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I like to start with something funny. I heard about this young lady. She came home from a date very sad.

She told her mother that her boyfriend just proposed to her. Her mother said, well, why are you so sad?

She said because he told me he's an atheist. Mom, he doesn't even believe that there's a hell.

Her mother said, marry him anyway. Between the two of us, we'll prove to him how wrong he is.

Hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Today, I will be talked the Word of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert. My heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you.

I want to talk to you today about shame off you. We've all heard the phrase shame on you. Starting from a child, you didn't clean your room. Shame on you.

You were mean to your little sister, shame on you. Even as adults, we may not hear it out loud, but it plays in our thoughts.

You fell back into that bad habit. Shame on you. You went through a divorce. Shame on you. We don't realize how destructive shame is.

We use it to try to convince people to do better, but shame does just the opposite. Causes us to feel guilty, unworthy, like we don't deserve to be blessed.

A young lady told me how she had a baby when she was a teenager. She wasn't able to keep it. She put it up for adoption.

Now, 10 years later, she said, I feel so ashamed. I abandoned my baby. I can't sleep at night. Think about what a terrible mother I am.

That voice is constantly whispering shame on you. Shame is one of the enemy's favorite tools. He's called the accuser.

He'll remind you of every mistake, every failure, even things that weren't your fault. He'll try to deceive you into thinking that you were to blame.

People that were abused as a child had no choice in it. He'll whisper, you're not good enough. You deserved it. That's why they mistreated you.

He'll try to twist it and convince you to carry around all this heaviness.

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