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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it.

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Speaker 1: With a friend.

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Speaker 2: Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

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Speaker 1: Will God bless you.

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Speaker 2: It's a joy to come into your homes, and if

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Speaker 2: you're ever in our area, please stop by and be

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Speaker 2: a part of one of our services.

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

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Speaker 2: I like to start with something funny, and I heard

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Speaker 2: about these three sons that left home and went.

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Speaker 1: Out and prospered.

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Speaker 2: They got back together to talk about the gifts they

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Speaker 2: bought their elderly mother. The first son said, I built

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Speaker 2: mom a big house. The second one said, I got

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Speaker 2: her a fancy car. The third son said, since mom

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Speaker 2: loves to read the Bible but she can barely see anymore,

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Speaker 2: I got her a specially trained parent that can quote

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Speaker 2: the entire Bible. A few months later, they received a

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Speaker 2: letter from their mother. It said, Milton, the house you

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Speaker 2: built me is way too bad. Gerald the car you

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Speaker 2: bought me is way too small. But my dearest Donald,

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Speaker 2: your simple gift is my favorite.

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Speaker 1: The chicken was delicious.

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 2: of God. I'll boldly confess. My mind is alert, my

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Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 2: about not relying on people. It's great when people believe

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Speaker 2: in us, cheer us on, make us feel valuable. We

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Speaker 2: love when our spouse compliments us, a friend is there

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Speaker 2: to give encouragement, our coworker stays late to help us

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Speaker 2: on a project. God uses people to help move us

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Speaker 2: toward our destiny.

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Speaker 1: But here's the key. You can't become so dependent on

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Speaker 1: people that.

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Speaker 2: You're getting your word and value out of how they

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Speaker 2: treat you. It's easy to become addicted to compliments, addicted

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Speaker 2: to encouragement, addicted to them cheering you on. Now you

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Speaker 2: rely on them to keep you feeling good about yourself,

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Speaker 2: to always be there to validate you, to make you

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Speaker 2: feel approved and like a drug. If they don't keep

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Speaker 2: you fixed, meet all your expectations, you get discouraged, feel inferior.

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Speaker 2: Work over time to try to win their approval.

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Speaker 1: The problem is.

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Speaker 2: You're trying to get from people what only God can give.

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Speaker 2: Your worth, your value doesn't come from another person. It

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Speaker 2: comes from your creator.

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Speaker 1: If you rely on people, you'll be disappointed. People will

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Speaker 2: Get busy and not be there when you need it.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes people will even turn on you. In the scripture, Peter.

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Speaker 1: Was Jesus' close friend.

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Speaker 2: They were with each other day, but when Jesus needed

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Speaker 2: Peter the most, when he was about to be crucified,

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Speaker 2: Peter denied that he even knew Christ. Jesus could have

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Speaker 2: been upset. God, I don't understand it. Why wasn't my

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Speaker 1: Quit relying on people.

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Speaker 2: What they do or don't do doesn't determine your worth.

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Speaker 2: What they give you or don't give you cannot stop

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Speaker 2: your purpose. God breathed his life into you. He has

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Speaker 2: crowned you with his favor. Quit waiting for people to

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Speaker 2: approve you and start approving yourself. People may not encourage you,

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Speaker 2: you can encourage yourself. People may not make you feel special.

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Speaker 2: You can make yourself feel special. I'm a child of

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Speaker 2: the most High God. I know I'm crowned with favor.

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Speaker 2: I'm one of a kind, I'm a masterpiece. You'll have

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Speaker 2: better relationships if you'll start validating yourself.

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Speaker 1: If you're always.

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Speaker 2: Depending on somebody else, you'll become needy, a burden, waiting

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Speaker 2: you your friends, family members, they have enough problems of

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Speaker 1: To not come home and have to work on you

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Speaker 1: for three hours. That's not only hurting you, it's unfair.

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Speaker 2: To the people God put in your life. They're not

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Speaker 2: responsible for your happiness. They're not responsible to keep you

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Speaker 2: cheered up. Don't put that extra pressure on them. Learn

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Speaker 2: to receive your value, your self worth from your heavenly Father.

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Speaker 2: If you're basing that off of what people give you,

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Speaker 2: then if they change their mind, if they stop doing it,

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Speaker 2: nobody can take it away. It's not dependent on how

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Speaker 2: you're a child of all my life God, and you

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Speaker 2: know he has already approved you. That's where you're getting

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Speaker 2: your value. Well, Joel, my parents didn't raise me right.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have a good childhood. Or my spouse never

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Speaker 2: compliments me. My boss didn't give me the credit that

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Speaker 1: They can't stop your destiny.

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Speaker 2: What they say or do cannot override God's plan for

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Speaker 2: your life.

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Speaker 1: Shake off the negativity.

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Speaker 2: That person that walked away, did you wrong, made hurtful.

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Speaker 2: Don't believe the lies that you're not talented enough, attractive enough,

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Speaker 2: good enough. They don't determine your value. They can't lessen

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Speaker 2: your self worth. The only power people have over you

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Speaker 2: thought I must not be too special. Listen to what

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Speaker 2: they're saying, look at how they're treating me. But Jesus

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Speaker 2: in John chapter five, your approval or disapproval means nothing

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Speaker 2: to me. He was saying, I don't need your approval

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Speaker 2: to feel good about myself. I don't have to have

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Speaker 2: said it this way in Philippians. I am self sufficient

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Speaker 2: in Christ's sufficiency, not in our own strength. But when

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Speaker 2: He's equipped us, empowered us, anointed us. We can put

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Speaker 2: our shoulders back, hold our head up high, knowing that

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Speaker 2: if God approves us, we don't have to have people's approval.

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Speaker 2: And this good when people encourage us, when they cheer

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Speaker 1: That's okay. You can validate yourself. You can approve yourself.

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Speaker 2: You are self sufficient in Christ's sufficiency. You can feel

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Speaker 2: the inside. What am I saying, you don't need somebody

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Speaker 2: else's praise. You don't have to have people's applause. You

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Speaker 2: the God who spoke worlds into existence. I'd rather have

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Speaker 2: Convince this person to like me, they know a lot

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Speaker 2: of people, then maybe some new doors would open. The

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Speaker 2: scripture says promotion doesn't come from people.

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Speaker 1: It comes from the Lord. God knows where all the

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Speaker 1: opportunities are.

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Speaker 2: He can make things happen for you without you having

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Speaker 1: You don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Play up to people try to win their favor. If

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Speaker 2: they don't want to be your friend, it's their loss

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Speaker 2: and not yours. Do yourself a favor and keep moving forward.

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Speaker 1: They're not a part of your destiny.

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Speaker 2: God has divine connections people. He's already lined up. They're

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Speaker 2: already in your future. Sometimes the reason people don't give

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Speaker 2: us what we need is because.

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Speaker 1: They don't have it. Nobody gave it to them.

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Speaker 2: They didn't see it modeled growing up if they weren't

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Speaker 2: raised showing affection with people, expressing feelings, being good to

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Speaker 2: each other. The problem is they don't have it to give.

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Speaker 2: If you're trying to get it from them, you're going.

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Speaker 1: To be frustrated.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you let them off the hook and go

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Speaker 2: to God for what they can't give you.

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Speaker 1: Here's the key. God has it all.

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Speaker 2: If you'll learn this principle to not rely on people,

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Speaker 2: but to go to Him for your encouragement, for your approval,

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Speaker 2: for your self worth, then you want live stressed out

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Speaker 2: because somebody is not giving you what you expect. If

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Speaker 2: nobody's complimenting you, you can compliment yourself.

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Speaker 1: Get up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, you, good looking thing. Call it by faith.

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Speaker 2: God calls you a masterpiece. Say what God says about you.

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Speaker 2: highly favored. You have to build yourself up, encourage yourself,

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Speaker 2: compliment yourself. You cannot rely on your spouse, your parents,

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Speaker 2: They may mean well, they couldn't love you anymore, but

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Speaker 2: no person can meet all of your needs.

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Speaker 1: Only God can.

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Speaker 2: If you're just looking to people, eventually you're going to

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Speaker 2: dependent on what somebody does. If they're not giving you

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Speaker 2: dependent on if these other people do what's right, if

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Speaker 2: they encourage you, if they cheer you on, if they

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Speaker 2: never let you down, or God put everything you need

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Speaker 2: within your power and instead of us live in needy.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, why don't they compliment me? Why won't they

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Speaker 2: be my friend? The right attitude is nobody owes me anything.

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Speaker 2: I know where to go for everything that I need.

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Speaker 2: My father was raised very poor on a cotton farm

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Speaker 2: during the Great Depress. He didn't have enough food, hardly

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Speaker 2: any clothes, a limited education. It was a very rough childhood.

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Speaker 2: At the age of seventeen, my dad gave his life

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Speaker 1: All the things he had to endure.

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Speaker 2: He wondered why his parents didn't give him a better childhood,

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Speaker 2: why he had to go without food and without a

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Speaker 2: He got so stirred up about it. He was about

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Speaker 2: didn't they? He said, yeah, they sure did. It said

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Speaker 1: Here's the key.

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Speaker 2: The less you depend on people, the greater the anointing

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Speaker 2: You don't have to have all those people. You and

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Speaker 2: the anointing will increase in your own life. You'll accomplish

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