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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you and pray for God's very fast in your life.

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Speaker 1: Well, God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be with you today, and I hope

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Speaker 2: you'll stay connected with us during the week through our

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Speaker 2: daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media.

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Speaker 1: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I'll let you to

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Speaker 1: start with something.

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Speaker 2: Funny, and I heard about this minister that died and

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Speaker 2: he was standing in line at the Pearly gates. The

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Speaker 2: man in front of him was dressed in a loud

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Speaker 2: T shirt, sunglasses, and blue jeans.

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Speaker 1: Saint Peter asked his name.

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Speaker 2: He said, I'm Joe Cohen, taxicab driver, New York City.

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Speaker 2: Peter checked his list, handed him a gold staff and

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Speaker 2: silk robe said, welcome to Heaven.

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Speaker 1: Minister stepped ups.

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Speaker 2: I'm Reverend Joseph Snow, pastor of Saint Mary's Cathedral. Peter

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Speaker 2: checked his list, handed him a wooden staff and cotton.

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Speaker 1: Robe said wait a minute, couldn't be right.

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Speaker 2: The taxicab driver got a gold staff, and this is

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Speaker 2: all I get. Peter said, sir, up here, we work

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Speaker 2: by results. When you preached, people slept, but when he drove,

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Speaker 2: people prayed. Say it like you mean it. This is

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Speaker 2: my Bible. I am what it says I am. I

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Speaker 2: have what it says I have. I can do what

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Speaker 2: it says I can do. Today I will be taught

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Speaker 2: the word of God. I boldly confessed. My mind is alert,

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Speaker 2: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.

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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk

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Speaker 2: to you today about the true you. On the inside

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Speaker 2: of every one of us is a blessed person, someone confident, valuable, talented.

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Speaker 2: The scripture says you have been fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Speaker 2: The word fearful in the original language means to stand

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Speaker 2: in awe, to reverence. It implies honor, respect. When God

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Speaker 2: created you, he stood back in reverence.

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Speaker 1: He looked at you in awe.

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Speaker 2: He calls you a masterpiece. God didn't make anyone average.

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Speaker 2: He didn't say I didn't do very good on that one.

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Speaker 2: They have a bunch of flaws. They're going to be angry, insecure, jealous.

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Speaker 2: You've been exceptionally made. But what happens is we go

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Speaker 2: through life and we make mistakes, develop bad habits, People

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Speaker 2: don't feel like a masterpiece. We feel condemned. How can

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Speaker 2: I be successful? Look what I've been through or I'm

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Speaker 2: struggling with an addiction, I'm not that talented. But underneath

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Speaker 2: the insecurity, the bad breaks, the failures, there's the.

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Speaker 1: True you, the one that God created.

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Speaker 2: The true you is the blessed you, the happy you,

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Speaker 2: the successful.

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Speaker 1: You, the forgiven you. It's still in you.

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Speaker 2: The beauty of our God is he never loses the

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Speaker 2: vision of the true you. He still remembers the reverence

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Speaker 2: he felt when he created you. Despite all the flaws, weaknesses, disappointments,

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Speaker 1: He still knows who you really are.

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Speaker 2: But life tries to put all these things on us

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Speaker 2: to keep the true You from coming out. Impatience, jealousy,

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Speaker 1: The good news is God is not going to leave

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Speaker 2: He's going to keep working on us, making us, molding

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Speaker 2: us until the true You comes out, the free you,

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Speaker 2: the blessed you, the patient you, the victorious you. God

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Speaker 2: specializes in removing everything that's not the true you. Well, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I'll always struggle with this addiction. I've had it since

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Speaker 1: That is not who you are.

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Speaker 2: That's something the enemy put on you to try to

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Speaker 2: you is free, the true you is whole. That addiction

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Speaker 2: is not how your story ends. God is working right now.

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Speaker 2: Freedom is coming, change are breaking, strongholds.

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Speaker 2: You're about to step up to who you were created

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Speaker 2: I'll always struggle with this, but I am free, I

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Speaker 1: You need to see the free you, not that defeated you.

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Speaker 2: to be blessed. Don't believe those lies. The enemy would

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Speaker 2: in your future. No, the true you is still in you,

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Speaker 1: What people did to you did not stop the true you.

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Speaker 2: What wasn't fair didn't change who God created you to be.

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Speaker 2: He's in the process right now of removing everything that's

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Speaker 1: The anger is not the true you. I'm just hot tempered.

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Speaker 1: I can't help it. My father was this way, my

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Speaker 2: It may be the way you are now, but you're

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Speaker 1: You're the one to see it come to an end.

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Speaker 2: The true you is calm, cool and collected.

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Speaker 1: Don't buy into those lies that you can't change.

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Speaker 2: God is removing everything that's not the true you.

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Speaker 1: He loves you too much to leave you alone.

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Speaker 2: He's going to keep working on you until he sees

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Speaker 2: early fifteen hundreds, a twenty six year old artist named

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Speaker 2: Michael Angelo had a dream to sculpture King David out

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Speaker 2: When he revealed the finished product, this fourteen foot tall

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Speaker 2: Someone asked Michael Angelo how he could accomplish such an

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Speaker 2: He said, I had a vision in my mind of

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Speaker 2: King David, and I just kept removing everything that wasn't him.

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Speaker 2: That's the way God is. He knows who we really are.

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Speaker 2: He can see the masterpiece in the rock. Throughout life,

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Speaker 2: He'll keep removing things that are.

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Speaker 2: The pride, the arrogance, chisel chisel, that doesn't belong on you.

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Speaker 2: Joel nobody in my family is successful. I'm not that

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Speaker 2: talented chisel chisel that limited mindset. That mediocrity doesn't belong

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Speaker 1: We have the creator of the universe.

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Speaker 1: That's the artist that's working on you. He's chiseling away

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Speaker 1: everything that's not the true you see. He can see

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Speaker 1: things that we can't see.

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Speaker 2: So often we let our circumstances determine.

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Speaker 2: Our value, how good we perform determine our worth.

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Speaker 1: God looks beyond all that.

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Speaker 2: Like in the scripture, with David, he sees the giant killer.

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Speaker 1: In the shepherd boy. Like with Gideon, he sees a

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Speaker 2: Like with Rahab, he sees a respectful, honored woman that's

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Speaker 1: God knows what's in you.

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Speaker 2: You may have made mistakes, done things that you're not

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Speaker 2: the honor You may be intimidated thinking you're not that talented.

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Speaker 1: God sees the giant killer.

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Speaker 2: He sees the history maker in you. Or maybe life

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Speaker 2: has thrown you curves. You've been hurt, abandoned, betrayed. God

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Speaker 2: sees the valuable you, the blessed you, the favored you.

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Speaker 2: Nothing that's happened to you has changed the true you.

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Speaker 2: God looks beyond our mistakes, the hurts, the bad breaks,

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Speaker 1: He hasn't lost the.

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Speaker 2: still has the chisel. He still knows what to remove,

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Speaker 2: so the best you will come out, the talented you,

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Speaker 2: Sometimes when God's chisels is uncomfortable, we don't like it.

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Speaker 2: Let him rem move that hardness that's keeping you from

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Speaker 2: The impatient you will try to keep the true you

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Speaker 1: You're not getting the credit you deserve. People are taking

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Speaker 2: He sees what's happening. He knows what's not fair. He

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Speaker 2: not let people steal your joy. Sometimes God will remove

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Speaker 2: keep you from your purpose. He'll never ask you to

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Speaker 2: If you're stubborn you fight it, you're going to miss

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Speaker 2: the greater things God has in store. He's not trying

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Speaker 2: to take something from you. He's trying to get something

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Speaker 2: better to you. He wants to bring out the true you.

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Speaker 1: The true you is.

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Speaker 2: More blessed, more successful, more peaceful than you can imagine.

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Speaker 2: Friend of mine work for this company for over twenty years.

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Speaker 2: He's the nicest person in the world, always kind, respectful,

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Speaker 2: go in the extra mile. Called one day and said, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I just got fired from my job. They said I

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Speaker 2: Nothing you've done has stopped your destiny. The mercy of

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Speaker 2: Here's what I'm saying, don't get discouraged because of who

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Speaker 2: God is about to take off of you. This is

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Speaker 1: I realized I was no longer an orphan. I was

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Speaker 1: adopted by my heavenly father.

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Speaker 2: The right people begin to show up, doors begin to open.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 2: That young woman, Desiree, right here on the front row,

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Speaker 1: She has the joy, the smile, the victory. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I've learned.

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Speaker 2: God will not leave you at a deficit. What you

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Speaker 2: didn't get, what wasn't fair, what you feel robbed of.

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Speaker 2: God is going to make it up to you. He's

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Speaker 2: going to pay you back for the unfair things. But

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Speaker 2: if you would have seen Desiree years back, you would

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Speaker 2: have seen the broken you, the abandoned you, the angry you.

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Speaker 2: All these things the enemy had put on her to

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Speaker 2: try to keep her from her destiny. But underneath the shame,

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Speaker 2: the anger, the rejection was the masterpiece. There was this beautiful, confident, radiant,

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Speaker 2: talented young woman. Maybe like her, you're carrying shame, hurts, brokenness.

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Speaker 2: Life has put you at a disadvantage. God said in Joshua,

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Speaker 2: This day I am removing the shame from my people.

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Speaker 2: This day God is breaking chains. This day, strongholds are

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Speaker 2: coming down. This day, things that have hindered you are

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Speaker 2: being chiseled away. Through my eyes of faith, I see

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Speaker 2: the true you, the blessed you, the free you, the

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Speaker 2: restored you, the joy for you. I see the masterpiece

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Speaker 2: God created you to be. The two years that Michael

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Speaker 2: Angelo worked on sculpting David, he did it all in private,

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Speaker 2: wouldn't let anyone come in. When he finished, he revealed

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Speaker 2: it to the public. Now five hundred million people have

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Speaker 2: seen it in person.

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Speaker 1: You think about that old piece of rock, flaws, weaknesses.

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Speaker 1: Other artists said it was not useful. Yet it's been

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Speaker 1: seen by half a billion people.

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Speaker 2: When God's working on you, chiseling away what's not necessary.

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Speaker 2: Often he'll do it in private. He'll keep you hidden,

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Speaker 2: not noticed. But when it's your time, when God says

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Speaker 2: you're ready, he'll cause you to be seen. You'll become

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Speaker 2: a trophy of his grace. Where people think, wasn't that

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Speaker 2: the old rock that had flaws. Wasn't that the fisherman?

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Speaker 2: Now he's up there leading.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that the young boy from the Great Depression? Now

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Speaker 1: he's the pastor. Wasn't she abandoned by her parents? And

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Speaker 1: look at her? Now?

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Speaker 2: God's going to cause you to shine, to be an

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Speaker 2: example of what he can do despite imperfections, despite what

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Speaker 2: life throws your way. You may have some things that

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Speaker 2: are limiting you. Now, don't worry. God still has his chisel.

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Speaker 2: He's still working on you. I believe and declare the

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Speaker 2: true you is about to come out. What's holding you

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Speaker 2: back is being broken. The shame is being removed. You're

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Speaker 2: about to step into favor, freedom, wholeness, to become the

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Speaker 2: masterpiece God created you to be in Jesus' name, And

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Speaker 1: It, can you say amen? I'd like to give you.

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Speaker 2: of my sins. Come into my heart. I make you

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Speaker 2: my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer,

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Speaker 2: we believe you got born again. We'd love to give

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Speaker 3: We all carry a mental picture of what our life

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Speaker 3: Are you willing to change your mindset in order to

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