Soul Food
Soul Food
TDV: Are Your Words Building or Breaking You? (EP 4)
Bad news can sound final—until a stronger voice speaks. We start with an honest look at how health anxiety is fueled by endless searching... A powerful testimony hits home. A young woman moves from self-harm and hidden shame to steady joy! By the end, you’ll understand how to choose the voices in your life, face reports with courage, and practice a faith that turns burdens into breakthroughs. If this spoke to you, follow the show, share it with someone who needs hope today, and leave a review to help more people find these messages. Your voice helps spread faith, strength, and truth.
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SPEAKER_03:Hello, dear friends! Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. We continue here with our series series of messages about the voice of the devil. And today I want to talk about your body, your health. When you go to see a doctor, physicians, when you talk to friends about the health problem that you are facing. And nowadays people do not even go to see a doctor. They check it on the internet over the internet. Because nowadays people can Google, they are now asking questions to uh computers, robots, AI. And they they drink these informations and they become sick and sicker. Well I'm not saying doctors, physicians, they are not from God. God use doctors, physicians, but I'm talking about you, the voice that you hear. You know, some people die not due to a disease, but they die due to the words that they hear. When they go to see a doctor and they do tests, blood works, blood tests, CAT scan, MRI, X-rays, they see stuff, they see uh virus, they see lamps, they see cysts, they see over there ice parts, a mass, so in thing they see, and when they bring these reports, this report to the patient, a person dies inside immediately because they hear what the doctors are saying or what the tests are showing. Well, there were two sisters, and these two sisters they had their mother, the mother was healthy, she was strong, she felt nothing, no pain, and she went to do the annual, the annual checkup, and the daughters were told, your mom has cancer, she has cancer, and they said, How come she has nothing? She doesn't feel anything, and then the daughter said, We're not going to tell mom she has cancer because she's healthy, there is nothing to be done. The doctor said, There is nothing to be done. But one of the daughters decided to call the mother and tell her mother she had cancer, though she felt nothing, from that moment on, she got sick and sick and sick and she died. But the doctor had said she had cancer for a long, long time. So she did not die with the cancer, but with the word that she heard. Well, the Bible talks about Jairus. He had a daughter, a young baby, 12 years old, a teenage, and she got sick. Jairus left the house and he heard about Jesus, and he went to bring Jesus. Now, as Jesus was coming, there was a woman who had uh been sick, and that woman thought Jesus and she was healed from the disease, and along the way Jesus was assisted many people. Bottom line, when Jesus came on the way, that says, while he was still speaking, someone came from the ruler of the synagogue's house, from Jairus' house, saying, Your daughter is dead. That was the voice of the devil. The voice of the devil said, Your daughter is dead. Maybe you are told, there is no cure, you need a surgery, you are going to take medication for the rest of your life. The voice of the devil, your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher, don't trouble the teacher. But Jesus heard it, Jesus heard that voice, the voice of the devil, and he answered him, saying, Do not be afraid, only believe, and she'll be made well. Only believe, she will be made well. When Jesus came into the house, and Jesus said, She's not dead, but sleeping, the voice of the devil again, they ridiculed him, knowing that she was dead, was dead for them, but not for Jesus. And Jesus took her by the hand and said, Little girl, arise. I mean, little girl, arise. And the spirit returned and she arose immediately. Well, be careful the voice that you hear, especially concerning your health. Okay, if they found the disease, they found it shows on the on the tests, the exams, fine. Go to the altar, personal your healing, because this probably will be your next testimony. Physically speaking, she was sick, physically she died, but not for the faith, not for Jesus. And this is the word. Do not be afraid, only believe. God bless you. Tomorrow again, we are going to continue with this message. The voice of the devil. Don't hear his voice. Hear the voice of God only. God bless you. Bye-bye.
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SPEAKER_07:Soften up the mess, drop it in the water. Let the daughter find the image with the rest. She'll be learning how to breathe. Spinning through identity, reveal another pretty little scheme. Save her mind. Hold the head. And don't believe all you understand me. Walking down the valley, I can feel survival for the bottoms of a feet. Teach you how to jump and how to stretch what you reach. Like the angels do, and you're gon make it through now. Tell about the healer. Greater is a war within a call as a leader. Teach her how to hold a pretty handle to the sky. And ever wait upon the giver. How deliver like a dealer?
SPEAKER_06:Fly out the valley in the fire. Take her.
SPEAKER_07:Train her feet for running. Show her every door and how the windows let the sun in. Copy out the key and tell her this is for becoming. Even in the fever, baby, cry and get to running. And tell her that you better get your bootstraps up. You're with the arm. Ready when the truth acts up, nothing can harm me. Yelling from the roof, I'll touch, put up a garden. Count to ten, lions dead. Speaking with a higher pen. Can't be touched by fire than to the grown things now. I'm working on them soft things now. Forgiving all your old ways. But it's harder on the cold days. Never been a product of a fall of this environment. Never acted like I'm higher than each.
SPEAKER_02:I watched a TV show. And it showed a girl cutting herself. And then the message, of course, was supposed to be You can't you shouldn't cut yourself because it's bad. But then it stayed inside of my head how when she cut herself, she got a lot of attention, and that's what I wanted. But then afterwards, because it left marks, it it built more of a low self-esteem and insecurity. That was when I was maybe 12, 13. And then when I saw that it left marks, and then you want to be, then you want to have boyfriends, you want to be with guys, you're like, they're gonna think I'm weird because I have this. So then it turned into like hitting like just like the walls, hitting the doors like with my fists, and that was another way to not leave marks. Since I was little, I always remember having that status inside of me. I can't I can't tell you about time that I didn't have it. But yeah, I always remembered having it. So I thought that was normal. Like it was an emptiness, but also it was like a pain that like like it would, it was like someone was squeezing my heart. That's what it would feel like. Tried to get like count like counseling, but I felt really embarrassed. Like when I had to tell, when I had to tell my mom what was going on, I felt like like a really bad child, like a bad daughter. So I decided to not do any of the counseling. My 20th birthday, and I was alone in my room, and I was just really sad, and I didn't know why. And then that was that was when I decided to give my life to God. I have an older sister, and she went to church after um she was having problems in her life, and she decided to go to church when she was uh 17, 18. I was I'm younger than her, so I saw her go to church, but I wouldn't want to go to church. So when after a couple of years, after I saw her testimony and how she changed, that's that was another reason why I decided to go. Because I saw that she overcame a lot of the a lot of her past. I was going to church for a couple of months already, but I didn't see a change because I was still um I was also addicted to like technology, like I would have watched a lot of TV shows, and so I wouldn't like I wouldn't invest. I already knew that like okay, I needed to I need to give my life to God. First, I would go on Sundays, and then I started to go every I would go Monday, I would go Wednesday, I would go Friday, and I would go Sunday. They talked about being a youth of God, and they said that a youth of God goes to YPG, and a youth of God has the Holy Spirit. So then that's when I was like, okay, then I want to be a youth of God because I don't want to depend on other people. I want to I want to be independent pretty much because I was tired of needing people and things to be happy. When I went to the chains of prayer on Fridays, I noticed that it was easier to say no to my flesh. I and I started to have a desire to do the things of God, like reading the Bible. It was really hard for me to read the Bible, to do a fast, I wasn't able to uh I wasn't able to fast. I I would always break it. And then starting to go on the Fridays for deliverance, that was when I was able to, I was able to have that desire inside of me to seek God. During the Fast of Daniel, I always I would do the church's Fast of Daniel, and I would have my own Fast of Daniel. So even if the church wasn't doing one, I would do one as a purpose for myself. So during the Fast of Daniel, I would read more the Bible, I would pray more, but I removed my head from wanting to be in the world. So when thoughts came inside of my head, you know, to um to to want to go out, I wouldn't, I wouldn't go out. When thoughts came inside of my head, you know, um, you know, go back to doing the things that you used to do, I would say no. I would try to, I would read the Bible, but I wouldn't want to be alone, or else the the devil would try to tempt me. So I would go, I would be in the living room, I would speak to my mom, I would do things with my sisters, I would spend time with them, I would try to just fill my head with things that were of God, is and that would help me. Well, when I received the Holy Spirit, it was on a Friday, and it was during a visual that the that the pastor was was having. And I was so I had my I had my encounter with God, my experience with God, and God confirmed inside of me that I received his spirit, but then I left really happy, and a desire that grew inside of me was to is to save souls and also to to have a communion with God. I think that's one of the the biggest things that I saw, the change inside of me. Before I was a person who didn't want anything to I didn't want anything to do with God, and also with helping other youths that went through the same situation, or even worse, that I that what I went through, you know, to make the to make to show them that having a relationship with God is not something boring, but it's something that that that changes your life. Today I can say that I'm a completely different person. Um and it was through all of the sacrifices that I made. If I didn't sacrifice you my flesh, you know, what I what I wanted to do. You want to hang out, you want to have friends, you want to go party, you don't want to have rules, you don't want to live, you know, of a religion. But when I let go of that thought that a life with God that is that's religion, it's a way of life. It's it's something more than that, it's uh intimacy that you have with him, you know, not with the pastors, not with the bishops, not with the assistants, but it's just you and him. I don't come myself anymore. I don't need um to have a relationship with people to make me uh be happy. The people around me, they add on to my happiness, but they're not my happiness. And I don't need of anything.
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