It always surprises me when God
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takes somebody that
is absolutely a mess
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like when Heppy was talking
about that at 13 he started
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drinking and I am a drunk.
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I had blackouts from day one.
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It doesn't sound like he had a
normal, even alcoholic history.
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I mean he had
immediately all that stuff.
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He would go from job to job
and started having kids at 19
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years old and as he was talking
I could just see his life.
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Even when Janet came in
and start talking about her
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addictions and her life and
her journey through recovery.
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I am just saying God, You
take all of us, all of us at
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different stages and You
really do speak into our lives.
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You remind me of
Jeremiah 29:11 and it says,
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I am just thinking how
incredible is the Creator God,
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the God of everything that God
spoke and everything existed.
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He looks at each
one of us and says,
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I know exactly who you are.
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We have had a lot of people
on the program that I could
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bring up to, but guy that
was the Meth addict who shot
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himself in the face and was
strung out most of his life.
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If you haven't seen that
program, I mean he shot himself
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trying to blow his
head off and all he did was
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blow his face off.
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In dealing with that God
came in and spoke into his life
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and every single one of us,
I was 10 years homeless and on
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the street and all that stuff.
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Every single one of us God
said, first He said, stand up.
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Stand up I love you.
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He did not say to me stop
using, He said stand up I love
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you and I started to look
at what would life look like
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not been strung
out on something.
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Not being addicted.
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We had Fred Stoeker, from
Every Man's Battle with his
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porn addiction and God said
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the same thing, stand up,
trust Me with your recovery.
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Heppy when he said
I was scared to death,
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most of us were scared to death
but God said stand up anyway.
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Stand up anyway, and after
standing us up, after getting us
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to a point where we are
brave enough to walk into
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recovery, He says let go
and let Me have all that.
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Give Me all that, trust Me
with your very life and the next
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thing you see with most of us
addicts, is that Janet and Heppy
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are standing up in front
of kids that are in school,
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speaking live into them.
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Changing a whole community
which was always the hope of the
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people that
brought him into recovery.
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I am a heroine addict in
recovery with family that are
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addicted and I am looking
at the camera saying to people
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all over the world stand up!
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Don't be afraid, let go,
let God have these addictions
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because be done with them.
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He wants to change our life,
He wants to give you a hope
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and a future, it's incredible.
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See you next week and until
then always remember that God
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is crazy about you.
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