You know that I have a
song that I heard this morning,
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and I want to try to do it.
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I don't sing, I just want
to try to sing it for you.
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It just starts out with,
there is a place of quiet
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rest near to the heart of God.
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A place where sin
cannot molest, near to
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the heart of God.
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I thought the first
time I heard it, you know
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quiet rest, a place
for recovery, a place where
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sin can't come in.
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Can't come in
and twist things and
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I just wanted to be there.
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As you are hearing
these testimonies, as you hear
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Alta talk about her
testimony and her relationship
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addictions, sexual
addictions, the adultery stuff,
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and all of a sudden
the Holy Spirit showing her
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that started way back
in her childhood of being
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molested and not
understanding any of that.
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About being abandoned,
those holes just opened up
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in her life, or that
pit, that emotional pit.
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And even Charlie
talking about that he came from
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adultery and growing up
thinking that he belonged
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to somebody and all of a
sudden realized he didn't.
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And you know during the
break one thing he said,
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God had revealed that to him.
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I think it is amazing
to me that God will reveal
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things to us when we
are ready to heal from them.
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Just ask Him, God what
is that you want to show me.
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What is it that You want
to start healing in my life
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so that I can stand up
and be the man or woman that
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You know me to
be, that You created
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me originally to be.
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How do I stand up from
all this kind of damage,
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this junk that
has been in my life?
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Some has been done to
me, and some has been done
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by myself, so how do I do that?
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God says you
know what, trust Me.
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I will do it, I have done
it, I delight in your healing.
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Am I going to say it
is easy, absolutely no.
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It is not easy, it's like
you're going down this river,
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and it is this raging
current and all of a sudden
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God says stand up.
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Well stand up
against the current?
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How can I do that?
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He is like, stand up!
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As you stand up, I
don't know how God does it,
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but He diverts the
water a little bit and you are
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standing and
holding onto God's hand.
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And you are saying, you
know what, okay I'm standing.
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And He literally takes
our hand and says I want
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to bring you out of that
raging waters and I want to
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bring you to a quiet,
peaceful place and we are going
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to do healing there.
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I can jump back into
this mess any time I want to.
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I can say you know
what, anytime I want I can
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grab some past hurts.
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I can look at my
insecurities again.
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I can start allowing
the devil to lie to me and
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say you know
what, you are nothing.
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You were born in adultery,
you were not even wanted as a
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child, or you are a
heroine addict in recovery, or I
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remember your sexual addiction.
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I know who you are.
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I know all the junk
that's in your life.
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If I can just let that
stuff start going in my head
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anytime I want to,
or I can listen to the
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voice of God saying,
Cheri you are done with that,
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you are done with that.
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I want to get you
into a quieter place,
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I want to bring you
to a place of victory and
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I'm thinking it is too cool.
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You are a woman of God,
you are the apple of my eye,
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you are who I delight in.
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I'm thinking, you
know what I am a mess.
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He's like yeah and
I love that about you.
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You know what I mean you
don't have to pretend with God
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and be anything other than I am.
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When He says that
as you seek My face,
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and that is the reality,
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we start out with even
looking at the Commandments.
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What are God's
standards? Who is He?
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What do I need to learn?
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And He's like guys as you
seek my face, as you look up,
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as you start to open up
the word that is the easiest
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way to see God.
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I mean you can see Him
anywhere, you could walk around
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and do all that kind of
stuff, but open up the word
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you start seeing Him.
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You start to see that as
you start understanding what's
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right and what's wrong
and all that kind of stuff.
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As you ask for the
Holy Spirit to guide you
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in this recovery, you
will fully see yourself
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as you fully see Me.
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I'm thinking how do you do that?
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How do you do that?
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Because you know what
I found out about myself,
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is I like who I am in Christ.
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I don't steal, I don't
lie, I don't try to manipulate.
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I'm not saying that I
don't ever fall into that stuff,
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but I never find myself
struggling with that but in
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Christ it's not who I am.
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I'm a new creature in
Christ like Alta said,
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and I pray that you will
find that and if you have
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found that you will be
grateful for that this day.
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Until next time always
remember that God is crazy
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about you, me too!
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