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Speaker 5: the final say, and he says that His plans for

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Speaker 5: you are for good and not evil, to give you

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Speaker 5: a future and a hope. That means nothing that was

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Speaker 5: spoken over you can define you, even if it was

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Speaker 5: from your own mother or father. It means that nothing

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Speaker 5: that's happened in your past has to keep.

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Speaker 2: You from your God given destiny.

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Speaker 5: Even if you failed are gone through unfair situations, you

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Speaker 5: can show it to be in the wrong by rising

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Speaker 5: up in faith, shaking off the self pity, and moving

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Speaker 5: forward with your life.

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Speaker 2: Friends, you are not who people say you are. You

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Speaker 2: are who God says you are, and he.

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Speaker 5: Says you have seeds of greatness on the inside. Will

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Speaker 5: you dare be bold like Jabez and don't just remove

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Speaker 5: the old labels, but in larger vision, dare to say, God,

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Speaker 5: I'm asking you to bless me. Indeed, God, in spite

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Speaker 5: of the mistakes I've made, in spite of what they

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Speaker 5: said about me, God, I believe that you.

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Speaker 2: Can take me places that I never thought possible, you say, Joel,

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Speaker 2: I don't know how that could happen for me. I've

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Speaker 2: been through a lot. I just don't have the.

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Speaker 5: Resources, the connections, the education to accomplish my dreams. Now,

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Speaker 5: you may not see away, but God has a way.

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Speaker 5: I think about the bumblebee. All the laws of physics

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Speaker 5: say the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body is too big

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Speaker 5: for its wings. Technically it needs a larger wingspan. For years,

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Speaker 5: experts in aerodynamics have studied the bumblebee, and their conclusion

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Speaker 5: is it cannot fly.

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Speaker 2: They stuck a label on it.

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Speaker 5: Grounded has to walk wherever it goes. The only problem

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Speaker 5: is the bumblebee could not understand what the experts were saying.

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Speaker 5: Therefore the label would not stick. Now, against all the

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Speaker 5: odds of aerodynamics, in spite of what the experts, engineers,

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Speaker 5: signs have said, the bumblebee flies wherever it wants to do.

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Speaker 5: You know why the bumblebee can fly because God told

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Speaker 5: it to fly. God is not limited to the laws

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Speaker 5: of nature.

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Speaker 2: If you will remove.

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Speaker 5: If you will remove the wrong labels, you will be

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Speaker 5: amazed at how far your wings can take you, much

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Speaker 5: farther than people have said about you. It's because God

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Speaker 5: breathed his life into you. You have ability, talent that

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Speaker 5: goes beyond the natural.

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Speaker 2: Some of you today you're not flying.

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Speaker 5: It's not because you weren't created to, but because somebody

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Speaker 5: put a label on you that you believed. Now it's

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Speaker 5: become a stronghold in your own thinking. It's limiting what

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Speaker 5: God can do. I'm asking you to remove the old

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Speaker 5: labels and start relabeling yourself and.

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Speaker 2: Your future with what God, God says about you.

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Speaker 5: That label that says you've reached your limits, remove it.

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Speaker 2: Put on a new label.

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Speaker 5: The path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. My

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Speaker 5: best days are still in front of me. That label

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Speaker 5: that says you're too short, too old, not talented enough,

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Speaker 5: you come from the wrong family.

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Speaker 2: Remove it. The new label is I am fearfully and

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Speaker 2: wonderfully made. Well, you're never going to be successful. All

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Speaker 2: the experts says you're never going to get off the ground.

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Speaker 2: Remove it. The new label is God. You said I

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Speaker 2: would mount up with wings like the eagles.

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Speaker 5: I know I was destined to soar, to live a victorious, abundant,

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Speaker 5: fulfilled light. If you will remove the wrong labels, I

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Speaker 5: believe like Jabez, God will bless you.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, like my father, you will see God restore you

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Speaker 2: and give you beauty for ashes.

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Speaker 5: Like David, God will take you from the background and

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Speaker 5: put you in a position of influence. And like Rahab,

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Speaker 5: God will break a curse and help you make a

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Speaker 5: mark for generations to come.

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Speaker 2: I want to.

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Speaker 5: Declare over each one of you, because you're wearing the

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Speaker 5: right labels, You're going to see Ephesians three twenty come

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Speaker 5: to pass in your own life. God is going to

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Speaker 5: promote you. He's going to increase you. He's going to

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Speaker 5: open up supernatural doors. He's going to bring divine connections.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna turn negative situations around. You're going to see

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Speaker 5: the exceeding greatness of God's power in your life.

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Speaker 2: I believe in declare.

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Speaker 5: You're going to become everything He created you to be,

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Speaker 5: and you're going to have everything He intended for you

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Speaker 5: to have.

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Speaker 2: Amen. Do you receive it tonight? I know you did.

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