Welcome back!
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Like I said before we
went on break is that I have a
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crush on God, I love watching
Him take the worse cases,
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bringing them up, and
those people when they stand in
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Ministry the
first time you are used.
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The first time somebody's
life changes because of
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something you shared
that God did for you, you want
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to stand up and say,
did you just see that?
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I'm like all of
heaven, did you see that?
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Did you just see that
they actually gave their life
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to God, they actually
change, the actually came out of
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all that junk, they came
out of drug abuse or having
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affairs or they repented
about their porn addiction.
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You are a part of that
and you want to celebrate,
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you want to go sell
someone and God just says,
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the rest of the
life you are going to do
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this kind of stuff.
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It is very cool.
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C. A. it just makes
me proud of who God is.
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C. A. yeah, it really is.
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We had that text before
that talked about all of
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the sins and the things
that infect and infest God's
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people and how
they can over comers.
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In John 16:33 "these
things I have spoken unto you
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that you may have peace.
In the world you will have
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tribulation: but be
of good cheer, I have
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overcome the world. "
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You know a good homework
assignment for you all may
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be as you are watching these,
look up the word overcome,
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or over comers, but particularly
in the New Testament.
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And then write down
all the things that God has
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promised to those
who overcome Cheri.
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It will thrill your
soul, for one, because if God
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says there are
over comers, that means
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there will be over comers.
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Two, that you can be an
over comer and all the things
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that over comers will
get, God will give to you
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as you overcome.
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So let that be sort of
your foundation, your homework
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assignment as you watch
these incredible shows and
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listen to these
incredible testimonies.
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They will encourage you,
but then take that to yourself,
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it's not just them because
the same God who is blessing
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them can bless you.
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The same God who
is encouraging them,
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will encourage you.
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The same God who is
saving them and using them,
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will save and use you.
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It is for the over comers,
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and you too can
be an over comer.
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And what is really
amazing to me is as you
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overcome the first time,
and a lot of people said that
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on these programs, is
the first time they felt joy.
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It's like what is that,
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it's like I'm
feeling really good.
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There is one, I
can't remember who said it,
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but I said when did you
know you were doing good,
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when did you
know that it was okay?
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They said one time I'm
laying in bed with my wife
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and I just started laughing
out loud, then she started
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laughing and it wasn't at
anything that was twisted,
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it was just that we
were glad to be alive.
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We are not high, we are
not out running, we are not
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cooking Meth or doing
any of that kind of stuff.
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Yeah it is
incredible and that is what
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God can do for us.
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He can make us really
brand-new and then give us,
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you know it's a great
thing, the greatest job in the
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world is working
with God saving souls.
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And we see that this
year, the underlying theme,
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dare I say, is evangelism.
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Once I get myself
straight I go back and try to
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get my fellows straight,
and that is a great thing.
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You know as you are
looking at your own stuff,
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as you are trying to
figure out how God is going to
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stand you up, don't try
too hard on figuring that out.
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You know C. A., when
you said look up overcome,
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look at all the
promises, look at who He is,
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look at the face of God,
because God said to me years
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after these
opportunities opened up.
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We are traveling all over
the world doing Celebrating
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Life in Recovery
and writing books.
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I love to do all that
kind of stuff, He said if I
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would have showed you
that on day one, you would have
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liked shut up, there is
no way, I can't do that.
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He said that sometimes
His plans for us will scare us
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to death and He said
don't look at the plans,
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don't look at who you
are, don't look at what you're
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going to do, look at who God is.
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Open up the word of
God, start learning to pray,
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Check your self talk, who are
you, and start telling yourself
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you are who God
says you are and let God
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unfold how He is
going to use you.
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Don't figure it out
yourself and until we start the
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next season, and until
the first show always remember
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that God is crazy about
you and me too! God bless!
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