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Hello, this is Bill Winston. I'm inviting you to the Business and Leadership Conference that we have every year, and this one is going to be on March 21st and 22nd right here at Living Word Christian Center. Now, this is more than a conference. This is an experience. We've had speaking speakers from all over the world. Not only that, we have people from all over the world that you can network with. And this is what we want to do. Why? Because we want to give you new ideas, fresh relationships so that you not only can start businesses, but that you can scale them. So if you're looking for that business anointing, you're looking to get some innovative ideas. This is a conference for you. It's the Business and Leadership Conference 2025. It's time for us, the people of God, to get into that flow. You are anointed for business. I'll see you here. That's March 21st, 22nd, right here at Livingwood Christian center in Forest Park, Illinois. I will see you here. God bless you and keep walking by faith.
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Faith, we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. So you can see stuff that's not seen. And when I meditated that scripture, I meditated that scripture until the point that I could see something that other folk couldn't see. And when you can see something other.
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Folk can't see, you can go somewhere other folk can't go. You can do something other folk can't do. You can talk like something other folk can't talk.
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Like when you step over into faith, you can't feel anything. The only thing you have to guide you is the word of God and the spirit of God. And he'll tell you exactly what to do. Now what you have to do is you have to be persuaded that what you're about to do, what God says to do, and that it will yield you a result. Now, the way you get there, of course, is you got to step out. Somebody always said, well, what if I'm wrong? Well, what if you're right? You know, I mean, whatever you've been doing all this time, how's that been working for you? Dr. Phil said, well, how's that working for you? Yeah, I think the kind of souls that he wants us to win, the kind of leverage that he wants us to have in our cities and in this nation, the kind of things that he wants us to do faith is the only way you're going to do it. And faith is not a feeling. You can't feel faith. That's why everybody's not teaching it. Drop down. If you get into faith, I'm going to tell you, it's the master key to everything else happening in your life inside this Bible. God does nothing apart from faith. Not anything. I mean, they can say Kumbaya, whatever they want to sing. God, he does nothing apart from faith. So I just made up my mind. I'm not going to walk by faith. I'm going to teach it. I'm going to teach it. I'm going to teach people how to get to where I am.
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Amen.
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Now, Brother Copeland, Sister Copeland got their faith. Brother Jerry, all of them got their faith. But what about my faith? I got to develop my faith. I can't live on somebody else's faith. And it's amazing how people want you to use your faith, but they don't want to have no faith.
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And people get jealous because of airplanes and old folks.
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All that came by faith.
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Do you know the devil is not.
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Giving children of God airplanes?
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He is trying to block every door.
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He can to keep you from that airplane.
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Because he knows when you get in.
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It, you're going to talk about it.
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Say amen.
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You gonna have a witness to it, folks. So I'm just saying God has precious promises for his people, but they can only be received by faith. Now, whenever you go after them in faith, going to have a fight.
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But if you don't quit.
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Come on.
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He preached it the other day. If you don't quit, you win. See, you can't go up against Satan.
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In the natural because he's using spiritual forces to win. He's using spiritual. All you have to do is go back and look at Exodus, chapter seven. You look down there at Moses. Here's Moses. He told Moses, go down there and set the children of Israel free. He had to go down there. And the first people that came against him was his own people. But then he got in front of Pharaoh. Pharaoh said, well, show me a miracle. Well, God already told him. Pharaoh gonna ask for that. Why? Because Pharaoh's doing some stuff. Why? Using them sorcerers. And he's using sorcerers today. That's why people many times can't think right.
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See, you gonna have.
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You're gonna hear that you're gonna have to receive your thoughts by faith. Can I show you that? Can I show you that? Look at James, chapter one, and I think it's verse five. James, chapter one, verse five. If any of you lack wisdom, let them ask of God. That giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. But let him ask, how in faith. What? Nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like the wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. See now. Wisdom. Wisdom.
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All right.
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One of the things the Bible says In Matthew, chapter 13, verse 54, it said about Jesus. They talked about him. They said, how does this man have this wisdom and these mighty works? Got it? Now, Jesus being who he is, a lot of times people think, well, he's God. He can do it. No, no, no, no. He is a sample son. I know he is the Son of God. He is a sample son. He. He came to show you how you and the first Adam was operating. So he had to use wisdom as well to do what he did. Because the wisdom is the thing that instructs you. Stay with me.
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Stay with me.
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I'm praying now. Brother Copeland mentioned meditation. Meditation. I have it in my notes here. Powerful, powerful thing of God. What does it do? It transforms your belief in an accelerated manner. It's the missing link. So says David Oyedepo to the Christian faith. It's a missing link. Today I've got a tape of his that I have a CD that I played from track 4 to track 8. Must have been almost 30 times. See, I just needed that right there, because that's what I'm going through right now. Jerry Savelle. Jerry Savelle taught a teaching on seedtime and harvest. I got that teaching. And I was at IBM. I had tried to leave IBM. I tried several times to leave. Each time I tried to leave, the time that I was going to leave would come and go. Why? Because they was paying me every two weeks, and I was getting a fat check. And I'd say, hey, and what happened? I got that teaching. And in it he talked About Mark, chapter 10, verses 29 and 30. There is no man that's left house, mother, father, sister, brother. Lands for my sake in the Gospels, but he shall receive a hundredfold. Now, in this time, what did I do? I just didn't hear it. One time I took it and put it in my mouth, in my eyes, in my ears, and in my. I began to meditate it day and night. Meditated day and night. One day, on coming down University Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota, it.
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Boom.
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Went off like a light. I went. And they didn't have cell phones at that time. I pulled over the end of the off the road, and I called my wife. I said, baby, I'm leaving IBM. She said, well, praise the Lord. Now. Now, here's the deal. What happened with meditation? I allowed the Holy Ghost to paint a picture on my soul of a glorious future. Now, you better write that down. I allow the Holy Ghost to paint a picture on my soul of a glorious future. See, you are not to go where you can't see. Is this the right bunch I'm talking to? You are not to go where you can't see. Look what he says in Genesis and chapter 13. Please. Genesis, chapter 13. This is not the way I was going to go, but I got to go the way I'm going. Flow. Okay, all right. Genesis, chapter 13 and verse 14. And the Lord said unto Abram, after that, Lot was separated from him. Now, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Lot was separated from him? Well, if you look at the verses before that, Lot calls strife. And strife will keep you from sin. See, it's a work of the flesh, and flesh keeps you out of the spirit. So you got to get rid of strife. No strife in my home. No strife, people. I heard Brother Copeland say that strife is like dropping a rattlesnake in a baby's crib. It is a sure killer. It'll try to wipe out your plans, wipe out anything that you got. Get rid of the strife. The Bible says, settle it with your adversary. What? Quickly. He took Lot. He said, lot, let there be no strife between us. What do you want if you want the right side? Right.
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Land.
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That land over there. I'll take the left. If you want the left, I'll take the right. Well, what did Lot do? Because he's in the flesh. He picked the right, okay?
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And as a result of that, he.
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Ended up down there in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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You'll know about that.
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But my point to you is, Abraham knew power of God was on his life.
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He could go to any land. Come on, help me. Now he can go to any land.
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And make it yield and prosper.
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But look what he says.
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He said, after that, Lot was separated from them. Lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are. Northward, southward, eastward and westward. For all the land which you see, and to thee will I give it. And to thy seed forever. All the land you what see? He's not talking about natural lives. 2nd Corinthians 4. 4 says, Satan comes to do what? Blind the mind of them that believe not so all I got to do is see it called Revelation. And the Bible says in Second Corinthians, chapter four and verse 18, while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen. So you can see stuff that's not seen. And when I meditated that scripture, I meditated that scripture until the point that I could see something that other folk couldn't see. And when you can see something other.
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Folk can't see, you can go somewhere other folk can't go. You can do something other folk can't do.
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You can talk like something other folk.
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Can'T talk like, because you're not designed.
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To go where you can't see. Well, that's blind faith. Ain't no blind faith. Ain't no such faith can see.
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Say amen.
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So I meditated that scripture, and next thing you know, a glorious future came up. Now watch this. It wasn't in the physical yet, but what happens with meditation, it makes what you see on the inside more real than what's happening to you on the outside. What's inside of you becomes bigger than anything outside. This whole idea of meditation and what we've learned, we just can't hear it one time, but we got to meditate it how long? Day and night. Now, where is that found? Where is that found? Joshua 1 8. Come on over there. Come on over there. Joshua 1 8. Joshua 1 8. I want these promises to be in your life. And I decree from this meeting they're going to be in your life. I decree a turnaround in your life.
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I decree what's been held back is.
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Going to be released.
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I decree what's been stolen going to be returned.
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Look what he says here. Verse 8. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night. That thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Now, I want you to see this, because a lot of people are putting it up to God to make them successful.
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No, he's finished.
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I said he's finished. Look what this says. This book of the law. The word of God shall not depart out of your mouth, but thou shall. What?
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Meditate. Meditate?
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To ponder. Meditate means to ponder. Hmm. Now, we do that in the negative, called worry.
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Hmm?
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We're not worrying this time. We gonna meditate on the word. It means to confess. It means to speak. It means softly speak. If you look in the Scriptures. You'll see in Psalm 119 and verse 97. Oh, how I love thy Lord is my meditation all the day through your commandments. You may be wiser than my enemies, for they are with me. He's not talking about his enemies ever with him. Look it up in the Amplified. He said, thy word is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditations. It's powerful stuff. David was a meditator. See, I checked David out. David was about my size. He's about a little bit taller than me. Don't hate, participate. Yeah, but he was a meditator. And look what this scripture says in Joshua. Now, I'm not done with that. Joshua 1:8. He said, Thou shall meditate in my word day and night. That thou mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein. For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous. Thou shalt have good success. Now let's see. Each time the scriptures are talking about, you, put your first name in it.
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Are you ready?
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This book of the law shall not depart from out of your mouth. But thou shall. Thou mean you. Let me put my name in there. Bill shall meditate therein day and night. That Bill mayest observe to do according to all that's written therein. For then Bill shall make his way prosperous, and Bill shall have good success. Now, I just told you, you don't need to achieve. You need to receive. God never asked you to get rid of anything. He asked you to receive something. If you receive, healing sickness will go.
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Am I right about this?
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Every time it's received, this book, this word is powerful enough to get rid.
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Of anything that's in your life that's.
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Not supposed to be there.
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Isn't that good?
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So I learned this meditation. What do I have to do?
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Time God came to me, said, pastor.
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Winston came from Africa speaking pulpit. Your airplane in Ecclesiastes, chapter 10. And then he went back preaching. What do you think I did?
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Ecclesiastes, chapter 10.
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Now, that word is Ecclesiastes, not Ecclesiastics. Ecclesiastes.
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Okay, now going over to chapter 10.
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I found chapter 10, and I read it one time. I didn't see anything about airplane. Read it again. I didn't see anything about airplane. Now watch this. Now I read it again. Then the Holy Ghost showed me. It says in verse 20, a bird of the air shall carry your voice.
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Wow. Wow.
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Now what am I doing?
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I can't have something outside that I.
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Don'T first have inside. Got it? God can't give you things that you don't believe. Now somebody else can pray for you. But God says if thou can believe, thou will see the glory of God. Or if thou can believe, all things come on. Are possible. So I got to believe now. What are I talking about?
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My head can't believe.
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This thing can be programmed. But you got to believe. So how do I believe I can take this word and meditate it? Why? Because we all come into the kingdom with ungodly thought patterns. So now God is going to change my thinking and he's going to change it with me doing this meditation. As I do the meditation, God himself begins to form on the inside of me. Something different than what I see. I'm telling you how to get your stuff. I'm telling you how to get your stuff. Because in here God says, I've got houses for you.
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Deuteronomy, chapter 6. He said, I've got houses. Do you need a house? See, I'm telling you. Your job is to receive. Everything you'll ever need has been already paid for. I'm going to say that one more time. Everything. Folks.
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I heard Brother Copeland say it yesterday. I don't know how many people caught it. He said you should be a walk in supply house. Why? Because everything's in the kingdom. And where is the kingdom?
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It's in me.
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I'm a walking supply.
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See, I saw something when I read.
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And meditated on numbers. Chapter 13. When they came back and gave the report, they said we saw them down that by the seaside and we saw them up in the mountains.
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Well, that's just you. That's your house by the sea. Your house up in Denver in Colorado. Your house. See now don't hate. I didn't say that. God said it. I even ran across the scriptures that.
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Said, you shall ride prosperously.
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Man. That means every time you get in.
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The car it's supposed to start.
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Am I right? They were going into a land of giants. Giant. Giant houses they didn't have. How can a giant fit into a little old skinny bathroom? Can't no giant get in here. No giant get in there. Giants need some rope. Now you can sit down there and make fun of me if you want.
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To, but I'm going to tell you the truth.
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I said I'm going to tell you the truth.
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And the truth is going to make you free.
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We going to sit here and let the heathen live all comfortably. And come on now, when God says, I'm giving you this Stuff. Look what it says over here in.
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Psalm chapter 105, please. And verse 44. And gave them the lands of the heathen, and they inherited the labor of the people.
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I saw the word gave. Come on over here. Look, look here. I'm giving you something to meditate. Cause if you meditated, the Holy Spirit's job is to paint that picture on your soul. And if your soul prospers, you gonna prosper.
Bill Winston
Well, praise the Lord. I trust that you enjoyed that teaching, cultivating strong faith. I mean, strong faith. You know, a lot you can do with strong faith. Amen. So I talk about meditation here. And this is powerful because this is when I really learned to get my provisions, things that God has sent Jesus to die and provide. These things were for me. They had been paid for. He paid for them with his precious blood. But I had to see it first. See, seeing is believing. He told Joshua. See, I've given into your hand, Jericho. We got to see it. Well, meditation is a way that you bring it into that spiritual sight that you make it become real. Now, we know that that's not the real deal. In other words, physically, it doesn't exist. But you can meditate so much until that which is invisible becomes more real than that which you can see with your natural eyes. So that's why you can meditate something and override what's physically existing right now. Yeah, you could. What happens is people meditate the wrong thing. You know, meditate their kid getting in trouble.
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You know, all of that.
Bill Winston
You can't do that. Your mind wasn't made for that. It was made to meditate. God's word. So I needed an airplane, and so I had to meditate. This. Ecclesiastes, chapter 10, verse 20. A bird of the air is carrying my voice. I had the commercial, couldn't meet my schedule, so I needed transportation and I meditated that thing till that airplane became so real. I'm telling you, I saw myself getting in that airplane while I was laying in the bed. So I'm saying it became so real. And next thing you know, that manifested. So that's God's way. He's got all these things for you. But seeing is believing. Once you see it, you can get it. You can't go where you can't see. You're just not made to do that. Put a blindfold in your eyes and try to get around. You can't do it. So you see it with the eye of your spirit. And then once you see it, you can grab it. It will become a reality. Get that tape. It's powerful. I'm telling you. That's at the Southwest Believers Convention. We had a great time, so get it today. Well, that's all we have for this time. We'll see you next time. Until then, keep walking by faith.
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Release Date: March 9, 2025
Host: Bill Winston (with guest/co-speakers)
Episode Theme: Cultivating and unleashing strong, actionable faith through biblical meditation, vision, and the power of God's promises.
In this inspiring episode, Bill Winston and his guests dive deep into the practical dynamics of strong faith. The discussion centers on how believers can move beyond surface-level faith, cultivate a robust spiritual perspective, and utilize meditation to manifest God's promises in their lives. The episode features real-life testimonies, scriptural breakdowns, and engaging teachings on the necessity of "seeing" in the spirit before walking in the physical.
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The episode is energetic, conversational, and faith-filled. Winston and his guests mix humor, practical insight, and passionate teaching, all while emphasizing direct biblical engagement and the practical application of scripture.
Final Note:
This episode is a compelling encouragement for anyone wanting to strengthen their faith, see transformation, and walk in the fullness of God’s promises. The recurring principle: see it before you seize it, with meditation as the bridge.