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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 you.

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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop by and be

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Speaker 1: a part of one of our services. These are the

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Speaker 1: finest people in all of Houston, right here at Lakewood.

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Speaker 1: We'd love to have you sometime. I'd like to start

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Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this burglar that

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Speaker 1: broke into a house one evening. Just as he was

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Speaker 1: stealing the stereo, he heard a voice saying, Jesus is

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Speaker 1: watching you. He froze in his tracks, shined his flashlight

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Speaker 1: in the corner and saw a parent. He said, did

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Speaker 1: you say that to me? The parent said yes, I'm

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Speaker 1: just trying to warn you. Burglar said warn me? What

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Speaker 1: are you talking about? Who are you? Parents said, my

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Speaker 1: name is Moses. The burglar laughed, and what kind of

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Speaker 1: crazy people would name a parent Moses. The parents said

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Speaker 1: the same kind of people that would name a one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound rockweller. Jesus, all right, come on,

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Speaker 1: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 1: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 1: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 1: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 1: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 1: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 1: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 1: about you were enough. It's easy to go through life

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Speaker 1: thinking that we're lacking in some area. If we had

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Speaker 1: more talent, then we could do something great. We had

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Speaker 1: a better personality, we were more confident, more attractive, then

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Speaker 1: we could reach our dreams. But as long as you're

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Speaker 1: discounting yourself, thinking you're at a disadvantage, it will keep

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Speaker 1: you from rising higher. When God laid out the plan

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Speaker 1: for your life, he carefully stay, but he did. He

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Speaker 1: thought about what you would need and what it would

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Speaker 1: take to get you there. Then he matched you with

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Speaker 1: your world. He gave you the talent you need, the strength,

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Speaker 1: the confidence you are, the right size, you have, the

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Speaker 1: right looks, you have the right personality. You come from

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Speaker 1: the right family. You are not lacking. You didn't get

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Speaker 1: short changed. You are good enough. You are talented enough,

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Speaker 1: you are smart enough, you are attractive enough. You have

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Speaker 1: been fearfully and wonderfully made. But life will try to

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Speaker 1: push us down. Thoughts will whisper everything that we're not.

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Speaker 1: You're not as talented as your friend. You're not as

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Speaker 1: attractive as your coworker. You're not as smart as your cousin.

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Speaker 1: That's okay. You're not running their race. You don't need

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Speaker 1: what they have. If you needed it, God would have

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Speaker 1: given it to you. If you needed to be taller,

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Speaker 1: you would be taller. If you needed a different personality,

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Speaker 1: you would have one. If you needed to come from

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Speaker 1: another family, that would have happened. God doesn't make mistakes.

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Speaker 1: When he created you. He wasn't having a bad day.

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Speaker 1: He didn't accidentally leave something out. Now you're at a disadvantage.

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Speaker 1: He calls you a masterpiece. You have royal blood flowing

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Speaker 1: through your veins. He's crowned you with his favor. You're

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Speaker 1: not lacking. You didn't get short changed. You have everything

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Speaker 1: you need to fulfill your destiny. Now quick comparing your looks,

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Speaker 1: your gifts, your success with somebody else and be you.

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Speaker 1: You are powerful, you were amazing, You are gifted. Nobody

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Speaker 1: can do you like you can do you well. I

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Speaker 1: wish I had her looks. I wish I had his talent.

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Speaker 1: what they have, it wouldn't help you. It would hinder you.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be a blessing. It would be a burden.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't designed for you. The reason it works for

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Speaker 1: doesn't fit you. What fits you is what you have. Now,

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Speaker 1: quit wishing you were them, and recognize you are enough.

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Speaker 1: And yes, it's good to admire people, it's good to

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Speaker 1: celebrate their gifts, but don't get so caught up in

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Speaker 1: who they are that you forget who you are. You

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Speaker 1: And if you don't recognize that you are enough, then

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Speaker 1: you're at a deficit, you'll undersell yourself. You'll play up

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Speaker 1: getting your validation. But when you know you are enough

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Speaker 1: by yourself, you won't rely on people to approve you.

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Speaker 1: You'll get your approval from your heavenly father. And the

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Speaker 1: problem with relying on people is people can change. One minute,

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Speaker 1: people were saying to Jesus Hosanna, blessed is he that

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Speaker 1: good about yourself when people are telling you that you're great,

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Speaker 1: you're relying on them to make you feel talented, valuable, attractive,

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Speaker 1: live from a deficit mentality, then it doesn't matter what

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Speaker 1: You know you're made in the image of Almighty God.

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Speaker 1: David said in Psalm twenty three, the Lord is my shepherd.

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Speaker 1: of opportunities to have this deficit mentality. We know him

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Speaker 1: as the greatest king that ever lived, but before that,

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Speaker 1: the brothers made fun of him, said, what did you

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Speaker 1: didn't get what we got. If David would have relied

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Speaker 1: stepped into his destiny. Now, maybe someone is trying to

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Speaker 1: in your mother's womb. They don't determine your destiny. Do

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Speaker 1: like David, father, thank you that I have everything I need,

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Speaker 1: Thank you that I am enough all by myself. You

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Speaker 1: don't need people's approval. You don't need their validation. The

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Speaker 1: that deficit mentality and step up to who you were

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Speaker 1: created to be. While back, one afternoon, I was at

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Speaker 1: it jerked my earphones out. I stopped to pick them up,

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Speaker 1: It was the strangest thing. I looked under the treadmill,

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize it. I'm wondering if you're looking for

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Speaker 1: something that you already have. You're looking around you. God

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Speaker 1: is saying, look in you. You have the talent, you

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Speaker 1: have the creativity, you have the confidence. Psalm thirty four

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Speaker 1: lacking the favor. Well, Joel, I never get any good breaks.

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Speaker 1: I don't see how I can accomplish my dreams. I

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Speaker 1: deficit mentality. That thinking will keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 1: If you have to turn it around. Father, thank you

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Speaker 1: that your favor surrounds me like a shield. Thank you

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Speaker 1: that goodness and mercy are chasing me down. Think you

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Speaker 1: that divine connections, the right people are headed my way.

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Speaker 1: from rising higher. Second King's Chapter four, there was a widow.

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Speaker 1: Her husband was friends with the prophet Elisha. She came

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Speaker 1: as payment. Elisha asked her what do you have in

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Speaker 1: your house? She didn't have to think twice. She said, Elisha,

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Speaker 1: have enough education. This woman was about to miss her

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Speaker 1: miracle because she didn't recognize what she had. She was

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Speaker 1: not something far off, it will be close to you.

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Speaker 1: to pay her debt. When God asked you to do

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Speaker 1: something that doesn't make sense, many times, the act of

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Speaker 1: obedience is what brings the miracle. God could have caused

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Speaker 1: this woman doing her part. Is God asking you to

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Speaker 1: do something that you don't want to do to forgive

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Speaker 1: that person that did you wrong, You think, God, that's

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Speaker 1: not fair. They don't deserve it. They hurt me. Is

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Speaker 1: he asking you to take care of that elderly neighbor

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Speaker 1: or to give that friend a ride to work each day?

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Speaker 1: You think, God, I'm busy, that's out of my way.

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Speaker 1: The blessing is in the obedience. There was a man

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Speaker 1: in the scripture named Naeman. He was a captain in

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Speaker 1: the Syrian army, but he had leprosy. God told him

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