It is amazing to me, just
to think of the programs that
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we actually did this time, and
the people that got to come on.
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My friend Harmony and
Ashley and Ron and Shannon,
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and literally
knowing what they shared.
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Ashley, who had just
gone through this abortion and
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trying to deal with that,
and coming back to God and she
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has got Bulimia, and she's
got all that kind of stuff.
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She steps into the
church and wants badly to tell
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someone, and realizes that
it is kind of inappropriate
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to talk about sin here.
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I'm like - that's interesting,
that's kind of like a DAH!
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I know - this is not the
place, get to the hospital and
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get healed, and
all that kind of thing.
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You know we look at some
of these things we are talking
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about, we have
used the term raw.
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We have talked
about strong subjects.
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In 1 John, he says, "if we
say we have no sin we deceive
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ourselves," so - we
call God a liar - precisely.
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If you may not see your
situation precisely reflected,
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but maybe there is
someone you know, someone God is
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calling you to minister
to, someone who may come into
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your life, who has
some of this baggage.
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It will equip us to not go
around with our mouths open.
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You know I've never seen that.
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I never heard that.
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It's here, if it's in the
world is in the church because
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people who are in the
church have come from the world.
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They don't always get
free of their baggage when they
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come out of the baptismal pool.
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So they need healing and
that's what Celebrating Life In
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Recovery, in that
process is all about.
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And literally to be able
to say let's celebrate that
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whole journey, and I love that.
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It's like when all of a
sudden God, I'm such a baby, so
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He doesn't show me
my junk right away.
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When I first got into recovery
He showed me tiny things,
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a heroine addict has to go,
tequila has to go, you can't
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smoke weed, I mean
those kind of things.
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But 20 something years
into recovery He said you never
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have let anyone love
you, or trust people,
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and all that kind of stuff.
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So He starts revealing
that and then even after that He
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says, you're still manipulating,
you're still having
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that kind of stuff.
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He starts unfolding
that a little at a time.
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I think as the body of
Christ, when we are actually
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truly Christians to each
other, we can help each other
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unfold that quicker.
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But it's like
all that takes time.
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God says I will walk with
you, and I will never leave or
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forsake you - yeah, yeah.
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That's were getting in to
the Word of God, exalting His
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word and lifting all that up.
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The whole season is about
is that I have to know that
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when I truly get a glimpse
of who I am, and I forget
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that God saved me, it rocks you.
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God says you half to know
that in the Bible it says I
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will never leave, that I
will finish the work in you,
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that I am in here
for the long haul.
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All of heaven stopped to make
sure that you got back home,
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so don't be afraid
to look at this stuff.
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So like I have to
know it is in the Word.
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You know I noticed something
about you, you are like me.
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When you get
excited you get loud.
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This is like
loud TV - I live loud.
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I did not know, my Audio
Engineer, John Leaman told me
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we have to keep turning
the volume down on you because
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the more invested you
get the louder you get.
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It didn't occur to me that
when you get excited you get
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loud, so that's another
thing it's a loud television,
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because you have a lot of
things going on that people
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are passionate about.
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With that passion comes
some volume, comes some energy.
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I believe in this - yeah
- do you know what I mean, I
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believe that what we are
trying to do, and I believe
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that there are people out
there that are watching this
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program that literally are
healing as we are presenting
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some of these things.
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So I believe that so much
that sometimes I even forget,
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somebody says well look at
this camera, I say no! no! I
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want to look right at you guys.
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Do you know what I mean
it is because I believe this.
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I think if we actually saw
the face of God and saw who
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He was, who He is and how
much He adores us, how much He
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loves us, how much it
saddens Him that we hold on
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to these secret sins that we
think are bringing us pleasure.
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He says they are robbing
you of who you are, robbing you
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of your birthright, and
I'm thinking I just so want to
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put it out there
that we have to trust God.
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Trust God to give
back into His word - yeah!
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You know we get a lot of,
and I will use this term, of
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anecdotic evidence but I say
that a lot of people call and
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say, I love this program
and I watch this program.
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It ministers to me,
it's changing my life.
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We don't have any Arbitron
ratings, we don't subscribe
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to any big service we
just get anecdotic stuff.
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people send letters, people
make calls, people send e-mails.
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People tell us it's reaching
us, it's touching us, it's
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it's helping us, it's saving
us, it's showing us Jesus.
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Keep on doing what you're
doing and we are dealing with
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some very weighty issues,
but we are in the last days
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as you well know.
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Christ is coming soon
and we have to get this stuff
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swept away,
vacuumed up before He comes.
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The only way to do that is
to talk about it and that is
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what we are doing.
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So I'm going to show
you this next roll in.
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We have a family,
Jack Bridges, filmed,
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literally did a
documentary of his son
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dying of Meth addiction.
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His son asked him,
did you know I am dying.
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I could hardly even process
or say a sentence and I need
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you to show people what
Meth looks like at this stage.
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He's a young guy in his
20's, he has had two major heart
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attacks, he's had a stroke.
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The Meth has fried his
brain, put holes in his brain.
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They start doing this
documentary, so I asked them to
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come, his father to
come and do the show.
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His father brings the
grandmother who prayed and loved
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this kid all his life.
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The guy Shawn is his name,
Shawn's daughter who is 13,
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brought his ex-wife,
brought the pastor that brought
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him to Christ before he
died, brought the clinical
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director of a rehab center
that Shawn used to go to when
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he could speak to minister
to the other Meth addict's.
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He brought 2 new Meth
addict's into recovery.
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So when they came I'm thinking
it is just going to be a
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program with this father
and myself and all the sudden I
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realize that
everybody has a testimony here.
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One of the Meth addicts
that was new in recovery, her
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teeth were a mess, and she
is skinny and I looked at her
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and realized she's
like my younger sister
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who was lost in Meth.
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I wanted to say when we
were doing the program, man!
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do you realize how real
this is, that we are literally
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trying to show a
level of which God works.
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Every single one of
these people God worked at,
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even the guy that died.
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I want to get him back to
bring him back before he dies,
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at the resurrection I
want to see this guy again.
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It was amazing, so we are
going to show a roll in with
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the Bridges, Cheryl
McGuinness is a friend of mine,
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I have worked with her before.
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Her husband Tom McGuinness
was one of the pilots was
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flown into the World
Trade Center at 9/11.
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And literally she had to
deal with the fact that he
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wasn't just killed flying
into the trade Center, he was
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murdered, with his throat cut,
before they hit the trade Center
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So she knew, what was his
last minutes like and had to
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work on how do you forgive that?
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Then Monica Barlow, her
group of, she ministers to
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foster kids, which I love.
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And so I want to show you these
and then we'll come right back.
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He stared using
ephedrine's and pseudoephedrine
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Age of 23- He lost his appendix,
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they were eaten completely
up from the ephedrine's.
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and pseudoephedrine
ephedrine's from what the
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doctors told us, it had
holes and was leaking poison.
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Can you imagine at 23?
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23- wow - after he
healed up from that evidently he
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had started the use of
Meth, some of the harder drugs.
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That is when he had his
first heart attack at 26.
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What was it like for you
to watch your grandson jump
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into a drug
addiction, and be lost in that?
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It was heart
breaking - I bet it was
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because I couldn't do anything.
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I couldn't, I talked to
him, I didn't know how to talk
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to him - you just knew
something was wrong - yes.
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I prayed for him and I
would tell him I prayed for him.
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He'd say okay Granny.
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In my mind and in I think
audibly I was screaming, just
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this isn't it, but he didn't go
away so he came in and sat down.
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I remember looking at
him and saying do you have
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something to say, and even
he was almost speechless as
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to how to say
what he had to deliver
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How-to I tell her this.
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How do I tell her.
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I was almost rude when
I was saying do you have
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something to say to me?
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It's like who are you sitting
in my living room, do you
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have something to say to me?
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He was like, you know there
was these people all around
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me, and I'm thinking what could
he possibly have to say to me?
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I don't even know
this man, he was the
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chief pilot from
American Airlines.
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He came in and said
Flight 11, your husband was on
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Flight 11, and it was flown
into the World Trade Center.
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Hijacked, crashed and
there were no survivors.
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I wanted to run away, I
didn't want to be around seeing
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her die - I don't want
to feel this, I don't know
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what to do - yeah!
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Her face, she was always
very heavy, and when she got
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sick we had a hospital bed
inside our house because she
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didn't want to go to a hospital.
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She was very skinny, she
was so skinny her jaw line, I
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mean you can see everything -
you just lost all that weight.
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Yeah she lost it all and
then her, everything, her rib
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cage just started
sticking out more because of
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all the cancer on the inside.
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It was really hard and
during that I really wanted to,
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I feel really
guilty now, I hate it, but
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I did not want to be there.
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But I think about it now
and once you while I start
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crying because I wish that
I would have just got in that
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bed and laid down
right next to her, you know!
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You know the English language is
so limited we keep saying wow!
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You want to come
back to wow because these
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testimonies are so powerful.
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Cheryl McGuinness I
interviewed shortly after 9/11.
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The wife of the Copilot of
Flight 92, that crashed into
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into Pennsylvania, she had to go
through a lot of this same stuff
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What do I do with my
life, how to address the people
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that were responsible,
how do I face tomorrow,
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you know all those questions.
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Then you had the Jesus component
which helps you get through, she
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she did no interviews
and I'm not going to give
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her name right now.
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She chose Sixty
Minutes came up, and she said I
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don't want to talk about it.
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But she did do one for
us, we did a Christmas show
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right after 9/11.
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She did that one interview
for us that I am not going to
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talk about because I
need to process this.
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I need to get myself in
right relationship with God,
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because everything I know
has now been changed and tested.
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With Cheryl what was really
interesting to me, because we
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have worked together a number
of times, is that when she
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finally got brave enough to go
to ground zero and stand there.
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She said I'm standing there
looking at all this ash and
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all this wreckage and God
gently says to me the biggest
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thing that will bring
healing into your life in your
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children's life, is
for you to forgive them.
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She said I stood
there and just thought,
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God what is He talking about?
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That's what I think is
incredible about her testimony
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is the tragedy is
horrible but the victory is her
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walk through forgiveness
and her walk into her
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relationship with God
so strongly that she really
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understands forgiveness.
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When somebody in prison,
like she goes to prison, and
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somebody says I'm in here
because I raped and murdered
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this little girl, and she
says you know God forgives you.
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When she says it
because she knows it,
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do you know what I mean?
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Forgiveness is forgiveness
and is extended to all of us
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regardless of what we think.
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The only way we are going
to know that is getting into
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the word of God and getting
out of what I feel about it.
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Do I feel the Strip Club
owner should be forgiven,
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absolutely not,
you know what I mean!
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But God says I forgive him.
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Do I feel the demoniac should
be forgiven, no I think he
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should be slowly tortured, I
mean he's cussing at God, he's
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not even coming and
asking for forgiveness.
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So just torture him and be
done with it, but God says no.
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Get into the word I
want to forgive everybody.
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I want to bring everybody
into a place where they just
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love life and
enjoy taking a breath.
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That they are
happy in their own skin.
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That's huge - that's
what's so important about this
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show is that it is not
theory, it's not philosophy,
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it's actual people living
out actual life situations.
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It is not quote reality
TV, real life television where
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people have wrestled with
the issues of life and through
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the power of God are
getting victory over that.
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Huge - we get to see
that, we get to walk through
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that experience with them.
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Even one of the programs
you just saw a clip of, the guy
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dying of Meth addiction, Shawn.
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His entire family came onto
the set to just give a piece
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of what that meant to them.
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The grandmother still
locked in her addictions all her
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life is on oxygen
because she smoked for ever.
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The daughter who is 13
has already kind of walked out
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and tested drugs a little bit.
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Just being able to watch
every single one of them had a
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testimony, and watch all
that kind of stuff that God is
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working with every
single one of us to bring us in
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a place of recovery - yeah!
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Sometimes when I leave
the programs, I walk away from
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the set, I just have to
sit with myself and think did I
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just see what just happened?
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That not only am I hearing
the testimonies, did I know
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them, as they bring them in
I want to share them with you,
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but I watched continued healing
happen here as we present it.
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I'm thinking how
cool is this program.
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And I hate to say that
being the host of the program,
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but I know that it
is bigger than that.
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I know that it has nothing
to do with me, all it has to
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do with is giving someone
the opportunity to show what
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God is doing and then
vindicating God in the process,
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because all of us are a wreck.
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The more I get into Ministry
I meet the coolest of the
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cool, do you know what I mean?
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I meet people that can
quote the Bible back and forth
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and can quote Spirit of
Prophecy and can quote all this
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kind of stuff, but I
know their struggles too.
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I know that there is
not any of us that God is
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constantly on the journey
with and let's just put that
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out there to get people
courage to stand - yeah!
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You touched on something that,
you put a pin in, it is not
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about digging up people's
junk, it's giving God the glory.
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Given the knowledge
that whatever you're junk is,
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God can handle it.
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Number 1, it doesn't surprise
Him, He has seen it before,
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He's dealt with it before,
and if you turn it over to
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Him He will take care
of it in your life also.
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This show highlights that
God can, and it is a God can
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show - He is absolutely
crazy about you - yeah!
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He is absolutely, Shawn
is dying in that one program,
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Shawn Bridges.
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He is dying, the Meth has poured
acid on his brain, he has had
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those heart attacks, he
can't even physically speak.
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His last word was, because
he had come back to Christ,
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his last words were,
you know what, film this
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so somebody knows.
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But God loved him,
absolutely loved him even though
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He allowed him to
rest - yeah - just rest.
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Because your addiction
will take you out and I'm just
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going to give you a break
from that till I raise you.
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That is kind of a mind
blowing thing that you can
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destroy your life, but as
long as there is some brain
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function you can say
Lord take me now, and boom!
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Got it he's gone so
come judgment day when we are
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ascending and look over
he's going to be ascending too.
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That's an incredibly - in
his right brain, in his right
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mind - precisely yeah!
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You know what I want to
say is that if there is any
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body out there that just
heard that and thinks that you
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can just play around until
the last minute and say God.
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I know that people say
that, I've heard them say that
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and their logic is good
because they're going from
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this kind of carnal reasoning,
but I'm telling you sometimes
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when you get to the last
breath, you get to the last day
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you won't have the
right mind to say it.
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So today is the
day of salvation.
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I just buried my father,
and my father I love him but
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they told him he can have
all the morphine he wanted
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because he is dying.
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He's like yeah-ho
did you just hear that!
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I wanted to say
goodbye and he's drug seeking.
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So don't lie to yourself,
don't lie to yourself because
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God says I have a plan
now and you may get to a place
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where you can't
make that right decision.
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Right, the pastor in me
just jumps up to Galatians 6:7,
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"Be not deceive
God is not mocked. "
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You can't play games with
Him and you don't want to get
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into that
death-bed kind of thing.
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You do not want to do that.
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Today's if you hear His
voice harden not your heart.
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When you step up and stand up,
Jesus is standing up with you.
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We see that over and
over and over again in these
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stories and it is refreshing
and affirming and life-
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changing to know that the
same God that did it for Cheri
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can do it for me,
can do it for you!
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We are going to
have another roll in.
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I want to share with you
3 people that are brought on
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the sets, a couple people
brought on the set this time
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that really are
experts in their field.
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One of them is an
expert in health and
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his name is Nyce Collins.
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Incredible guy, Nyce Life
Ministries and just really
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works food and healing.
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So I brought him in and then
the other guy, Dr. Doug Weiss.
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Dr. Doug Weiss, I mean he
is just the real deal as far
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as healing, I did a lot of
my healing through stuff that
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he has put out there.
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He was born out of wedlock,
he was abandoned as a child,
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he was put in Foster cares, he
was molested a number of times
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and all that kind of stuff.
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So he came out of that and
God so brought this guy into
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healing that he sits next
to you, you just want to say
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what can I do now?
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You know that he has the
answer and you know that he has
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lived it, so we are going
to show you a little bit about
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what they presented.
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Oh man, on the set behind
the scenes we were all healing
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like crazy, like
crazy with these guys.
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That is one aspect, so of
course we have trust in God.
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It is the most important
thing then we went out and got
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some fresh air and
exercise and we're following a
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schedule, but now after
we did all that we come back
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home and we popped a
certain donut company.
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I can't say any names, but
we're poping donuts - you know
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what he is talking
about - you know what I mean a
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nice sweet ones.
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Oh man I used to love
them so much they burn my teeth
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and I would still eat more.
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Will pop that and then
take some coffee and wash
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that down too.
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It's almost like the
law, you mess up on one
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you mess up on them all.
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We have to except God first
that He is going to give us
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the strength to abstain
from those past addictions, but
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then - I'm not going to
shoot heroine, I'm not going to
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be smoking cigarettes -
of course - I'm not drinking
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coffee - but it the same time
that is not the only addiction.
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There are other addictions
and many times, as we have
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talked about earlier, we
transition from these big bad
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addictions and that we come
to the nice little cute ones
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that are really still
undermining our progress.
00:19:01.87\00:19:04.92
And our road through
recovery - that's what we were
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talking about ice
cream and all that stuff.
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Actually when I came to
the Lord I was in Bible school,
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I came 3 days later, I
was in Bible school and in my
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dorm room and I'm saying
God if you are going to use me,
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like couldn't you have
chosen a different path?
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You know like you make decent
parents, give me the Bible
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when I was 6 years old,
and do all this kind of stuff.
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Why did I have to go
through all this abuse,
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abandonment, and neglect?
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But I didn't know he
had a ministry for me to set
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captives free, so I had to be
a captive to set captives free.
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Amen - that was
His design for me.
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Some of us look at our
scars and don't realize they are
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His scars for us - wow!
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So we can release scars
for others, instead of being a
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baby about it, say,
listen these are my scars, now
00:19:40.85\00:19:44.63
you use them for Your
glory, use them for Your kingdom
00:19:44.66\00:19:46.72
and I will open them up
and let You heal them so that
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You can heal through them.
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To see what I'm saying - yes!
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Some of us want to get into,
no I want to hide my scars,
00:19:52.50\00:19:54.64
and you block the Ministry
of the Spirit of God when you
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block your scars - Amen!
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He's not looking for perfect
people, He is looking for
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screwed up people
and you might qualify.
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I qualify - I'm
saying in general we qualify.
00:20:02.81\00:20:06.89
He is looking for those
flawed people that will say that
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I am flawed and loved.
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I'm going to say something
that you met not get, but men
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do not understand that
because the way that they are
00:20:12.99\00:20:16.68
made they think physical
relationship, the ribbed abs,
00:20:16.71\00:20:19.50
slick hair and a nice shirt,
that their woman is going to be
00:20:19.53\00:20:22.00
attracted to them.
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Totally off - it
really is, how funny is that -
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because we like the package
thing and that works for us
00:20:26.62\00:20:29.03
the visual thing
- that works for us.
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But for women they are
all roused and enamored by us
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by emotional proximity,
how close am I to your heart?
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Now you see most guys
don't know how to get a woman's
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heart closer to them so they
struggle their whole marriage.
00:20:39.41\00:20:41.38
The Ten Minute Marriage gets
a guy to have his wife's heart
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get closer to him all the time.
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Well then she is enamored
by you and hence there is more
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activity in that area of your
life without all the stress,
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Do you see what
I'm saying? - Exactly
00:20:53.89\00:20:54.94
It's like guys you put the
oil in the engine the engine
00:20:54.97\00:20:57.33
runs smoother, oil-engine,
oil-engine, simple concept.
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Okay and guys get it.
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You know is really funny
to me with have Nyce Collins
00:21:05.46\00:21:08.72
and Dr. Weiss on is
that Nyce and I tried to do a
00:21:08.75\00:21:10.85
cooking show together, and
I'm in the kitchen, on the set
00:21:10.88\00:21:13.65
of 3ABN, and we
don't usually do that.
00:21:13.68\00:21:15.49
I'm like man I want
to call somebody up,
00:21:15.52\00:21:17.80
I'm like cooking
at 3ABN, on their set.
00:21:17.83\00:21:20.97
All of a sudden I think
that and I look at the counter
00:21:21.00\00:21:26.23
where you guys do the cooking
show, and we're in the kitchen.
00:21:26.26\00:21:28.73
Usually when people do the
cooking shows everything is
00:21:28.76\00:21:31.64
neat and I had stuff everywhere.
00:21:31.67\00:21:34.70
We were trying to make
granola and it was on the floor,
00:21:34.73\00:21:36.89
it was on the
counter and I thought
00:21:36.92\00:21:38.75
I shouldn't even be on this set.
00:21:38.78\00:21:40.37
But it was really fun and
Dr. Weiss is, it was really
00:21:40.40\00:21:44.67
incredibly cool because
he talked about marriage and
00:21:44.70\00:21:47.40
relationships and getting a grip
on the stuff that controls you.
00:21:47.43\00:21:51.07
Trying to get
control of that and how do
00:21:51.10\00:21:52.98
you do that through the word?
00:21:53.01\00:21:54.00
It was so powerful - yeah
and as far as education is
00:21:54.03\00:21:58.78
concerned one of the
things that I learned is that if
00:21:58.81\00:22:02.09
you are in recovery, there
are certain kinds of foods,
00:22:02.12\00:22:05.53
certain kinds of combinations
that you need to stay away from.
00:22:05.56\00:22:07.99
There is actually food
that can help you get a grip on
00:22:08.02\00:22:11.50
your life - exactly.
00:22:11.53\00:22:12.65
That is powerful - and
there's food that will stimulate
00:22:12.68\00:22:14.95
all that craving and stuff and
then pretty soon you're using
00:22:14.98\00:22:18.10
and you don't realize that
you literally set yourself up.
00:22:18.13\00:22:21.07
Yeah, because
once you ate - exactly.
00:22:21.10\00:22:22.92
I so want to do that show
and I am praying that we will
00:22:22.95\00:22:27.21
be able have that segment there
a lot, because when somebody is
00:22:27.24\00:22:31.86
changing their whole lifestyle,
our chemistry is out of
00:22:31.89\00:22:34.60
whack, our livers clogged
up, our blood vessels are
00:22:34.63\00:22:39.00
clogged up and like how do
you clear all that stuff out?
00:22:39.03\00:22:41.61
I was going to say our were
whole intestinal tract but you
00:22:41.64\00:22:44.36
know that's kind of gross, but
it is clogged up, I'm serious.
00:22:44.39\00:22:46.96
So it's like were be enabled
to say if I'm going to do
00:22:46.99\00:22:50.00
recovery, let me
do it the most honest.
00:22:50.03\00:22:51.89
Even drinking water,
addicts will say I just can't
00:22:51.92\00:22:55.22
handle water, but
they can down tequila.
00:22:55.25\00:22:57.95
You know what I mean, I
thinking if you can get a taste
00:22:57.98\00:23:01.63
for tequila you can
get a taste for water.
00:23:01.66\00:23:03.39
So now I want to
show one more roll in.
00:23:03.42\00:23:05.75
The other when it's I
have a couple friends, Mark
00:23:05.78\00:23:09.57
Thorton is a football player,
has this incredible story.
00:23:09.60\00:23:12.64
A great friend of mine and
I got to have him come on the
00:23:12.67\00:23:16.28
show and do a
program doing his testimony.
00:23:16.31\00:23:18.70
And you would just
get blessed by this.
00:23:18.73\00:23:23.05
And the other one is the
Otto family, and what is funny
00:23:23.08\00:23:25.60
about that is, they weren't
even scheduled for the show.
00:23:25.63\00:23:27.87
They were walking by
the studio and I heard their
00:23:27.90\00:23:30.20
testimony and I literally
asked everybody can we do a
00:23:30.23\00:23:33.20
program and I was told yes.
00:23:33.23\00:23:35.37
I think people are afraid
say no to me because they just
00:23:35.40\00:23:37.89
love me, so they said yes.
00:23:37.92\00:23:39.76
So the Otto family said, well
when are we going to do that?
00:23:39.79\00:23:43.08
I said, oh!
right now - right now.
00:23:43.11\00:23:45.49
And one of the kids looked
at me, so cute, he's said you
00:23:45.52\00:23:47.67
know I feel a little
geeky right now, can I change?
00:23:47.70\00:23:49.88
I'm like absolutely you
got five minutes, go change and
00:23:49.91\00:23:51.84
get back on the set.
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We did and I was so thrilled
to present young people, to
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me it doesn't matter if
you are young and love God,
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get a hold of me.
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I want to put you on the
set because we need to know
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that it doesn't matter our age.
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So watch this
you will be blessed.
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And then I got arrested
right after that and so delivery
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of a controlled
substance in Idaho is punishable
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up to life in prison.
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And this would be my
third felony at this point.
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When they came to
arrest me, I'm like I have not
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delivered anything, and
this is how arrogant that I was.
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The policemen came into my place
of business, into my Pub and
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Deli, I'm cooking lunch,
he comes in and we have a
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warrant for your arrest.
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I'm like warrant for
what, I haven't done anything.
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Well we don't know and I'm
like well if you're going to
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arrest me you need to
call and find out what
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I have a warrant for.
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And so was the grace of God
but they obliged me and went
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along with the thing.
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Delivery of a controlled
substance, I'm thinking I have
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not delivered anything, I'm like
no you have got the wrong person
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They are like we are
going to take you to jail.
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I'm like what's the bond,
we don't know, I'm like well
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you're going to have to
call find out what the bond is
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because I'm not going with you.
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Now mind you
these people have guns
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I'm thinking who would do that?
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You see I, um, met a little
boy in Mozambique last year.
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And every time I stepped
out of the house to go about
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like missionary work,
this little boy would just drop
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everything he was doing
and fasten his eyes on me.
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He spoke Portuguese so I
could respond to him all I
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could do was stare back into
the eyes of this little boy.
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And time would pass and he
would just keep looking, just
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this big smile on his face,
and I was wondering what was
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going on and later
I found out that this
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boy didn't have a father.
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He just had a mom that looked
after him in a big brother.
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This is what he said to
the other children in the
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village, he said I do not
have a dad but if I did have a
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dad I want him to be Jonas.
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That is what he called
me is Jonas, it is like
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Portuguese, I want
him to be Jonas - wow!
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This little boy I realized,
I look back at those scenes
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of him just
staring and realizing that
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he was finding value.
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He was feeling like he
was worth something, and so he
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said I don't want you to
just be my friend, I don't want
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you to be my big brother,
I want you to be my father.
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Although I had gone to church
all my life, churched just
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seems so irrelevant to
me because I'm feeling these
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feelings of kind of depression.
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These anxieties I am
having as a little kid.
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I'm getting all of this
information from our church
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members, and from my
pastors, but it is just so much
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intellectual and
so much information.
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I could not relate to
that, because I am insecure,
00:26:31.83\00:26:34.74
I'm struggling for my identity.
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You know of course we had a
chance to talk and meet with
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Mark, that is a
consecrated young man.
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I say that young man
that he has grown children,
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high school age children.
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An incredible
guy - incredible guy!
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You know that Otto family,
their testimony reminds me of
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a Bible study I used
to do in New York City.
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With show people that
would meet on Friday night, this
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one young lady who singing
in a disco group and every
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week her
testimony would be the same.
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I went sleep with somebody woke
up and did know who his name
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and I need you to pray for me.
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After a while the group
said will you cut that out.
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We'll you just stop
it? Please find the Lord.
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Go to bed with Jesus and
stay with Him and that kind
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of thing, just stop it.
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I am so glad to see that
God is reaching into that
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industry, and
bringing out people.
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Just going down grabbing
those lives and pulling them
00:27:17.50\00:27:20.82
out of the fire for His kingdom.
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You know we are going to
go on break but I just have to
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say is when I see somebody
coming out of that industry,
00:27:25.67\00:27:28.67
I want to grab them and say
can you work with me because
00:27:28.70\00:27:31.46
I'm going to LA and I
want you to meet so-and-so.
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And I can think of all
kinds of folks so want them to
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talk to, so the fact that
we put them on the program
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and got to say this
out loud is incredible.
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It's incredible and
that is what this whole
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program has been about.
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Right come right back so
stay with us, and I'm praying
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that you have been blessed.
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