Hello, and welcome to
"Help in Daily Living."
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Today, we're gonna be looking
at how God wants us to reach
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a higher experience in
our relationship with Him.
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It says, Jesus says, when
He speaks to His disciples
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in John Chapter 15
verse 11 where He says,
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"I have told you these things
so that my joy might be in you
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and so that your
joy might be full."
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He wants us to
have a fuller, deeper,
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more broader
relationship with Him.
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But this is such
an important topic.
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And before we get
into something like this,
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we really need to turn to
God and ask Him to bless us.
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And so I'm gonna
ask Cyrus to lead us
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to lead us in a word of prayer.
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Let's pray.
Heavenly Father, Lord,
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thank you for Your many
blessings that You give to us.
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And I want to
thank You also, Lord,
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for the time for
fellowship that we can have.
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And Lord, I ask
that You would help us
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to have a perpetual growth
in our relationship with You.
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In Jesus' name I
pray, amen. Amen.
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Having a relationship
with God is important to me,
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but I often
struggle with knowing
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how to have a strong one.
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I've read my Bible, I prayed,
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I've tried to do
all the right things,
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yet nothing seemed to change.
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But I've learned something.
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It's not the amount of
time I spend talking with God,
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it's what I told Him.
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I need to communicate
honestly from my heart.
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If I am hurting,
He wants to know,
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and if I'm really excited,
He wants to know that too.
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Slowly but truly,
I'm coming to the point
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where I must tell
Jesus my burdens and cares.
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Knowing that He understands
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and wants to be
with me through it all.
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I must tell
Jesus all of my trials
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I cannot bear
these burdens alone
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In my distress He
kindly will help me
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He ever loves
and cares for His own
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus
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I cannot bear my burdens alone
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus!
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Jesus can help me, Jesus alone
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I must tell Jesus
all of my troubles
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He is a kind,
compassionate Friend
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If I but ask Him He will deliver
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Which are
troubles quickly an end
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus
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I cannot bear my burdens alone
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus
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Jesus can help me, Jesus alone
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O how the world
to evil allures me
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O how my heart is tempted to sin
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I must tell Jesus,
and He will help me
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Over the world
the victory to win
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus
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I cannot bear my burdens alone
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I must tell
Jesus! I must tell Jesus
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Jesus can help me, Jesus alone.
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You know that song
"I must tell Jesus,"
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it's really about turning to Him
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whatever is on your heart.
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And I know, Rachel,
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when you were
working door to door,
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I mean, going door to
door is not an easy thing,
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and you're selling books.
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It's really, you're walking.
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You can be feeling
like you're walking along,
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but you're really
walking with Jesus.
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And tell us
about that experience.
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Okay. Well, when I went selling
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books door to door
last couple of summers ago.
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It was really hard work
like way harder than I expected.
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The sun was really, really
hot and I know just wanna goes,
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constantly
wearing a layer of sweat,
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and my bag of books got
really heavy, really fast.
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I can imagine. But
at the end of the day,
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I got, I get back to
where we were staying
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and my feet would be
sore, my back would hurt,
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and for a long time to me,
it seemed really pointless.
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'Cause most of the
time when we were out there,
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we just get met with rejection
door after door after door.
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People says, "Oh, sorry,
I'm not interested or no,
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I can't help you
today or no, tengo dinero.
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Like it was over
and over and over.
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I remember one day I got so
many doors slammed in my face.
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I just wanted to sit
down on the curb and cry
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and think like, you
know, what is the point?
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Right now
looking back now though,
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I realize that
through that experience,
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God was like
reshaping the way I was thinking
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and like teaching me to keep
my mind focused on the purpose
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for what I was doing.
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And I didn't
really see that clearly
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until the end of the summer,
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it's like two days
before our program ended
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and I met this girl at a door
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and I was able to
give her "Steps to Christ,"
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and I prayed with her and stuff.
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And I kept her
contact information
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and at the end of week
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I was able to get
together with her.
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We had a Bible study,
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and she
continued doing that after
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I left with a
different Bible worker.
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And now I know she is doing
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a lot better than
when I first met her.
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And just being able to look back
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and see that all that hard work
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and just
everything I had to go through
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made a difference
in one person's life.
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Yeah. It made it
totally worth it,
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even though it was really hard.
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You feel like you were getting,
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like you were walking
with Jesus from door to door,
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you know, like
you were telling Him
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what you were going through.
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It's more than just a job then--
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Oh, totally, it's more than job.
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There's a much
higher purpose involved.
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You're not just
selling any random books.
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It's like giving
the truth to people
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that could potentially
get them into heaven one day.
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And to be able to
reach that higher experience,
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you have to be unselfish.
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And when I think
of unselfishness,
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I think of Bristi's parents.
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You want to tell
us about your parents.
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Yes, my parents are in
their 60s and late 80s.
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And you know,
they could be enjoying
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their retirement
year. You know, relaxing,
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putting their legs
up in a chair and just,
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you know, letting life go by.
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But instead they
chose to spend their time
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volunteering at
orphanages and their money,
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their time, their
energy just everything like--
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So in this orphanage,
you went to that orphanage,
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I mean, you-- That's
where they found you.
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Yeah. And so they unselfishly
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took you in as a daughter.
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Yes, they did.
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And they've been
just sacrificing so much
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of their whole life
basically for these children.
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And so many of times I
see these same children
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and they just don't
seem very grateful at times.
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And I would
often wonder, you know,
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why, why make such a
sacrifice for these people
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when they are really not
showing any gratitude back.
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Right. And so, then I realized,
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you know, it relates so much
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to what Christ has
done for me in my life,
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like when He was on the cross
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and He had the weight of
the world on His shoulders.
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You know, the only
thing that was holding Him
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on that cross was the
fact that He had a aim,
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He had a purpose. Yes.
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And His purpose
was to may be one day
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see me in heaven and know that,
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because of His
sacrifice I can be there.
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Yeah. And that's,
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that's what my
parents were doing.
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Their aim, their goal
in sacrificing their time,
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their energy,
everything was to one day
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see those
children in heaven. Amen.
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And that's a
good picture of Jesus
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and His love for us. Yes.
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My dad is a
farmer with huge hands.
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They're rough and callus,
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the result of many
years of hard work.
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He has deep cracks
edging in the fingers of hands
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from working
outside during cold winters.
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When I was a little
girl, I loved his hands.
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In fact, when I grew up, I
wanted hands just like his.
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I would put my hands
on my bed and stretch them
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until I was sure that
they were gonna have to grow
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a bit that night.
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I know now that the real reason
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why I wanted to
have hands like his,
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was because I loved
and respected my dad.
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Obviously, his hands
represented his character.
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Gentleness shown
through his hands,
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revealing the reason
I wanted to be like him.
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They were giving
hands, holding nothing back
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from friends,
family, and people in need.
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Just like I can
tell that my dad is a man
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with a strong
characterized hands,
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people should be able to tell
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that I am a real
Christian by the way I act.
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If I look at my life and realize
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that my heart is
callous and hard,
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I need to ask
Jesus to change it.
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Only when I draw near
to Jesus will people see
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that I am a real Christian.
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Nearer, still
nearer, close to Thy heart
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Draw me, my Savior,
so precious Thou art
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Fold me, oh, fold
me close to Thy breast
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Shelter me safe in
that "Haven of Rest"
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Shelter me safe in
that "Haven of Rest"
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Nearer, still
nearer, nothing I bring
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Naught as an
offering to Jesus, my King
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Only my sinful,
now contrite heart
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Grant me the
cleansing Thy blood doth impart
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Grant me the
cleansing Thy blood doth impart
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Nearer, still
nearer, Lord, to be Thine
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Sin, with its
follies, I gladly resign
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All of its
pleasures, pomp and its pride
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Give me but Jesus
my Lord, crucified
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Give me but Jesus
my Lord, crucified
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Nearer, still nearer
while life shall last
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Til safe in
glory my anchor is cast
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Through endless ages ever to be
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Nearer, my Savior
still nearer to Thee
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Nearer, my Savior
still nearer to Thee
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Still nearer to Thee.
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You know, Jesus
came to this world
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because He wanted
to draw nearer to us
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and He had to come down
from heaven really to this,
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this sewer, this dirty
planet compared to heaven. Yeah.
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And that's a dirty job.
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And sometimes we
have to do dirty jobs
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and it kind of
reminds us of Jesus' job
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in coming down
here to this planet.
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I know on the farm,
there are some dirty jobs
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you have to do, Daniel. Yeah.
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Well, I was working indeed
with my friend, Carmen here.
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And with my supervisor
Ken, we were out in the fields
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and we were moving the pipe.
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When we were
done with that field,
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I sent Carmen to
go to turn it on.
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She turns it on,
and then Ken walked over
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to make sure all the things
were not--were not plugged,
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all the sprinkler heads. Yeah.
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So me and Ken noticed that
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one in the corner
is all plugged up.
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So I sent Carmen back to
get that to turn it off. Yeah.
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And as we're
waiting for it to sink down,
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we go walk over there, I
mean, and I'm turning it,
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you know, taking it off. Yeah.
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And all of a sudden a strand
of water gets to my mouth,
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and I remember thinking,
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"Man, this stuff is
really weird tasting water."
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So I spit it out
and lo and behold,
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there is red stuff out
of my mouth and I'm like,
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"Oh, this is
disgusting, what is this?"
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And I looked
over to my supervisor,
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he was hysterically laughing,
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holding the sprinkler head
up with the dangling dandles,
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headless rat. Whoa!
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Oh, man, it was so disgusting.
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I didn't realize
that it was blood.
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I was like, "Oh,
yuck, and I spit it out."
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As I look over to my supervisor,
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and he's just
hysterically laughing at me
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and I laughed with him.
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That is a dirty job. Disgusting.
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Well, I have a
similar experience though.
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Let me tell you.
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I was working with the sewerage,
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sewerage tanks, right? Whoa!
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And so in that job,
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you know, involves
spraying the contents with,
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you know, hose like a fire hose,
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really high pressure.
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So you know,
loosen everything up
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and then jamming it
with a pole to take out
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all the blockages so that
we can take it all out easily.
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Well, for that specific site,
I was the pole jammer. Yeah.
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And it took a certain
technique to do that. Yeah.
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You have to put
the pole underneath
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the surface before jamming it,
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so that nothing would
splash out on you, right?
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But I obviously had
to learn that technique
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well enough and I got
splattered all over on my face
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and in my mouth, and on my buddy
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that I was working with.
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By the end of the
day, we were pretty filthy.
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Yeah, and you know, when
people are listening to this,
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they're probably thinking,
"Now, why are you telling
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the stories of that sewerage
and all that kind of stuff."
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But it's really
an illustration of,
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you know, we think,
okay, this is beautiful like,
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look at the ocean and
this is a beautiful world
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and there are some
beautiful places on this planet,
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but compared to heaven--
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God wants to bring us
to a higher experience
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and that's why
Jesus came to this planet.
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And can you imagine what
was going through Jesus' mind.
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This is a sewer
compared to heaven.
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He's got all this
sin splashing onto Him.
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And you know, and
He comes down here
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to draw near to us,
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so that He can
draw us near to Him
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and bring us up to heaven.
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And that's really
the Plan of Salvation.
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And Jesus wants
a higher experience
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for every one of us, to
pull us out of this planet,
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to see the unseen, to see heaven
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the way that Jesus sees it.
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Have you ever seen
a wilderness sunrise?
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It seems to get more and
more beautiful every second.
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First, the blacken of
the night fades to blue
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revealing the silhouette
of the surrounding mountains.
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Then the first white rays of sun
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tint the western mountains rosy.
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The sun blazes over the ridge,
lighting up the whole valley
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with a flood of
light and warmth.
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What a start to the day!
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Far too many Christians
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settle for twilight
glimpses of God's love,
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but there's more.
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Everyday we should pray,
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Lord, draw me to a
nearer walk with You.
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So far I've only seen
the first rays of His glory.
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But Proverbs 4:18 says,
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"That the path of the righteous
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is like the light of dawn,
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which shines brighter
and brighter until full day.
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I can't wait to see
what the day will hold
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I am Thine, O Lord
I have heard Thy voice
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And it told Thy love to me
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But I long to rise
in the arms of faith
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And be closer drawn to Thee
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Draw me nearer
nearer blessed Lord
00:21:49.68\00:21:54.21
To the cross
where Thou hast died
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Draw me nearer,
nearer nearer blessed Lord
00:21:58.57\00:22:04.52
To Thy precious bleeding side
00:22:04.53\00:22:09.69
Consecrate me now
to Thy service, Lord
00:22:09.70\00:22:14.60
By the pow'r of grace divine
00:22:14.61\00:22:19.87
Let my soul look up
with a steadfast hope
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And my will be lost in Thine
00:22:25.07\00:22:30.21
Draw me nearer
nearer blessed Lord
00:22:30.22\00:22:34.94
To the cross
where Thou hast died
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Draw me nearer,
nearer nearer blessed Lord
00:22:39.72\00:22:46.22
To Thy precious bleeding side
00:22:46.23\00:22:51.63
Oh, the pure
delight of a single hour
00:22:51.64\00:22:56.48
That before Thy throne I spend
00:22:56.49\00:23:01.21
When I kneel in
prayer and with Thee, my God
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I commune as friend with friend
00:23:06.18\00:23:10.84
Draw me nearer,
nearer nearer blessed Lord
00:23:10.85\00:23:15.61
To Thy precious bleeding side
00:23:15.62\00:23:20.45
Draw me nearer,
nearer nearer blessed Lord
00:23:20.46\00:23:27.10
To Thy precious bleeding side
00:23:27.11\00:23:33.10
This topic that we're talking
about drawing nearer to God,
00:23:45.03\00:23:49.08
having a higher experience
is a very serious topic.
00:23:49.09\00:23:52.53
And you really have to
look at life seriously.
00:23:52.54\00:23:55.20
And sometimes, it's
life changing experiences
00:23:55.21\00:23:59.09
that happen to us,
00:23:59.10\00:24:00.15
that cause us to
look at life seriously.
00:24:00.16\00:24:03.04
Yeah, a few weeks ago,
it was like we're just,
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it was a group of students
and I in a--in this minivan.
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And we had gone
down to Vancouver,
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which is a few hours
away from our school,
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for music lessons.
00:24:18.12\00:24:19.86
And it was kind of
late at night we had--
00:24:19.87\00:24:23.14
though the day had drawn
out and we're all exhausted.
00:24:23.15\00:24:25.35
And, so I fell asleep
in the back of the car,
00:24:25.36\00:24:30.16
we're driving back,
00:24:30.17\00:24:31.23
the weather conditions
were getting really bad,
00:24:31.24\00:24:34.64
and the roads up to school
are pretty curvy and windy,
00:24:34.65\00:24:39.58
and like not too safe,
00:24:39.59\00:24:41.22
especially in bad
weather conditions. Yeah.
00:24:41.23\00:24:43.42
And so we were driving along
00:24:43.43\00:24:45.14
and I was so
tired, I fell asleep.
00:24:45.15\00:24:47.12
And I was sitting
in the back of the car
00:24:47.13\00:24:51.08
and I remember I woke up
and at some point in time,
00:24:51.09\00:24:55.20
and I was so hot like the
car was just like burning up,
00:24:55.21\00:24:58.47
the heat was on full blast
'cause it was cold outside.
00:24:58.48\00:25:01.96
But I was just like frying.
00:25:01.97\00:25:03.16
And so I took off like
my few wears of jackets
00:25:03.17\00:25:06.58
that might have had
something to do with it. Yeah.
00:25:06.59\00:25:08.51
And then I put
my seatbelt back on
00:25:08.52\00:25:10.97
and went back to sleep.
00:25:10.98\00:25:12.66
And the next
thing I remember is that
00:25:12.67\00:25:15.91
like we were being like banged
00:25:15.92\00:25:17.50
and jolted around
like I woke up and like,
00:25:17.51\00:25:20.05
I realized immediately
what was happening like.
00:25:20.06\00:25:23.73
I was like, we were
getting in a car accident
00:25:23.74\00:25:25.86
and I realized that.
00:25:25.87\00:25:28.11
And I sat up and I
was like, "Oh, my."
00:25:28.12\00:25:31.67
And it looks like, I
didn't know where we were
00:25:31.68\00:25:34.48
but I sat up
00:25:34.49\00:25:36.37
and I saw the headlights
of a semi-tractor trailer
00:25:36.38\00:25:39.49
coming straight toward us
00:25:39.50\00:25:41.16
and/or so it seemed
from my prospective.
00:25:41.17\00:25:43.25
And at that moment in
time like, it was so scary.
00:25:43.26\00:25:49.87
That's got to be
00:25:49.88\00:25:50.97
one of the most
terror-filled moments of life,
00:25:50.98\00:25:52.94
like just those
few split seconds.
00:25:52.95\00:25:55.84
And I remember I
thinking like, "Oh, no.
00:25:55.85\00:25:59.75
We're gonna die or and you know,
00:25:59.76\00:26:02.52
I was like, you know,
this is really gonna hurt.
00:26:02.53\00:26:04.27
And but then the
next thing I knew
00:26:04.28\00:26:06.93
like we were just
kind of slowing down
00:26:06.94\00:26:08.49
and we stopped by
the side of the road
00:26:08.50\00:26:10.58
and we checked around
00:26:10.59\00:26:12.63
to make sure that
everyone was okay,
00:26:12.64\00:26:14.73
and Cyrus was there.
00:26:14.74\00:26:16.71
And we all just
like, you know, I like,
00:26:16.72\00:26:20.86
"Okay, we're all okay."
00:26:20.87\00:26:22.58
Then we're like,
we get out of the car
00:26:22.59\00:26:24.65
and look back
and we had actually
00:26:24.66\00:26:26.63
been on a bridge. Yeah.
00:26:26.64\00:26:27.83
And we hit another car
00:26:27.84\00:26:31.09
and that it lost
control in the snow
00:26:31.10\00:26:33.62
and spun into our way.
00:26:33.63\00:26:35.91
And, so we hit it and shoved it
00:26:35.92\00:26:38.99
into the path of the
semi- tractor trailer that came.
00:26:39.00\00:26:42.33
And we kind of
bounced into the bridge
00:26:42.34\00:26:44.64
and it shoved us
into the path of the semi.
00:26:44.65\00:26:49.47
And that's when I thought
that we were gonna hit it.
00:26:49.48\00:26:52.92
But somehow like, I
know God was protecting us.
00:26:52.93\00:26:55.76
So we've been--
and looking back,
00:26:55.77\00:26:57.77
you know, just
standing there on the bridge.
00:26:57.78\00:26:59.49
Thankfully the
lady in the car was--
00:26:59.50\00:27:01.80
The other driver in
the car was okay. Yeah.
00:27:01.81\00:27:04.18
But just looking
there on the bridge
00:27:04.19\00:27:07.03
and seeing like
what could have happened.
00:27:07.04\00:27:09.81
And if the timing
had been any different,
00:27:09.82\00:27:12.98
it just made me
realize like how,
00:27:12.99\00:27:17.02
how valuable life is. Yes.
00:27:17.03\00:27:19.03
You know, and how I needed
00:27:19.04\00:27:21.40
to take life
more seriously. Yes.
00:27:21.41\00:27:23.34
And how some of
the like trivial things
00:27:23.35\00:27:25.31
like really don't
matter. Yes. You know. Yeah.
00:27:25.32\00:27:27.69
That we get
caught up in so much.
00:27:27.70\00:27:29.80
So here's a life
and death situation.
00:27:29.81\00:27:32.36
And you started realizing wait.
00:27:32.37\00:27:34.96
You know, it's
not just every day,
00:27:34.97\00:27:36.57
not just getting
up and fooling around.
00:27:36.58\00:27:39.79
Now I need to, I
mean, God saved my life
00:27:39.80\00:27:42.39
and it must be for a purpose.
00:27:42.40\00:27:44.29
And it puts your
mind on a different track
00:27:44.30\00:27:46.89
and you really do
want to draw nearer to Him.
00:27:46.90\00:27:50.69
God wants us to
draw nearer to Him
00:27:50.70\00:27:52.66
and I'm gonna ask Carmen
00:27:52.67\00:27:53.70
to close this
with a word of prayer.
00:27:53.71\00:27:56.67
Dearly, Father
Lord, thank You so much
00:27:56.68\00:27:58.62
for taking an interest
in sinful humanity here.
00:27:58.63\00:28:02.16
And Lord, help us to
realize our great need of You
00:28:02.17\00:28:05.90
and to draw
closer to You each day,
00:28:05.91\00:28:08.00
and to come to that
higher experience with You.
00:28:08.01\00:28:09.92
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:28:09.93\00:28:11.13
Amen. Amen.
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