Magnify the Lord with me
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Magnify the Lord
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Jesus alone He is worthy
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Magnify Him
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Hello, and
welcome to Magnify Him.
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My name is Yvonne Lewis.
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Someone once said
that music like a magic key
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that opens the most
tightly closed heart.
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We pray tonight that your heart
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will be opened
by the Holy Spirit,
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moving through the
music, to bless you.
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Stay tuned and be blessed.
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Magnify the Lord with me
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Magnify Him
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Professor Shelton Kilby is
here with us on Magnify Him.
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Welcome, professor. Thank you.
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Thank you for inviting me.
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And you are my great friend
so I may call you Shelton.
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Please call me
Shelton. Let me adjust.
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You know, your playing
just reflects so much power
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and passion and we know
that it's a gift from God.
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When did you know
that you could play?
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When I was five years
old, I was tinkering around,
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playing by ear.
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My parents tell me I
was about seven years old
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when I really
got serious about it
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and realized that I
could play the piano.
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How many hours a
day did you practice?
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They were quite an
hour before going to school
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and an hour after coming home...
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And all there.
...and then you get going.
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So your parents said
an hour before school.
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Before school.
And an hour after?
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Yes.
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And then you
could go out and play.
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No, that's after the homework.
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Oh. You see, parents?
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They were pretty strict.
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That's incredible.
And I glad that they were.
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I didn't like it
when they did it.
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Yes, yes. But
it surely paid off.
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It has, it has.
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You have had quite a journey.
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You have been a
pastor, a professor,
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of course an artist.
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How do you combine everything?
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How do you like navigate
through all of these gifts
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'cause God has
given you so many gifts.
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You know, institutionally
it can be kind of hard
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because you know,
if you are a pastor
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then surely you are
not playing the piano.
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You are playing the piano,
surely you are not a pastor.
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And so I had to
decide if I was pastoring
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then a part of my
daily routine before study
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was to get up in the
morning and practice.
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Otherwise I would have lost it,
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and I just always felt that God,
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if He gave me that He, you know,
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and trusted me to be
the manager of those gifts,
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then it was up to me to do that.
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That's such a
good point you know,
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because God has
entrusted you with these gifts
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and that's something
that we all need to remember
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that when God gives us a gift
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we have to be good
stewards of that gift.
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What's your ministry now?
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I have a new ministry called
Shelton Kilby Beyond Borders.
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Long story short I
was invited for lecture
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at the H.M.S.
Richards Divinity School
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in La Sierra, California.
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And this ministry based
on the prayer of J Bass.
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I heard myself
play a few years ago,
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and was totally disgusted
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because it's
playing the same way
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I played 15 years before that.
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I ask the Lord for new ministry
and He imprest me to tell
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stories from the piano.
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So going beyond borders is
going beyond the status quo.
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It's not
important about the style
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and how a person feels,
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it's important to
tell the story of Jesus
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and so the music and the style
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become secondary to telling
the story of Jesus Christ.
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And you are telling
the story through music.
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Through music, yes. Praise God.
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What an amazing
thing. And it's exciting.
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And so what's the first song
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that you are
going to play for us.
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I'm going to play The
Church Has One Foundation.
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The Church Has One Foundation,
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that's one of my favorite hymns.
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Listen and be blessed
by Professor Shelton Kilby.
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A Negro spiritual
entitled Wade In The Water.
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Magnify the Lord with me
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Magnify Him
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It's a great honor to welcome
Belinda Mulzac to Magnify Him.
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Welcome, Belinda.
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Thank you, glad to be here.
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It is great to have you here
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and it's gonna be
even greater to hear you.
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You have such a
wonderful instrument.
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How long have you been singing?
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Oh, practically all my life.
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Since eight years old. Really?
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Do you come from
a musical family?
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I do.
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I am from Macon, Georgia,
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and my father was a jazz pianist
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and my mother
was a singer as well
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before they joined
the church, of course.
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And I've been listening to music
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all my life at home and...
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So music is a part
of you. It is, it is.
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Do you have a family,
children and all of that?
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Yes, I have two daughters.
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One Carla and one
Brianda, who's older.
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You have an interesting journey.
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Tell us a little bit
about your testimony.
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I've had a long journey
but I'll begin telling you
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about my ministry
within that journey.
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My ministry, I feel is
singing as well as other things
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that I love to do.
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Such as?
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Oh, I love
decorating, I love to exercise.
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Okay, wait.
Let's stop, let's stop.
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Decorating like
house decorating?
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Oh, yes.
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Is that like a passion of yours?
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It is, it is.
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So you have a
flair for the colorful
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and putting it all
together in the home?
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Exactly. Okay.
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I love doing that.
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So that's one of
the things I like to do.
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And I am a health
educator so I love exercising.
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I love trying to eat right,
don't always get it right but
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I love that as well.
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You love to exercise?
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I do. Oh, okay.
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So I cannot say
that I loved excer...
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I do exercise, but
I can't say I love it.
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What do you love about it?
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It just gives a natural high,
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the natural
release of endorphins
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after a run or jog
and it's just something
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you can't compare to that.
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That's true.
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Now I have to say, this morning
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when I was getting
ready to come here,
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I had to do my little work
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and I do this 15
minute thing on a rebounder
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and actually I did not
feel like doing it today
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but after I got on it
in I just felt better.
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Exactly. Isn't that right?
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Exactly.
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So you got
decorating, you got exercise.
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And do you incorporate
these things into your ministry?
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Not really. Not for...
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So these are just your passions.
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These are just things
that I like to do on the side.
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What about your family life?
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Tell us a little bit about that.
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Well, my older daughter
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graduated form
Oakwood last year,
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she's a nurse.
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And my younger daughter
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just graduated from
high school, Andrews Academy,
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so she is attending
Andrews this year as a freshman.
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Nice.
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So I'm approaching empty nests.
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Oh, that's got to be a
little bit weird, right?
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Yes. That's kind of be boring.
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He's kind of be
counted, thats felt.
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And you lost your
husband a few years ago.
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Yes.
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Tell us a little bit about that
part of your journey if would.
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Yes.
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I lost my husband five years ago
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on the 23rd of
July and it's so strange
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because we are
talking about ministry.
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My whole married life
was a ministry with his.
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How so? Well, we
traveled together.
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Was he a minister as well?
Was he a minister or pastor?
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Yes, he was a pastor
and he was also a professor.
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Oh, a professor?
What did he teach?
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He was professor of
Old Testament Theology.
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Wow.
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So we had just
done a missionary stance
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in the Philippines
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where he was a
Chair of the department
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and we would
sing and I would sing
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and he would preach and
we would go various places
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around the world
so that's past now.
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So I would say
that my ministry now is,
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you know, on my own and...
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Was it difficult?
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I know it was difficult losing.
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Was it difficult making
the transition from a couple
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in ministry to you as
an individual in ministry.
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Oh, absolutely.
It's very difficult.
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And of course, I went
through my period of depression
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and, you know,
having to take time out
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and I'm just really now
getting back to the point
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where I'm singing
on a regular basis.
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So it's been difficult. Yes.
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I would imagine so,
but one of the songs
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that you are
gonna sing for us is
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'Tis Is So Sweet
To Trust In Jesus
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and I kind of think
you can relate to that.
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I can totally relate.
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Tell us how the Lord
Jesus has helped you through?
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I tell you, Yvonne, the
power of the Holy Spirit
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leads and guides me in ways
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that I don't even realize, okay.
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In those dark
moments, when you don't know
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what's going on
and every Christian
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goes through that experience
and it's very difficult.
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But Jesus says that He will
never leave us or forsake us,
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that's why 'tis so
sweet, 'tis so precious to me.
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He is there, He is with me,
even when I don't realize it.
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And that is the key
to know that no matter
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what you are going
through, Jesus is there for you.
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So listen as Belinda sings
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and blesses us
with her ministry.
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God is so there for us.
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Hallelujah, home at last
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The redeemed are home at last!
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All heaven is
filled with happiness
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For the age of sin is past
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See the gates as they open wide
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See the saints
as they walk inside
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Singing, hallelujah home at last
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The redeemed are home at last!
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Oh, see the lame see the lame
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come a' runnin' a runnin'
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Hear the dumb
sing a song of praise
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While the blind are
outside and they can see
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And the old folks stand in place
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Around the great white
throne Near the King of Kings
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They clap their
hands 'Til the heavens ring
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Singing hallelujah, home at last
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The redeemed are home at last!
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Hallelujah, all day long
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I can hear the angels sing
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Then suddenly I hear Moses' song
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And the angels fold their wings
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The Lamb of God as He beckons me
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I hear Him say
"Come and dine with Me!"
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Singing hallelujah, home at last
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The redeemed are home at last!
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Oh, see the lame see the lame
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come a' runnin' a runnin'
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Hear the dumb
sing a song of praise
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While the blind are
outside and they can see
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And the old folks stand in place
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Around the great white
throne Near the King of Kings
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They clap their
hands 'Til the heavens ring
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Singing
hallelujah, I'm home at last
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The redeemed are home at last!
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See the lame come
a' runnin' a runnin'
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Hear the dumb
sing a song of praise
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While the blind are
outside and they can see
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And the old folks stand in place
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Around the great white
throne Near the King of Kings
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They clap their
hands 'Til the heavens ring
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Singing
hallelujah, I'm home at last
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The redeemed are home at last!
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The redeemed are home at last!
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The redeemed are home at last!
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The redeemed are home at last!
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I've learned
through life's journey,
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it is always so
sweet to trust in Jesus.
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Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to take Him at His Word
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Just to rest upon His promise
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Just to know,
"Thus saith the Lord!"
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
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Oh, how sweet to trust in Jesus
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Just to trust
His cleansing blood
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Just in simple
faith to plunge me
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'Neath the
healing cleansing flood!
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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
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How I've proved
Him o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace to trust Him more!
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I'm so glad I
learned to trust You
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Oh, precious
Jesus Savior, Friend
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And I know that You are with me
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Will be with me to the end
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Jesus, Jesus, how I love You!
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How I've proved
You o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for grace to trust You more!
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Jesus, Jesus, how I love You!
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How I've proved You
o'er and o'er and o'er
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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
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Oh, for Your
grace oh for Your mercy
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Oh, for grace
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to trust You more!
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And more and more
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And more
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Magnify Him.
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I pray that you were as blessed
as by the music as I was.
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I just feel as
though I get transported
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sometimes into heavenly
places with the beautiful music
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that we hear and
we can't wait to see
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what heaven is going to be like.
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So until next time,
continue to Magnify Him.
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