:45:55.53
will make a difference,
and we want it to be huge.
00:45:55.56\00:45:58.42
We want to do something and
say something that will change
00:45:58.45\00:46:00.64
the world, God says
just change this one step.
00:46:00.67\00:46:03.57
Living a life of victory
and power is one day at a time,
00:46:03.60\00:46:06.42
one choice following
one of God's principles.
00:46:06.46\00:46:08.44
The culmination of daily
small successes builds your life
00:46:08.47\00:46:12.32
to the life of victory
and power that you want.
00:46:12.36\00:46:14.41
Even if you can have one
Little victory in one little
00:46:14.45\00:46:16.92
area, that's for
you find courage.
00:46:16.95\00:46:18.24
Like you said find a
little area that you are good in
00:46:18.28\00:46:20.08
already, something
you know you can master.
00:46:20.12\00:46:22.01
Something you know you feel
confident about and when you
00:46:22.05\00:46:24.08
take that one little baby
step it builds confidence and
00:46:24.11\00:46:26.10
the next step
will build confidence,
00:46:26.14\00:46:27.13
that is how it is done.
00:46:27.16\00:46:28.26
Say that's why it is also
good to have a personal one that
00:46:28.29\00:46:30.67
you are accountable to,
someone that cares about you.
00:46:30.70\00:46:32.56
- friends, sponsor, pastor.
00:46:32.59\00:46:34.16
- yeah because they are
going to pat you on the back and
00:46:34.19\00:46:35.77
say the man you did
it and that was great.
00:46:35.81\00:46:36.86
It's like when a baby learns
to to walk, our daughter, Sierra
00:46:36.90\00:46:39.61
learned to walk and I
came home late, and my wife
00:46:39.64\00:46:42.55
said Leo, Leo, my
wife waited up for me.
00:46:42.59\00:46:43.96
She said Leo, Leo I Sierra
took her first step she can
00:46:43.99\00:46:47.15
walk, so we get little Sierra
out of the room, out of bed,
00:46:47.19\00:46:50.31
that's not real good
because my wife doesn't like.
00:46:50.35\00:46:53.50
She holds her over here and
says come on Sierra make dad
00:46:53.54\00:46:56.00
proud of and she takes
one step and falls flat on her
00:46:56.04\00:46:58.91
face, I didn't say you
stupid kid can you learn to walk
00:46:58.94\00:47:01.78
and I hate you, no!
00:47:01.81\00:47:02.83
I picked her up and said
that was great Sierra, one step
00:47:02.87\00:47:05.06
yeah you did it.
00:47:05.09\00:47:06.11
Step two she
falls flat on her face.
00:47:06.14\00:47:08.65
As soon as she learned to
walk she learned to trot and now
00:47:08.69\00:47:11.57
she's the terror of our house
so that's the way it works.
00:47:11.61\00:47:14.00
That's how you have to encourage
her, one step at a time.
00:47:14.03\00:47:16.52
What's funny is that I ended
up getting a parenting book
00:47:16.56\00:47:18.90
in my recovery because I
didn't know these principles.
00:47:18.94\00:47:21.51
So I got a book on how to
parent myself, I mean how to
00:47:21.55\00:47:24.09
parent, and I
decided to parent myself.
00:47:24.13\00:47:25.89
It said to really
encourage yourself, or your
00:47:25.93\00:47:30.06
child when they
have any little success.
00:47:30.10\00:47:32.25
I literally went out and set
myself flowers, I sent a card
00:47:32.29\00:47:35.52
with them and it was like
being able to say when you make
00:47:35.56\00:47:39.23
one thing for your friend,
one thing that is different
00:47:39.26\00:47:42.90
than you had
before, celebrate it.
00:47:42.93\00:47:45.17
Not celebrated with food,
chocolate or something that is
00:47:45.20\00:47:48.29
going to give you more
problems, but celebrate and make
00:47:48.32\00:47:51.37
sure you say out loud, good job!
00:47:51.40\00:47:53.42
How cool is that, that you
are not going to live the rest
00:47:53.46\00:47:55.89
of your life
depressed or angry or whatever.
00:47:55.92\00:47:58.32
That kind of affirmation
is so very, very important.
00:47:58.35\00:48:00.90
The more you can do it,
the more it pleases God.
00:48:00.94\00:48:03.42
What you are basically doing
is just affirming scripture.
00:48:03.45\00:48:05.77
All through the Bible
tells you how special you are.
00:48:05.80\00:48:07.75
God tells you that your
clothed in His righteousness and
00:48:07.79\00:48:09.70
that He presents you faultless.
00:48:09.74\00:48:10.82
God says you are a child of
the King, it's all positive.
00:48:10.85\00:48:13.02
All you are doing is affirming
what God said about you.
00:48:13.06\00:48:15.19
Why not, instead
of what Satan says.
00:48:15.23\00:48:17.66
- exactly, we have
another question, Lois.
00:48:17.70\00:48:20.25
Do you, or have you concerned
yourself with whether or not
00:48:20.28\00:48:24.46
people can understand
you after you have spoken?
00:48:24.49\00:48:27.39
Or do you just leave up to
the Holy Spirit to teach them?
00:48:27.42\00:48:30.70
Why do you ask?
Because he talks so fast?
00:48:30.73\00:48:32.63
Yes! You are very entertaining.
00:48:32.67\00:48:35.53
You say it's entertaining!
00:48:35.56\00:48:37.93
I have this philosophy, I
do not talk fast, people listen
00:48:37.97\00:48:41.85
slow. - I love that.
00:48:41.88\00:48:46.23
It is true I talk four
times faster than the average
00:48:46.27\00:48:48.88
seminar speaker, but that
is actually a good deal because
00:48:48.91\00:48:51.09
even if you catch half of
what I say you still get twice
00:48:51.13\00:48:53.02
as much as most guys give you.
00:48:53.06\00:48:54.32
You still come out
ahead, I'm kidding.
00:48:54.35\00:48:56.31
Here's the bottom line, we
have done a lot of studies on
00:48:56.35\00:48:59.41
this as you can imagine.
00:48:59.45\00:49:00.59
I understand that we come
from different walks of life,
00:49:00.63\00:49:02.73
language, cultures and
different things like this.
00:49:02.76\00:49:04.50
We're old, we're young and
I can tell you for sure though
00:49:04.53\00:49:07.19
I have sat down with thousands
of audiences and if they will
00:49:07.22\00:49:10.23
hang in there with me for
even half an hour to 45 minutes
00:49:10.26\00:49:13.23
their brain engages.
00:49:13.27\00:49:15.02
It is a matter of
psychology, there are thousands
00:49:15.06\00:49:17.03
of studies on this.
00:49:17.07\00:49:18.07
The human mind is
capable of listening to things
00:49:18.10\00:49:20.53
thousands of times faster
even than I am talking to you
00:49:20.57\00:49:22.60
right now, literally
thousands of times faster.
00:49:22.64\00:49:24.60
So what it is, it is a
matter of training the brain to
00:49:24.64\00:49:28.53
engage and there has never
been an audience I have sat down
00:49:28.56\00:49:31.41
with after 2 and 1/2 hours
after opening night of our Power
00:49:31.45\00:49:34.12
Seminars and people say yes
I heard every word you said,
00:49:34.16\00:49:36.80
because the brain engaged.
00:49:36.83\00:49:38.67
So we have had to ask the
question, you watch audiences
00:49:38.70\00:49:41.47
and I will challenge anybody
on this because we have done
00:49:41.51\00:49:44.24
hundreds of studies on it.
00:49:44.28\00:49:45.32
If we have a guy talking
slow and methodical and I think
00:49:45.36\00:49:50.40
we should think about this,
00:49:50.43\00:49:55.44
exactly! - come on!
00:49:55.48\00:49:57.16
You would fall asleep man,
this is the MTV generation.
00:49:57.20\00:49:59.88
Everything just changes every
2 and 1/2 seconds, words are
00:49:59.91\00:50:02.68
fast and I believe that is
how God designed this was to
00:50:02.72\00:50:05.45
pack in a lot whole lot more.
00:50:05.49\00:50:06.66
And during our one seminar,
said this last time we were
00:50:06.70\00:50:08.85
together, when you look at
all a neuropathways in your
00:50:08.89\00:50:11.39
brain and you look at the
capacity of your brain, we are
00:50:11.43\00:50:13.89
only using 2% of it.
00:50:13.93\00:50:15.51
I believe we should use a
100 percent so that is why
00:50:15.55\00:50:17.30
we talk fast and
keep people engaged.
00:50:17.33\00:50:18.89
I'll tell you one thing,
99% of people they love it,
00:50:18.93\00:50:22.13
they enjoy it and get
10 times more out of it.
00:50:22.17\00:50:25.29
- what's funny though
is that everybody I ever
00:50:25.33\00:50:28.38
interviewed you are my
favorite to interview because
00:50:28.42\00:50:31.26
I feel like finally
somebody is getting this on.
00:50:31.30\00:50:34.08
But you were the only person
by the end of the time that
00:50:34.11\00:50:38.11
we hang out together,
I am so ready for a nap.
00:50:38.15\00:50:40.70
It is amazing, I'm going
to say to wrap it up, just for
00:50:40.74\00:50:44.60
somebody that is
watching is how do they start?
00:50:44.63\00:50:47.89
Be specific because if I
want to change my life and
00:50:47.92\00:50:49.81
I have been stuck in my past
my whole life how do I start,
00:50:49.85\00:50:53.75
what do I do?
00:50:53.79\00:50:54.92
The bottom line is you
have to look at your life right
00:50:54.96\00:50:56.62
now, I don't care where
it's at, where you are at,
00:50:56.66\00:50:58.28
whatever the
picture is right now.
00:50:58.32\00:50:59.78
Say hey, I have a bright
future, God has said I'm a child
00:50:59.82\00:51:03.28
of the King and I am not junk.
00:51:03.31\00:51:05.04
I may have wasted
some years, so what.
00:51:05.08\00:51:06.57
There is plan A., plan B.
and there is no better time
00:51:06.60\00:51:08.74
to begin then today.
00:51:08.78\00:51:10.55
You must literally buckled
down and say I'm going to
00:51:10.58\00:51:13.06
forget how I feel, I'm
going to forget my past,
00:51:13.09\00:51:14.84
you have to follow that
first principle by putting
00:51:14.88\00:51:16.60
your past behind you.
00:51:16.63\00:51:17.81
Make a decision that
you are not a victim.
00:51:17.84\00:51:19.10
I am taken full responsibility
of my life and my choices
00:51:19.14\00:51:21.26
from this day
forward and I'm going to
00:51:21.30\00:51:22.88
take the first step.
00:51:22.92\00:51:24.15
I want to say what's incredible
about that by saying that,
00:51:24.19\00:51:26.96
it doesn't matter how you feel.
00:51:26.99\00:51:28.42
When I start to feel those
old things I have to rebuke
00:51:28.45\00:51:31.81
them, or have to say no
longer, this is no longer mine.
00:51:31.84\00:51:34.91
When you say it enough that
becomes the unconscious rule.
00:51:34.94\00:51:37.97
That is correct, that's correct.
00:51:38.01\00:51:39.28
And you must affirm the
positive, this is just as
00:51:39.31\00:51:42.04
important, in other words
don't just destroy the old
00:51:42.08\00:51:44.34
thought patterns but
replace them with new ones.
00:51:44.38\00:51:46.21
We talked about that
last time we were here.
00:51:46.24\00:51:48.79
Keep affirming the
positive affirmation.
00:51:48.83\00:51:51.31
Once you are able to do
that and take responsibility of
00:51:51.34\00:51:53.52
your life and get over
that anger, the bitterness,
00:51:53.56\00:51:55.92
the hatred of people
that hurt you and say hey,
00:51:55.96\00:51:58.25
I'm in control of this
and I follow God's principles.
00:51:58.29\00:52:00.51
Once that happens you
take one thing at a time.
00:52:00.55\00:52:03.56
Whether it is hanging
around positive people.
00:52:03.59\00:52:06.00
Whether it is
watching this 3ABN program.
00:52:06.03\00:52:08.37
- and at first you will
hate it, you'll hate it because
00:52:08.40\00:52:10.77
it is not something you
are used to, do it anyway.
00:52:10.80\00:52:13.27
The cardinal mine
is at enmity with God.
00:52:13.30\00:52:14.85
When I first gave my heart
to God I was so messed up as
00:52:14.88\00:52:17.54
a teenager as well, and
the guy told me put a half hour
00:52:17.57\00:52:20.20
in God's Word
every day, I hated it.
00:52:20.23\00:52:21.72
It was the most dumb
boring book I ever read my life.
00:52:21.75\00:52:23.82
Again the reason is your
cardinal mine is at enmity with
00:52:23.86\00:52:26.11
God, you will not naturally
like things that are not the
00:52:26.15\00:52:28.37
way you use to be.
00:52:28.40\00:52:29.37
But any thing in life worth
having you going to have to
00:52:29.38\00:52:31.75
put into it. - Do you
know what somebody said?
00:52:31.78\00:52:33.29
You will laugh at this
because it was so crazy to me.
00:52:33.33\00:52:36.18
So you lie to yourself?
No, for the first time in your
00:52:36.21\00:52:39.03
life you tell
yourself the truth.
00:52:39.06\00:52:40.87
For the first time is
the truth that God loves you.
00:52:40.90\00:52:43.62
It's the truth that you
have a great life and that you
00:52:43.66\00:52:46.35
were created to do
something fun and exciting.
00:52:46.38\00:52:48.42
- you have been listening
to things lies all your life
00:52:48.45\00:52:50.49
and you don't realize it,
now you're beginning to believe
00:52:50.52\00:52:52.52
God's truth. - it
sounds like a lie at first.
00:52:52.56\00:52:54.35
It is the strangest thing,
but you have to persist in it.
00:52:54.39\00:52:56.95
What you can do to persist
in it, just start to pick up
00:52:56.99\00:52:59.33
some of these practical
tools that are in the Bible.
00:52:59.36\00:53:01.67
The power of
decisions we talked about.
00:53:01.70\00:53:03.72
Anybody, right now
you can make a decision.
00:53:03.75\00:53:05.70
Did it ever dawn on you
that you could make any decision
00:53:05.73\00:53:07.47
you want and nobody in
the universe can stop you.
00:53:07.51\00:53:10.90
That is so powerful to
realize I have this power to
00:53:10.93\00:53:14.29
actually make a
decision that I want.
00:53:14.33\00:53:16.09
If you don't like how you
feel about yourself you can
00:53:16.12\00:53:17.90
make a decision to change it.
00:53:17.94\00:53:18.99
If you don't like how you
look you can make a decision
00:53:19.03\00:53:20.45
to start eating
right, nobody can stop you.
00:53:20.49\00:53:22.16
If you don't like your
spiritual life, make a decision
00:53:22.20\00:53:24.05
to change it, if you don't
like your relationship make
00:53:24.08\00:53:25.89
a decision to improve it.
00:53:25.93\00:53:27.07
God has given us that
choice and He recognizes the one
00:53:27.10\00:53:30.11
thing He will not interfere
with, He gives you complete
00:53:30.14\00:53:33.11
freedom, you are
a free moral agent.
00:53:33.15\00:53:34.43
All heaven celebrates when
you finally decide to decide.
00:53:34.46\00:53:38.47
Exact, exact and remember
to not make a decision is
00:53:38.50\00:53:40.93
a decision, that's what
most people don't realize.
00:53:40.97\00:53:43.33
If I sit on the fence and
do nothing that is a decision.
00:53:43.36\00:53:45.99
So that proactive step, that
moving forward in one little
00:53:46.03\00:53:48.70
area, it doesn't matter when
you taste that first victory
00:53:48.74\00:53:51.38
it's good, it's good.
00:53:51.41\00:53:54.39
Then you just start to
apply God's principles, if I can
00:53:54.42\00:53:56.43
emphasize one thing to
this audience it would be this.
00:53:56.46\00:53:58.84
God's principles are there
for every area of your life,
00:53:58.88\00:54:01.56
I don't care if it's
physical, the diet we talk a lot
00:54:01.59\00:54:04.24
about that here on 3ABN.
00:54:04.28\00:54:05.41
Get your body healthy,
when you have a healthy body you
00:54:05.45\00:54:08.02
have a healthy mind,
just making those choices.
00:54:08.05\00:54:09.86
Same thing with your spiritual
life, you don't have to
00:54:09.89\00:54:11.76
be like the majority of the
people who go to church once
00:54:11.79\00:54:13.63
a week and warm the pew, no!
00:54:13.66\00:54:14.68
You can choose to be the
most on fire Christian simply by
00:54:14.72\00:54:17.65
applying these beautiful
Christian principles in the
00:54:17.68\00:54:20.26
Bible, it's choices
again, that your spiritual life.
00:54:20.29\00:54:22.56
It applies to your emotional
life, use the power of your
00:54:22.59\00:54:24.82
physical body,
just one little change.
00:54:24.86\00:54:26.64
- smile! - yes smile,
just that one little tool and
00:54:26.67\00:54:29.30
practicing it can
change your destiny for ever.
00:54:29.34\00:54:31.93
The same thing in
every area of your life.
00:54:31.96\00:54:35.15
I have a friend that is
very negative and she said
00:54:35.19\00:54:37.17
I decided, because God showed
her through the Holy Spirit,
00:54:37.20\00:54:40.69
I decided that I
couldn't complain anymore.
00:54:40.72\00:54:43.05
She said at first I
didn't speak at all.
00:54:43.08\00:54:45.37
But now she has a life
that is full of joy and she is
00:54:48.57\00:54:50.77
surprised that it
changed everything.
00:54:50.81\00:54:52.64
One man said that once he
decided to quit swearing he
00:54:52.67\00:54:54.64
dropped his vocabulary by 90%.
00:54:54.67\00:54:57.01
That is too funny, you
know Leo we are going to have to
00:54:59.37\00:55:02.58
do part two because we
want to have you back and cover
00:55:02.62\00:55:05.44
all this stuff and I know
that you have a ton more to
00:55:05.47\00:55:08.25
cover. - okay let's do it.
00:55:08.29\00:55:10.40
Thank you for being on the
show. - it's been a pleasure.
00:55:10.43\00:55:12.71
You know if you are dealing
with anything, with anything.
00:55:12.74\00:55:14.98
If you have felt like
your whole life is stuck,
00:55:15.01\00:55:16.87
I have been stuck
with this my entire life,
00:55:16.91\00:55:18.69
I'm telling you it's a lie
and it needs to be changed.
00:55:18.73\00:55:21.74
I come from homelessness
and being depressed, wanting to
00:55:21.77\00:55:24.79
kill myself every day, and
I do not feel like that ever,
00:55:24.83\00:55:27.81
absolutely ever.
00:55:27.85\00:55:30.32
Gods says I want you to
wake up laughing out loud.
00:55:30.35\00:55:34.13
When so many takes me out,
I'm going to be laughing out
00:55:34.17\00:55:37.58
loud, when the second coming
comes and I'm raise back up,
00:55:37.62\00:55:41.00
I'm laughing because
God has changed my life.
00:55:41.03\00:55:43.69
Stay with us we
will be right back.
00:55:43.73\00:55:45.45
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00:55:53.82\00:55:57.25
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I love having Leo on
the show, and it must feel
00:56:33.20\00:56:36.01
incredible to teach what
he teaches with these Power
00:56:36.04\00:56:38.46
Seminars because it
really does change lives.
00:56:38.50\00:56:41.12
When I first came off the
street and I first got into
00:56:41.16\00:56:43.48
recovery I spent years
and years and years trying to
00:56:43.52\00:56:45.73
fight this stuff and one
I realized I could change.
00:56:45.77\00:56:48.12
I have the right to change
and I don't have to live my
00:56:48.15\00:56:51.01
life this way, when I
started to do things differently
00:56:51.05\00:56:53.87
and think differently,
to challenge my thinking.
00:56:53.91\00:56:56.94
When I told myself your
stupid because I was off the
00:56:56.97\00:56:59.39
street, I was illiterate
and couldn't read and I used
00:56:59.42\00:57:01.80
to say your stupid and
I realized I'm not stupid,
00:57:01.84\00:57:04.19
I just couldn't read.
00:57:04.22\00:57:05.53
Start telling yourself the
truth and everything changes.
00:57:05.57\00:57:07.74
Like it's amazing and
life starts pouring into you.
00:57:07.78\00:57:10.50
You can start laughing
out loud and I want to tell
00:57:10.54\00:57:13.19
everybody, if I see somebody
at the gas station that looks
00:57:13.23\00:57:15.92
miserable I want to say,
hey, you don't have to be
00:57:15.95\00:57:18.64
miserable, what are
you telling yourself?
00:57:18.67\00:57:20.80
Do something different, eat
different, take a walk take a
00:57:20.84\00:57:24.10
breath, exercise and when
I see somebody heavy and they
00:57:24.14\00:57:27.37
look like they are just
dying every step is work.
00:57:27.40\00:57:30.05
I want to tell them, Hun
you don't have to be that way.
00:57:30.09\00:57:32.28
If you are listening to
this show you don't have to be
00:57:32.31\00:57:34.87
that way, Satan has lied to
us, the devil has lied to us.
00:57:34.90\00:57:37.55
People have lied to us, turn
the TV off and don't look at
00:57:37.58\00:57:40.19
another donut commercial.
00:57:40.23\00:57:41.67
Do you know I mean? Go and
do something that is healthy
00:57:41.70\00:57:45.25
for yourself, go and ask God.
00:57:45.28\00:57:47.33
The Holy Spirit will talk
to you, ask God and if you need
00:57:47.36\00:57:49.84
to ask Him every day
until you start recognizing His
00:57:49.88\00:57:52.32
voice, ask Him God
how can I start this?
00:57:52.36\00:57:55.19
Then start taking little
steps, start refusing to think
00:57:55.23\00:57:58.81
the way you think in your
life and start refusing all that
00:57:58.85\00:58:02.36
and let God pour into you
and let Him teach you and you
00:58:02.40\00:58:05.63
will be like everybody
else that has found the secret,
00:58:05.66\00:58:08.86
that life is good.
00:58:08.90\00:58:10.91
Life is good and there is
joy, and the Bible says the joy
00:58:10.95\00:58:14.30
of the Lord is our strength
because every single lie about
00:58:14.34\00:58:17.66
us gets confronted as we
start knowing the truth and the
00:58:17.69\00:58:20.98
truth of sets us free.
00:58:21.02\00:58:22.59
See you next time and always
remember that God is crazy
00:58:22.62\00:58:24.78
about you,
definitely and so are we.
00:58:24.82\00:58:27.77