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Speaker 5: for coming out. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 5: and I heard about this group of school children. They

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Speaker 5: A nun had written a note, take only one God

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Speaker 5: is watching the apples. Hold up your Bible and say

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

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Speaker 5: how you are not damaged goods. I was in a

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Speaker 5: are full of potential, talent, creativity, wisdom. There is nothing

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Speaker 5: People can't keep you from your destiny. Bad breaks can't

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Speaker 5: God's created you to be.

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Speaker 3: Life happens to us all.

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Speaker 5: If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

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Speaker 5: Receive God's mercy and do better next time. You may

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Speaker 5: Now do yourself a favor. Take all the damaged goods label.

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Speaker 5: Quit thinking about your mistakes, who hurt you, what didn't

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Speaker 5: a young boy named Ishmael. He was the child that

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Speaker 5: Ishmael was born into a dysfunctional home. He was born

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Speaker 5: for having a baby with another woman. Sarah turned on Hagar,

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Speaker 5: She told Abraham, you better get your mistress and her

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Speaker 5: It got so bad that Sarah gave Abraham an ultimatum,

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Speaker 5: Why is my mother a mistress? Why couldn't I be Isaac,

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Speaker 5: Doesn't matter how you were raised, how many bad breaks

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Speaker 5: God told Jeremiah, before you were formed in your mother's womb,

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Speaker 5: When I was growing up, I played baseball all through

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Speaker 3: His calling will never leave your life. Now. Quit listening

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Speaker 3: to the accusing for voices. Quit letting people make you

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Speaker 3: feel washed up. They don't determine your destiny. God does.

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Speaker 5: My father got back in the ministry. He went on

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Speaker 5: to pastor churches for over fifty years, was married to

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Speaker 5: my mother for forty four years. He saw God restore

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Speaker 5: him and do amazing things. God can do the same

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Speaker 5: thing for each one of us. The scripture talks about

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Speaker 5: how Jeremiah went down to the potter's house. He was

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Speaker 5: watching this potter working at the wheel, spinning around this

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Speaker 3: Marred in the potter's hands.

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Speaker 5: That means it was broken, had flaws, defects, But the

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Speaker 3: This is not usable.

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Speaker 5: No, it says, the potter began to remake the vessel

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Speaker 5: once again. When it was all said and done, it

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Speaker 5: came out stronger, more beautiful than it was before. The potter,

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Speaker 5: of course, represents God. We are the clay. All of

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Speaker 5: us have flaws and weaknesses. We go through failures, disappointments,

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Speaker 5: unfair situations. At times, it's like we end up broken, hurt, disappointed.

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Speaker 3: But that is not the end of your story.

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Speaker 5: If you will stay in faith and not get bitter,

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Speaker 5: not get down on yourself.

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Speaker 3: God will take your.

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Speaker 5: Broken pieces, your hurts, the weaknesses, the unfair situations, and

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Speaker 5: he will use them to not just put you back together,

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Speaker 5: but he'll make you into something better, stronger, more beautiful

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Speaker 5: than if it had not happened.

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Speaker 3: I've heard it said like this.

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Speaker 5: Any chef can cook something good when they have good ingredients,

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Speaker 3: That's easy.

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Speaker 5: But it takes a master chef to take ingredients that

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Speaker 5: make something good out of it. That's the way God is.

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Speaker 3: He's not just a chef, He's a master chef.

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Speaker 5: He can take any ingredient that you give him, anything

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Speaker 5: and mix them together and still make something out of

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Speaker 5: your life, more than you ever dreamed of. Why don't

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Speaker 5: you take off the damage goods label. You're not working

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Speaker 5: with an ordinary chef. You're working with the master.

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Speaker 3: Chef, the creator of the universe.

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Speaker 5: At times, at times in life, you may get dented,

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Speaker 5: but you've got to remember, just like those cans, there's

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Speaker 5: nothing wrong on the inside. You are still a child

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Speaker 5: of the Most High God, filled with possibility. Now do

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Speaker 3: Move forward with your life.

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Speaker 5: If you do this, I believe and declare God will

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Speaker 5: bring greatness out of a great mess than Ishmael. He

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Speaker 5: will make something significant out of your life.

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Speaker 3: Like with my father. God will not only restore.

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Speaker 5: You, but he'll bring you out better off than you

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Speaker 5: were before.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus's name, if you receive it, can you say

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord, Jesus, I

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