Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victorian. So great to have
Speaker 1: you listening to the podcast. We have a new resource
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Speaker 1: Devotional Calendar. It's full of inspiration and encouragement. It'll help
Speaker 1: you to start the day off right. Hope you'll request
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Speaker 1: It's a joy to come into your homes. And if
Speaker 1: you're ever in our area, please stop buying. Be a
Speaker 1: part of one of our services. I promise you we'll
Speaker 1: make you feel right at home. I like to start
Speaker 1: with something funny, and I heard about this six year
Speaker 1: old boy. He was standing in the church lobby staring
Speaker 1: at the large plaque on the wall. It was filled
Speaker 1: with names with small American flags by their side. He
Speaker 1: asked the pastor what all the names were for. The
Speaker 1: pastor explained how that was a memorial to all the
Speaker 1: young men and women that died in the service. The
Speaker 1: little boy stood there silently, so concerned. He finally looked
Speaker 1: up and asked, was it the eight thirty or eleven
Speaker 1: o'clock service? Say it like you mean it. This is
Speaker 1: my Bible. I am what it says. I am. I
Speaker 1: have what it says I have. I can do what
Speaker 1: it says I can do. Today I will be taught
Speaker 1: the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert,
Speaker 1: my heart is receptive. I will never be the same.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk
Speaker 1: to you today about recognizing your value. Too often we
Speaker 1: base our value on how someone is treating us, how
Speaker 1: successful we are, how perfect of a life we've lived.
Speaker 1: The problem is all of those things can change. If
Speaker 1: you're getting your value out of how people treat you,
Speaker 1: then if they hurt you, they disappoint you, you're going
Speaker 1: to feel devalued. If you're basing your value off of
Speaker 1: your achievements, how much you make, what you drive, the
Speaker 1: title behind you, your name, Then if something happens and
Speaker 1: you don't have that position, your business goes down, then
Speaker 1: your value will go down. And some people don't feel
Speaker 1: good about themselves because they've made mistakes in life. They're
Speaker 1: not where they thought they would be. Now, they're living insecure,
Speaker 1: feeling inferior. They're basing their value on their performance. Here's
Speaker 1: the key. Your value should be based solely on the
Speaker 1: fact that you are a child of the most High God,
Speaker 1: the creator of the universe, breaths his life into you.
Speaker 1: How someone treats you doesn't change your value. What they
Speaker 1: say or do doesn't lessen who you are. Mistakes you've
Speaker 1: made doesn't decrease your value. That's what you did, that's
Speaker 1: not who you are. You can buy a bigger house,
Speaker 1: drive a better car, but that doesn't make you any
Speaker 1: more valuable. That increases your net worth, not your self worth.
Speaker 1: You were already valuable when you had the small apartment
Speaker 1: and no title behind your name. That position may give
Speaker 1: you more influence, but not more value. You can be
Speaker 1: a stay at home mom raising your children. You may
Speaker 1: not have the influence of the CEO, but you have
Speaker 1: the same value. Value is not based on what you do,
Speaker 1: what you make, who you know. That's superficial. Those things
Speaker 1: can change. Your value comes from your creator. God breathed
Speaker 1: his life into you. You have the DNA of Almighty God.
Speaker 1: You have royalty in your blood. But the enemy works
Speaker 1: over time trying to devalue us. He'd love for you
Speaker 1: to go through life letting what people say make you
Speaker 1: feel inferior, comparing your life to somebody else's thinking. You'll
Speaker 1: feel good about yourself when you catch up to them,
Speaker 1: when you live in that neighborhood, or when you perform perfectly,
Speaker 1: when you break the addiction, then you'll feel valuable. But
Speaker 1: nothing you do will make you any more valuable. Nothing
Speaker 1: you achieve, nothing you overcome. You are valuable right now.
Speaker 1: God calls you a masterpiece. You are one of a kind.
Speaker 1: You didn't come off an assembly line. You weren't mass produced.
Speaker 1: God made you unique. There will never be another. You
Speaker 1: put your shoulders back, start carrying yourself with confidence. You
Speaker 1: have been fearfully and wonderfully made. In Luke, chapter four,
Speaker 1: Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, where
Speaker 1: he was tempted three times. He'd been out there for
Speaker 1: forty days and hadn't eaten anything. The enemy said to him,
Speaker 1: if you're the son of God, turn these stones into bread.
Speaker 1: He was trying to make his value be based on
Speaker 1: his performance. If you turn these stones into bread, you
Speaker 1: can prove you're the son of God, then you can
Speaker 1: feel good about yourself. You performed a miracle. Jesus wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it, He said. Man doesn't live by bread alone.
Speaker 1: He was saying, in effect, I don't have to do
Speaker 1: anything to prove who I am. I don't have to
Speaker 1: perform to feel good about myself. I know who I am.
Speaker 1: The enemy couldn't deceive him into getting his value out
Speaker 1: of being performance based, so he tried possession based. He
Speaker 1: took Jesus to a high place, showed him all the
Speaker 1: kingdoms of the world. He said, you can have it
Speaker 1: all if you'll just bow down and worship me. Jesus said, no, thanks.
Speaker 1: I don't need possessions to prove my worth and value.
Speaker 1: I don't have to have what you think is important
Speaker 1: to feel good about who I am. Possession based didn't work.
Speaker 1: Performance based didn't work, so the enemy tried one final thing, popularity.
Speaker 1: He took Jesus to the highest place in the temple,
Speaker 1: was very crowded below all kinds of people. He said,
Speaker 1: if you're the son of God, jump off this building.
Speaker 1: You said your angels would protect you. He was trying
Speaker 1: to get Jesus to show off. Everybody would see and
Speaker 1: be amazed. He'd gain instant popularity. Jesus said it again,
Speaker 1: I don't need possessions. I don't need popularity. I don't
Speaker 1: need performance to feel valuable. I know who I am.
Speaker 1: I'm the son of the living God. The enemy tried
Speaker 1: to deceive Jesus into proving who he was, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people live in approving mode. They can't feel
Speaker 1: good about themselves unless they prove to people they're important,
Speaker 1: proved to their co worker their talented, proved to their
Speaker 1: critics that they really are okay. There's a constant struggle.
Speaker 1: They're always having to outdo, outperform, outdrive, outdress. It's very
Speaker 1: freeing when you realize you don't have to prove anything.
Speaker 1: You don't have to impress people. Take the pressure off.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot of energy to compete, to prove,
Speaker 1: to impress. If you live in a proving mode, it's
Speaker 1: like you're on a treadmill. As soon as you prove
Speaker 1: to one person you're okay, you'll see somebody else you
Speaker 1: need to impress to never ending cycle. Get off that treadmill.
Speaker 1: You're working hard but not going anywhere. You don't have
Speaker 1: to prove anything. In these days, there's so much emphasis
Speaker 1: on name brands. We're wearing so and so designer shoes
Speaker 1: and sow and so sunglasses, and carrying a so and
Speaker 1: so perse, driving a SO and so card, talking on
Speaker 1: a SO and so cell phone. If you're really cool,
Speaker 1: you got on so and so underwear, you can feel
Speaker 1: good about yourself. Sometimes we have so many other names
Speaker 1: on us. We don't know our own name. We're counting
Speaker 1: on all the name brands, all the outside labels to
Speaker 1: make us feel important. Can I tell you your name is
Speaker 1: more important than all those names combine. No disrespect to them.
Speaker 1: But the difference between you and the name brand is
Speaker 1: God breathed his life into you. You're a son, You're
Speaker 1: a daughter of the Most High God. And there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with owning it, driving it. We're in it, But
Speaker 1: don't let it be the reason you feel good about
Speaker 1: who you are. Because what's hot today, what's the latest, greatest?
Speaker 1: In a few years, it'll be outdated. If you live
Speaker 1: possession based, you have to run from name to name,
Speaker 1: position to position, friend to friend. That's gonna wear you out.
Speaker 1: Why don't you relax. You can't get any more valuable.
Speaker 1: You can buy more clothes, get more friends. That doesn't
Speaker 1: change your value. Whether you're wearing Gucci or Goodwill, whether
Speaker 1: it's Calvin Klein or Fruit of the Loom, your value
Speaker 1: never changes. You're claughing because you wear Fruit of the
Speaker 1: loom like me. I went to the sporting goods store
Speaker 1: the other day to buy some new T shirts to
Speaker 1: work out in, and there were probably ten racks of shirts.
Speaker 1: Practically everyone had the manufacturer's name on the front in
Speaker 1: big bold letters. I thought to myself, you want me
Speaker 1: to buy your shirt and then go around as a
Speaker 1: billboard for you, no offense, But I don't want to
Speaker 1: wear your name. I like my own name. Do you
Speaker 1: need somebody else's name to make you feel good about yourself?
Speaker 1: Are you trying to prove your worth, your value by
Speaker 1: who you know, what you wear, what you drive, or
Speaker 1: can you say, like Jesus, I don't have to have popularity, possessions,
Speaker 1: or performance to feel good about myself. I am secure
Speaker 1: in who who I am. I know who God made
Speaker 1: me to be. When Jesus was riding into town on
Speaker 1: Palm Sunday, the people laid down branches as he passed by.
Speaker 1: They celebrated, shouting Hosanna from the young to the old, waving, cheering.
Speaker 1: They were so excited to see him. He received a
Speaker 1: heroes welcome. But a few days later those same people,
Speaker 1: instead of shouting Hosanna, they were shouting crucify him. We
Speaker 1: don't want him here. When Jesus went to trial and
Speaker 1: needed his closest friends to support him, his disciples, the
Speaker 1: ones he had poured his life into, they weren't anywhere around.
Speaker 1: He asked them to stay up and pray, but they
Speaker 1: were too tired. They fell asleep. If you base your
Speaker 1: value on people's support, how much they approve you, encourage you,
Speaker 1: then if for some reason they stopped doing that, you'll
Speaker 1: feel devalued. As long as they're telling you you're great,
Speaker 1: you'll feel great. The problem is if they change their mind,
Speaker 1: they're not telling you that, you're not going to feel great.
Speaker 1: You can't base your value on what people give you.
Speaker 1: People are funny. They'll say you're beautiful one day, and
Speaker 1: I don't care for you the next. Hozanna on Sunday,
Speaker 1: crucify them on Friday. If you don't know who you
Speaker 1: are without them, then if they leave, you'll be lost.
Speaker 1: They'll take you with them. Your identity was caught up
Speaker 1: in who they made you to be. You'll try to
Speaker 1: find somebody else to tell you who you are. You
Speaker 1: don't need people to tell you who you are. People
Speaker 1: will let you down. People will get jealous. People have
Speaker 1: their own issues. Let your heavenly father tell you who
Speaker 1: you are. Get your value, your self worth, your approval
Speaker 1: from him. He says you're a masterpiece. He says you're
Speaker 1: want of a kind, a prized possession. Somebody may have
Speaker 1: told you the opposite. You're not talented, you're not attractive,
Speaker 1: you don't have a good personality. Let that go in
Speaker 1: one ear and out the other. They don't determine your value.
Speaker 1: What they say or do doesn't make you any less
Speaker 1: a masterpiece. Quit letting how people treat you make you
Speaker 1: feel inferior. They don't control your destiny. They didn't breathe
Speaker 1: life into you. They didn't call you, they didn't anoint you,
Speaker 1: they didn't approve you. Your value came from your creator,
Speaker 1: from the God who spoke worlds into existence. The good
Speaker 1: news is they can't change your value, and you can't
Speaker 1: change it. God put it in you before you showed up.
Speaker 1: You don't need their approval, You don't need their encouragement.
Speaker 1: They don't have to validate you. It's good when it happens,
Speaker 1: but if you're depending on it to feel secure, then
Speaker 1: if they don't do it, you're going to feel inferior.
Speaker 1: Don't give away your power. Don't put your identity, your
Speaker 1: value into somebody else's hands. Even good people can't give
Speaker 1: you everything you need. Somebody that loves you very much,
Speaker 1: they cannot keep you approved, validated, feeling secure. You have
Speaker 1: to go to your heavenly father. And sometimes we're putting
Speaker 1: pressure on people to keep us fixed, keep us validated.
Speaker 1: Let them off the hook. They're not your savior. You
Speaker 1: already have a savior. He's on the throne. Go to
Speaker 1: him and not to people. The problem with trying to
Speaker 1: get this from people is people have issues. People are
Speaker 1: dealing with insecurities, fears, hurts, wounds, presententes, dysfunction. They don't
Speaker 1: know any better. That's normal to them. Messed up. People
Speaker 1: can mess you up if that's not profound, But it's good,
Speaker 1: isn't it. If you base your value on what they're
Speaker 1: giving you, you can end up dysfunctional. I talked to
Speaker 1: a lady recently that had a very bad childhood neglect abuse.
Speaker 1: She had just gone through her second divorce. Her ex
Speaker 1: husband told her that she didn't deserve to be loved,
Speaker 1: and I could tell that she believed it because she
Speaker 1: was down on herself, no expression on her face. I
Speaker 1: told her what I'm telling you. Don't let messed up
Speaker 1: people ruin the rest of your life. If somebody hurts you,
Speaker 1: there's a tendency to internalize it and think there's something
Speaker 1: wrong with me. If I was more attractive, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have left. If I was smarter, I wouldn't have had
Speaker 1: a bad childhood. No, it has nothing to do with you.
Speaker 1: They're treating you out of their hurts, their wounds. Hurting
Speaker 1: people end up hurting other people. Don't let what they
Speaker 1: say define who you are. Don't let what you didn't
Speaker 1: got it make you feel like you're the blame. They
Speaker 1: said you don't deserve to be loved. That's a lie.
Speaker 1: They said you're not attractive, another lie. But if you
Speaker 1: base your value on these lines, you won't have any
Speaker 1: kind of self worth. Studies even show that children that
Speaker 1: went through neglect abuse a bad childhood. Very often they
Speaker 1: take the blame on themselves. They think there's something wrong
Speaker 1: with them. This lady did the same thing. She didn't
Speaker 1: think she deserved to be loved. That's the enemy trying
Speaker 1: to steal your sense of value. If somebody did you wrong,
Speaker 1: instead of internalizing it, have you ever thought about maybe
Speaker 1: they were messed up. Maybe they felt so bad about themselves,
Speaker 1: so unlovable, that they tried to project it on you.
Speaker 1: I know a young man that never felt like he
Speaker 1: fit in growing up. There's very little love in his home.
Speaker 1: He never felt approved or celebrated. It was like he
Speaker 1: was a burden. He found in his early teens that
Speaker 1: his parents always wanted a girl. They were disappointed when
Speaker 1: he was born. Now he's in his twenties, had his
Speaker 1: head down, insecure, feeling unworthy. I told him, your parents
Speaker 1: may have wanted a girl, but the creator of the
Speaker 1: universe wanted a boy. If God doesn't make mistakes, you're
Speaker 1: not an accident. He hand picked you. He chose you
Speaker 1: before you could choose him. Your parents may not have
Speaker 1: known any better, but don't let their lack of approval
Speaker 1: keep you from your destiny. You didn't come from your mother.
Speaker 1: You came through your mother. You came from Oh, by God.
Speaker 1: I begin to tell him how he was a masterpiece,
Speaker 1: called chosen, equipped, one of a kind, with seeds of greatness.
Speaker 1: Nobody had ever spoken faith over his life. He lifted
Speaker 1: his head, he put his shoulders back. I could see
Speaker 1: a smile starting to form. When you base your value
Speaker 1: on what people say or do, that's going to push
Speaker 1: you down. But when you base it on what God
Speaker 1: says about you, it's going to lift you up. You're
Speaker 1: going to have a smile on your face, a string
Speaker 1: in your step. You're not going to be put off
Speaker 1: by what you didn't get by who's not supporting him
Speaker 1: like him. Maybe nobody ever told you what God says
Speaker 1: about you. God says you're amazing. He says he's proud
Speaker 1: of you. He says you're the apple of his eye.
Speaker 1: People may not be celebrating you, but you need to
Speaker 1: know God celebrates you. I've heard it said if God
Speaker 1: had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If
Speaker 1: he had a computer, you'd be on the homepage. The
Speaker 1: scripture says God has your name carved on the palm
Speaker 1: of his hand. He's always thinking about you. You may
Speaker 1: feel like you never really got the approval from your parents.
Speaker 1: From your family, even now, they don't celebrate you, they
Speaker 1: don't affirm you. But the truth is it's not about you.
Speaker 1: It's about their issues, their insecurities. Don't spend your life
Speaker 1: trying to get something that they cannot give. I know
Speaker 1: people working eighty hours a week, trying to prove to
Speaker 1: their parents they're successful, prove to their family they're good enough.
Speaker 1: You have to let it go or you'll be frustrated.
Speaker 1: Turn to your heavenly father. Get your approval from him.
Speaker 1: He's smiling down on you. He sees you excelling. You
Speaker 1: don't have to have their approval to be happy. God
Speaker 1: approves you. He's the one that matters. In the scripture,
Speaker 1: David didn't have his father's approval. When the prophet Samuel
Speaker 1: came in to anoint one of Jesse's sons, Jesse didn't
Speaker 1: even bring David in from the shepherd's fields. He saw
Speaker 1: David as being inferior, not talented, too young, too small.
Speaker 1: Sometimes the people closest to you can't see the greatness
Speaker 1: in you. Jesse didn't see a king in David. He
Speaker 1: didn't see a giant killer, a strategic leader. He saw
Speaker 1: a young boy with not much to offer. He dismissed him,
Speaker 1: didn't pay much attention. Your family may discount you, they
Speaker 1: may leave you out. Don't take it personally. Just keep
Speaker 1: being your best, getting your approval from your heavenly father.
Speaker 1: This happened with Jesus, his brothers didn't believe in him.
Speaker 1: They saw him as average. What's the big deal, what's
Speaker 1: all the commotion, It's just Jesus. The people that should
Speaker 1: have supported him the most tried to make him feel inferior.
Speaker 1: The people closest to you may not acknowledge your gifts,
Speaker 1: they may not see your value, but God does. David
Speaker 1: was left out. It wasn't fair. But when Samuel looked
Speaker 1: at the other seven sons, he said, Jesse, it's none
Speaker 1: of these. Do you have any more sons? People may
Speaker 1: leave you out, but God doesn't leave you out. If
Speaker 1: David had to have his family's approval, he would have
Speaker 1: never taken the throne. Quit trying to make people before
Speaker 1: you that are never going to be for you. Quit
Speaker 1: feeling inferior because somebody close to you is not celebrating you.
Speaker 1: If you needed their approval, you would get it. If
Speaker 1: you're not getting it, that means you don't need it
Speaker 1: to become who you were created to be. And yes
Speaker 1: it may be hurtful, but it is not going to
Speaker 1: keep you from your destiny. Sometimes it's God teaching us
Speaker 1: to go to Him and not to people. We rely
Speaker 1: too much on what people think. Who believes in us,
Speaker 1: and how come they're not supporting me. David's brothers made
Speaker 1: fun of him, his father discounted him. He was stuck
Speaker 1: out in the shepherd's fields. Instead of complaining feeling inferior,
Speaker 1: he turned to God. He's the one that wrote in
Speaker 1: Psalm twenty seven, if my mother and father forsake me,
Speaker 1: God will adopt me as his own child. And I
Speaker 1: know many of us had great parents that did their best,
Speaker 1: but we all have people that are not giving us
Speaker 1: their approval. They don't acknowledge our gifts. They don't see
Speaker 1: what we have to offer. Don't live frustrated thinking that
Speaker 1: there's something wrong with you, trying to prove to them
Speaker 1: who you are, trying to convince them to affirm you.
Speaker 1: Let it go. There's nothing wrong with you. If you
Speaker 1: had to have it, they would give it. Since you
Speaker 1: don't shake it off, Keep your head held high, knowing
Speaker 1: that your heavenly father has approved you, accepted you, and
Speaker 1: anointed you. Your value doesn't come from people, It comes
Speaker 1: from your creator. A while back, somebody gave a watch
Speaker 1: to the ministry. I was out of town at one
Speaker 1: of our events, and a man came up and handed
Speaker 1: me this nice box. I opened it. It was a
Speaker 1: beautiful watch. It wasn't super fancy, but it was attractive, sporty,
Speaker 1: and of course I thanked him, very grateful. I brought
Speaker 1: it back and put it in my desk drawer. A
Speaker 1: couple of months later, I opened the drawer to get
Speaker 1: something out, and there was the watch. I had forgotten
Speaker 1: about it. I looked at it again and I thought
Speaker 1: it cost a couple hundred dollars. I didn't notice the
Speaker 1: name brand, but for some reason I googled it. When
Speaker 1: I did, I nearly passed out. The exact watch came up.
Speaker 1: It was worth over ten thousand dollars. It's from a
Speaker 1: very famous, prestigious watchmaker. It looked like to me a
Speaker 1: lot of other watches that I'd seen that cost several
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. But because of the manufacturer, this watch was
Speaker 1: extremely valuable. You could put it side by side and
Speaker 1: you wouldn't see much difference. Average ordinary people had copied it.
Speaker 1: There were knockoffs. On the surface, it seemed the same,
Speaker 1: but what gave it its value was who made it. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we don't realize who we are. You may feel average, ordinary,
Speaker 1: like nothing stands out, but because of your maker, there's
Speaker 1: something about you that makes you extremely valuable. You're not
Speaker 1: a copy, you're not a knockoff, You're an original. The
Speaker 1: creator of the universe is your manufacturer. You can't get
Speaker 1: any more prestigious than that. But if you don't know
Speaker 1: who you are, like I did with the watch, you'll
Speaker 1: discount yourself. They got all, man, I'm ordinary, nothing much
Speaker 1: to offer, nothing special about me. You need to google
Speaker 1: your manufacturer. You have the fingerprints of God all over you.
Speaker 1: Someone thirty nine says God, I praise you because you
Speaker 1: have made me in an amazing way. What you have
Speaker 1: done is wonderful. If you're going to recognize your value,
Speaker 1: you have to see yourself as amazing, as wonderful, not
Speaker 1: because of who you are, but because of who made you.
Speaker 1: Now life will try to make you feel like you're
Speaker 1: anything but amazing. Disappointments, betrayals, rejection will try to steal
Speaker 1: your sense of value. But all through the day, despite
Speaker 1: what thoughts are telling you, despite who left you out,
Speaker 1: you need to remind yourself. I am amazing, I am
Speaker 1: a masterpiece. I have been wonderfully made. Don't discount what
Speaker 1: God has created. Don't go around feeling ordinary when in
Speaker 1: fact you're extraordinary. People may try to make you feel average.
Speaker 1: Like David's father, You don't have much to offer. Are
Speaker 1: you going to believe what people say about you? Or
Speaker 1: believe what God says about you? God says you're amazing?
Speaker 1: Have you ever said that to yourself? It has to
Speaker 1: start on the inside. I read where Tom Brady's jersey
Speaker 1: that he wore during the Super Bowl is worth five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. I can go online and buy that
Speaker 1: same jersey for forty nine dollars. What's the difference who
Speaker 1: it belongs to? Same jersey, same size, same color, but
Speaker 1: one belongs to Tom Brady. That makes it extremely valuable.
Speaker 1: The scripture says you belong to God. You may feel average,
Speaker 1: think you look ordinary, nothing special about you, but because
Speaker 1: of who you belong to, that makes you extremely valuable.
Speaker 1: Now my challenge, don't let people discount you. Don't let
Speaker 1: your own thoughts push you down. Put your shoulders back.
Speaker 1: You belong to God. You don't have to prove anything.
Speaker 1: You don't have to try to impress people. Just be
Speaker 1: who you are, be amazing. If you'll do this, I
Speaker 1: believe and declare every chain that's held you back is
Speaker 1: being broken. You're going to live free, confidence, secure, valuable,
Speaker 1: and become the masterpiece that God created you to be.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. If you receive it, can you say amen? Today?
Speaker 1: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus
Speaker 1: the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me?
Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come
Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,
Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
Speaker 1: born again. Get in a good Bible based church, Keep
Speaker 1: God first place.
Speaker 2: Do you have a dream that's waiting to happen, but
Speaker 2: it often feels like you'll never get there? Is your
Speaker 2: dream to start a business, to see a loved one
Speaker 2: come to the Lord? Are you asking God? Will it
Speaker 2: ever happen?
Speaker 1: Sometimes it feels like our dream is so far off.
Speaker 1: But I believe you're closer than you think.
Speaker 3: You're on the verge of seeing things change in your favor,
Speaker 3: new doors opening, the right people showing up.
Speaker 1: I'd love to send you are new Hopes and Dreams
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Speaker 1: it has scriptures, an inspiration, a place to journal.
Speaker 3: It'll help you stay focused and encouraged so you can
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