Set Your Eyes on The Prize 40 Day Way Day 2

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Set your eyes on the prize. I good people, Dr.

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Brad Miller here with you on the 40 day weigh in, I believe that

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you really can change your life in 40 days, this is day two of

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our 40 Day way. This is 40 life lessons based on life, have some

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stories to share in your life, some principles, some points to

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ponder and perspective and a couple of questions, a couple of

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action points for you to take. They're going to help you to

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eventually create your promise life plan. They help you move

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from wherever you're at right now, to go promise life a peace,

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prosperity, and purpose. Eyes on the prize. I can't help but

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think right now about what's going on in Ukraine with

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President Zelensky. And all the situation there in that part of

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the world where the Russians are attacking it just a horrible,

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horrible scene. But I'm so inspired by President Zelensky.

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And the people of Ukraine who have resolutely set their eyes

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on their prize, which is going to be freedom, and in their

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world and not to be oppressed by by Putin. And then impressive,

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it is to me, I also can't help but think about my own

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experiences in Russia. I've been to Russia on a couple of

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occasions. One of those times was in 1990. This is prior to

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the fall of communism. So this is kind of this is when it was

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the Soviet Union. And what I want to share with you was my

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own eyes on the prize moment, I was with a group of I was adult

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leader, a pastor leading a group of young people from all around

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teenagers, high school students from around the Midwest, to go

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to visit with schools and churches in Russia Soviet Union.

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On a mission is called bridges of peace. And we among the

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things we did, and this was the communist era, then was to take

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Bibles with us, you're allowed to take one Bible, but we chose

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to basically smuggle in our luggage. Hundreds of Bibles, the

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30 of us probably had 500 Bibles, which between us, many

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of them Russian language to share. It was illegal at the

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time. We knew going into this was a group of teenagers and

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adult leaders, five or six adult leaders we knew going in on the

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train from Finland to Russia, that we could be stopped and

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turned back. And one of the scariest and most intense

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moments of my life was being on the train station at the border

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between Finland and Soviet Union, Russia, where the Russian

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military guards got onto the train we were at. And with a

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click off rivals and everything and military garb, and they just

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like you're seeing in the news right right now. And they came

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into the train, we heard the higher doors clanging back and

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forth of this train that we were on. It was like a Doctor

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Zhivago. Everybody. Some of you remember that movie, Snow was

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flying. And it was weird. It was eerie. It was scary. And to see

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the soldiers come in to our compartments, and I was a

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problem with three teenage boys, just a small compartment. And

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they came in and they didn't eat, they did search all of our

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luggage. And we all had the Bibles are right there. But we

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were overlooked. We're led to go on. And here's the thing. We

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made a decision as a group, before we even left on the

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airplane to go to Russia, that we were going to follow through

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with this clearing Bibles in the Russia no matter what we

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resolved, we were going to do it no matter what the consequences.

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I was so proud of those young people. Everybody was there. And

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because we did it, didn't we? I share it on another occasion

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what happened when we're able to distribute some of those Bibles

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to people. That was my little story about some good things

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that happened even amidst some persecution, because there was a

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threat right there. And I can't tell you how impressed I am by

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the people of Ukraine, standing up to the threat, literally the

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bombs fall on their heads of Putin truly supported. Why?

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Because they have complete resolution to carry through in

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your life. You have to set your eyes on your prize. We talked

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yesterday in our first day about

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having a haven't been just kind of frustrated with our present

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state and needing to move on. But now you got to get on with

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it. You got to take the first steps and you got to go on

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towards what the prize is in your life with that promised

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life of peace, prosperity and peace Purpose, you can do it. I

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know you can. But you got to be motivated, you got to make it a

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gut wrenching thing. You got to get serious about it. So I'm

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that's my points to ponder is to get serious and get going and

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make it such a powerful emotional deal with you that you

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can't do anything else in the Bible that were the seeds we

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call lint, which run right now, among the things it's about the

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journey on to Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. And there's

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a story that says when Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, it says

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that he was persecuted. And there is other people who were

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rumors that people want to rescue him and things like this.

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But he says there it's in Luke 956. Jesus says, even though

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that he knew the time was near for him to be go to heaven, to

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be killed, to die, and to go to heaven. He says, it says that he

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resolutely set his eye towards Jerusalem. He resolutely did. He

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was resolute in that, which means he was determined he was

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going to do it no matter what. So my encouragement to you

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today, and the point to ponder is that you got to have no

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matter what attitude we're going to get this done no matter what,

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whatever your life change thing is, losing weight, getting your

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emotional life together, get your marriage together, and

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getting off of drugs or alcohol, getting your spiritual act

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together, whatever it is, maybe it's a relationship, deal,

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financial, there's all kinds of stuff going on health, all kinds

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of things, maybe you got people maybe you're involved with for

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birth, and the sense of, you know, people in Ukraine,

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whatever it is, hey, but you got to be resolved to get after it.

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Don't you think people right now and the whole world order coming

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together and resolving to help Ukraine, because they've seen

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the threat, they've seen the persecution, I just want to

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encourage you to do that for yourself to get serious. And to

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do these two things. Remember to get out your journal, write down

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a couple of things. These are your action points today. Here's

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the thing I want you to write down. What is breaking your

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heart right now? What is truly breaking your heart, I mean,

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breaking your heart to the point of emotional pain, because

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that's what's going to take it's going to take some emotional

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pain in order for you to be resolute to move forward. And

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then and that then the second part of this is, what are you so

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connected to what are you so involved with, you're willing to

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sacrifice for it? By sacrifice, I mean, even you know, to die

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for that. I mean, to just do your do whatever it takes and

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write it down? What breaks your heart? And what were you going

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to do no matter what, because you have to ramp up those type

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of things, you have to ramp up that feeling that gut level

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stuff to get serious in your life to have true change to take

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place. Especially if you're going to do it on a 40 day

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timeframe. That's what this is all about about ramping up

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everything in our life, expanding it magnified. And in

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order for profound life change to take place. You can do it. I

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know you can. This whole podcast, his whole thing I'm

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sharing here today is, is about how to transform in just 40 days

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to get you on track. And by the time we're done, you're going to

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have a document in hand. It's called a promise life plan.

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That's going to help you then to work this out. So I invite you

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to do that. My name is Dr. Brad Miller. You can find me my

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podcast beyond adversity at Dr. Brad Miller calm. And we will be

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here with you daily on the 40 day away. Podcast and teaching

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to help you to make incremental changes towards achieving your

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promise life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. And I

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know that you can do it. Dr. Brad Miller, God bless you. God

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loves you. Keep going, keep going and keep your eyes on the

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prize. So until next time, my good friends. Remember to always