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Speaker 5: He always seemed to be so happy, and one day

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Speaker 5: I can't help but notice you're always smiling and always

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Speaker 4: He said, that's easy.

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Speaker 5: I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day, I eat

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Speaker 5: that's amazing. How old are you he said, twenty six.

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Speaker 4: Don't live like that.

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Speaker 5: Here we go, y'all. This is my Bible. I am

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Speaker 5: what it says I am. I have what it says

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Speaker 5: I have. I can do what it says I can do.

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Speaker 5: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God

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Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 5: you are very powerful. We all face situations that look

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Speaker 5: too big, the opposition too strong, the dream too great,

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Speaker 5: the way Solomon probably felt. His father, David had just passed,

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Speaker 5: Now Solomon was in charge. He wasn't a warrior like

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Speaker 5: He was suddenly thrust into this position. What he was

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Speaker 5: He has not just made you powerful, but very powerful.

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Speaker 5: What you're up against may be big, but it's no

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Speaker 5: match for you. The same power that raised Christ from

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Speaker 5: the dead lives in you. It's a power so strong

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Speaker 5: and Silas, A power so strong that a fiery furnace

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Speaker 5: the Red Sea parted for Moses.

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Speaker 4: That's the power that's in you. You are not ordinary,

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Speaker 5: How you see yourself will determine whether you see this

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Speaker 5: great power. If you think weak, thoughts, insecure, intimidated, this

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Speaker 5: power you have to get in agreement with God. I'm

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Speaker 5: not looking at weak people. I'm not looking at average people.

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Speaker 5: I'm looking at sons and daughters of the Most High God, Strong, confident, anointed, favored.

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Speaker 4: Resurrection power is in you.

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Speaker 5: Power to bring dead things back to life. You can

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Speaker 5: You can defeat that cancer, you can break that addiction,

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Speaker 4: It may stop some people, but not to you. You

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Speaker 5: In the scripture, the Syrian army was trying to overtake

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Speaker 5: The Syrian commander was so frustrated. He was convinced there

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Speaker 5: Called his men together and questioned them. One of the

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Speaker 5: furious he decided to go get Elisha. You would think

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Speaker 5: Elisha wasn't any threat. He wasn't in the military, didn't

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Speaker 4: What am I saying? Even the enemy knows how powerful

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Speaker 5: He can see that you're not week, you're not average,

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Speaker 5: much more will you accomplish? How many giants will you defeat?

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Speaker 5: not just powerful, but very powerful. There is a force

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Speaker 5: No weapon formed against you is going to prosper God

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Speaker 5: has armed you with strength for every battle. He surrounded

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Speaker 5: you with favor. Goodness, and mercy are following you. He's

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Speaker 5: going before you, making crooked places strength. When the enemy

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Speaker 5: He said he holds victory in store for the upright.

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Speaker 5: There is a power working in you that's not of

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Speaker 5: Now get rid of any weak thoughts, defeeding thoughts. It's

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Speaker 5: too much. I don't have the connections. I'll never meet

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Speaker 5: a new perspective. This problem may be big, but it's

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Speaker 5: strong in the Lord. I can do all things through Christ.

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Speaker 5: Though I am surrounded by trouble, I will not fear.

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Speaker 5: The Lord is the strength of my life. If you're

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Speaker 5: power thoughts. Inflation may be high, stock market shaky, banks

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Speaker 5: having trouble. You could be worried instead. God, I thank

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Speaker 5: you that you're Jehovah Jirah, the Lord by provider.

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Speaker 4: You said even in famine, I would have more than enough.

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Speaker 5: You said I would lend and not borrow. That my

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Speaker 5: God you said you would restore health back into me.

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Speaker 5: You said I would live and not die. That with

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Speaker 5: tell of your goodness. Learn to think power thoughts. That's

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Speaker 5: causing you to go further, to defeat giants, to accomplish

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Speaker 5: dreams that seem impossible. When David saw Goliath, he could

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Speaker 5: David looked at Goliath and said, you come against me

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Speaker 4: Of the Lord God of Israel. He was saying, Goliath,

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Speaker 5: The Lord my God has breathed his power, his favor,

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Speaker 4: On my life. Victory starts in our mind.

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Speaker 5: You can't think weak and be powerful you can't think

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Speaker 5: Is your thinking keeping you from being very powerful? Or

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Speaker 5: I am well able, I am confident. This challenge cannot

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Speaker 5: That's how you activate the power, not by talking about

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Speaker 5: Too often we see ourselves as average, limited, and Joel,

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Speaker 5: You're still standing. You're not bitter, You're blessed. You're moving forward.

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Speaker 5: into that greatness that belongs to you. Deborah could have thought, God,

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Speaker 4: Friend of mine struggled with an addiction for many years.

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Speaker 5: If you see the sickness, the debt, the trouble as

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Speaker 4: My friend changed his perspective.

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Speaker 5: Instead of seeing the addiction as being so strong, he

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Speaker 4: No thanks.

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Speaker 4: Well, this addiction is too powerful. No thanks.

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Speaker 5: Nothing can stand against my God. He always causes me

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Speaker 4: That's what allows him to do great things. Today.

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Speaker 5: My friend is not only free from the addiction, he's

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Speaker 5: It was a ten year old boy that lived down

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Speaker 5: That Christmas, his father bought him a telescope. He was

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Speaker 5: Turn the telescope around. You've magnified your problems long enough.

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Speaker 5: But the way this is going to happen is if

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Speaker 5: Magnify what God put in you. He didn't just make

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Speaker 5: No weapon formed against me will prosper. I will defeat

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Speaker 4: God sent an angel and.

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Speaker 5: The question is how do you see yourself strong, confident, favored,

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Speaker 5: You need to start seeing.

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Speaker 5: One touch of God's favor can turn it around. One

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Speaker 5: made this switch and saw himself as powerful. He went

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Speaker 5: out with the whole army, thirty two thousand men. He

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Speaker 5: was feeling good, but God said, you have too many people.

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Speaker 5: Tell everyone who's afraid that they can go home. Twenty

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Speaker 5: two thousand men left. Now he only had ten thousand.

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Speaker 5: He wasn't feeling quite as confident. God said it again,

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Speaker 5: there's still too many. All of them left except three

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Speaker 5: hundred men. He was up against an army of thousands.

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Speaker 5: Looked impossible, but they went out and defeated the Midianites

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Speaker 5: with just three hundred people.

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Speaker 4: God was showing us you don't need everything you think

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Speaker 4: you need. You don't need all those people to be

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Speaker 4: for you. You don't need to come from a certain family.

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Speaker 5: You don't need all that training. God has giving you

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Speaker 5: everything you need. He's breathed his favor on your life.

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Speaker 5: He'll cause the stone to hit the giant at the

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Speaker 5: right place. He'll heal you from the cancer, he'll break

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Speaker 5: that addiction. He'll send the right people across your path.

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Speaker 5: I know a man that was in a serious accident

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Speaker 5: years ago and wasn't supposed to live. By the grace

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Speaker 5: of God, he's alive, but he can't see very well,

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Speaker 5: and he's had to relearn how to speak and some

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Speaker 5: of his other motor skills. Since he couldn't drive, he

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Speaker 5: would take the bus to Lakewood every Sunday.

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Speaker 4: I'd always see him so faithful.

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Speaker 5: But when we moved from the other location, the bus

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Speaker 5: route didn't run from his house to the Compact center

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Speaker 5: where we are now, and he was very concerned. He

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Speaker 5: loved coming and I said, don't worry about it. Well,

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Speaker 5: have somebody come pick you up.

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Speaker 4: It's no big deal.

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Speaker 5: He said, no, Joel, I'm going to get the bus

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Speaker 5: route changed. I'm going to convince them to send buses

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Speaker 5: by my house to the church.

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Speaker 4: Being the great man.

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Speaker 5: Of faith that I am, I thought to myself, there's

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Speaker 5: no way. That's like an act of Congress. You need

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Speaker 5: lobbyist money connections. He could have thought, like me, too bad,

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Speaker 5: what can I do. I don't have the influence the funds.

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Speaker 5: I'm physically challenged. But he had a different mindset. He

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Speaker 5: wasn't a Gideon looking at what.

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Speaker 4: He didn't have.

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Speaker 5: He was like Deborah, a mother, thinking I can make

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Speaker 5: a difference. He was like David, this giant is huge,

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Speaker 5: but I will defeat it. Deep down, he knew the

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Speaker 5: Lord his God.

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Speaker 4: Had made him very powerful.

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Speaker 5: He went down week after week to the public transportation meetings,

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Speaker 5: told them how he needed buses to run by Lakewood.

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Speaker 5: It just so happened that someone that loved Lakewood was

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Speaker 5: on the committee. God will always have the right people

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Speaker 5: at the right place, if you'll just have the boldness

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Speaker 5: to take the step of faith. Two months later, he

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Speaker 5: came in one Sunday morning, smiling so big. I'll never

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Speaker 5: forget it, he said, Joel, I just got off the bus.

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Speaker 5: They changed the route and brought me this morning. I

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Speaker 5: nearly passed out. So often we don't realize who we are.

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Speaker 5: We see ourselves as limited, ordinary, when.

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Speaker 4: In fact we are powerful.

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Speaker 5: One of the staff members at the transportation office told

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Speaker 5: me that in twenty years that she worked there, she

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Speaker 5: had never.

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Speaker 4: Seen anything change like that.

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Speaker 5: And if you were to see this gentleman in the natural,

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Speaker 5: you would think, Hey, he didn't have the influence, he doesn't.

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Speaker 4: Have the funds, he's physically challenged.

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Speaker 5: But God loves to take those who are underestimated, those

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Speaker 5: who others discount, and cause him to shine brightly to

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Speaker 5: make them very powerful.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you get rid of excuses.

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Speaker 5: Quit telling yourself why you're limited, had a disadvantage, not enough,

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Speaker 5: been through too much.

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Speaker 4: Don't go through life not recognizing who you are. The Lord.

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Speaker 4: Your God has made you very powerful.

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Speaker 5: You are strong, you are anointed, you are favored.

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Speaker 4: You can affect change, you can defeat.

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Speaker 5: Giants, you can accomplish, you can leave your mark. When

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Speaker 5: thoughts come telling you you're weak, you're not enough, you're

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Speaker 5: at a disadvantage, just say no, thanks, you have the

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Speaker 5: wrong person.

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Speaker 4: I know who I am. I am a child of

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Speaker 4: the Most High God, and I am very powerful.

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Speaker 5: If you'll do this, I believe and declare, You're gonna

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Speaker 5: see giants fall, You're gonna accomplish dreams that amaze you.

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Speaker 5: God's gonna breathe on your life in a new way, favor, healing, breakthroughs,

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Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny in Jesus's name, and if

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Speaker 5: you receive it, can you say amen?

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Speaker 4: Today, I'd like to give you.

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Speaker 5: An opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 5: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll

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Speaker 5: repent of my sins.

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Speaker 4: Come into my heart.

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Speaker 5: I make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed

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