It's incredible to me to look
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at how individual everybody
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walk is and it sounds like
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sometimes we are all coming
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from different things and some
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is similar, but to God
it really is individual.
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I love it, He brought me
to Lamentations one time.
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Lamentations 3:21 and I am going
to go all the way to 23 or 24
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In 21 it says, "This I recall to
my mind, therefore I have hope.
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Through the Lord's
mercies we are not consumed. "
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When I think of that because
of our behaviors why should
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we are driving drunk, or yelling
at our wives, our families
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should be totally split apart.
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I think that we are not consumed
because God is walking around
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with a lightning bolt
seeing who He can throw it at.
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It is just our own stuff.
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We have enough
of our own garbage.
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Through His mercies, He just
covers that, He puts His hand
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on, He just takes care of us.
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It says that through His mercies
we are not consumed because
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His compassions fail not.
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They are new every morning:
great is Your faithfulness.
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To me that is amazing that in
this journey as I give it to God
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as I turn it over to God,
as we look at, Geri you were
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talking about getting
the right book and all that.
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As we surrender all that is that
we have to realize that God's
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mercy, His guidance, His
love for us is new every single
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morning, He doesn't rest in
our recovery, we may lax and go
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years and stay in
denial, but God doesn't.
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He continuously figures a way
to get us to look at it again.
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To step out of line, to
step out of our denial stuff.
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To step out of our fears,
to step out of our criticism.
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To step out of, and this is
a tough one, our unforgiveness.
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You know that I blamed every
body on the planet for every
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single thing that happened to
me and one day God said will you
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let them off the hook?
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I am like, no! Of course I
am not going to, are You crazy?
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He says, Hon, Hon
stop, let them off the hook.
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Forgive them and He started
showing me even with the people
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in my life, how they
got to be where they are at.
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I started to have compassion on
the very people that injured me.
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I thought God
how do You do that?
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He does that because His
mercies are new every day.
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He wants to teach us about
recovery, He wants to get us
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in a place where we can finally
say for once and all times,
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I trust You.
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I am going to
let go and let God.
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It is an amazing place to be.
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I am going to rely on
every thing that God knows
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because I know nothing.
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So I want to say thanks
for joining us this week
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We will see you next week
and until then always remember
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that God is
crazy about you Me too!
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God bless.
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