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I like to start with something funny and I heard about this man. He was driving through an intersection that was monitored by cameras.

If you ran the light or broke the law in any way, it would take your picture and you'd receive a ticket in the mail.

So he drove very slowly through the intersection. Made sure he didn't run the light but he noticed that the camera flashed.

He thought that's not right. He turned around, went back through the intersection even more slowly.

Once again, it took his picture. He said this thing is messed up. They can't give me a ticket. Out of spite, he went back through the intersection three more times.

Each time, waving at the camera with a big smile. A week later, he received five tickets in the mail for not wearing his seat belt.

Hold up your Bible and say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have.

I can do what it says I can do. Today, I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive.

I will never be the same in Jesus' name. God bless you. I want to talk to you today about meditating on what God says.

The word meditate means to think about over and over. Studies tell us that we talk to ourselves up to 30,000 times a day.

There is always something playing in our minds. We need to pay attention to what we are meditating on. Really meditating is the same principle as worrying.

When you worry, you are just meditating on the wrong thing. You are using your faith in reverse. If you go through the day, worried about your finances, worried about your family, worried about your future,

because you are allowing the wrong thoughts to play, it is going to cause you to be anxious, fearful, negative, discouraged. The whole problem is what you are choosing to meditate on.

Friends, you control the doorway to your mind. When those negative thoughts come knocking, you don't have to answer the door.

You can say no thanks. I am going to choose to meditate on what God says about me. Today, more than ever, there is a lot of doom and gloom.

If you watch the news very long, you can get depressed. The stock market, the economy, the debt crisis. One phrase I saw in several newspapers last week was total fear in the marketplace.

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