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Speaker 2: You are grace to go. Enjoy today's message. Will God

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Speaker 1: We're here at the Chicago White Sox Stadium with the

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Speaker 2: Night of hope. We've been having a.

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Speaker 1: Great time and just appreciate you again coming out, appreciates

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Speaker 1: about how the promise is in you. God has called

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Speaker 2: You are not here by accident.

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Speaker 1: Before you were born, God knew you and planned out

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Speaker 1: He has solutions to problems you haven't even had. There

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Speaker 1: Now you've got to put your shoulders back, hold your

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Speaker 1: Quit looking for somebody else. Quit thinking that you don't

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Speaker 1: Recently, Troy received not one scholarship, not two, not five,

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Speaker 1: not seven, not eight. He was awarded nine scholarships worth

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Speaker 1: over one point three million dollars. He has his four

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Speaker 1: year degree, plus his masters and his doctorate studies totally

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Speaker 1: paid for at Georgetown University.

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Speaker 2: Troy and his mom are with us here tonight. Tell

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Speaker 2: him that you're proud of him. His mother, Connie, handed

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Speaker 2: me the newspaper article.

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Speaker 1: It says he will receive one of the finest educations available. Friends,

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Speaker 1: what God has promised you, he will bring the past

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Speaker 1: you may not see away, but God has a way.

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Speaker 1: If you'll be the best that you can be right

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Speaker 1: where you are, God.

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Speaker 2: Will get you to where He wants you to be.

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Speaker 1: In the Scripture, God put a promise in Jeremiah that

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Speaker 1: he would be a great prophet and speak to the nations.

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah was young and afraid, and he didn't think he

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Speaker 1: could do it. People and obstacles came against him. He

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Speaker 1: got so discouraged he was about to give up. In

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah chapter twenty, he began to tell God how bad

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Speaker 1: it was.

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Speaker 2: He listed one complaint after another.

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Speaker 1: God, these people are mocking me when I speak, They

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Speaker 1: make fun of me. I'm being ridiculed, I'm tired, I'm lonely,

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Speaker 1: I'm intimidating, on and on. Just when you thought he

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Speaker 1: was going to quit, he said in verse nine.

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Speaker 2: God, I feel like giving up.

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Speaker 1: But your word in my heart is like fire shut

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Speaker 1: up in my bones.

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Speaker 2: He was saying, God, I don't see how it can happen.

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Speaker 1: All the odds are against me, but this promise you

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Speaker 1: put in me will not go away.

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Speaker 2: It's like fire.

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Speaker 1: It's like a burning I can't get away from it.

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Speaker 1: You too, may be at a place where you could

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Speaker 1: easily be discouraged and give up on what God has

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Speaker 1: placed in your heart.

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Speaker 2: But the good news is.

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Speaker 1: Like Jeremiah, there is fire shut up in your bones.

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Speaker 1: There is a promise that God has spoken over you

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Speaker 1: that will not die.

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Speaker 2: You can try to ignore it.

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Speaker 1: Your mind will convince you that it's never going to happen.

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Speaker 1: But deep down you'll feel a burning, a restlessness, a fire.

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Speaker 1: That's the promise God put in you. God loves you

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Speaker 1: too much to stay average. God is going to push

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Speaker 1: you into greatness. You're going to accomplish more than you

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Speaker 1: thought possible. You're going to go further than you dreamed of.

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Speaker 1: You're going to see the exceeding greatness of God's power.

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Speaker 1: What He's spoken over your life will come to pass. Friends,

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Speaker 1: you don't need anyone else to give birth to what

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Speaker 1: God is placed in your heart.

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Speaker 2: Some of you are still.

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Speaker 1: Looking for the other person. You've got to realize you

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Speaker 1: are the right person. You are equipped, you are annointed,

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Speaker 1: You've got what it takes.

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Speaker 2: Now, stir up what's.

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Speaker 1: On the inside, and yes, it's good to celebrate others.

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Speaker 1: For God is saying it's time for you to be celebrated.

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Speaker 1: It's time for you to rise to a new level.

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Speaker 1: It's time for you to do something great. If you'll

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Speaker 1: get up every morning knowing that the promise is in you,

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Speaker 1: then that fire shut up in your bones is going

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Speaker 1: to cause you to rise higher. I believe one hundred

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Speaker 1: years from now, people are gonna look back at you

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Speaker 1: and say, Wow, they were a history maker. They were

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Speaker 1: a world changer. You're going to become everything God's created

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Speaker 1: you to be, and you're going to have everything God

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Speaker 1: intended for you to have. I believe it and declare

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Speaker 1: it over each one of you. If you receive it,

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Speaker 1: can you say amen? Tonight?

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Speaker 2: He Amen?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes in life people don't choose us. We've all felt

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