My husband J.D.,
has a precious habit,
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he leaves little
notes around the house
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that I can find just
in inconspicuous places
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and it always makes feel me so
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loved when I find them,
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please join us today
on Issues and Answers
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as we talk about
love notes from God.
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Hello and welcome
to Issues and Answers.
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We are so glad
you've tuned in no matter
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where you are tuning
in from around the world
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and today we are
going to be talking
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about love notes
from our heavenly Father.
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I want share one of
my favorite love notes
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with you, it's in
Jeremiah 31 and verse 3
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and this is the Lord
speaking and he says yes
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I have loved you
with an ever lasting love
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and therefore I have drawn you
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with loving
kindness, you know God
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wants us to understand his love
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and that is a
concept that's difficult
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to understand the
length, the breadth,
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the height and the
width of God's love,
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it's almost
impossible but joining us today
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is Dr. Janice Browne and Janice
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is going to be
talking to us about
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something that I believe is
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very important
Janice, we welcome you back.
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Thank you, it's good to be back.
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Now tell us a little bit,
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people may not have seen you
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here before tell us little bit
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about your educational
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background and your ministry.
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Well, I have a
Bachelors of Science
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and Psychology and Sociology
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from Oakwood University,
I have Masters of Science
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and Clinical Psychology from
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Alabama A&M
University and I have a
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Ph. D Degree from
Andrews University
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in leadership through
the School of of Education
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and a
Concentration in Psychology.
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So, why would someone like
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yourself who is
so highly educated
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and particularly in
the field of Psychology,
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why would you think it is
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so important for us
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to focus on God's love.
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Because that is
the greatest love
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that exists in a
world filled with chaos,
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and anger and hurt and anxiety,
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oil spills and all
kinds of terrible things,
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we need to fill
love and sometimes
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even in our own
families there isn't
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enough love for
some individuals,
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so we need to know that in spite
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of what's happening around us
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or in spite of the person who
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might be very lonely, someone
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today watching us right now
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might feel very lonely,
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you may feel very, very alone
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but God loves you
that is the greatest love.
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Amen, I always tell people it's
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something that
Lord told me to try to,
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he told me to say it every time
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I speak because
I think sometimes
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you may not understand,
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you might think yeah I know
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God is love but
could he possibly love me
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and here's what the Lord says
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that he loves you, your worth
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to him nothing
less than the price
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that he paid for you with blood
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of his son Jesus Christ,
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that's how much God loves you,
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that's how he
demonstrated his love
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for us Romans 5:8
says is by sending
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his son die for us while we were
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yet sinners, so if
that is what he did
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then think how much he loves
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us once we've accepted him
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and become children
of God, it's amazing.
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It's beautiful. Yes, it is.
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Absolutely outstanding, you know
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I as I think about love from God
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I decided that and I loved what
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you said about
your husband leaving
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you little love notes.
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I had a similar experience
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where we were
cleaning in our garage
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something that isn't very fun
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to do and one of the box
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I almost throughout had a lot of
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love notes that were written
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to me by my husband before
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we got married
and it reminded me
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of the love
notes that God writes
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to us in his word, you know
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the greatest lover really
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is our heavenly Father.
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Amen. In fact God
our heavenly Father
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is the greatest lover and the
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scripture in Hosea 2:19 says,
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And I will betroth
thee unto me forever;
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yea, I will betroth thee unto
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me in
righteousness, and in judgment,
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and in
lovingkindness, and in mercies.
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Some people are not married,
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but God says he
will betroth us to him,
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he will marry
us in righteousness
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and mercy and lovingkindness
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isn't that a wonderful love.
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It's a beautiful love.
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Isn't that a wonderful marriage?
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And when we think about it,
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he is not only
the perfect father
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but he is the perfect husband
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and he said you
know your maker is your
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husband and that's the whole
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thing in the Bible that's set up
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as the analogy
of actually marriage
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is like the example and used
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as the analogy
of the relationship
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between Christ and the Church
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and its meant to be a perfect
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relationship, so that is a great
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thing of love, a
great expression of love,
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when someone wants to marry you.
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So, what are some of the
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other love notes that you have?
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Let me start by saying first
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of all that God
really does love us.
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Amen. God loves
you, God loves you each
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and every person
that's watching right now,
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he has a special love for you,
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he says I rejoice over you for
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as a young man married a virgin
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and as the bridegroom rejoiceth
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over the bride so shall thy
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God rejoice over
thee. Isaiah 62:5.
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Amen. Love you God.
Isn't that beautiful?
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I love it. You know
one of my scriptures
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that I love I
mean as a love note
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is if I can find
it here, isn't it
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funny how you
know where these books
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are and then you start fumbling
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when you're on TV,
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it's Zephaniah
3:17, listen to this,
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the Lord you God in your midst,
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the mighty one will save;
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he will rejoice
over you with gladness;
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he will quiet you by his love;
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he will rejoice
over you with singing,
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can you just imagine,
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the picture I know growing up
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my idea of the Father God,
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I love Jesus but my idea
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of the Father was that he was up
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there on his heavenly throne,
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just watching, ready to zap me
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if I did
something wrong and when
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I read this
scripture I thought wow
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God is singing over me in heaven
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that is a picture that's almost
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unimaginable
but it's a wonderful
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thing, it's a
beautiful love note.
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You are right. And
it's so interesting
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you should say that my idea
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as a little girl was that my dad
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was my father and that was the
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only father and
it was only after
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my father passed
away approximately
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7 years ago that I really met
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my heavenly Father and really
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realized that he is my Father
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and that he loaned
me my earthly father.
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Amen. So the idea that my
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Father in heaven loves me
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is
overwhelmingly beautiful for me.
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And you know I
think it's difficult you
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were very blessed
because you grew up
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in a Christian home and
had a good relationship,
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a good situation in the home,
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some of us were not
so blessed and then,
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it's very difficult
my father was killed
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when I was six and
had an abusive alcoholic
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as a stepfather and
sometimes people grow up
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and they have had things,
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you know and I
just feel impressed
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to tell you if
you're watching today
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and we're
talking about love notes
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from God and it just seems
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so foreign to your mind,
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God these are not just words
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when he says
that God is loving it
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and that he loves you.
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This is real and I am sorry
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that you've had the past that
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you've had and
the hurts that you've
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had but we
can't have in our mind
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a picture of God
in comparing to our
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heavenly, I mean
our earthly fathers.
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The ideal God wanted the earthly
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father to kind
of be as his example
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and be that perfect father
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but many are not, yet we have
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to remember God
is, he is the ideal.
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Right. He really is. Amen.
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And if we just
accept him it helps us
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because he has
already accepted us
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and it is unfortunate that some
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individuals do
have horrid pictures of
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fathers that don't
love and that's why
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the love of God
becomes even greater
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because he will never leave you,
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he will never forsake you,
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he will never abuse you,
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he will never do those things
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that are hurtful and painful.
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God the father is loving.
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But Janice, how do you read
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to somebody who
perhaps is watching
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and had an
abusive father or a father
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that never affirmed them
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and they just you know
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can't get over
this and it's hard
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for them to connect,
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how did they
connect to the Lord?
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You know that is one of
the most difficult things
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for people to do once they have
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had fathers who have not been
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there for them
or fathers who were
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abusive or fathers who are not
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responsible or fathers who had
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illnesses such as drug abuse
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and other kinds of difficulties,
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it is very good for individuals
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of that nature, first of all you
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know we talk a lot about prayer,
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prayer is very important and the
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father can send people into
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the lives of individuals,
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who have never had those kinds
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of relationships and that's
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why it's good to have someone
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that you know and can trust
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and talk to, we call them
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mentors now, yes, they can
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help individuals to know
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what it's like to have someone
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who unconditionally loves you
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and that can be transferred
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over to our feeling for the
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heavenly Father
and it also helps
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the individual
to learn to forgive
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the Father who may have
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been all of those negative
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things to them, it takes
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a lot of prayer,
it takes a lot of work
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and sometimes therapy is very
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important the individual can go
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and talk with
someone, a councilor or
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a psychiatrist or a psychologist
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or a psychotherapist and
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talk about those feelings
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and what it feels like and
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also from that step they can
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begin to study about the Father
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and who is. We know that Jesus
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was the perfect example
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of what the Father is
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and was he said when
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you have seen me,
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you've seen the Father.
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In Hebrews 1:3 says that Christ
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was the exact, perfect
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representation
of the Father. Yes.
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So everything he was,
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is patient, loving, kind and
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gentle as Jesus
was so is the Father.
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That's right, that's right,
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can I give you
another love notes? Please.
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Satan wants you
but you are mine,
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and the scripture is from Luke
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22:31 and 32 and it reads
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behold Satan hath
desired to have you,
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that he may sift you as wheat:
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But I have prayed for thee,
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that thy faith fail not.
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Amen. Yours always, God.
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You know when I was in Ethiopia,
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we lived on a
compound and we come
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outside of the
compound and there
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was a little house, a very tiny
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little house, one room and
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there was a woman there
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called the sifter and so I knew
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about this text and I wanted
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to see how wheat was sifted.
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She take it and
she pull it down,
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she put it on this basket
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and then she'd shake it up.
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Yeah. Satan
likes to shake us up.
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He does like to shake things.
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He wants to shake us up
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but God says don't worry
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about it, you're mine.
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And you know I like what Jesus
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said in the context there is he
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said that when you have returned
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to me then you know strengthen
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your brethren
and you think about
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that Jesus was
telling poor Peter,
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hey I know you are going to fall
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and sometimes we think oh
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we've disappointed the Lord,
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you know how can I turn back
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to God after what I did,
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but he already knew what Peter
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was going to face and knew
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he was going to fall and he says
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but don't worry your mine
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I've prayed for you and when you
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return to me
strengthen your brother,
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your brother and so he was
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telling him in
advance you're going to fall
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but you're going to come back
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because I'm not going to
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let go with you, you know and
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I love that because sometimes
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I think that one
of the devil's tricks
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in the sifting what his snare
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is that he can sift us and
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make us feel that we have
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so let God down that we're
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filled with shame and guilt
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then he knows
that he can pass off
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that baton of condemnation to us
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and they we're
going to beat ourselves
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over the head and we avoid God
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because we feel
guilty, so that's
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a precious love note from God.
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It really is. And just
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knowing that he is actually
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praying for me. Amen.
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He is praying for
you, he's praying for you,
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that is comforting thought.
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Amen. Another love note? Please.
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Your sins are forgotten,
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sometimes we hold on
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to our sins and we think God
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holds onto to them too,
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but he says in Micah 7:19,
00:14:01.96\00:14:04.44
He will turn again, he will have
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compassion upon us;
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he will subdue our iniquities;
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and thou will cast all
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their sins into
the depths of the sea.
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Amen. And I would like to say
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never more to be remembered
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and it's signed, I don't
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remember a thing God.
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I love that and
you know in Micah 7,
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he does say too.
Do not rejoice over me
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my enemy Satan, when I fall
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I will arise,
when I sit in darkness
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the Lord will be a light to me.
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He is going to show us the way
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out and that is
such a precious thing
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to think about so you hold on,
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keep your eyes focused on Jesus
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the author who
can show you faith.
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He will show you the way out,
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'cause he does love you.
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Share another one please.
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Listen to this love note.
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You are going to love
this. 'Cause it's all scripture.
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I love it. Yes.
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You must forgive others. Amen.
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This is what the
scriptures say Mark
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11:25 and when you
stand praying forgive,
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if he have ought against any
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that your Father also which
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is heaven may forgive you
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your trespasses, Mark 11:25
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and it sound, it's signed
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proud of you, God. You know
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sometimes we walk around
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with our regrets and our anger
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and our hostility
and our resentment
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and our bitterness and then
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we go to God and we pray to him,
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but he says that's the one thing
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I can't do, I can't forgive you
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if you haven't forgiven others
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and we want to be forgiven.
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Well and I think when you agree
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that God asks us
to forgive others
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for our own benefit because
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he knows that when we have
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bitterness of anger in our
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heart the Holy Spirit can't
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flow through us. So, he asks us
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in my book
Pressing into his Presence,
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I put this
analogy the Lord gave me
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an illustration of
forgive, unforgiveness,
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if you could picture this little
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mountain stream,
that's coming down
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through the valley and
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it's just a little
shallow mountain stream
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but if you were to anchor a wire
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on either side of that and then
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somebody up the stream throws
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trash into the stream it comes
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and collects around that wire
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and then others,
other little bugs
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throw things in
and they collect around
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that wire and pretty soon
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just like a beaver would build
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a dam stick by stick that stream
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I mean it's dammed up,
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well that little piece of wire
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is representiveof
unforgivenes in our heart
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and then all of
the trash of life
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begins to collect around that
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and pretty soon it dams off
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we get bitter, resentful and
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the Holy
Spirit, the living water
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can no longer flow through us,
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that's right. So, I think
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what God tells us, you know
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every time he commands us to do
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something that's
actually a promise,
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something he
will empower us to do,
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that he will work in us to do,
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so it's wonderful
that we can let go
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and have God help us learn
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to forgive because even
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that's a gift and it's for
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our own benefit so
that we can be happy.
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I totally agree with you,
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I even think it's a miracle.
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Amen. It's a beautiful miracle,
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would you like to
hear another one? Please.
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God says, I will
always be faithful,
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you know sometimes individuals
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are in
relationships where the spouse
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or the friend isn't faithful,
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even between
best friends sometimes
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a best friend
isn't faithful but God
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says I will always be faithful
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and the
scripture that he has given
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us today is
Lamentations 21 through 23,
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one of my favorites,
this I recall to my mind,
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therefore have I hoped,
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it is of the Lord's mercy
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that we are not consumed
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because his
compassions fail not,
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they are new
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every morning. Hallelujah, amen.
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Great is thy faithfulness and
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it's signed
faithfully yours, God.
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Amen. He is faithful.
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Faithfully yours the God of new
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beginnings, the
God of second chances,
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halleluiah that's
how much he loves us,
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we mess up he doesn't just toss
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us aside and say
well done with you,
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so that's a
beautiful love note from God.
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Absolutely. And another one.
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Here is another
one, sometimes we
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want things, we have dreams,
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we have goals, we have ambitions
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and we think it's
impossible you know
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I can't do it I don't have this,
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I'm not equipped but God says
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what you're asking
for isn't impossible
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and the love
note that he gives us
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in scripture is
found in Matthew 19:26
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and it reads with
men this is impossible
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but with God all
things are possible.
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Amen. And he signs it,
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I'll make it happen God.
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Amen. You know
sometimes people pray
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and they don't think
that God is answering
00:19:17.07\00:19:20.15
their prayer and
sometimes we pray
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and we think if you are the God
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of the impossible why haven't
00:19:25.94\00:19:27.18
you done what I've asked.
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My experience has been that
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sometimes God's answered prayer
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and we just don't know it
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that his answer has been no
00:19:35.67\00:19:38.21
and anytime he tells me no,
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when he doesn't answer something
00:19:42.27\00:19:43.71
the way I wish it were done.
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It's always because he is
00:19:45.38\00:19:47.95
working on the
part of my eternal
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benefit and
that he has something
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better and usually we don't see
00:19:54.27\00:19:56.98
it for a little
while and we can be
00:19:57.01\00:19:58.53
frustrated and think oh God
00:19:58.56\00:19:59.84
if you love me you know you're
00:19:59.87\00:20:01.93
words you should
give me the desires
00:20:01.96\00:20:03.71
of my heart, of course it says
00:20:03.74\00:20:05.76
that we had got to keep
00:20:05.79\00:20:08.25
our eyes on the
Lord, trusting in him
00:20:08.28\00:20:10.54
and making him our top priority
00:20:10.57\00:20:12.43
to do that, but then when he
00:20:12.46\00:20:14.73
does do
something and what he says
00:20:14.76\00:20:16.54
no to one and you look down
00:20:16.57\00:20:18.27
the road and you think oh Lord
00:20:18.30\00:20:20.25
thank you that you answered me
00:20:20.28\00:20:22.27
no there because what you've
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given me is so much better.
00:20:23.57\00:20:24.54
I totally agree with that how
00:20:24.56\00:20:27.74
many times have you asked
00:20:27.77\00:20:29.56
for one thing and he did
00:20:29.59\00:20:30.81
something that was even better,
00:20:30.84\00:20:32.15
absolutely or how many times
00:20:32.18\00:20:33.17
have you asked for something
00:20:33.20\00:20:34.36
and you looked back and
00:20:34.39\00:20:35.36
you said oh thank God,
00:20:35.37\00:20:36.34
thank you father, amen,
00:20:36.35\00:20:38.44
that you didn't answer that
00:20:38.47\00:20:39.74
prayer the way I
wanted it answered.
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We have to remember that
00:20:41.95\00:20:43.08
he really does love us,
00:20:43.11\00:20:44.74
he really does care about us,
00:20:44.77\00:20:47.68
he really wants what's best
00:20:47.71\00:20:49.60
for you, he doesn't withhold
00:20:49.63\00:20:51.69
anything from you that's
00:20:51.72\00:20:53.90
not good he only tries
00:20:53.93\00:20:56.56
to guide us, lead us,
00:20:56.59\00:20:57.86
direct us and
give us those things
00:20:57.89\00:21:00.04
that will help us
00:21:00.07\00:21:01.04
in this life and
the life to come.
00:21:01.05\00:21:03.46
And you know when we think
00:21:03.49\00:21:04.64
about if he is allowing trials
00:21:04.67\00:21:08.26
to come our way, sometimes
00:21:08.29\00:21:10.04
people get confused by that
00:21:10.07\00:21:11.66
and they'll say well how can
00:21:11.69\00:21:13.19
God you know if nothing happens
00:21:13.22\00:21:15.83
without getting through him,
00:21:15.86\00:21:17.34
how can God do that but
00:21:17.37\00:21:19.12
here is one in
these little notes that
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I like and it's
talking about it's
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in James chapter 1 and he is
00:21:25.63\00:21:27.10
talking about
that God allows things,
00:21:27.13\00:21:30.64
he says my eyes aren't focusing
00:21:30.67\00:21:32.95
real well, anyway he talks about
00:21:32.98\00:21:34.89
knowing that he
allows these trials,
00:21:34.92\00:21:38.95
knowing that the
testing of your faith
00:21:38.98\00:21:42.95
produces patience and patience
00:21:42.98\00:21:45.73
we let it have it's perfect work
00:21:45.76\00:21:47.79
that you may become perfect and
00:21:47.82\00:21:50.06
lacking nothing, so I think God
00:21:50.09\00:21:53.02
sees a potential in us that
00:21:53.05\00:21:55.89
we can never reach
without these trials.
00:21:55.92\00:21:57.85
If life was just hunky dory
00:21:57.88\00:21:59.51
all the time
then you probably meet
00:21:59.54\00:22:00.97
people like this, that they just
00:22:01.00\00:22:02.96
had this life that everything
00:22:02.99\00:22:04.47
has been handed to them
00:22:04.50\00:22:05.47
on a silver
platter and they've never
00:22:05.48\00:22:07.87
had any problems and they never
00:22:07.90\00:22:09.82
reached their
potential because they
00:22:09.85\00:22:11.65
don't know what it
means to be shrived.
00:22:11.68\00:22:14.11
I think about people who,
00:22:14.14\00:22:15.35
rock polishers when they put
00:22:15.38\00:22:17.42
those rocks
into the canister and
00:22:17.45\00:22:21.60
then they roll
them and they bang
00:22:21.63\00:22:23.64
around and all this and here
00:22:23.67\00:22:25.38
this old rough
rock goes in there,
00:22:25.41\00:22:27.38
but once it's been through
00:22:27.41\00:22:28.99
the trail of that
polishing canister
00:22:29.02\00:22:32.29
it comes out and it's beautiful
00:22:32.32\00:22:33.75
and I think that's why
00:22:33.78\00:22:34.95
God trust us with trials.
00:22:34.98\00:22:36.51
I would totally agree with you.
00:22:36.54\00:22:38.13
Amen. We do need
some of those because
00:22:38.16\00:22:39.59
we've become
spiritually sedentary,
00:22:39.62\00:22:41.55
amen, you know just fat
00:22:41.58\00:22:43.73
and good for
nothing, complacent,
00:22:43.76\00:22:46.68
complacent and I think God knows
00:22:46.71\00:22:49.40
that if that happens to us
00:22:49.43\00:22:51.47
then he is going to lose us
00:22:51.50\00:22:52.76
and we are going to lose
00:22:52.79\00:22:53.78
our hold on him. Can I
00:22:53.81\00:22:55.58
give you another one? Please.
00:22:55.61\00:22:57.00
You know sometimes we want
00:22:57.03\00:22:58.35
to handle things ourselves,
00:22:58.38\00:22:59.86
sometimes we're self sufficient,
00:22:59.89\00:23:01.91
sometimes we think we know
00:23:01.94\00:23:03.56
better than God does. Well God
00:23:03.59\00:23:06.45
says let me handle it and then
00:23:06.48\00:23:09.96
he sends us a love note
00:23:09.99\00:23:10.96
in Romans 12:19 and it reads
00:23:10.97\00:23:13.71
Dearly beloved, avenge not
00:23:13.74\00:23:16.32
yourselves, but
rather give place
00:23:16.35\00:23:18.31
to wrath: for it is written,
00:23:18.34\00:23:20.63
Vengeance is mine;
00:23:20.66\00:23:23.46
I will repay,
saith the Lord. Amen.
00:23:23.49\00:23:27.97
And it's signed I will take care
00:23:28.00\00:23:30.08
of it, God. The
battle is the Lords, amen.
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That's right, exactly. Sometimes
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we are broken, sometimes our
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hearts are broken, sometimes our
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lives are broken but God
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sends us a love note
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in Psalm 147:3 and it reads.
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I love that one. He healeth
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the broken in heart and
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bindeth up their wounds.
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And it signed
your heart mender, God.
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Oh that's
beautiful. Isn't that fabulous.
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That's is
beautiful. I thought that
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was so pointed because I think
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of a broken heart and I think
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of the Father just sowing it
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back up with his love, with
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his very gentle tender hands,
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you see he is not human,
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he is all encompassing,
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he is divine, he
controls the universe
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and yet he comes down to
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little me, little
you, to little you
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and he binds up the wounds,
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he binds up the broken heart.
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Exactly. I love
that and he is the
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lifter he says Psalm 33
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he is the lifter of our heads.
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That's right. Perfect God.
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And of course this is one that
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you mentioned earlier the battle
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is not yours he says it's mine,
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exactly you know we think
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we have to fight every battle
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but we can't fight any battle
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without the help, the strength
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and the power of God and he says
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in Second Chronicles 20:15,
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Thus saith the Lord unto you,
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Be not dismayed by reason
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of this great multitude;
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in our multitudes
of troubles and trials
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and tribulations and
problems and difficulties
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and financial
debt, for the battle
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is not yours, but God's.
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God takes our battles
on, he takes our trials,
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our
tribulations, our sufferings,
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he takes those on himself
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and he fights those battles
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for us and he signs it your
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loving protector,
God. That's beautiful.
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He protects us.
That's beautiful,
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he takes care of us. Great.
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Another one, sometimes we tell
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people that I
will never leave you,
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we'll be together forever,
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you're my universe,
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you're my world,
you're my everything,
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we can never
depart from each other
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but sometimes those words aren't
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always true. God says we are
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going to be together forever,
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that's a promise he has made us
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and it's found in
First Thessalonians
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4:16 which is another one
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of my favorites, it says For
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the Lord himself shall descend
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from heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of God:
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and the dead in Christ
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shall rise first. Then we which
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are live and remain,
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shall be caught up together
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in the clouds to meet the Lord
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in the air and so shall we
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ever be with the Lord
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and it's signed, I can
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hardly wait to be
with your forever, God.
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Exactly. He wants to be with us
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forever and he will never leave
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us nor forsake us, that day
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is coming, when we'll be
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caught up together
with him in the air.
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And it's coming sooner
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than I think. Oh
I agree with you.
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Most people realize, so I think
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we have time for one more.
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Oh great, he says on
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that same note I am
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coming to get you very soon
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and you're
right, he is coming soon
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and he says to us
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in Revelation 22:7, behold I
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come quickly and he signs
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it see you soon, God.
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Amen, amen. You
know an experiment
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was done a number of years back,
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where a ruler of a country
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had taken the babies and he
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put them in a nursery and
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didn't allow any
kind of physical contact,
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even the nurses
that were changing
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their diapers
couldn't touch them,
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they couldn't speak to them
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and he wanted to
see what language
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these children would speak once
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they grow up if no ever
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spoke to them assuming it
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would be German
and what happened
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is all the
children died, they were
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love deprived, they were touch
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deprived and I
hope that something
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today has touched your heart
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and you realize
how much God loves you.
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Dr. Browne, we thank you
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so much for being with us today
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and hope that you
come back to 3ABN again.
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Thank you, I'd love to.
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And for those of
you at home please
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I encourage you to open up
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the word of God and find
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all of these love
promises in there,
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find out the
only way you're gonna
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ever get to know how much
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God loves you is to
read his word and accept it.
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