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Speaker 1: I hope you and your family are having a great summer.

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Speaker 1: Victoria and I are praying for you, believing for God's

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Speaker 1: very best in your life, and it's always my pleasure

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Speaker 1: to be able to share a message with you. I

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Speaker 1: hope you're encouraged and inspired today. Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 1: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 1: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can

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Speaker 1: come visit us in person. We'd love to have you

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Speaker 1: be a part of one of our services. but I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny and don't be offended.

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Speaker 1: It's just a joke, but I heard about these three people,

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Speaker 1: a Russian, an American, and a blonde. They were talking together.

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Speaker 1: The Russian proudly said, we were the first ones in space.

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Speaker 1: The American said, well, we were the first ones on

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Speaker 1: the moon. The blonde said, that's nothing. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be the first ones on the sun. The American, the Russian,

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Speaker 1: they laugh. You can't go to the sun. It's too hot.

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Speaker 1: You'd be burned up. The blonde said, we know that.

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Speaker 1: We're not that dumb. We're going to go at night.

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Speaker 1: All right, y'all. I'm married to a beautiful, smart, intelligent blonde,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to need a ride home. But here

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Speaker 1: we go, y'all. This is my Bible. I am what

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Speaker 1: it says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 1: I can do what it says I can do. Today,

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly

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Speaker 1: confess my mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I

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Speaker 1: will never be the same in Jesus name. God bless you.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about being the

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Speaker 1: authentic you. It's easy to go through life trying to

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Speaker 1: protect our image and always look good and impress people.

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Speaker 1: We can't let them see our flaws, our shortcomings, or

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Speaker 1: they may think less of us. So we live with

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Speaker 1: this pressure to perform, to pretend, and to wear a mask.

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Speaker 1: But the people we're trying to impress, the ones that

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Speaker 1: look like they have it all together, they have issues too.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is struggling with something. And the scripture says God's

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Speaker 1: power shows up greatest in our weaknesses, not in our strengths,

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Speaker 1: not in the areas we excel, but in our struggles,

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Speaker 1: our flaws, the things we're trying to hide. God is

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Speaker 1: not looking for the fake you, the pretend you, the

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Speaker 1: you that's not perfect, the you that can get jealous, angry, afraid,

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Speaker 1: the you that doesn't always feel worthy or good enough.

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Speaker 1: When you get honest with yourself and you don't try

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Speaker 1: you to change. Instead of hiding what we're struggling with,

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Speaker 1: when we go to God and admit our dependence on him, say, God,

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Speaker 1: Help me to change. It's not a weakness to admit

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Speaker 1: you don't have it all together. It's a strength. When

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Speaker 1: He doesn't fault you. That's when His power shows up

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Speaker 1: to change you. When Jesus saw Peter out fishing, He

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Speaker 1: I'm not worthy. I'm a sinful man. He was saying, Lord,

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Speaker 1: something more than you've ever imagined. God is not faulting

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Speaker 1: you for having weaknesses, areas that you struggle in. It

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Speaker 1: He didn't choose you because you have it all together.

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Speaker 1: don't need them. If you have to perform perfectly and

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Speaker 1: finished product. The Apostle Paul wrote over half of the

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Speaker 1: I've written books of the Bible. I've changed history. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's strength. You're showing God that you're depending on him.

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Speaker 1: The mistake we can make is we try to hide

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Speaker 1: of us. We have to protect our image. No, you

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Speaker 1: is not going to get you to your destiny. Having

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Speaker 1: still don't have it all together. I'm still depending on

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Speaker 1: use him in such a great way. There's power in

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Speaker 1: being the real you not the fake you, the pretend you,

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Speaker 1: him turned his life around He became a minister, was

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Speaker 1: He was a pastor. He was supposed to have it

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Speaker 1: that's his domain. But 1 John 1 says, if you

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Speaker 1: then the blood of his son Jesus purifies us from

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Speaker 1: all sin. When you bring into the light what you're

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Speaker 1: when you're open and honest, forces of darkness cannot hold

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Speaker 1: the light, there's freedom. In the light, there's deliverance. There's wholeness.

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Speaker 1: There's victory. The enemy will tell you just the opposite. No,

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Speaker 1: Get out of the enemy's domain and come over into

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