"What's Your Worth?" RESCUE RADIO With Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, it is true, this war is as real as anything

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and yet people don't see it. So I pray that you'd open our eyes to the spiritual war,

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help us have understanding, and we declare that thy kingdom come,

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your will be done, you be established in this earth, your purposes,

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your principles, your truth. And we thank you Jesus for

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defeating our enemy by dying on the cross, paying the price in full with your blood

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to purchase us back, rescue us back from the enemy.

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Lord, the Son of God, you gave every drop of blood because we are

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precious to you. And thank you Lord, I pray that we would be also

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precious to ourselves and understand our worth and our value, not only

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just in your eyes, but Lord, in the eyes of truth that we are created

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in your image and in your likeness. I thank you for giving us eyes to see today,

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ears to hear, and that we would be brought into the place of encouragement

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Lord God, that each one of us have to understand that we're in

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the midst of fiery trials. These things are deliberate and purposeful.

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Both God and Satan are both working in the same place at the same time in our lives

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to do the opposite thing. Let the Lord God and his purposes prevail

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to perfect that which concerns us. And now Father, we take authority over the

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powers of darkness, the prince of the power of the air, the lies, the witchcraft, the words,

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the curses that have been pronounced over your people. We bind and forbid them, we command that

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they be covered with the blood of Jesus Christ and fall to the ground. And that Satan cannot pick

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them up again and use them against us because you said there's death and life and the power of the tongue.

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And we thank you also, Father, for giving us divine wisdom and counsel.

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Give us eyes to see, as we said, and ears to hear this message in Jesus' name.

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Amen. Amen. Well, I want to address an issue that

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comes up over and over again as we work with people. Very common.

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And that is the idea that people do not feel worthy.

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I'm not worthy. There's something wrong with me.

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I'm not good enough. And the question is, okay,

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what is good enough? By whose standard?

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When people don't know their identity and our destiny

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is determined by our place of origin. And that is,

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of course, created in the image and likeness of God. But that has been so

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slimed and swamped and covered over that

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people really are just in the midst of trying to

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mount to something, work harder, try harder, what all that looks like.

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And they feel defeated because the enemy is here to

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lie, steal, kill, and destroy. And he mostly tells us lies from

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inside of ourselves. He talks to us in our own minds and thoughts

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and we believe it's our thoughts. And so we don't rebuke these things.

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But yeah, what are we worth? Well, it's interesting when you talk about

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in the world, we talk about value. What do people value?

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And what's it worth? What are people willing to pay for?

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We determine value by how much people are willing to pay for something. Well, how much was Jesus

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willing to pay for us? Well, he paid everything. He paid by his

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precious blood. I want to just talk about some of these things that seem

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really weird. And as we get into this today,

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some of the strangest things that people are willing to pay money for,

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a lot of money for. A few years ago, there was

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an original copy of Bob Dylan's song

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Like a Rolling Stone that was written on a hotel stationary

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that sold for $2.2 million. You're kidding me.

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And then a lock of Elvis

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Presley's hair, supposedly it was Elvis' hair,

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sold for, his barber was smart and kept it and sold it

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for $115,000.

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J.K. Rowling that wrote the Harry Potter books,

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the chair that she sat in when she wrote the first two

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Harry Potter books, the chair, sold for $394,000.

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And one of us possessed. Right.

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One Beatles fan spent nearly $15,000

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on a porcelain toilet seat that was used to be

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owned by John Lennon. My goodness. Jesus have mercy.

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Here's another thing. Marilyn Monroe's famous

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white dress sold in 2011 for

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$4.6 million. And then there was a damaged

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violin that was attached to a musician that died in the

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Titanic. That sold in less than 10 minutes

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at an auction for $1.7 million.

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So we're valuing things by the money

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that people are willing to pay for them.

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That's it. What is somebody willing to pay?

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Sometimes we look at things, maybe a house or some other

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property, we think, you know, that's really worth it to me.

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It's worth that money to me. Then sometimes we look at

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things, we say, no, I would never pay that for something

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like that. So the value

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is the buyer. Yeah. We should say or the

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purchaser. And so or what are you willing to pay to get something

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back that belongs to you that was maybe stolen from you like

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Jesus. He made us in his image and likeness. He says in

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someone 139 talking about who we are.

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He said that in verse 14, the

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author says, I will praise you for I'm fearfully and wonderfully

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made in secret works and that my soul knows very well. My frame

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was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret

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and in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

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Your eyes saw my substance being as yet unformed. And in

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your book, they were all written. What the parts of me, my

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members, my eyelashes, they're all written in your book. The days fashioned

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for me as when as yet there was none of them.

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And before I even had any days, he says, and how precious also

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are your thoughts towards me? Oh, God, I don't think people think that God is thinking about

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them. I don't think he thinks that he sees us as precious

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or priceless, if you will.

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We don't see ourselves the way God sees us. And that's the

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problem. The problem is we see ourselves through the lenses that Satan has smeared

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up with all kinds of failure and judgment and guilt

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and injustices and betrayal. And we we judge ourselves by

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how well we do with accomplishments or by the terrible things that have happened

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to us. Yeah, that's it. And so, you know, we're at the

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place where to see our value. I mean, I've

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heard people say, I don't hear that much anymore, but, oh, I

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don't want to bother God with my little prayer requests,

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my little problems. He's already so busy. It's like that is just

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absolutely ridiculous when he says that he's mindful of us.

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He's mindful of every detail of our lives.

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If you'd be a busy person and you were very, very busy and your child needed you, you'd

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stop and drop everything else and go after them, would you not? He's the same way.

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He knows even when the interruptions are going to be, so he could even

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write them into his schedule, I'm sure. In Matthew chapter 10, he talks about

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the sparrows. There is not

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a sparrow that falls that is not according to the

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will of God. So he is his. There's an old song says his eye

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is on the sparrow and he watches over me and he says

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you're more value than any sparrow. So he counts the hairs on her head.

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Well, you know, hairs on our heads are numbered. We if we knew how precious we were

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to God, we would not panic and we would not be paranoid because

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we would know that God's with us. God's bigger than all of what we're looking at and facing

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and God's on our side. He's favoring us. And so if we

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just got our perspective right and didn't look at things straight

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ahead, but went looked up and see that God is with us and he's also

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imparted to us the Holy Spirit who lives inside of us, who's sent there to lead you, protect

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you, guide you if you will obey him. And so we still have a

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free will. We still have the option to believe what everybody else is saying or what the devil is impersonating

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us to believe by impersonating us to ourselves. But the truth is

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the truth is in Ephesians. Look at this. He says verse chapter one.

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He says verse chapter verse to God grace to

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you and peace from God, our father in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, if God were so evil and wicked

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and unhappy and crabby and bipolar and unpredictable and

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untrustworthy, why would it always say grace and peace to you from God, our father

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in the Lord Jesus Christ? Why would God be wishing grace and peace upon us? But go ahead and

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listen to verse three. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ

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who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places

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in Christ. Verse four. Just as he chose us

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in him before the foundation of the world

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that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Before the foundation

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before he created the world, the animals, the

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garden of Eden, the sea, the trees. Before

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that he chose us. So he already had us stashed

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away in his mind as his ultimate, you know,

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pinnacle of creation going to make us in his own image

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and likeness. So in other words, he's creating

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us to be in fellowship with him, to relate to him, to walk in the spirit

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with him. Jeremiah one five. This is God's word to

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the prophet Jeremiah. He says before I formed you in the womb,

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I knew you before you were born. I

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sanctified you. I set you apart. I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

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So and I did. Jeremiah really needed to know that because

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he really because if you read Jeremiah's life, he was a lonely man.

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He didn't get married. He didn't have children. God says, don't do that.

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He says and he was always giving scolding messages

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to the very, very rebellious people who hated what he said, hated him.

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And you know what? If he had judged himself by how successful his ministry was,

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he'd have been zero minus zero, you know, because they

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not only didn't like him and other prophets were falsely

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prophesying lies and untruth, and he would challenge

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them. And then they threw him in a pit, a pit with

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mud. I mean, he was sitting down there in his armpits. Wow.

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I would just have panicked. But see, God told him ahead of time.

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He says, you're my man. I got you. And so that's what Jeremiah had to go on.

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And we're all inside the same thing. We're God's man, God's woman.

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And God's, you know, called us, sanctifies us, sets us

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apart, calls us for such a time as this. And if you're going to be bowled over by

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I'm not good enough and the devil's whispering in your ear, you're so stupid, you know, and this is

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the problem. You're finished before you start. Well, the enemy knows how

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we know we're built, we're born like little wet cement and like a little

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vessel on the potter's wheel. And you can turn and transfer that vessel, that

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into any number of things. And you can mar the vessel.

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You can break it. You can do all kinds of things with it. But when we're brought into this world,

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most of us are put in front of people that

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are our enemies, really. They are our parents.

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But they think and they believe lies. They've been indoctrinated.

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They believe what the latest trend is on how to raise children or how to

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withhold your blessings from children. Don't kiss them. Now's the latest one.

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Don't kiss the baby. Oh, my Lord.

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Or they might find out that you love them. So now we're depriving the child of

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kissing because the doctor says, don't kiss your babies. Don't let anybody kiss them.

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I just heard of a grandmother the other day. She says, I've seen my child that my

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grandson is a year and a half old and I've never been able to kiss him.

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And you know what? The thing is, this is demonic, people.

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Wake up. You know, you let him touch every other dirty

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thing and you can't kiss them. Oh, really? Well, how are they going to know they're loved?

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You know? And the other thing, you know, back in the day, too, they raised

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kids to deprive them of nurturing by letting them

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self-soothe. So that means they have to cry themselves to sleep in their bed and nobody's

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there to attend to them. You just let them, you know, the term is self-soothing.

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Well, how do people self-soothe? They take drugs. They do alcohol.

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They masturbate. This is how they self-soothe. Satan is setting up a vulnerability,

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a lack in people's lives. They're not getting the

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touch. They're not getting the bonding. The child is kept from the mother.

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The mother doesn't nurse. The baby is put in an incubator. All of these isolating

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kind of things, you know, and then thrown in their crib to let them cry themselves to sleep.

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What is that baby going to come up with as an idea of who they are? I'm really loved

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and cherished and wanted and they want to be with me? No.

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Even if the babies live and actually are born, the most

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dangerous place for a baby now is in its mother's womb.

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Or just immediately after they get out of it. What does this say about us?

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What does this say about Satan? What does this say about who we're listening to?

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We butcher our own children before

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they're born. But this is nothing new? I know. We don't even think about it.

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And we say it's a right. It's a reproductive

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right. It's a woman's right for her own body. Who came up with that term?

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It's not just your own body. It's the body of someone else.

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And basically abortion, flat out, keep it in mind, it's murder.

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And if you've murdered a baby, you know, God will forgive you

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if you repent. But this is plain murder.

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Well, I know, and a lot of women obviously do this ignorantly. We do a lot of things

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ignorantly. We sin, believe lies, hate ourselves, even kill our own

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selves. I mean, this death thing that goes on.

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The easiest way to get out of here is to kill yourself. Or I don't want to live anymore.

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So people just are giving place to death because they don't think they're worth

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it. They have never lived their life and yet they're willing to give it up.

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And there's nobody who comes along and says, you are worth it. I love you. Let's do this together.

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There's very few people that get someone to come into their life that actually can walk

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alongside them, encourage them, and rebuild them even after they've been

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devastated by the first 18 years of their life, you know, by people who've been trying to

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kill them and all kinds of things. I'm not saying every parent is bad, but I'm

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saying every parent could be better in the fact that if you loved yourself

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you would love your child. And the reason you don't love your child is because you don't love yourself

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because you believe the lie yourself. I'm not good enough. Nobody cares about me.

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centuries. Satan has plotted against the human race since the very beginning.

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that we are in the very end of days, the end of the end days.

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got, you know, a rough subject I'm getting into. But anyway,

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to know who I am, you've got to have people who

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are willing to stand there with you, love you through the thick and thin of it, and you are

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worth it. Well, the greatest of these

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is love, Paul said. It's not

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you know, okay, you can have all these gifts, you can have all this

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charisma, faith, move mountains,

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miracles, all that stuff. All that stuff is fine, it's good.

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there's faith, there's hope, which is in the scriptures

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hope is not, I hope things work out. No, it's a sure hope, it's a

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sure expectation of good coming from God. And

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faith is trusting in the Lord, full trust in him,

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no matter what's going on. And love, it's not just

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ooshie gooshie mushie. It's laying down your life for someone else.

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can't really love. We love because he first loved us.

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can't love anybody. It's impossible.

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love is a fruit of the spirit, really.

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affection, human love,

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the spirit of God.

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here it says, 1 Corinthians 13, verse 4,

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love suffers long and is kind. In other words, when you're suffering, when you're waiting,

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when you're believing for someone to be set free or to

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act properly or have to forgive them, you suffer long

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but you're kind. You don't get bitter, you don't get offended, you don't get

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hurtful, you don't get jealous, you don't get vindictive. It says love does not

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envy. That means I don't want to, it doesn't make me want to be you or

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take away from you so that I can have what you have. Love does not parade itself.

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It's not arrogant, it's not haughty, it's not look at me.

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It's not puffed up. That's what some people, you know, to get

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attention, sometimes people, kids, they'll be naughty just to get some attention.

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identify themselves as distinct in some way.

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impatient with one another. They criticize and yet

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most of the time when you're criticizing someone and judging someone, you better

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look that back in your own face. You're doing the exact same thing

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and totally blind to it and how hypocritical and how embarrassing

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is that. You're judging someone for the very thing you're doing but you don't see it.

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is not provoked, doesn't, you know, take offense. I think so many times

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are worth in value. People get offended, they turn away, they cut you off at the knees,

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they put boundaries up, you're not worth it to them. We have

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so much of that cutting off at the knees, you know, cutting them

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off. We don't know what time it is. Is it time to turn the other cheek or is it time

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to shake the dust off? But the question is not

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the boundary, the question is what time is it? Is it time to receive them back?

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coming back, they're going away, it is our wonderful privilege

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to believe God for their return, for their safe return. Because this is what the battle is

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all about. It's about your worth. It's about your value. It's about, you know,

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being reconciled to God. And thanks no evil.

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Love does not rejoice in iniquity

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but, you know, doesn't laugh at dirty jokes. Love does not poke fun at

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someone and make them the blunt of a joke. Love does not, you know,

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pass along gossip, juicy gossip, but rejoices

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in the truth. Love bears all things. That means you're put up with a lot of stuff to

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believe to the end. Believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Love never fails. There you go. Love never fails. God's love for us

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does not fail. And this is what we look at. We see how God

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is working against all the odds. He gave us

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a free will. Then he gave the devil the permission. Okay, if they listen to you, you get them.

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who we are, who God is. And he sets God up in all kinds of predicaments.

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2 Timothy chapter 2. If I'm set up in opposition to myself, then what am I worth?

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If I'm my own worst enemy, who am I? What am I worth?

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that have been severely abused from childhood on,

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their view of themselves a lot of times is this.

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There's got to be something wrong with me, something evil that I'm getting

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such. I'm getting browbeaten. I'm getting bullied.

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the question in my mind, why? Why are they treating me like this?

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disassociate from the whole thing. And then they shut down their emotions

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or bring pain so people walk through life numb. And then they do drugs to try to

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feel something because they're all numbed out. And so then what happens is

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we're just alienated and we're wandering, wandering, wandering

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further and further away from the truth because we don't believe

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or trust anybody anymore. That's what happens. But on the other side of the coin

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you have the people who are also entitled. And they're

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prideful. Now pride covers fear. So they're actually insecure as well.

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arrogance or with, like I said, entitlement or rebellion.

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agree with that statement. You are bad. You're bad.

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You're not good. Because why? Because Satan is jealous over us

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because he knows who we are. He knows who you are and he doesn't want you to know who you are.

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to distract you from the truth of who you are by creating all kinds of

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incidents around you and puts tormenting thoughts within you so that you

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submit to and agree with, I am no good. I'm bad. I don't deserve.

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what are they saying? They're saying to be

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good or to be loved, to be important. I have to do something.

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I have to do something to be worthy of love.

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I have to do something.

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God committing his love toward us and that while we were

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yet sinners, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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in God's face. We're turning from him

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and God loves us so much. He sees us as so

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valuable that no matter how badly we've messed up,

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he knows that it's worth going to the cross

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for us. Hebrews 2-14, it talks about

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where God took upon himself flesh and blood.

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so that he would be partakers with us

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and giving his life. Basically, Acts

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chapter 20, it talks about

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church, the people who love the Lord because they've been purchased

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by the very blood of God.

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the only way to be atoned, the only atonement for sin

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is through blood. It was in the Old Testament sacrifices. It was

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the blood of bulls and goats and sheep. Now it's

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that's not what saves us now. It's the blood of Jesus Christ.

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It wasn't the blood of the bulls and goats. It was that was a holding a placeholder

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for Jesus coming. It was the blood of Jesus Christ

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reaches back into the Old Testament. It reaches into

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the New Testament and brings in the New Testament. And so

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it's not the blood of bulls and goats that saves us now.

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It's the precious blood of Jesus. So what do we need without

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spot or wrinkle? So what do we need to turn this around

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to get back on track to know who we are truly?

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Well, first of all, you need to humble yourself and ask God to forgive you for believing all the lies, all the negative

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things that Satan has got you to believe about yourself because you've been taking your

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the enemy who hates us because we are made in the image of God and Satan knows

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that he knows who you are. That's why he's trying to tear you apart.

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about ourselves or other people or the way we treated other people not to see seeing them as

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precious in God's eyes and worth his death

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and resurrection. So again, what are the lies you're believing about

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yourself? And if you everybody every person that

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every every person, when you get to the place where God

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shows them the memory of the event, the situation that he's

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bringing them to to bring them to healing or deliverance, the

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bottom line of every what's the lie they believe? Everyone is pretty

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much the same. I'm not good enough or I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy.

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I'm not good enough. I'm bad. And again, people are thinking

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they're bad because bad things happen to you. Well, you know, does that make your child bad if something

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bad happens to them or do you love them all the more? It's like we're so

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we're so glued to the tube. We're so programmed every day.

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you or distract you, take you off track, make you believe lies,

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get you spilling your life, your time, your money for something that's pointless

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and worthless and won't satisfy you anyway. And yet we

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the bottom line, the basics is I am worth

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God dying for. And I'm also he wants me

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and he also made a beautiful place for us. So I am worthy.

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Why am I worthy? Because he made me worthy. Because why am I

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righteous? Because he is my righteousness. And so we

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need to repent. I think change that means stop believing the lie. Ask God to

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forgive you for believing lies about yourself. Stop it. Just

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stop it. Stop believing all the molly grubbing, all the

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grumbling, all the complaining, all the things you don't have, all

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the complaints about the weather, the complaints about the traffic, the complaints about the media,

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the complaints about the government. Stop it. That's not even your

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point. Your your purpose and point is to

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understand who you are and what God is calling you to do.

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Father, we just thank you so much

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for recognizing us, Lord,

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as your children, Lord, and because you

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know that because you created us. We were created

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before we were created in our mother's womb and

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We were woven together wonderfully. The human

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body, amazing, amazing. But not only

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were body, were soul, were spirit. You

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made us to be resembling you, Lord.

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Your image and likeness. Your image and likeness. We resemble you.

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We have a mind. We have a will. We have emotions.

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for helping us to recognize that, Lord,

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that we would not live according to those old mindsets about

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being worthless and down and mad and everything.

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Yeah, there's times we make a mistake. Yes, we said we failed.

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for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And so we repent

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of those things that we believe about you,

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about ourselves, the lives that we believed about life, about ourselves,

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about others, about you. Forgive us, Lord. And may there

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be an infusion now as we apply ourselves to your word

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that will give us the truth about who we really are.

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We're not here to build

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self-esteem in some sort of artificial, arrogant way.

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humble, we're humbled, but we're living in a place of

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recognizing your love and your grace.

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Forgive us, Lord. Yes, and also we bind and forbid all the demonic

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spirits that impersonate us to ourselves like self-condemnation, self-hatred,

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self-blame, self-bitterness, all these

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things that infect us with sicknesses and diseases

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and eat away at our souls and our bodies. We bind and forbid them

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to continue their discussion in your mind, in your heart about who you are.

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And may the Holy Spirit take precedence and may the Lord God himself

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speak to you words of life and truth and may you choose life, may you choose

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to follow, may you choose to be grateful for your life and don't throw it away

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with suicide or negative thoughts or pursuits of

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vanities. Father, in Jesus' name, we bind the demonic spirits that have tried to

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take us, impersonate us to ourselves, to take us over. We rebuke you,

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enemy. I'm rebuking you right now as the people are listening. I'm rebuking you

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in their minds, in their hearts. You are being exposed right now

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by the Holy Spirit who lives inside of them and you will not

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continue your operation of destruction and deception in my brother, my sister

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anymore in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And enemy, you

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know who he is. Father God, we ask for deliverance right now

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in this person's mind and heart from every kind of negative, destructive,

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self-hating thing that's coming against him. Guilt, shame, condemnation,

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we cast you out in the name of Jesus Christ. We cast out depression, defeat,

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discouragement. We cast out the liars, the snakes. We cast you out of

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them in the name of Jesus Christ and we release the holy cleansing

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power of the love of God and the word of God to wash

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them and make them clean, refresh them. I command that

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this transformation, this

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conversion happen so that your people who say they

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follow you and love you will also know who they are. Father God, and then those

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who know who they are and they know their God, then we will do exploits in these last days.

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So bless us, Father God, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. There's a book, Doing Relationships God's Way. It talks

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about our relationships with God, with

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difficult people. With sin, with ourselves.

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With ourselves. So tell us just a little bit about

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that book. When I was going to write that book, God said the first relationship

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and the primary relationship that we have

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is the relationship we have with ourselves. And so out of that

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relationship I have with myself comes every other relationship, including the relationships I have with

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other people. So if I'm feeling insecure, unloved, unwanted,

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attacked, bullied,

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discounted, unworthy, if I am sensing and believing

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those things about myself, that is going to predict and that's going to

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be where I determine my relationship with other people.

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So again, your first relationship

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and out of which all other relationships come is the one you have with yourself.

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So that's talked about in that book, Doing Relationships God's Way. You can get that

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on Amazon or you can get that at our

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liferecovery.com bookstore. So I encourage you to check out that

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bookstore. It's got some very good stuff in it. And I know it's summertime

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and it's hard to read, but we've also got YouTube videos out there, Marjorie Cole or

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Life Recovery. You can find them that way and spend your evening

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watching that instead of TV. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

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See you soon.

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Rescue Radio. Cause there's a war for your soul.