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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's always a joy to come into your homes. And

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Speaker 2: if you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be

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Speaker 2: a part of one of our services. I'll promise you

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Speaker 2: we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for tuning in, and thank you again for coming

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Speaker 2: out today. And I'd like to start with something funny

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Speaker 2: and I heard about this pastor. He parked in a

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Speaker 2: no parking zone downtown in a large city. He left

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Speaker 2: a note on the windshield, said, officer, I've circled this

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Speaker 2: block ten times. If I don't park here, I'll miss

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Speaker 2: my appointment. In big letters, he wrote, forgive us our trespasses.

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Speaker 2: He returned to his car and had a ticket. The

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Speaker 2: officer had written him a note. It said, sir, I've

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Speaker 2: circled this block for ten years. If I don't give

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Speaker 2: you a ticket, I could lose my job. In big letters,

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Speaker 2: he wrote, lead us not into temptation. Hold up your Bible,

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Speaker 2: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about keep your crown. When God brethed his life into you,

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Speaker 2: he put a crown on your head. The Psalm is

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Speaker 2: called it a crown of glory and honor. This crown

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Speaker 2: represents your authority. It represents God's blessing and favor on

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Speaker 2: your life. It's a reminder that you're not average, not mediocre.

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Speaker 2: You a royalty. When you're wear in your crown, you'll

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Speaker 2: feel a sense of entitlement, thinking I have a right

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Speaker 2: to be blessed, I have a right to live in victory.

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Speaker 1: I have a right to overcome these challenges.

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Speaker 2: Not because I'm so great, so strong, so talented, but

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Speaker 2: because I'm wearing a crown of honor put there by

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Speaker 2: my creator. Your perception of yourself will determine what kind

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Speaker 2: of life you live. If you see yourself as being average,

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Speaker 2: you feel less than because of what somebody said, You

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Speaker 1: Because of past mistakes. That's going to limit your potential.

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Speaker 1: What's happening.

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Speaker 2: You're not wearing your crown, Jesus said in Revelation three.

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Speaker 2: Hold fast to what you have so that no one

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Speaker 2: can take your crown. Throughout life, there will always be

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Speaker 2: someone or something trying to take your crown. People talking

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Speaker 2: about you, trying to make you look bad, push you down.

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Speaker 2: What they're really doing is trying to get your crown.

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Speaker 2: Do yourself a favor, don't let them have it. Eleanor

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Speaker 2: Roosevelt said, no one can make you feel inferior with

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Speaker 1: Nobody can take your crown. You have to let go

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Speaker 1: of it. And somebody may say to you, well, you're

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Speaker 1: not that talented.

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Speaker 2: You'll never be successful. You can't start your own business.

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Speaker 2: Too often we think, yeah, you're right, I don't really

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Speaker 2: have what it takes. Look how long it's been. I'm

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Speaker 2: not as smart as my cousin. What's happening. You're letting

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Speaker 2: go of your crown when those thoughts tell you you're not

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Speaker 2: attractive enough. Just say no thanks, you're not taking my crown.

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Speaker 2: I know I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I know

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Speaker 2: I am one of a kind. Well, you'll never get

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Speaker 1: To your crown. Thoughts say, well, look at where you

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Speaker 2: You should be ashamed of yourself, the mistakes you've made,

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Speaker 2: I may have fallen, but look at me now. I

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Speaker 2: not going to let what somebody said, or who walked away,

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Speaker 2: They don't determine your value. They didn't breathe life into you.

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Speaker 2: God did, and he calls you a masterpiece. He says

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Speaker 2: That's why he put the crown of honor on your head.

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Speaker 2: It's to remind you who you are. But the mistake

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Speaker 2: Somebody says you're not that talented. Instead of saying no thanks,

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Speaker 2: You're not royalty, you come from the wrong family, you'll

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Speaker 2: it the time of day, we think, yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 2: What was I thinking? Let me take off my crown.

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Speaker 2: The enemy's main.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing he would love anymore than for you to

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Speaker 2: circumstances convince you that you don't deserve to be blessed.

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Speaker 1: You don't have what it takes. You've been through too much.

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Speaker 2: You can't feel good about yourself. Don't you dare give

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Speaker 1: It belongs to you.

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Speaker 2: It was put there by your creator. It has nothing

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Speaker 1: Look, what other people said.

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Speaker 2: It's based solely on the fact that you are a

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Speaker 2: and honor. I know a young man that loved to

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Speaker 2: But when he tried out for the school team, the

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Speaker 2: he was just looking at it in the natural. But

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Speaker 2: just because somebody doesn't believe in you, that doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: that has to stop your dream. The reason people don't

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Speaker 2: can't feel what you feel. God didn't put the dream

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Speaker 2: but the experts can be wrong. Keep your crown on,

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Speaker 2: keep believing, keep hoping, keep pursuing. You don't need everyone

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Speaker 2: When you're wearing your crown, God will open doors that

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Speaker 2: no man can shut. He'll help you accomplish what you

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Speaker 2: could not accomplish on your own. He wouldn't have put

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Speaker 1: This young man went home from school that day very discouraged.

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Speaker 2: His heart was set on playing baseball, but instead of

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Speaker 1: He wasn't good enough, he kept his crown on.

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Speaker 2: His attitude was the coach may say I'm too small,

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Speaker 1: He tried out and made that team.

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Speaker 2: He was excited about playing, even though he knew he

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Speaker 1: This young man was the picture on his team.

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Speaker 2: Although he was told he was too small, he struck

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Speaker 2: out batter after batter after batter, they went on to

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Speaker 1: What am I saying?

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Speaker 2: People don't determine your destiny. They don't know what's in you.

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Speaker 2: Don't take off your crown because somebody judged you by

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Speaker 1: You don't have to have them cheering you on.

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Speaker 2: Keep your crown on, keep being your best, honoring God,

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Speaker 2: and he will get you to where you're supposed to be.

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Speaker 2: Jesus said in the Book of John, your approval or

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Speaker 1: That's a powerful way to live.

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Speaker 2: He was saying, I know who I am, and nothing

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Speaker 2: Celebrate me, or you can crucify me, but I'm keeping

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Speaker 2: One moment, Jesus was riding a donkey into town. People

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Speaker 2: In a few days, those same people were hollering crucify him.

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Speaker 2: If you base wearing your crown on whether people like

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Speaker 2: You can be for me or against me. You can

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Speaker 2: I am a royalty, I am accepted, I am approved,

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Speaker 2: son Esau, your brother has carried away your blessing. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: what they say about us their disapproval. They're discouraging words

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Speaker 1: From who we were meant to be. You have to

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Speaker 2: Down and say, I am not going to let people

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Speaker 2: enemy's been trying to get our crown.

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Speaker 1: From the beginning of time.

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Speaker 2: In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were living confident, secure.

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Speaker 2: They were at peace with God, at peace with themselves.

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Speaker 2: They were wearing their crowns. They knew they had God's

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Speaker 2: And God came looking for Adam and Eve couldn't find them,

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Speaker 2: you've been crowned with glory and honor. When you live

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Speaker 2: this way, you're going to come into some divine connections.

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Speaker 2: Maybe today you've been through a disappointment, a loss, something

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Speaker 2: Nothing that's happened has lessened your value. You are still

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Speaker 1: She was so discouraged she didn't think she could go on.

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Speaker 2: More than ever, you have to keep reminding yourself, I

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Speaker 1: I am extremely valuable. God has beauty for these ashes.

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Speaker 1: That's not who you are. You're not bitter. We're calling

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Speaker 2: They were prophesying her future. She was trying to stay

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Speaker 2: She felt this new sense of purpose. She took care

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Speaker 2: Many people today are suffering from amnesia. They were born

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Speaker 2: Those chains are being loosed. You're gonna rediscover who you

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Speaker 2: really are. Not average, not mediocre, but royalty, a king,

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Speaker 2: a queen. Now do your part and put your crown

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Speaker 2: back on. I read about a six year old boy.

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Speaker 2: He was born during the French Revolution. His father was

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Speaker 2: King Louis the sixteenth. In all the uprising, both this

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Speaker 2: out on the public square and had them beheaded. The

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Speaker 2: crowds were so against them. They begin to call for

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Speaker 2: this little boy, saying, bring out the prince, let's.

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Speaker 1: Get rid of all royalty.

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Speaker 2: Just before they did, someone said, no, don't kill him,

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Speaker 2: that's too easy. His soul will go to heaven. Let's

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Speaker 2: turn him over to the evil woman named mag She'll

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Speaker 2: teach him how to do wrong, how to lie, to cheat,

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Speaker 2: to say bad things.

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Speaker 1: Then when he dies, he won't go to heaven.

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Speaker 2: They agreed and turn this little boy over to the

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Speaker 2: evil woman, and she began to teach him how to

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Speaker 2: say profane things. But every time she tried to get

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Speaker 2: him to say something bad, he would put his foot

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Speaker 2: down and say, no, I'm not going to do it.

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Speaker 1: I was born to be a king. I will not

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Speaker 1: talk that way. When she tried to get him.

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Speaker 2: To lie, to cheat, to compromise the same thing, I'm

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Speaker 2: a king.

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Speaker 1: I will not do it.

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Speaker 2: When the enemy tries to reprogram your thinking, telling you

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Speaker 2: that your average, your ordinary, just say no thanks, I'm

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Speaker 2: a king.

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Speaker 1: I will not think that way when.

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Speaker 2: He tries to convince you to live mediocre, a defeated life.

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Speaker 1: Do like this little boy, No thanks.

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Speaker 2: I know I am royalty. I will not live beneath

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Speaker 2: my privileges. I know who I am, a child of

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Speaker 2: the Most High God. Friends, I'm asking you to keep

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Speaker 2: your crown on. You may have been through disappointments, lost

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Speaker 2: life will always try to take it.

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Speaker 1: You have to hold fast to what God has given you.

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Speaker 2: Don't let anyone or anything carry away your blessing.

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Speaker 1: If you'll make this decision with me that you're going

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Speaker 1: to keep.

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Speaker 2: Your crown, I believe and declare you will reign in life.

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Speaker 2: You will rise higher, accomplish your dreams, and reach the

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Speaker 2: fullness of your destiny.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus' name.

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Speaker 2: If you receive it today, can you say amen.

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Speaker 1: We never like to close our.

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Speaker 2: Broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the

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Speaker 2: lord of your life.

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Speaker 1: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I

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Speaker 1: repent of my sins. Come into my heart.

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Speaker 2: I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you

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Speaker 1: Got born again.

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Speaker 1: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed.

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Speaker 1: Stay in faith, your turnaround is on the way.

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