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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 2: Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come

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Speaker 2: into your homes. And if you're ever in our area,

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Speaker 2: please stop by and be a part of one of

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Speaker 1: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.

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Speaker 2: But thanks so much for tuning in. Thank you again

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Speaker 2: for coming out. I like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 2: and I heard about this group of school children. They

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Speaker 2: were in the cafeteria line at their Catholic elementary school.

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Speaker 1: At the first of the line, there was a big

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Speaker 1: bowl of apples.

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Speaker 2: A nun had written a note, take only one God

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Speaker 2: is watching. At the end of the line, there was

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Speaker 2: a big bowl of chocolate chip cookies.

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Speaker 1: One of the.

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Speaker 2: Children had written a note, take all you want. God

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Speaker 2: is watching the apples. Hold up your Bible and say

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Speaker 2: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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

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

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Speaker 2: can do. Today 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

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Speaker 2: how you are.

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Speaker 1: Not damaged goods.

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Speaker 2: I was in a grocery store and down one of

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Speaker 2: the aisles there was a whole section called damage goods.

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Speaker 2: It was mostly canned products that had been marked down

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Speaker 2: because of some kind of flaw. The can was dented,

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Speaker 2: the label was torn, the color was off. The store

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Speaker 2: couldn't sell it for the full price because they had

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Speaker 2: an imperfection. They were considered less valuable inferior damaged goods.

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Speaker 2: What's interesting is if you bought one of those cans,

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Speaker 2: you opened it up, cannicorn, canopies, cannipeaches, you'd find there's

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Speaker 2: nothing wrong with the inside. The can may have been dented,

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Speaker 2: but it didn't affect the contents.

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Speaker 1: The label may have been torn.

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Speaker 2: On the outside, it wasn't perfect, but on the inside,

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Speaker 2: where it matters, there was no difference.

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Speaker 1: The damaged goods.

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Speaker 2: Peaches that were sold for half price tasted just as

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Speaker 2: good as the peaches that were sold for full price.

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Speaker 2: The corn the peas may have been labeled inferior less than.

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Speaker 1: But that's all. It was just a label.

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Speaker 2: It's the same principle in life. All of us, in

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Speaker 2: some way have been damaged. You can't live very long

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Speaker 2: without making a mistake, being hurt by someone going through

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Speaker 2: a breakup, damaged by divorce, damaged by an unhealthy childhood,

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Speaker 1: Too many people go around wearing the.

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Speaker 2: Damaged goods label, feeling washed up, less than focused on

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Speaker 2: their mistakes, focused on what they've been through.

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Speaker 1: No, you've got to get out of that section. That's

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Speaker 1: not where you belong.

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Speaker 2: You may have been dened on the outside, but like

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Speaker 2: those cans, there's nothing wrong with the inside. That setback

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Speaker 2: did not affect your DNA. That loss, that disappointment, didn't

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Speaker 2: change who you are. That mistake, the failure, the weakness

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Speaker 1: You may have been.

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Speaker 2: Bruised on the outside, but on the inside you still

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Speaker 2: have the blood of a winner. You still have the

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Speaker 2: DNA of Almighty God. You've been crowned with favor. You

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Speaker 2: are full of potential, talent, creativity, wisdom. There is nothing

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Speaker 2: People can't keep you from your destiny. Bad breaks can't

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Speaker 2: can really stop you is you. If you wear the

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Speaker 2: God's created you to be.

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't.

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Speaker 2: Believe in giving anyone the right to feel sorry for themselves.

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Speaker 1: Life happens to us all.

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Speaker 2: If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

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Speaker 2: If you make a mistake, don't go through life beating

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Speaker 2: You may have failed, but you're not a failure. You

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Speaker 2: may have lost, but you're not a loser. You may

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Speaker 2: You're a victor. Now do yourself a favor. Take all

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Speaker 2: happened to a young boy named Ishmael. He was the

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Speaker 2: child that Abraham had out of wedlock with Sarah's maid Hagar.

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Speaker 2: Ishmael wasn't the promised child. He was born out of

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Speaker 2: Abraham and Sarah's impatience. They got tired of waiting year

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Speaker 2: So Sarah talked to her husband Abraham into sleeping with

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Speaker 2: She told Abraham, you better get your mistress and her

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Speaker 2: in Abraham's home. And he's called the father of our faith.

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Speaker 2: That gives me hope for my own family. It got

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Speaker 2: so bad that Sarah gave Abraham an ultimatum, either your

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Speaker 2: Abraham ended up sending Hagar and his son Ishmael out

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Speaker 2: One in this whole ordeal. He didn't get to choose

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Speaker 1: He didn't do anything wrong.

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Speaker 2: He just showed up and life threw him out into

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Speaker 2: Why was I born into this mess? Why is my

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Speaker 1: But here's the mercy of God.

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Speaker 2: God said in Genesis twenty one, I will bring out

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Speaker 1: Did something great with Ishmael.

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Speaker 2: God was saying, this child that's been born into dysfunction,

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Speaker 2: be in a situation now that feels dysfunctional, seems like

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Speaker 2: But if Ishmael were standing here today, he would say, hey,

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Speaker 1: God still has a plan. Doesn't matter how.

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Speaker 2: You were raised, how many bad breaks you've had, how

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Speaker 2: out of a great mess. Most of the time we

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Speaker 2: see Ishmael as a mistake, an accident. Sarah and Abraham

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Speaker 2: no baby is a mistake.

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Speaker 1: A child cannot be born without God breathing life into

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Speaker 2: Say we weren't expecting this baby. They were a surprise.

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Speaker 2: And yes, they may have been a surprise to you,

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Speaker 2: but they were not a surprise to the giver of life.

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Speaker 2: In God's eyes, there's no such thing as an unwarned pregnancy.

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Speaker 1: You didn't just happen to show up on planet Earth.

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Speaker 2: God had a plan for you long before you arrived.

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Speaker 2: God told Jeremiah, before you were formed in your mother's womb,

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Speaker 1: And called you to be a prophet to the nations.

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Speaker 2: God already had an assignment for him before he got here.

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Speaker 2: God was saying, Jeremiah, you didn't start when your mother

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Speaker 2: with me. In other words, our past didn't start with

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Speaker 1: I came through her. I came from Almighty God.

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Speaker 2: That means your destiny, your assignment, your purpose, cannot be

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Speaker 2: the most high God. He has the ultimate say. In

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Speaker 2: nineteen forty three, a teenager here in Houston became pregnant

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Speaker 2: from a forced violent act. The young lady was distraught

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Speaker 2: and confused. She planned on aboording the child, but some

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Speaker 2: The little boy was born at the charity ward at

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Speaker 2: father was an alcoholic. More than once he threatened to

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Speaker 2: been seen as damaged goods, a mistake, no future to

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Speaker 2: giving them a divine destiny. And with the help of

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Speaker 2: become one of the greatest ministers of our time. Today,

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Speaker 2: over seventy years later, our friend James Robinson has made

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Speaker 2: a difference in people's lives.

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Speaker 1: Around the world. What am I saying?

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Speaker 2: What looked like a mistake was not a mistake at all.

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Speaker 2: If you're breathing today. If you're alive, and I believe

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Speaker 2: you are, you are not an accident. No matter how

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Speaker 1: Destiny for you to fulfill.

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Speaker 2: You may have had a negative past, but you don't

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Speaker 2: have to have a negative future.

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Speaker 1: This is a new day.

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Speaker 2: And if you will take all the damaged goods label,

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Speaker 2: get rid of a victim mentality and have a victor mentality,

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Speaker 2: God will take what's meant for harm and he'll use

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Speaker 1: Now, I love the fact that with Ishmael, God brought.

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Speaker 2: Something significant out of a child that was considered insignificant.

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Speaker 2: That tells me you don't have to come from the

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Speaker 2: just put you back together, but he'll make you into

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Speaker 2: something better, stronger, more beautiful than if it had not happened.

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Speaker 1: I've heard it said like this.

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Speaker 2: Any chef can cook something good when they have good ingredients,

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Speaker 2: a good oven, good recipes, good tools.

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Speaker 1: That's easy.

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Speaker 2: But it takes a master chef to take ingredients that

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Speaker 2: are not perfect, ingredients that are bitter sour, and still

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Speaker 2: make something good out of it. That's the way God is.

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Speaker 1: He's not just a chef, he's a master chef.

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Speaker 2: He can take any ingredient that you give him. Anything

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Speaker 2: you've been through, your hurts, the disappointments, the unfair situation,

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Speaker 2: and mix them together and still make something out of

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Speaker 2: your life, more than you ever dreamed of. Why don't

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Speaker 2: you take off the damage goods label. You're not working

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Speaker 2: with an ordinary chef. You're working with the master chef.

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Speaker 1: The creator of the universe.

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Speaker 2: At times, at times in life, you may get dented,

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Speaker 2: but you've got to remember, just like those cans, there's

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Speaker 2: nothing wrong on the inside. You are still a child

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Speaker 2: of the most tied God, filled with possibility. Now do

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Speaker 2: you shake off the guilt, quit listening to the accusing voices,

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Speaker 2: and move forward with your life. If you do this,

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Speaker 2: I believe and declare God will bring greatness out of

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Speaker 2: a great mess. Like Ishmael, He will make something significant

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Speaker 2: out of your life, like with my father. God will

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Speaker 2: not only restore you, but he'll bring you out better

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Speaker 2: off than you were before.

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Speaker 1: In Jesus's name, if you.

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Speaker 2: Receive it, can you say him in today? We never

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Speaker 2: like to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to.

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Speaker 1: Make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray

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Speaker 1: with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 2: Come into my heart. I make you my lord and savior. Friends,

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Speaker 2: if you prayed that simple prayer. We believe you got

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Speaker 2: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep

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Speaker 2: God first place. He'll take your places that you've never

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Speaker 2: dreamed of.

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Speaker 3: Our negative thinking circuit God's power and blessing in our lives.

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Speaker 3: When you say, I always seem to worry. I can't

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Speaker 3: forgive what was done to me. I pray, but it

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Speaker 3: feels like God doesn't hear. I won't have enough to

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Speaker 3: provide for me and my family. How do you overcome

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Speaker 3: this type of negative thinking that limits you from God's best.

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

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Speaker 2: You have to power up your mind, get it going

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Speaker 2: in the right direction, but dwell to know what God

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Speaker 2: 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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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 1: Now, I'd love to send you my newest book. It's

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Speaker 2: I'll show you how to delete negative thoughts and focus

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Speaker 2: on the promises rather than the problems.

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Speaker 3: You can discover God's unprecedented power in your life. As

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Speaker 3: our way of saying thank you for your gift of

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Speaker 3: any amount to the ministry this month, Joel and Victoria

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Speaker 3: would like to send you this life altering resource, power Up,

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Speaker 3: wants to power up every area of your life, your relationships, career, finances, health.

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Speaker 3: He wants to bless it all. But sometimes negative thinking

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Speaker 3: can short circuit the truth. This resource reconnects those power lines,

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Speaker 3: providing the free flow of God's eternal promises. Remember, wherever

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Speaker 3: you're at, whatever you're facing, you can make the choice

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Speaker 3: to power up and access God's promises.

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Speaker 2: When your mind is going in the right direction, your

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Speaker 2: life will go in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: Start powering up each day and.

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Speaker 2: Watch what God will do Victory and I want you

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Speaker 2: to know that we pray for you and your family.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate your prayer and support. Your generosity is impacting

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Speaker 2: so many lines. Remember you can watch the services live

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Speaker 2: may the Lord bless you and keep you.

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