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

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. We

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Speaker 1: believe you're going to have an awesome twenty twenty four, healthy, productive,

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Speaker 1: and favor filled. God bless you today and enjoy the message. Well,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. It's great to be with you today,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the

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Speaker 1: week through our daily podcast, YouTube channel, social media. We'll

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Speaker 1: keep you encouraged and inspired. I'd like to start with

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Speaker 1: something funny and I heard about these three men. They

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Speaker 1: were out in the wilderness and they came upon this violent,

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Speaker 1: raging river. Needed to get to the other side. The

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Speaker 1: first man prayed, God, please give me the strength to

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Speaker 1: make it across. Poof God gave him big arms, strong legs.

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Speaker 1: He was able to swim across two hours. The next

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Speaker 1: man prayed, God, please give me the strength and the

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Speaker 1: tools to make it across. Poof God gave him a boat.

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Speaker 1: He was able to roll across in thirty minutes. The

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Speaker 1: next man prayed, God, please give me the strength, the

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Speaker 1: tool and the intelligence to make it across, and poof

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Speaker 1: God turned him into a woman. She looked at the map,

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Speaker 1: hiked five minutes upstream and walked across the bridge. All right,

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Speaker 1: I feel like the women are cheering there. Here we go. Men,

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Speaker 1: this is my Bible. I am what it says I am.

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Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do

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Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 1: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus's name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about the right mirror. It's

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Speaker 1: so important how we see ourselves. Your self image will

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Speaker 1: determine whether you reach your full potential. And if you

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Speaker 1: see yourself lacking at a disadvantage, not attractive, it will

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Speaker 1: limit your life. It's not that you don't have great potential,

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Speaker 1: it's your self image is distorted. We have the big

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Speaker 1: Rodeo here in town once a year. We always go

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Speaker 1: early to the carnival. One of the attractions is this

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Speaker 1: room filled with mirrors you walk in front of. One

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Speaker 1: mirror makes you a couple feet taller. Another one makes

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Speaker 1: your chest real big, your arm's exaggerated. There are mirrors

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Speaker 1: that leave your body normal, but your head is shrunk.

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Speaker 1: Your mouth nose, features all out of whack. Certain mirrors

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Speaker 1: make you look one hundred pounds heavier, body all out

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Speaker 1: of proportion. None of these images are true images. It's

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Speaker 1: not who you really are. They're all distorted. We're smart

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Speaker 1: enough to know it's just for fun. We get a

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Speaker 1: good laugh, move on. But how many of us in

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Speaker 1: real life don't recognize when we're looking at a distorted mirror?

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Speaker 1: We see ourselves as not talented, not attractive, unqualified. Now

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Speaker 1: that distorted image is holding us back. What would happen

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Speaker 1: if we got rid of the wrong mirror? The scripture said,

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Speaker 1: you've been made in the image of God. He made

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Speaker 1: you talented, beautiful, smart, confident. You are fully equipped for

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Speaker 1: the purpose he's laid out for you. But the trick

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Speaker 1: of the enemy is to distort your self image. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't want you to see yourself the way you really are.

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Speaker 1: Like that Carnival, he'll put up these distorted mirrors. The

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Speaker 1: Psalmist said, you've been fearfully and wonderfully made. But when

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Speaker 1: you look in his mirror, you'll see all your flaws.

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Speaker 1: Everything you don't like will be exaggerated. You've been forgiven, redeemed,

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Speaker 1: But when you look In that mirror, you'll see all

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Speaker 1: your mistakes, failures, times you don't measure up. Looking back

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Speaker 1: at you is a guilty, unworthy, undeserving person. It's a

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Speaker 1: distorted mirror. Have you been through disappointments? Life hasn't treated

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Speaker 1: you fair? That distorted mirror will come up. You'll see

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Speaker 1: yourself defeated, at a disadvantage, nothing good in your future.

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Speaker 1: When the truth is, God has beauty for those ashes.

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Speaker 1: What was meant for harm? He's turning to your advantage.

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Speaker 1: What's the problem. You're looking in the wrong mirror. As

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Speaker 1: long as you're letting that define who you are, As

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Speaker 1: long as you're believing those distorted images, it will keep

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Speaker 1: you from rising higher. You have to get rid of

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Speaker 1: that mirror and go get the right mirror. James One

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Speaker 1: says that God's word is like a mirror. It reflects

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Speaker 1: who you really are. What God says about you is

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Speaker 1: the true image you need to keep in front of you.

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Speaker 1: You are not defined by people by your past, by

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Speaker 1: how you were raised, by what didn't work out. You

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Speaker 1: are defined by your creator. When you look in the

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Speaker 1: mirror of God's word, you'll find that you are valuable,

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Speaker 1: You are talented, You are confident, favored, blessed worthy. As

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Speaker 1: you see yourself the way God sees you, it begins

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Speaker 1: to heal damaged self images. His word will repair the hurts,

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Speaker 1: the scars, the unfair things that have caused you to

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Speaker 1: see yourself as lacking, inferior, unqualified. Keep this right mirror

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Speaker 1: in front of you. May not happen overnight, but if

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Speaker 1: you will keep seeing yourself the right way, little by

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Speaker 1: little you're changing, You're going to become what you're seeing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're struggling with an addiction. As long as you

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Speaker 1: see yourself addicted, you're going to stay that way. You

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Speaker 1: need to change mirrors, start seeing yourself whole, free, clean, restored.

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Speaker 1: You have to see it on the inside before it

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Speaker 1: will happen on the outside. You won't be successful with

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Speaker 1: a negative image of yourself. Lack a magnet. How you

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Speaker 1: see yourself will keep pulling you toward it. If you

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Speaker 1: see yourself struggling barely getting by scarcity, men, men, you're

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Speaker 1: moving toward it. What would happen if you would change mirrors,

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Speaker 1: start seeing yourself as blessed, prosperous, talented, having a bountiful year. Then,

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Speaker 1: because you have the right image, because you're in agreement

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Speaker 1: with God, you move intoward abundance, overflow, good breaks, a

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Speaker 1: bountiful life. If you see yourself as lonely, not a

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Speaker 1: good personality, inferior, you're moving toward loneliness, not having friends,

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Speaker 1: not meeting anyone. Do yourself a favor. Change mirrors. You're beautiful,

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Speaker 1: you're attractive, You're want of a kind. You've been crowned

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Speaker 1: with favor. You're a prize. Whoever gets you it's like

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Speaker 1: they won the lottery. When you have the right mirror,

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Speaker 1: you'll put your shoulders back, You'll carry yourself like the

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Speaker 1: royalty God created you to be. I talked to a

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Speaker 1: man recently. He told how his business is down, how

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Speaker 1: the pandemic has set up him back, and his company

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Speaker 1: is making changes, his retirement is in jeopardy, on and on.

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Speaker 1: When he got finished, I was depressed too. I was

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Speaker 1: ready to give up. Oh is a problem. He's looking

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Speaker 1: in a distorted mirror. He sees himself as washed up, disadvantage,

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Speaker 1: nothing good in his future. That's pulling him toward lack, struggle, mediocrity.

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Speaker 1: I told him what I'm telling you. You have to

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Speaker 1: get a new mirror. God's word, the right mirror says,

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Speaker 1: many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord

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Speaker 1: delivers us out of them all. It says when the

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Speaker 1: enemy comes like a flood, God will raise up a barrier.

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Speaker 1: It says, your latter days will be better than your

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Speaker 1: former days. If you'll see yourself that way, as a victor,

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Speaker 1: not a victim, then even in tough times, you'll stay confident, hopeful,

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Speaker 1: expecting God's favor, knowing that He didn't bring you this

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Speaker 1: far to leave you. He hasn't failed you in the past.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to start now. Have an image of victory.

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Speaker 1: You're not weak, defeated, overcome by problems. You're a warrior.

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Speaker 1: You've been armed with strength for every battle. You are

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Speaker 1: go through life looking in distorted mirrors, mirrors that are

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Speaker 1: magnifying the wrong things, causing you to see yourself as small, limited.

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Speaker 1: reason the enemy is trying to distort your image is

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Speaker 1: because he knows who you really are. He knows you're

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Speaker 1: a giant killer. He knows you're made in the image

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Speaker 1: of God. He knows you have seeds of greatness. Don't

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Speaker 1: Don't let a wrong self image keep you from leaving

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Speaker 1: your mark. How much further will you go, how much

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Speaker 1: happier will you live? How much more confidence will you

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Speaker 1: start seeing yourself the way God sees you. This is

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Speaker 1: what the Israelites had to do. They had been in

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Speaker 1: slavery for many years. God brought them out parted the

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Speaker 1: Red Sea. They were headed toward the Promised Land in

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Speaker 1: water at the entry of the tent. What's significant is

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Speaker 1: how this bowl was made. Exodus thirty eight says Moses

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Speaker 1: see your reflection. The Israelite women got these mirrors from

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Speaker 1: the Egyptians as they were on their way out of slavery.

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Speaker 1: God caused them to have favor with their captors, and

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Speaker 1: they gave them their gold, silver and fine clothing. These

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Speaker 1: mirrors were valuable to the women had nothing special for

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Speaker 1: Then Moses comes along says, give me your mirrors. I

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Speaker 1: the priest will cleanse themselves. He could have said, give

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Speaker 1: saw tired, defeated, unqualified people staring back. Imagine being in

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Speaker 1: only reminded them of all they'd been through, how unfear

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Speaker 1: Notice what God did. He melted down the bronze mirrors,

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Speaker 1: signifying I'm melting down anything that does not reflect who

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Speaker 1: I made you to be. I'm melting down the shame,

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Speaker 1: bowl for cleansing, meaning I'm washing away the negative things

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Speaker 1: to do, washing away mistakes you've made, the bad breaks,

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Speaker 1: what was ana, And I'm going to give you a

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Speaker 1: new way of seeing yourself. God was saying, you can't

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Speaker 1: have to give God your mirror. Don't let how you

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Speaker 1: to God. He'll melt down the wrong ways you see yourself.

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Speaker 1: Don't let other people determine your image. What someone said,

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Speaker 1: That wrong mirror will keep you in bondage. God knew

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Speaker 1: if these women kept seeing themselves the way they were,

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Speaker 1: they would have lived defeated, insecured, feeling less than. He

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Speaker 1: to give him your mirror first. Let him have your image,

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Speaker 1: go into your promised land. But sometimes it's guilt holding

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Speaker 1: We see ourselves unworthy, not valuable. We sit on the

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Speaker 1: that old image. Give God your mirror. His word will

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Speaker 1: melt down all the guilt, the shame, the insecurities. He

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Speaker 1: sees you without fault. He calls you righteous, holy, blameless.

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Speaker 1: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent

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Speaker 1: we believe you got born again. We'd love to send

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Speaker 1: You can text the number or go to the website.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll get into a good Bible based church

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Speaker 1: and keep God first place.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes the difficulties of life can be so overwhelming you

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Speaker 2: feel like you're stumbling around in the dark. Things are

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Speaker 2: But as a miracle even possible.

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Speaker 1: We all face situations where we don't see a way out.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to get discouraged and give up on what

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Speaker 1: we're believing. For that's how we felt. In nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given a

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Speaker 1: but she chose to believe that God is a miracle worker. Today,

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Speaker 1: I'm ninety years young. I thank God every day that

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Speaker 1: God did it for my mother. Yes, He'll do it

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Speaker 2: As our way of saying thank you for your gift

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Speaker 2: God has miracles stored up for you. Healing, freedom, favor, breakthroughs.

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Speaker 1: Miracles still happen today, and faith is what activates God's power.

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Speaker 1: When you believe all things are possible, that's when you'll

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Speaker 1: Victory and I are standing in faith with you. We

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Speaker 1: pray for you every day. We appreciate your prayer and support.

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Speaker 1: Your generosity is impacting so many lives. Remember you can

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Speaker 1: on Serious XM until we meet again. May the Lord

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