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- Hey, it's Terri,
your cheerleader of dreams.
Today, I wanna talk to you about how to wake up positive
and break your negative thinking.
Now, here's the thing about negative and positive thinking,
your mind believes whatever you tell it.
You are the most influential voice in your life,
and when you constantly entertain negative thoughts,
it could become your new reality.
So I wanna share a shocking story with you
about the power of negative thoughts,
and it will literally send chills up your spine.
But first I wanna do something positive,
I wanna do a giveaway.
I'm gonna give away three copies
of my daily devotional called "Live Your Dreams."
Now, this is a 90-day devotional
that will give you a quick pep talk every day
to just stay focused
and achieve every dream God put in your heart.
So here's all you need to do to enter the contest.
Number one is subscribe to this channel.
Number two, follow me on Instagram.
Number three, screenshot a photo of this podcast
and post it to your story.
Now, don't forget to tag me in it
so I can see who you are.
And I'm gonna choose three winners
and I'll announce them on my story on Instagram.
Does that sound good?
Okay.
Oh, and I already signed the copies.
So, let me just remind you real quick.
Number one, follow us on here,
subscribe to the channel,
follow me on Instagram,
screenshot a photo of the podcast,
and post it to your story.
Okay.
I was walking through the house the other day
and my husband had the news on,
and these statistics popped up
and this is what it said,
"Price of consumer goods has gone up 55%,
cost of housing and rent up 26%."
Then it said this,
"If you're thinking of a family vacation, think again.
It's vacation inflation.
Prices continue to increase."
And then it showed this,
"Hotels have gone up 22.6%,
airline fares, 33.3%,
car and truck rentals are up 10%."
And we all know gasoline is up over 44%.
Now, this is not a political channel.
I'm just pointing out that we are surrounded by negativity.
And when you check out at the grocery stores,
you hear all the mumbling and complaining,
and I get it.
It's not ideal right now.
But I also know how powerful negative thinking is
in keeping you stuck,
and it has the power to stop
what God wants to do in your life.
So I remember hearing a chilling story
about a guy who was trapped in a freezer.
Now, I would say no pun intended,
but I prefer my puns intended,
but this is really a sad, true story.
So listen to this.
A guy named Nick Sitzman
was a strong healthy, ambitious, young railroad yardman.
He had a reputation as a diligent hard worker,
a loving wife and two children.
One day, the train crews were informed
that they could quit an hour early
in honor of the foreman's birthday.
While performing one last check
on some of the railroad cars,
Nick was accidentally locked in a refrigerator boxcar.
When he realized that the rest of the workmen
had gone home for the night and left the site,
Nick began to panic.
He banged and shouted until his fists were bloody
and his voice was hoarse,
but no one heard him.
With his knowledge of the numbers...
Wait, I lost my place, hold on.
With his knowledge of the numbers and the facts,
he predicted the temperature in the boxcar
was zero degrees.
Nick's thought was,
"I can't get out of here.
And if I can't get out,
I'm gonna freeze to death."
Wanting to let his wife and family know
exactly what happened to him,
Nick found a knife and began to etch words
on the wooden floor.
This is what he wrote,
"It's so cold,
my body is getting numb.
If I could just go to sleep."
And then he said,
"This may be my last words."
The next morning,
the crew slid opened the heavy doors of the boxcar
and found Nick dead.
Listen to this.
An autopsy revealed that every physical sign of his body
indicated he had frozen to death.
And yet the refrigeration unit of the car was inoperative.
The temperature inside indicated 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
Nick killed himself by the power of his own thoughts.
I told you, it's chilling.
And the rest of that article said,
"You too, if you're not careful,
can kill yourself with your limiting thoughts.
Not all at once, like Nick Sitzman,
but little by little, day by day,
until you have slowly deadened your natural ability
to achieve your dreams."
Did that give you chills?
So I'm telling you,
your thoughts are powerful.
And when you get up in the morning saying things like,
"I am so tired,
I am literally exhausted."
You know what your mind hears?
It hears a command to remain tired,
sluggish, drained, exhausted.
In fact, Marianne Williamson,
she said, "You must master a new way to think
before you can master a new way to live."
Well, the good news is that you can change everything
with the little thing under your nose,
(laughs)
your mouth.
Your mouth is the tool that God has given us
to change the direction of your life.
So instead of using your words
to just describe how you feel,
now use your words to change how you feel.
You can literally do that.
Now, don't get me wrong,
you may still think it,
but don't speak it.
See, your self-talk creates your reality.
You know, Joyce Meyer said,
"It's not enough to stop saying the wrong things.
You have to start saying the right things."
So even when the world is constantly affirming
how bad things are,
you make a choice to get up each morning
and speak God's Word
and his benefits over your life.
And you might even say,
"Each morning, Terri, yes,"
because you are literally reprogramming
your subconscious mind
with your new positive, successful future.
Now, one of my favorite scriptures is Job 22:28.
Listen to this.
It says, "Thou shalt decree a thing
and it will be established unto you."
Notice it doesn't say, "it might, it could,"
No, it will be established.
Then it says this,
"And the light of God's favor will shine upon your ways."
Now, I wanna emphasize that word favor.
God's favor will shine upon your life.
Now, let me tell you what God's favor can do.
God's favor can give you advantages
that other people don't have.
It can open doors in your life
that you could never force open.
It can cause you to stand out
when there's no reason for you to stand out.
God will give you inspired ideas
that can produce great wealth.
God's favor can restore every single thing
the enemy has stolen from you.
Now, that's just a few things,
but here's a cool thing,
God's favor makes things happen to you or for you
that you could never make happen on your own.
You know, I've explained things,
like, you've probably heard me share the story
about the referee when he blows a whistle.
And you know, you see that referee
with the black-and-white, striped shirt
and he might be 5'7", 150 pounds,
but all of a sudden, he blows a whistle
and a 350-pound linebacker will stand at attention.
And you think,
"What kind of power does that little referee have
over that big linebacker?"
Well, that linebacker knows
that the moment that ref blows the whistle,
he's not coming in his own strength and power.
He has the entire NFL backing him up.
Well, see, that's what happens when you blow the whistle.
You call on the favor of God.
You now have all of heaven backing you up.
I'm telling you, the favor of God is so powerful.
One definition of God's favor is to endorse.
Now, see, if you ask someone to endorse your book,
you ask someone who has more influence
or a bigger following or an audience.
And when they put their name on your book,
it instantly gives you more credibility.
Let me give you a story real quick.
Have you ever heard of the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad"
by Robert Kiyosaki?
Now, you would have never heard of this book
because author Robert Kiyosaki,
he couldn't even find a publisher for it,
so he self-published it.
And guess how many books he sold?
48!
Four dozen books.
But what happened?
Somehow, he got invited on a little show
called "Oprah Winfrey."
She endorsed his book
and it sold 100,000 copies overnight.
It's now sold over 26 million copies.
Why?
Because he got endorsed by someone credible.
Well, see, the creator of the universe
is about to endorse you.
So I want you to get God's favor so ingrained in your mind
that you start expecting it everywhere you go.
Now, one way you start getting that mindset
of expecting God's favor
is you have to declare it every day.
So this week, I wanna give you one
of our most popular downloads.
I put a list of the 10 benefits of the favor of God
by my dad, Jerry Savelle,
as your free download this week.
He is an expert at teaching on God's favor
and how to walk in it.
And from studying the Bible,
he discovered this list of 10 benefits of the favor of God
that's available to you,
and it's all supported by scripture.
So I want you to get this list,
set a timer on your phone that says, "Favor,"
and just speak them out loud.
So just click the link in the description
and get your list today.
And I'm telling you,
my whole staff did this,
and they began to document their favorite stories,
and read them out loud in our team meetings,
and it was wild.
In fact, just recently the Lord put this back on my heart
during my prayer time.
And I've been speaking them out by memory
because we declared them for so long,
and I'm telling you, it has changed my circumstances.
Remember, your life today
is a result of the words you've spoken of yourself
up to now.
So every word you speak is a command.
So why not speak and command the favor of God
to go before you?
And don't forget,
I'll be cheering you on to live your dreams.
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