Welcome to
Celebrating Life in Recovery,
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I'm Cheri your host and
today were going to talk about
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the stumbling around on
our own garbage all the time.
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If you're stumbling around,
if you struggle with this,
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stay with us
because it's amazing.
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Get free of it!
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Again this is my favorite
part of the show and last time
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we had Leo on we talked
about all different things.
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Making decisions, really
starting and doing it right.
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Challenging what you
believe about yourself.
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Stop, stop every single
thing about your past and make
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everything new, find out
who you are and really get a
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clue of that, ask God
and ask people around you.
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Figure out what you want
to do, what you're passionate
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about doing and then do it.
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Hey, what a concept.
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The end of that show Leo,
I want to first say thank you
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for coming back on the show.
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On the end of that show
you start to talk about health,
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weight and getting FIT.
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I'm thinking don't end it now.
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So tell us a
little bit about health.
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A lot of health
in a few minutes.
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I think the most powerful
concept when I was 17 I gave
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my heart to God at 15 and
started getting my life around.
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At age 17 I read something
in the Bible that blew my
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mind, and I'm growing
up in the 70s and 60s.
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The concept was in 1
Corinthians were Paul says your
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body doesn't belong
to you it belongs to God.
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You are to take care of it
and then he went on to say,
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it's the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
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So two things hit me,
number 1 I was raised on the
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concept, your body you
can do whatever you want.
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Eat what you want, drink
what you want abort your babies
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or whatever and all of a
sudden here's this concept that
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says it's not
yours it belongs to God.
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I just decided to accept
that and the day I accepted it
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it blew my mind, because
it was so out of a parameter
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I had been taught all my life.
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But then I discovered
something powerful, I'm into
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power, you know that. - right!
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Victory and living 100%
and what I read this I realized
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the Holy Spirit of God
says I'm going to dwell inside
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of you, well if I've got
God's Spirit inside of me
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that is endless power,
endless joy, endless love and
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endless everything
it's like some people say
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I'm dumb enough to believe it.
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I just accepted it and I just
realized that if I take care
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of this body and put in it
what it should be put in it,
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make the right choices, I
can have that source of power.
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All I can tell you is
this, most people physically are
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living at 10% when they
could be living at day 100%.
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To me even when I started
working harder, I'm doing
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more projects and every single
thing about health goes by
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the wayside, and when it
goes by the wayside I start
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feeling not good, I'm staying
up too late and doing all
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that stuff and then someone
says, well just eat right.
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I'm thinking, isn't
there an easier way?
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Can I have something easier
than that because that seems
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too hard. - right!
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Well again it goes back
to that pain and pleasure
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principle, we did
in one of the seminars.
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- we'll go over that again.
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Go over that again? Will
you have to associate pain
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because two forces
control all of our behaviors
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either pain or pleasure.
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Everything you do or
don't do in your life is
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because of pain or pleasure.
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The reason we eat so much,
and each too often, and eat
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the stuff is not good for
us is because it's pleasure.
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So you have to start associating
pain to fat, to being in a
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condition, pain of not feeling
good and pleasure of having
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a healthy body, once
you taste it, like you said,
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you begin to realize
everything else in your life is
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related to your physical health.
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I don't hesitate to
say spiritually many people
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struggle, emotionally people
struggle, they do not realize
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what an impact that the food
has on our emotional and our
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spiritual life,
even in our finances.
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I mean many areas of our life.
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So once you get a healthy
body and you start feeling good,
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you say man, I will never
go back the way I was because
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this is a great way to live.
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You do this show and I get
home and think I'm trying that,
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right? My favorite thing
is Dreyer's ice cream, oh man.
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This could be a
Dreyer's ice cream commercial.
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I'm eating it and thinking
okay this is not good for me.
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I need to not think
pleasure, I need to think pain.
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You know its first it is
in my mouth and I'm taking
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a bite and it tastes
so good I'm thinking how,
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what is he talking about?
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But then all of a sudden I
thought, when I gain weight
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I don't feel good, I
feel slow and sluggish.
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When my clothes are too
tight I have to go up a size.
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I hate that and I really
don't have the same energy.
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The same passion that
stuff, than I thought it is all
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because of this bite that last.
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The good flavor
lasts seconds, man!
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Yeah you look at that
every time you take a bite,
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that Ben & Jerry's or Dreyer's
whatever and this is nothing
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but fat and you're
turning into this blimp.
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You associate that kind of
pain as stuff going through
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your blood vessel like sludge.
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You're trying, - no
matter how nice the package is,
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it's a lie.
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Again massive pleasure
feelings isn't good, so I don't
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have to say too much about
the health principles because
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3ABN teaches the
stuff to everybody.
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You have some great
classes on this program and
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good eating but
there are couple elements
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I find people leave
out. Number one is the
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is the exercise part,
you can have the healthiest
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diet, you can do
everything right as far as
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your eating and drinking
but if you're not exercising
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you are going to miss a
large portion of the feel-good
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that God put in us.
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The endorphins come through
exercise and both aerobic and
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anaerobic exercise because
many people miss that as well.
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Aerobic as will keep your
heart healthy, that's where the
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you get the heart rate
up and you sustain it for
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a period of time
like a half hour.
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Of course anyone
watching this consult with your
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physician and make
sure you do it right.
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I get a health professional,
but that is one thing.
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But anaerobic is what releases
the HGH package to our system.
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HGH is the fountain of
youth and is the most amazing
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thing, they have studies
at the anti-aging institute in
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Geneva Switzerland, Miami,
Florida and they are taken
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70-80-90-year-old men and
women and they dress them in
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swimsuits and
bikinis and it's not pretty.
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Their skins hanging down
and they are all flabby and
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they take those people and
put them on a strict vegan diet
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and the exercise them
aerobically and anaerobically
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because anaerobic puts
HGH back into your system.
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Explain what
Anaerobic is for people.
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Anaerobic are short burst
exercises that you can only
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sustain for
short period of time.
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They build specific
muscle groups, like chin-ups,
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lifting weights, push-ups.
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You can only do
them for 3 or 4 minutes.
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What you are doing is
building muscle groups.
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As soon as you do that you
enter anaerobic capacity for
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about 20 seconds, automatically
the system kicks in.
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The HGH in your system,
because it stops producing,
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and our body stops
producing it, about age 30.
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That's why we start
this slow march to the grave.
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If you get
released in your body again,
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and that is the only way
they have discovered to do it
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is by anaerobic exercise.
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When you taste that I
can't tell you what it does
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for you. - when you start
feeling what it feels like,
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to be well, to be in health.
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Yeah I plan to never die.
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You know some people are
so tired all the time and it
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is so normal for them that
this is just the way it is.
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You are like no! It
is so not the way it is.
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Your greatest
wealth is your health.
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You can have 100 million
bucks in the bank but if you
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don't have the
health you can't enjoy it.
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I'm 47 today and I feel
better than I did when I was 16.
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I run 3 miles a day,
I eat right and exercise
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anaerobically as well.
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I take a portable
gym everywhere I go.
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Everyday I put HGH's
back in my system and you can
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literally feel great
the rest of your life and
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that is how it should be.
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I thought looking at
studies of serotonin level and
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people were saying that
you can increase your serotonin
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level by what
you eat and exercise.
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It's a serotonin that
makes you feel good about life.
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I feel like living today,
I feel like smiling today,
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I want to go out and
do something today because
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those levels are up.
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The balance between health
and fitness and how you feel
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in your emotional and all
other areas of your life is
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how you are successful.
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There is such an incredible
relationship between those.
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Many people don't realize
it, but reason they are not
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going anywhere in life
is because her body is so
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polluted, their brain is
so lame they can't comprehend
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even the simplest things.
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So getting control of your
physical body, eating right
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and exercising right
is such an advantage.
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I have friends that come
up and they will be smoking
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weed all day, smoking weed
and thinking about how they
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are going to change the world.
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So it feels like
they've done everything, 12 hour
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sitting there, but they
feel like they are exhausted
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by that time, thinking
of ways to change the world.
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They realize when they
get into recovery, you really
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haven't physically
moved your body much.
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You know sitting before
porn addictions all those
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computers, or video game
addictions, any of that stuff
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is that when you talk
about change from an addictive
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lifestyle to a healthy
lifestyle you physically
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are going to have to move.
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And you can be blessed by it!
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Yeah, you can't
imagine, you can't imagine.
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Just taste it, it's one
of those things you have to
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taste in order to feel healthy.
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Most people who ever
tasted it knows what it's like.
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And so don't quit. - exactly!
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When you get addicted to
it, that is a nice thing, when
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you associating pleasure
with lifestyle, I can't live
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without running, I
live every day for it.
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I can't live without my
exercise because I just feel
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so run down. - I see
you, you run you can't walk.
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Oh yeah it is great.
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What is really fun about
that is to say that we have
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covered a number of
things, making decisions, taking
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ownership of your issues,
and choosing to do something
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different, and then
being physically healthy as far
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as what you eat and exercise.
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Anything else we need to cover?
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Well we could talk about
hours about health and fitness.
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For one thing we are
into a mode of instant change.
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Everything has to be
instant, instant and our whole
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society wants
instantaneous gratification.
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It doesn't work
that way, someone didn't
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get fat overnight.
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They got fat over a period
of time, eating too much sugar.
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Eating too much cholesterol
or whatever, not enough
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exercising and so one of
the things I want to encourage
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people to do with health
and fitness is to don't try to
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see this as an
instant thing I can do today.
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No, you take it
one step at a time.
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One day you make it a
decision you're going to quit
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eating dessert for a week.
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Next day you make another
choice and that is to exercise
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five days a week.
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Next day I'll take another
step in to add the culmination
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of small steps
builds what you want.
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The same thing with your
dieting, diets don't work.
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They work on a false
premise, you don't get heavy
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overnight and you're not
going to lose it overnight.
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So set a goal of six to
eight months and make it
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achievable and I
have some great stories.
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I met a lady, I want
to you this great story.
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I want is to
encourage the audience.
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We were in Glorieta Center
in New Mexico, they wheeled in
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a lady who was manic-depressive,
she was grossly overweight,
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she was diabetic, she
had several heart attacks
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so she was a mess.
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She was like only 42 years
old and she went through the
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whole seminar and the whole
time she sat there like this.
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I never knew if I
got through to her even.
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So we're teaching the Power
seminar and going through the
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principles and 13 months
later at the Albuquerque Camp
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Meeting, the Texaco Camp
Meeting I was doing my first
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seminar and this lady
comes running down the aisle.
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It's a big tent you
know and she is running down
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the aisle and I don't
know she's mad or happy.
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She jumps on me, just
jumps on me and wraps her legs
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around me and I don't
let women do that to me.
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I'm to get her off and I
can't figure out who it is.
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I get her off me and
she says to you remember me?
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I said no. She said she
remembered Glorieta about
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13 months ago? I said yeah.
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She said remember the lady
they brought in the wheelchair?
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I see yeah do you know her?
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I know are really well she said.
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Well how is she doing?
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You won't believe it
I'm the lady. - oh man!
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She said I am, she had
lost 142 pounds and she was no
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longer a diabetic and
she was running around
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that place like a
spring chicken and
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I couldn't
believe what I was seeing.
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She said all I did was
follow your principles and one
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day I looked at my physical
body and said is this going
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to be my destiny, no way.
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She said followed all those
things one step at a time and
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look at my life and said
this was not going to be my
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destiny and I'm
going to change it.
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Just by make you one
decision, one day at a time
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I have lost 142 pounds
and this is where I am today.
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People really believe
that, that is not possible for
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them, and every single
person that I have ever been
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around that has
decided I'm going to try it.
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I'm just good change some
things, every single person,
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myself included,
everything changes.
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Everything changes and so
I don't even care who it is.
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I don't care who it is I
don't care how disabled you
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think you are, change your
mindset, change the way that
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the you treat
yourself, the way you think,
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treat your body, definitely
the food you put in your
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mouth, and getting
out and exercising.
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For some people if they
only sit in the chair and move
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their legs around in
your arms around, do that.
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It's a step, it's a
step. - do something!
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God will bless it, what's
interesting is when you go
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back to the Holy Spirit
from God which show us that He
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guides us, I could not,
not love sweets. I love sweets.
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If you give me something
healthy to eat, all that stuff
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and you give me ice
cream, man ice cream anytime.
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So then all of a sudden
I'm thinking, what you said was
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right that ice cream is
killing me, especially if
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I don't have time to do
a lot of things and that is
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all I'm eating, its killing me.
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So it's like being able
to say finally, God I am
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powerless, I'm powerless
against this ice cream.
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I'm thinking I'm a
heroine addict in recovery and
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now it is ice cream, and
God said, I will honor that.
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I said, please just
take it away from me.
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I know what even try to figure
out anything else anymore.
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God has taken that away
from me, I don't know if it's
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going to be everyday but
so far it's like He is saying,
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Cheri thanks for
giving that to Me.
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It's amazing to me
because I never thought
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I would get victory over that.
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Yet you can get victory over
it and that's the good news.
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Okay we are going to
go onto the next thing.
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In your power seminar
where - well you just mentioned
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something else and
that was our belief systems.
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I think that is a key
area as well because most of us
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our born with hundreds
of false beliefs and we have
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programmed our entire life
with these beliefs systems.
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We say we can't do it, God
doesn't love me, I can afford
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it and all these
negative belief systems.
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When it comes to really
beginning to grow and overcome
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I have victory in these
areas of our lives, your belief
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systems, it's critical
to change those as well.
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The Bible talks about this
in hundreds and hundreds of
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versus, God taught to
believe on His name believe in
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His Scripture the
word and the light.
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But there is something
else that's really neat.
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When you start to study
the Word believe in the Bible,
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you begin to see the
power in our belief as well.
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God says as you
believe, so it will be done.
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We've vastly underestimate that,
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as I believe it will be done?
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We don't realize that
what I believe these false
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negative beliefs, it
will be done in my life.
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If we believe in God's
empowerment, the same thing is
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going to happen.
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If I believe nobody's
ever going to love me I'm going
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to pick people
that won't love me.
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Exactly, exactly the
lull of attraction that is in
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play here, which is a
biblical principle as well.
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Jesus says all things are
possible to him that believes.
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How much is
possible? All things!
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Most people don't believe
that and so when it comes to
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your belief system one of
the most powerful illustrations
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as I saw this, and this
will really bless those that
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are recovering from addictions.
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There was an interview the
TV program did with these two
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boys, they had grown up
in a single parent home.
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They were eleven months apart,
there were dad was in jail.
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Their dad was a murderer,
their dad was a drug dealer
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and he was just a bad dude.
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The two boys grow up in a
single-parent home and the one
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ends up just like his dad,
he ends up in jail and strung
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out on drugs a
really messed up life.
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The other one turns out
to be extremely successful.
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He is the manager of
the company in Boston.
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Lovely wife and two
kids, great health everything
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in his life was perfect.
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They were so intrigued by
these two boys turning out so
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different that they
decided to interview them.
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So they did the one
guy in jail and the other
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in his office in Boston.
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They went through a series
of questions and they asked
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both boys the same questions.
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One of the questions was,
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why has your life
turned out like this?
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The amazing thing is both
boys gave the same answer.
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Their answer was what
else could I become with
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a dad like I had?
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See, but one believed
his dad is a murderer,
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a whore monger, a drug
user what else can I be?
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I'm like you meant I
didn't have a chance.
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The other guy says my dad
is a drug dealer, my dad is
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a murderer, what else
can I become but successful,
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because I didn't
want to turn out like him.
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Their beliefs overrode
every other area of their life.
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I find this to be so
true, especially for coming
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out of addictions,
whatever you believe is what's
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going to happen to you.
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God talks about this over
and over again in the Bible.
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Again our culture has
taught us that the events
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around us that control our life.
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You were born under
unfortunate circumstances where
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you were a victim of this, no!
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It's only what you
believe about those things.
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We had a young lady who did
a lot of work in high school
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with our all power program.
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This young lady almost
killed herself, she was bulimic
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and anorexic from the
constant binging in purging
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she almost killed herself.
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Down to 70 pounds and
ruined her voice and I asked her
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if I could interview her
and ask you some personal
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questions and she said sure.
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I asked where did you get
this idea that you were fat
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and ugly and had to lose weight?
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She was a very attractive
girl and should have been
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very confident
about her appearance.
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She said Leo you won't
believe but it goes back to my
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freshman year in high school.
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She said I had a crush on
a guy on the football team
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and I wanted him to like me.
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So I decided to
get close to him,
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I'll become a cheerleader.
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So I was cheerleading out
there one day with my friends
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having fun and practicing
and this boy came by and
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I smiled and winked at him.
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She said he looked at me
and said you girls got big
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rear ends and thought
that was funny and went
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laughing on his way.
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She said I was so
crushed at what he said,
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I was dumb
enough to believe him.
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She said once I believed
it I'd look in the mirror and
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see I had a big rear
and I had to lose it.
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She said I started to
binge to purge and almost
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killed myself
because I believed this guy.
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This is what happens
once we accept the belief
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it becomes an unquestioned
command in our nervous
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system and we act on it
whether it's true or not.
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So this is where it is
critical, especially if we are
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recovering to get out of
these false belief systems.
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Abusive situations, why do
women go from one bad situation
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to another one, because
they believe my husband said I'm
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this, my husband called me
a blank this and a blank that
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and we can't use the
words on the TV obviously,
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but what a woman hears
that over and over again
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she begins to believe it
and pretty soon and that is
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what she attracts to herself.
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We have to get in the Bible
where God says all things are
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possible to them that believe.
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God says I've loved you
with an everlasting love.
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God says I
present you faultless.
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God says your precious to
Me and a child of the King.
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When we begin to get these true
belief systems, which I find are
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only in the Word of God,
forget what cultures taught you,
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forget all the pressures out
there and you can change your
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life so powerfully so
beliefs are a huge part of it.
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Somebody was tell me one
time that our subconscious mind
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is where we hold
these beliefs, right?
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You have talked about
that, and that your subconscious
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mind is like
your very best friend.
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I thought what does that
mean, your very best friend.
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Every day when I wake up
what ever I truly believe, my
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subconscious mind, like my
best friend will try to prove
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it true for me, and if it
is negative everything in my
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environment of the subconscious
mind says see, see, see.
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it's like a matter of
saying I want to live my life.
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I want to live my life
where when I look at somebody
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I know it is because they
are safe and friendly and they
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love life and all that stuff
to prove that positive thing.
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So when you taste it
does make a difference.
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I couldn't imagine going back
and living my life in defeat
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again, I'm done, I'm done.
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Okay so what's the next one?
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You brought up another
point that I do want to leave
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because it was so good.
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Your brain can't tell the
difference between something
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you believe, or something
that is an actual part of your
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real physical
life at this point.
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That's why
beliefs are so powerful.
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Getting into the subconscious,
that's another seminary
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teaching that is powerful,
we do a whole seminar on
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just the subconscious,
most people don't realize
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how this works.
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Your subconscious works 24
hours a day and it responds
00:19:03.79\00:19:06.60
basically to pictures
and images that are received
00:19:06.63\00:19:08.62
through the conscious mind,
through your eyes and your ears.
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Those are the two main
avenues that go into your soul.
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So whatever goes into
your eyes and your ears ends up
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in your subconscious
mind, and especially if it has
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any degree of emotion.
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- It's like have a
file cabinet back here.
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Yes, this massive file cabinet.
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Let me compare this again,
a lots of us has all kinds
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of file
cabinets of all our life.
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Here's what happens,
let's compare it to a car that's
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easy way to illustrate it.
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The conscious mind is
like the driver, but the
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subconscious is the car
itself so anywhere you go is in
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the actual car, but the
driver steers or directs and
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releases the power. - right!
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So you have to realize
that every action you take,
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everything you do or
don't do is being driven by your
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subconscious mind, so
whatever you put into it, it is
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going to come out in your words
and actions and attitudes and
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everything else.
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So if you put in these
limited beliefs, that is like
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a car that is going down a
limited road with the brakes
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on all the time, so
release the brakes and put
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in a positive release
and awe, it's amazing.
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I'm going to ask you to do
something because the first
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time I did it, it was
absolutely mind-boggling to me.
00:20:05.52\00:20:09.02
Somebody said, Cheri I
want you to do some positive
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affirmations when I was
coming in off the streets and
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my addictions or whatever.
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And I'm thinking all
right, get a piece of paper and
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write something, just
write something good about
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yourself and I was dumbfounded.
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I thought, you know I
can't think of anything.
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They said write
something like I am sweet,
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and I thought what? I'm what?
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That didn't work for me.
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So somebody made a joke,
and I want you to think about
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this, think of paper and
you are going to put a line
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down the middle with
positive on one side and you are
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going to write I'm
an incredible, sensual,
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creative woman of
God or a man of God.
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Think about that
just writing that down.
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Now slow down, stop for a
minute and think if there is
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anything negative
that comes up in your mind.
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I had four pages of negative
every time I said that one
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positive, and so someone
was saying when you do that,
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and you have four pages,
I'm not sweet, I'm stupid,
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I'm not a good wife, my
parents didn't love me, I never
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had a good
relationship with what ever.
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That whole four pages is
what really moves you around
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in this world and that's
what you have to challenge,
00:21:13.68\00:21:16.24
that four pages of stuff,
all of stuff that comes on
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the negative side is
to be done with that.
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It's all lies and when I
started challenging that they
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were all lies and
that I was not stupid,
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I'm not worthless,
I'm not, not loved.
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The fact the God of the universe
says Cheri I'm crazy about you.
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I think you're fabulous
and so being able to say that
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you have to really
know what drives you.
00:21:34.99\00:21:37.31
So you're asking for inside
into these very core issues
00:21:37.34\00:21:41.81
so you can let go of them.
00:21:41.84\00:21:43.81
One of the best ways to
let go is to associate pain to
00:21:43.84\00:21:45.79
them, and only ask questions
like what if I lost in my
00:21:45.82\00:21:47.71
personal life
due to this belief,
00:21:47.74\00:21:48.71
what's this cost me financially.
00:21:48.72\00:21:50.44
How many irrepairable
mistakes do I make because
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I have this goofy
belief in my life.
00:21:53.15\00:21:54.50
What does it cost me,
mostly what does it cost me and
00:21:54.53\00:21:57.32
how am I going
to spend eternity.
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Really associate pain into
that, but every false belief
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you have and turn
it into a positive one.
00:22:01.40\00:22:03.46
If you say I am stupid,
turn around and say I am smart
00:22:03.49\00:22:05.47
because I'm created
in the image of God.
00:22:05.50\00:22:07.08
And I am. - exactly! -
I love that give me five.
00:22:07.11\00:22:10.25
That's your new believe.
00:22:10.28\00:22:11.39
Always replace the
old with the new one.
00:22:11.42\00:22:14.71
We can't afford it,
how can we afford it?
00:22:14.74\00:22:17.00
Replace it with a new one.
00:22:17.03\00:22:18.19
Hey God I'm ugly, replace
it with God doesn't make junk.
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You always have to get a
new belief system in there.
00:22:21.29\00:22:22.84
That's definitely true.
- but you know even what I
00:22:22.87\00:22:25.21
found out is that being
able to challenge all those lies
00:22:25.24\00:22:27.87
is that I don't have
to lie to replace it.
00:22:27.90\00:22:30.34
You know what I mean?
Someone says well what if I am
00:22:30.37\00:22:33.56
ugly, you're not ugly you
might just have a big nose.
00:22:33.59\00:22:36.44
I have a big nose, you
know what I mean? That's okay!
00:22:36.47\00:22:39.34
It's like being able to
say somehow figure out how to
00:22:39.37\00:22:45.08
change that around and not
lie to yourself, because I'm
00:22:45.11\00:22:47.23
smart, my subconscious is smart.
00:22:47.26\00:22:49.68
If I lie myself and
say you know your sweet.
00:22:49.71\00:22:51.99
I'm really not sweet, I
may be nice but I can't lie to
00:22:52.02\00:22:56.90
myself, it's just telling
yourself that truth and the
00:22:56.93\00:22:59.01
truth will set you free.
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And that is the point, a
truth, we often think truth is
00:23:00.28\00:23:03.47
a lie but again following
Jesus, Jesus can't lie.
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God can't lie, if I base
my belief systems on the Bible
00:23:08.73\00:23:11.84
and the Bible
principles I can never go wrong.
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The power of our beliefs
you cannot underestimate.
00:23:13.75\00:23:15.94
I was just reading the other
day a story of this guy who
00:23:15.97\00:23:17.86
got locked in this carrier,
what do you call the back of
00:23:17.89\00:23:21.95
trucks with freezer
compartments and all?
00:23:21.98\00:23:23.68
The guy accidently closed the
door on him and he freaked and
00:23:23.71\00:23:27.88
realized I'm going to die,
I'm going to freeze in here
00:23:27.91\00:23:29.50
tonight and sure enough
they found him the next morning
00:23:29.53\00:23:32.45
frozen to death.
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Guess what? The
temperature in there was 68°.
00:23:34.54\00:23:36.63
They had never put the
freezer on during the night,
00:23:36.66\00:23:39.59
they never started the engine.
00:23:39.62\00:23:40.77
This guy so believed that he
was trapped, he's so believed
00:23:40.80\00:23:43.40
I'm going to freeze in
here that he literally had every
00:23:43.43\00:23:45.86
symptom that he had
actually froze to death at 68°.
00:23:45.89\00:23:48.45
They do this study at
the University of Kentucky
00:23:48.48\00:23:51.60
with the medical College.
00:23:51.63\00:23:52.72
You probably heard
about this where they take the
00:23:52.75\00:23:53.87
two pills, the purple
pill and the white pill.
00:23:53.90\00:23:55.20
One is a super
stimulant and the other one is a
00:23:55.23\00:23:57.40
a tranquilizer and they
tell the students were going
00:23:57.43\00:23:59.23
to give you these pills.
00:23:59.26\00:24:00.23
They do this every
year and there's about
00:24:00.24\00:24:01.76
a hundred students altogether.
00:24:01.79\00:24:02.81
So 50 of them go
on the tranquilizers,
00:24:02.84\00:24:04.29
50 of them go on
the super stimulant.
00:24:04.32\00:24:07.20
And they tell these guys
over here they're going to be
00:24:07.23\00:24:09.28
wired, you're going to
be bouncing off the walls.
00:24:09.31\00:24:10.41
And you guys are going
to be dopey and can hardly
00:24:10.44\00:24:11.94
stay awake and they
don't tell the students
00:24:11.97\00:24:13.03
they reversed the ingredients.
00:24:13.06\00:24:14.39
Over 50% of the student
body develops physical reactions
00:24:14.42\00:24:18.24
in expectation of what
they thought they were given.
00:24:18.27\00:24:20.46
So those on the super
stimulant, actually on a
00:24:20.49\00:24:22.44
tranquilizer, were actually
wired when they should be
00:24:22.47\00:24:24.50
asleep in your beliefs
are so powerful they can even
00:24:24.53\00:24:28.50
override a drug in your body.
00:24:28.53\00:24:31.01
So again using those in
the right way what an asset.
00:24:31.04\00:24:34.97
God says I want you
to know who you are.
00:24:35.01\00:24:37.25
I want that to set you
free, I want that to infiltrate
00:24:37.28\00:24:40.62
your family and your churches.
00:24:40.65\00:24:42.20
All these are
possible. - Amen, Amen!
00:24:42.23\00:24:44.05
Let's go on to the
next one, you have a ton, 20
00:24:44.08\00:24:47.80
different things in this
power seminar that you do.
00:24:47.83\00:24:51.05
So we are just going to
cover as much as we can.
00:24:51.08\00:24:52.86
But when let's take a
break, because I know we are
00:24:52.89\00:24:55.93
getting close, let's
take a break and come back.
00:24:55.96\00:24:57.43
And we are also
going to come back and ask,
00:24:57.46\00:25:00.16
there are a lot of people
here at the café that have
00:25:00.19\00:25:01.98
questions for Leo and we
are going to ask questions
00:25:02.01\00:25:04.64
so stay with us.
00:25:04.67\00:25:06.28
Think you've seen
it all? Think again.
00:25:11.33\00:25:14.63
Cheri Peters is back
for a second season of
00:25:14.66\00:25:18.72
Celebrating Life In
Recovery with more lives
00:25:18.75\00:25:21.80
more stories and more miracles.
00:25:21.83\00:25:24.47
Watch the shocking, the
inspiring, and the incredible.
00:25:24.50\00:25:28.86
Check your local
listings to find out when
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Celebrating Life In
Recovery comes to you and get
00:25:31.45\00:25:34.66
ready for another dose
of reality, Cheri style.
00:25:34.69\00:25:38.11
You know what I would
like to talk about now?
00:25:52.72\00:25:54.85
We have talked about all
kinds of different things
00:25:54.88\00:25:57.54
on the show already about
goal setting, about disciplining
00:25:57.57\00:26:00.06
your life and all that stuff.
00:26:00.09\00:26:01.27
Yeah one of my
favorite topics, it actually is
00:26:01.30\00:26:03.43
my favorite topic.
00:26:03.46\00:26:04.70
It was hard for me to
get, it was hard for me to
00:26:04.73\00:26:06.62
understand the importance of it.
00:26:06.65\00:26:07.98
Yeah, goal setting, the
Bible says without a vision
00:26:08.01\00:26:09.81
the people
perish. - right, right!
00:26:09.84\00:26:11.56
And they tell us there are
only two kinds of people in
00:26:11.59\00:26:12.62
life who never amount to
anything. Number one there
00:26:12.65\00:26:14.72
are those who cannot do anything
except for what they are told.
00:26:14.75\00:26:16.83
Number two there are
people cannot even do what
00:26:16.86\00:26:18.34
they are told, so
the point is this.
00:26:18.37\00:26:20.94
People that get ahead in
life and live a life of victory
00:26:20.97\00:26:22.98
in power often it is because
they have got goals and are very
00:26:23.01\00:26:26.14
clear about those goals. They
are excited about their future.
00:26:26.18\00:26:29.27
Again God says
without a vision the
00:26:29.31\00:26:32.04
people are going to perish.
00:26:32.08\00:26:33.13
One of the best illustrations
of that, they did a survey,
00:26:33.17\00:26:35.12
actually the IRS was studying.
00:26:35.16\00:26:38.00
For those of you do
not know the IRS, it is the
00:26:38.04\00:26:39.25
US government's tax line.
00:26:39.28\00:26:40.44
At any rate they were studying
that morgues did most of
00:26:40.47\00:26:44.56
their business during
January and February and
00:26:44.59\00:26:46.75
they thought they weren't
reporting their income right
00:26:46.79\00:26:48.64
because all the income was
in January and February then
00:26:48.67\00:26:50.49
all the rest of the year.
00:26:50.53\00:26:51.56
As they studied this they
found out that more and more
00:26:51.59\00:26:54.77
people over age 65 die in
January and February more than
00:26:54.80\00:26:57.94
all the other 10
months put together.
00:26:57.98\00:26:59.88
Why? - well here's
what they found out.
00:26:59.92\00:27:01.76
They found out that in
January and February the nights
00:27:01.79\00:27:03.99
are long and the days
are short and the weather is
00:27:04.02\00:27:06.19
gloomy and people
give up then croak and die.
00:27:06.22\00:27:08.26
- ouch! - then you come
to springtime about April and
00:27:08.29\00:27:13.09
May Easter -
people wake up. - exactly!
00:27:13.13\00:27:15.53
The grandkids are coming
home, in the fall you got
00:27:15.56\00:27:17.66
Thanksgiving and
everybody's is that grandma and
00:27:17.70\00:27:19.33
grandpa's house and
then you have Christmas.
00:27:19.36\00:27:20.92
But between New Year's in
April Thursday nothing going
00:27:20.96\00:27:23.21
on and they just die because
they have nothing to look
00:27:23.24\00:27:25.46
forward to, it's subconscious.
00:27:25.50\00:27:27.11
So they began to
realize that if they don't have
00:27:27.15\00:27:29.40
something to look forward
to, it makes all the difference.
00:27:29.44\00:27:31.87
We discovered, yeah especially
people that are addicts,
00:27:31.91\00:27:34.31
if they don't have
something to look forward to.
00:27:34.34\00:27:36.74
In fact one of the greatest
reasons for frustration and
00:27:36.77\00:27:38.86
anger and resentment,
to take it out on society,
00:27:38.89\00:27:41.16
they take it out on
their spouses or whatever,
00:27:41.19\00:27:43.01
is people do not
know where they are going.
00:27:43.04\00:27:44.82
They have no vision and life.
00:27:44.86\00:27:46.01
- you know what I have to
say with addicts, I don't know
00:27:46.04\00:27:49.42
if you run across this, is
everything has been instant
00:27:49.46\00:27:52.41
gratification for so long
that we don't even know how
00:27:52.45\00:27:55.37
to wait for
something. - right, right!
00:27:55.40\00:27:57.81
Goal setting gets us out
of that parameter, you can set
00:27:57.85\00:28:01.76
short-term goals of
course a weeklong or even
00:28:01.80\00:28:04.14
a day long, but
here's the amazing thing.
00:28:04.17\00:28:06.44
Most people's goals I find
is to make it through the day,
00:28:06.48\00:28:08.86
most people's goals is
to make it through the day
00:28:08.89\00:28:11.46
so I can go home and
watch television. - ouch!
00:28:11.50\00:28:14.03
It's a terrible truth.
00:28:14.07\00:28:16.70
- I know but I
don't like it anyway.
00:28:16.73\00:28:18.70
Did you ever notice most
people accomplish their goal
00:28:18.73\00:28:20.74
every day, - oh shut up!
00:28:20.77\00:28:23.42
most people's goal is
to make it through the week
00:28:23.46\00:28:26.58
so they can get
drunk on Friday nights.
00:28:26.62\00:28:28.43
It's amazing how many
people accomplish their goal.
00:28:28.46\00:28:30.87
They do not realize how
powerful this is, once they
00:28:30.90\00:28:33.24
have set the goal and they
go home and get drunk tonight
00:28:33.27\00:28:34.71
or whatever, they
get there usually.
00:28:34.75\00:28:36.50
Those are limiting goals,
goals are like weeds that grow
00:28:36.53\00:28:39.31
in the garden, they are
just there automatically.
00:28:39.35\00:28:40.61
Most people spend their
whole life harvesting weeds when
00:28:40.64\00:28:43.15
in the same soil along
with a few exciting goals,
00:28:43.18\00:28:45.54
Godly goals, principal
goals, they can have this
00:28:45.58\00:28:47.75
incredible harvest in
every area of their life.
00:28:47.79\00:28:49.89
So we encourage people
that God made you in such a way,
00:28:49.93\00:28:52.49
in fact we talk a
lot about this on 3ABN.
00:28:52.53\00:28:54.68
What God's greatest promise?
What does God love to do?
00:28:54.72\00:28:56.86
One thing, He loves to create.
00:28:56.89\00:28:58.61
Isn't that right? God
creates, our God can do this
00:28:58.64\00:29:00.30
because our God made the stuff
that false gods are made out of.
00:29:00.34\00:29:02.02
anyway, that will
catch up with you tomorrow.
00:29:02.06\00:29:04.60
I did, yeah I got it.
00:29:04.64\00:29:06.38
God loves to create but
He also made us in His image.
00:29:06.41\00:29:10.60
Isn't that right? - yeah!
00:29:10.64\00:29:11.67
So we can also create, and of
course most profound example is
00:29:11.70\00:29:15.54
procreation, two people
can create another life.
00:29:15.58\00:29:17.33
But more than that we limit,
it is much broader, as I think-
00:29:17.37\00:29:20.66
I create, has that
ever dawned on you?
00:29:20.70\00:29:22.80
This is exciting,
as I think I create.
00:29:22.84\00:29:24.87
You take this production
right here, this was a thought
00:29:24.91\00:29:28.29
that was in your
brain a number of years ago.
00:29:28.32\00:29:31.06
The thoughts become
things, the things you can see
00:29:31.09\00:29:34.43
and touch and experience.
00:29:34.46\00:29:36.00
Again it is only a thought
here, now a living breathing
00:29:36.03\00:29:39.02
reality and that goes
into every area of your life.
00:29:39.06\00:29:42.01
As you think you
create and God made you in
00:29:42.05\00:29:43.95
His image in that way.
00:29:43.98\00:29:45.23
When you begin to set exciting
goals in your spiritual life,
00:29:45.26\00:29:47.95
and exciting goals in your
financial life, and exciting
00:29:47.99\00:29:50.24
goals in your physical
life and all the dimensions of
00:29:50.27\00:29:52.45
life that God has given you
it takes you out of this mundane
00:29:52.49\00:29:55.77
mode where people are watching
TV and vegetating their life
00:29:55.80\00:29:59.05
away he gives you
something to look forward to and
00:29:59.09\00:30:00.81
to take action to accomplish it.
00:30:00.84\00:30:02.50
Which is incredible because
I remember taking classes.
00:30:02.54\00:30:05.18
Like when I started setting
goals I remember taking the
00:30:05.21\00:30:07.48
same class four different
times because I wasn't really
00:30:07.52\00:30:09.76
good at making
sure they happened.
00:30:09.79\00:30:11.89
As I stuck with it I learned
to set goals and actually got
00:30:11.93\00:30:14.49
through to the other end.
00:30:14.52\00:30:16.51
Someone said well what if
I set a goal and go back to
00:30:16.55\00:30:19.97
school and fail?
Who cares go back again.
00:30:20.00\00:30:23.01
There's no such
thing as failure.
00:30:23.04\00:30:24.65
Let's do that in
the next seminar,
00:30:24.69\00:30:26.19
or the next part we talk about.
00:30:26.23\00:30:27.66
To me it was interesting
that any little thing that
00:30:27.70\00:30:31.31
I succeeded in I felt great.
00:30:31.34\00:30:34.01
I felt that this is
going to be different and
00:30:34.04\00:30:36.32
I can feel the
difference and feel the change.
00:30:36.36\00:30:38.72
But it is a matter of
literally, would you say to
00:30:38.75\00:30:41.26
someone not only set
goals but write them down,
00:30:41.30\00:30:43.74
tell somebody, make sure.
- they have to be written.
00:30:43.78\00:30:46.28
In fact they have discovered
that writing a goal is
00:30:46.32\00:30:48.79
actually 50% of
accomplishing it.
00:30:48.83\00:30:50.51
They don't know how this
works, but it's basically this
00:30:50.54\00:30:52.90
principle, I can't hit a
target unless I know where
00:30:52.93\00:30:55.25
it is, right? - Exactly!
00:30:55.28\00:30:56.50
As soon as I know what
the target is I can start
00:30:56.53\00:30:58.32
moving that direction,
something happens when
00:30:58.35\00:31:00.10
I write down a goal.
00:31:00.14\00:31:01.11
The fundamental principle in
all the goals setting is that
00:31:01.12\00:31:03.46
you have to write it down,
you are 50% they're simply by
00:31:03.49\00:31:05.93
virtually putting it on paper.
00:31:05.97\00:31:07.15
Suddenly then your mind
knows where to go, you know what
00:31:07.18\00:31:09.72
direction to start moving
and you may take a small journey
00:31:09.75\00:31:12.20
this way or that way, but
you are moving toward that goal
00:31:12.23\00:31:14.65
and eventually
you're going to get there.
00:31:14.68\00:31:16.08
So the other discipline
they teach you after you have
00:31:16.11\00:31:18.24
written it down is then
you have to take an action
00:31:18.27\00:31:21.37
every single day, it
can be a small one but every
00:31:21.40\00:31:24.46
action gets you there.
00:31:24.50\00:31:25.86
I was up in Alaska
one time, this is so cool.
00:31:25.89\00:31:27.88
We were hiking in
this remote island called
00:31:27.91\00:31:29.83
Baranof Island and there
was about 6 inches of snow.
00:31:29.87\00:31:31.94
We came around the corner
and there was a grizzly bear
00:31:31.98\00:31:34.53
there, he spooked he was
going around us and we are
00:31:34.56\00:31:36.78
walking on this riverbed
because these things often
00:31:36.82\00:31:39.00
come behind you and hunt you.
00:31:39.03\00:31:40.44
It's a very met remote
area and you have to carry guns.
00:31:40.48\00:31:42.98
Anyway we were going up
this river and I hear a sound
00:31:43.02\00:31:45.48
suddenly, I think it's the bear.
00:31:45.52\00:31:46.81
We get our position and
there's woods on both sides,
00:31:46.85\00:31:49.75
and suddenly I see what it is.
00:31:49.78\00:31:52.33
It's this little
trickle coming through the snow,
00:31:52.37\00:31:53.34
it was warming up and we
were walking on the creek bed
00:31:53.35\00:31:55.15
and this little trickle
comes in the snow like this.
00:31:55.19\00:31:57.04
I thought wow this is
amazing and then another little
00:31:57.07\00:31:58.88
one comes over
here at joins this one.
00:31:58.92\00:32:00.03
Another one comes over
here joins us one and pretty
00:32:00.06\00:32:01.90
soon it's 3 inches
wide and another one comes.
00:32:01.93\00:32:03.54
Then at 6 inches wide
and after about two minutes
00:32:03.58\00:32:05.80
is about a foot wide and
in five minutes this thing
00:32:05.83\00:32:08.02
was a raging 30 foot river.
00:32:08.06\00:32:09.50
We saw the river, that's
how it works in your life.
00:32:09.54\00:32:11.95
You can take what
little action today,
00:32:11.99\00:32:13.22
a little
trickle that comes down.
00:32:13.25\00:32:14.33
In another action
tomorrow, a little one tomorrow.
00:32:14.37\00:32:16.02
In fact almost little actions
coming together helps you
00:32:16.05\00:32:18.46
to accomplish your goal in
ways you never thought were
00:32:18.49\00:32:20.97
possible. - isn't that
exciting? It's so exciting.
00:32:21.01\00:32:23.36
Jesus says that you have
faith as a grain of mustard
00:32:23.40\00:32:25.72
seed nothing shall
be impossible unto you.
00:32:25.75\00:32:27.56
I believe that is part
of what goal setting is.
00:32:27.59\00:32:29.90
You set up Godly
goal, a Biblical goal,
00:32:29.94\00:32:32.07
a goal that is exciting to you.
00:32:32.10\00:32:33.66
If you want to discover what
God's created you to be, you
00:32:33.70\00:32:36.03
got to find a goal that is
big enough and grand enough
00:32:36.06\00:32:37.44
and exciting enough to get
you to push beyond your normal
00:32:38.54\00:32:39.90
limits and to achieve
your full God given potential.
00:32:39.93\00:32:42.28
Coming into recovery, I
was in the restroom at church
00:32:42.31\00:32:46.18
one day and there was a girl
sitting on the floor crying.
00:32:46.21\00:32:50.04
I remember
thinking how sad this is.
00:32:50.07\00:32:52.80
Is there anything I can do?
00:32:52.84\00:32:53.81
She looked up at me and
said, how are you going to
00:32:53.82\00:32:56.73
understand any of this
you've had such a perfect life.
00:32:56.77\00:33:00.14
I thought, I wanted to
stop and say God how did you do
00:33:00.17\00:33:03.06
that? How did you do
that, coming from where I came
00:33:03.09\00:33:05.94
from for someone to say that?
00:33:05.98\00:33:07.40
I didn't want to disregard
her because I wanted to be
00:33:07.44\00:33:10.15
there, but I
wanted to celebrate and
00:33:10.19\00:33:11.88
that is what you are
saying is that when you start
00:33:11.92\00:33:13.98
doing that pretty soon
your life is changed in you may
00:33:14.02\00:33:16.05
not even know how
far it has changed.
00:33:16.08\00:33:18.07
But God will
change every single thing.
00:33:18.11\00:33:20.03
The look on your face,
the texture of your skin,
00:33:20.06\00:33:23.02
the light in your eyes,
all that stuff is different.
00:33:23.05\00:33:26.51
How exciting is that?
But it is a matter of making
00:33:26.54\00:33:29.06
that commitment and
that's what you're saying.
00:33:29.09\00:33:31.54
The other show is taking the
responsibility in making that
00:33:31.57\00:33:34.69
commitment and actually
doing something, doing anything.
00:33:34.73\00:33:37.82
Goal setting
has changed my life.
00:33:37.85\00:33:39.83
It is the single most powerful
tool there is in the Bible.
00:33:39.86\00:33:42.79
I've seen it change entire
churches, most churches do not
00:33:42.83\00:33:45.37
have any goals, but have no
baptismal goals, they have no
00:33:45.41\00:33:47.92
growth goals, they have
no church planning goals,
00:33:47.95\00:33:49.52
no goals and that is why
they just sit there week after
00:33:49.55\00:33:52.39
week doing the same dumb
thing and it drives you nuts.
00:33:52.43\00:33:55.45
He didn't mean
dumb things, go ahead.
00:33:55.49\00:33:58.40
The same old dead songs,
the same old rituals and I don't
00:33:58.44\00:34:03.99
believe in that I am
sorry, I serve big God.
00:34:04.02\00:34:05.63
I serve God that is powerful
to serve and I'm tired of
00:34:05.66\00:34:09.07
status quo, if I read my
Bible right God said through
00:34:09.11\00:34:12.12
Israel there is a blessing
if Israel follows through He
00:34:12.15\00:34:14.43
would bless them among
all the people on this earth.
00:34:14.47\00:34:16.71
If the church doesn't
know where it's going,
00:34:16.75\00:34:19.00
it's business doesn't
know where it's going,
00:34:19.04\00:34:21.22
if the individual life
does not know where it is going,
00:34:21.26\00:34:22.96
physically and mentally
emotionally and spiritually and
00:34:23.00\00:34:24.67
financially, in all these areas.
00:34:24.71\00:34:25.68
If they don't know they're
never going to get there.
00:34:25.69\00:34:27.07
You can't hit a target if
you don't know where it is.
00:34:27.10\00:34:28.54
So goal setting
changes everything.
00:34:28.57\00:34:30.21
Somebody was talking about
dieting and we talked about
00:34:30.25\00:34:33.97
health when we started.
00:34:34.00\00:34:35.14
I can't do that, I'm just
not smart enough, two brain
00:34:35.17\00:34:38.63
cells it doesn't work for me.
00:34:38.66\00:34:39.88
So I'm thinking, so as I
am sitting there someone says
00:34:39.91\00:34:44.80
instead of thinking about
dieting add something good to
00:34:44.84\00:34:49.69
your plate everyday, one thing.
00:34:49.73\00:34:51.29
So now I had one thing
good to my plate everyday and
00:34:51.32\00:34:54.55
as that changes, pretty
soon my plate looks healthy.
00:34:54.58\00:34:57.83
So it is that same
principle, add one thing, don't
00:34:57.87\00:35:01.05
overwhelm yourself, don't
make yourself crazy with this.
00:35:01.08\00:35:04.07
Add one good thing and then
pretty soon you'll tasted it
00:35:04.11\00:35:07.06
and want something
better. How fun is that?
00:35:07.10\00:35:09.53
- It's fun, it's
fun. - Okay go ahead.
00:35:09.57\00:35:11.20
The reason I want to go
back is the part about what
00:35:11.24\00:35:14.18
about if I fail, everybody
always asked that question.
00:35:14.22\00:35:16.59
What if I fail? Because
many people have failed.
00:35:16.62\00:35:18.93
People are afraid to
even try for fear of failure.
00:35:18.97\00:35:21.21
Failure is a huge fear, we
have so many fears in our life
00:35:21.24\00:35:23.62
right now and again I go
back to the Bible principle,
00:35:23.65\00:35:25.99
God has not given
us a spirit of fear but
00:35:26.03\00:35:27.81
power, love and of a sound mind.
00:35:27.84\00:35:29.68
That is where we are to
live. - power of sound what?
00:35:29.72\00:35:31.57
The power of a sound mind.
00:35:31.61\00:35:32.65
I'm going to make a
statement and this will blow the
00:35:34.89\00:35:37.30
audience away,
it's the absolute truth.
00:35:37.33\00:35:38.78
There is no such thing as
failure, it is a complete lie.
00:35:38.81\00:35:42.02
It is a complete
delusion, it doesn't exist.
00:35:42.06\00:35:43.96
Now we have been programmed
since birth that we can fail.
00:35:44.00\00:35:46.70
There is no such
thing as failure biblically.
00:35:46.73\00:35:49.70
Shut up! Everybody knows
the fear failure keeps people
00:35:49.74\00:35:54.48
from doing anything.
00:35:54.51\00:35:56.18
I'm sorry it's simply not true.
00:35:56.21\00:35:57.76
I'll prove it
unequivocally to this audience,
00:35:57.80\00:35:59.58
will that be all right?
00:35:59.62\00:36:00.59
Let me ask you a question,
what would you attempt to do,
00:36:00.60\00:36:02.91
what would all of you attempt
to do if you could not fail?
00:36:02.95\00:36:05.23
You do anything,
isn't that right?
00:36:05.27\00:36:07.88
The truth is it is
impossible to fail.
00:36:07.92\00:36:10.46
Let me explain it to you
this way. What is failure?
00:36:10.50\00:36:12.92
Your culture has taught
you one thing, I'd tried
00:36:12.96\00:36:15.34
something and it
didn't work so I failed.
00:36:15.38\00:36:16.67
It's a lie, it's an
illusion. Here is the truth.
00:36:16.71\00:36:19.00
Failure is only
a temporary defeat.
00:36:19.03\00:36:21.59
Everybody here say that with me.
00:36:21.62\00:36:24.63
Failure is only
a temporary defeat.
00:36:24.67\00:36:27.61
Let me put it to you this
way, Cheri, say you attempt
00:36:27.64\00:36:30.02
to do something
and it doesn't work.
00:36:30.06\00:36:32.15
Have you failed yes or no? Yes!
00:36:32.19\00:36:34.22
What did I just teach
you? This is horrible.
00:36:34.25\00:36:37.53
Temporary defeat. Yeah
failure is only a what?
00:36:37.57\00:36:40.78
Temporary defeat so what
you are saying is that the
00:36:40.82\00:36:43.82
only thing stops me
is my belief system that
00:36:43.86\00:36:46.79
doesn't make me
get up and do it again.
00:36:46.83\00:36:48.38
That's right let me
go through it again.
00:36:48.41\00:36:49.89
When you attempt to do
something and it doesn't work,
00:36:49.92\00:36:52.74
did you fail, yes
or no? No! - exactly!
00:36:52.78\00:36:57.07
You only had to
what? A temporary defeat.
00:36:57.10\00:37:01.32
Ah right now follow me. If
you had a temporary defeat,
00:37:01.36\00:37:03.52
do you realize you
actually succeeded?
00:37:03.55\00:37:06.09
Now I dare you to prove
me wrong because now you know
00:37:06.12\00:37:09.53
one way that doesn't work.
00:37:09.57\00:37:11.36
Now you know one way not
to try therefore are you now
00:37:11.40\00:37:14.13
closer to your gold and
you were a just a minute ago,
00:37:14.16\00:37:16.85
yes or no? Yes! - absolutely!
00:37:16.89\00:37:18.31
You run the play a
second time, it doesn't work the
00:37:18.34\00:37:21.42
second time, did you
failed yes or no? No!
00:37:21.45\00:37:23.57
You only had a
temporary defeat, very good.
00:37:23.60\00:37:25.59
Now I know two ways.
- now you know two ways.
00:37:25.62\00:37:27.57
So have you
actually succeeded? Yes!
00:37:27.61\00:37:29.02
Because now you are even
closer than you were a minute
00:37:29.06\00:37:30.95
ago. You see what happens
to most people is they try
00:37:30.99\00:37:32.84
once and it
doesn't work, I've failed.
00:37:32.88\00:37:35.01
I'm a failure God must
hate me and they fall into this
00:37:35.05\00:37:37.57
trap of believing
they actually failed.
00:37:37.60\00:37:39.17
It's a lie of Satan.
00:37:39.21\00:37:40.26
When you realize I just
had a temporary defeat, no big
00:37:40.30\00:37:42.49
deal, I learned from my
experience and I will grow
00:37:42.52\00:37:44.68
from this and give
it a second attempt.
00:37:44.71\00:37:46.16
You may have to go through
a hundred temporary defeats
00:37:46.20\00:37:48.67
but you're going to
get there were people have
00:37:48.70\00:37:50.37
long ago left off.
00:37:50.40\00:37:51.37
That is the difference
where someone is the victorious
00:37:51.38\00:37:52.98
in Christ and one that is not.
00:37:53.01\00:37:54.98
I am so close on
some issues then.
00:37:55.01\00:37:57.56
Well praise God,
Thomas Edison he had over
00:37:57.59\00:38:01.18
14,000 temporary defeats.
00:38:01.21\00:38:03.13
We are sitting under all
these gorgeous lights in the
00:38:03.16\00:38:05.28
studio, he had this crazy
idea that you could actually
00:38:05.32\00:38:07.40
contain light in a bulb.
00:38:07.44\00:38:08.61
They said hey we got
candles, candles have worked for
00:38:08.65\00:38:11.73
5000 years, good enough.
00:38:11.77\00:38:12.95
No, no he, in fact if you
look at the artist drawing of
00:38:12.99\00:38:16.27
this studio it was
on the third floor.
00:38:16.30\00:38:17.76
Every time he had temporary
defeat key threw it out the
00:38:17.79\00:38:19.90
window and there was a land
slide of these failed attempts
00:38:19.93\00:38:22.01
from ground zero all
away to his third floor level.
00:38:22.04\00:38:24.95
He never gave up,
14,000 temporary defeats until
00:38:24.99\00:38:27.59
he finally got it, and
this is how life is with God.
00:38:27.63\00:38:30.50
It's a sanctified life and
yes you may have a temporary
00:38:30.53\00:38:33.37
defeat and fall
flat on your face.
00:38:33.41\00:38:35.05
You may stumble, when I
first gave my heart to God
00:38:35.08\00:38:37.98
I had the foulest
mouth is the world.
00:38:38.01\00:38:39.39
I cussed four hours after
my baptism, it was terrible.
00:38:39.43\00:38:42.87
But it was a temporary
defeat in God knew my heart and
00:38:42.91\00:38:46.32
that I didn't want to do this.
00:38:46.36\00:38:48.45
I'm growing in Your grace,
please take this in for my
00:38:48.49\00:38:50.28
life, I claim victory over it.
00:38:50.32\00:38:51.83
Yeah I had temporary defeats
for a while, but everyone
00:38:51.86\00:38:53.91
I finally got the victory.
00:38:53.95\00:38:55.43
This goes into every area
of your life, so don't give up.
00:38:55.46\00:38:57.41
There is no such thing as
failure, it doesn't exist.
00:38:57.45\00:38:59.47
We are going to
open it up for questions.
00:38:59.51\00:39:02.05
But I want to say thank you
so much because everything you
00:39:02.08\00:39:04.76
are talking about is a
paradigm shift, we have to think
00:39:04.80\00:39:07.63
differently, we have to
challenge everything we believe
00:39:07.66\00:39:10.71
now and say if it hasn't
worked in the past, let it go.
00:39:10.74\00:39:13.52
Exactly follow God's word
and the principles and it.
00:39:13.55\00:39:16.29
Okay Trent you had a question.
00:39:16.32\00:39:17.62
Yeah Leo you are a
busy man, right? - yes.
00:39:17.66\00:39:20.53
How much do you
travel? About 320 days a year.
00:39:20.56\00:39:23.36
Well I ask because you are
talking about healthy eating,
00:39:23.40\00:39:28.48
exercise, and or aerobic
anaerobic and you are say that
00:39:28.52\00:39:33.57
a lot of people don't
feel well enough to do it.
00:39:33.61\00:39:35.58
They don't want to
start, they can't do it or don't
00:39:35.62\00:39:37.46
feel like it, what
about the people that are busy
00:39:37.50\00:39:39.31
like you for example?
00:39:39.35\00:39:41.32
How do you take care that?
You say you take a gym with
00:39:41.36\00:39:43.39
you when you're on the road.
How do you find time for all
00:39:43.42\00:39:45.41
the exercise, eating
right and everything when
00:39:45.45\00:39:47.68
you are constantly traveling?
00:39:47.72\00:39:49.00
Really I don't think there's
hardly anybody in the world
00:39:49.04\00:39:51.31
busier than I am and
I can say that because
00:39:51.34\00:39:54.47
I meet a lot of people.
00:39:54.51\00:39:55.94
There are several key things,
00:39:55.98\00:39:57.24
I have three
disciplines in my life.
00:39:57.27\00:39:58.43
Nothing, and I mean nothing
breaks those 3 disciplines.
00:39:58.47\00:40:02.25
Number one is my daily
time with God, that's where
00:40:02.28\00:40:04.27
I receive my daily strength.
00:40:04.30\00:40:05.33
The other is my proper
diet, I don't care how you live
00:40:05.36\00:40:07.65
or your travel or what
you do, if you plan in advance
00:40:07.69\00:40:09.94
you can take food with
you and you can eat right.
00:40:09.97\00:40:12.16
I've learned to master that,
I keep an extra backpack with
00:40:12.19\00:40:14.97
me and take a lot of natural
food with me wherever I go.
00:40:15.00\00:40:17.75
I can master that,
third thing is my exercise.
00:40:17.78\00:40:20.05
Even here, I got here
exhausted this morning,
00:40:20.09\00:40:22.29
just exhausted because I
just came from New Zealand and
00:40:22.32\00:40:24.55
I have been on an
airplane for 39 hours.
00:40:24.58\00:40:26.72
I got up this morning at 5:30
and I knew, I don't care what
00:40:26.75\00:40:30.65
happens I always
exercise, end of conversation.
00:40:30.69\00:40:33.09
If I exercise and eat
right and have my spiritual time
00:40:33.12\00:40:35.03
with God, those are three
disciplines and never break.
00:40:35.06\00:40:37.24
End of conversation: so it
is a matter of choice again.
00:40:37.28\00:40:39.43
A matter of
discipline of your life.
00:40:39.46\00:40:41.16
We have talked all about that.
00:40:41.20\00:40:42.99
You can say, I am tired
and I can pick it up tomorrow,
00:40:43.02\00:40:46.89
and as soon as you do that
you start letting things drop.
00:40:46.93\00:40:50.76
You can't compromise one
time, end of conversation.
00:40:50.80\00:40:53.04
You don't ever compromise
and those are three areas
00:40:53.07\00:40:55.28
I don't compromise, ever.
00:40:55.32\00:40:56.84
It is a choice in
which you live like that
00:40:56.87\00:40:59.04
it's a wonderful feeling.
00:40:59.08\00:41:00.30
It's funny you said that
because when you said that
00:41:00.34\00:41:03.63
I thought about every
single person with an addiction.
00:41:03.67\00:41:06.66
We don't compromise getting
high, we don't compromise
00:41:06.70\00:41:09.50
getting on line, and
all that stuff but if we get
00:41:09.53\00:41:12.30
healthy we think
we can compromise.
00:41:12.34\00:41:14.53
It's the same, once
healthy and one is not.
00:41:14.56\00:41:17.70
One of the things that
you said really impressed my
00:41:17.73\00:41:20.14
husband, and my
husband is a great guy.
00:41:20.18\00:41:21.81
He heard you say I wouldn't
compromise that devotional
00:41:21.85\00:41:25.01
time and he started to add
that to his own life and it is
00:41:25.05\00:41:28.18
amazing because
he has so changed.
00:41:28.22\00:41:31.23
Not that I even knew he needed
that, but it was like that
00:41:31.27\00:41:34.50
makes such a
difference in someone's life.
00:41:34.53\00:41:36.39
That's my
paycheck, how cool is that.
00:41:36.42\00:41:38.68
We have more questions,
Tim you had a question.
00:41:38.72\00:41:41.89
When you are talking about
setting your goals earlier,
00:41:41.92\00:41:46.63
we have a fallen nature were
Satan loves to trap us in our
00:41:46.67\00:41:52.24
own, by ourselves, putting
speed bumps and roadblocks in
00:41:52.28\00:41:57.82
front of us and we are
so prone to believe it.
00:41:57.85\00:41:59.63
Or so, okay already lost
so how do you get above that?
00:41:59.67\00:42:05.21
Cheri: We just
believe our own garbage.
00:42:05.25\00:42:08.40
Tim: how do we get
above that because we are so
00:42:08.43\00:42:11.35
apt to believe it.
00:42:11.39\00:42:13.24
Leo: you hit one key point,
I think, that is the stumbling
00:42:13.27\00:42:17.49
block, you talked about Satan
did this and Satan does that
00:42:17.53\00:42:21.71
to us, I could care
less about the devil.
00:42:21.74\00:42:23.77
I don't give him the time
of day, he is a fallen foe and
00:42:23.80\00:42:27.57
he is under my feet
and God says stomp him.
00:42:27.61\00:42:29.16
He says I give you authority
over serpents and scorpions,
00:42:29.20\00:42:32.09
Satan is the biggest
serpent in the Bible.
00:42:32.13\00:42:34.03
So what I think we're
dealing with is defeated mental
00:42:34.06\00:42:37.36
system that all of us have
been program with so don't feel
00:42:37.40\00:42:39.51
bad about it, it is normal.
00:42:39.55\00:42:40.71
When you constantly say
Satan this and he put this speed
00:42:40.75\00:42:43.99
bump, I don't see speed
bumps, I don't see Satan.
00:42:44.02\00:42:46.53
He is a nobody, he
is a nothing in my life,
00:42:46.56\00:42:48.73
all I see is God, all
I see is the Bible with
00:42:48.77\00:42:50.91
God's principles.
00:42:50.94\00:42:52.25
It is a matter of focusing
here, and training the mind to
00:42:52.28\00:42:55.12
quit focusing on the negativity
of Satan this, the devil
00:42:55.15\00:42:57.43
this and the devil is
tripping me up here and he doing
00:42:57.47\00:42:59.72
this in my life,
forget it, it doesn't exist.
00:42:59.75\00:43:02.38
God has made you in His image.
00:43:02.41\00:43:04.77
God says I'm the God of
unlimited possibilities.
00:43:04.80\00:43:07.20
You have to start focusing
and believing the Word of God,
00:43:07.24\00:43:10.87
what it says about
you and forget Satan.
00:43:10.90\00:43:13.36
That's why Jesus says
get thee behind me Satan
00:43:13.39\00:43:15.60
and he doesn't
have the time of day.
00:43:15.64\00:43:17.39
So starting to stand on
the promises of God, and by the
00:43:17.43\00:43:19.65
way you cannot do this apart
from a Christian perspective.
00:43:19.69\00:43:21.88
There are all kinds of
self-help books out there and
00:43:21.92\00:43:24.49
I have studied them all,
00:43:24.53\00:43:25.50
New Age gurus and
all this other stuff.
00:43:25.51\00:43:26.84
A lot of that stuff is good,
I'm not knocking it but I am
00:43:26.88\00:43:29.67
saying if you missed that
spiritual element of knowing
00:43:29.70\00:43:32.42
who you are and who God created
you having that identity may be
00:43:32.45\00:43:36.45
the real issue we're
dealing with is identity,
00:43:36.49\00:43:38.30
we are teaching in our seminar.
00:43:38.34\00:43:39.86
If your identity is that
I am a sinner, I'm no good,
00:43:39.90\00:43:42.82
I have all these problems
in my life that is what you are
00:43:42.85\00:43:44.53
going to be, but
the day you say hey!
00:43:44.56\00:43:46.00
This is what the Bible says
about me and I don't have to
00:43:46.03\00:43:48.64
worry about speed bumps, I
don't have Satan in my life.
00:43:48.67\00:43:51.24
The Bible says the
devil cannot touch you.
00:43:51.28\00:43:53.98
I'm covered by Jesus and
the devil cannot touch me.
00:43:54.01\00:43:57.16
I stand on that promise and
what the devil comes knocking
00:43:57.19\00:44:00.59
at your door don't
answer it, send Jesus.
00:44:00.63\00:44:02.66
Jesus opens the door
and says who are you?
00:44:02.69\00:44:04.66
I'm the devil. What do
you want? I'm here to say Leo.
00:44:04.69\00:44:06.80
Leo doesn't live here anymore,
I live in this house and
00:44:06.84\00:44:08.92
you can go you know where.
00:44:08.95\00:44:09.92
So it is a matter of
retraining the brain to stand on
00:44:12.20\00:44:15.85
the unfailing Word of God.
00:44:15.89\00:44:17.62
Somebody told me and it's
interesting is imagine the
00:44:17.65\00:44:22.86
the devil as a
cosmic David Copperfield.
00:44:22.89\00:44:24.95
He's an illusionist and every
single thing he puts in front
00:44:24.98\00:44:28.70
of me, like he could screw
up my whole past but all I have
00:44:28.73\00:44:32.41
to do is say
Jesus, God what's this?
00:44:32.45\00:44:36.04
It is gone, there is definitely
no power, no ability to
00:44:36.08\00:44:40.09
trip me up anymore, but I
have to hold onto who I am in
00:44:40.13\00:44:44.11
Christ. So I
always think about that.
00:44:44.14\00:44:46.84
I also think about, but
what if there are a billion bad
00:44:46.88\00:44:51.62
angels around me,
God says I'm around you.
00:44:51.66\00:44:54.69
- it doesn't
exist. - it doesn't exist.
00:44:54.73\00:44:57.70
All allusions and all
lies, the biggest discipline is,
00:44:57.73\00:45:01.04
it only comes
through time and the word,
00:45:01.07\00:45:02.63
it comes through
positive? People to church and
00:45:02.67\00:45:05.39
programs like here on 3ABN.
00:45:05.42\00:45:06.86
The more you fill your
mind with positive affirmations,
00:45:06.90\00:45:10.07
rather than the past and
what the devil tries to throw in
00:45:10.11\00:45:13.24
your face just don't
give him the time of day.
00:45:13.28\00:45:14.84
It's a training of the brain,
the training of the mind to
00:45:14.87\00:45:17.09
do that, and think that's
were the Bible talks so much
00:45:17.12\00:45:19.72
God says be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind.
00:45:19.76\00:45:22.17
Notice He didn't state be
transformed by the renewing of
00:45:22.21\00:45:24.60
your behavior, and we
often focused on our behavior.
00:45:24.63\00:45:26.99
That's what you are
doing in your question.
00:45:27.02\00:45:28.32
Focus on renewing the mind
and behavior becomes automatic.
00:45:28.35\00:45:31.89
That's how simple it works,
being renewed in the spirit
00:45:31.92\00:45:35.42
of your mind, let this
might be in you that was in
00:45:35.45\00:45:37.19
Christ Jesus, it is
totally transforming the mind
00:45:37.23\00:45:38.93
and behavior becomes automatic.
00:45:38.97\00:45:40.86
It's funny when I first got
into recovery I used to think
00:45:40.89\00:45:44.83
the devil moved me from
here to here and tempts me.
00:45:44.87\00:45:48.45
Then I read a part of the
Bible that said you are drawn
00:45:48.48\00:45:52.03
away by your own lust
and I thought oh shut up.
00:45:52.07\00:45:55.18
So it's me how and I'm thinking
as I read that, the more I
00:45:55.21\00:46:00.27
started looking at the things
that really draw me were the
00:46:00.31\00:46:04.54
things that I liked doing,
found pleasure in those things.
00:46:04.58\00:46:08.55
Gods says change that and
you won't be drawn so easily.
00:46:08.58\00:46:12.61
I thought even that is my
ability to make decisions.
00:46:12.65\00:46:16.44
God wants to empower me
and saying it really is you,
00:46:16.47\00:46:19.37
not that the devil is not
out there doing some stuff,
00:46:19.40\00:46:22.27
but most the time I'm
drawn by my own desires.
00:46:22.30\00:46:24.86
One the most critical
points in the life of victory
00:46:24.89\00:46:27.73
and power I have found
consistently, and I say this
00:46:27.76\00:46:29.84
with great respect and I
don't want anyone to take
00:46:29.88\00:46:31.93
offense at this.
00:46:31.96\00:46:33.15
Christian people use
God or Satan as the ultimate
00:46:33.18\00:46:36.15
excuse for all
their behaviors and
00:46:36.19\00:46:38.28
they don't take responsibility.
00:46:38.31\00:46:40.33
Oh the devil did this in
the devil did this, and no he
00:46:40.37\00:46:42.13
didn't, you made a foolish
choice and you're reaping
00:46:42.17\00:46:43.89
the painful results of it.
00:46:43.93\00:46:45.10
It's really tough
because you say it straight up.
00:46:45.14\00:46:49.59
I say that in loving
compassion because I see people
00:46:49.62\00:46:53.00
struggling their whole
life, I've prayed about it,
00:46:53.03\00:46:56.37
I've asked God to help me,
it's like God is not even there.
00:46:56.41\00:46:58.73
They get all mad at
God and God said hey
00:46:58.76\00:47:00.51
I told you what to do and
you are not opening My law,
00:47:00.54\00:47:02.68
you are not following My
principles and you are reaping
00:47:02.71\00:47:05.03
these painful results, change
it I cannot do that for you.
00:47:05.07\00:47:09.02
God is not going to come
in there and say I'm glad you
00:47:09.05\00:47:12.96
prayed not to listen
to the filthy rock song,
00:47:13.00\00:47:14.68
He is not going to turn the dial
00:47:14.71\00:47:15.79
He says I impart My
righteousness to you and you
00:47:15.83\00:47:19.37
turn the knob you see, so we
often blame God and the Devil
00:47:19.41\00:47:22.54
for things that God and the
devil had nothing to do with.
00:47:22.58\00:47:25.68
These are our
choices, take responsibility.
00:47:25.71\00:47:28.37
I'll give you something
for my husband you can use and
00:47:28.40\00:47:29.79
I'll tell Brad you can use it.
00:47:29.82\00:47:31.11
We are playing golf, he's
teaching me how to play right?
00:47:31.14\00:47:33.55
I love it and he
loves it and he's very good.
00:47:33.59\00:47:36.13
I looked down and I am
thinking Brad, I'm going to use
00:47:36.17\00:47:40.30
my driver right? He says yeah.
00:47:40.33\00:47:42.40
Well what about the Sand
trap and the water on the other
00:47:42.43\00:47:44.77
side? He says what Sand trap?
00:47:44.81\00:47:46.39
I'm thinking, He said you can't
see it, you have to see the
00:47:46.42\00:47:50.03
green. What you're saying
is the Sand trap is there and
00:47:50.07\00:47:52.99
the water is there, I'm not
denying the realities around
00:47:53.02\00:47:55.93
me, but I'm just seeing
the green. - exactly, exactly!
00:47:55.96\00:47:58.43
Okay we have another question.
Henry you had a question.
00:47:58.47\00:48:01.05
Yeah Pastor is sounds really
good when you said that we
00:48:01.08\00:48:03.63
are not actually,
we are always defeated.
00:48:03.67\00:48:08.84
We are not actually failures.
00:48:08.87\00:48:11.33
But what do you tell someone
what they have been defeated
00:48:11.36\00:48:15.21
so much that they are losing
their hope on this belief.
00:48:15.24\00:48:19.16
I'm trying to understand
your question right, you were so
00:48:19.20\00:48:23.08
discouraged and so down
because of your past life.
00:48:23.11\00:48:25.22
- because they were defeated
so much in their life that
00:48:25.26\00:48:27.40
they are actually losing
their hope from this belief.
00:48:27.43\00:48:29.54
They are like maybe I
am failure, they are going
00:48:29.58\00:48:32.23
back to their old way.
00:48:32.26\00:48:33.53
Yeah and that is what it
is, only you can give yourself
00:48:33.56\00:48:35.75
a title, if you are
going to give yourself a title
00:48:35.79\00:48:38.08
I am a failure and write
this down in your journal
00:48:38.12\00:48:40.38
I am failure, that
is what you will be.
00:48:40.41\00:48:42.08
So it is a total choice,
and again I can choose to say
00:48:42.11\00:48:45.64
that I am a winner
in the game of life.
00:48:45.67\00:48:47.09
I am perfect
through Jesus Christ,
00:48:47.13\00:48:48.74
I have victory in Christ
now and I can sit with Christ
00:48:48.78\00:48:52.25
in the heavenly realm.
00:48:52.28\00:48:53.27
I can choose what belief
system I have and that belief
00:48:53.30\00:48:56.28
system will
determine my destiny.
00:48:56.31\00:48:57.85
So a person in that same
condition again even though they
00:48:57.89\00:49:00.17
failed over and over again
and they think they have failed
00:49:00.21\00:49:02.09
they have to realize there
is no such thing as failure.
00:49:02.12\00:49:03.97
That's what we
talked about earlier.
00:49:04.01\00:49:05.21
They have had a lot of temporary
defeats, but God is the
00:49:05.24\00:49:07.47
God of new beginnings and
if you have planned A and blow
00:49:07.51\00:49:09.46
it doesn't matter because
God has a plan B. and if you
00:49:09.50\00:49:11.42
blow that He's got plan C.
00:49:11.45\00:49:12.45
God is always got
a plan for your life.
00:49:12.48\00:49:14.74
It is never too late to make
a new beginning I don't care
00:49:14.77\00:49:17.92
how dark or
shameful your past might be.
00:49:17.96\00:49:19.83
So again it is
conditioning the mind to believe
00:49:19.86\00:49:23.07
the word of God rather than
the lies and things of Satan.
00:49:23.11\00:49:25.98
That may sound very elementary
but it really boils down
00:49:26.01\00:49:28.85
to that simple principle.
00:49:28.88\00:49:30.20
What is interesting to me,
I did 10-15 years in recovery
00:49:30.23\00:49:33.91
and before I realized that
I had to take responsibility.
00:49:33.94\00:49:37.51
I went down every road and
looked at everything and felt
00:49:37.55\00:49:41.09
like is this working,
am I supposed to do this.
00:49:41.12\00:49:44.13
I'd grab another self-help
book and got into another
00:49:44.17\00:49:47.09
group and all those things
and God at one point finally
00:49:47.13\00:49:50.02
said to me, Cheri, I
never sent you down that road.
00:49:50.05\00:49:53.57
So sometimes I think when
someone is failing or feeling
00:49:53.60\00:49:56.41
that they are failing is
to ask them to stop and really
00:49:56.44\00:49:59.22
as God and listen,
is what do I do now?
00:49:59.25\00:50:02.49
I don't know what you think
about that but I think a lot
00:50:02.52\00:50:05.42
of people get into their
mind that I need to be this,
00:50:05.46\00:50:08.35
our need to do this because
my father wanted me to be
00:50:08.39\00:50:11.23
this or whatever and it's
like being able to stop and put
00:50:11.27\00:50:14.67
all that out and get a
good idea of who I am in Christ
00:50:14.71\00:50:18.07
and in what direction.
00:50:18.11\00:50:19.35
It's amazing to me because
I never would have believed
00:50:19.39\00:50:22.81
that God had the
plans He had my life.
00:50:22.85\00:50:24.72
I had to let go of all the
things I believed about where
00:50:24.75\00:50:28.91
I was going and who I was,
my successes and failures and
00:50:28.94\00:50:33.06
saying okay God, now what?
00:50:33.10\00:50:34.54
I'm blown away because all
that is good and I'm thinking
00:50:34.57\00:50:38.43
I want to get up now and
say God what is it today because
00:50:38.47\00:50:42.29
I am excited about that.
00:50:42.33\00:50:43.70
Thing that you touched
on and it is real powerful,
00:50:43.73\00:50:46.92
we teach in our seminars
and I think we brushed on it in
00:50:46.96\00:50:49.49
one of the programs, but
even victory in people's lives.
00:50:49.52\00:50:51.82
This basically is the question
you are asking, how do I
00:50:51.85\00:50:53.78
get this victory, how do I
get out of this mental state
00:50:53.81\00:50:55.70
I'm in and all the
failures that I have had?
00:50:55.74\00:50:57.07
Most churches I think are
at fault in this too because
00:50:57.11\00:50:59.90
they teach to go home and
pray about it, ask God to help
00:50:59.94\00:51:02.41
you, ask God to give you
strength and He's going to.
00:51:02.45\00:51:04.89
That is pure heresy, all right
00:51:04.92\00:51:06.90
I don't read that
anywhere in the Bible.
00:51:06.93\00:51:08.44
The Bible says thanks be
to God - you have someone
00:51:08.48\00:51:11.22
yelling at the television
screen right now so you have
00:51:11.25\00:51:13.96
to explain it,
go ahead I'm ready.
00:51:14.00\00:51:15.91
The Bible says thanks be
to God which gives us the
00:51:15.94\00:51:19.26
victory, victory
is a gift from God.
00:51:19.29\00:51:22.53
I don't have to ask God
for it, He is waiting for me to
00:51:22.57\00:51:24.76
claim it, why do I have
to ask Him for something
00:51:24.79\00:51:27.33
He has already given me?
00:51:27.37\00:51:28.34
I open my wallet, we
have done this before.
00:51:28.36\00:51:29.70
I open my wallet and say
Cheri I'm going to give you,
00:51:29.73\00:51:32.10
I've only got New Zealand
money, I'm going to give you
00:51:32.13\00:51:34.95
a $10 bill, I gave to
her and it is hers now right?
00:51:34.99\00:51:37.77
Did she work for it? No!
00:51:37.80\00:51:39.42
How did she get
it? I gave it to her.
00:51:39.46\00:51:41.74
Victory is a gift, thanks
be to God which gives us the
00:51:41.77\00:51:44.18
victory so we have
train people to say hey God is
00:51:44.22\00:51:46.65
standing here with this
massive smile on His face and
00:51:46.69\00:51:48.94
His arms open wide saying,
you do not have to struggle
00:51:48.97\00:51:50.93
with this pornography, you
don't have to struggle with
00:51:50.97\00:51:52.84
drugs, you don't have to
struggle, I'm giving you the
00:51:52.87\00:51:54.71
victory, take it! Alright!
00:51:54.74\00:51:57.24
It took me 15 years to
really believe that and it was
00:51:57.27\00:51:59.66
true, I could
have done it before but
00:51:59.69\00:52:02.54
I did not believe it.
00:52:02.57\00:52:04.17
We complicate it, and ask
God to help you, ask God to give
00:52:04.21\00:52:06.44
you strength, where's that
in the Bible, I don't read that
00:52:06.47\00:52:08.67
anywhere in the Bible.
00:52:08.70\00:52:09.72
God says I already did
it for you, just take it.
00:52:09.76\00:52:11.44
The second step, He says
in Romans 6: 11, I reckon that
00:52:11.48\00:52:14.38
you are dead to sin.
00:52:14.41\00:52:15.47
Whenever I am tempted, we
all get tempted that is normal.
00:52:15.50\00:52:18.19
That's the neuro pathways
kicking in and our old habits
00:52:18.22\00:52:20.84
that are built into our nervous
system, when that comes up
00:52:20.88\00:52:23.44
don't fight it just simply
say hey God said I am dead and
00:52:23.47\00:52:26.00
I can't do it. - I have
victory here. - exactly!
00:52:26.03\00:52:28.65
God gave me the
victory and I'm dead.
00:52:28.68\00:52:29.90
Dead people can't get angry.
00:52:29.93\00:52:31.48
Dead people
can't smoke marijuana.
00:52:31.52\00:52:33.45
Did people can't look
at pornography, I am dead.
00:52:33.49\00:52:36.35
The third part is Romans
13:14 God says don't make
00:52:36.38\00:52:39.21
provision for the flesh.
00:52:39.25\00:52:40.26
My flesh wants alcohol, tobacco,
my flesh wants lust, my flesh
00:52:40.30\00:52:43.18
wants whatever, I had to
get rid of the things that feed
00:52:43.22\00:52:45.55
my flesh, that is my
part to cooperate with God.
00:52:45.59\00:52:47.50
So when I realize the steps
to victory are literally that
00:52:47.54\00:52:50.63
simple where I accept the
victory and I'm dead to whatever
00:52:50.66\00:52:53.08
I am tempted to how I say
God I'm dead but thank you for
00:52:53.12\00:52:55.53
giving me the victory and
you walk on the word of God
00:52:55.56\00:52:57.94
and that also
changes everything.
00:52:57.98\00:53:00.35
Does that make sense?
00:53:00.39\00:53:01.49
Again it is so simple and
we make it so complicated.
00:53:01.53\00:53:04.82
Like that is basic psychology
how else can you put it.
00:53:04.86\00:53:08.08
What is interesting because
it is so simple and basic and
00:53:08.11\00:53:11.95
all that stuff, but I believe,
and tell me what you think
00:53:11.99\00:53:15.24
about this, I believe there
is a part of me that so didn't
00:53:15.27\00:53:18.55
want to give something up
that I would sabotage myself.
00:53:18.59\00:53:21.83
I had to come to the
place where I thought,
00:53:21.87\00:53:24.78
God it is me isn't it? I
sabotaged it, I get my security
00:53:24.81\00:53:29.92
here and this is where I feel
empowered and You are asking me
00:53:29.96\00:53:32.71
to give it up.
00:53:32.74\00:53:33.91
I may give up three of
these things but I'm holding two
00:53:33.95\00:53:35.57
and wondering why
am still defeated.
00:53:35.60\00:53:37.56
It's like those other two,
God says I will stay with you
00:53:37.59\00:53:40.91
until you can feel safe
enough, secure enough that you
00:53:40.94\00:53:44.22
will give Me the other two.
00:53:44.26\00:53:45.36
Because I want your
life to be victorious.
00:53:45.39\00:53:47.33
But we do hold on to
things and it's absolutely
00:53:47.36\00:53:51.06
unbelievable, to me,
how much I sabotage myself,
00:53:51.10\00:53:55.01
but I'm done. The day you
said I am done this is the
00:53:55.05\00:53:58.89
greatest day of your life
because that's when God can say
00:53:58.93\00:54:01.78
are right now I can
do something for you.
00:54:01.82\00:54:03.37
It's like a person
praying for victory and they are
00:54:03.41\00:54:07.41
constantly breaking God's law,
God operates on fixed laws and
00:54:07.44\00:54:09.68
I let go of this book, it falls
down every time because a law
00:54:09.72\00:54:11.92
called gravity and it is
the same thing with our minds.
00:54:11.96\00:54:14.81
If I'm watching 42 hours of
TV filled with glorification
00:54:14.84\00:54:17.66
of sin and crime,
profanity, immorality, nudity,
00:54:17.70\00:54:20.52
and all these other
things and listening to murder
00:54:20.56\00:54:23.32
mysteries, or reading murder
mysteries, and listening to
00:54:23.35\00:54:25.77
country and Western
music, the most depressing
00:54:25.80\00:54:27.03
music in the world.
00:54:27.07\00:54:28.20
Like all this stuff if I'm
filling my mind with nothing
00:54:28.23\00:54:30.99
but negativity sin and
evil I can pray tell the cows
00:54:31.03\00:54:33.19
come home and there is
nothing God can do for me.
00:54:33.23\00:54:35.32
If we can't lie to ourselves
and say why isn't God helping
00:54:35.36\00:54:39.23
me? God is just saying I
so want to help and I have to
00:54:39.27\00:54:43.11
say the law of
time, we're out of time.
00:54:43.14\00:54:45.22
I love having you on the show,
but I want to continue this
00:54:45.26\00:54:50.11
because the law of reaping
what we sow is so evident.
00:54:50.15\00:54:56.01
When I waste time, when I
watch TV and put it all those
00:54:56.05\00:55:01.88
images and do
that kind of stuff.
00:55:01.91\00:55:03.77
When I watch the news every
single day and am bombarded my
00:55:03.80\00:55:07.23
mind with all the stress and
I wonder why I'm stressed and
00:55:07.27\00:55:11.48
miserable and God is saying
I know, owh, owh just ask Me.
00:55:11.52\00:55:15.70
Because I'm miserable
when you keep putting this in,
00:55:15.73\00:55:18.43
and you have to
trust Him, trust Him.
00:55:18.46\00:55:20.70
Fast On your television.
00:55:20.74\00:55:22.90
Fast on all the stuff
that is negative in your head.
00:55:22.94\00:55:26.71
Fast on all that just for a
few days and see what happens.
00:55:26.74\00:55:29.88
We will be right back and
I want you to stay with us
00:55:29.92\00:55:32.17
because we are not done
yet, we'll be right back.
00:55:32.20\00:55:34.42
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00:55:43.27\00:55:46.64
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It is incredible to me
that the choice really is mine.
00:56:22.30\00:56:26.21
God made it that way and I
don't want to say that in some
00:56:26.25\00:56:29.74
way that it is all about
us, but God gave us the ability
00:56:29.77\00:56:34.68
to choose, gave us the
ability to be healthy or not and
00:56:34.71\00:56:38.76
He respects that and says
that if something is not working
00:56:38.79\00:56:41.82
for you, like we have
talked about in this whole show,
00:56:41.85\00:56:44.84
figure it out.
00:56:44.88\00:56:46.02
Sit down and write
until you can't write anymore.
00:56:46.05\00:56:49.01
Until you get a picture of
what it is in front of you that
00:56:49.05\00:56:52.65
is not working and
then choose different.
00:56:52.69\00:56:55.32
Literally choose
different, every part of it.
00:56:55.36\00:56:57.93
When I first got into recovery
and decided that I'm going
00:56:57.96\00:57:01.62
to eat better, I'm going to
get more fluids in, I'm going
00:57:01.65\00:57:05.15
to try to get all these toxins
out of myself and I started
00:57:05.18\00:57:08.65
feeling better and it
was, oh man this is cool.
00:57:08.68\00:57:11.57
When I started in my mind
getting rid of the things that
00:57:11.60\00:57:14.89
I am no good, not wanted,
nobody loves me and that stuff,
00:57:14.92\00:57:18.17
you know what
that is so not true.
00:57:18.21\00:57:20.18
If you are out there and you
are my friend I thank you for
00:57:20.21\00:57:22.97
loving me, I have people all
around the world that love me
00:57:23.00\00:57:26.05
and I would have never allowed
that to happen if I were to
00:57:26.09\00:57:29.10
operate in my
old beliefs system.
00:57:29.14\00:57:30.87
So if you are struggling with
that, you have to trust what
00:57:30.91\00:57:34.97
Leo had to say today.
00:57:35.00\00:57:36.58
Trust the fact that you can
make decisions, that you can
00:57:36.61\00:57:39.63
set different goals, you
can believe different things
00:57:39.67\00:57:42.65
about yourself and
the world around you.
00:57:42.69\00:57:44.49
You can actually get up
and shut the TV off, not 3ABN!
00:57:44.52\00:57:48.85
But you can shut the TV off
and say to yourself that I no
00:57:48.88\00:57:53.03
longer am going to let my
mind get flooded by whatever.
00:57:53.07\00:57:56.75
I'm going to start checking
what comes in and what goes
00:57:56.79\00:57:59.97
out and I'm not going to be
critical, I'm not going to be
00:58:00.00\00:58:03.04
angry, I'm going to start
really paying attention to that.
00:58:03.08\00:58:06.26
I'm going to bring my
shoulders down and relax because
00:58:06.29\00:58:09.44
my life is different
today because God said so.
00:58:09.47\00:58:12.20
I love that, God says so and
all I have to do is to accept
00:58:12.24\00:58:15.68
it and accept it in a way
that will change everything.
00:58:15.71\00:58:19.17
Until next time, always
remember that God is crazy about
00:58:19.20\00:58:23.10
you and always remember I
am too, bye and God bless!
00:58:23.13\00:58:26.99