Hello, and welcome
to Help in Daily Living.
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Today, we're
gonna be talking about
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The Discipline of Trial.
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You know, trials and
obstacles are the Lord's
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chosen methods of discipline
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and His appointed
conditions of success.
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That sounds completely opposite
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of what we really want.
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We want to have
success and we want to have it
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smoothly and
peacefully and we don't want
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trials and
obstacles, but that's the way
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the Lord has
appointed it for us.
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We grow through going through
these trials and obstacles.
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And so as we go
into this very important
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and sacred topic,
I'm gonna ask Katie
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to lead us in a word of prayer.
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All right, Father in heaven,
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thank you so much for
taking so much interest in us
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that you would make us like you
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and that you would purify us.
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Father, I just pray now
that You'll guide us to see
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how You lead and how Your ways
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are so much different than ours.
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Please help us
to trust You even as
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we go through
trials and obstacles.
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Thank you so much
for being our guide,
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in Jesus name, amen. Amen.
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When I was a little
kid, I remember feeling
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really scared about the future.
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One time I was riding in
my family Suburban with my mom
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telling her how I
didn't think I could stay
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close to God, if
certain trials came in my life.
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What if I was
persecuted from my faith?
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At that point in time,
I didn't feel that I had
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the strength to stand up for
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what I believed and be a marker.
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However after
talking with my mom,
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I learned
something really encouraging.
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I don't have to
worry about future trails,
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because when
those hardships come,
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God will give me the
strength I need to bear them.
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He doesn't give me
that strength today,
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because I don't need it today.
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The Bible says
in Deuteronomy 33:25
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"As your days, so
shall your strength be."
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God knows what each
day in my life will bring,
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whether its heartache or joy.
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And He has the exact amount
of grace I need to make it
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through each of
one of those days.
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I don't have to be
anxious wondering how I'll cope
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if I lose
everything financially or if
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a member of my family dies,
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God has the strength
set aside if that happens.
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Each day bring
something new and eventually
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we're all going to
experience the feeling
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of our world
crumbling at our feet,
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but God Has promised
that if we trust Him,
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He will hold us
together day by day.
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Day by day, and
with each passing moment
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Strength I find,
to meet my trials here
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Trusting in my
Father's wise bestowment
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I've no cause
for worry or for fear
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He Whose heart is
kind beyond all measure
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Gives unto each
day what He deems best
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Lovingly, its part
of pain and pleasure
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Mingling toil
with peace and rest
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The protection of
His child and treasure
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Is a charge that
on Himself He laid
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"As thy days, thy
strength shall be in measure"
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This is the pledge to me He made
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Help me then in
every tribulation
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So to trust Thy promises, O Lord
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That I lose not
faith's sweet consolation
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Offered me within Thy holy Word.
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Help me, Lord, when
toil and trouble meeting,
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E'er to take, as
from a father's hand
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One by one, the
days, the moments fleeting
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Till I reach the Promised Land
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Till I reach the Promised Land
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You know, while we
were recording that song,
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I actually had a
sort of trial experience.
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You know, I sit right
in the front of the mic
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because I'm the concertmistress.
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And I guess sitting
there kind of brings
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a little bit of
responsibility and like
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in concert if you start
playing the wrong song and--
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Everyone hears it.
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Half of the people will
start playing the wrong song
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and it's just the big mess
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and it's kind of embarrassing.
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But another thing is
that, that Craig, our conductor,
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He like, he trust
my opinion I guess
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and he likes to
ask for it sometimes.
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Sometimes he doesn't ask for it
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and I end up giving
it at the wrong time.
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And in this particular
situation there is a chord
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in the song and it
wasn't quite working,
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we're trying to fix
it, I think it's right
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at the key change
and all of us music kids
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were talking over
each other and we're trying
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to fix chord and its
taking quite a bit of time
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and we're getting nowhere.
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And, you know, every
precious second counts
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when we're recording, so
Craig turns to us and says,
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so how much time do
you want to spend on this.
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What you want to do about it?
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And in my state of mind I
was just focused on trying
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to fix the chord and
so I guess in my partake
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kind of thought, well,
if he wants us to fix it,
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why is he telling us
it's a waste of time.
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And then I didn't
think before I spoke
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and I started to
say, well no body is going
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to want to act sir
and then I paused because
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warning bells are going
up in my mind and Craig said,
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no, say what, finish
what you're gonna say.
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And so I just had to finish
and I said nobody is gonna
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want to answer, if
we're addressed that way.
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And Katie was there,
she remembers the tension
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was palpable and I felt
really bad and embarrassed
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about what I'd said
and I just wanted to,
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I just wanted to
leave and get out of there.
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But I couldn't
and Craig said, well,
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how would you like to
be addressed and situation
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was just very
uncomfortable and afterwards
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we've had figured
out the chord and it was
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all good, the song went well.
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But afterwards I
apologized to Craig,
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and we talked in
and it was all good.
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But it seem that this
type of thing happened to me
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too often and that I
find myself in situations
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where I let my tongue get
the better of me or my pride
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and it reminds me of a section
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in Help in Daily
Living, where it says
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"Many who sincerely
consecrate their lives
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to God's service are
surprised and disappointed
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to find
themselves, as never before,
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confronted by
obstacles and beset
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by trials and perplexities.
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They pray for
Christ-likeness of character,
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for a fitness for the
Lord's work, and they are placed
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in circumstances
that seem to call forth
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all the evil of their nature."
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Now in my devotions I've
been praying and asking God
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to make me more like Him
and it seems that especially
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those times that
I would pray that,
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I'd find myself in these
situations that call forth
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all the evil of my nature.
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And it's kind of discouraging,
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but as I was reading
this, God was teaching me that,
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that He-- that I needed
to go through those trials,
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so that He could show me
the defects in my character
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and it's the only way
that I'll be able to give them
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to Him and ask Him
to help me with them.
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Yes, so you go through,
we pray to the Lord that
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You'll make us like
Christ and then all of sudden
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we realize all these
evil things are inside of us,
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and we're like what's going on,
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why is this happening
and it's because the Lord
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loves us so much, He
knows that's in there,
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and He reveals it to us.
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On another note Zach, kind
of from different angle how,
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how God led you through a
trail, through an obstacle
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that was in your
life, but to a deeper
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relationship with
Him to trusting Him.
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Yeah, I'd always
wondered how I would react and,
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you know, in trails
situation how, how my faith
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would be tested
and if I'll succeed.
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And I had the opportunity
to put my faith into action.
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I'd gotten very
sick, and I had some lumps
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underneath my neck
and there were producing
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some weird
symptoms and the doctor said
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there is a chance it was
cancer gallstones lymphoma.
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I-- there is one
night in particular,
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I was very
fatigued, I was so tired,
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it was like 8
o'clock I skipped on vespers
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and I was going to bed as I
was just ways beyond belief.
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And I was crawling into
bed and the reality situation
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that thoughts hit me, you know,
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what if I don't
wake tomorrow, you know,
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I mean cancer is a
dangerous thing, you know,
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what if I'm so tired
I just don't wake up.
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This thoughts that I
have plaguing my mind,
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I did my best to try
to give to the God where
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I didn't try not to
like encourage these thoughts
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before I knew I'd
fallen to sleep and woke up
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the next morning, praise God.
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Another time I was
having a needle biopsy done
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and it was excruciatingly
painful, I was in a lot pain
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and really the only thing
that could bring me thought
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right then was that could
bring me comfort was that,
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you know, Jesus
suffered more than I have,
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He and He is right
there suffering with me,
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He is right there,
you know, like holding me
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and that brought me
like a lot comfort, you know,
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numerous school days
missed, lots of dodge provision
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test done and later,
you know, a small surgery
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taking them out reveal
that it wasn't lymphoma but just
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reacting influence
for the staph infection.
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Praise the Lord,
and I was, you know,
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my family was so thankful
and so excited to hear that.
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And I can now look back
and see that these trails,
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they really, they taught
me to rely on God to refine
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my character in a way
that I hadn't expected
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and showed me that, you know,
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He is the God,
that you can trust,
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you know, you can cling to.
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Absolutely, praise the Lord.
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When I was growing
up, my family frequently
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went on Sabbath afternoon
hikes but I hated them.
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After a short time, I
would slowdown and complaint
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that I was tired
and I wanted to go home.
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But my dad would encourage me,
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take my hand and help
me up to steep through.
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And when I became
too exhausted, he would
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pick me up put me on
his shoulders and carry me.
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God is the same
way, He calls us to walk
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the straight and narrow path,
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but He doesn't want
us to walk it alone.
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He promises in Hebrews 13:5 that
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"He will never
leave us, nor forsake us."
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We may became
tired and exhausted,
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but God will never
fail to take our hands
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and lead us
among His narrow path.
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He leadeth me! O blessed thought
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O words with
heavenly comfort fraught
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Whatever I do, wherever I be
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Still 'tis God's
hand that leadeth me
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By His own hand He leadeth me
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His faithful follower I would be
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For by His hand He leadeth me
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Sometimes mid
scenes of deepest gloom
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Sometimes where
Eden's bowers bloom
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By waters still,
over troubled sea
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Still 'tis His
hand that leadeth me
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Lord, I would
place my hand in Thine
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Nor ever murmur nor repine
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Content, whatever lot I see
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Since 'tis my
God that leadeth me
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He leadeth help
me He leadeth help me
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For by His hand He leadeth me
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His faithful follower I would be
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For by His hand
He leadeth with me
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And when my
task on earth is done
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When by Thy
grace the victory's won
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E'en death's cold
wave I will not flee
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Since God through
Jordan leadeth with me
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He leadeth me, He leadeth me
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By His own hand He leadeth me
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His faithful follower I would be
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For by His hand He leadeth me
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You know, the Lord has a
divine appointment for us,
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a something that
we don't, we wouldn't
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choose for
ourselves, a divine appointment.
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We think of a
divine appointment,
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ah there is light
shining down on me
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and it's a glorious day.
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But that divine
appointment is going
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to be a trail or an obstacle.
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And He has
appointed that, so that
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you can be successful,
and I think of our bird.
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We had a bird and
his name was Prince.
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And he was a Cockatiel
and we put him in a cage
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and we wanted him to sing.
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We wanted to
sing-- wanted to teach him
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how to sing the
Canadian national anthem.
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But he was singing all
the other bird songs because,
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you know, he was
at home during the day
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and he would pick
up and so he would
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sing these other bird songs.
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And so during the
day, we covered the cage
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and I put on the
Canadian national anthem,
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so that he would sing it.
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Eventually he learnt
to sing that song and so
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I could lift the
top of it, you know,
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the covering from the cage
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and he would sing it ever after.
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And the Lord has
that way kind of sometimes
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He puts us in a dark
or in a place where we can
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just hear His voice,
where we can hear Him leading us
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and guiding us
the way He wants to.
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Rachel, can you relate to that.
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Yeah, well actually
your story about the bird
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reminded me of a
similar experience.
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I remember one day I
was taking walk in PT class.
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It was during the fall
and the all the PT class
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were out and everything.
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And I've been super
stressed out and I was up late
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studying the night
before, I was really tired.
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So eventually I just
fell behind all my other
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classmates as I
was walking really slow
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just kind of
enjoying the nature.
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And I notice this
little stream just like
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flowing by there, and
so I was trying to hear
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the sound of a
water, but I couldn't,
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so I stopped and I listened
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and I still couldn't hear it.
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So I just stood still for
like ten or fifteen minutes
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just like holding
my breath and finally
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I can just barely
hear just trickling along.
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It was really cool and
later I was thinking about it
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and it made me realize
that when I've been having
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my devotions and like
spending time in God's words
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though, I wasn't
really focusing on it.
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Yeah. Like I needed to
come to a more quite place
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where I can just
like tune out everything.
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Yes. That was happening
around me like the bird
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that when you cover
the cage everything.
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Just need to come to
that quite place and be still
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and just let my mind
settle down, so I can really
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focus on what God had
to tell me for the day.
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Awesome, you know, that
divine appointment Aaliyah,
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you were telling
me about how Sasha
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had told you about you
need a divine appointment.
00:21:53.61\00:21:56.13
Yeah. Well, these are
some, I like canvassing
00:21:56.14\00:21:59.10
and it was definitely a
really trying experience.
00:21:59.11\00:22:03.25
And the first week I
was really discouraged
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and I was talking to
my leader Sasha and she--
00:22:05.09\00:22:08.71
I was just lending
to all my frustrations.
00:22:08.72\00:22:10.54
And she said, Aaliyah,
I don't think you really
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had one of those
experiences, where you know,
00:22:12.45\00:22:15.00
God used you, one of
those divine appointments.
00:22:15.01\00:22:17.85
And she told me, she
said pray for that today.
00:22:17.86\00:22:21.28
So all that day we
prayed, she prayed with me,
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we've stopped in some
of these yards and pray
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together and really it
was one of my hardest days,
00:22:26.47\00:22:29.74
I got four books by 8:30
and that's not very good.
00:22:29.75\00:22:33.93
And you prayed for
a divine appointment,
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now have you your hardest day.
00:22:35.26\00:22:36.44
Yeah, it was really
not a very good day.
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And so about 8:30 P.M.
she finally dropped me off
00:22:38.74\00:22:41.95
the street and I knocked
on the door and I started
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showing the gentlemen one
of the books and it was on
00:22:45.84\00:22:48.05
Bible Prophecy
and End Times Events.
00:22:48.06\00:22:49.82
And it turned out he already
read it, and so we started
00:22:49.83\00:22:52.86
talking and I
showed him another DVD
00:22:52.87\00:22:54.26
on the same thing,
and he started telling me
00:22:54.27\00:22:57.70
all these things
that he had been learning
00:22:57.71\00:22:58.89
from his own studying the Bible.
00:22:58.90\00:23:00.04
And it was just crazy
how much God had taught him
00:23:00.05\00:23:03.00
and he started asking
me questions and I was like
00:23:03.01\00:23:05.53
look you just
have to get that book,
00:23:05.54\00:23:07.78
it's gonna answer,
sorry not the book, the DVD.
00:23:07.79\00:23:10.20
Yeah. I told almost,
you have to get the DVD
00:23:10.21\00:23:11.74
it's gonna answer everything.
00:23:11.75\00:23:13.55
And so I went inside and
he was writing on the check
00:23:13.56\00:23:16.64
and his wife asked me
about if I had anything,
00:23:16.65\00:23:19.22
it's just like more
devotional about Jesus
00:23:19.23\00:23:21.83
in his life and though we
did have a book about that,
00:23:21.84\00:23:25.36
but it was one book
I didn't have because
00:23:25.37\00:23:27.02
I come late to the program.
00:23:27.03\00:23:28.12
So meanwhile my
leader Sasha is on a totally
00:23:28.13\00:23:31.17
different street and
she kept getting impression
00:23:31.18\00:23:33.33
go work with
Aaliyah she's inside
00:23:33.34\00:23:34.89
the house and bring the book.
00:23:34.90\00:23:37.09
And so while I was in
the house, I just decided
00:23:37.10\00:23:40.50
to tell lady about the
book anyway even though
00:23:40.51\00:23:42.78
I didn't have it, I
just started telling her
00:23:42.79\00:23:44.37
about it and just a
couple minutes after that
00:23:44.38\00:23:46.26
my leader walks
in with the book.
00:23:46.27\00:23:48.25
And I walked away from
that house being able to leave
00:23:48.26\00:23:51.48
with them like four
books, there was a couple
00:23:51.49\00:23:53.98
for her son and some
for her and the gentleman
00:23:53.99\00:23:56.90
and then the DVD as well.
00:23:56.91\00:23:59.39
And it was just so
amazing and even though
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that was one of the
hardest days and if my leader
00:24:02.27\00:24:03.85
and I hadn't
persevere and praying
00:24:03.86\00:24:05.42
and striving to
be faithful, yes.
00:24:05.43\00:24:07.97
Then we never would
have received that blessing
00:24:07.98\00:24:10.51
and they wouldn't
have either, maybe they are
00:24:10.52\00:24:12.51
gonna be in
heaven because of that.
00:24:12.52\00:24:14.04
Oh, that be
wonderful. Praise the Lord.
00:24:14.05\00:24:16.63
When I feel
unimportant, it's often because
00:24:19.31\00:24:22.41
I'm trying to
be someone I'm not.
00:24:22.42\00:24:24.55
God has created me to do
a specific work and in that
00:24:24.56\00:24:27.74
line of work
there are those whom
00:24:27.75\00:24:29.38
I maybe blessing
to and be blessed by.
00:24:29.39\00:24:32.05
When I'm dissatisfied
with my apparently low calling
00:24:32.06\00:24:35.19
and try to do something
I think is best for me,
00:24:35.20\00:24:37.89
I end up
dissatisfied and disillusioned.
00:24:37.90\00:24:40.59
It's in those times I
realize that I need to go
00:24:40.60\00:24:43.54
to God and give Him my
life, my heart and my will.
00:24:43.55\00:24:46.67
During the duty God has
called me to gives me peace,
00:24:46.68\00:24:49.96
joy and makes me feel fulfilled.
00:24:49.97\00:24:51.81
No matter how
insignificant the duty it seems.
00:24:51.82\00:24:55.21
When I surrender self,
His spirit can fill the void
00:24:55.22\00:24:58.60
and change me into others can
00:24:58.61\00:25:00.24
clearly see Christ
example in my life.
00:25:00.25\00:25:02.59
Have thine own way,
Lord! Have thine own way
00:25:04.84\00:25:11.59
Thou art the
potter, I am the clay
00:25:11.60\00:25:19.08
Mold me and make
me after Thy will
00:25:19.09\00:25:26.31
While I am
waiting, yielded and still
00:25:26.32\00:25:34.10
Have Thine own way,
Lord! Have Thine own way
00:25:34.11\00:25:41.07
Search me and
try me, Master, today
00:25:41.08\00:25:48.34
Whiter than snow,
Lord, wash me just now
00:25:48.35\00:25:55.80
As in Thy presence humbly I bow
00:25:55.81\00:26:04.48
Have Thine own way,
Lord! Have Thine own way
00:26:04.49\00:26:11.55
Wounded and
weary, help me, I pray
00:26:11.56\00:26:19.43
Power, all
power, surely is Thine
00:26:19.44\00:26:27.13
Touch me and
heal me, Savior divine
00:26:27.14\00:26:36.12
Have thine own way,
Lord! Have thine own way
00:26:36.13\00:26:43.70
Hold o'er my being absolute sway
00:26:43.71\00:26:51.39
Fill with Thy
Spirit 'till all shall see
00:26:51.40\00:26:58.89
Christ only,
always, living in me
00:26:58.90\00:27:08.82
This last semester I
got sick for two weeks.
00:27:13.00\00:27:15.52
And my parents and
my deans they wanted me
00:27:15.53\00:27:18.49
to go home just to recover.
00:27:18.50\00:27:20.34
But I didn't really want
to, because I wanted to attend
00:27:20.35\00:27:25.41
the class banquet that
my class is going to have.
00:27:25.42\00:27:28.37
But I had to just give it
to God and I decided to go home
00:27:28.38\00:27:33.52
and I'm really glad that I did,
00:27:33.53\00:27:35.60
because if I hadn't
gone home and mostly likely
00:27:35.61\00:27:37.85
would not have been able to go
00:27:37.86\00:27:39.58
on the mission
trip with my class.
00:27:39.59\00:27:42.16
You made a choice
to let God have His way
00:27:42.17\00:27:44.83
and you're healthy and strong.
00:27:44.84\00:27:46.78
Zach, can you close with
the word of prayer for us.
00:27:46.79\00:27:49.38
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord,
00:27:49.39\00:27:50.84
have Your own way in your lives.
00:27:50.85\00:27:52.42
Guide us with Your
hand of mercy and help us to
00:27:52.43\00:27:56.14
realize that when
trails be falls that it's your
00:27:56.15\00:27:59.09
method of to find character
Lord and lead us to success.
00:27:59.10\00:28:02.22
You've been such a good God,
00:28:02.23\00:28:03.69
you've been so good in
our lives and I just pray
00:28:03.70\00:28:05.54
you continue leading us
thinking that we can all
00:28:05.55\00:28:07.51
be together, I'm
healthy and happy and Lord
00:28:07.52\00:28:10.66
that we love
you and you love us.
00:28:10.67\00:28:12.18
Come into our hearts
today, in your name, amen, amen.
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