Hello
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and welcome to
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"Exalting His Word".
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I'm Shelley Quinn
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and I'm pleased
to be bringing you
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a teaching series that
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focuses on the transforming,
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life giving power
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of the word of God.
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Today,
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I'll be sharing how
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God proved his
word IS life to me...
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when he healed me miraculously.
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Miracles do follow faith.
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Our focus for this series
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is learning God's plan
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for our lives
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and learning
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how God
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can teach us to
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make HIS number one priority
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"Exalting His word"
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our number one priority.
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It pays to know this.
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Exalting the Word of God is
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the secret to success
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for all mankind.
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Let me explain where
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I got the title for
this program series.
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In Psalms 138:2
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The Bible says that
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God exalts his name
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and his word above all things.
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And he magnifies his word
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even above his name.
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What does that mean?
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Well it took a
study in the Greek
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for me to really get
a better understanding.
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And...
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...this is the bottom line.
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God exalts his word
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above EVERYTHING!
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When
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God looks at his word
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he...
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...absolutely has made
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nothing more important
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than the word.
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He has promoted it to
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the highest rank of importance.
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God exalts his word
above everything because
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he has empowered his word
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with greater force
than anything else!
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God has granted
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creative life-giving power to
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his word.
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Power to
accomplish all of his will.
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God exalts his
word above everything.
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That means that
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he has assigned
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the highest position
of praise to his word.
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Why?
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We find the answer in
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the first chapter of
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the Gospel of John.
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"In the beginning was the Word
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"and the Word was with God
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"and the Word was God.
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"And the word became flesh
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"And in Him was life
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"and that life
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"was the light of mankind."
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He dwelt among us
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and sacrificed
his life-blood for us.
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Jesus Christ was,
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is
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and ever will be
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the Word of God.
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That's why God
glorifies his word
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and that's why you
and I should do likewise.
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God has a plan for our lives.
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And that plan is revealed
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in his word.
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The miracle working power of God
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is contained in his word.
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And by the infused power of
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his word and his spirit;
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God will cause us to be
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all that he has called us to be.
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Hallelujah!
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When God demonstrated
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the power of his word
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to change my live
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he rescued me from
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a broad path of destruction
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and put me on the path of life.
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Let me share
how God demonstrated
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the power of his word.
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I became involved in
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part-time ministry in 1987
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and at that time
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I was a member of a
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nondenominational church.
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Any time the
church doors were opened,
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I was there!
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Eager to participate!
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Many teachings
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were stored in my head
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and I thought I
understood God's plan.
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Yet it wasn't until
eight years later that
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this truth was unveiled.
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God's word is life to me.
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In 1995,
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in a dramatic fashion,
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this is what my
God declared to me.
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"My words are not idle words.
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My words is life onto you."
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And that statement,
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forever,
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changed my view point.
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His words came when
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I was gripped in the vice
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of a Job experience.
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Like Job,
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(the Ancient
Patriarch of the Bible)
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life as I had known it,
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had just really vanished.
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My health,
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my home,
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family,
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friends...
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Everything was falling
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along the wayside!
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Now my trials wasn't as
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dramatic as poor Job's
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but it was too
close for comfort.
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Over the span of one year,
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I was tested in the
furnace of affliction.
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The conference and
contentment of live
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were washing away
piece by battered piece
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and I was suffering from
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a condition called vertigo.
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Do you know what that is?
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Vertigo is a
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tormenting
condition of dizziness.
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And it gives you the sense that
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your environment is
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constantly whirling.
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And my case was constant.
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It was relentless!
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In fact
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my surroundings seemed to spin
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at 120 revolutions a minute.
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Whether I was sitting down
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standing up
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or laying down.
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It didn't matter.
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It was all day long!
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And walking became
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an exhausting struggle.
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Nausea convulsed
my stomach constantly.
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I couldn't read
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so Bible study was out.
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I couldn't watch
television because
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my pupils were very constricted
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and my vision was blurred.
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Soon even my
speech became stammered.
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Nothing the doctors prescribed
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brought relief.
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In fact the only affect of
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the multiple steroid treatments
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that they gave me
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was a 35 pound weight gain
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which only added to
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the clumsiness that
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I already felt.
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I was self-conscious
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when I tried to walk
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or talk.
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So I was
embarrassed to be seen in public
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and I began to withdraw.
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The first few
months of my illness
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were spent in solitude.
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My husband JD
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had just started a new business
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and it required
A LOT of traveling.
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And then three
months into my illness
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I found myself having to pack up
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and store our belongings
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because the
decision had been made that
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we would move from Houston
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to JD's hometown.
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But the relocation
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didn't go anything as planned.
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I was supposed
to stay temporarily
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with loving in-laws.
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This became semi permanent.
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And awkward arrangement!
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JD and I were apart
for weeks at a time.
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And I felt such
an intense loneliness
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which was only amplified by
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the absence of my
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Houston Church
family and friends.
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You know,
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more than anything I was feeling
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trapped by my circumstances.
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And by that time,
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this swirling
hurricane called vertigo
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had had me held prisoner
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for eight months
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without a moment of reprieve.
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No one realized
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the extremes of my physical
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and emotional challenges because
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I masked
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the truth with a smile.
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Laying in bed one night
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an unexpected
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and ominous thought
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began to thunder in my mind.
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"Now, I understand
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"why you did it momma!"
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My mother had attempted suicide
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when I was a child.
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And for years I had tried
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to comprehend why anyone
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would dare such
desperate action.
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But no life experience
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had helped me gain insight
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until then.
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In bleak darkness
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I saw more clearly
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than ever before.
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It was really a simple answer
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to a complex question.
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Momma had lost all hope.
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And without hope,
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life doesn't seem
worth the struggle.
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As I laid there
in bed that night,
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a gripping panic
narrowed my focus.
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Thou I wasn't actually
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considering suicide,
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I was experiencing
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the emotional
identification that grasped
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the why of it.
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And I thought,
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"If I can sink this low,
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"what if I sink lower?
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"Oh, help me Lord!"
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I wanted to pray more but
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words wouldn't come.
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And really...
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frightening
thoughts hazed my senses
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as the night wore on.
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The next morning,
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I staggered
through my daily routine.
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And I was in deep thought.
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I'd always been
so stable minded.
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How had I reached
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this unfamiliar place
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in my reasoning?
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Fears seized my mind
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and I thought,
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"Am I capable of following
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"in my mother's footsteps?
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"Is my situation
really hopeless?"
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I realized that it was time for
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a serious talk with the Lord.
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And, I said,
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"Lord, I'd rather
be in extreme pain
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"than to be suffering from this
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"debilitating vertigo."
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It was more a thought
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than a prayer.
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Actually, prayer time
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had become another
casualty of this battle.
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Always before prayer had been
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a life line to me.
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But now,
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I was drowning emotionally.
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And,
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I didn't know how to
reach out for the Lord.
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So drawing a deep breath
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I just uttered,
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"Help, Lord!"
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Again, I made
the agonizing effort
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and I said,
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"Please Father, help me!"
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Nothing more would come.
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Suddenly, I heard
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a still small voice.
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It wasn't audible.
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It was more like thoughts that
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were being
impressed upon my mind.
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Unless you think
this is unscriptural,
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let me give you a
Bible reference for this.
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In I Kings 19:12
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we find Elijah
standing on the mountain
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before the Lord
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and a great wind came but
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the Lord was not in the wind.
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Then an earthquake,
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but the Lord
wasn't in the earthquake.
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And following that, a fire!
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But the Lord
was not in the fire.
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Then, suddenly...
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a sound of gentle stillness,
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and a still small voice
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was heard by Elijah.
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It was the voice of God.
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Now,
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I don't think that
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that couldn't be the
audible voice of the Lord.
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Do you?
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Always in scripture
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when God's
audible voice is described
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it is compared to
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the sound of many waters.
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The Glory of thunder.
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It's powerful
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and full of majesty!
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And so much so it
makes hearts trembled
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and knees knock!
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I think that
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the still small
voice Elijah heard
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was the Holy Spirit
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impressing Gods thoughts
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on Elijah's mind.
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Well, back to my story...
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There I was
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crying out to
God in desperation.
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And suddenly I heard that
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still small voice,
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of unspoken words
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being impressed upon my mind.
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As I said,
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it wasn't audible
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yet it was a voice
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and I knew who it was.
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He said,
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"I set before you
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"life and death.
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"Choose life."
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I could have confidence that
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this was the voice of God
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because he would never
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speak anything that
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doesn't lineup
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in agreement with his word.
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And that was a direct quote
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from a scripture found in
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Deuteronomy 30:19
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and it says,
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"I set before you life-and-death
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"choose life."
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I said,
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"I have chosen life Father."
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"Jesus Christ is my Savior
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"and if you mean
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"anything more than that
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"you're gonna
have to tell me Lord.
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"Because I am in no condition
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"to figure it out."
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Now let me explain.
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I wasn't arguing with the Lord.
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Our relationship
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was close enough
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for me to realize that
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I could reason with him
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and asked him to reason with me.
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And he spoke again
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and this is what he said,
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"My words are not idle words.
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"My word is life onto you.
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"And anything that
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"does not lineup in agreement
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"with my word
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"is nothing more
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"than a
pretentious lie of the enemy."
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Do you recognize that?
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That's also a
quote from a scripture...
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In 2 Corinthians 10:5.
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I had no doubt
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it was God who
was speaking to me.
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And he continued
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and he said,
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"If you choose
to believe my word
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"you choose life.
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"But if you doubt my word,
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"if you believe
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"the deception of the evil one,
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"then you have chosen death."
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The Lord directed me
to go to the scriptures,
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seek his promises
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related to health,
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healing,
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and new beginnings
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and he instructed me
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to speak these scriptures
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over my life
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out loud each day.
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Saying that faith
would come by hearing.
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Do you recognize that?
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That's Romans 10:17.
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So with great hope,
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I opened my Bible
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for the first
time in many months.
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And straining to focus...
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I jotted down the
scripture references.
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And, if you have a
pen and paper handy,
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I want to give you
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those scripture references
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in just a moment.
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As soon as we
return from our break,
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I'd like to share those with you
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because every time
I share this story,
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people ask me
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what promises
did God lead you to.
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Stay tuned...
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If this dynamic series is making
00:14:10.21\00:14:11.55
a difference in your life,
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then you should know
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about a special study guide
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written by Shelley Quinn.
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Exalting His Word with
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Life Affirmations From Scripture
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is an in depth
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Please send
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Now, what I'd like to do is
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give you those
scripture references that
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the Lord lead me to.
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Our time is somewhat limited
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so I'm gonna be
going through these
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very quickly.
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And just want you to maybe
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write down the references
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to these promises.
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They are good to know
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no matter what type of healing
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you're seeking.
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Whether it's spiritual,
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physical, mental,
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or emotional.
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The first scripture is Acts 3:16
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One of my favorites!
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It says,
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"By faith in the name of Jesus
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this man whom you see
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and know was made strong.
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It is Jesus name
and the faith that
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comes through a
him that has given
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this complete healing to him.
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Then Exodus 15:26
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The Lord declares,
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"For I am the
Lord who heals you.
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Psalms 103:2-4
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Says, "Bless the Lord
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"oh my soul
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"and forget not
all his benefits.
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"Who forgives all
of your inequities
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"who heals all of your diseases.
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"Who redeems your
life from destruction
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"and who crowns you
with loving kindness
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"and tender mercies."
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Matthew 8:16-17
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says this,
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"When evening came
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"many who were Demon possessed
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"were brought to him
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"and he drove out the spirits."
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-noticed this...
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WITH A WORD
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and he healed all the sick.
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This was to fulfill
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what was spoken
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through the prophet Isaiah.
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He took up our infirmities
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and carried our diseases.
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Psalms 107:20...
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This is special.
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"He sent his
word and healed them
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"and delivered them
from their destructions."
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Surely... Isaiah 53:4-5 says...
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"Surely he has born our grieves
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"and carried our sorrows.
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"Yet we esteemed him stricken
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"smitten by God and afflicted.
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"But he was wounded
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"for our transgressions.
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"He was bruised
for our iniquities
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"and the
chastisement for our peace
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"was put upon him.
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"And by his
stripes we are healed."
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1 Peter 2:24 is another
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the Lord lead me to.
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And that's actually a
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complement to Isaiah 53.
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It says, "He himself
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"bore our sins
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"in his body on the tree
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"so that we might die to sins
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"and live for righteousness.
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"By his wounds
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"you have been healed."
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3 John 1:2 says,
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"Beloved I pray that
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"you may prosper in all things
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"and be in health
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"just as your soul prospers."
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And Isaiah 43:18-19
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is another one
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the Lord lead me to.
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And it says...
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"Forget the former things.
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"Do not dwell on the past.
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"See, I am doing
a new thing in you
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"and it suddenly springs up."
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"Do you not perceive it?
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"I'm making a way
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"in the desert
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"and streams in the wasteland."
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You know,
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I realized that
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I could trust God
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to give me the healing that
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he knew I needed.
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Even if it was different
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than the one that I wanted.
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I knew that he had
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my eternal benefit in mind.
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And no matter
what the outcome was
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I could trust him
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because he loved me so.
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I spoke each scripture out loud
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each night
finishing with Hebrews 10:36.
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That says,
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"You must persevere so that
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after you have
done the will of God
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you will receive the promise.
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Night after night
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I rehearsed these scriptures.
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Then I was inspired
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to write the vision
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and make it plain.
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Just as the Lord
had told Habakkuk to do.
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So, now,
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in handwriting that
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because I was so sick was
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just barely legible...
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I scribbled down each one of
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these Scripture promises
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on a yellow pad
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adding to the list nightly.
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Then I spoke them
with reverent devotion
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and I struggled though
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with self-doubt.
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I thought...
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Did the Lord really
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lead me to do this?
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It seemed that faith was
00:18:59.03\00:19:00.50
just beyond my grasp
00:19:00.54\00:19:02.24
and I prayed and I said,
00:19:02.27\00:19:03.94
"oh Lord help my unbelief!"
00:19:03.97\00:19:06.78
And then I just persisted
00:19:06.81\00:19:09.88
in speaking these aloud
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returning God's word to him
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and I trust in that
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as I returned it to him
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in the form of prayer
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that the Lord was listening.
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Then one night
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he led me to
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three promises that
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just seemed to literally
00:19:26.03\00:19:27.86
leap off the pages of my Bible.
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The first was
Isaiah 55:11 that says...
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[text on screen]
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God says his word does not
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return to him void
00:19:49.85\00:19:51.62
but accomplishes and achieves
00:19:51.69\00:19:53.72
all of his purposes.
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Then he lead me to Jeremiah 1:12
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And this is what he said there.
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The Lord talking
to Jeremiah said,
00:20:01.63\00:20:04.00
[text on screen]
00:20:04.03\00:20:08.94
God is watching over
his word to perform it.
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And Romans 4:17 says,
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[text on screen]
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Because God's word
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is filled with
his creative power
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and because he is
watching over his work
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to perform it
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he considers things that
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are not yet in existence
00:20:35.93\00:20:38.23
in our physical realm
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as though they already were
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in existence.
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His promises are
waiting in the wings
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for us to partake in
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and when we accept them
00:20:47.71\00:20:49.88
he knows that
00:20:49.91\00:20:51.25
he will bring
them into existence.
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You know,
00:20:53.98\00:20:55.32
I believe the Lord was
00:20:55.35\00:20:56.69
speaking directly to me.
00:20:56.72\00:20:58.15
I was returning his word to him
00:20:58.22\00:20:59.79
and it wouldn't return void
00:20:59.85\00:21:01.26
because he was
watching over it to perform it.
00:21:01.29\00:21:05.23
Faith just exploded in my heart
00:21:05.29\00:21:07.03
and I knew I was healed!
00:21:07.10\00:21:09.23
No.
00:21:09.26\00:21:10.60
The symptoms didn't disappear.
00:21:10.63\00:21:12.03
Yet, I was sure
00:21:12.07\00:21:13.40
that healing would
be evident in my body
00:21:13.44\00:21:15.40
in His perfect timing.
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I was doing as God does.
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Calling things that
were not yet evident
00:21:18.41\00:21:21.31
in the physical realm
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as though they already existed.
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Actually, my situation
00:21:24.85\00:21:26.88
remained unchanged for
00:21:26.95\00:21:28.98
another four months.
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But the time
seemed to pass rapidly.
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Although everything continued to
00:21:32.85\00:21:34.26
whirl dizzily around me.
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It didn't matter.
00:21:36.52\00:21:37.86
I had found my
hiding place in the storm.
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And I was overcoming
00:21:40.76\00:21:42.26
my circumstances
00:21:42.30\00:21:43.70
by faith and trust in God.
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I became like Abraham.
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I was fully persuaded that
00:21:48.07\00:21:50.61
God has the power to do
00:21:50.64\00:21:52.91
what he had promised.
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And because I believed that
00:21:54.31\00:21:55.64
God was
performing his word in me
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the vapor of
depression vanished!
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In early February
00:22:00.85\00:22:02.58
1996
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nearly one year
from the onslaught of
00:22:04.02\00:22:06.39
the first vertigo attack...
00:22:06.45\00:22:08.06
...it happened.
00:22:08.12\00:22:09.46
As I leaned into a closet
00:22:09.49\00:22:11.43
the violent spinning
00:22:11.49\00:22:12.89
and reeling ceased abruptly.
00:22:12.96\00:22:15.46
There are no words
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to express the joy of
00:22:16.90\00:22:18.57
experiencing that stillness.
00:22:18.60\00:22:20.67
It was as if the
dark clouds parted
00:22:20.70\00:22:23.94
and the sun burst forth!
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I braced
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one hand
against the closet floor
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to remain steady.
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Not wanting any motion
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to disturb the stillness
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and bent over and
that ridiculous posture
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I heard his voice.
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It was impressed upon my mind...
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..."Rejoice!"
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So slowly
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I inched my way to
a standing position
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and I was leaning up against
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the wall for support.
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Nothing reeled!
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And tears of joy
gushed to my eyes!
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I began praising the Lord!
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Again I heard...
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"Rejoice!"
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I had once read that
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the literal translation of
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the Hebrew word "rejoice" is
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to twirl about like a calf
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kicking up his heels
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after being
released from a stall.
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And I thought...
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Does the Lord really
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want me to start twirling
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on purpose?!
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What if the vertigo returns??
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With some hesitation at first
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I began circling
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and singing his praises!
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And then suddenly
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a verse from Zephaniah 3:17
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came streaming into my mind.
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And that verse says...
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[Text on-screen]
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I'd like to think that
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that night
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or that day
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as the Angels watched on,
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they saw the Lord and me
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rejoicing and joyously
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celebrating together.
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You know,
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reflecting on my year of vertigo
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I know this.
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Only by the grace of God
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did I make it through
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one of the worst physical
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and emotional challenges that
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I've ever been through.
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It was the transforming power of
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his word that restored my hope.
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God's promises became
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the anchor for my soul
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and they kept me
from being double minded.
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When I place my trust in him
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and in his ability
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to perform his word
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he placed me
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in an arc called Hope.
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And there the God of peace
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rode out the storm with me.
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I was in the eye
of the hurricane.
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I know that it was...
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This kind of reminds me of
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one of my favorite verses
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and that's Romans 15:13.
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It says,
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"May the God of hope fill you to
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"overflowing
with all joy and peace
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"as you trust in him
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"so that you may
overflow with hope
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"by the power of
the Holy Spirit."
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God had to allow me to
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get to the brink of despair
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before he could teach me that
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I was totally
dependent upon him.
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From the depths of depression
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he brought me into
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a new
relationship with his word.
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And he showed me that
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he had a plan for my life
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and it was better than
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the one I was living.
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He opened the
door of understanding
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to the
transforming power of his word.
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He invited me in to
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experience his great love.
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And God became
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the object of my faith.
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Trust in his love.
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And his ability to
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perform his word
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became the foundation of
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my sure foundation.
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It reminds me of what Job said.
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In Job 13:15
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[text on screen]
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Why could Job say that?
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The answer is found
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in Job 23:12.
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He said,
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[text on screen]
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Bless Job's heart!
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That statement
shows he was a man
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who knew the
true source of life.
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Like Job,
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I appreciate my
desperate need for
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the word of God.
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It it becoming to me
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more important
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than my daily food.
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My life depends on God's word.
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His word is life to me.
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And God says that
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it's life to you too.
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I hope that
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you will go to the word,
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and find the life
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and the plan that
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God has for your life.
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Well,
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we're nearly out of time again.
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It does pass by so quickly!
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I hope that
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you'll tune in next week
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when I'm gonna share
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how God raised me up
00:27:16.36\00:27:18.33
as a "Word Warrior".
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That program will
conclude my personal testimony.
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And then,
00:27:23.20\00:27:24.54
we'll be diving into
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some really great Bible studies.
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I pray that
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God will multiply his mercy,
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love,
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and grace to you.
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And watch over
his word to perform it
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in your life
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as you cooperate with him.
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I hope you're being encouraged
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to spend your time
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making that which is
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most important to God,
00:27:46.80\00:27:49.33
his word,
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the very thing that is also
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most important to you.
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I pray you will be
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"Exalting His Word"!
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