Welcome back I want to hear
everything from this family.
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So I'm glad that you guys
are joining me to close out
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this program, but
Marquand before we get into how
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your dad maintains his recovery
and I would like to know
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where you got that cube,
that is the coolest thing.
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Well my Pastor gave
it to me a long time ago.
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- The Pastor that worked
with you at the evangelistic
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series? - no, it
was my former Pastor.
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He gave it to me and
showed me how to do it,
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gave me directions and
everything and now I take
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it everywhere with me.
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I saw hanging on
your pants and that's when
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I said what is that?
That's when you showed me.
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Someone was telling me I
think, one of your sisters,
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told me that Pastor
started doing Ministry at
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a really early age too.
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We always thought that I
started Ministry at the age of
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eight, he started
working with me also.
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He also said do not let anyone
tell you, you are too young.
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That was such a biblical thing,
there were people in the Bible
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that started
Ministry at eight years old.
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- Even Kings. - Even Kings,
that's right so you really
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got that in your heart. -
right, at a very early age.
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I remember when I was in
the Baptist Church, that at the
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age of four I was
leading a praise team.
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- How do you do that at four?
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I don't know, it was
just the Holy Spirit working
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through me. - That's so funny.
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I wanted to read so bad at
an early age, I wanted to read
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so bad and as soon as I learned
how to read, I would tell my
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dad I want a
Bible, give me the Bible.
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I wanted to read the
Bible, when I had my first Bible
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I slept with it
like a teddy bear.
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- because you were so
excited to have it? - yeah!
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That's so amazing, so
you saw him grow right away?
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- Yes! - that's
nothing like your life.
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No, totally opposite, yes
just waking up that morning
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and see him hugging
the Bible, I'm telling you,
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we were touched.
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So knowing where you come
from, and the things you know
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about life, things
that you know about your own
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sinfulness, your own ability
to act out, share with us
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some things you do to make
sure that you just stay going
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in the right correction.
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You stay really safe as
a father, as a man of God.
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The thing is I'm very
active now in prison ministries.
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- how did that come about?
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Actually I met a guy, he is
a great friend of mine by the
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the name of Tim Brown, and
he has been active for a long
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time, and he just visited
our church and then he offered
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me, would you like to help out?
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He knew about my testimony,
he just asked me to help out.
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I just told him I would love
to come to work with some guys
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that is going through
similar situations as I was.
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- to get them encouragement,
hope to come out of all that.
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- yes and I'm telling
you that is an exciting
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experience to just deal with.
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To go and minister to somebody
and see them giving up the
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same things that you gave
up, that is just exciting.
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Letting them know, I think
for some of us when we give up
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something we are thinking
I don't know how to do this.
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I don't know I'm going
to survive this, I not going
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to get through this.
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You can say,
you'll get through it.
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- and you'll get through
it, yeah, I'll tell you I've
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been through it, yeah.
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How long did it take you
before you realize that you're
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going to make it, I think
I'm going to get on the other
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side of all this?
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How long did it take? Well
Cheri the thing is that when
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I saw the experience I had
when the Lord showed me that
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if I go back out there
that I was going to end up dying
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out there, when I saw
that experience right there.
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- the guy jumping out of
the car and running at you?
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Yes, after that experience
right there I knew right then
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and there that
the Lord was with me.
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I knew that whatever
thing would get in my way, any
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obstacle that came, I will make
it over, He got me past that.
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He saved my life right there.
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- so prison ministries,
can you tell me, think of
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a story you have seen
in a prison that makes this
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something that you
are passionate about?
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Well, the thing is that
one time I was up giving my
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testimony, some of the guys
in there, a lot of them look
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like they should be in
prison, some of them look like
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they're totally innocent.
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I was sitting and looking
at these guys that was on the
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front row, actually they
had a mad look on their face,
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and stuff like that.
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They were confused and
I was giving my testimony,
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and these guys who look like
hard core criminals actually
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at the end, they were in tears.
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They were standing up
when I made the appeal and they
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came up, there was eight came
up and that touched me. Yeah!
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So what is really fun to me
is when I look at your family
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and I look at everybody
and realize that God not only
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wants to change our
lives, when I talked about the
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blessings and cursing for
generations, that we can take
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our families in any direction
by what our choices are.
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What do you think of that?
Because you know it is true.
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Yes you are right, exactly,
my choice to follow Jesus
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actually changed
my whole everything.
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Now my family is
blessed, and he does not have to
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suffer from what I
suffered from because of that
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choice to follow Christ.
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So you know you are loved?
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You know that
your dad loves you.
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You know that when you go
home your family is probably
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going to be playing, or
doing something, but not yelling
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at each other, or leaving
each other, or packing bags,
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and all those kind of things.
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Right, one
family for God for ever.
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Amen, that is incredible,
that is really incredible.
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With your mom, your mom
is still in the picture?
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Yes she is, actually she
admits that she had been praying
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for me for a long time,
she said and now it seems like
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you're a little
stronger than I am.
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You told me that you were giving
Bible studies to your mom.
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- yeah, I have
been given Bible studies
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to her and she is starting
to come around to the truth.
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So what is that like?
Going all the way full circle.
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From a little kid
coming home from school, with
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something on alcohol, and
now you're coming over and
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opening up the
word of God for her.
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She knew I always had good
things to offer her, now she
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is able to trust me and
sit down and do Bible studies.
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So now are you perfect?
Is everything dealt with?
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Do you have anything?
Where's God with you on that?
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Are we perfect? No! I am
so far from being perfect,
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but I'm trying Cheri, I
have a desire and I know that we
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can do nothing on our own now.
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You just rely on the truth
of God and the Holy Spirit?
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The reason I said that, I
didn't mean to catch you off
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guard or be sarcastic
with that, but I think it is
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interesting that I
turn everything over,
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I'm in recovery, and
I fight for my recovery.
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I try to do the right thing,
I tried to eat the right things,
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I try to get enough rest,
so I try to do the things that
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I know are important
for me day in and day out.
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I have hobbies, I go bike
riding, I make sure physically
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I'm getting
exercise and those things.
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Then I look at my child who
is growing up in this stable
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home, I've been married
22 years now, my husband is
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amazing, and she
is in this nice home.
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I think that there is a
point where I can relax and
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God says don't relax, do
the right thing everyday.
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I want you to
stay connected to Me.
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Tell me, what I am learning
about God is that I need to
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know that I can talk to
Him, that I can pray, that I can
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come to Him and really say
that I don't feel like I can
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do this without You, so
keep that connection going.
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Do you have that same thing?
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Yes, that is right, the Lord
a long time ago shared with me,
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some very important
Scripture and it is found in
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John chapter 15 where
He actually states I am
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the true vine and My
Father's the husband.
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He goes on a tells us
that we are just branches.
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He really brought out
clear to me that a branch cannot
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live without the vine,
the vine can live without the
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branch but if you disconnect
the branch from that vine,
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it would not live it would die.
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So that is what we have
to do daily, we have to stay
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connected to Jesus, we
cannot do it by ourselves.
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- I have to say thank you
so much for you guys being
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on the program,
it has been a blast.
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I'm so glad to get to know
you and I think we will see
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you a ton, and I know
you will come out and do
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some other things here.
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Reginald I'm proud of
you, I'm proud you said okay.
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It seems like surrender
is the simplest thing to do,
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but it is really the
hardest thing, so it one point
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Reginald when he surrendered
was being able to say,
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God I want You to come in.
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Come in, it's amazing,
come in and change everything.
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I don't know how to
think, I don't know how to be,
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I don't how to do
anything different than
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what I've always done.
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Our anger stuff that God comes
in, and we have this anger.
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If the anger is not dealt with,
if I'm not able to surrender
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that anger, I'm going
to bleed out on my family.
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God is saying, not
only do I want you to come,
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but I totally want
you to surrender that.
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I want you to evaluate,
we talked about the rings of
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a tree, if you cut a tree
in half you can see the rings
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of damage throughout the
years of that tree, the fires,
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the droughts,
and all that stuff.
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God says I want you to bring
all that damage, whether it
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is hurt, whether it's anger,
whether it is that hole you
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have in your heart, for not
having a father or not having
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anyone to take care of you.
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I want you to bring it to Me.
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What is fun about bringing
it to God is that He does
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those changes in some serious
things and not doing drugs,
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but He also helped
you to laugh out loud.
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He also helps you to see
who I am and how am I connected
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with life, I look at Reginald
and I look at his family.
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I just watch them, these
kids have been running around
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all day playing, singing
songs, going over and meeting
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other people at 3ABN
and having a great time.
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So I see this health in
them, and it only happened
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because Reginald was
brave enough, had enough courage
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to stand up and heal.
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I just want to beg you to
have enough courage, I don't
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care where you holding on
to, ask God please take it from
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me, please teach me about
recovery, teach me about who
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You are, teach me about
who I am and give me a life.
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Give my kids a life, let
this next generation not suffer
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with the stuff I
have suffered with.
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It's amazing, God is so cool.
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Until next time, always
remember that God is crazy
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about you and me too!
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