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Speaker 2: I'd like to start with something funny and One day

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Speaker 2: up in heaven, Satan and Jesus were having a contest

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Speaker 2: to see who was better at computers.

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Speaker 2: Spreadsheets designing web pages, a thunderstorm knocked the power out.

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Speaker 2: When they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming, it's all lost.

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Speaker 2: All my material is gone, while Jesus quietly walked over,

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Speaker 2: printed his out turned it in. Satan complained, it's not fair.

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Speaker 2: He must have cheated. How come he didn't lose his material.

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Speaker 2: God smiled and said, Jesus says, say it like you

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Speaker 2: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says.

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Speaker 2: I am, I have what it says I have, I

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Speaker 2: can do what it says I can do today.

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Speaker 1: I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about underestimated.

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Speaker 2: We all face times when what we're up against it's

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Speaker 2: too big for us. The dream is too great, the

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Speaker 2: problem too strong, the opposition too powerful. People rule us

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Speaker 2: out and think it's never going to happen. You don't

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Speaker 2: have the resources, he don't come from the right family,

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Speaker 2: the medical report is not good.

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Speaker 1: All the facts say it's impossible.

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Speaker 2: But God, on purpose will have you underestimated when it

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Speaker 2: Don't get discouraged when you're underestimate made it.

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Speaker 2: God puts you in that position to show himself strong.

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Speaker 2: When you defy the odds, everyone will know his favor

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Speaker 2: is on your life. But when you're outnumbered, outsized, out educated,

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Speaker 1: People discount you.

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Speaker 2: Tell you you're not talented enough, not tall enough, not strong enough,

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Speaker 2: looking on the outside from a natural perspective, but you

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Speaker 1: It will take you where you can't go on your own.

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Speaker 2: But sometimes doubt will whisper you don't have what it takes.

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Speaker 1: How could you accomplish that dream? Where are you going

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Speaker 1: to get the funds? How can you take your family

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Speaker 2: Your coworker is more qualified, they have more training, But

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Speaker 2: The reason he puts you in situations that are too big,

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Speaker 2: Discover the greatness inside, people will see you in a

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Speaker 2: When you're tempted to feel overwhelmed, outnumbered, not enough, instead

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Speaker 1: You would think God would find.

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Speaker 2: When we acquired this place, the former Compact Center, a

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Speaker 1: He believed that one.

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Speaker 2: and that was unheard of back in the nineteen thirties.

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Speaker 2: He told his parents that he was going to go

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Speaker 2: all you know how to do is work on the farm.

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Speaker 1: You're going to get out there and fail. They meant well.

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Speaker 2: They were trying to protect him, but they underestimated him.

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Speaker 1: They didn't think he.

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Speaker 2: Could do so something significant nobody in our family had.

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Speaker 2: But look at how God works. My father went on

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Speaker 2: to pastor great churches, It founded Lakewood, pastored here for

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Speaker 2: nearly forty years, impacting the world.

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Speaker 1: He was the least likely one.

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Speaker 2: He didn't have any support. He had the hitchhike leaving

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Speaker 2: the farm.

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Speaker 1: But God loves to take people who are underestimated.

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Speaker 2: When the odds are against you, when others are telling

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Speaker 2: you to blossom, to bloom, to accomplish what seems impossible.

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Speaker 1: I mean.

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Speaker 2: God could have chosen someone more qualified than my father,

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Speaker 2: someone that had the credentials, came from a prestigious family

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Speaker 2: that had great skill and education. Instead, he chose a

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Speaker 2: popcorn salesman. He chose a young man with no religious upbringing.

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Speaker 2: God loves to defy the odds. He's going to do

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Speaker 2: things in your life that lead people scratching their.

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Speaker 1: Heads thinking, how did that happen?

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Speaker 2: Can anything good come out of Fort Worth? Isn't that

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Speaker 1: You may be underestimated. It's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: That's a sign that God is up to something unusual.

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Speaker 2: You're underestimated on purpose. The giants are way bigger on purpose.

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Speaker 2: People are discounting you on purpose. Your time is coming.

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Speaker 2: God's about to show out in your life. Don't be offended,

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Speaker 2: don't get distracted. Just keep doing the right thing. What

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Speaker 2: they say doesn't determine your destiny. What they think about

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Speaker 2: you doesn't limit your future.

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Speaker 1: God uses underestimated people.

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Speaker 2: I believe and declare, like David, You're about to defy

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Speaker 1: A greater way.

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Speaker 2: What God is about to do in your life will

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Speaker 2: not only amaze you, but other people will be scratching

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Speaker 2: their heads in Jesus' name. And if you receive it,

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Speaker 2: can you say amen, I'd like to give you an

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Speaker 2: opportunity to make Jesus the Lord.

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Speaker 1: If you're life. Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins.

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Speaker 1: Come into my heart. I'll make you my lord and savior.

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Speaker 1: What if what you imagine came to pass?

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Speaker 2: We all have hopes and dreams and things we're believing for,

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