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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Jolan Victoria. Thanks so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks.

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Speaker 2: For supporting the ministry. We believe you're going to have.

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Speaker 1: An awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive, and favor filled.

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Speaker 2: God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well, God

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Speaker 2: bless you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. We love

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Speaker 1: you and we know God has great things in store

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Speaker 1: for you. And if you're ever in the Houston area,

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll stop by and be a part of

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Speaker 1: one of our services. I promise you we'll make you

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Speaker 1: feel right at home. But thanks so much for tuning

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Speaker 1: in and thanks again for coming out today. And I

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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 1: this elderly couple.

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Speaker 2: They'd been married for over sixty years.

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Speaker 1: They were at a church fellowship and someone asked them

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Speaker 1: the secret of their success. The man told how he

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Speaker 1: always treated his wife with respect, and he took her

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Speaker 1: on trips all over the world. He said, in fact,

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Speaker 1: for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China.

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Speaker 2: Everyone kind of clapped.

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Speaker 1: Someone spoke up and said, what'd you do for your

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Speaker 2: He said, I went back and picked her up.

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Speaker 3: All right, hold up your bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 3: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it

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Speaker 3: says I am. I have what it says I have.

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Speaker 3: I can do what it says I can do. Today

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Speaker 3: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess.

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Speaker 3: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 3: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about living with confidence.

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Speaker 3: Too many people go through life intimidated, insecure. They think

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Speaker 3: everyone is smarter and brighter and more talented, more beautiful.

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Speaker 1: They put others on a pedestal and look down on themselves.

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Speaker 1: And yes, it's good to celebrate people. It's good to

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Speaker 1: be happy for their accomplishments. But can I tell you

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Speaker 1: you are someone to be celebrated. You are talented, you

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Speaker 2: There's some great about you.

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Speaker 1: You're not supposed to always be celebrating others. You need

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Speaker 1: to learn to celebrate yourself. I hear people say you

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Speaker 1: should see how beautiful my sister is. My coworker is

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Speaker 1: so talented, my classmate is an awesome football player. And

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Speaker 1: that's fine, but you can't get so caught up in

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Speaker 1: how great they are that you lose sight of how

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Speaker 2: You're good at something that they're not. Don't make the.

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Speaker 1: Mistake of idolizing people to where you put them on

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Speaker 1: more talented and more beautiful that you feel intimidated, like

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Speaker 1: you don't quite measure up. And of course they may

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Speaker 1: have more natural strength or talent or ability, but the

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Speaker 1: truth is they have faults and weaknesses, just like we

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Speaker 1: all do. It's fine to celebrate them, say why aren't

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Speaker 1: they great, as long as you can follow it up

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Speaker 1: by saying, you know what, I'm great too, I'm smart too,

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Speaker 1: I'm talented too. He intimidated by other people's gifts, Be

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Speaker 1: confident in who you are. It's like this man I

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Speaker 1: heard about. He was the mayor of his city. He

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Speaker 1: was in a parade, riding down main street in a

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Speaker 1: waved at the different people in the crowd. At one

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Speaker 1: point he spotted his wife's former boyfriend, he owned the

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Speaker 1: his wife aren't you glad you didn't marry him. You'd

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Speaker 1: be working at a gas station. His wife said, no,

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Speaker 1: You've got to know who you are, a child of

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Speaker 1: the most high God. Listen, God breaths his life into you.

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Speaker 2: You have royal.

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Speaker 1: Blood flowing through your veins. He crowned you with his

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Speaker 1: honor and favor. Now you got to put your shoulders back,

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Speaker 1: hold your head up high. Walk confidently, talk confidently, think confidently,

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Speaker 2: People are going to treat you the way you present yourself.

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Speaker 1: If you have a less than mentality, you go around intimidated,

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Speaker 2: You barely speak up when you talk.

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Speaker 1: You may not realize it, but you are communicating I'm

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Speaker 2: I don't deserve your attention.

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Speaker 1: The way you carry yourself is constantly sending out these

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Speaker 1: That lack of confidence is communicating more than your words.

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Speaker 2: You're sending out the wrong messages.

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Speaker 1: Get in a habit of looking people in the eyes

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Speaker 1: when you speak to them. Doesn't matter if they're smarter,

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Speaker 1: more of a child of God God than you are.

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Speaker 1: Speak clearly, Speak strongly, don't mumble and act like you're

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Speaker 1: Stand up tall. When we slump over, we're communicating weakness.

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Speaker 1: We're saying I'm not really proud of who I am.

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Speaker 1: I read where eighty percent.

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Speaker 2: Of communication is nonverbal.

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Speaker 1: It's voice tones, body language, facial expressions, it's our posture.

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Speaker 1: When you meet someone, make sure you stand up tall,

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Speaker 1: I'm confident, I'm secure, I'm.

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Speaker 1: I've had people shake my hand and it feels like

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Speaker 2: No enthusiasm. They've got their head down.

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Speaker 1: You can barely understand them, and I'm not finding fault.

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Speaker 1: I'm simply saying much of this is because we are intimidated,

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Speaker 1: We have low self esteem, We don't understand who we

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Speaker 2: The scripture says here.

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Speaker 1: That God has made us to be kings and priests

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Speaker 1: under him. Men, you need to start seeing yourself as

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Speaker 1: a king. Women you need to start seeing yourself as

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Speaker 1: a queen. Start carrying yourself like royalty. And I don't

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Speaker 1: mean with arrogance, thinking that we're better than other people. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about inhumility. Stand up tall, speak strongly, be confident,

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Speaker 1: be secure in who you are. No, you're not better

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Speaker 1: less than anyone else. It doesn't matter how many degrees

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Speaker 1: they have behind their name, it doesn't matter how many important.

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Speaker 2: People they associate with.

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Speaker 1: Well, hell, Joel, I'm kind of intimidated because they come

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Speaker 1: from such an influential family. No, you need to understand

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Speaker 1: you come from the ultimate family. Your heavenly father is

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Speaker 1: the creator of the universe.

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Speaker 2: The God of Aba.

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Speaker 1: Graham, Isaac and Jacob knew you before you were formed

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Speaker 1: in your mother's roomb. When you showed up on planet Earth.

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Speaker 1: You didn't come as ordinary as average. No God crowned

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Speaker 1: you with favor. He crowned you with honor. Now you

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Speaker 1: need to start thinking like your royalty and talking like

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Speaker 1: your royalty, and walking like your royalty. Carry yourself like

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Speaker 1: the king the queen God created you to be. Remember

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Speaker 1: one time years ago, we had a king from an

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Speaker 1: African nation visit our services. When he walked in, you

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Speaker 2: He was as nice as.

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Speaker 1: Can be, very personable, very humble, but he carried himself

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Speaker 1: with such strength and dignity. He radiated confidence, royalty, influence, importance.

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Speaker 1: We talked afterwards, and I'll never forget what he told me.

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Speaker 1: He said, Joel, I'm very honored to represent my country

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Speaker 1: and I try to do it with strength and dignity. Friends,

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Speaker 1: do you realize you and I represent the Kingdom of God?

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Speaker 1: The scripture says we are christ ambassadors. When we go

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Speaker 1: Everybody's better than us, we're not representing our kingdom very well.

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Speaker 1: a ceremony on television where they were honoring the queen.

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Speaker 2: When the queen walked in the room.

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Speaker 1: You could feel the strength, the confidence that emanated from her.

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Speaker 1: She had her head held high, this pleasant smile, and

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Speaker 1: And what's interesting is there were very many important people

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Speaker 1: but the Queen was not the most beautiful woman in

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Speaker 1: the room. There were other ladies. They're much younger, much

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Speaker 1: more beautiful. But by the way the Queen carried herself,

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Speaker 1: you would have thought she was the cat's meal. She

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Speaker 1: had it going on, strong, confidence, secure. The Queen was

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Speaker 2: A lot of people would have been intimidated.

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Speaker 3: Not her.

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Speaker 2: You know why, she knows who she is. She's the Queen.

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Speaker 1: She comes from a long line of royalty. It's been

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Speaker 1: ingrained in her thinking those thoughts. You're not average, you're

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Speaker 2: And it's not so much what she does that gives

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Speaker 1: And when you understand who you are and who you are,

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Speaker 1: it'll drive out all intimidation, all inferiority. You'll put your

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Speaker 1: imagine some mornings when the Queen wakes up, the same

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Speaker 1: Thoughts like, you're not as beautiful as your sister, You're

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Speaker 2: Be intimidated, be insecure, keep your head down. What does

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Speaker 2: she do? She just shakes it off. Her attitude is

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Speaker 2: what are you talking about. I'm the Queen.

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Speaker 1: I've got royalty in my bloodline, doesn't matter how compare

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Speaker 1: to other people. In my DNA, I have generations of prestige, influence, royalty, victory.

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Speaker 2: It's ingrained in me.

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Speaker 1: If we could just see ourselves as the kings the

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Speaker 1: queens God made us to be, we'd never be intimidated again.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to be the most talented to feel

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Speaker 1: good about yourself. You don't have to have the most

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Speaker 1: money to be the most successful, to be the most beautiful.

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Speaker 1: When you understand who you are, it'll affect the way

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Speaker 1: you carry yourself when you realize the creator of the

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Speaker 1: universe breathed his life into you, and you too come

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Speaker 1: from a long line of royalty. Maybe not in the natural,

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Speaker 1: but when you gave your life to Christ, you entered

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Speaker 1: into a new bloodline. And in this spiritual blood line,

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Speaker 1: it says we are terign in life as kings. That

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Speaker 1: means instead of being intimidated, instead of feeling inferior because

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Speaker 1: somebody's quote more important.

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Speaker 2: More influential.

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Speaker 1: When you know who you are, you can be like

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Speaker 1: the queen and just walk in the room totally at ease, smile,

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Speaker 1: wave at everybody like they're.

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Speaker 2: Your best friends.

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Speaker 1: Listen, ladies, you may not be the most beautiful, but

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Speaker 1: be confident you're the queen, not crowned by people, but

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Speaker 2: I was very small.

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Speaker 1: The young man I was going to be guarding was

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Speaker 1: six feet one. The coach called me aside and said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: A lot stronger.

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Speaker 1: But don't you dare get out there and look intimidated.

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Speaker 1: You play like you're the greatest basketball player in the world.

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Speaker 1: Some things you can fake and some things you can

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Speaker 1: I should mention our team was all white, their team

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Speaker 1: was all black, so you know it was going to

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Speaker 1: take a miracle. We were playing in their gym, and

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Speaker 1: the game was at a special time, two o'clock in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon, so all the seventh grade class was dismissed

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Speaker 1: normally there'd just be a couple dozen parents out there,

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Speaker 1: but this day the gym was packed full of hundreds

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Speaker 1: and hundreds of screaming seventh grade students. When we walked

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Speaker 1: me and how small I was, they started laughing and cheering,

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Speaker 1: and in a few seconds they were all chanting my number,

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Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty one. I was so embarrassed when I

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Speaker 1: saw the young man I was going to guard. I

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Speaker 1: I kept hearing the coach telling me, don't show any weakness,

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Speaker 1: Now I felt intimidated. I felt fear, but I just

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Speaker 1: kept acting like I was Michael Jordan. It helped my

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Speaker 1: self esteem, not necessarily my game. But when the guy

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Speaker 1: was crouched over playing defense, I'll never forget I could

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Speaker 1: see his knees at ey level. I thought, I have

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Speaker 1: never seen any white knees level. Funny thing is we

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Speaker 1: got beat that day, but when I went to get

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Speaker 1: on the bus and we were leaving, all these students

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Speaker 1: from their school were lined up giving me high fives,

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Speaker 1: congratulating me.

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Speaker 2: What am I saying in life?

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Speaker 1: You're going to find yourself in situations where you're over

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Speaker 1: your head, you feel unqualified, you're up against a huge opponent,

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Speaker 1: may be a legal situation that looks impossible, a medical

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Speaker 1: report where you could easily be afraid and intimidated. You've

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Speaker 1: got to dig your heels in and say, I may

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Speaker 1: feel fear, but I'm not gonna show any fear. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna keep my poise, knowing that the creator of the

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Speaker 1: universe is in complete control of my life. And if

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Speaker 1: God be for me, who dare be against me?

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Speaker 2: Friends?

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to put some more fuel in your jet.

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Speaker 1: You have incredible potential I'm asking you to put your

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Speaker 1: shoulders back, hold your head up high.

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Speaker 2: You are representing the most high God.

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Speaker 1: Carry your self like the King, like the queen, like

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Speaker 1: the royalty He's created you to be. Let's get in

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Speaker 1: a habit of looking people in the eyes. Speak with

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Speaker 1: a strong, clear voice. Don't downplay your abilities, don't discount yourself,

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Speaker 1: sell yourself.

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Speaker 2: If you don't.

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Speaker 1: Believe in you, others want either. It's good to celebrate people,

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Speaker 1: but you need to start by celebrating yourself. If you

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Speaker 1: will shake off the intimidation, the insecurity, and rise up

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Speaker 1: with confidence knowing who you are, let me tell you

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Speaker 1: the creator of the universe will breathe in your direction,

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Speaker 1: and when he does, you will overcome every obstacle, defeat

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Speaker 1: every enemy, accomplish every dream I believe in, declare over

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Speaker 1: each one of you. You will become everything God's created

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Speaker 1: you to be, and you will have everything God intended

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Speaker 1: for you to have.

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Speaker 2: Hey, man, do you receive it today?

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Speaker 1: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 2: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 2: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior.

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Speaker 1: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 2: Get in a good Bible based church, Keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: He's going to take you places that you've never dreamed of.

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Speaker 4: It's a new year, an opportunity for a fresh start.

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Speaker 4: It's a new year, time to forget the struggles of

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Speaker 4: the past and make room for new blessings. It's a

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Speaker 4: new year, the perfect time to build expectation and faith

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Speaker 4: for an amazing new season.

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Speaker 1: The beginning of the year is a great time to

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Speaker 1: of the past and to get ready for the new

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Speaker 1: and a victorious This devotional calendar will help you get

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Speaker 4: two three. One Wake up with an expectancy in your heart.

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