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Speaker 4: Hi. This is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to start with something funny and I heard

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Speaker 5: about these three men. They were out in the wilderness

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Speaker 5: and they came upon this violent, raging river. Needed to

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Speaker 5: please give me the strength to make it across poof.

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Speaker 5: God gave him big arms, strong legs. He was able

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Speaker 5: to swim across two hours. The next man prayed, God,

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Speaker 5: please give me the strength and the tools to make

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Speaker 5: it across poof. God gave him a boat. He was

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Speaker 5: able to roll across in thirty minutes. The next man prayed, God,

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Speaker 5: please give me the strength, the tools, and the intelligence

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Speaker 4: God turned him into a woman.

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Speaker 5: She looked at the map, hiked five minutes upstream, and

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Speaker 6: Men.

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Speaker 4: This is my Bible. I am what it says, I am.

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

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Speaker 4: Today I will be taught the word of God. I

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Speaker 5: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will

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Speaker 5: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about the right mirror.

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Speaker 5: It's so important how we see ourselves. Your self image

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Speaker 5: will determine whether you reach your full potential. And if

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Speaker 5: you see yourself lacking at a disadvantage, not attractive, he

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Speaker 5: will limit your life. It's not that you don't have

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Speaker 5: great potential, it's your self image is distorted.

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Speaker 4: We have the big Rodeo here in town once a year.

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Speaker 5: We always go early to the carnival. One of the

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Speaker 4: This room filled with mirrors. You walk in front of.

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Speaker 4: One mirror makes you a couple feet taller.

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Speaker 5: Another one makes your chest real big, your arm's exaggerated.

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Speaker 5: There are mirrors that leave your body normal, but your

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Speaker 5: head is shrunk, your mouth, nose features all out of whack.

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Speaker 5: Certain mirrors make you look one hundred pounds heavier, body

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Speaker 5: all out of proportion. None of these images are true images.

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Speaker 4: It's not who you really are. They're all distorted. We're

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Speaker 4: smart enough to know it's just for fun. We get

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Speaker 5: Real life don't recognize when we're looking at a distorted mirror,

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Speaker 5: we see ourselves as not talented, not attractive, unqualified. Now

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Speaker 5: that distorted image is holding us back. What would happen

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Speaker 5: if we got rid of the wrong mirror.

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Speaker 4: The scripture says, you've been made in the image of God.

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Speaker 5: He made you talented, beautiful, smart, confident. You are fully

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Speaker 5: equipped for the purpose he's laid out for you. But

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Speaker 5: the trick of the enemy is to distort your self image.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't want you to see yourself the way you

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Speaker 5: really are, Like that carnival, he'll put up these distorted mirrors.

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Speaker 5: The Psalmist said, you've been fearfully and wonderfully made, But

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Speaker 5: when you look in his mirror, you'll see all your flaws.

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Speaker 5: But when you look in that mirror, you'll see all

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Speaker 5: your mistakes, failures, times you don't measure up. Looking back

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Speaker 5: Life hasn't treated you fair. That distorted mirror will come up.

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Speaker 5: You'll see yourself defeated, at a disadvantage, nothing good in

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Speaker 5: your future. When the truth is, God has beauty for

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Speaker 5: those ashes, what was meant for harm.

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Speaker 4: He's turning to your advantage. What's the problem. You're looking

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Speaker 4: in the wrong mirror.

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Speaker 5: As long as you're letting that define who you are,

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Speaker 5: As long as you're believing those distorted images, it will

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Speaker 5: keep you from rising higher. You have to get rid

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Speaker 5: of that mirror and go get the right mirror. James

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Speaker 5: One says that God's word is like a mirror.

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Speaker 4: It reflects who you really are.

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Speaker 5: What God says about you is the true image you

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Speaker 5: need to keep in front of you. You are not

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Speaker 5: defined by people by your past, by how you were raised, by.

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Speaker 4: What didn't work out.

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Speaker 5: You are defined by your creator. When you look in

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Speaker 5: the mirror of God's word, you'll.

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Speaker 4: Find that you are valuable.

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Speaker 5: You are talented, You are confident, favored, blessed worthy. As

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Speaker 5: you see yourself the way God sees you, it begins

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Speaker 5: to heal damaged self in images. His word will repair

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Speaker 5: the hurts, the scars, the unfair, things that have caused

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Speaker 5: you to see yourself as lacking, inferior, unqualified. Keep this

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Speaker 5: right mirror in front of you. May not happen overnight,

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Speaker 5: little by little you're changing. You're going to become what

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Speaker 5: you're seeing. Maybe you're struggling with an addiction. As long

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Speaker 5: as you see yourself addicted, you're going to stay that way.

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Speaker 5: You need to change mirrors, start seeing yourself whole, free, clean, restored.

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Speaker 5: You have to see it on the inside before it

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Speaker 5: will happen on the outside. You won't be successful with

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Speaker 4: Lack a magnet.

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Speaker 5: How you see yourself will keep pulling you toward it.

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Speaker 5: If you see yourself struggling barely getting by scarcity mentality,

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Speaker 5: you're moving toward it. What would happen if you would

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Speaker 5: change mirrors start seeing yourself as blessed, prosperous, talented, having

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Speaker 5: because you're in agreement with God, you move intoward abundance, overflow,

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Speaker 5: good breaks, a bountiful life. If you see yourself as lonely,

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Speaker 5: not a good personality, inferior, you're moving toward loneliness, not

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Speaker 5: You're beautiful, you're attractive, You're want of a kind.

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Speaker 4: You've been crowned with favor. You're a prize.

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Speaker 5: Whoever gets you, it's like they won the lottery. When

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Speaker 5: You'll carry yourself like the royalty God created you to be.

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Speaker 5: He's looking in a distorted mirror. He sees himself as

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Speaker 5: washed up, disadvantaged, nothing good in his future. That's pulling

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Speaker 5: The right mirror says many are the afflictions of the righteous,

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Speaker 4: It says, when the enemy comes like a flood, God

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Speaker 5: It says your latter days will be better than your

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Speaker 5: expecting God's favor, knowing that He didn't bring you this

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Speaker 5: He's not going to start now. He have an image

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Speaker 5: You are full of can do power. The forces that

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Speaker 5: Don't go through life looking in distorted mirrors, mirrors that

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Speaker 5: are magnifying the wrong things, causing you to see yourself

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Speaker 5: as small, limited jole, This problem's too big. I'll never

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Speaker 5: this addiction. The reason the enemy is trying to distort

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Speaker 5: your image is because he knows who you really are.

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Speaker 5: He knows you're a giant killer. He knows you're made

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Speaker 5: in the image of God.

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Speaker 4: He knows you have seeds of greatness.

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Speaker 5: Don't let his phony mirror keep you from stepping into

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Speaker 5: from leaving your mark. How much further will you go,

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Speaker 5: how much happier will you live?

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Speaker 4: How much more confidence will.

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Speaker 5: You have if you'll get rid of the distorted images

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Speaker 5: is what the Israelites had to do. They had been

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Speaker 5: They didn't have a temple where they could worship a

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Speaker 5: you know God has put great.

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Speaker 4: Things in you. You know you can rise higher. You

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Speaker 4: can set a new standard for your family.

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Speaker 5: You can beat the sickness, you can break the addiction.

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Speaker 5: But maybe, like Jim, you're stuck letting fear, intimidation, your

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Speaker 5: weaknesses convince you to live hiding your gifts, hiding.

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Speaker 4: What God put in you.

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Speaker 5: Like that teacher, God has sent me to help you

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Speaker 5: get rid of the wrong mirror. If you'll take this

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Speaker 5: step of faith, you'll discover there's a new mirror Like Gideon,

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Speaker 5: you're a mighty hero. Like James, you can leave your mark.

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Speaker 5: What held you back in the past is not who

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Speaker 5: you are. There is greatness in you.

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Speaker 4: Now do your part. Give God your mirror.

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Speaker 5: When you let his word define who you are, it

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Speaker 5: breaks limitations, freeze you from fears, insecurity and what didn't

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Speaker 5: work out, you will step in to who you were

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Speaker 5: created to be. When my father went to be with

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Speaker 5: the Lord in nineteen ninety nine, I had never ministered

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Speaker 5: before spent seventeen years behind the scenes doing the television production.

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Speaker 5: I thought that's what I would do the rest of

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Speaker 5: my life. My father tried to get me up many

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Speaker 5: times to speak, but always told him no.

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Speaker 4: I was more quiet, reserved. I didn't want to get

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Speaker 4: up in front of people.

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Speaker 5: But when he passed, I knew I was supposed to

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Speaker 5: step up. I felt it so strongly. All these thoughts

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Speaker 5: told me you're too quiet. You don't have the right personality,

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Speaker 5: the training, the experience.

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Speaker 4: Nobody's going to listen to you.

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Speaker 5: Like Gideon, I could hear God telling me to lead

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Speaker 5: the people step into new levels. But I was afraid, intimidated,

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Speaker 5: thinking of all the what is what if I do

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Speaker 5: it and fail.

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Speaker 4: What if I get up and don't have anything to say?

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Speaker 4: What if nobody likes me? What if the church goes down.

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Speaker 5: I've learned you can talk yourself out of your dreams,

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Speaker 5: or you can talk yourself into your dreams.

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Speaker 4: I had to do what I'm asking us to do.

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Speaker 5: I gave God my image, I said, God, I see

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Speaker 5: myself as unqualified.

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Speaker 4: I feel insecure. This doesn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 5: But I'm going to take your mirror and let what

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Speaker 5: you say about me create my.

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Speaker 4: Image all through the day. I am strong in the Lord.

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Speaker 4: I can do all things through Christ.

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Speaker 5: I am surrounded by favor, Goodness, and mercy are following me.

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Speaker 5: I'm equipped, empowered, and anointed.

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Speaker 4: That played so long that I started believing what I

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Speaker 4: was saying.

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Speaker 5: Those words created a new image on the inside. God

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Speaker 5: didn't just help me do it, but he exceeded my expectations.

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Speaker 5: He's taken me where I've never dreamed. Who knows where you'll.

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Speaker 4: Go if you'll get the right mirror.

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Speaker 5: Now see yourself, how you feel, how you were raised,

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Speaker 5: what other people say, but how God sees you.

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Speaker 4: Give him your image. This is what David did.

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Speaker 5: His father overlooked him, left him out in the shepherd's fields.

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Speaker 5: When Samuel came to anoint one of Jesse's sons as

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Speaker 5: the next king, David could have been insecure, low self esteem.

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Speaker 4: Man, my own father doesn't even believe in me.

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Speaker 5: But David's attitude was I've already looked in the right mirror.

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Speaker 4: I know who I am. I'm a giant killer.

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Speaker 5: He may not see it, but that doesn't change it.

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Speaker 5: When he took lunch to his brothers on the battlefield,

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Speaker 5: one brother made fun of him, tried to make him

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Speaker 5: feel small. David could have been offended, upset, but he said, no, thanks.

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Speaker 4: You don't determine my image.

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Speaker 5: I'm not getting my value from you. My value comes

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Speaker 5: from my creator.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking in his mirror.

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Speaker 5: When he told King Saul that he wanted to face Goliath,

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Speaker 5: Saul said, David.

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Speaker 4: Don't be ridiculous. You're just a boy.

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Speaker 5: Most people would have been discouraged, talked out of it.

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Speaker 4: Not David. He didn't let other people control his image.

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Speaker 5: When Goliath saw how small David was, Goliath started laughing,

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Speaker 5: making fun.

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Speaker 4: David said, Goliath, what you say doesn't bother me. I've

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Speaker 4: already looked in the right mirror.

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Speaker 5: Your threats, your insults have come too late. I know

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Speaker 5: who I am. Slung that rock, Goliath came tumbling down.

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Speaker 4: What mirror are you looking at today?

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Speaker 5: Are you letting people you're past, what you're up against

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Speaker 5: determine your image?

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Speaker 4: Joel, this giant is big.

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Speaker 5: I'm afraid I've had disappointments. I can't ever accomplish my dreams.

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Speaker 5: That's a distorted mirror. That's not who you really are.

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Speaker 4: Get rid of that mirror and go to God's word.

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Speaker 4: Let him define your image.

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Speaker 5: If you will see yourself the way God sees you,

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Speaker 5: it will begin to heal damaged self images. That's the

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Speaker 5: only thing that's holding some people back the way they

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Speaker 5: see themselves. I believe and declare today is a new day.

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Speaker 5: Because you have the right mirror. Like Gideon, you're about

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Speaker 5: to see greatness come out of you. Like David, You're

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Speaker 5: about to defeat some giants.

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Speaker 4: Like Jacob.

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Speaker 5: You're going to become Israel, not defined by your mistakes, but.

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Speaker 4: A prince with God in Jesus' name.

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Speaker 5: If you receive it, can you say amen, We like

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Speaker 5: to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord

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Speaker 5: of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 5: into my heart.

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Speaker 4: I make you my Lord and Savior.

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