I have with me
Berneice and Daryl.
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They are from the
land down under with AYC.
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Now AYC started a few years ago.
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Berneice, when did
AYC start? What is AYC?
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Well, AYC stands for
Adventist Youth for Christ.
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We are a movement
down in Australia,
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similar to what you are
doing here in the United States.
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So we actually
started with our first
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conference or
convention in 2006.
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And we were inspired actually
when a few of our youth came
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to the United States
for GYC in 2003 and 04.
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And they saw the
work that the Holy Spirit
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was doing here,
and we wanted to do
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a similar thing
and inspired the youth
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in Australia back home.
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So we started with a
very small group of 150 youth
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and we've grown since then,
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we have three to four
consecutive conferences
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that will be
running back to back
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in consecutive
weekends next year.
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So we are very excited.
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So were the youth
in Australia where they
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trumping it a bit to do
something, were they excited?
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Were they just
waiting for this opportunity?
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Or has this created some energy
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and some synergy in Australia?
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I think, yes to both.
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Australia is a little
bit different in the sense
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that we are
very secular country,
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so Adventism is not as
prominent as it is here.
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We have 52,000 Adventists
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in a country of
20 million people.
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And in that 52,000,
there are very few youth.
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So the youth sometimes
feel little bit isolated
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like they are not sure how
their role in the local church
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fits in to the global
picture of the SDA community.
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So do you have some
stories, some practical examples
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of how the youth
have related to AYC?
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Sure, right I am
going to share with you
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a story of Suki, one of
the youth who is involved
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in AYC and continuously
to be involved as well.
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She first came to AYC in
2007 in one of our conventions.
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And she responded to a
court to be a Bible worker
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for year in Mark
Finley's campaign,
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he did a evangelistic
series in Melbourne.
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But she soon realized
that even though you come to
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a GYC or AYC Convention,
it doesn't end there,
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because revival
happens at the convention,
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but she realized
that when she went back
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to her local church that,
that was where it all started.
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And so since that
time she has gone back
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to her local
church as a counselor.
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She is a small group
leader in her local churches
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involving campus
ministries and that complements,
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her involvement in AYC as well.
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And she realizes
that... she realized that youth
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will come to places
like this, need to go back
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to their local
church and do some work.
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Amen, and it's
exciting to see that,
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that when people
experience that, that outpouring
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of the Holy Spirit
that encounter with Christ.
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They cannot help but go back
and share with other people.
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Are there more
stories, more examples
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of how AYC is impacting lives?
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Yes, if I could just
share one of the stories
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that really warms my heart.
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We have a school
group from one of our
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Adventist academies
that has attended AYC
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for the last two years running.
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And the story
behind that is that--
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one of their teachers
actually attended our conference
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a year before and
he was really inspired
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and really touched and
blessed by what was happening.
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And he decided that
it was so meaningful
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and so wonderful that he
wanted every single student
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in his academy to have
the opportunity to attend.
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He went through
the school board,
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he made it an
official school excursion
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and he out of his own
pocket, decided to sponsor
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60 percent of
the registration fee
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of any student that
would like to attend.
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He also organized for
them to meet every day
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at the school and he
organized for his school bus
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to drive them an hour
and half to the conference
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in time for morning
prayer, and there was--
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I don't think they understood.
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This is a teacher that
is paying 60 percent of each
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student's
registration? That's right, yes.
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Organizing to drive
them an hour and half,
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is this amazing? Yes.
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And what's more is that
this is a most dedicated
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group of 16, 17 year
olds that I've ever seen.
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In Australia, we
have school uniforms,
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so being a
official school excursion,
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they all have to dress nicely
and wear their school uniform.
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And one interesting
story was that, one morning,
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one of the boys
actually didn't actually
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wake up in time to
get to the meeting point
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at the school
before they had to leave.
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And so he lived
quite close to the school
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and what the whole group
of students and the staff
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did was they jolt to his house.
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One of his friends ran
the doorbell and woke him up.
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And he got ready,
he was running out
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the door five minutes
later, Bible in one hand,
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shoes in the
other, tie in his pocket.
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And they were on time
for morning prayer that day.
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Amen. Now for those
of you that don't know,
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what does AYC stand for?
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So AYC actually stands for
Adventist Youth for Christ.
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And Brandon, we've
changed our name from
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Australian Youth Conference
to Adventist Youth for Christ
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to reflect that
AYC is a movement.
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AYC is not a conference,
AYC is not a convention,
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AYC is a
movement of young people.
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We've also
instituted training workshops,
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evangelistic
series, you may have heard
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Justin sharing with you.
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We're aiming to
do multi-site public
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evangelistic series
all across Australia.
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So encourage young
people to not only come
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to the convention to be
revived, but to go back,
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be trained and be active
in soul winning for Jesus.
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Amen. Thank you, guys.
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Good afternoon. It is
my pleasure to welcome you
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to our third meeting together.
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And would you
just bow your heads
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in a word of prayer with me?
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Father, we are
here, we are bursting
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and blooming with excitement
that what you are doing,
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but God we are begging
that You would do more.
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Please bless us more right
here in this plenary session,
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I pray that You would
overwhelm us with Your love.
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Thank you for what You
will do. We love You, amen.
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Not to brag or anything but
I have the distinct privilege
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to introduce to you James Ervin.
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He is a Senior at
Eastern Michigan University.
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And he has what
I believe is a very
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moving and powerful testimony.
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Don't tell him this
but I nearly started crying
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when he told me
his story in the back.
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So James, would you just
tell us a little bit about
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your experience how
God has been leading you,
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and tell us what
your life used to be like.
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Sure, sure, thank.
First, I say good afternoon GYC.
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It's a pleasure to have it
here in my home state Houston,
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I mean, home state Texas.
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I grew up an hour and
half away from Houston.
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But it's a
pleasure to have it here.
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I'll get right into
it, I played ball, football
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for Eastern
Michigan for about two years,
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going on my third year.
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And when the moment
I stepped on campus,
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I told myself that I want to be
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the face of this university.
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Nobody is going
to stop me from being
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the face of this university.
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And I was going to be the face.
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In order to do
that, I needed status,
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and I need to make myself known.
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And so when it came to football,
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I was one of the
best athletes that
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they had ever seen at that time.
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I was the highest lifter,
one of the highest lifters
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in my class, and also
one of the fastest runners.
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And when it came to clubbing
and partying, I was the man.
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I go into club with
the fellows, you know,
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they dab me up and
they took their hat,
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and all the ladies would
wave a smile or come and hug me,
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and so I was well on my way.
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In fact, they
started to know me so much
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so that I began to
get into club for free,
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and when I went
to go buy liquor,
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I was under age at the
time but they didn't care,
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they knew me, so they
gave it to me and said,
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hey, take as much as you want.
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And it was all going
well, and everybody knew me
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in Eastern, showing
homage, and showing much love
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but for me it
wasn't even enough.
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I said, you
know, what? Pump that.
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They know me in Eastern but I
wanted more people to know me.
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So I decided to pledge
Omega sci fi that's cue,
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I don't like everybody
who is anybody pledge his cue,
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I mean Michael Jordan plays cue,
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Shaquille O'Neal, Bill Cosby,
so I'm okay, if I do this,
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then I'll automatically
get a good job when I...
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when I put it on
my resume for a job.
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So I said, I will do
it, and I was pledging
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and I was partying,
I was playing a ball
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and all things
seem well so I thought.
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So, yeah, you had arrived,
how did you feel, how was that?
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Well, I mean, it felt good.
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Every time, you
know, to see the people,
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you know, showing
much love and see that
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everybody knew my
name, but when I went back
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to my dorm every night,
after... after all the facade
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has been taken off and I
sat at the edge of the bed.
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I saw that my life was falling
apart right before my eyes.
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I mean, my GPA, my lofty
GPA has fallen down to 1.6,
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a 1.6, if my daddy
knew, if he, I mean,
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he would have a heart
attack if it went below 3 point.
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Oh, it went to 1.6, and I
was almost kicked out of school,
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I was on AP Academic
probation if you don't know
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what that is good,
you don't need to know.
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And then moreover
because of the life,
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I was addicted to alcohol,
liquor, and weed and sex
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and that's all I
did, and like at times,
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my conscience would try to
talk to me he's like James,
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"You know you don't need to be
doing this, just put it down."
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But I said, "No." In
fact, I drunk, I smoked,
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and so that I didn't
hear the man anymore.
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And after that as if
there wasn't bad enough,
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pledging and playing
football started to conflict.
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So it's so much so
that I started missing
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some of my football
meetings and workouts.
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And next thing, you know,
coach calls me into office,
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he is like, "Hey, man,
I've disciplined everybody else,
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I kick other
people off the team,
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but I won't do that to
you because I like you.
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So I'm just going to
suspend you for a week.
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So I was suspended for a week.
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And during my suspension,
I get back to my dorm
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and I am sitting at
the edge of my bed like,
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how in the world do I go
from the top to the bottom
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so fast and I
like, you know, what?
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Tomorrow when I wake up,
I'm gonna get my life together.
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I'm gonna go back, and I'm
gonna pull myself back on top,
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you know, they got to know me.
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But it just so
happens that the next day,
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when I was walking
to the student center,
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I saw a familiar
face, his name, uh,
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he was a student in my
class, and he was reading
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the Bible and
I'm a pastor's kid,
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I come up our prayerful
life, man what in the world
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do you know about the Bible.
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And he looks me
dead in eye and he says,
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"He that is not
with me is against me,
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and he that gathers not
with me scatters abroad."
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And the moment I heard
that I was pricked to the heart
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because in my mind I'm
like, this entire time,
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the people who
have been drinking,
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they have been drinking with me.
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When they smoke,
they smoked with me,
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and whatever they
do apart from church,
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apart from God,
they do it with me.
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So I was leading
people astray and Jesus says,
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"James, you are not with me."
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And so he then said,
"Hey, we're having Bible study
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at 7 O'clock, I
expect to see you there."
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And I am ah, ah, yeah, yeah,
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I will be, I will
be, I will be there.
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And so I showed
up and heard truth
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that I never
heard before in my life.
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The Daniel 2, you
know, the toe nails of time,
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I heard about the
Sabbath, I heard about Daniel 7,
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the little horn power, and
I heard about the millennium
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and how hell
doesn't burn forever,
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I heard about God's
love, and then I was loving
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and I was consistent member.
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And then one day he
preached on Mark Chapter 8
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that he use a preaching
manual during his Bible study.
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Preached on Mark Chapter
8 and he asked the question,
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"What are you willing
to give up for Jesus?"
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And he goes to verses 36,
"What shall a profit a man
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if he gains the entire
world and losses his soul?
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Or what shall man give
in exchange for his soul?"
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James, you want the world.
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You want
everybody to know your name.
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But what is it profit
if you don't know Jesus?
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After all Jesus gave
up the world just for you.
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So I had a decision
to make, and at that time
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tears start
rolling down my face.
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I'm not a crying man but
I couldn't contain myself
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because at that
moment, I had just tasted
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the living word and finally
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found something that satisfies.
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Amen. Well, praise God for
what the way he hunt after us.
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Amen. Thank you, James
for sharing your testimony.
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Praise the Lord.
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What a privilege to be
here. My name is Janet Page.
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I work in the
ministerial department
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at the world
church headquarters.
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Only been there about a year.
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It's been absolutely
overwhelming to travel
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around this world
and to see the needs.
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I hope every one of you can
be involved in a mission trip,
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be involved in service
outreach going to places.
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It opens your eyes
to this incredible world
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that needs our help,
I had something happened
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to me 18, 19 years
ago, that was awful.
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I turned 40. I know, I
know, lot of you cannot
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even relate to that,
even 18 years you can't.
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But my friends, I called
them my ex-friends because
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they did one of these horrible
parties where black balloons,
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black crepe paper,
a tombstone cake say,
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Janet Page's youth
had died. It was awful.
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That was on the East
Coast, because of that
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I moved to the West Coast,
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actually I moved
because God called us to.
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But I thought it will
never happen to me again.
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But then when I
turned to 50, it happened
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all over again but
this time it was worse.
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I don't know why? My husband
were here, he'll tell you why?
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But we won't let him. But
when I...when you're young,
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you can't wait, you
can't wait for that day,
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you get to go to school.
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You can't wait for that day
when you get to drive a car.
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You can't wait for that
day you graduate from college.
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You can't wait for that
day you're going to marry.
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And life seems
like it's going slow,
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but as I started
getting into my 30s,
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life just seem like
it's going faster and faster
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and faster, and they're always
busy and all these priorities
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this things that got to be done.
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And I remember one day
just going what really matters,
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I can't do all these good
things. What really matters?
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You think about your
life really what matters
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and what came to
my mind is I thought
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that was John 17:3 which says,
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"And this is eternal
life, that they may know You,
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the only true God, Jesus Christ
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whom You have sent."
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The only thing
that really matters
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is if I know Jesus Christ.
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And yet I had learned
when I was 17 years old
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from a Bible
teacher that I needed
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to spend time
with Jesus everyday.
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And I thought, why? I
mean, I tried to be good,
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I tried to go to
church, and read my
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Sabbath school
lesson now and then.
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Why do I need to spend
this time with God everyday?
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He knows I love
Him. I raised my hand
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and I asked the
teacher that, and he said,
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"If you don't spend time
with God and get to know Him,
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reading the Bible,
you're not going to know Him,
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you won't love Him,
and if you don't love Him,
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you're gonna
walk away from Him."
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I said, "Well, I
don't want to do that."
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I said, "I'm gonna
start spending time with Him."
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I said, "Well,
how do I do this."
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And he showed me how to do it.
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He said, "There
is really no set way,
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just take your Bible and pray."
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And I said, "Well, how long."
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And he suggested, "Well,
maybe, maybe 30 minutes."
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He said, "There is
no set amount of time."
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So I said, "Okay." And
decided I want to do this right.
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So I got out my alarm
clock, set it on the edge
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of the bed and I
started trying to pray.
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I read my Bible
Psalm, I started praying
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and I prayed
everything I could think of
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and then I looked at the clock,
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wow! Only five
minutes have gone by.
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And I thought,
how am I gonna spend
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the rest of this time with God.
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And I just did...
I didn't know how.
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But I have found
the more I pursue God,
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the more He shows me how
to spend that time with Him.
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And shows it makes the
word interesting to me.
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But I got into college, and
college was busy, really busy.
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And I kind of
forgot about spending time
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with God until exam week.
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And then I was oh, God, if
you will get me through exams,
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to get me through exam
I'm gonna spend time with you.
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I'm gonna read the Bible
everyday and spend that time.
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And He would, He did help
me, He get me through exams.
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And I would try
to keep my promise
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and started
spending time with Him.
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But then I get busy
again and I'd fall out of it
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until the next exam
week, I would remember again,
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I go, oh, God, if you
just help me get through exams,
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I'm gonna read that Bible
and really get to know you.
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I went all the way
through school like this
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but I always thought, "Well,
once you're done with college,
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all you doing is working
full time job, you know."
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You got, what's that?
Eight hours or so a day.
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You got all the rest of
the time to get to know God.
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And I found I was just so busy.
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There are so many
things to be done all the time.
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But then I got married
and then we had a little baby,
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and I quit my
job two weeks before
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the baby was to be born,
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because I wanted to
stay home with my baby.
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And I was so excited, I
thought I'm gonna quit my job,
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I'm gonna get to
stay home, I'm gonna have
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so much time to get to
know God and read my Bible.
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My mother failed to tell
me just going to warn you now,
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it's a 24 hour day job
taking care of that baby,
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and it keeps you
busy, and it was...
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I'd start praying as
I'm driving in the car.
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Lord, I got to help with
the vegetarian cooking school.
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Will You bless me?
God, I got to help with
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the Vacation Bible
School, I got to tell stories.
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Will You bless me, Lord?
I'll never forget the day,
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I was driving down
the highway and I go, God,
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isn't that exciting,
Michelle wants Bible studies.
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Lord, isn't it a
good, I'm sorry, I haven't,
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had time for you, but
I'm doing Your work God,
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will you bless
me? Before I know it,
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I'm in my 30s realizing,
I really don't know Him.
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And I thought it's been so fast.
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Believe me it's
gonna be fast someday.
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Your years go,
ooh, it went fast.
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Right now it seems
slow, but it will be fast.
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And I thought it's gone by
so quick and if I don't start
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getting to know Him
now, it's not gonna happen.
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So I started
trying to spend time
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everyday with God in the Bible.
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And as I did that, I
tried to follow the steps
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through the sanctuary,
a praise and thanksgiving.
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You enter His
gate with thanksgiving,
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and in His court with praise.
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And then I go
into time of confession
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and then into inner session.
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But as I did the praise
part and went into confession,
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I tried to confess
everything I thought
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I needed to confess, but
there was this one particular
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thought that
kept coming to mind.
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And as it would
come to mind I think, oh,
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I'm Mellon Colley I just
have an over guilty conscience.
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I know that's not a sin.
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And I just would
try it shove it way.
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But every time I spend
time with God that same thought
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would keep coming back or
sitting in meetings like this
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where they had prayer times,
it would keep coming to me.
00:22:02.55\00:22:05.13
And I finally told
God one day, I said,
00:22:05.14\00:22:07.93
"Okay, I know it's sin,
but I can't deal with it.
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I don't think Jesus
could if He were here
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and had this
problem, just no way.
00:22:13.57\00:22:15.70
And I thought, I
could go on with life,
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living a Christian life
00:22:20.06\00:22:21.27
and not deal with
that sin in my life.
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And I just thought I
could shove it to the side.
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I didn't realize till
years later what that did to me,
00:22:25.89\00:22:29.18
but my whole experience
with God started just drying up.
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The Bible, I tried to read
the Bible and it just seems
00:22:32.78\00:22:36.29
so boring to me and lifeless.
00:22:36.30\00:22:38.32
I wasn't getting
anything out of it.
00:22:38.33\00:22:40.08
And when I pray, I
didn't feel like my prayers
00:22:40.09\00:22:42.40
went higher than the ceiling,
00:22:42.41\00:22:43.98
and I got into this
vicious cycle of depression.
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And I just, I
didn't want to live.
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Life was miserable for me.
00:22:49.47\00:22:52.46
At the time this
started happening,
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what's happened in my life,
we had moved to Pennsylvania
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and we were
there for about a year.
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Jerry was pastor
to the pastors there.
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And he went around
visiting them in their homes
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and found out what they needed
00:23:05.49\00:23:07.85
was retreat for
the pastor's lives.
00:23:07.86\00:23:10.66
He thought, well,
that would be good.
00:23:10.67\00:23:12.18
So he worked that
out for that to happen.
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I didn't want to
go. I wasn't interested,
00:23:14.12\00:23:16.24
you know, this
is a pastor's wife,
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you don't tell
anybody this kind of thing.
00:23:18.63\00:23:20.49
But I had given up, I
felt like I was hopeless.
00:23:20.50\00:23:23.21
I Just kept going
through the motions what you do
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at church and with your kids
00:23:25.62\00:23:27.15
and everything
feeling like I was lost.
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There was no hope for
me. God couldn't save me.
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I was too bigger sinner.
00:23:32.10\00:23:33.29
And but I didn't
tell anybody about it.
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And a year
later, my husband became
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the conference president
there, and it was right
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at camp meeting time,
right before camp meeting.
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At camp meeting, people started
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coming up and
saying congratulations.
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How does it feel
to be the first lady?
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I hate that kind of
talk, and I told them,
00:23:51.59\00:23:54.00
I wash his clothes,
it's the same I always have,
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nothing has changed,
you know, leave me alone.
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And towards the end of
that ten days at camp meeting
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that last weekend, some of
the people had been attending
00:24:02.84\00:24:06.16
a seminar that
was on the Holy Spirit
00:24:06.17\00:24:09.41
and the speaker Dave
Walker was telling them
00:24:09.42\00:24:12.16
how important it is
that we pray everyday
00:24:12.17\00:24:14.75
for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit in our lives,
00:24:14.76\00:24:17.88
throughout the day.
00:24:17.89\00:24:19.83
But he also told them
to pray for your families,
00:24:19.84\00:24:22.20
pray it for your leaders,
and he got them to commit
00:24:22.21\00:24:26.17
to pray for Jerry and I
everyday for the baptism
00:24:26.18\00:24:30.64
of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
00:24:30.65\00:24:32.35
And at that time, it
was like 6:15 in the morning
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or some time quarter
past the hour to pray for us.
00:24:35.95\00:24:39.27
Well, that last
weekend on Sabbath,
00:24:39.28\00:24:41.89
people started
coming up to me and saying,
00:24:41.90\00:24:43.76
we just want you to know,
we've attended the seminar
00:24:43.77\00:24:47.21
in the Holy Spirit,
and the speaker got us
00:24:47.22\00:24:50.35
to commit to pray for
you and Jerry everyday
00:24:50.36\00:24:52.94
for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit in your lives.
00:24:52.95\00:24:55.77
And I looked out
and I smiled and I go,
00:24:55.78\00:24:57.70
"Oh, thank you." But
inside I was thinking,
00:24:57.71\00:25:00.08
big deal, so they're praying.
00:25:00.09\00:25:02.11
What good does that do?
And that wasn't helping me,
00:25:02.12\00:25:06.33
but I couldn't tell them that.
00:25:06.34\00:25:09.36
But one person
after another kept
00:25:09.37\00:25:12.30
coming up to me and saying that.
00:25:12.31\00:25:15.84
Then for the next two years,
we've been a different church
00:25:15.85\00:25:18.77
almost every Sabbath
because of Jerry's job.
00:25:18.78\00:25:21.20
And every
Sabbath, not every Sabbath,
00:25:21.21\00:25:23.49
but lot of different
Sabbaths, someone would come up
00:25:23.50\00:25:25.97
to me and say, "We
are meeting in our groups
00:25:25.98\00:25:28.95
where they pray
and study the Bibles.
00:25:28.96\00:25:31.21
So we meet, we
pray for you and Jerry
00:25:31.22\00:25:33.59
for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit in your lives."
00:25:33.60\00:25:35.88
And I say, "Oh, thank you."
00:25:35.89\00:25:37.23
But do you know it
was two years later,
00:25:37.24\00:25:40.24
that God started moving
on me in a dramatic way,
00:25:40.25\00:25:43.80
turned me upside down in
my whole experience with Him
00:25:43.81\00:25:46.86
made something
happened that pushed me
00:25:46.87\00:25:49.31
into spending
time with Him again.
00:25:49.32\00:25:51.08
And just seeking His
face, and in desperation,
00:25:51.09\00:25:54.57
I would take my Bible,
I would get on my knees
00:25:54.58\00:25:57.91
and I take my Bible and I
said, "God, I don't know You?
00:25:57.92\00:26:01.29
I'm miserable, I
don't even want to live."
00:26:01.30\00:26:04.11
And I said, "Lord, will
You help me to know You?
00:26:04.12\00:26:07.64
Will You help me to love You?"
00:26:07.65\00:26:09.20
Do you know, that is a
prayer God will answer?
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It didn't happen overnight.
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It was a good three
weeks of me continually
00:26:16.13\00:26:19.35
coming to God and telling Him,
00:26:19.36\00:26:20.96
I'm gonna spend
this hour with You.
00:26:20.97\00:26:23.35
I'm gonna spend it with
You whether you show up or not.
00:26:23.36\00:26:26.14
But I'm gonna spend it with You,
00:26:26.15\00:26:27.48
and I would take
my Bible, and I said,
00:26:27.49\00:26:29.60
Lord, speak to me,
show me that You love me,
00:26:29.61\00:26:33.17
help me to love You
God, help me to know You.
00:26:33.18\00:26:36.76
And do you know, God did.
00:26:36.77\00:26:39.72
He started pouring Himself
out on me. It was incredible.
00:26:39.73\00:26:43.65
Do you realize that this
Holy Book will speak to you
00:26:43.66\00:26:48.63
just what you need for today?
00:26:48.64\00:26:50.38
It's incredible. I
didn't know that then.
00:26:50.39\00:26:53.50
I didn't know that God will
speak to me through His word,
00:26:53.51\00:26:56.86
but He does, and He
started doing that in my life.
00:26:56.87\00:27:00.66
But I know, it's
because of those people praying.
00:27:00.67\00:27:06.26
God led me because of
that, just pushing on me
00:27:06.27\00:27:13.50
the Holy Spirit
pushing on me, my husband.
00:27:13.51\00:27:15.26
He used my husband to get
me to do a women's retreat.
00:27:15.27\00:27:18.70
I did not want to
do this, I was too shy.
00:27:18.71\00:27:21.13
I was embarrassed to
be in front of people.
00:27:21.14\00:27:22.89
What am I doing now, right?
00:27:22.90\00:27:24.72
But because of that, I
didn't want to look bad,
00:27:28.13\00:27:31.55
I want that
retreat to be successful.
00:27:31.56\00:27:33.62
I started pleading
and spending time with God
00:27:33.63\00:27:36.24
and saying,
God, Ellen White says
00:27:36.25\00:27:38.66
Your word is Your
voice speaking to us,
00:27:38.67\00:27:41.98
just what we need,
I said, speak to me
00:27:41.99\00:27:44.55
what I need to do
with this women's retreat.
00:27:44.56\00:27:46.27
And do you know
God started showing me
00:27:46.28\00:27:48.45
what to do with that retreat.
00:27:48.46\00:27:49.74
But I didn't trust
Him, I didn't believe Him.
00:27:49.75\00:27:51.99
And I...it was
later I met some woman
00:27:52.00\00:27:55.44
who actually did retreats.
00:27:55.45\00:27:56.73
And I asked her
about it, I said,
00:27:56.74\00:27:57.94
what you do in
a women's retreat?
00:27:57.95\00:27:59.16
And do you know, she
started sharing with me,
00:27:59.17\00:28:01.50
what to do with it, it's
like I could just faintly
00:28:01.51\00:28:04.33
God saying, I
already told you that,
00:28:04.34\00:28:06.26
why don't you believe
me? Why don't you trust me?
00:28:06.27\00:28:08.52
I already showed you
that, I already showed you that.
00:28:08.53\00:28:10.81
And I was amazed at
how personal and intimate
00:28:10.82\00:28:15.74
the relationship is with God.
00:28:15.75\00:28:18.06
But in this time,
God started working on me
00:28:18.07\00:28:21.26
about that sin problem I
had, because of that retreat
00:28:21.27\00:28:25.77
I was scared to do it,
he got me to start praying
00:28:25.78\00:28:29.65
for somebody else
to pray with about it
00:28:29.66\00:28:31.78
'cause I just knew
it's going to be a failure
00:28:31.79\00:28:33.94
and I was
complaining to my husband.
00:28:33.95\00:28:35.90
He pushed me into it
and he said, just go do it.
00:28:35.91\00:28:38.37
I went on go, just go do it,
it's easy for him to say that.
00:28:38.38\00:28:41.80
But the thought that
came to mind was to pray
00:28:41.81\00:28:44.33
that God would
send me some woman
00:28:44.34\00:28:47.41
to pray with it
about this women's retreat.
00:28:47.42\00:28:49.07
And do you know He did.
00:28:49.08\00:28:50.47
But there was one
minor detail I forgot about.
00:28:50.48\00:28:53.36
And that was, I was afraid
to pray out loud with anyone.
00:28:53.37\00:28:57.43
Do you know in
church how they'll say
00:28:57.44\00:28:59.60
or youth groups
say, now let's divide
00:28:59.61\00:29:01.94
in threes and
fours and pray together.
00:29:01.95\00:29:03.68
I would go, I got go to
the bathroom or pinch the baby
00:29:03.69\00:29:07.48
get him crying, do something
to get out of that room.
00:29:07.49\00:29:09.60
'Cause people, people will
pray these beautiful prayers
00:29:11.30\00:29:15.82
and I'm stumbled all
over my words and oh,
00:29:15.83\00:29:18.77
I start crying and of course,
00:29:18.78\00:29:20.21
everybody
wonders, why you're crying.
00:29:20.22\00:29:21.47
I don't even know
why I'm crying, you know.
00:29:21.48\00:29:23.75
And then by the time
they get to me to pray,
00:29:23.76\00:29:26.88
everybody has prayed
00:29:26.89\00:29:27.97
everything that I can think of.
00:29:27.98\00:29:29.61
There is nothing left, but
what I learned about God is,
00:29:29.62\00:29:33.58
it's okay to pray
about the same thing,
00:29:33.59\00:29:36.44
because the Holy Spirit prays
it through your personality
00:29:36.45\00:29:40.47
and it's okay to
stumble over your words
00:29:40.48\00:29:42.86
'cause nobody's word are good.
00:29:42.87\00:29:45.06
The Holy Spirit
takes all of our words
00:29:45.07\00:29:47.56
and make some powerful,
00:29:47.57\00:29:49.30
meaningful to God
and prays through us.
00:29:49.31\00:29:52.25
And the Lord sent me
somebody to pray with.
00:29:52.26\00:29:55.64
It was amazing
and I had hind around
00:29:55.65\00:29:59.06
to my best friend
and that didn't work.
00:29:59.07\00:30:00.69
But some woman has the clear
blue calls me on the phone,
00:30:00.70\00:30:03.21
introduce herself and
says, this may sound strange,
00:30:03.22\00:30:06.00
but I feel like God is
asking me if you wouldn't want
00:30:06.01\00:30:07.98
to get together and pray
once a week before you retreat.
00:30:07.99\00:30:10.16
So that I knew is
an answer to prayer.
00:30:10.17\00:30:13.67
We started meeting
and praying together.
00:30:13.68\00:30:16.39
Another woman
joined us and I would pray,
00:30:16.40\00:30:18.93
Lord, help this women this
retreat, they need revival.
00:30:18.94\00:30:22.15
They need to be
converted, one of the times
00:30:22.16\00:30:24.82
I'm praying this, also and
I felt like it was so loud,
00:30:24.83\00:30:28.78
God talking to me was if
you want me to help this woman,
00:30:28.79\00:30:31.84
let's work on your life first.
00:30:31.85\00:30:33.71
And I knew God
was refereeing to this
00:30:33.72\00:30:36.62
one particular sin problem,
and I was so embarrassed,
00:30:36.63\00:30:40.87
I opened my eyes but
everybody was like this,
00:30:40.88\00:30:42.87
so I know they didn't hear me.
00:30:42.88\00:30:44.12
And I said, later, later,
I'll deal with it God, later.
00:30:44.13\00:30:48.21
But I didn't, I procrastinate.
Do you procrastinate?
00:30:48.22\00:30:51.67
It's a horrible thing to do.
00:30:51.68\00:30:53.39
But later on, I was at a meeting
00:30:53.40\00:30:56.48
and we were in a
motel room and my husband,
00:30:56.49\00:31:00.82
he didn't want to
go to the meetings.
00:31:00.83\00:31:02.10
It was all about
prayer and he said, you know,
00:31:02.11\00:31:04.15
I'll not pray, I
don't want to go there.
00:31:04.16\00:31:06.01
And he tell you
that if you were here.
00:31:06.02\00:31:07.65
I am not telling you
something he wouldn't.
00:31:07.66\00:31:09.50
Well, God have been waking
me up now early in the morning.
00:31:09.51\00:31:12.78
I started
spending this time with him
00:31:12.79\00:31:14.53
And Jerry wasn't awake
yet, so I went into the bathroom
00:31:14.54\00:31:17.81
to spend this time with God
00:31:17.82\00:31:19.19
'cause I don't
want wake Jerry up.
00:31:19.20\00:31:20.60
And but I didn't sense
God there like He usually was,
00:31:20.61\00:31:24.19
and I started
saying, God, where are You?
00:31:24.20\00:31:26.73
You know, Your word
is not speaking to me.
00:31:26.74\00:31:28.82
I just don't sense You are here.
00:31:28.83\00:31:30.87
And I just his
faint, and I thought may be
00:31:30.88\00:31:33.08
because I was by the toilet.
00:31:33.09\00:31:34.15
But it really didn't
matter where you are,
00:31:34.16\00:31:37.51
you know, God is there with you.
00:31:37.52\00:31:38.91
But I just sense
God is saying to me,
00:31:40.74\00:31:42.57
Janet, I want you to
deal with the sin problem now.
00:31:42.58\00:31:46.04
My sin problem,
this particular one
00:31:46.05\00:31:48.56
was a bitterness or
resentment towards someone who,
00:31:48.57\00:31:52.15
someone who had hurt me
terribly many, many times,
00:31:52.16\00:31:56.27
and I just...God had been after
me to ask their forgiveness.
00:31:56.28\00:32:00.07
And I thought for what?
00:32:00.08\00:32:01.79
They are the one who've
done all the bad things to me.
00:32:01.80\00:32:03.94
I haven't done
it to them anything.
00:32:03.95\00:32:05.88
Why should I be
asking their forgiveness?
00:32:05.89\00:32:08.02
And as God started
moving on me, I said,
00:32:08.03\00:32:10.59
you get them to call me
and then I can talk to them.
00:32:10.60\00:32:13.94
Let them say
something to me first.
00:32:15.37\00:32:17.10
But there was nothing,
God wouldn't argue with me,
00:32:17.11\00:32:19.49
and I just...I was so,
I so did not want to lose
00:32:19.50\00:32:23.90
that time with God that I got up
00:32:23.91\00:32:27.53
and went to call the person.
00:32:27.54\00:32:29.26
And I went outside
the room down the hall,
00:32:29.27\00:32:32.58
because I didn't want Jerry
to hear, it was embarrassing.
00:32:32.59\00:32:35.04
And the hallway to the,
to...to... go where I could call
00:32:35.05\00:32:39.16
them, I'm thinking,
"I hate this person."
00:32:39.17\00:32:43.20
They have been so mean to me.
00:32:43.21\00:32:44.39
I just said there's
no way I can do this.
00:32:44.40\00:32:46.24
God, you've got
to do it through me
00:32:46.25\00:32:48.21
the Holy Spirit because I can't.
00:32:48.22\00:32:50.07
And as I got him on
the phone, I was hoping
00:32:50.08\00:32:52.64
that he wouldn't be
home, but I woke him up,
00:32:52.65\00:32:54.24
it was so early in the morning.
00:32:54.25\00:32:57.03
I started jumping
into asking forgiveness,
00:32:57.04\00:33:00.98
not knowing how to even
do this but I'm praying,
00:33:00.99\00:33:03.36
Lord, how do I do
this, but if I did it,
00:33:03.37\00:33:06.92
one thought after
another kept coming to mind
00:33:06.93\00:33:09.23
that I specifically
needed to ask forgiveness for.
00:33:09.24\00:33:11.90
And I was in
shock and I am going,
00:33:11.91\00:33:14.20
will you forgive me for this?
00:33:14.21\00:33:15.74
And then, will you
forgive me for this?
00:33:15.75\00:33:18.00
And then, will you
forgive me for this?
00:33:18.01\00:33:20.36
I was hoping, praying
that it would end soon,
00:33:20.37\00:33:24.71
I was in such
shock, I didn't know
00:33:24.72\00:33:26.73
I've done these things to them.
00:33:26.74\00:33:28.28
And it finally
ended, I was thankful.
00:33:28.29\00:33:33.20
But doing this knowing
full well that they would never
00:33:33.21\00:33:36.16
ask my forgiveness,
but you know what happened?
00:33:36.17\00:33:39.48
It's like a wave
wash through me taking out
00:33:39.49\00:33:42.04
the bitterness
and the resentment.
00:33:42.05\00:33:43.94
And in its place gave me
00:33:43.95\00:33:45.35
love and
compassion for this person.
00:33:45.36\00:33:48.41
I don't know how it is for you,
00:33:48.42\00:33:50.26
but I can remember as a
older teenager, young adult,
00:33:50.27\00:33:54.80
taking out the book
Steps to Christ and reading it
00:33:54.81\00:33:57.75
and getting to those
chapters on confession,
00:33:57.76\00:33:59.93
and repentance,
and putting it away
00:33:59.94\00:34:02.14
'cause I knew it was
calling me to go to someone
00:34:02.15\00:34:05.36
who I felt it hurt me a
lot that I needed to ask
00:34:05.37\00:34:08.86
their forgiveness
and I would not do it.
00:34:08.87\00:34:10.56
It dries up your experience.
00:34:10.57\00:34:14.16
There is such a
freedom and a joy in going with
00:34:14.17\00:34:18.02
how God leads you to
ask somebody's forgiveness,
00:34:18.03\00:34:21.86
to humble yourself, you
cannot go wrong in doing that.
00:34:21.87\00:34:25.58
You know, that person I
could be friends with him.
00:34:25.59\00:34:28.21
We still had our differences,
00:34:28.22\00:34:29.46
but God had
brought healing there.
00:34:29.47\00:34:31.86
But that night
in that motel room,
00:34:31.87\00:34:34.06
Jerry didn't want
to go to the meeting.
00:34:34.07\00:34:36.47
He said, I'm gonna
stay here, you can go
00:34:36.48\00:34:38.45
but I felt like I
needed to stay with him.
00:34:38.46\00:34:40.90
And after I decided that
I felt like God was saying
00:34:40.91\00:34:44.11
share with Jerry what happened
on the phone this morning
00:34:44.12\00:34:46.95
'cause I had not
told him about it, nobody.
00:34:46.96\00:34:50.34
And I started
sharing it with him.
00:34:50.35\00:34:52.75
Now I knew something
had been bothering Jerry,
00:34:52.76\00:34:54.55
but I didn't know what?
00:34:54.56\00:34:55.58
But if I shared
with him what happened,
00:34:55.59\00:34:58.08
I could sense
this emotional wall
00:34:58.09\00:35:00.14
just coming down in Jerry.
00:35:00.15\00:35:01.53
And I... as I telling him this,
00:35:01.54\00:35:06.36
you know, what he
started telling me.
00:35:06.37\00:35:07.54
He started
saying, yesterday, he says
00:35:07.55\00:35:11.15
as I walking back and
forth here in the motel room,
00:35:11.16\00:35:13.05
I was in here alone,
and I was going, God,
00:35:13.06\00:35:15.21
I don't want to
be at these meetings,
00:35:15.22\00:35:17.49
I need to be back
home doing my work.
00:35:17.50\00:35:19.13
Why did you make me come here.
00:35:19.14\00:35:20.69
They are
teaching us how to pray,
00:35:20.70\00:35:22.26
and who are they
teachers, I know how to pray.
00:35:22.27\00:35:24.53
My conference, we
know how to pray, we pray.
00:35:24.54\00:35:26.50
So I don't need to
be here, and Janet,
00:35:26.51\00:35:28.80
If Janet is so
spiritual getting up so early
00:35:28.81\00:35:31.89
in the morning,
spending time with you,
00:35:31.90\00:35:33.48
how comes she has a
trouble with so and so.
00:35:33.49\00:35:36.45
It was a very
next morning, that God
00:35:38.28\00:35:40.41
told me do it now
and call this person.
00:35:40.42\00:35:43.47
When Jerry shared that
with me, I was really in shock
00:35:43.48\00:35:46.49
'cause I was
going, wait a minute
00:35:46.50\00:35:48.23
I thought you're
always on my side.
00:35:48.24\00:35:49.77
Again I found out different
at that time, excuse me.
00:35:51.99\00:35:55.47
I'm sorry, you don't have any.
00:35:58.37\00:35:59.55
Do you know those
verses Matthew 23:12 that says,
00:36:03.12\00:36:06.19
"Whoever humbles
himself, whoever exalted himself
00:36:06.20\00:36:08.91
will be humbled,
whoever humbled himself
00:36:08.92\00:36:10.76
will be
exalted." Or in James 4:6,
00:36:10.77\00:36:13.93
"God opposes the proud but
gives grace to the humble."
00:36:13.94\00:36:16.99
Luke 14:11, It's the
same thing as Matthew 23:12,
00:36:17.00\00:36:20.56
"Whoever exalted
himself will be humbled,
00:36:20.57\00:36:22.26
whoever humbled
himself will be exalted."
00:36:22.27\00:36:24.96
I always thought those
verses are for somebody else.
00:36:24.97\00:36:28.23
I am not going be
at anybody's door now,
00:36:28.24\00:36:31.42
and I just always be
not going to deal with
00:36:31.43\00:36:33.68
those verses but
do you know what?
00:36:33.69\00:36:35.25
If you have a problem
with pride, you can't get away
00:36:35.26\00:36:38.32
from it if you read
the Bible, it's everywhere.
00:36:38.33\00:36:40.81
It's just through the
Bible about being humble.
00:36:40.82\00:36:43.42
And that night when
Jerry shared with me
00:36:43.43\00:36:46.86
how he had been
praying the day before.
00:36:46.87\00:36:48.51
I just got
chills, because I realized
00:36:48.52\00:36:50.67
this really is a God thing.
00:36:50.68\00:36:52.93
He's the one that got
me to do this morning.
00:36:52.94\00:36:55.68
He really does speak to me.
It was just incredible to me.
00:36:55.69\00:36:59.59
But it then gave me the courage
00:36:59.60\00:37:02.14
'cause God was
pushing on me then.
00:37:02.15\00:37:04.69
You need to talk to
Jerry, and God had been after me
00:37:04.70\00:37:09.26
for a number of years
to ask Jerry's forgiveness
00:37:09.27\00:37:11.35
for a number of
things, and I always said,
00:37:11.36\00:37:13.32
no, no way, if I
do that, you know,
00:37:13.33\00:37:15.41
he will just
hold it over my head.
00:37:15.42\00:37:16.79
Next time, we
have a disagreement,
00:37:16.80\00:37:19.02
and I wouldn't do it.
00:37:19.03\00:37:20.36
But because of what
happened that morning,
00:37:20.37\00:37:22.50
he gave me the
courage that night to ask
00:37:22.51\00:37:25.15
Jerry's forgiveness
for a number of things.
00:37:25.16\00:37:27.44
And do you know what it did?
00:37:27.45\00:37:28.71
It did just
what God's word says,
00:37:28.72\00:37:31.87
if we humble
ourselves, we will be exalted.
00:37:31.88\00:37:35.25
It drew Jerry
and I close together.
00:37:35.26\00:37:37.84
For years, I have
been trying to exalt myself
00:37:37.85\00:37:40.88
and all I've been is humbled,
00:37:40.89\00:37:42.40
and now as I humbled
myself, I was exalted.
00:37:42.41\00:37:45.04
We cannot go wrong
in obeying God's word.
00:37:45.05\00:37:47.73
But you know
that women's retreat.
00:37:47.74\00:37:50.32
We were meeting
once a week praying.
00:37:50.33\00:37:52.46
Do you know what
happens if you commit yourself
00:37:52.47\00:37:54.38
to get together and study
the Bible and pray with people?
00:37:54.39\00:37:57.50
Do you know what happens?
00:37:57.51\00:37:58.80
Do you know what
happens if you commit yourself
00:37:58.81\00:38:01.60
to spend time with
God everyday in the Bible,
00:38:01.61\00:38:04.12
reading the word and
praying, you know, what happens
00:38:04.13\00:38:06.63
You'll get busier
than you've ever been,
00:38:06.64\00:38:09.37
you will get so busy,
and that Satan will do
00:38:09.38\00:38:13.71
anything he can to keep
you from spending that time.
00:38:13.72\00:38:16.40
And that's what
was happening to me.
00:38:16.41\00:38:18.84
But I knew God has sent me
these women to pray with them.
00:38:18.85\00:38:21.49
And I grip my teeth
and say, I'm gonna go
00:38:21.50\00:38:23.04
pray with them, no matter what?
00:38:23.05\00:38:24.31
And we did, we
kept meeting every week.
00:38:24.32\00:38:26.77
And when now
women's retreat came.
00:38:26.78\00:38:29.23
We saw so many
miracles happen there.
00:38:29.24\00:38:31.63
We had a woman that
was physical healed.
00:38:31.64\00:38:33.60
The doctors, two
years later were saying,
00:38:33.61\00:38:35.56
I don't know
what it went on there,
00:38:35.57\00:38:37.38
but you're healed
from a disease she'd had
00:38:37.39\00:38:39.49
for 13 years, a
very serious disease.
00:38:39.50\00:38:41.92
But the most, the
most beautiful thing
00:38:41.93\00:38:44.24
was the conversions of
the lives that were changed.
00:38:44.25\00:38:47.93
The women were
changed so much that
00:38:47.94\00:38:49.47
when they went back
their husbands would call me
00:38:49.48\00:38:54.57
or write letters saying, thank
you, thank you for you did.
00:38:54.58\00:38:57.01
Mean, it was
nothing I did, it was,
00:38:57.02\00:38:58.09
you know, what God had done.
00:38:58.10\00:38:59.41
But churches were changed,
because of what happened
00:38:59.42\00:39:02.05
at that retreat,
well, my husband said,
00:39:02.06\00:39:04.19
this is wonderful
what all happened.
00:39:04.20\00:39:06.12
He says, we've got
to start doing this.
00:39:06.13\00:39:07.77
I said, doing what? He
said, we've got to start meeting
00:39:07.78\00:39:10.69
with other families
once a week to pray together
00:39:10.70\00:39:13.67
for our community,
for the people around us,
00:39:13.68\00:39:15.89
for our school, so we started
meeting with other families.
00:39:15.90\00:39:19.42
We got everybody to commit.
00:39:19.43\00:39:20.85
They would spend time
daily with Jesus in the word.
00:39:20.86\00:39:23.75
If you want power
when you pray with people,
00:39:23.76\00:39:26.96
spend time in the word with God.
00:39:26.97\00:39:29.17
Know your God, then you
will be praying God's heart
00:39:29.18\00:39:33.31
when you meet
with people to pray.
00:39:33.32\00:39:34.85
And we kept the list of
the things we prayed for.
00:39:34.86\00:39:39.41
And after that first
year, we saw over 15 people
00:39:39.42\00:39:42.93
that have been
converted, that did not even,
00:39:42.94\00:39:45.61
we weren't even
working with just
00:39:45.62\00:39:47.11
people we were praying for.
00:39:47.12\00:39:48.49
We start our academy, a
revival started happening,
00:39:48.50\00:39:51.77
and one student after
another wanting to be baptized.
00:39:51.78\00:39:54.89
They didn't know we
were praying for them.
00:39:54.90\00:39:56.66
And through that
God started showing me,
00:39:56.67\00:40:00.14
it's because of those
people praying for you, Janet,
00:40:00.15\00:40:02.91
that your life has changed,
praying for the Holy Spirit.
00:40:02.92\00:40:06.12
And it's because of that
when we were asked to come
00:40:06.13\00:40:09.51
to the General Conference
and Ted Wilson asked for revival
00:40:09.52\00:40:13.89
and reformation
committee to try to encourage
00:40:13.90\00:40:15.90
revival and reformation
across our world church.
00:40:15.91\00:40:18.83
And we were praying
about what can we do?
00:40:18.84\00:40:21.33
Jerry talked with
Mark Finley and said,
00:40:21.34\00:40:23.71
do you know what
happened in our lives,
00:40:23.72\00:40:25.29
it was through people
praying for the Holy Spirit
00:40:25.30\00:40:27.17
in us everyday at the same time.
00:40:27.18\00:40:30.13
And out of that Mark
Finley came over with the idea,
00:40:30.14\00:40:33.28
let's get our people
praying, seven days a week
00:40:33.29\00:40:37.07
at seven in the morning
and seven in the evening.
00:40:37.08\00:40:39.80
You know, around
the world that's always
00:40:39.81\00:40:41.60
gonna be different
or somewhere to pray
00:40:41.61\00:40:44.13
during the day for the
Holy Spirit to be poured out
00:40:44.14\00:40:47.19
on us as his people, so we
can reach this world for Him.
00:40:47.20\00:40:50.83
My life was
changed through that.
00:40:50.84\00:40:53.33
It's going to change this world.
00:40:53.34\00:40:55.43
I've seen in
the church a pastor,
00:40:55.44\00:40:58.91
all he would do is get up
and tell jokes from the pulpit.
00:40:58.92\00:41:02.54
He didn't come
to prayer meeting.
00:41:02.55\00:41:04.26
He wouldn't do evangelistic
meetings in his church,
00:41:04.27\00:41:06.93
and he needed to be converted.
00:41:06.94\00:41:09.31
And people that
were in that church said,
00:41:09.32\00:41:11.09
we were just gonna go to another
00:41:11.10\00:41:12.28
Adventist Church nearby.
00:41:12.29\00:41:13.66
And we said, no, no, no,
00:41:13.67\00:41:14.91
you need to pray
for him, and they did.
00:41:14.92\00:41:17.93
A small groups started to
getting together and praying
00:41:17.94\00:41:20.32
for the baptism of the
Holy Spirit that God would
00:41:20.33\00:41:22.93
give them Holy Spirit
filled pastors, it took a while.
00:41:22.94\00:41:27.66
One of the biggest reasons,
people don't see answers
00:41:27.67\00:41:30.29
to their prayers is they
give up, they don't keep at it.
00:41:30.30\00:41:34.58
It is that we've got to
beg God to work, it's not that.
00:41:34.59\00:41:37.90
There is a great
controversy going on,
00:41:37.91\00:41:39.98
and God has limited
Himself to our prayers.
00:41:39.99\00:41:43.40
We've got to
join Him in praying,
00:41:43.41\00:41:46.07
so that He can
work in this world.
00:41:46.08\00:41:47.96
It's just like witnessing.
00:41:47.97\00:41:49.46
The very rocks can cry out
but He gives us the privilege
00:41:49.47\00:41:52.83
of reaching people for Him.
00:41:52.84\00:41:54.65
The same way with
prayer, no one is blessed
00:41:54.66\00:41:57.64
like we are when we pray.
00:41:57.65\00:41:59.40
Job 42:10 in the
King James, it says,
00:41:59.41\00:42:02.62
"Jobs captivity
was turned around
00:42:02.63\00:42:05.43
when he prayed for his friends."
00:42:05.44\00:42:07.10
My captivity has
been so turned around
00:42:07.11\00:42:10.35
as I have prayed for
the people around me.
00:42:10.36\00:42:12.61
I pray more for
others and the community that
00:42:12.62\00:42:15.47
I ever do for myself and yet God
00:42:15.48\00:42:17.56
continually blesses
and blesses my life.
00:42:17.57\00:42:20.03
My son, my younger
boy started going through
00:42:20.04\00:42:24.29
this rebellious
time and I kept praying
00:42:24.30\00:42:26.93
and lot of people
were praying is God
00:42:26.94\00:42:28.61
what do we do, what do we do?
00:42:28.62\00:42:29.87
And God led me one
day to start praying.
00:42:29.88\00:42:32.65
Isaiah 42:3, it would says,
00:42:32.66\00:42:36.21
"The God will pour
out His spirit on her
00:42:36.22\00:42:38.09
descendants and
will bless them."
00:42:38.10\00:42:40.00
I said, but, Lord, he doesn't,
00:42:40.01\00:42:41.51
how can the Holy Spirit be
in him, he is not living right.
00:42:41.52\00:42:43.90
He said, that
doesn't matter, you just pray
00:42:43.91\00:42:46.98
for the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit on him.
00:42:46.99\00:42:48.99
That boy I wish he could be
here right now but he can't.
00:42:49.00\00:42:52.46
He is with my
90-year- old my mother.
00:42:52.47\00:42:55.84
But that boy loves Jesus Christ.
00:42:55.85\00:42:58.19
He has been serving
God for several years now,
00:42:58.20\00:43:01.67
doing youth evangelism
and now he is at the seminary.
00:43:01.68\00:43:04.25
And my other son love
Jesus, there's nothing our kids
00:43:04.26\00:43:07.91
and their wives love
better then to get together
00:43:07.92\00:43:11.10
and to spend
time praying together.
00:43:11.11\00:43:13.61
You think about it,
it's the God of the universe
00:43:15.78\00:43:20.09
that wants to
spend time with you.
00:43:20.10\00:43:23.01
You, you are
very important to Him.
00:43:23.02\00:43:26.16
His heart grieves,
His heart longs for us
00:43:26.17\00:43:29.79
to take time out of our
busy lives and just sit and say,
00:43:29.80\00:43:33.30
Lord, help me to love
You, help me to know You,
00:43:33.31\00:43:35.88
make Your words speak
to me and He will do it.
00:43:35.89\00:43:39.80
It reminds me of Christmas
time, when I go to spend
00:43:39.81\00:43:42.47
that time with Him,
I don't know if you've
00:43:42.48\00:43:43.94
ever claimed Isaiah 40,
no, Isaiah, I've lost it.
00:43:43.95\00:43:48.68
I get nervous up here
and I can't remember text.
00:43:48.69\00:43:51.49
Isaiah 50 verse 4,
It's a promise you can claim
00:43:51.50\00:43:54.42
asking God to wake you up,
00:43:54.43\00:43:56.06
so that you can
spend time with Him.
00:43:56.07\00:43:59.04
And I didn't notice
till later the reason
00:43:59.05\00:44:01.93
He wants to wake us up.
00:44:01.94\00:44:03.48
It's so He can instruct
us, so we can help others.
00:44:03.49\00:44:07.67
And God will do that
as you spend time with Him
00:44:07.68\00:44:10.32
in the mornings in
his word or sometime
00:44:10.33\00:44:12.87
in the day when you can do it.
00:44:12.88\00:44:14.25
When you spend
that time with Him,
00:44:14.26\00:44:15.25
God will lead you
to someone to share
00:44:15.26\00:44:18.03
what He has shared with
you to help somebody else.
00:44:18.04\00:44:21.05
It's incredible what He does.
00:44:21.06\00:44:22.67
But coming
early in the mornings,
00:44:22.68\00:44:24.85
God would awake me up
and the room maybe dark
00:44:24.86\00:44:27.20
and it's cold, and I go in there
00:44:27.21\00:44:28.47
to spend that time with Him.
00:44:28.48\00:44:29.70
It reminds me of Christmas
time when my younger son
00:44:29.71\00:44:33.39
was then a little guy
and he come home from school
00:44:33.40\00:44:36.29
and he wrapped a gift for me.
00:44:36.30\00:44:37.94
He made me some and
then wrapped it himself.
00:44:37.95\00:44:40.13
He comes running and he goes,
00:44:40.14\00:44:41.30
mommy, mommy, can you look?
00:44:41.31\00:44:43.70
See what I made
you for Christmas.
00:44:43.71\00:44:45.50
And he say, guess, and
I guess I tried to shake
00:44:45.51\00:44:47.91
and I said, go put it
down in the living room
00:44:47.92\00:44:49.90
and he put it out there.
00:44:49.91\00:44:51.39
He said, how
long tell Christmas.
00:44:51.40\00:44:52.78
And I tell him how long.
00:44:52.79\00:44:53.90
Pretty soon, he
had back out again
00:44:53.91\00:44:55.84
and he said, mommy, mommy,
00:44:55.85\00:44:57.25
can you guess what I made you.
00:44:57.26\00:44:58.64
And I would try to
guess and then I tell him
00:44:58.65\00:45:01.39
put it away and he go,
how long tell Christmas.
00:45:01.40\00:45:04.48
And I tell him how long.
00:45:04.49\00:45:06.22
He could not wait
for me to open that gift
00:45:06.23\00:45:09.59
so that I could
see, how much he loved me
00:45:09.60\00:45:13.67
by making me something.
00:45:13.68\00:45:15.19
And that's the way
it is with our God.
00:45:15.20\00:45:17.56
He is so anxious to
get you to sit still
00:45:17.57\00:45:21.82
so he can love you that
He is just the room sometimes
00:45:21.83\00:45:27.12
feels like its just
jumping alive with God.
00:45:27.13\00:45:29.29
Him wanting to spend time.
00:45:29.30\00:45:30.90
He's so happy I
wanna sit still and let him
00:45:30.91\00:45:33.34
talk to me through His word.
00:45:33.35\00:45:34.80
What a God we serve, I
hope we've seen it happen
00:45:34.81\00:45:39.91
in Central California
where I was before coming here.
00:45:39.92\00:45:43.52
Youth risen up, youth risen up,
00:45:43.53\00:45:45.79
and I believe it's
through all the prayers.
00:45:45.80\00:45:47.57
Shaun come on now. There is a
Shaun back there, isn't there?
00:45:47.58\00:45:51.26
We're seeing so
many youth they're not
00:45:53.48\00:45:56.34
young adults of lot of them.
00:45:56.35\00:45:57.58
They're on fire for God.
00:45:57.59\00:45:58.83
They're passionate
about reaching people
00:45:58.84\00:46:01.71
for Jesus Christ,
look at this room,
00:46:01.72\00:46:04.76
we need to, we need
you forgive us as adults
00:46:04.77\00:46:08.86
for not showing you a
real live experience in Jesus.
00:46:08.87\00:46:12.55
For not showing you
that the most important thing
00:46:12.56\00:46:15.41
is not a new car, but reaching
that person down the street.
00:46:15.42\00:46:19.03
Not that job, but
reaching those people.
00:46:19.04\00:46:22.00
We want to just-Shaun.
00:46:22.01\00:46:24.98
We--I want to take
you in a time of prayer.
00:46:29.17\00:46:31.58
And I just want to show
you that prayer can be fun.
00:46:31.59\00:46:36.06
It can be fun but
it's also powerful.
00:46:36.07\00:46:39.90
Powerful what God will do.
00:46:39.91\00:46:42.07
You know in prayer
groups and I am not saying,
00:46:42.08\00:46:45.94
it's okay to do this.
00:46:45.95\00:46:47.50
But it's just
hard for some of us.
00:46:47.51\00:46:49.29
But you are in a
prayer group and this person
00:46:49.30\00:46:51.16
prays his long prayer.
00:46:51.17\00:46:52.72
Then this person
prays his long prayer,
00:46:52.73\00:46:55.14
and then this person
prays his long prayer.
00:46:55.15\00:46:56.96
Shaun is here.
00:46:56.97\00:46:58.20
By that time, I'm
bored out of my mind,
00:47:00.23\00:47:03.29
you know, all
these long prayers.
00:47:03.30\00:47:05.49
It's hard to stay with people.
00:47:05.50\00:47:07.38
So what we would
like to show you tonight
00:47:07.39\00:47:09.13
is just to get you
to pray brief prayers,
00:47:09.14\00:47:11.67
just short one sentence or two.
00:47:11.68\00:47:15.73
And we would like
to just start with
00:47:15.74\00:47:17.75
praise and thanksgiving,
it's a wonderful way.
00:47:17.76\00:47:20.41
I'll never forget the
time I started with, God just,
00:47:20.42\00:47:23.75
you know, I was
always Lord, help me this,
00:47:23.76\00:47:25.41
Lord do this, do that, do this.
00:47:25.42\00:47:26.78
And God said could you
at least say hello first,
00:47:26.79\00:47:29.67
or good morning, or something.
00:47:31.06\00:47:32.64
Show Him how much you
love Him, appreciate Him.
00:47:34.69\00:47:36.69
You want Him to
answer to your prayers,
00:47:36.70\00:47:38.13
start praising
and thanking Him more.
00:47:38.14\00:47:40.43
So we' re just gonna
role model it show you
00:47:40.44\00:47:43.12
kind of how to do that,
then we would like you to
00:47:43.13\00:47:46.21
if you're comfortable with it,
00:47:46.22\00:47:47.78
we don't wanna
push you too hard.
00:47:47.79\00:47:49.62
Of course, they're going
to Sabbath, do they know?
00:47:49.63\00:47:53.25
Right. Okay. Oh, Friday. Friday.
00:47:53.26\00:47:55.70
Okay, so we can
push you now too.
00:47:55.71\00:47:57.47
We're gonna just
ask you to get may be in
00:47:57.48\00:47:59.67
three's and four's
and do the same thing.
00:47:59.68\00:48:01.61
So we'll try, push hard.
00:48:01.62\00:48:04.90
Father, as we start,
would you just put on
00:48:06.66\00:48:10.79
our hearts how we could
bring you joy right now.
00:48:10.80\00:48:13.82
For that your way is perfect.
00:48:17.19\00:48:19.89
Your love is so high,
00:48:19.90\00:48:25.18
would you help
us just to see it?
00:48:25.19\00:48:27.38
Lord I am not good at
words, God, you know, I am not.
00:48:29.54\00:48:32.38
But I just want
you know, I love you,
00:48:32.39\00:48:34.70
I am so
grateful, grateful that you
00:48:34.71\00:48:37.67
are wanting me as your child.
00:48:37.68\00:48:40.28
Father each heart in
this room is precious to you.
00:48:42.70\00:48:46.05
Each heart in this
world is precious to you.
00:48:46.06\00:48:49.94
There're so many
that don't know you.
00:48:49.95\00:48:54.21
We wanna be catalyst
Father to lead hearts to you.
00:48:54.22\00:48:58.33
In Isaiah 9:6 it says,
for unto us a child is born
00:49:02.95\00:49:06.82
and unto us a son is
given and the government
00:49:06.83\00:49:09.04
will be on his shoulder
and his name will be wonderful.
00:49:09.05\00:49:12.58
Counselor, Mighty God.
00:49:12.59\00:49:14.73
Everlasting
father, Prince of peace.
00:49:14.74\00:49:17.09
Thank you Father that You are
00:49:17.10\00:49:18.56
a wonderful
Counselor, almighty God.
00:49:18.57\00:49:21.36