Welcome back. You know Joanie,
I'm glad you stayed with me
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for the close of this program
because throughout the entire
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program we were talking
about the things that you have
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struggled with. And you said a
number of times that people that
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were intellectually superior.
I don't know of many people in
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my life that loved me in the way
that you love me, as good of a
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friend as you are, the way you
love even my kids, my husband.
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You know there's an emotional
intelligence that you have that
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I think that it's off the chart
compared to a lot of people I
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know. The fact that you stepped
in. You know, you were talking
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about doing the prayer in the
church and stepped and knew that
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you had to do it and let's do
some fasting and let's put some
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stuff together. I wish that you
would let that just pour into
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your heart that the intelligence
you have is spiritual and
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emotional and I love you for
it. I want to know, when did you
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start to just relax in Christ?
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Just by reading Steps to Jesus.
I love that book. I've been
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through it a number of times
and I think I need to start to
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read it again. What I like the
most is, what I didn't get for a
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long time was believing. When
you pray something, you've got
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to believe it. When he says I
love you, you've got to believe
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he loves you. Because I
used to think well not me.
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I'm on the other
side of the class.
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Yeah. Like I'm on the dumb side
over here. He only blesses the
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academically strong and
the medium people, but not us.
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Just when I asked for his
righteousness to cover me and
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believed that he did. So I love
that because now I know he has,
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because people have said stuff
to me and I know me and that
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can't be right. It's got to
be because his righteousness did
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cover me. And I could ask him
to give me victory over sin and
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to believe that he does it. Just
believing is huge for me. If I
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ask it, he's going to
do it no matter what it is.
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Amen. What was really
interesting to me is some of
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those phone calls when I knew
that you got it and you believed
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it and there was a freedom
in your voice that was like you
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know what, I don't have to
compare myself to anybody else
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anymore. I can just relax in the
fact that I am so loved, I'm so
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forgiven, I'm so equipped.
Whatever God is going to call me
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to do I can do. Thank you so
much. I want to just say there's
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a lot of people watching the
program and we're at different
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levels, not only of
intelligence, emotional
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intelligence, spiritual
intelligence, the stuff that
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with the baggage that we carry
with us, all that kind of stuff.
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And we're all over the page with
that. But I hope what you've
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heard here more than anything
else for one there's a God that
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says, Man, I can do it for you.
I can bless you, I can fill you
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up. But please hear. It matters
how we look at each other.
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It matters how with somebody,
taking the time with each other,
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really seeing who that person
is, what are their strengths,
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what are their weaknesses. God
give me a love for my brothers
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and sisters that I can speak
into their lives and not have
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them walk away saying, you know
what, I'm not enough. Because
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for each of us, we definitely
are enough and I just want
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you to know that anytime, you
know, anytime that you want to
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go to God and say, Teach
me to believe, help me with my
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unbelief, help me with all
of these lies that I've believed
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all of my life and let
me surrender them to you.
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He'll do it in a second. And so
until next time always remember
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that God is crazy
about you! Me too!
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