Have you ever been
in Nashville Tennessee?
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You probably have, my
husband and I were there
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recently. I want to
tell you about something that
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happened just
recently. We will be right back.
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Hello, welcome
to Issues & Answers.
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Before we take you
to Nashville Tennessee,
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I would like to talk to
you a little bit about unity
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and togetherness. That's
what our program is about
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today. Unity, how we
can work together and make
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each other stronger.
Here is something that I think
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you would be interesting
in too. Once again today,
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this comes from the little
book "Praying God's Word."
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Once again today, God
has a will for your life.
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Christ has a word for
your life and the Holy Spirit
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has a way for your
life. Nothing is impossible.
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When we understand that?
We just want to share that
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with other people
because in sharing our own Faith
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grows stronger. My
husband and I were in Tennessee,
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in Nashville
Tennessee for a gospel concert.
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We love gospel music.
There are two kinds of gospel
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music, some of that is
repetitious and doesn't have
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it's much meaning as
others, but, but gospel music
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that is written based on
God's word. Really builds
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Faith and it's
tremendously encouraging.
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As my husband and I
were there for that concert,
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it was in this great
Opryland Hotel in there big
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delta auditorium. And
there were probably 1200 people
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maybe more. This
quoted from Nashville;
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legacy V came and sing the
song. We were so taken with
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it and so blessed. And
I wasn't surprised at all
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that when they finished,
everybody like one person
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came to their feet
in a standing ovation
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because that crowd of
people was so blessed and felt
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so ministered too and
so reached. I want you to
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listen to the words;
this is the words of the song
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they're saying. The title
of it's, "What Faith Does."
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You ask me why? I
believe like I do.
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Why I'm so convinced
that the Bible is true?
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Well, I'm here to
tell you it's only because,
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I have come through
enough to see, what Faith does?
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Have you come through
enough to see what Faith does?
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Faith seized the invisible.
Believes the impossible,
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receives the
incredible no matter what was?
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Faith moves the unmovable.
The Immovable Proves the
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Un provable for anyone,
anyone willing to trust.
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Believe and you
will see what Faith does?
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If there is a mountain
that stands in your way from
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all you can see, it
will be there to stay.
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God said, with a Faith
of a small mustard seed.
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That mountain will move
believe and you will see
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Faith seized the invisible.
Believes the impossible,
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receives the
incredible, no matter what was?
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Faith moves the immovable,
proves the un provable
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for anyone,
anyone willing to trust.
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Believe and you
will see what Faith does?
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Believe and you
will see what Faith does?
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There is a question for
you, has your Faith grown
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stronger as you have gotten
to, to meet God in his word
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and in your prayer time.
And you just have the sense
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of urgency and great
desire to find someone,
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who needs their
Faith strengthens.
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I believe this is how
God works. He, he do leads us
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to people. And he says,
now be a blessing in this
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person's life. My guest
today is Kelly Veilleux.
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A dear friend from
Northern New England,
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up in the cold, cold
country, but it gets warm
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and beautiful in the
summer. Thank with us.
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So, Kelly welcome.
Thank you. Glad you're here.
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Do you believe that
Faith moves the immovable?
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Absolutely! Amen. And
proves the un provable
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for anyone willing to
trust. And it's seized the
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invisible. Amen.
Faith believes and,
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and we walk by
Faith, not by side,
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but how does it helps?
Then to get with other people,
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who are also
growing in their Faith.
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Have you seen the
importance of that?
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Yes, I have. In fact,
it's kind a like one of the
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prayer partners in my area says,
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it's like a safety net
under each others prayers,
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when we pray for each
other, to be able to here
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someone agree with my
prayer or to take my prayer
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even to another level
maybe something that I hadn't
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thought of, but
while I was praying,
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she thought of that.
And so prays it for me.
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And what a beautiful
experienced to pray together
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that way. It really
brings us into unity.
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And it does something,
when you hear someone mention
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your name in
prayer. And to see that,
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that there is
something about togetherness.
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God's people
coming together. Amen.
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To strengthen one another.
Kelly, you have something
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very unique going on. In
Maine and that whole area
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of a Northern New
England. How many years ago,
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Kelly started something.
You won't believe this,
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but it's true,
it's absolutely true.
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They started a 6 A.M;
prayer Telle conference,
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they get on the phone
every single morning at
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6 'O' clock. And
how many of you do this?
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How many in a
group, in your group.
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Well, there is, there is
a core four or five of us,
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but some mornings
it can be 6 or 8 or 10.
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This morning,
there was 7 on the line.
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And how long ago
did you start that?
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So, there could be four
usually always, but yeah,
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it fluctuate to
maybe more. Yes. In that,
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how long ago did you start this?
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And you have been
doing it every single day.
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Yes, we're, we just
entered into our third year
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of every single morning.
And it's been a blessing.
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I could just tell
you story-after-story of
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blessings that have,
have come the Lord has been
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moving in our
conference in some mighty ways.
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And we believe that it
is indirect correlation and
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answer through prayer.
So, what he is doing is,
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bringing unity, not
only to your little group and
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togetherness and
strengthening and bonding
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that group and also
strengthens the bond with
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himself, yes, but it's
also having an affect on the
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wider church body yes,
because you're praying not
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only for yourselves,
but you're praying for the
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body of Christ. Amen, and
that was really our focus,
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when we first begin was
to start a ten day coming
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together and praying
for the outpoint of the
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Holy Spirit,
that's would started that.
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So, when you first did
this, you didn't have plans,
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no, that still being
then, no, together nearly three
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years later. No, it
was, it was a ten day focus.
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And we were so blessed
by the end of the ten days
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that we decided that we
just won't ready to stop,
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we just wanted to keep
going. And so, it was open
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into that that point well.
Let's just keep going then.
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And we were so enjoying,
the fellowship of coming
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together in the morning
and praying together the,
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it just has been
part of our lives.
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There is a tremendous
strength in coming together
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to encourage one another.
And you know, that's not
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just a good idea. That is
a command found in Hebrews,
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that's right. Where Paul
says, encourage one another
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in the Lord. Amen. So,
God wants his people to come
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together to encourage
each other. Amen, and you know.
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It only takes half a
brain to be critical.
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Anyone can could criticized,
anyone can tare down,
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if you don't like
what your Pastor is doing
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and you want to point
out false. You can do that,
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but you're hurting yourself
and you're hurting other
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people. It's, it's very,
very damaging and harmful,
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but when you are coming
together to encourage one
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another. Amen.
It's edifying it builds
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and it's strengthens. Well,
at the end of our ten days.
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So, after praying for the
outpoint of the Holy Spirit,
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which we had did
received. He gave us the vision
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and the desire to
keep praying and to,
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and he began to
give us areas to focus.
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And so, one of the,
one other things that we do
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every morning as we,
we pray for our specific
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Pastor of the
day. In our conference,
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we have around 28 to 30 Pastors.
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And so, it works well
to have each of them have
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their own day of the
month. So, they know, that once
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a month, they're
gonna be prayed for by name.
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Yes, they do. And
sometimes, we're able to follow
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through and actually get
a hold of them and find out,
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what their, their
request or other needs that are
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going on in their district.
Other times, if we can't
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make that contact well.
We just continue to pray
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and in general areas,
but also maybe what they
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have share with this
from the month before.
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And sometimes the Pastors
even come on the line with
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us. And that's good. That's
what it's a real blessing.
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That's, so that's one of
the key things we do as pray
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for the Pastors
then in our second year,
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when we began our second
year, we decided to add the
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teachers in our
conference also to that.
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So, we just finished the
school year of praying for
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a different teacher each
day and bringing them before
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the Lord. And their
district and their school.
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I think that is so
important because you know,
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Pastors and teachers
in Christian's schools.
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Do not walk an easy
walk. No. They have a very
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difficult role to
play. And so they need the
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encouragement and the
strength of coming together.
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That's right. For the
encouragement and help.
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I wanted to stop here
just a minute Kelly and role
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back a little bit I, I
can just hear somebody saying.
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Well, that's good,
but how in the world,
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does it's work. How are
the mechanics of this possible?
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There is a great
organization and you can
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find out on the internet,
www.greatercalling.com.
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Greatercalling.com. You
can go to that organization
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and they give you a free
phone number then your next
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responsibility is to
just get that to the people,
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who are going to be
coming together for that phone
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call. And in most
cases, it is a free call.
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Many people now have
unlimited long distance
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calling, but if you
don't it is minimal, minimal
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charge. So, this is why?
It has been so easy for you
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to get your group
together because there is really
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basically no cost involved.
Yes. And it has been such
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a joy. I joining that
group and then and I'm always
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so blessed. Amen. Tell
us Kelly, what has happened,
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as these people come together
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day-after-day-after-day.
And just lift up one
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another and lift I know,
that they have been praying
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for seven unsaved
husbands. Seven husbands,
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who are unbelievers?
And we're seeing progress,
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aren't we? Yes,
we're, we certainly are.
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We, we, we came up with
the seven name the first year.
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And at the end of the
first year, one gave his heart
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to the Lord. And he was a
baptized; we're praising the
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Lord for that. Wonderful!
So, we were able to replaces
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name with another name.
And we will continuing forward
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and every one of the
wives report on a regular basis
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to us that. The little
things and big things, yes,
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that God is doing in
their homes. When they know,
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that they're being
prayed for that let that,
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it just really, they,
they, they're aware of seeing
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God's moving in
their husbands heart.
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And I believe that God
can do more. Yes. As a result
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of all of those prayers
on a daily regular basis.
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Yes, while you
have heard that saying.
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When we work, we work,
but when we pray God works.
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That's right. And that's
really the picture of what,
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of what this is. You
know, many churches are small
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and not able to have for a
meeting on a regular basis.
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That's right. And
some that do, they struggle
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what really had to do an
affective prayer meeting.
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And that something
in my conference that
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we're desiring to teach
into model through the churches,
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all the churches is how to
have really truly affective
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Holy Spirit you know,
powerful prayer meeting
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because that what
God desires to do.
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And, and so by having the
prayer line in the morning.
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It enables folks from
all over the conference,
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we have geographically.
Our conference is spread out
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over three states. And so
we would now, ordinary early
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be able to get
together this particular group.
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We have some from way
up in Vermont and up in the
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Northern part of Maine.
And, and just all over that
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gather together on
that phone in the morning.
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And, and become the body
of Christ praying together.
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That also.
Beautiful, that's beautiful.
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And you know, there is
something that has happened
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within that group, they
know, that God meets with
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them. Amen. They know
how necessary this group has
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become and how important
it is to church at large.
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Yes. And the thing that I
have as I have been on from
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time-to-time is, it's not
only the sharing of prayer
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request, but it's
also the, the that stories,
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the testimonies,
the answered prayers.
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There is just a lot
of encouragement there.
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Amen, yes. And we have
one lady that has been on the
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line about a year with us
now. And she just came back
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to church after having
been away for many, many years.
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And it has just been
back to church just a year.
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Didn't you say, that she
had been gone from church
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for 40, 40 years. Yeah.
And, now one of the first
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thing that she does, when
she comes back to church is
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to get involved in
the 6 A. M. prayers.
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It felt wonderful.
Yes, well you know,
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she and her own before
she came on the line in her
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own time, she was
saying Lord teach me to pray.
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I know, there is more
to this. Teach me to pray
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and little did she
know, what the Lord had stored
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for her. She clearly
has the gift of intercession
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and she loves to
come on the line and pray.
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And in fact, she says, you
know, just read this little
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piece from her .She says,
since I live alone the early
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morning prayer line
connects me with others
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as we plead for
the infilling of the
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Holy Spirit. Sometimes
the Holy Spirit takes control
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of our agenda and
makes it's his own.
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Now, you're talking
blessings and she loves
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to pray. Isn't that
good? With the agenda of the
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Holy Spirit. And you
know, some of the issues in our
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life today, you look around
loneliness is a big issue,
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yes. People live alone
or they long distances from
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their families and close
friends. So, loneliness is
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a big issue. Another
issue is letting having the
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opportunities for
your Faith to grow.
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And this is, what I
see happening in your
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6 'O' clock every
morning group because people,
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who are lonely
look forward to this.
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They had got friends.
Amen. Who support them?
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And they're
needed in that group.
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So, it, it really
is an answer for them.
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Beautiful, amen.
Karen writes this,
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my five-year-old grandson
wondering into the room one
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morning. I was
praying on the phone line.
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Nana, he was pursed, his
eyes white, are you talking
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to God on that
phone. Yes, I wish for back.
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We're praying to God
with wonder in his voice.
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He whispers back. Nana, do
you have God's phone number.
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And I guess, it's true we
do have God's phone number.
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And day-after-day, he
meets with us and we know,
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that he is there. Isn't
that awesome, Oh! Beautiful God.
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That's beautiful. You
know, my husband doesn't join
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in the call at 6 O' clock,
but he hears my end of the,
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the prayer. And he
also sometimes hears,
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if I'm closing enough
to I'm, he can hear the
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whole thing because
he hears other peoples
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prayers and
responses and he loves that.
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There is just something
about God's people coming
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together, amen, in
this way. Amen, well that's
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what brings the unity in
the church. That's right,
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that's right. You know,
working together and getting
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to know, each other,
it's all part of unity,
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but when we really,
when we pray together,
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that's when we really
become heart-to-heart with each
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other. When we, when we
open of ourselves and share
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the, the depth of our
own experiences you know,
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Ruthie this is
something that's happening in my
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Sabbath school class.
That we have in our church,
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in my home church. And
what a joy it is to watch.
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How God is just moving in
the lives of each one around
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the circle? As we have
prayer meeting together,
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we have whispers
together, and we have our,
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our study time right
after our church service and to
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see, how the lives are
just being impacted and more
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Openness and Venerability.
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As they learned
to pray together.
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Don't you think that
people today really need that
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connectedness? Yes. And
they need a place where it's
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okay to share their
story, yes to ask for request,
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ask for prayer for
specific family members or some
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specific need. You know,
I get emails all the time.
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And probably you do
too. Someone will say,
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please pray for my son
and pray for my daughter.
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They're going through a
job situation or their housing,
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they have a huge problem
with their mortgage or and,
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and I'm happy to pray for
these people and to get this
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prayer request, but that
that's a different level or
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different kind of connectedness.
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And it doesn't somehow
mean the same as actually
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meeting face-to-face or
hearing the voice on the
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phone line. There is just
a different kind of support
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that you get that
way. That's right.
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Well, we really can become
the hands in feed of Jesus
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and love each other.
That's right, that's right.
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When we're in those
kinds of situations praying
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together. What have you
seen happening in the lives
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of the people, who
have been so determined?
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Because it takes, this is
a decision. You're gonna be,
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you're gonna resolve
that Jesus hears your prayers.
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And that you're going to
be their part of that group.
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It takes a determination
to go to bed early night
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to get up early in the
morning and to start with
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that group. What have
you seen happen in some of
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the lives of these
people? Well, I have seen growth
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obviously, huge evidence
of growth in the moving of
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the spirit in the lives
of some people, who have been
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church members maybe
even there entire life.
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That are willing to
their, you know, later years of
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of lives. So, you know,
70s and 80s up and there
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and yet there was room
for more growth and more depth
00:20:27.60\00:20:31.30
in praying
together. Especially when we,
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when we seek the blessing
of the Holy Spirit always
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do in our prayer time.
And so I'm seeing growth
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and depth. Kelly don't
you believe it's very possible
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to know the Lord, to
study his word and to attend
00:20:43.91\00:20:49.61
church, and to do the
things you know, that we have
00:20:49.64\00:20:53.83
been talk to do as
Christians, but still miss
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a big portion of his
blessings. Yes. The joy,
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the joy of supporting one
another and of being part of
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a group, Where Faith
is growing. That's right.
00:21:06.36\00:21:08.93
We just read the words of
that song Faith seized the
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invisible. Amen. And,
and scripture teaches that.
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We walk by Faith, not
by side. So, that means
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we can't see the things
that we're asking for us,
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but we believe. The Lord
just recently brought into
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our class or study
class that we have a church
00:21:27.23\00:21:30.07
brought an
interesting person to our class,
00:21:31.26\00:21:34.62
who he the, the Lord
knew, that he was ready for some
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deep healing in his life.
And as he came the first few
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weeks and began to just
open up a little bit at a
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time and sharing
allow us to pray for him
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and to witness to him. He
kept coming back and within
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probably about a
month after bieng with us.
00:21:53.55\00:21:55.67
and praying with us. He
shared one time as during
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our circle of prayer you
know how they gets very open
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and honest, absolutely.
And he shared that his,
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the God have brought
conviction in his heart
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for a lifestyle of homosexuality
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that he had been living.
And it was really want him to
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just lay it all down
and say God set me free.
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I don't wanna
live this life anymore,
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come and set me free,
and I. But don't you believe
00:22:19.94\00:22:22.77
that he was gaining
strength from single lives,
00:22:22.80\00:22:27.32
yes, the Christians
around them, definitely.
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Who were living a
life of victory, amen,
00:22:29.06\00:22:32.98
and this gave him the
Faith to ask the Lord.
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That's right,
that's right, the hope.
00:22:36.07\00:22:37.16
That's right. To ask
him, to help him overcome
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the strong hold in his
life. it's exactly right.
00:22:41.28\00:22:43.88
Ruthie, and you know,
the, the beautiful part about
00:22:43.91\00:22:45.91
this is, when God
brings these people to our
00:22:45.94\00:22:48.58
churches, we don't have
to run out and point out the
00:22:48.61\00:22:51.36
sins in their lives.
No. And try to tell them,
00:22:51.39\00:22:53.47
what they need to overcome.
No. But we can just love
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them. That's right. And,
and live that example in front
00:22:55.80\00:22:58.74
of them. And by leading
them to the throne over and
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over again.
They're experiencing,
00:23:01.94\00:23:03.91
the outpoint of the Holy
Spirit and he brings that
00:23:03.94\00:23:06.91
conviction of sin in
their lives and awesome things
00:23:06.94\00:23:08.92
happen and so, you know,
this man has been on this
00:23:08.95\00:23:12.20
incredible journey and
has allowed us to be a part of
00:23:12.23\00:23:14.92
that journey, which is just
exciting and, and our prayer
00:23:14.95\00:23:17.73
we treat that we just
recently having last few
00:23:17.76\00:23:19.97
weeks. He shared
his testimony in full.
00:23:20.00\00:23:22.80
And it just ministered to
the hearts in a powerful way
00:23:22.83\00:23:27.34
because he was
willing to get up and share.
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And you know, Kelly,
there is something that happens,
00:23:29.32\00:23:32.05
when you hear, when you
own mouth says something
00:23:32.83\00:23:36.53
and your ears hear you
say that. Yes. It just makes a
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very indelible
impression on your heart that
00:23:41.42\00:23:44.75
what you're saying is
true. And so when you are giving
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your testimony of what
God has done in your life.
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It, it just deepens that
awareness in your own heart.
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Yes. So, this is why we're
told to share and to glorify
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God, it doesn't
glorify the sin, but it shows
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the power, amen,
of God. That's right.
00:24:06.10\00:24:08.54
And so he will be
stronger because God gave him
00:24:08.57\00:24:12.27
the courage to do
that. Amen, and I'm seeing
00:24:12.30\00:24:14.80
it already just in a few
weeks. Isn't that wonderful.
00:24:14.83\00:24:17.23
You know, Ruthie, I
really believe that there is
00:24:17.26\00:24:19.23
so much more the God
wants to do for his people,
00:24:19.26\00:24:22.25
corporately
together. I believe that.
00:24:22.28\00:24:24.34
If we will just
come together in,
00:24:24.37\00:24:25.99
in the wilderness to
be unified and prayer.
00:24:26.02\00:24:28.88
That's right. And
I'm, and you know,
00:24:28.91\00:24:30.12
sometimes churches are
resistant to really go to,
00:24:30.15\00:24:34.09
to the full prayer
meeting experience.
00:24:34.12\00:24:36.91
You know, still wanting to
make it maybe a Bible study
00:24:36.94\00:24:39.42
or a focus on a particular
book all of, which are good,
00:24:39.45\00:24:42.39
we need the Bible
study. Obviously, but we need
00:24:42.42\00:24:45.12
prayer meeting to
be real prayer meeting
00:24:45.15\00:24:47.18
where the entire time
is just devoted to really
00:24:47.21\00:24:50.95
sharing and praying and
lifted, lifting each other
00:24:50.98\00:24:53.36
up. Okay. As
brothers and sisters,
00:24:53.39\00:24:54.90
that's what they
were doing in acts.
00:24:54.93\00:24:56.55
That's right. In the
early church. That's right,
00:24:56.58\00:24:58.11
that's the acts
model. Amen. And you know,
00:24:58.14\00:25:01.05
Kelly I love the story,
this experience that happened
00:25:01.08\00:25:04.13
in Apopka
Florida, not too long ago.
00:25:04.16\00:25:08.42
This young man
Kevin, who had huge estate,
00:25:08.98\00:25:14.88
he have a big job
making six figure income,
00:25:14.91\00:25:20.53
but he also had a
cocaine habit and through that
00:25:21.14\00:25:24.75
he lost his family, lost
his job, he lost everything.
00:25:24.78\00:25:28.65
One day, he decided that
he was going to just comment
00:25:28.68\00:25:32.25
suicide. His mother
was praying for him.
00:25:32.28\00:25:37.04
So, he went to
her Pastor's office.
00:25:37.07\00:25:40.29
Derek Morris and
he told him the story.
00:25:40.32\00:25:43.22
And he said, this
is just a way it is,
00:25:43.25\00:25:45.45
I have had everything
and now I have nothing,
00:25:45.48\00:25:47.96
but Derek looked
at him and he said,
00:25:48.64\00:25:50.62
Kevin are you
willing. He said, I just think
00:25:50.65\00:25:53.61
you need to be ministered
to by the body of Christ.
00:25:53.64\00:25:57.95
Would you be willing to
come to prayer meeting tonight
00:25:57.98\00:26:00.00
and tell your story
there and let people love you
00:26:00.03\00:26:02.73
and pray for you,
amen, and ministered to you?
00:26:02.76\00:26:04.93
He said what can I
herd? So, he went, he note at
00:26:04.96\00:26:11.54
the front people
surrounded him laid hands on him
00:26:11.57\00:26:15.64
and prayed for him. And
he, he just has made tremendous
00:26:15.67\00:26:20.72
phenomenal progress.
Now, if you and maybe you saw
00:26:20.75\00:26:25.47
him because you were
there. Now, at the alter on
00:26:25.50\00:26:30.12
Wednesday night at prayer
meeting, if there is someone
00:26:30.15\00:26:32.67
there with a problem
with alcohol or drugs,
00:26:32.70\00:26:36.56
you will see Pastor
Morris, motion to Kevin,
00:26:36.59\00:26:39.85
Kevin come over here. And
he appoint to this person.
00:26:39.88\00:26:43.05
Kevin will go over to that
person, put an arm on their
00:26:43.08\00:26:46.23
shoulder and pray for them,
whispering their ear, amen,
00:26:46.26\00:26:48.83
and pray for them, beautiful.
00:26:48.86\00:26:49.98
That is strengthening
Kevin. That's right.
00:26:50.01\00:26:52.22
But he said, I really
didn't know that there was hope
00:26:52.25\00:26:54.79
until these people
gathered around me and decided,
00:26:55.45\00:26:59.02
it's okay, whatever
you've done in the past,
00:26:59.05\00:27:01.88
we know over God, amen,
who can save you and change
00:27:01.91\00:27:05.19
you, turn you around
completely. And it was
00:27:05.22\00:27:07.81
through their eyes
that he could see God, amen.
00:27:07.84\00:27:12.17
He could look in to
their, their eyes and see that,
00:27:12.20\00:27:15.54
they were giving him
hope and encouragement.
00:27:15.57\00:27:18.72
Amen. So, I just
want to encourage you,
00:27:18.75\00:27:23.01
if you're in a church,
ask the Lord how you can be
00:27:23.04\00:27:27.83
used to strengthen the
body of Christ. Amen. By coming
00:27:27.86\00:27:32.21
together in a group
and praying together
00:27:32.24\00:27:34.51
and encouraging one
another as it says in Hebrews.
00:27:35.18\00:27:39.14
God has a plan and a
purpose for every life.
00:27:39.62\00:27:42.91
And he had the plan
and a purpose for you.
00:27:42.94\00:27:45.48
Whether your issue is
loneliness or something
00:27:46.13\00:27:49.54
specific that is just
that seems too big for you.
00:27:49.57\00:27:53.18
Share it, share it with
someone, share it with the
00:27:53.63\00:27:56.57
Lord. And you will find
hope and healing and then
00:27:56.60\00:28:00.70
you will find that God
has something for you to do in
00:28:00.73\00:28:03.51
helping those around you.
It's been good be together,
00:28:03.54\00:28:07.02
we will see you again
next time and God bless.
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