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Speaker 1: Hope you're having a great summer.

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Speaker 2: Know that we're praying for you, and we know God

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Speaker 2: has awesome things in store.

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Speaker 1: So great having you with us. Enjoy the message today.

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Speaker 1: God bless you to sound great tonight you may be seated.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you today about not letting

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Speaker 2: people label you. Throughout life, people are constantly telling us

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Speaker 2: what we can or cannot become, what we do or

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Speaker 2: don't have.

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Speaker 1: It's just like.

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Speaker 2: They're sticking a label on us. Too short, too slow,

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Speaker 2: too old, too many mistakes, not talented enough. Most of

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Speaker 2: the time, these labels are not what God says about us.

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Speaker 2: But if we don't know any better, we'll wear them

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Speaker 1: And the sad thing is.

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Speaker 2: If we keep them on long enough, they'll become so

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Speaker 2: ingrained in our thinking that will become what people have

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Speaker 2: said rather than what God has said. Albert Einstein's teacher

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Speaker 2: told Einstein's father, no matter what Albert does, he'll never

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Speaker 2: be successful. Friends, people don't determine our destiny.

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Speaker 1: God, does I know a gentleman that was.

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Speaker 2: Told by his high school counselor that he was not

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Speaker 2: that talented and he should focus on the lowest skilled job.

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Speaker 1: He could find.

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Speaker 2: What happened That counselor stuck a label on him below.

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Speaker 1: Average, barely get by, not talented. He didn't know any better.

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Speaker 2: He wore the label year after year in his thinking,

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Speaker 2: I'm not that smart.

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Speaker 1: I just don't have what it takes.

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Speaker 2: He got a job at the local factory and stayed

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Speaker 2: at the lowest level year after year. One day the

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Speaker 2: another factory. This company had a policy that every applicant

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Speaker 2: had to take an IQ test.

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Speaker 1: He took the test, and.

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Speaker 2: His IQ came back at the genius level. The owner

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Speaker 2: for this low level position. You've scored the highest of

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Speaker 1: Three year history.

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Speaker 2: That day a stronghold was broken in his mind. That

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Speaker 2: day he removed a label that had held him back

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Speaker 2: for seventeen years. He eventually started his own company and

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Speaker 2: even went on to invent several products that are now

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Speaker 1: And some of you just like him.

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Speaker 2: If you're going to rise to the next level, if

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Speaker 2: you've got to remove.

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Speaker 1: A label that's holding you back.

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Speaker 2: Somebody has convinced you that you've reached your limits, gone

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Speaker 2: many mistakes. You're all washed up. You'll never accomplish your dreams.

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Speaker 2: You just don't have the resources. No, people don't determine

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Speaker 1: God does.

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Speaker 2: When I was growing up, I was very small. I

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Speaker 2: grew six inches after high school when I played basketball.

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Speaker 2: At one point I was practically a foot shorter than

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Speaker 2: my teammates. Somehow I got the nickname Peanut.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere I went.

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Speaker 2: That's all I heard, Hey Peanut, good morning Peanut. During

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Speaker 2: the basketball games, in front of the whole high school class,

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Speaker 2: Go Peanut, go. The cheerleaders, big G, little O, go go.

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Speaker 2: I was the little old and no one said it derogatorily.

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Speaker 2: They just said it in fun. But I have to

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Speaker 1: Help my self esteem.

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Speaker 2: Every time I heard it, it reminded me.

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Speaker 1: Of what I was not.

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Speaker 2: I'm not as tall as everybody else, I'm below average,

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Speaker 2: I'm not up to par. I let that label stick,

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Speaker 2: and I became less and less out going, more quiet,

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Speaker 1: Other people to put on me.

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Speaker 2: One day, I did what I'm asking you to do.

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Speaker 1: I took that label off.

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Speaker 2: I realized when God made me, he didn't make a mistake.

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Speaker 2: He made me like I am on purpose. I may

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Speaker 1: In small packages.

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Speaker 2: In the same way, you are not too tall, too short,

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Speaker 1: God says you are a masterpiece.

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Speaker 2: Now put your shoulders back, hold your head up high,

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Speaker 2: Today in our schools there's a lot of bullying. I

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Speaker 2: had a parent tell me recently how her tenure old

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Speaker 2: Listen to students, young people. When you work hard, you study,

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Speaker 2: People may call you stiff, nerd, geek, bookworm, but don't

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Speaker 2: worry about it. In a few years they'll call your boss.

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Speaker 1: They won't be talking about you. They'll be working for you.

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Speaker 2: Now, don't let their label keep you from becoming all

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Speaker 2: God's created you to be. Most of the time, the

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Speaker 2: reason people say hurtful, critical things is simply because they

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Speaker 1: Let me make it real clear.

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Speaker 2: Most of the time, the reason you have haters is because, down.

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Speaker 1: Deep, they want to become just like you. But the

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Speaker 2: They've allowed their own heart to become polluted, and since

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Speaker 2: God won't let them rise to your level, the only

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Speaker 1: Fault and criticize.

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Speaker 2: They think if they can push you down and make

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Speaker 2: won't feel so badly about themselves. Eleanor Roosevelt said, no

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Speaker 2: one can make you feel inferior without your permission. They

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Speaker 2: may call you names, try to make you look small,

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Speaker 2: but you don't.

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Speaker 1: Have to wear their labels.

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Speaker 2: Now I've learned you are not what people call you. You

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Speaker 2: are what you answer to. They can call you dumb

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Speaker 2: and old and fat, loser and failure.

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Speaker 1: Don't answer to that. That's not who you are.

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Speaker 2: Just keep moving forward, being your best each day, doing

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Speaker 1: You don't have to let their labels stip.

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Speaker 2: Every once in a while, my children and I will

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Speaker 2: make chocolate chip cookies. The instructions tell you to grease

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Speaker 2: the pen cookies want stick.

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Speaker 1: We use a.

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Speaker 2: Product called PAM and you spray it on the pan

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Speaker 2: and keeps the cookies from sticking. In the same way,

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Speaker 2: when you keep your mind focused on what God says

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Speaker 2: fact that I can do all things through Christ. I

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Speaker 2: Goodness and mercy are following me. When you meditate on that,

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Speaker 1: Nothing else can stick.

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Speaker 2: Somebody tells you, well, you're too tall, you're too short.

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Speaker 1: It slides right off. No, No, I know. I am

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Speaker 1: fearfully and wonderfully made. I'm one of a kind. That's

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Speaker 1: the label I'm choosing to wear.

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Speaker 2: Well, it looks like that problem is never going to

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Speaker 2: turn around. Looks like it's permanent. No, I know, this

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Speaker 2: too shall pass. Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

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Speaker 2: but the Lord delivers me out of them all. When

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Speaker 2: you think thoughts like that, what God says about you

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Speaker 2: those wrong labels will not be able to stick.

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Speaker 1: This is what my father did.

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Speaker 2: He went through a great disappointment early in life.

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Speaker 1: When he was a young man, he got married.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't a good choice and the marriage didn't last.

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Speaker 2: My father was devastated. He thought his days of ministry

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Speaker 2: He resigned his church, got out of the ministry and

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Speaker 2: And unfortunately the people around him were not very merciful.

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Speaker 2: They told him he was not welcome in their church anymore.

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Speaker 1: He had his chance, but he blew it.

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Speaker 2: They stuck the label on him failure, not usable, washed up. See,

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Speaker 2: sometimes when you're down, people will try to keep you down.

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Speaker 2: They'll remind you of all the reasons why you're never

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Speaker 2: going to be what you could have been. But don't

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Speaker 2: believe those lies. God knew every mistake make and he

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Speaker 2: is already arranged a comeback.

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Speaker 1: But now you've got to do your part.

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Speaker 2: You cannot sit around in self pity, wearing these wrong labels.

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Speaker 1: Thinking you're washed up.

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Speaker 2: You got to sit on the sidelines of life. That's

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Speaker 2: what my father did for several years he believed those

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Speaker 2: day he realized what I'm telling you that people don't

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Speaker 1: God does.

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Speaker 2: We don't have to wear the labels that they try

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Speaker 1: You don't get me wrong. I am not for.

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Speaker 2: Divorce, but I am for divorced people. You may have

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Speaker 2: gone through some setbacks, some failures, You may have made

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Speaker 2: some poor choices, but know this God is a god

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Speaker 2: of another chance. His mercy is from everlasting to everlasting.

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Speaker 1: His calling will never leave your life.

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Speaker 2: Jesus came to lift the fallen, to restore the broken,

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Speaker 1: Some of you are still wearing those old.

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Speaker 2: Labels guilt, condemnation, washed up, not usable. God has some

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Speaker 2: new labels for you tonight. Will you dare wear them?

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Speaker 2: The label God has for you says forgiven, restored, new beginning,

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Speaker 2: beauty for ashes, joy for mourning.

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Speaker 1: My father began to let these new labels stick.

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Speaker 2: One day he met my mother and they got married,

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Speaker 2: eventually had five children.

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Speaker 1: My father got back in the.

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Speaker 2: Ministry and went on to pastor churches for over fifty years.

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Speaker 2: Was married to my mother, for nearly forty seven years.

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Speaker 2: He saw God restore him in amazing ways do great

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Speaker 2: for you if you will simply wear the right labels.

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Speaker 2: I think about a young lady in the scripture.

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Speaker 1: Her name was Rahab. She was a prostitute.

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Speaker 2: She'd made a lot of poor choices in life. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure plenty of people had written her off and seen

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Speaker 2: her as a scorn on society. No doubt she was

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Speaker 2: wearing the label failure, outcast, not valuable, no future.

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Speaker 1: Surely God wouldn't have some new labels for her to wear.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: People may give up on.

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Speaker 2: Us, but God never gives up on us. One day, Joshua,

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Speaker 2: Joshua sent two men in to spy out the land.

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Speaker 2: Word got out that the spies were there, and Rahab

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Speaker 2: other words, she took a stand.

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Speaker 1: For what was right.

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Speaker 2: She felt the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob calling

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Speaker 2: She risked her own life by sticking up for these men.

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Speaker 2: The two spies told her, Rehab, we were going to

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Speaker 1: What am I saying? You are not what people label you.

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Speaker 2: You've got to get rid of the wrong labels. Quit

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Speaker 2: but God has a way. I think about the bumblebee.

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Speaker 2: All the laws of physics say the bumblebee cannot fly.

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Speaker 2: Its body is too big for its wings. Technically it

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Speaker 2: needs a larger wingspan. For years, experts in aerodynamics have

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Speaker 2: studied the bumblebee, and their conclusion is it cannot fly.

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Speaker 1: They stuck a label on it.

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Speaker 2: Grounded has to walk wherever it goes. The only problem

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Speaker 2: is the bumblebee could not understand what the experts were saying.

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Speaker 2: Therefore the label would not stip. Now against all the

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Speaker 2: odds of aerodynamics, in spite of what the experts, engineers,

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Speaker 2: scientists have said, the bumblebee flies wherever it wants to do.

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Speaker 2: You know why the bumblebee can fly because God told

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Speaker 2: it to fly. God is not limited to the laws

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Speaker 2: of nature. If you will remove, if you will remove

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Speaker 2: the wrong labels, you will be amazed at how far

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Speaker 2: your wings can take you, much farther than people have

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Speaker 2: said about you. It's because God breathed his life into you.

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Speaker 2: You have ability talent that goes beyond the natural.

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Speaker 1: Some of you today you're not flying.

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Speaker 2: It's not because you weren't created to, but because somebody

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Speaker 2: put a label on you that you believed.

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Speaker 1: Now it's become a stronghold in your own thinking. It's

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Speaker 1: limiting what God can do.

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Speaker 2: I'm asking you to remove the old labels and start

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Speaker 2: relabeling yourself and your future with what God says about you.

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Speaker 2: That label that says you've reached your limits, remove.

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Speaker 1: It, put on a new label.

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Speaker 2: The path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. My

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Speaker 2: best days are still in front of me. That label

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Speaker 2: that says you're too short, too old, not talented enough,

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Speaker 2: you come from the wrong family.

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Speaker 1: Remove it.

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Speaker 2: The new label is I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Well,

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Speaker 2: you're never going to be successful. All the experts says

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Speaker 2: you're never.

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Speaker 1: Going to get off the ground. Remove it. The new

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Speaker 1: label is God. You said I would mount up with

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Speaker 1: wings like the eagles.

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Speaker 2: I know I was destined to soar, to live a victorious, abundant,

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Speaker 2: fulfilled life. If you will remove the wrong labels, I believe,

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Speaker 2: like Ja, God will bless you. Indeed, like my father,

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Speaker 2: you will see God restore.

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Speaker 1: You and give you beauty for ashes. Like David, God

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Speaker 1: will take.

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Speaker 2: You from the background and put you in a position

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Speaker 2: of influence. And like Rahab, God will break a curse

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Speaker 2: and help you make a mark for generations to come.

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Speaker 1: I want to.

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Speaker 2: Declare over each one of you, because you're wearing the

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Speaker 2: right labels, You're going to see Ephesians three twenty come.

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Speaker 1: To pass in your own life.

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Speaker 2: God is going to promote you. He's going to increase you.

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Speaker 2: He's going to open up supernatural doors. He's gonna bring

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Speaker 2: divine connections. He's gonna turn negative situations around. You're going

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Speaker 2: to see the exceeding greatness of God's power in your life.

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Speaker 1: I believe in declare.

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Speaker 2: You're going to become everything He created you to be,

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna have everything He intended for you to have.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Do you receive it tonight?

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Speaker 3: Our negative thinking can short circuit God's power and blessing

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Speaker 3: in our lives. When you say, I always seem to worry,

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Speaker 3: I can't forgive what was done to me. I pray,

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Speaker 3: but it feels like God doesn't hear. I won't have

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Speaker 3: enough to provide for me and my family. How do

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Speaker 3: you overcome this type of negative thinking that limits you

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Speaker 3: from God's best?

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Speaker 1: Our thinking sets the limits for our life.

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Speaker 2: Every morning you have to power up your mind, get

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Speaker 2: it going in the right direction, but dwelling on what

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Speaker 2: God says about you. When you think thoughts of faith, hope,

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Speaker 2: and victory, you'll tap into blessing and favor that belongs

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