Hope you're having a great summer.

Know that we're praying for you,

and we know God has awesome things in store.

So great having you with us.

Enjoy the message today.

God bless you.

You sound great tonight.

You may be seated.

I want to talk to you today

about not letting people label you. Throughout life, people are constantly

telling us what we can or cannot become, what we do or don't have. It's just like they're

sticking a label on us. Too short, too slow, too old, too many mistakes, not talented enough. Most of the time, these labels are not

what God says about us. But if we don't know any better, we'll wear them like they're the truth.

The sad thing is, if we keep them on long enough, they'll become so ingrained in our thinking that we'll become

what people have said rather than what God has said.

Albert Einstein's teacher told Einstein's father, no matter what Albert does, he'll never

be successful.

Friends, people don't determine our destiny. God does. I know a gentleman that was

told by his high school counselor that he was not that talented and he should focus on the lowest

skilled job he could find. What happened? That counselor stuck a label on him. Below average, barely get by, not talented. He didn't know any better. He wore the label year after year. In his thinking, I'm not that smart. I just don't have what it takes. He got a job at the local factory and stayed at the lowest level year after year.

One day the factory closed and he went across town and applied at another factory.

This company had a policy that every applicant had to take an IQ test.

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