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Speaker 5: start with something funny and I heard about this burglar
Speaker 5: that broke into a house one night. As he was
Speaker 5: stealing the stereo, he heard a voice saying, Jesus is
Speaker 5: watching you. He froze in his tracks, shined his flashlight
Speaker 5: and saw a parrot over in the corner. He said,
Speaker 5: did you say that to me? The parent said yes,
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to warn you. He said, warn me,
Speaker 5: what are you talking about? Who are you? The parent said,
Speaker 5: my name is Moses. The burglar laughed, said, what kind
Speaker 5: of crazy people would name a parrot Moses. The parent said,
Speaker 5: the same kind of people that would name a one
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty pound rockweller. Jesus, hold up your Bible.
Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 5: I am what it says. I am. I have what
Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 5: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 5: about counted by the Creator. It's easy to go through
Speaker 5: life feeling disqualified because of the mistakes we've made or
Speaker 5: negative things people have spoken over us, or even our
Speaker 5: own thoughts, telling us what we can't become. If we're
Speaker 5: not careful, we'll come up with excuses as to why
Speaker 5: we can't accomplish our dreams, why we can't rise any higher.
Speaker 5: In effect, we're counting ourselves out. In the scripture, the
Speaker 5: prophet Samuel came to Jesse's house to choose one of
Speaker 5: his sons as the next king. Jesse had seven of
Speaker 5: his eight sons lined up. He was so out of them.
Speaker 5: They were strong, talented, good looking young men, and Samuel
Speaker 5: was about to choose the oldest son, Eliab. He was big, muscular,
Speaker 5: looked like he just stepped out of a movie. But
Speaker 5: God said to Samuel, don't judge by his appearance or height,
Speaker 5: for he is not the one. The Lord doesn't see
Speaker 5: things the way you see them. People judge by the outside,
Speaker 5: but God looks on the inside. When Samuel heard this,
Speaker 5: he changed his mind. He told Jesse that it wasn't
Speaker 5: any of those sons. Well. Jesse had another son named David.
Speaker 5: He was out in the shepherd's fields taking care of
Speaker 5: the sheep. But in Jesse's mind, David didn't count. He
Speaker 5: was the youngest. David was small, not as strong, didn't
Speaker 5: have the experience. Jesse thought, no use even bringing him in.
Speaker 5: He'll never amount to much. But the moment Samuel saw David,
Speaker 5: he said that's the one. He's the next king. I'm
Speaker 5: sure Jesse and the other brothers nearly passed out, thinking,
Speaker 5: are you kidding? You mean it's David. They didn't count him.
Speaker 5: But the good news is David was counted by the Creator.
Speaker 5: God doesn't judge the way people judge. You may not
Speaker 5: have the most talent, the best looks come from the
Speaker 5: most influential family. That's okay. You've been counted by the
Speaker 5: one who matters most. Now my challenge is don't count
Speaker 5: yourself out. I hear people say I'm too small, I
Speaker 5: don't have a good personality. I come from the wrong family.
Speaker 5: Know when God created you, he put in you everything
Speaker 5: you need to fulfill your destiny. That means if you
Speaker 5: don't have it, you don't need it. If you needed
Speaker 5: to be taller, you would be taller. If you needed
Speaker 5: more talent, you would have more talent. If you needed
Speaker 5: to be a different nationality, you would be. You're not lacking.
Speaker 5: You didn't get short changed. You've been fearfully and wonderfully made.
Speaker 5: The creator of the universe has equipped you, empowered you,
Speaker 5: put seeds of greatness on the inside. He's saying you're
Speaker 5: want of a kind a masterpiece. You have what it takes.
Speaker 5: He's qualified you. Now, don't disqualify yourself. Don't stay focused
Speaker 5: on what somebody else can do better. How your sister
Speaker 5: has more talent, your friend has a better personality. That
Speaker 5: may be true, but you're not running their race. You
Speaker 5: don't need what they have. If you needed it, God
Speaker 5: would have given it to you. When the thoughts come
Speaker 5: telling us you're too tall, too short, you're too young,
Speaker 5: too old, you're not talented enough, not smart enough, let
Speaker 5: that go in one ear and out the other. If
Speaker 5: you go through life feeling like you're lacking, you don't
Speaker 5: measure up, even though God has qualified you, you are
Speaker 5: disqualifying yourself. And sometimes it's not our own thoughts. But
Speaker 5: like with David, other people will try to discount us,
Speaker 5: make us feel less than, like we don't measure up.
Speaker 5: And this is what happened with my father. He was
Speaker 5: raised in a very poor family. They were cotton farmers.
Speaker 5: They lost everything during the Great Depression. At seventeen years
Speaker 5: of age. My father gave his life to Christ, the
Speaker 5: first one in the family, and God called him into
Speaker 5: the ministry put a big dream in his heart. He
Speaker 5: knew one day he was going to touch the world.
Speaker 5: He told his parents in his late teens that he
Speaker 5: was going to leave the farm and become a minister.
Speaker 5: He thought they'd be so excited, so happy for him,
Speaker 5: but it was just the opposite. They said, John, you're
Speaker 5: making a big mistake. We love you, but you're not
Speaker 5: going to touch the world. We're just cotton farmers. This
Speaker 5: is all we know how to do. We're not influential.
Speaker 5: We don't have any money or stay here and pick
Speaker 5: cotton with us. My father knew he was destined to
Speaker 5: do something great, but they couldn't see it. They discounted him.
Speaker 5: They were saying, John, you're not qualified. You don't have
Speaker 5: the talent, the training, the influence. You come from the
Speaker 5: wrong family. If you allow it, people will put their
Speaker 5: limitations on you. They will try to talk you out
Speaker 5: of your dreams. One of the best things I have
Speaker 5: ever learned is people don't determine our destiny. God does.
Speaker 5: People don't set the limits for our life. They may
Speaker 5: try to talk you out of it and tell you
Speaker 5: what you can't do. And I don't think you're that talented.
Speaker 5: It's because God didn't put the dream in them. He
Speaker 5: put the dream in you. You can't expect everyone to
Speaker 5: be for you. They can't feel what you feel. They
Speaker 5: don't see what you see. They don't have the faith
Speaker 5: that you have. They will try to discount you. Tell
Speaker 5: you you don't have what it takes. Don't believe those lies.
Speaker 5: You don't need their approval. You have God's approval. They'll
Speaker 5: discount you. But the one who matters, the one who
Speaker 5: spoke worlds into existence, the one who flung stars into space.
Speaker 5: When they count you out, he counts you in it.
Speaker 5: He says, you have what it takes. You're well able,
Speaker 5: You will fulfill your destiny. You will leave your mark
Speaker 5: on this generation. God has already counted you. Now, don't
Speaker 5: let other people discount you, Luke. Chapter nine, Jesus had
Speaker 5: been teaching the people for most of the day, was
Speaker 5: getting late. The sun was about to go down, and
Speaker 5: everyone was very hungry. The disciples came and said, Jesus,
Speaker 5: you need to dismiss the people. Let them go find
Speaker 5: some food. They were out in the middle of the country.
Speaker 5: Nothing to eat out there. Jesus said to the disciples,
Speaker 5: you feed them. They said, what do you mean, we
Speaker 5: don't have anything to eat. Jesus asked what they had,
Speaker 5: and all they could find it was a little boy's lunch,
Speaker 5: five loaves of bread and two fish. The scripture says
Speaker 5: there were five thousand men in attendance that day. That
Speaker 5: means there were probably fifteen thousand people in total if
Speaker 5: you counted the women and the children. And Jesus took
Speaker 5: the little boy's lunch. You know the story. He prayed
Speaker 5: over it. It multiplied and fed the thousands. The point
Speaker 5: I want us to see is the one that wasn't
Speaker 5: counted had the miracle. They counted the men, the five thousand,
Speaker 5: but they didn't count the children. They thought they're too young,
Speaker 5: no need to count them. Back in those days, women
Speaker 5: were seen as second class, as less then they didn't
Speaker 5: count the women. But God uses people that other people
Speaker 5: don't count. One of the five thousand men could have
Speaker 5: had a lunch, one of the disciples could have brought
Speaker 5: something to eat that day. But God chose this child
Speaker 5: specifically to let us know that when people leave you
Speaker 5: out and say you don't have anything to offer. You're
Speaker 5: too young, you're not important. You don't count. God says
Speaker 5: you're a prime candidate for me to do something great.
Speaker 5: I count people that other people don't count. Sometimes life
Speaker 5: will say I'm not going to count you. You've made
Speaker 5: too many mistakes, you went through that divorce, you've got
Speaker 5: that addiction. Life will try to push you down, discredit you,
Speaker 5: make you feel like there's nothing good in your future.
Speaker 5: Always remember when life counts you out, God counts you in.
Speaker 5: He uses people that other people don't count. When my
Speaker 5: father went to be with the Lord back in nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety nine, I knew I was supposed to step up
Speaker 5: and pasture the church. But I could hear these voices
Speaker 5: trying to discount me, saying he doesn't have what it takes,
Speaker 5: he hasn't been a seminary, he's not qualified, he's too young,
Speaker 5: he doesn't count down. I could hear God saying, Joel,
Speaker 5: don't worry. I've got you covered. Other people may not
Speaker 5: count you, but I count you. I know what you're
Speaker 5: capable of. I can see your potential. When people try
Speaker 5: to discount you, write you off. The one who matters most,
Speaker 5: the great I am, write you in He didn't create
Speaker 5: you to be average, to be ordinary, to just make
Speaker 5: it through life. He created you to excel, to leave
Speaker 5: your fingerprint, to make this world a better place. You
Speaker 5: have a destiny to fulfill. God has an assignment for
Speaker 5: you to accomplish. You think about my father. He was
Speaker 5: the least likely one to do something great. If God
Speaker 5: were looking for a prominent pastor, surely he would find
Speaker 5: someone with the appropriate background, the training, the influence, the
Speaker 5: well to do family. That would make sense. But Paul
Speaker 5: said in Corinthians, God deliberately chooses the least likely to
Speaker 5: confound the wise. He chooses the weak to outshine the strong.
Speaker 5: Out of the five thousand men listening to Jesus that day,
Speaker 5: no doubt some of them were community leaders, highly educated, respected, influential.
Speaker 5: You would have thought at least one of them would
Speaker 5: have brought an ice chest filled with sandwiches, snacks, water.
Speaker 5: They knew they were going to be out in the
Speaker 5: country all day long. But the one that had the
Speaker 5: miracle was the least likely, the little boy. God used
Speaker 5: the weak to outshine the strong. Could it be that
Speaker 5: you're not reaching your highest potential because you feel like
Speaker 5: you're lacking in some area you don't count now. You're
Speaker 5: not pursuing your dreams, You're not excited about life. You
Speaker 5: need to have a new perspective. You're a prime candidate
Speaker 5: for God to show out in your life. You may
Speaker 5: feel weak, but God wants to show himself strong. It
Speaker 5: may seem like you're the least likely. God wants to
Speaker 5: do something so amazing in your life. People around you
Speaker 5: can't even believe it. You got to do your part
Speaker 5: and get your passion back. You have everything you need
Speaker 5: to fulfill your destiny. You may have made mistakes, but
Speaker 5: you didn't get disqualified. You may have some flaws and
Speaker 5: weaknesses we all do, but that didn't cancel your destiny.
Speaker 5: You may feel like life has left you out. The
Speaker 5: odds are against you. The good news is God is
Speaker 5: for you. He has the final say, and he says,
Speaker 5: I count you in when other people count you out.
Speaker 5: And you need to get ready. This is a new day.
Speaker 5: You're about to see new doors begin to open. God
Speaker 5: is about to multiply what you have. He's going to
Speaker 5: take you from the back to the front, from lack
Speaker 5: to abundance, from insignificance to great influence. You've been counted
Speaker 5: you've been qualified. What God spoke over your life will
Speaker 5: come to pass. Those are not just nice, kind encouraging words.
Speaker 5: That's a prophecy. If you'll receive it and say, yes,
Speaker 5: this is for me, then you'll begin to see it happen.
Speaker 5: God will amaze you with his goodness. Years ago, there
Speaker 5: was a young lady that had a dream of becoming
Speaker 5: an actress. But the problem was she was very small,
Speaker 5: under five feet tall. All the experts told her she
Speaker 5: would never be successful in her field because of her height,
Speaker 5: and that could have been the end of the story.
Speaker 5: She moved on and tried something else. But this young
Speaker 5: lady understood this principle. She knew God uses people that
Speaker 5: other people don't count. She had been disqualified by the experts,
Speaker 5: but she knew she was qualified by the one who
Speaker 5: mattered most. And against all odds, she started getting chosen
Speaker 5: for this role, and another role, and another role. Helen
Speaker 5: Hayes went on to become one of the latest actresses
Speaker 5: of her time. At one point she played the very
Speaker 5: acclaimed role of Mary, Queen of Scotland, who was one
Speaker 5: of the tallest queens that ever lived. Friends, when people
Speaker 5: count you out, God counts you in In the scripture,
Speaker 5: God told Jeremiah that he was going to become a
Speaker 5: great prophet and speak to the nations. Jeremiah was young, insecure.
Speaker 5: He said, God, I can't do that. I'm too young.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid to get up in front of people. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't know what to say. God said, Jeremiah, Say not
Speaker 5: that you're too young, Say not that you're afraid. He
Speaker 5: was saying, Jeremiah, I wouldn't have asked you to do
Speaker 5: it if I didn't already know you had the ability.
Speaker 5: Don't let negative voices talk you out of your dreams.
Speaker 5: If I'd have gone around saying I can't pastor that
Speaker 5: church man, I've never ministered before, I don't have the training,
Speaker 5: I don't have the right personality, it would have kept
Speaker 5: me from my destiny. When you say I'm not that talented.
Speaker 5: I've made too many mistakes. I don't have the right personality.
Speaker 5: God says to you what he said to Jeremiah. Zip
Speaker 5: it up. Say not I'm too short. Say not I
Speaker 5: don't have the talent. Say not I can't accomplish my dreams.
Speaker 5: Quit discounting yourself. You have the miracle, you have the
Speaker 5: five loaves and the two fish. It may not seem
Speaker 5: like much, you may not feel qualified. The odds are
Speaker 5: against you. But this is where our God comes in.
Speaker 5: He can take the little and multiply it. You don't
Speaker 5: have to have a great gift for God to use
Speaker 5: you in a great way. You can have a little talent,
Speaker 5: a little training, a little influence, and like the little
Speaker 5: boy's lunch, God can take it and multiply it. He
Speaker 5: can open doors that you could have never opened. He
Speaker 5: can bring talent out of you that you didn't know
Speaker 5: you had. He can cause you to be at the
Speaker 5: place at the right time. Give you favor, honor, influence.
Speaker 5: Don't go around feeling like you're at a disadvantage. Put
Speaker 5: your shoulders back, hold your head up high. The most
Speaker 5: High God has breathed life into you. He's crowned you
Speaker 5: with his favor. You have royal blood flowing through your veins.
Speaker 5: You're not at a disadvantage. Other people may have not
Speaker 5: counted you, but the one who matters, he counts you.
Speaker 5: He writes you in when other people write you off.
Speaker 5: I've learned God will never ask you to do something
Speaker 5: and then not give you the ability to do it.
Speaker 5: You may not feel like you have the confidence, the training,
Speaker 5: the talent. I didn't when I stepped up. But this
Speaker 5: is what faith is all about. You have to believe
Speaker 5: it before you see it. I heard about this pastor
Speaker 5: before the service. He gave a man that he knew
Speaker 5: a one hundred dollars bill and ask him to secretly
Speaker 5: put it in his wife's bible make sure she didn't
Speaker 5: see it. During his message, he asked this lady to
Speaker 5: stand up. He said, do you trust me? She said yes,
Speaker 5: I do. He said, will you do what I asked?
Speaker 5: She said yes, I will. He said, then, please open
Speaker 5: your bible and hand me a one hundred dollar bill.
Speaker 5: She said, oh, I'm so sorry. I don't have one
Speaker 5: hundred dollars in there. He said it again. Do you
Speaker 5: trust me? Yes? I do. Will you do what I asked? Yes,
Speaker 5: I will. Then please open your bible and hand me
Speaker 5: a one hundred dollar bill. Frustrated, she opened her bible
Speaker 5: and much to her surprise, there was one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: She shook her head and said, how did it get
Speaker 5: in there? He smiled and said, I put it in there.
Speaker 5: That's the way God is. He'll never ask you for
Speaker 5: something without first putting it in you. When you know,
Speaker 5: deep down you know you're supposed to take a step
Speaker 5: of faith, you may not feel like you can do it.
Speaker 5: Voices will try to discount, tell you you're not qualified. But
Speaker 5: if you'll dare take that step, you'll discover things in
Speaker 5: you that you never knew you had. Say not, I
Speaker 5: can't do it. The right attitude, I can do all
Speaker 5: things through Christ. Say not, I'm at a disadvantage. The
Speaker 5: right attitude. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I'm a
Speaker 5: child of the most High God. Say not, I've reached
Speaker 5: my limits. This is as good as it gets. Joel,
Speaker 5: you know the right attitude. My best days are still
Speaker 5: out in front of me. The path of the righteous
Speaker 5: gets brighter and brighter. I'm excited about my future. This
Speaker 5: is what a friend of mine did. He had a
Speaker 5: dream of becoming a pastor, but he had a serious
Speaker 5: problem with stuttering. It affected his self image to where
Speaker 5: he'd hardly look it in the eyes. At sixteen years
Speaker 5: of age, his parents sent him to a very prestigious
Speaker 5: speech school. The teachers carried around stopwatches. When a student
Speaker 5: got stuck, they would time how long it would take
Speaker 5: this to get the word out. That's how they tracked
Speaker 5: their progress. The first day my friend was at the school,
Speaker 5: he got stuck on the word thee. It took him
Speaker 5: one minute and sixteen seconds to get it out. He
Speaker 5: had a major stuttering problem. In the natural, you would
Speaker 5: think you're not cut out to become a public speaker.
Speaker 5: You can do something else, but you're not going to
Speaker 5: be a pastor. He would have been one of the
Speaker 5: ones not counted. He stutters, cross him off. But God
Speaker 5: uses people that other people don't count. And when God
Speaker 5: put the dream in your heart, he gave you the
Speaker 5: ability to do it. But there will always be forces
Speaker 5: that try to keep your potential from being released. The
Speaker 5: enemy would love for your gift to stay hidden. He
Speaker 5: would love for the best of you to never come out.
Speaker 5: And just because you have a dream, just because God
Speaker 5: has qualified you, doesn't mean that you're not going to
Speaker 5: have to fight. You have to stand strong and be
Speaker 5: determined to become all you were created to be. You
Speaker 5: can't be weak, get discouraged because you had to set back,
Speaker 5: fall into self pity. Now you have to dig your
Speaker 5: heels in and say I am in it to win it.
Speaker 5: This challenge is no match for me. I am more
Speaker 5: than a conqueror. If God be for me, who dare
Speaker 5: be against me? I will fulfill my destiny. If you
Speaker 5: don't talk to yourself the right way, negative thoughts will
Speaker 5: talk to you. Just like you can talk to yourself
Speaker 5: out of a dream, you can talk yourself into a dream.
Speaker 5: My friend, as a young man, he would get alone
Speaker 5: in his house where nobody could hear him. He would
Speaker 5: quote scriptures. Sometimes it would take five minutes to just
Speaker 5: get one scripture out. He didn't get discouraged. He would
Speaker 5: say things like, no weapon formed against me will prosper.
Speaker 5: Thanks be to God who always causes me to triumph.
Speaker 5: And it didn't happen overnight, but little by little, better
Speaker 5: and better. It amazed his teachers. Today he can speak
Speaker 5: as clearly and fluently as can be, no stuttering. Plus
Speaker 5: he's the pastor of a successful church. What am I saying?
Speaker 5: When life counts you out, God counts you in. Don't
Speaker 5: let negative thoughts, negative people keep you from stepping into
Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny. There will always be voices
Speaker 5: telling you you're not qualified, you stutter, you've made too
Speaker 5: many mistakes, you're too short, you're not that talented, those
Speaker 5: are all lies, trying to make you feel like you
Speaker 5: don't count, so that the best of you never comes out.
Speaker 5: Don't believe that. Don't fall into that trap. Even way
Speaker 5: back with Moses, when God told him to go, tell
Speaker 5: Pharaoh let my people go. The first thing Moses said
Speaker 5: was God, I can't do that. I stutter, I don't
Speaker 5: speak well. It's easy to come up with excuses. But
Speaker 5: I love the way God an him back. He said, Moses,
Speaker 5: who made your tongue? Who makes the deaf to hear?
Speaker 5: Who makes the blind to see? He was saying, Moses,
Speaker 5: who disqualifies you, who left you out? Who told you
Speaker 5: you don't count? Don't you realize, Moses, I control the
Speaker 5: whole universe when you believe I can make it happen.
Speaker 5: Years before David was chosen to be king, the prophet
Speaker 5: Samuel went to another young man named Saul and told
Speaker 5: him he was going to be the next king. But
Speaker 5: Saul said, Samuel, how can this be. I come from
Speaker 5: the smallest tribe and my family is the least important.
Speaker 5: He was saying the same thing, I can't be a king.
Speaker 5: I don't count. I don't come from an influential family.
Speaker 5: We're not royalty. We're just ordinary people. What's interesting is
Speaker 5: Samuel didn't answer Saul. He didn't respond back to him.
Speaker 5: When we come up with excuses and tell God why
Speaker 5: we can't rise higher, God, I'm not the talented God.
Speaker 5: I have this addiction. God, I come from the wrong family.
Speaker 5: God doesn't say, yes, I understand you have a disadvantage. No,
Speaker 5: our excuses don't phase God. He knows what he's put
Speaker 5: in you. God can see your greatness. He sees the
Speaker 5: royalty in your blood. He sees the potential you've not
Speaker 5: yet tapped into. Our doubts, our fears, our insecurity. That
Speaker 5: doesn't change God's mind. He's already laid out the plan
Speaker 5: for your life. He's saying to you today, I've called
Speaker 5: you to be a king, to be a queen, to
Speaker 5: reign in life, to make a new standard for your family.
Speaker 5: Why don't you lose the excuses and get an agreement
Speaker 5: with God. Sometimes we think we're disqualified because of the
Speaker 5: mistakes we've made. We don't count because we haven't lived
Speaker 5: the right kind of life, and that's why we're kind
Speaker 5: of sitting on the sidelines. But when God needed someone
Speaker 5: to save the Israeli spies, back in the Old test
Speaker 5: It they were in the city of Jericho. Word got
Speaker 5: out that they were there. Their cover was blown. Now
Speaker 5: they were about to be captured. God could have chosen
Speaker 5: anyone to help them. He's God. He could have had
Speaker 5: a soldier help get them out, or a community leader
Speaker 5: to secretly escort them out of the city. But he
Speaker 5: didn't do that. God chose a woman by the name
Speaker 5: of Rahab. She was a prostitute, not respected. Everyone looked
Speaker 5: down on her, thought she'll never do anything significant. She
Speaker 5: doesn't count. But God doesn't judge the way people judge.
Speaker 5: People saw her shortcomings, her failures, but God saw a
Speaker 5: diamond in the rough. God saw her potential. He knew
Speaker 5: what she could become. God looked down from heaven and said,
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Speaker 5: is a notorious sinner. She's made a mess of her life.
Speaker 5: She's disqualified. God said, no, I didn't make a mistake.
Speaker 5: I choose people that other people don't choose. Rayhab not
Speaker 5: only saved the spies, but that ended up saving her
Speaker 5: own life, her own family. Here's how amazing God is.
Speaker 5: Rayhab married a Jewish man. They had a son named Boas.
Speaker 5: Boas had a son named Jesse. Jesse had a son
Speaker 5: named David. That means that Rahab, the former prostitute, is
Speaker 5: in the family line of Jesus Christ. God doesn't choose
Speaker 5: the way people choose. You may have made mistakes, you
Speaker 5: feel like you don't count you blew it. Can I
Speaker 5: tell you You've been counted by the Creator. He's looking down
Speaker 5: from heaven right now, calling your name, saying I choose you.
Speaker 5: I want you to do something great. I have a
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Speaker 5: disqualify yourself. Get up every morning knowing that you've been
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Speaker 5: final say. He says, You're redeemed, You're forgiven, You're blessed.
Speaker 5: Your best days are set out in front of you.
Speaker 5: I believe and declare, dreams are coming back to life.
Speaker 5: Vision is being restored, Hope is rising. You will become
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Speaker 5: receive it, can you say him then today we never
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