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Speaker 4: broke into a house one evening. Just as he was

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Speaker 4: stealing the stereo, he heard a voice saying, Jesus is

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Speaker 4: watching you. He froze in his tracks, shined his flashlight

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Speaker 4: in the corner and saw a parent. He said, did

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Speaker 4: The burglar laughs, And what kind of crazy people would

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Speaker 5: Jesus, all right, come.

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Speaker 4: On say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 4: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 4: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 4: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 4: about you were enough. It's easy to go through life

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Speaker 4: thinking that we're lacking in some area. If we had

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Speaker 4: discounting yourself, thinking you're at a disadvantage, it will keep

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Speaker 5: If you needed it, God would have given it to you.

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Speaker 4: If you needed a different personality, you.

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Speaker 4: If you needed to come from another family, that would

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Speaker 4: have happened. God doesn't make mistakes. When he created you,

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Speaker 4: your success with somebody else, and be you. You are powerful,

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Speaker 4: it's good to admire people, it's good to celebrate their gifts,

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Speaker 4: you'll undersell yourself, you'll play up to people, you'll let

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Speaker 4: you're made in the image of almighty God. David said

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Speaker 4: Second King's Chapter four, there was a widow. Her husband

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Speaker 4: During college, he got a job at this business where

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Speaker 4: he would go into the different offices and clean and

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Speaker 4: repair the equipment. So they gave him keys to all

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Speaker 4: key ring made him feel very important. This was years ago.

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Speaker 4: After he graduated from college, he came back to work

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Speaker 4: at his father's church, and he was so excited, but

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Speaker 4: his father only gave him one key, the key to

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Speaker 4: to have. He was kind of disappointed. He thought, what,

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Speaker 4: my dad doesn't trust me. A few years later, his

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Speaker 4: dad became ill and wasn't expected to make it. This

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Speaker 4: friend would go up to the church at night and

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Speaker 4: pray for his father. He liked to pray in the

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Speaker 4: have to get somebody to let him in. He'd called

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Speaker 4: the security guard or see someone through the glass doors

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Speaker 4: and knock, but it.

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Speaker 5: Bothered him that he didn't have a key.

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Speaker 4: One night, he went up to pray for his father

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Speaker 4: and he was all locked up, and so he called

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Speaker 4: the security guarden. He said he was out and wouldn't

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Speaker 4: be back for a couple of hours. So my friend

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Speaker 4: went around the building, checking all the doors to see

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Speaker 4: if anything was open. But it's all locked up.

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Speaker 5: He's so frustrated.

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Speaker 4: Just when he was about to leave, he decided to

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Speaker 4: could jiggle it around and somehow get it unlocked. The

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Speaker 4: key went in so smoothly, he turned it and the

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Speaker 5: He was puzzled.

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Speaker 4: He walked through the lobby to the sanctuary door, put

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Speaker 4: the key in, turned it and it opened. Went to

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Speaker 4: the choir room, put the key in, turned it and

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Speaker 4: it opened. He didn't realize his father had given him

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Speaker 4: the master key. All that time, he had what he needed.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't that the father didn't trust him. It was

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Speaker 4: the son didn't know what he had. Do you know

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Speaker 4: what your father has given you? Do you know you

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Speaker 4: have the key to unlock every door to your destiny.

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Speaker 4: You didn't get shortchanged. Your father didn't.

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Speaker 5: Say I can't trust you. Now.

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Speaker 4: God has great confidence in you.

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Speaker 5: He believes in.

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Speaker 4: You more than you believe in yourself. Why don't you

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Speaker 4: start using that key believing that you have what you need.

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Speaker 4: Don't go through life thinking that you've been locked out.

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Speaker 5: You can't reach your dreams, you.

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Speaker 4: Can't overcome the obstacle, you can't meet the right place person.

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Speaker 4: You have the key. Your heavenly father has given you

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Speaker 4: everything you need to fulfill your purpose. Now do your

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Speaker 4: part and get rid of a deficit mentality. Get up

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Speaker 4: every morning and say Father, thank you that I am enough,

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Speaker 4: I am strong enough, I am talented enough, I am

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Speaker 4: attractive enough. If you'll do this, I believe and declare

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Speaker 4: like the widow woman, abundance is about to flow. God

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Speaker 4: is about to multiply what you have. Your gifts are

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Speaker 4: going to come out in greater ways. New doors are

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Speaker 4: about to open, breakthroughs, promotion, the fullness of your destiny

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Speaker 4: in Jesus's name, and if you receive it today, can

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Speaker 4: you say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity

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Speaker 4: to make Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 5: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 4: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I'll repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 4: into my heart.

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Speaker 5: I'll make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 4: If you pray that simple prayer, we believe you've got

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Speaker 4: born again, Get in a good Bible based church, and

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Speaker 4: keep God first place.

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Speaker 5: Victorian, I'll be right.

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