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Become What You Believe Joel Osteen (1) · A Better Tomorrow

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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of voices in life trying to
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  Speaker 1: define us, tell us who we are. Sometimes they're uplifting,
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  Speaker 1: a parent telling us that we're.
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  Speaker 2: Talented, we can do great things.
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  Speaker 1: Other times they're negative, you're not attractive, there's nothing special
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  Speaker 1: about you.
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  Speaker 2: Our own thoughts will try to label us.
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  Speaker 1: You made too many mistakes, you missed your chance. When
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  Speaker 1: you listen to all these voices, it's easy to think,
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  Speaker 1: who's telling the truth?
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  Speaker 2: Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Am I talented or am I ordinary?
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  Speaker 2: Am I strong and confident or am I weak and insecure?
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  Speaker 2: Do I have a bright future or have I blown it?
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  Speaker 2: Here's the key.
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  Speaker 1: The only voice that matters is your voice. Who do
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  Speaker 1: you say you are?
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  Speaker 2: What you choose is what you will become.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of letting people define you, instead of letting circumstances
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  Speaker 1: label you, you need to go back to what God
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  Speaker 1: said about you.
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  Speaker 2: God says you can do all things through Christ. You're
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  Speaker 2: equipped and empowered.
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  Speaker 1: Other voices will tell you the problem's too big. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have what it takes. Who do you say you are?
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  Speaker 1: God says you have seeds of greatness. You are destined
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  Speaker 1: to leave your mark. Other voices will tell you, you're
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  Speaker 1: just ordinary. You'll never do anything significant. You have the
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  Speaker 1: final choice. Who do you say you are? The problem
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  Speaker 1: with some people is they've chosen the wrong voice so
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  Speaker 1: long they don't know who.
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  Speaker 2: They really are.
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  Speaker 1: They've let people label them, tell them what they're not,
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  Speaker 1: what they can't do. They've allowed circumstances to define them, mistakes, disappointments.
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  Speaker 2: Now they've lost their passion.
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  Speaker 1: If you let these other voices play, it will keep
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  Speaker 1: you from your destiny. The only one that knows who
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  Speaker 1: you really are is your creator. He calls you a masterpiece.
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  Speaker 1: He said you've been fearfully and wonderfully made. He said
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  Speaker 1: you will be mighty in the land, that you are
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  Speaker 1: more than a conqueror, strong, confident, approved, valuable. That's who
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  Speaker 1: you were created to be. When you say what God
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  Speaker 1: says about you, then you activate what He put on
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  Speaker 1: the inside. But you can't say I'm weak and tap
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  Speaker 1: into the power. You can't say I'll never get ahead
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  Speaker 1: and tap into the abundance. You can't say I'm not
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  Speaker 1: that talented and tap into your greatness.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you say you are?
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  Speaker 1: Not who do other people say you are.
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  Speaker 2: Who does your family say you are? Who do your
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  Speaker 2: co-workers say you are?
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  Speaker 1: No disrespect, but you are not who people say you are.
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  Speaker 1: You are who God says you are. People can't always
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  Speaker 1: see what God put in you. They can't see the potential,
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  Speaker 1: the gifts, the greatness. If you let them put their
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  Speaker 1: limitations on you, convince you that you can't accomplish your dream,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never get out of debt, you can't overcome that sickness,
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  Speaker 1: then because you're letting them define you, what they're saying
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  Speaker 1: is going to come to pass.
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  Speaker 2: They may speak.
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  Speaker 1: Negative things, but it has no power if you don't
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  Speaker 1: let it get in you. Don't repeat the negative people
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  Speaker 1: have spoken over you. In John chapter 1, the Jewish
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  Speaker 1: leaders sent men out into the desert to find out
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  Speaker 1: who John the Baptist was. They had heard so much
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  Speaker 1: about him. He had a large following. These leaders traveled
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  Speaker 1: from Jerusalem and asked John if he was the Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He told them no.
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  Speaker 1: They asked if he was Elijah. He said it again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. They said in verse 22, then tell us
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  Speaker 1: who you are so we can give an answer to
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  Speaker 1: those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: John could have answered many different ways. He could have
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  Speaker 1: told them about his background, his education, his philosophy. But
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  Speaker 1: verse 23 says, John replied in the words of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: I am a voice shouting in the wilderness, prepare the
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  Speaker 1: way for the Lord. He went back to what the
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  Speaker 1: scripture said about him. He didn't say what he felt.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't say how he was raised, what he was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with. He said what God said about him. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: someone asks you, who do you say you are so
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  Speaker 1: we can tell others? What kind of answer would you have? Well,
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  Speaker 1: this pandemic has me worried. My back's been hurting. My
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  Speaker 1: business is slow. These kids are getting on my nerves.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really discouraged.
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  Speaker 2: Zip that up. That is not who you are.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the scripture and say what God says
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  Speaker 1: about you. Your answer should be, tell them I'm strong, anointed, talented, favored, healthy, blessed, forgiven, fearfully,
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  Speaker 1: and wonderfully made. We start off every service saying, I
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  Speaker 1: am what God says I am. I am not what
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  Speaker 1: I feel. I may feel weak, but God says I'm strong,
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  Speaker 1: so my report is I am strong. When you say that,
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  Speaker 1: strength starts heading your way. You may not feel up
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  Speaker 1: to par. You're dealing with an illness, struggling with anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: fighting that depression. It's easy to wear the labels, sick, depressed, anxious, defeated.
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  Speaker 1: That's just who I am. That's not who you are.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you're dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: You're not a sick person trying to get well. You're
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  Speaker 1: a well person fighting off sickness. Don't let that difficulty
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  Speaker 1: become your identity. Don't get in agreement with the negative.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to what your creator said. God said he's
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  Speaker 1: restoring health back into you. He said you will run
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  Speaker 1: and not be weary. He said weeping endures for a night,
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  Speaker 1: but joy is coming in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say about yourself? I'm sick. I'm depressed. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm healthy. I'm whole. I'm energetic. I'm free. I'm happy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm victorious.
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  Speaker 1: If you'll start saying what God says about you instead
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  Speaker 1: of what you feel, you'll see things begin to turn around.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go through life wearing these negative labels. I talked
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  Speaker 1: to a man that was so down on himself. He
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  Speaker 1: told me how he had made mistakes, didn't raise his
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  Speaker 1: children right. He was struggling with an addiction. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I feel so unworthy. I don't deserve to be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: When you're down on yourself, it's not doing anything productive.
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  Speaker 1: Being against yourself is not going to help you move forward.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy is called the accuser. He'll remind you of
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  Speaker 1: every mistake you've made, every time you've failed. He'd love
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  Speaker 1: for you to wear these labels, unworthy, washed up, no future.
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  Speaker 1: I told him what I'm telling you. As long as
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  Speaker 1: you see yourself unworthy, not deserving, it's going to keep
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  Speaker 1: you where you are. Instead of wearing those labels, why
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  Speaker 1: don't you say what God says about you? I'm forgiven,
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  Speaker 1: I'm redeemed, I'm restored, my past is over, and my
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  Speaker 1: future is bright. Who do you say you are? Not
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  Speaker 1: who do your mistakes say you are? Who do your
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  Speaker 1: friends say you are? Who do the negative thoughts say
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  Speaker 1: you are? What you say overrides all the others. What
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  Speaker 1: you say gives it the right.
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  Speaker 2: To come to pass. Now quit saying negative things about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so overweight. I'm so undisciplined. I'll never get out
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  Speaker 1: of this neighborhood. I'll never break this addiction. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to become what you believe.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you start saying what God says about you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm talented. I'm successful. I'm prosperous. I'm free. I'm valuable.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a masterpiece. What you say about yourself is going
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  Speaker 2: to become a reality. Who do you say you are?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just average. You're going to be average. When the
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  Speaker 1: truth is, God didn't make anyone average. Nobody has your fingerprints.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can do what you can do. But as long
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  Speaker 1: as you believe you're ordinary, you won't shine like you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to shine. When Moses was born, the scripture says
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  Speaker 1: he was no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 2: There was something special about him.
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  Speaker 1: As he grew up, he could sense his destiny was
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  Speaker 1: to deliver the Israelites out of slavery. He had good intentions,
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  Speaker 1: but he made a mistake. He ended up having to
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  Speaker 1: flee to the desert. He spent 40 years in hiding.
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  Speaker 1: I can imagine those voices told him how he blew it,
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  Speaker 1: that he missed his chance. He could have worn the labels, failure,
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  Speaker 1: washed up, too late. But deep down, he could hear
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  Speaker 1: that still, small voice telling him, you are no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 2: This is not how your story ends. There is greatness
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  Speaker 2: in you.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean that stopped your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: What God started, he's going to finish. What stops us
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  Speaker 1: is when we start wearing the negative labels. When we
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  Speaker 1: start believing that we're washed up, we quit pursuing our dreams.
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  Speaker 1: After 40 years in the desert, God appeared to Moses
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  Speaker 1: and said, now it's your time to fulfill your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: He went on to deliver the Israelites, part the Red Sea,
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  Speaker 1: do great things. I don't believe this would have happened
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  Speaker 1: if Moses would have seen himself as a failure.
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  Speaker 2: I've made too many mistakes. Instead, he saw himself as
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  Speaker 2: no ordinary child. He kept the right image on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: When you were born, God said the same thing about
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  Speaker 1: you as he did Moses. This is no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 1: God put greatness in you. He's destined you to leave
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  Speaker 1: your mark. You may have made mistakes. You may have obstacles.
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  Speaker 2: It's taken longer than you thought, but that doesn't change
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  Speaker 2: what's in you.
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  Speaker 1: Now the enemy will work overtime to try to steal
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  Speaker 1: your sense of value, your sense of worth. He knows
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  Speaker 1: if he can distort your identity, who you are, and
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  Speaker 1: convince you that you're just average, nothing special about you,
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  Speaker 1: then he.
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  Speaker 2: Can keep you from your greatness. I wonder what you
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  Speaker 2: could accomplish. I wonder how far.
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  Speaker 1: God will take you if you will just live like
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  Speaker 1: you are no ordinary child. Not arrogantly, but knowing that
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  Speaker 1: God has placed greatness in you. That there's a favor
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  Speaker 1: on your life that will take you where you can't
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  Speaker 1: go on your own. An anointing that will break every
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  Speaker 1: chain that's trying to hold you back. A blessing that
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  Speaker 1: will cause you to stand out. Who do you say
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  Speaker 1: you are?
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  Speaker 2: Not ordinary, not average.
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  Speaker 1: You are a child of the Most High God. You
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  Speaker 1: have royal blood flowing through your veins. You've been crowned
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  Speaker 1: with favor. What's trying to stop you doesn't have a chance.
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  Speaker 1: God being for you is more than the world being
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  Speaker 1: against you. That dream may seem too big. For some
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  Speaker 1: people it is, but not for you. You're no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 1: That sickness should be the end. The medical report says
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  Speaker 1: you're done.
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  Speaker 2: But not for you. You're no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 1: That mistake you made should have stopped your destiny. It
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  Speaker 1: should have limited your future, but not for you. You
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  Speaker 1: are no ordinary child. God handpicked you. Before you could
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  Speaker 1: choose Him, He chose you. When He created you, God
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  Speaker 1: stepped back and said, that was very good. Now God
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  Speaker 1: created universes. He flung stars into space. He made spectacular sunrises,
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  Speaker 1: magnificent mountain ranges, but He never said they were very good.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing He said that about was you. Now
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  Speaker 1: don't go around thinking you're average. You don't have much
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  Speaker 1: to offer. You are no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 2: You are a history maker.
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  Speaker 1: You are a world changer. You are destined to leave
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  Speaker 1: your mark.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Joel, this sounds good, but I think you have
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  Speaker 2: the wrong person.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing unusual about me. I'm not super talented. I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a great personality. I don't come from an
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  Speaker 1: influential family. As long as you're discounting yourself, you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to see your greatness.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you say you are? Ordinary? Average?
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  Speaker 1: You're going to become that. I'm asking you to get
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  Speaker 1: in agreement with God. He said you are no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how you were raised. It's not dependent
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  Speaker 1: on how much education you have, how many connections.
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  Speaker 2: What obstacles you're up against.
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  Speaker 1: When you believe doors will open, you never dreamed would open.
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  Speaker 1: God will take you further than you can imagine. The
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  Speaker 1: prophet Joel said, wake up the mighty men, wake up
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  Speaker 1: the mighty women. I want to wake up your greatness,
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  Speaker 1: wake up your dreams, wake up that business God put
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  Speaker 1: in you, wake up that book, the movie, the song,
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  Speaker 1: the orphanage, the ministry. May seem like it's over your head,
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  Speaker 1: but you have to understand you are no ordinary child.
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  Speaker 2: You're not average.
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  Speaker 1: You can accomplish more than you think. You are stronger
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  Speaker 1: than you think. You are more anointed than you think.
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  Speaker 1: You are more favored than you think. You are more
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  Speaker 1: talented than you think. The dreams and gifts God put
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  Speaker 1: in you are much bigger than you think. If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to see the fullness of what's in you, then
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  Speaker 1: you have to see yourself the right way. Who do
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  Speaker 1: you say you are? Don't you dare say I'm average,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ordinary. Get in agreement with God. I am no
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  Speaker 1: ordinary child. I am highly favored.
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  Speaker 2: I am destined for greatness.
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  Speaker 1: I am surrounded with God's goodness. When you know you're
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  Speaker 1: an unusual child, you will see unusual favor, unusual healing,
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  Speaker 1: unusual doors open, unusual breakthroughs.