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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you

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Speaker 1: enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and

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Speaker 1: share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray

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Speaker 1: for God's very best in your life. Well, God bless

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Speaker 1: you and welcome. Thanks so much for letting us come

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Speaker 1: one of our services. These are the finest people in

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Speaker 1: all of Houston, Texas right here at Lathwood. Love to

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Speaker 1: have you come out whenever you can. But thanks for

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Speaker 1: tuning in and thank you again for coming out today.

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Speaker 1: And I like to get started with something funny and

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Speaker 1: heard about this five year old boy named Tommy. Was

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Speaker 1: his grandmother's birthday, and after wishing her a happy birthday,

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Speaker 1: he said, grandmother, how old are you? She said, Tommy,

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty nine and holding He thought about it a moment,

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Speaker 1: said grandmother, how old would you be if you let

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Speaker 1: go hold up your Bible say it like you mean it.

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

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Speaker 1: to talk to you today about seeing yourself as a masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: Too many people go around feeling wrong on the inside.

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Speaker 1: They don't really like who they are. They think if

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Speaker 1: if I just look like her, then I would feel

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Speaker 1: good about myself. Now, when God created you, he went

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Speaker 1: to great links to make you exactly like he wanted.

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Speaker 1: You didn't accidentally get your personality. You didn't just happen

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Speaker 1: to get your height, your looks, your skin color, your gifts.

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Speaker 1: God designed you on purpose to be the way you are.

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Speaker 1: You have what you need to fulfill your destiny. If

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Speaker 1: you needed to be taller, God would have made you taller.

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Speaker 1: If you needed to be a different nationality, God would

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Speaker 1: have made you that way. If you needed to look

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Speaker 1: like her instead of you, you would have looked like her.

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Speaker 1: You've got to be confident in who God made you

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Speaker 1: to be, and Ephesians two ten says we are God's masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: That means you are not ordinary. You didn't come off

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Speaker 1: an assembly line. You weren't mass produced. You are one

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Speaker 1: There will never be another you. If you're going to

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Speaker 1: reach your highest potential, you have to see yourself as unique,

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Speaker 1: as an original, as God's very own masterpiece. When I

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Speaker 1: was in my early twenties, I was sitting on the

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Speaker 1: beach in India, all alone, watching the sunset. It was

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Speaker 1: I sat there reflecting, thinking about my life. I heard

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Speaker 1: God ask me something, not out loud, but just an

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Speaker 1: impression down in here. He said, Joel, you think this

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Speaker 1: I think this is a magnificent picture. He said, well,

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Speaker 1: what do you think would be my most prized painting,

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Speaker 1: I said, God, it must be this sunset, This is magnificent.

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Speaker 1: He said no, it's not this. Earlier that year, I'd

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Speaker 1: been in the Rocky Mountains. They were spectacular. I said, God,

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Speaker 1: When I made the solar System, the waters, the mountains,

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Speaker 1: I was proud of that. That was great. But Joel,

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Speaker 1: I created you in my own image. Friends, you are

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Speaker 1: he stepped back and looked, said that was good. Another masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: says made by Almighty God. Now put your shoulders back,

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Speaker 1: God did not make anything average. If you have breath

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Speaker 1: all through the day you have to remind yourself who

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Speaker 1: Almighty God breathed his life into you, he approved you,

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Speaker 1: equipped you, empowered you than any thoughts of low self

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Speaker 1: esteem inferiority, they won't have a chance. A few years

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Speaker 1: What dawned on me that night is it's not so

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Speaker 1: much what the painting looks like, it's who the painter is.

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Speaker 1: The painting gets its value from its creator in the

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Speaker 1: same way, our value doesn't come because of what we

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Speaker 1: Our value comes from the fact that Almighty God is

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Speaker 1: our painter. Now, don't criticize what God has painted. Accept yourself.

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Speaker 1: Approve yourself. You are not an accident. You have been

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Speaker 1: fearfully and wonderfully made. Now I wonder what would happen

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Speaker 1: if all through the day, instead of putting ourselves down,

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Speaker 1: instead of dwelling on the negative, we would go around

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Speaker 1: you wonderful thing. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. That's

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Speaker 1: what David said, so on one thirty nine, God, I

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Speaker 1: What you have done is wonderful. How many of us

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Speaker 1: will be bold enough to say, like David, I'm amazing,

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Speaker 1: a masterpiece. Now it's up to you to get in

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Speaker 1: your destiny. The recording that should be playing in our

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Speaker 1: I'm a child of a most high God. Some of you,

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Speaker 1: this is what's holding you back. Your recording is negative.

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Speaker 1: There are enough people in life already against you. Don't

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Speaker 1: be against yourself. Change your recording. Start seeing yourself as

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Speaker 1: the masterpiece God created you to be. I read a

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Speaker 1: story about this man that died in extreme poverty. At

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Speaker 1: it was extremely valuable. It had been painted back in

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Speaker 1: you go around thinking, Wow, I'm just kind of averaging.

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Speaker 1: That's why every morning you need to remind yourself I

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Speaker 1: worth six million dollars. You've heard of the six million

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Speaker 1: Jesus said to love your neighbor as you love yourself.

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Speaker 1: that you should. And this is why some people don't

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Speaker 1: have good relationships. If you don't get along with yourself,

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Speaker 1: you'll never get along with others. We all have weaknesses, shortcomings,

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Speaker 1: things that we wish were different, But God never designed

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Speaker 1: us to go through life being against ourselves. The opinion

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Speaker 1: not valuable, then you will become exactly that. You are

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Speaker 1: constantly conveying what you feel on the inside, even subconsciously,

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Speaker 1: push people away. The problem is on the inside. You

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Speaker 1: carry yourself the way you see yourself. I've seen just

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Speaker 1: the opposite happen. A few years ago. I met a

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Speaker 1: young lady, and on the surface, in the natural and

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Speaker 1: I say this very respectfully, she wasn't necessarily attractive, she

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Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of natural beauty, But can I

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Speaker 1: She knew she was made in the image of Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: looked ordinary, but she thought extraordinary. She carried herself like

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