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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.

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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 throughout the week.

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Speaker 1: We have a daily podcast that you can download. You

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Speaker 1: and you can follow us on social media. I promise

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Speaker 1: you we'll keep you encouraged and inspired. But thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for tuning in and thanks again for coming out today.

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Speaker 1: And I like to start with something funny. And I

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Speaker 1: heard about this middle aged woman. She had a heart

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Speaker 1: attack on the operating table. She asked God if this

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Speaker 1: was it. God said, no, you have forty more years.

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Speaker 1: Upon recovery, she decided to stay in the hospital, have

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Speaker 1: a facelift, Tommy Tuck, life of suction and extreme makeover.

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Speaker 1: Two months later, she was leaving the hospital, she was

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Speaker 1: hit by a car and killed. She got to Heaven

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Speaker 1: said God, I don't understand it. I thought you said

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Speaker 1: I had forty more years. God said, I'm sorry I

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Speaker 1: didn't recognize you no spiritual value. But let's say it ready.

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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'll 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' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about nothing to prove. Too

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Speaker 1: often we're trying to get our worth out of what

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Speaker 1: we do, how well we perform. Am I a good

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Speaker 1: enough mother? Am I talented enough, strong enough, successful enough?

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Speaker 1: We think if we work harder, outperform our coworker, outdress

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Speaker 1: our friend, outdrive our neighbor, then we'll feel good about ourselves.

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Speaker 1: We live in this proving mode, with this need to impress.

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Speaker 1: The problem is we're getting our value from the wrong place.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know who you are a child of

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Speaker 1: the Most High God, then you'll spend your energy trying

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Speaker 1: to get other people to validate you. But when you're

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Speaker 1: secure in who God made you to be, when you're

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Speaker 1: comfortable with your gifts, you're content with your looks. You're

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Speaker 1: happy with your personality, then you don't go around competing

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Speaker 1: with others, jealous of a friend that's more talented, living

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Speaker 1: to impress that cousin that's more attractive. You know you're

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Speaker 1: one of a kind, a masterpiece made in the image

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Speaker 1: of God. When you know who you are, you won't

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Speaker 1: live in this proving mode, trying to impress people, getting

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Speaker 1: your value out of what they think. Do they accept me,

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Speaker 1: do they compliment me, do they approve me? If not,

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Speaker 1: let me work harder, Let me prove to them that

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Speaker 1: I'm good enough. Now, you don't need their applause. Them

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Speaker 1: validating you is not going to move you towards your destiny.

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Speaker 1: Them cheering you on is nice, but if you're getting

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Speaker 1: your worth out of that, if they quit doing it,

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Speaker 1: then you'll feel devalued, not good enough. You'll have to

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Speaker 1: work harder, do more to impress them. It's a treadmill.

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Speaker 1: You're doing all this work but not going anywhere. Take

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Speaker 1: the pressure off. You have nothing to prove. Your destiny

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Speaker 1: is not contingent on them liking you. Their approval is

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Speaker 1: not keeping you from your purpose. It's a distraction. You're

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Speaker 1: spending time and energy trying to impress outperform, to show

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Speaker 1: them that you're good enough, when in fact, you're already

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Speaker 1: good enough. You've already been approved. God created you in

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Speaker 1: his own image. Now run your race. They may be

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Speaker 1: more talent, celebrate them. You're not competing with them. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to prove to them that you're talented too.

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Speaker 1: You have gifts that they don't have. Be confident in

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Speaker 1: who God made you to be. I talked to a

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Speaker 1: man growing up. His father was very hard on him,

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Speaker 1: working night and day, trying to prove to his father

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Speaker 1: that he was wrong. Prove to him that he's talented,

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Speaker 1: prove that he's successful. His father still doesn't acknowledge his success,

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Speaker 1: He still doesn't compliment him. I told him what I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you. You don't have to convince him that you're

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Speaker 1: good enough. He doesn't control your destiny. That's a distraction.

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Speaker 1: value from people, get your value from God. Anytime we're

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Speaker 1: trying to prove something, the root cause is insecurity. Your

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Speaker 1: value should come from who you are and not what

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Speaker 1: will always be a voice saying you don't measure up.

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Speaker 1: You need to be stronger, skinnier, taller, wealthier, more talented,

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Speaker 1: have nothing to approve. You don't have to prove to

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Speaker 1: She does everything for her children after school. They do

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Speaker 1: arts and crafts, then little League, then ballet, then singing lessons,

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Speaker 1: then pilot lessons, then algebra, thie. They do field trips

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Speaker 1: on the weekends, she makes all their clothes. On Fridays,

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Speaker 1: they learn Chinese. You don't have to keep up with

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Speaker 1: may have been grace for that. She's walking in her anointing,

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Speaker 1: her calling her gifting. Feel sorry for her kids, but

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Speaker 1: you're not competing with her. If you go into approving mode,

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Speaker 1: trying to outperform, feeling less than because you're not like her.

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Speaker 1: All that's going to do is wear you out and

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Speaker 1: take your joy. You're trying to prove something that you

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Speaker 1: don't have to prove. You've entered a race that you're

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Speaker 1: not competing in. Walk in your anointing. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to keep up with other people. If you're getting your

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Speaker 1: value on how you measure up to your peers. Am

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Speaker 1: trying to impress. That's a never ending cycle. Get off

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Speaker 1: to be better than your neighbor, more talented than your friend,

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Speaker 1: skinnier than your cousin. That's not your race. You're not

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Speaker 1: competing with them. You're competing with yourself. Be the best

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Speaker 1: you that you can be. I've seen ladies that are

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Speaker 1: naturally a size fourteen. You can meet someone that's naturally

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Speaker 1: a size six. It's not necessarily about discipline, diet, will power.

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Speaker 1: It's about genetics. It's about who God made you to be.

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Speaker 1: If you're competing in a race you're not supposed to

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Speaker 1: be in, you're going to live frustrated. You could not

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Speaker 1: Why are you competing in a race that was never

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Speaker 1: designed for you. What are you trying to prove that?

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Speaker 1: If you get small enough, strong enough, successful enough, then

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Speaker 1: you can feel good about yourself. Get out of that race.

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Speaker 1: You can feel good about who you are right now,

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Speaker 1: you are in a class all by yourself. Well, when

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Speaker 1: God made you, he threw away the mold. He stepped

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Speaker 1: back and said that was good. Another masterpiece. He put

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Speaker 1: his DNA in you. Who said you don't look good,

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Speaker 1: Who said you're not talented enough, Who said you needed

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Speaker 1: to be taller, more creative, have a better personality. Don't

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Speaker 1: believe those lies. Quit comparing, quit competing, and run your race.

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Speaker 1: When our children were small, most of my siblings homeschooled

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Speaker 1: their children, and I asked my sister Lisa about it.

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Speaker 1: She said, when you send them off to school, that's

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Speaker 1: eight hours a day that they're being influenced by someone else.

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Speaker 1: But we felt this pressure to be like them. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: we do things with the wrong motives. I'm a homeschool

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Speaker 1: my children, so you won't look down on me. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to try to prove that I'm a good parent too.

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Speaker 1: You have to fall your own heart. When you compare

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Speaker 1: with others, you'll start competing. The problem is you're not

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Speaker 1: running their race. The grace on their life is going

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Speaker 1: to be different than the grace on your life. It's

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Speaker 1: not a one size fits all. If you think you

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Speaker 1: have to do what they're doing, are you're going to

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Speaker 1: going to get distracted from your destiny. We put our

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Speaker 1: You have nothing to prove. You don't have to prove

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Speaker 1: to God that you're worthy. He's already made you worthy.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to prove that you deserve his goodness.

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Speaker 1: He knew every mistake you would make, every fault, every weakness,

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Speaker 1: in who He made you to be. You're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to live striving, pressured, hoping you can measure up, hoping

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Speaker 1: you can do good enough. Maybe you can earn his blessings.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to earn it. When he breathed life

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Speaker 1: into you, he put his blessing on you. You're already qualified.

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Speaker 1: impress people, you may win their approval. They compliment you, man,

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Speaker 1: you look great today, are successful? Praise from people just

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Speaker 1: feeds our ego. We should live to impress God, He

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Speaker 1: spend our time impressing God. When you're secure in who

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Speaker 1: given us different gifts. I don't feel inferior because my

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Speaker 1: fact that I'm a child of Almighty God. Now I

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Speaker 1: say this with humility, but I realize I'm a masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. I'm equipped, empowered, approved and anointed.

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Speaker 1: You have to get your value from who you are

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Speaker 1: and not what you do. Otherwise you spend your whole

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Speaker 1: to convince them to be for you. Look at the

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Speaker 1: That's all good, but it's superficial. If it changes, then

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Speaker 1: your self worth will change. I was writing to a

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Speaker 1: easy way. He said, my ex girlfriend lives on this

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Speaker 1: what she's missed out on. They had been broken up

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Speaker 1: Time to renew my faith. It's January. It's time to

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