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Don t Give Up in the Middle Joel Osteen · A Better Tomorrow

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  Speaker 1: God is the author. He breathed life into you. He
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  Speaker 1: chose you to be here. Gave you a purpose, an assignment,
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  Speaker 1: something to accomplish. He's not just the author, He's the finisher.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to keep making you, molding you, giving you
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  Speaker 1: grace to come up higher until He finishes. Now the
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  Speaker 1: key is don't give up in the middle. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: discouraged while you're being changed. He's in control. As long
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  Speaker 1: as you're being your best, you don't have to perform perfectly,
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  Speaker 1: but you have a heart to do what's right, then
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  Speaker 1: you can be assured when it's time to change, all
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  Speaker 1: the forces of darkness cannot stop you. But notice, there's
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  Speaker 1: a requirement for this to happen, looking away from all
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  Speaker 1: that will distract. Focusing on your flaws will distract you
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  Speaker 1: from your purpose. Magnifying your weaknesses, what you don't like
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  Speaker 1: about yourself, will keep you from your potentials. Look away
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  Speaker 1: from all that and look to your maker. God told Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 1: before you were formed in your mother's womb, I knew
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  Speaker 1: you and approved you. Before Jeremiah ever did anything good,
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  Speaker 1: before he ever overcame a weakness, before he ever became
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  Speaker 1: a great prophet, God said, I approved you and I've
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  Speaker 1: accepted you. We think when we perform better, then we
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  Speaker 1: can approve ourselves. When we get rid of these flaws
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  Speaker 1: and Overcome this bad habit. Be more patient. Then we
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  Speaker 1: can feel good about who we are. God approves you.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you approve yourself? He's not waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: to get better. Then he's going to accept you. He
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  Speaker 1: knew every shortcoming, every weakness you would ever have. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I still approve you. It's because he's the potter. He
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  Speaker 1: knows those flaws aren't going to keep you from your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: They don't stop your purpose. The only way they'll limit
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  Speaker 1: you is if you live down on yourself, feeling wrong,
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  Speaker 1: putting all this pressure, trying to change things that only
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  Speaker 1: God can change. Do your best and then rest. He's
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  Speaker 1: the potter. He'll work out things that shouldn't be there.
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  Speaker 1: Stay pliable, be willing to change, but don't be down
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  Speaker 1: on yourself if it's not happening as fast as you
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  Speaker 1: would like. Give yourself permission to have some weaknesses. Give
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  Speaker 1: yourself the grace to not perform perfectly all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying to be sloppy, live flippant. We
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  Speaker 1: should dig down, have discipline, be focused, be growing, but
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  Speaker 1: don't live pressured thinking that you have to make it
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  Speaker 1: all happen in your own strength. I hope you enjoyed
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