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Today's Word 02-20-26 Anchored in Approval · The Early Morning Praise Party w/ Sherry Mackey

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  Speaker 1: Nobody, and I do mean nobody. Does it like your
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  Speaker 1: early body praise party, I am a sherry nacket. It's
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  Speaker 1: time right now for today's word anchored in approval.
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  Speaker 2: Anchored in approval, Proverbs.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nine twenty five says, the fear of human opinion
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  Speaker 1: disables trusting in God protects you from that.
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  Speaker 2: That's in the message translation.
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  Speaker 1: The fear of human opinion disables trusting in God protects
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  Speaker 1: you from that.
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  Speaker 2: Proverbs twenty nine twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: You know one of the easiest traps to fall into
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  Speaker 1: is living for approval.
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  Speaker 2: We all want to be light.
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  Speaker 1: We want affirmation, we want applause, we want encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with appreciation.
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  Speaker 2: But when your.
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  Speaker 1: Sense of worth depends on it, you've handed someone else's
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  Speaker 1: steering will for your life. See the problem with relying
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  Speaker 1: on people to validate you is simple.
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  Speaker 2: People change. One day, crowds line.
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  Speaker 1: The streets of Jerusalem shouting Hosanna.
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  Speaker 2: As Jesus entered the.
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  Speaker 1: City, they laid palm branches at his feet, celebrating him
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  Speaker 1: as their king. Yet only days later, many of those
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  Speaker 1: same voices cried out crucify him. The applause turned into
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  Speaker 1: accusations almost overnight. If Jesus had drawn his identity from
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  Speaker 1: the crowd, he would have been crushed by their rejection.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't live from public opinion. He lived from
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  Speaker 1: divine approval. Come on, Jesus and guess what You and
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  Speaker 1: I have to do the same. If you only feel
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  Speaker 1: confident when others are praising you, then when they withdraw
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  Speaker 1: their praise, your confidence collapses.
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  Speaker 2: If you rely on someone to make you.
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  Speaker 1: Feel attractive, feel talented, or feel important, you're giving them
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  Speaker 1: authority over your emotional stability. You'll start adjusting yourself just
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  Speaker 1: to make them happy. You'll compromise your authenticity to maintain
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  Speaker 1: their applause. The devil is a liah y'all. That's exhausting,
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  Speaker 1: the scripture says. The fear of human opinion disables you.
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  Speaker 1: It traps you in comparison. It silences your boldness. It
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  Speaker 1: keeps you second guessing your decisions. But trusting in God,
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  Speaker 1: it protects you. When your worth is anchored in Him,
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  Speaker 1: you're steady. You're not inflated by compliments nor deflated when
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  Speaker 1: criticism comes. When you truly know who you are in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: something shifts. You don't wake up wondering if you're enough.
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  Speaker 1: You don't live from a deficit mindset trying to prove yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You know you already are chosen, already accepted, already loved.
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  Speaker 1: You are made in the likeness and the image of God.
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  Speaker 1: That means you carried divine imprint and eternal value.
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  Speaker 2: You're not mass produced. You're one of a kind. You're
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  Speaker 2: an original.
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  Speaker 1: You're a masterpiece that doesn't ask for validation from the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: That's comes from the one who created it.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I get it. People may misunderstand.
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  Speaker 1: You, they may misjudge your motive, they may walk away,
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  Speaker 1: but their opinion does not rewrite your identity.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to perform for love. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to compete for words.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to strength to fit someone else's comfort level.
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  Speaker 1: When you're anchored in God's approval, you're free to full
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  Speaker 1: it be.
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  Speaker 2: You, Father.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you that our words is not determined by people's opinions,
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  Speaker 1: but by your unchanging truth. Thank you for calling us
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  Speaker 1: your masterpiece and for loving us unconditionally. Help us God
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  Speaker 1: to live anchored in your approval and not the applause
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  Speaker 1: of others. We declare that our identity, our confidence and
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  Speaker 1: value are securing you and you alone in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 1: that's your word for today. It's your early morning praise party.
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  Speaker 1: I am Sherry Mackie.