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Today's talk comes from Pastor Buie Giglio.

The microphone was invented to amplify sound.

Thus, the series that we're in is asking the question, what voice is being amplified most in your life?

In other words, what is it that you are hearing the loudest?

What's impacting your emotions and your emotional well-being the most?

And what in turn is dictating your actions?

And we're asking that with the question, who's on the mic?

In other words, who's got the mic in your story today?

And we want to make sure that we know that we have control over who gets their hands on the mic.

And ultimately, we want that to be the voice of God on the mic.

But there are other voices that are trying to get a hold of the microphone.

And one of those is one that I'm guessing every single person in the gathering today has been dealing with for a long time.

And that is comparison on the mic.

And that happens to us when we're born.

For some of you, your whole life you've been compared to your brother or your sister,

anybody had that going on your whole life.

It never been good enough for as smart as them or as fast as them or whatever as them.

For some of us, it was being compared to that other kid in the class or another person on the team.

Or maybe we were being compared to this picture that our parent had of what we should be,

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