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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 37 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray put God's very best in 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 5: your life. 39 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 3: Oh God, bless you. It's a joy to come into 40 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:00,120 Speaker 3: your home. 41 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 5: And if you're ever in our area, please stop buy 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 5: be part of one of our services. 43 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 3: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 44 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 3: I like to start with something funny. 45 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 5: And one day Adam said to God, why did you 46 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 5: make Eve so beautiful? 47 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 3: God said, so you would love her. 48 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 5: He said well, why did you give her such long 49 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 5: flowing hair? God said it again, so you would love her. 50 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 5: Said well, God, why did you give her such. 51 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: A great figure? 52 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 5: God said the same thing, so you would love her. 53 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 5: Adam said, all right, God, you made her so beautiful, 54 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 5: so attractive. 55 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: Why did you make her so dumb? 56 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 5: God said that's easy, Adam, so she would love you. 57 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 5: And all the ladies said, Amen, say it like you 58 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 5: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 59 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 2: I am. 60 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 61 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 62 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 63 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 64 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name. 65 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 3: God bless you. 66 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about you are 67 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 5: fully loaded. When God created you, he put in you 68 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 5: everything you need to fulfill your destiny. God is a 69 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 5: strategic God. 70 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 3: He's not random. 71 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 5: He didn't just create you and say, let's see what 72 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 5: they can do, Let's see what happens. 73 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 3: God is precise. 74 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 5: He's intentional down to the smallest detail. When He laid 75 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 5: out the plan for your life, he carefully studied it. 76 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 5: He thought about what you would need, what it would 77 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 5: take to get you there. 78 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 3: Then he matched you with your world. 79 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 5: He gave you the talent you need, the creativity, the strength. 80 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 5: You're the right size you have, the right looks, the 81 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 5: right personality, the right family. 82 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 3: You didn't get short changed. 83 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 5: You are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race 84 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 5: that's been designed for you. Now, quit wishing you were 85 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 5: something different. If I had a better personality, then I 86 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 5: could do something great. 87 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 3: If I came from a different. 88 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 5: Family, if I wasn't so small, Joel, have a new perspective. 89 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 5: If you needed to be taller, God would have made 90 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 5: you taller. If you needed a different personality, he would 91 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 5: have given you one. If you needed to be another nationality, 92 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 5: you would be another nationality. God doesn't make mistakes. You're 93 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 5: not faulty. You have been fearfully and wonderfully made. When 94 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 5: God created the universe, when he flung stars into space, 95 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 5: he said that was good. When he created mountains, ocean sunsets, 96 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 5: he said that was good. When he made animals, lions, eagles, butterflies, 97 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 5: he said that was good. But when God created you, 98 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 5: when he saw how magnificent you are, how strong, how attractive, 99 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 5: how talented, God looked at you and said that was 100 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 5: very good. He didn't say the solar system was very good. 101 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 5: He didn't say the rocky mountains were very good. The 102 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 5: only time he used very good is when he created you. 103 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:19,039 Speaker 5: In Ephesians, he calls you a masterpiece. When the creator 104 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 5: of the universe says you are very good, that means 105 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 5: you are bad to the bone. Now, don't go around 106 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 5: feeling shortchanged, like somehow you're lacking. 107 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 3: You didn't get enough. You can't do what they can do. 108 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 5: If you didn't get what somebody else has, that means 109 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 5: you don't need it. 110 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 3: Quit comparing yourself and run your race. 111 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 5: Be who God created you to be. You are an original. 112 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,080 Speaker 5: You have something to offer the world. 113 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 3: That nobody else has. 114 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 5: Let your gifts shine, show your talent, your personality, your style. 115 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 5: We don't need an imitation, We don't need a coffee. 116 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 3: We need the original you. 117 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 5: But when we want what somebody else has, we wish 118 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 5: we had their looks, their talent, their personality. The truth is, 119 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 5: if you had it, it wouldn't be a blessing. 120 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: It would be a burden. It wasn't designed for you. 121 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 5: The reason it works for them is because it fits them. 122 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 5: They're walking in their anointing. You are not anointed to 123 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 5: be somebody else. As long as you're trying to. 124 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 3: Be like them, you'll be frustrated. 125 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 5: The anointing on your life is to be who God 126 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 5: called you to be. 127 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 3: Be confident in what you have. 128 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 5: You have the right looks, the right talent, the right personality. 129 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 5: It may not be what somebody else has, but you're 130 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 5: not running their race. When my father went to be 131 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 5: with the Lord, he had pastored Lakewood for forty years, 132 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 5: behind the scenes doing the television production, and when he died, 133 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 5: I'd only ministered one time. But I knew I was 134 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 5: supposed to step up and pasture the church. But I 135 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 5: thought I needed to be like my dad. After all, 136 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 5: people had come to hear him for years, and I 137 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 5: knew that's what they were expecting. In the first few months, 138 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 5: I tried to preach like my dad and lead like 139 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 5: my dad, but it was a struggle. Now. 140 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 3: I had good intentions. 141 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 5: I wanted to honor my father, but there's no grace 142 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 5: on your life to be somebody else. One day I 143 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 5: read a scripture. It says an acts David fulfilled his 144 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 5: purpose for his generation. I heard something down in here 145 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 5: say Joel, your father fulfilled his purpose. Now quit trying 146 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 5: to be like him and go out and fulfill your purpose. 147 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 3: It was like a stronghold was broken in my mind. 148 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,239 Speaker 5: I realized, I'm free to be me. I quit trying 149 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 5: to imitate my father, and I stepped into my own annoying. 150 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:10,320 Speaker 5: That's when the ministry began to grow. See, I've learned 151 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 5: it's easy to be me. I don't have to pretend, 152 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,840 Speaker 5: I don't have to perform. Takes all the pressure off. 153 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 5: I can relax and just be myself. When you're comfortable 154 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 5: with who you are, when you're not trying to impress people, 155 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 5: you're not trying to be something that you're not, then your. 156 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 3: Own uniqueness will come out. 157 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 5: You'll be more creative, your talent will come out in 158 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 5: greater ways. The right people will show up. Why Because 159 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 5: you've stepped into the anointing. 160 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: On your life. Be you. You are powerful when you're you. 161 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 3: Here's the key. 162 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 5: Nobody can beat you at being you. You can be 163 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 5: a better you than anybody in the world. You have 164 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 5: an advantage. You've been anointed to be you. 165 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 3: When I minister, I'm more conversational. I don't get real 166 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 3: loud or real excited. 167 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 5: But growing up, I used to think to be an 168 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 5: effective minister you had to be. 169 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 3: Loud and forceful and dynamic. 170 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 5: And I have minister friends that are that way, and 171 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,119 Speaker 5: they are very powerful. 172 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:20,560 Speaker 3: That's who they are. 173 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 5: But I've learned when you're who you are, you can 174 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 5: be quiet and be powerful. You can be small and 175 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,280 Speaker 5: be powerful. You can be behind the scenes and be powerful. 176 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 5: The whole key is to be you, because when you're you, 177 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 5: you activate your anointing. There's a favor, a blessing, a 178 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 5: grace that is unique to your life. But too often 179 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 5: when we see someone that's more talented, more successful, more blessed, 180 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 5: there's a tendency to be envious and think, why can't 181 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 5: I do that? 182 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 3: I want what they have. 183 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 5: If we're not careful, before long we'll be competing with them, 184 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 5: trying to outperform them, outdress them, outdrive them. 185 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 3: Outwork them. 186 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 5: The problem is you're competing with someone that's not in 187 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 5: your race. Your race is specifically for you. You are not 188 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 5: in competition with your friends, your neighbors, your co workers, 189 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 5: your siblings. The only competition you have is with yourself 190 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 5: to be. 191 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 3: The best that you can be. 192 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 5: I realize I can't preach like Bishop Jakes, I can't 193 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 5: sing like Steve Crawford. I can't do surgery like my 194 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 5: brother Paul. But I can encourage someone. I can inspire 195 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 5: a few people. I can't smile. I'm good at that. 196 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 5: Don't get distracted trying to keep up with someone you 197 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 5: were never supposed to keep up with. When you understand 198 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 5: you are fully loaded for the race that's been designed 199 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 5: for you. Instead of competing with people, you'll celebrate them. 200 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 5: The right attitude is they may have something that I don't, 201 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 5: but that's okay. 202 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 3: I'm not running their race. 203 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 5: I'm equipped from my destiny. This is why King Saul 204 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,480 Speaker 5: lost the throne when he saw David rising higher than him, 205 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 5: gaining more influence. Instead of celebrating David, he became jealous. 206 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 5: People started seeing Saul has defeated thousands. He was happy, 207 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 5: people are celebrating me. I've done something great. But then 208 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 5: the song continued and David has defeated. 209 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 3: Tens of thousands. 210 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 5: Saul couldn't handle anybody being in front of him. He 211 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 5: didn't realize they weren't in the same race. He wasn't 212 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 5: competing with David. If he would have been happy for him, 213 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,240 Speaker 5: he wouldn't have missed his destiny. When we start competing 214 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 5: with people, we get distracted, we lose focus. Before long, 215 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 5: we're wasting time on things that are not moving us 216 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 5: toward our purpose. I heard a quote successful people are 217 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 5: so focused on their own goals they don't have time 218 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 5: to look around to see what everybody else is doing. 219 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 3: Run your race, and. 220 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,359 Speaker 5: When somebody passes you by, don't be intimidated. 221 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,439 Speaker 3: Be inspired. If God did it for them, he can 222 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 3: do it for you. 223 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 5: But if you can't celebrate people that are further along 224 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 5: than you, then you'll never get to where they are. 225 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 5: You have to pass the test of being happy for 226 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 5: people that have passed you up, because there will be 227 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 5: the tendency to be jealous, start finding fall being critical. Well, 228 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 5: they don't deserve it. They're not that talented anyway. Let 229 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 5: me tell you some bad things I heard about them. 230 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 5: Don't fall into that trap. God's showing them favor doesn't 231 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 5: mean he's not going to show you. 232 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 3: Be happy for them. 233 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 5: And when you see someone that's blessed, they're rising higher, 234 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 5: it's easy to think, well, they've just had a lot 235 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 5: of good breaks. What you may not realize is the 236 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 5: favor on their life didn't come without pain. The promotion 237 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 5: didn't come without struggles, without them fighting off discouragement, without 238 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,559 Speaker 5: them pressing forward when they felt like giving up. 239 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 3: You don't know what. 240 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 5: It took for them to get where they are. Sometimes 241 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,599 Speaker 5: we come in at the end of the movie. 242 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 3: We see everything working out. They're happy, blessed, successful. 243 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 5: What we didn't see was the middle, the tears, the 244 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 5: lonely nights, the struggles. Be big enough to celebrate what 245 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 5: God's doing in their life. 246 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 3: Don't be as Saul. 247 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 5: Don't miss your destiny because you're sour that somebody passed 248 00:13:55,760 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 5: you up. Their success is not stopping what God wants 249 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 5: to do in your life. 250 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 3: God didn't use up all of his favor on them. 251 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 3: It's a test. 252 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 5: Are you going to compete with them, spend all your 253 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 5: energy trying to keep up, or are you going to. 254 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 3: Celebrate what God has done. 255 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 5: You can tell who your true friends are, not by 256 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,240 Speaker 5: who comes when you fall. When you make a mistake, 257 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 5: people will feel sorry they'll show up to help you. 258 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 5: Your true friends are the ones that show up when 259 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 5: you succeed. They celebrate when you're promoted, they're happy when 260 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 5: God blesses you. 261 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 3: They're high five in you when you move into that 262 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 3: new house. 263 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 5: You've heard the saying it's lonely at the top. It's 264 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 5: because not everybody can handle your success, and too often 265 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 5: people get envious, jealous, critical. 266 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 3: Let's pass this test. 267 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 5: When somebody passes you by, give them a high five, 268 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 5: and keep running your race. Don't look to the left 269 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 5: nor to the right. Keep being who God's may you 270 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 5: to be. One time, I was out running through my 271 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 5: neighborhood and I saw this man in front of me 272 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 5: about a quarter of a mile and he was running too. 273 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 5: I thought, I'm going to catch him. I had about 274 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 5: a mile to go before I needed to turn off 275 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 5: and go down my path. I picked up the pace 276 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 5: and started gaining on him, gaining on him, and I 277 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 5: was feeling better. Look what I'm doing, getting closer and closer, 278 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 5: and I finally passed him up. 279 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 3: I beat him. He didn't know we were racing, but 280 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 3: I felt good about it. 281 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,720 Speaker 5: About that time, I realized I was so focused on 282 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 5: catching him I missed my turn. I had to turn 283 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 5: around and go back about six blocks to where I 284 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 5: was supposed to turn. That's what happens when we start 285 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 5: competing with people it's a distraction. We're running in a 286 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 5: race we're not supposed to be in competing with people 287 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 5: that many times don't even know it. 288 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 3: If that man knew we. 289 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 5: Were racing, I'd probably still be trying to catch He 290 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 5: would have sped up. 291 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 3: Don't get distracted, run your race. 292 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 5: In the scripture, John the Baptist was baptizing people and 293 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 5: gaining a lot of attention. One point, the Jewish leaders 294 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 5: came and wondered if he was the Christ. Without missing 295 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 5: a beat, John said, I am. 296 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 3: Not the Messiah. 297 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 5: It's important to know not only who you are, but 298 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:29,160 Speaker 5: to know who you're not. If you don't know this, 299 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 5: you can spend your life trying to be something that 300 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 5: you're not. John had no problem saying I am not 301 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 5: the Messiah. He was saying, I don't have to be 302 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 5: the Messiah to feel. 303 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 3: Good about myself. 304 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 5: I'm content with who God made me to be. If 305 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 5: you're trying to be something you're. 306 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 3: Not, you'll be frustrated. There's no grace for it. 307 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 5: It'll be a constant struggle, always like it's uphill. If 308 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 5: Saul would have understood this, he could have kept the throne. 309 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 3: If he would have accepted I am not David. 310 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 5: He's defeated tens of thousands. He's done great things. I've 311 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 5: defeated a thousand. God, you bless me. 312 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 3: It would have been a different story. 313 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 5: Most of the time, we're happy until we start comparing. 314 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:21,480 Speaker 5: When Saul heard the numbers David tens of thousands, I 315 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 5: can imagine him asking someone how many did they say, 316 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 5: David has defeated. When they answered tens of thousands, Sau's 317 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 5: whole perspective changed. He was no longer content with his success. 318 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 5: Now he was envious, jealous. He basically spent the rest 319 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 5: of his life trying to be David. 320 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 3: All he had to do is realize I am not David. 321 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 5: God has blessed him in a different way. We have 322 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 5: to understand the sovereignty of God may not seem fair 323 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 5: to us, doesn't always make sense, but God's ways. 324 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 3: Are not our ways. 325 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 5: And the scripture talks about how God has given to 326 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 5: every person different gifts, different talents. According to our own ability, 327 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 5: everyone doesn't get the same, but what He gave you 328 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 5: is what you need to fulfill your destiny. Whether you're 329 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 5: a Saul and you can defeat a thousand, or you're 330 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 5: a David and you can defeat ten thousand. The right 331 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 5: attitude is I'm going to take what God's given me 332 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 5: and make the most of it. 333 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 3: Don't compete, don't compare, just run your race. 334 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:34,959 Speaker 5: In the parable, Jesus told of the talents, the owner 335 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 5: gave one man one talent, another man two talents, and 336 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 5: another man five talents. It seems like if God was fair, 337 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 5: he would have given them all the same number. But 338 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 5: God is sovereign. He may give you five talents and 339 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 5: give me two talents. 340 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:53,679 Speaker 3: He's God. 341 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 5: I can complain about the two, try to compete with 342 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 5: you and outperform you, but that doesn't change the fact that. 343 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 3: You still have five and I still have two. 344 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 5: A better approach is to say, God, I recognize you 345 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 5: are sovereign, and before you gave me these two talents, 346 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,239 Speaker 5: I didn't have any. So instead of complaining about the 347 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 5: two and competing with the five, I'm going to take 348 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,040 Speaker 5: these two talents and be the best that I can be. 349 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 5: It takes a mature person to recognize what you're not, 350 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 5: but knowing what you're not will help you stay focused 351 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 5: on becoming who you are, because there will always be 352 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 5: pressures to be this, to be that, to be the 353 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 5: other Everyone will have opinions about you, but down in 354 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 5: your heart, you know who you are. 355 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 3: You can't let the outside pressures. 356 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 5: And other people squeeze you into becoming something that you're not. 357 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 5: When I first started ministering, I was young and didn't 358 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 5: have much experiencing. I had a lot of people giving 359 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,080 Speaker 5: me opinions. They told me how to lead the church, 360 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 5: how to minister, what I should speak on, and sometimes it. 361 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 3: Wasn't what they said, just what they inferred. 362 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 5: I could feel the pressure to be who they wanted 363 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 5: me to be, and they were good people. But people 364 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 5: didn't breathe life into you. People didn't lay out your. 365 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 3: Plan and purpose. 366 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 5: People didn't put gifts and talents on the inside. And 367 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 5: I was always respectful, but I was firm and a 368 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,719 Speaker 5: lot of their advice when I heard it, I knew 369 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 5: it wasn't what God put in my heart. I had 370 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 5: to be bold and say I am not that I am, 371 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 5: not that I am not that, this is who I am. 372 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,280 Speaker 5: You have to be strong. It's your destiny. When you 373 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 5: come to the end of life. You're not going to 374 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 5: answer to people. You're going to answer to God. People 375 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 5: may mean well, they may love you. 376 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 3: But if it doesn't bear witness in your spirit. You 377 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 3: have to be. 378 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,879 Speaker 5: Bold and say, like John, that is not who I am. 379 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 3: And here's the key. 380 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 5: You don't have to have a great gift for God 381 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 5: to use you in a great way. You know what 382 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:16,479 Speaker 5: took David to the throne wasn't his leadership skills, his 383 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 5: ability to write music, his personality, his size. 384 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 3: What promoted David was his gift of slinging a rock. 385 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 5: He was good with a slingshot out in the shepherd's fields. 386 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 5: He had spent hours practicing as a teenager while he 387 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 5: was taking care of his father's sheep. He could have thought, God, 388 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 5: why didn't you give me an impressive gift? Why did 389 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 5: you just give me one talent? I'm an expert with 390 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 5: a slingshot. 391 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,439 Speaker 3: Big deal. That's never going to take me any place. 392 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 5: But if you'll be faithful with the gifts you have, 393 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 5: if you'll develop it, grow, learn, get better, that gift 394 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 5: will open doors to places you've never dreamed. Don't discount 395 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 5: your gift. It may seem small to you compared to others. 396 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 5: It feels insignificant, but there is nothing ordinary about you. 397 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 5: You have the fingerprints of God all over you. God 398 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 5: made you in his own image. He crowned you with favor. 399 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 5: You have royal blood flowing through your veins. Don't believe 400 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 5: those lies. There's nothing special about you. You're not as 401 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 5: talented as your brother. You don't have a big personality 402 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 5: like your friend. You don't have the design skills like 403 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 5: your coworker. Maybe not, but you do have a slingshot. 404 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 5: There's something God has given you. That slingshot may seem ordinary, 405 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 5: but when God breathes on it, you'll defeat a giant 406 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 5: twice your size. You'll be promoted beyond your talent. You'll 407 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 5: go places where you. 408 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 3: Didn't have the experience. 409 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 5: You weren't next in line, but suddenly the door opened, 410 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 5: Suddenly the compact center is yours. Suddenly people are celebrating you. 411 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 5: But too often we look at others and think about 412 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 5: how great they are. We put them on a pedestal. 413 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 5: But God has put greatness in you. 414 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 3: He's given you. 415 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 5: Gifts, creativity, dreams. He created you to leave. 416 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,120 Speaker 3: Your mark on this generation. 417 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 5: You're not supposed to live and die and nobody knew 418 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 5: you were here. 419 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,879 Speaker 3: There is something significant about you, something that will cause 420 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 3: you to stand out. 421 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 5: We're years from now, people will look back and say 422 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:36,959 Speaker 5: you made the world a better place. 423 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 3: Stir up those gifts, Stir up that faith. 424 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 5: Don't get so caught up in celebrating others that you 425 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 5: don't recognize there's something. 426 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 3: In you to be celebrated. Jeremiah said, your word, Oh Lord, 427 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 3: is like fire shut up in my bones. 428 00:23:55,320 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 5: There is something shut up in you, something big that's about. 429 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 3: To be released. 430 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 7: Dreams, books, movies, inventions, businesses, ministries, potential that you haven't 431 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 7: tapped into, gifts and talents that you didn't know were there. 432 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 5: You haven't seen them yet because it hasn't been the 433 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 5: right time. 434 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 3: But your season is coming. 435 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 5: The good break, the promotion, the opportunity, it's on the 436 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 5: way now. Don't be surprised if there's opposition. That promotion 437 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 5: may be disguised as Goliath. That giant looks like it's 438 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 5: there to stop you, but it's a setup. 439 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,439 Speaker 3: It's going to thrust you to a new level. 440 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 5: You're going to discover what the slingshot was all about. 441 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 3: It was a test. 442 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,400 Speaker 5: You proved your faithfulness. You did the right thing when 443 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,959 Speaker 5: nobody was watching. You kept a good attitude when it 444 00:24:56,040 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 5: wasn't fair. You celebrated others when you could have been jealous. 445 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 3: Now your time is coming. 446 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 5: What's been shut up in your spirit is about to 447 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,120 Speaker 5: be released. It's going to be bigger, more rewarding, more 448 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 5: fulfilling than you ever imagine. It's not going to come 449 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 5: through your neighbor, through your cousin, through your boss, through 450 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 5: your pastor. 451 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 3: It's going to come through you. It's your baby, It's 452 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:25,199 Speaker 3: your time to be celebrated. This is what happened in 453 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 3: the scripture with Sarah. 454 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 5: She and her husband Abraham were very old. Sarah had 455 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 5: been bearing her whole life and not able to have children. 456 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 5: But in Genesis seventeen, God said to Abraham, I will 457 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 5: give Sarah a son. She will be the mother of nations. 458 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,280 Speaker 5: Kings of people will come. 459 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 3: Out of her. 460 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 5: Every circumstance said it was impossible. She was out in 461 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 5: the desert, no fertility treatments, no medical procedures, eighty years old. 462 00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,400 Speaker 3: Yet God said. 463 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 5: You have kings in you, you have nations in you. 464 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,720 Speaker 5: He was saying, Sarah, what I've put in you is 465 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 5: more than you can imagine. God is saying the same 466 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 5: thing to you. There are kings in you. There is 467 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 5: greatness in you. 468 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 3: It's much bigger than what you think. Don't let circumstances 469 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 3: talk you out of it. You may not see how 470 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 3: it could work out. 471 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 5: God has ways to do it that you've never thought of. 472 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,879 Speaker 5: One touch of God's favor will catapult you to the 473 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 5: next level. When Sarah heard this, it was so unbelievable 474 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 5: she laughed. She said, me, have a baby. I don't 475 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 5: think so. She loved the idea, but since she was 476 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 5: so old, she thought the baby would have to come 477 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 5: through somebody else. 478 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 3: So she tried to help God out. 479 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 5: She had Abraham sleep with her maid and they had 480 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 5: a son. 481 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,160 Speaker 3: She was so excited. She said, God, you did what 482 00:26:58,200 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 3: you said. 483 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 5: God said, Sarah, that is not the promised child. I 484 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 5: didn't put the promise in somebody else. 485 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 3: I put the promise in you. 486 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 5: At ninety years old, against all odds, she became pregnant 487 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 5: and gave birth to a son named Isaac. What God 488 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 5: put in you, He's still going to bring to pass. 489 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 5: You are pregnant with destiny. You are pregnant with greatness. 490 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 5: It's not going to come through others. 491 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 3: You're going to shine, You're going to excel, You're going. 492 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 5: To be promoted, You're going to be celebrated friends. 493 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,160 Speaker 3: You are fully loaded. 494 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 5: You're not at a deficit, You're not lacking. You're full 495 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 5: of potential, full of favor. Like Sarah, you may have 496 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 5: been barn for a long time. You don't see how 497 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 5: it can happen. Get ready, this is a new day. 498 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 5: Things are changing in your favor. I believe and declare 499 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 5: what's been shut up in your spirit is being released. 500 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 5: Dreams are being released, potential, promotion, healing, abundance, vindication, breakthroughs, 501 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, and if 502 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 5: you receive it, can. 503 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 3: You say amen? 504 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 5: Today I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 505 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 5: Jesus the Lord of your life. 506 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll. 507 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 5: Repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make 508 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 5: you my Lord and savior. 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