Welcome to
Celebrating Life in Recovery
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I'm Cheri your host.
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And I love when God just
surprises you with something.
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Today is one of those times.
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I am surprised by this
show, and you will be too.
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Come join us at the café.
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Sometimes God just
surprises me so much.
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I want to grab His
face if He was physically,
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if I could
physically grabbed His face,
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I would grab Him and kiss Him.
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Everything about the
show is going to be different
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and the reason that
is, is that we had a show
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kind of fall apart earlier.
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The cameras weren't
working, we were trying to get
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this and that together
and it was just, we finally
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just called it a day.
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And I'm starting to
walk out of the studio
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and this family walks in.
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And I'm telling you, have
you ever met someone where
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they kind of light up the room?
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The Holy Spirit is so on them
that they light up the room.
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I'm like, where are
you guys, who are you guys?
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And then they speak
in they are Australian.
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They had the coolest sound, I
mean their accent is adorable.
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Then their testimony starts
coming out, and I am blessed.
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The only thing I could
think of is that I so wanted
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you to hear
what they had to say.
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So I just said, I
wonder if we could do a show.
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So I am asking producers,
I'm asking different people,
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and the only time we
had to do it was right now.
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So, it's like can
you do a show right now?
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And they looked at
me and said well yeah.
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So I'm going to introduce
you to a group that it's
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going to be different and
I'm so going to so step away
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and let them tell you
what, they just told me.
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So Jonathan, I want
you to come up first.
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And Jonathan when you came in
today, what were you thinking?
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I was just thinking we
were going to come in and say
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hello and then
go back home again.
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So the little bit that
you shared with me, for one
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where you're from, and
all those kind of things
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I want to share with them.
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But first of all, I would
like you to kind of let us
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know who is in the studio today.
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Sure thing, I will start
from the oldest in the family.
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We've got Melissa - because
you're all in one family?
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Yeah, basically,
there's a ring in.
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There's a ring in
of different events.
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Melissa and myself, Jonathan,
Billy my little brother,
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and then Sarah.
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Then we've also got Gaea
Chapman, she singing with us.
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And our big, big brother
Michael, he's our manager.
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So, you are primarily a
vocal group singing ministry.
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So we do original
music, we play guitars, piano,
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different things.
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We really get into
spiritual, scriptural songs.
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But you know, what impressed
me today, was your heart
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on a message that
you shared with me.
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I'm literally going to
back off and let you share that
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message with us,
is that all right?
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Yeah that would be great.
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First of all what I
wanted to say, is that
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I am 22 years old.
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I've just finished
college, and have been
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out of school for 5 years.
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Over the last few years
God has really been impressing
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on my heart to be
able to share a message
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that relates to old people.
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And explain some of the
deepest issues that actually
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go on and in society.
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So, I have spent a lot of
time just praying, asking God
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what is it that we deeply crave.
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What is it that our
heart really longs for.
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Kept asking deep questions
and talk to people, always
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felt that all my heart
since I was a little child that
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seemed like I was
to minister people.
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It's a strange thing I
guess for a little 5 year old to
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think of, but I was constantly
thinking about people's
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deepest needs, and I feel
that God is bringing me to a
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point where I need to
understand people's issues.
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I need to understand and
see how that relates to God
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and who He is and how
He can be a solution to our
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deepest hearts longing.
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I would like to start
sharing with some statistics,
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which may shed some light
on the depression epidemic
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that is going on
in the world today.
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There are 450 million people
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living depressed
today according to the
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World Health Organization.
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In fact, every single year,
there is a million suicides,
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ten to twenty million attempts.
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That means it's an
attempt every 38 seconds in
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the US, from males between
the ages of 35 to 49 suicides is
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the number three cause of death.
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Australia has the
highest youth suicide rate.
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We have 3 thousand people
commit suicide every year.
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We have thirty attempts
for every successful suicide,
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that's 60 thousand
attempts every year.
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So my question is,
what drives people to this
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loneliness, the sense of
worthlessness, where you prefer
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to step out of reality
than to face another day.
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And I believe
it's related to value.
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We have an increasing
craving to feel value, to feel
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like we're worth something.
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When that is taken away,
then we lose our sense of
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identity, as if
we no longer exist.
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So what is the point
in facing another day?
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I see that we are often we are
led to think that if we can do
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certain things than
we would feel valuable.
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If we do look a certain way
if we could achieve something
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great, than we would feel
like were we're worth something.
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And then people would
admire us and we would fill
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that sense of loneliness.
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So often we try to
avoid those times we are
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sitting alone, because in
those moments we get reminded
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of feelings of worthlessness.
So, we hope to kill those
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feelings by just
escaping into another reality.
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Maybe it is even escaping
into the media, where you can
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start to become the
person that you want be.
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And for a moment you've
tuned out from reality and
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stepped into
somebody else's reality.
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And there you are the
person you want to be, you look
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the way you want to look.
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Maybe a young girl is
looking at the beautiful images
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of the girls in their
glamour, and say wow that's who
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I want to be.
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For a moment, they have
escaped their reality, and they
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are hoping that
the movie won't end.
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Often, they just cater to this
basic craving for significance,
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because they take somebody
that's an underdog, may be
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the geek or the nerd and
they change them into the jock
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is so well accomplished.
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Then the whole school
falls in love with them.
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That's so appeals to us because
we feel like the underdog.
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And we so want to be out
of reach, some great height,
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that we can feel
good about ourselves.
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You see it in some of the
songs, I'm going to bring up
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an example from a
group called Destiny's Child.
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It's just an example
that sheds light on this.
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They got a song
called Bottylicious,
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it's kind of like ghetto.
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My body is too
bottylicious for you babe.
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And on this clip,
they are wearing short
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skirts and low-cut tops.
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I'm not judging them for
that, because they want to
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feel valuable and that
is their outlet for it.
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And you can see that they
feel value from it because
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they are singing about it.
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And whatever rules
their heart creates the eye.
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You have an
expression of societies ideas
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through the media.
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These girls want to feel
valuable, and so they project
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this image, but the sad
reality is that same group have
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another song called Nasty Girls.
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And it goes something like this.
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"Nasty girls put some
clothes on, I told you. "
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Don't go leaving the
house looking like that.
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And these girls have
short skirts and low cut tops
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in this film clip.
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They are actually
overweight, and you see
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the message is reinforced.
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You don't have what it takes,
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you don't have what it takes.
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And this is why, you can
never go to the world to find
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out your value and
how much are worth.
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You can never go to the
world to find your value,
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because the world doesn't
know, the world doesn't know.
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So why should you
expect to be told,
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you are valuable by the world?
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And so many people look
to these icons and feel that
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they just can't measure up.
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It seems like nobody can
measure up, because if you
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could possibly find
value in what you do, and then
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accomplished some great
thing and having success and
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people admire you,
then who should be the
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happiest people in this world?
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Celebrities right?
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Celebrities should be the
happiest people in this world
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because they have what it
takes in the world and they
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have people admiring them.
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But they don't seem to
have that sense of fulfillment.
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It makes me ask the question
is there a greater craving
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of the heart that nothing
in this world can satisfy?
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There must be, there must
be something deeper because
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the fact that you had
that craving is kind of a
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hint that there is
something greater that is a
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fulfillment to that craving.
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Because the reality we
live every day is often
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really disappointing,
we are low and we are so
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determined to achieve something.
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So that we can feel
like we are valuable.
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Or maybe we've got something
great, but we're actually
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afraid somebody's
going to take it from us.
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I'm here with this
singing gospel ministry group,
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what if the girls were
to get like a lung infection
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and when they go to step
up on the stage and sing to
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the crowd they choke up?
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Their voices are gone,
what if my little brother and
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I were trying to play
guitar and, we can play well and
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then we go and try to do
some woodwork or something and
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cut our fingers off?
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Then you go back to
play the guitar again and
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you've got no ability.
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The question
is, who are you now?
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Once what you had was
taken away then who are you?
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You see the suicide rate
of retired people in some
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countries is twice as
high as the youth suicide rate.
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You define yourself by
what you do, and when that's
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taken away, then who are you?
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And you find yourself
in a position where you are
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constantly wanting to
achieve higher to be able
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to feel satisfied.
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Then when somebody
steps onto your turf like,
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they are similar to
you, and are slightly better
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at what they do, then you are.
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The first feelings
that come are jealousy.
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You wonder, in your own mind,
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why you start
hating your own friends.
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It is this internal
struggle for significance,
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and it is so not secure
that people are always coming
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to threaten that identity
that you have, because it's
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based on what to do.
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And you find that the
thing you find value in is often
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the thing that you are
often thinking about constantly.
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So what is the solution?
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This is the biggest
point that I've been hoping to
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understand, the
solution to this craving,
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this longing to be fulfilled,
a longing to feel secure
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and have an identity.
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I believe you can see
by looking at children.
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He look at the way God
has designed these children
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and you see that the
child when they look up to
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somebody they feel value.
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You see a little girl even
will put on a little dress.
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She takes it through
the corridor and wants
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to show it to somebody.
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Who does she want
to show it to? Daddy!
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She feels valuable
when she is around him.
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I read a competition
called Messages to My Dad.
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A little girl named Emma
said this, she said, every
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time my dad leaves, she
lives separate from her father.
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She said every time my
dad leaves tears come straight
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out of my eyes.
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My heart breaks, and I
feel like I've lost everything.
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Does it sound like she feels
value from that relationship?
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Now what about this
little boy Daniel, he is 6.
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He says dear father, I
don't say dear dad because you
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haven't been a
dad to me have you?
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I'm Daniel, I'm Rebecca's
son, you might not remember
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my mother, but I think
about you all the time.
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So a little child finds
them self constantly thinking
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about their father, is
because somehow they feel that
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who they are is
attached to who their father is.
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If they lose that
relationship then they
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lose a part of themselves.
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They lose their identity,
and they feel a loss of value.
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What if this whole
depression epidemic is stemming
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from the central truth
that we have separated ourselves
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from our Heavenly Father?
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That our Father in heaven
who has created us is actually
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a sorts of value to
every child on this planet.
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Because we have been
separated from Him, we have this
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internal struggle and we
feel so desperate to reclaim
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that value that it's
driven us to do crazy things.
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You realize that 85
percent of all youths sitting in
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prison grew up
in fatherless homes.
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Children that live away
from fathers, absent fathers,
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they are twice as
likely to drop out of school.
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63 percent more
likely to commit suicide.
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It affects the child
in so many ways, it's
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psychologically affects
the child and leaves them in a
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position that they are so
desperate to feel valuable
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that they will try to
find that wherever they can.
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You know a girl will be
driven into a strip club just
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because she wants
to feel that value,
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she'll do anything to regain it.
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You see your need for
value, and that craving will
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sometimes even
outweigh your morality.
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It will outweigh your
morality, because that craving
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is so deep within you that
you find that your kids are
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again into gangs, because
they feel that security when
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they are with friends.
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And it kind of
substitutes for something they
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have missed out on.
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This is something that
is talked about in the Bible
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in Proverbs Chapter 17 verse 6.
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It says that the glory
of children is their father.
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And that word glory you
find in the Oxford dictionary
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means to find value.
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The source of value for
their children is their father.
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So it makes sense now why
God sent His Son into this
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world, He is actually
trying to call us back to Him.
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Jesus said Himself, He
said. "You will know the truth,
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the truth will make you free. "
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The truth will make you
free, you need to be free
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from this false value
system, false identity,
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which leaves you depressed.
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He says I want you to be free.
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Now the question is
the truth about what?
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Watch what he says in John 14:6.
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He says, "I am the
way, the truth and the life:
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no man cometh to the
father, but through me. "
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Jesus Christ is the
truth about the Father.
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He says, you'll know
the truth, you will know who
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the Father is and how
much He cares about you.
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You will see that the
world can not compare,
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He loves you more.
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That love and a
knowledge of who He is,
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will set you free.
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It will set you free.
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You know, I have stayed
down I just want to tell
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you that when you were
telling me that earlier
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when you came in.
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You started telling me
that I saw you had such a
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passion that we have to
reconnect with the Father.
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We have to
reconnect with God because
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He delights in us.
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He wants to say, for
me I was a heroine addict,
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strung out on heroine,
ten years on the street,
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teeth missing out the
front of my mouth, trying to
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kill myself and God said
Cheri you are lovely to Me.
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I just wept, I wept
because I thought I'm not
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lovely to anyone, and
He said, that is a lie.
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You are lovely to Me.
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I even remember that in
that instance, when I was
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sitting there, let Me
give you a vision, or a view,
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of who I see when I look at you.
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And He showed me this
child that was beautiful, and I
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cried because I thought
I've never been beautiful
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I've never been
wanted, I've never had a value.
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He said, that is where
somebody has lied to you,
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and so clouded your
vision that you don't even see
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you have a Father
that absolutely adores you.
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How incredible and I have
to say that today when I met
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and you were saying all
that kind of stuff, I saw
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passion in you with this
message that was unbelievable.
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Is your passion just that
you just in your heart know
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that people aren't getting it?
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Sure, I just see so many
people just so disappointed.
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People that have
achieved great things like I can
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from the rock 'n roll industry.
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It just seems like a
certain high, but it's still a
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sense of loneliness.
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Because you are
getting girls screaming at you,
00:17:12.75\00:17:15.00
and people saying, you
know what you're just amazing.
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You are saying, that
still didn't feed me.
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It didn't feed at
all and you wonder why
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you still feel worthless.
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It seems like those
cravings that you have demands
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something greater, you
just have that constant
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knowledge that there
has to be something more.
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It seems to even drive you
to do crazier things, because
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want it so badly, but
you're not finding it.
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People all over just
feeling this and so hoping that
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somebody will tell
them what the truth is.
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You know, what is really
weird to me what you said that,
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as soon as I sat with God,
and knew that He loved me and
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knew that it was real.
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It was like that
feeling was settled.
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It was settled for me.
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It was like, oh You do love
me and I am safe, and I am okay.
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And so when God says
the peace that passes all
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understanding, and the
world doesn't even know about
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this, can't even achieve this.
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When you sit with
Me, you'll experience it.
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Wow - that's right!
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You see I met a little
boy in Mozambique last year.
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Every time I stepped
out of the house to do like
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missionary work, this little
boy would just drop everything
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he was doing and
fasten his eyes on me.
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He spoke Portuguese,
so I could respond to him.
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All I could do was
stare back into the
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eyes of this little boy.
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And time will pass and he
would just keep looking with
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this big smile on his face.
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I was wondering, what was
going on, and later I found
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out that this boy
didn't have a father.
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He just had a mom
that looked after him
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and 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
don't have a dad, but if I did
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have a dad, I
want him to be Jonas,
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that's what he called me.
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Jonas like Portuguese,
I'd want him to be Jonas.
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That little boy, I
realize as I look back at those
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scenes of him just staring and
I realize that he was finding
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value, he was feeling
like he was worth something.
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So, he said, I don't
want you to just be my friend,
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I want you to be my big brother.
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It want you to be my
father, because who you are
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just shows me who I am.
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And I feel secure
when I'm around you.
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You know, to me,
I just want to say.
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I want to go out on
break and come back on meet
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the rest of the family.
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But man, I want to say,
I'd like to pray for you and
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ask God to continue
to lead you into further
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understanding of
that very message so that
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you should never shut up.
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You never stop telling
people, that you can look
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everywhere you want to
look until you see your value
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in the eyes of God.
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You always kind of
fall short, and you'll know.
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We know when we've been played.
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We know when it's not real.
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We know when somebody
is kind of flattering us
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and the world
wants to flatter us,
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and our soul
want something real.
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We won't find that reality until
we see it in the eyes of God.
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So I would just like
to pray for you. Okay.
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Dear father, in Jesus
name, I just want to pray.
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I want to thank
you for this family.
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I want to thank you for
just the way You respond to us
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that you love is that when
we come to You that we so are
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settled with who You
are, and know who we are,
00:20:12.65\00:20:14.92
and find peace in that.
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All the folks that are
watching that are fatherless,
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all the folks at
watching that have run to every
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single thing they can
run to try to find that
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fulfillment, that value.
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They haven't found it.
I pray that they hear this
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message right now that
Jonathan has said, as that they
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will find it in God and
that they will find it so strong
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in you that You will want
to show them, You will want to
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heal them, You will want to
be their Father and that You
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do love them and think they
are lovely and that You so are
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waiting for them just to
turn even a little bit and ask.
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And I pray for that.
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I pray, a special blessing
on this young man and his
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message in Jesus
name, Amen. Amen.
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Where to take a break
and come back and meet
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the rest of the family.
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Remember that you
are so valuable to God,
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and find your value there.
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We'll be right
back. Stay with us!
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