In the next 15 minutes
we'll take you through a story
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of personal pain and crises.
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We'll also show you how
a young girl named Kacey
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found real answers
to a tough questions.
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Don't go away, Take 15 is next.
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TAKE 15
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I'm Kevin Hart.
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Welcome to Take 15,
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program that takes on real teens
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with real problems,
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and gives them to God
who's got the real solution.
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Little later on this program
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you'll see a brand new
video from Alisha Williams
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and Gerard Michel
entitled "Never Alone".
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But first, a
story of a young teen
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who felt abandon
by everyone around her
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as she dealt
with drug addiction,
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pregnancy, and death.
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She's struggled
to keep her sanity.
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Then one night
something happened
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that absolutely
changed her life.
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Let's go and meet Kacey.
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I really don't have a childhood.
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My mother was too,
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you know, she was too
zoned out to take care
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of our
responsibilities at the house.
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My mother was
addicted to prescription pills.
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And I'm not sure
exactly how, how that's started.
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I think she was in an
accident when she was 19,
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I had heard this.
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She was in an
accident when she was 19
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and she never had been treated,
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you know, she
messed up her back.
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We never really had like,
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that
mother-daughter relationship.
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She was more
worried about, you know,
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her party and I guess.
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That's actually how I got
in trouble in eight grade,
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I've taken some
of, some of her stuff
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that she had at home.
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I, you know, had
some of these pills
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and I took them to
school and me and a girlfriend
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got caught in the
bathroom with them.
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My mom, now she was just mad.
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She was really upset
and we got to a huge fight,
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and I was in a
trouble for a while for that.
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And while I was in trouble,
I met my first boyfriend,
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but I was an eight grader
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and he was a junior in
high school when we met.
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So, pretty big
age difference for
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you know, that period of time.
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I guess you know, sex come up,
it was something that you know,
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he had asked me
about and I really,
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I guess I'm just felt
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like I wanted to
be like on his level.
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And I felt I guess
maybe if, you know,
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I did this 'cause you
know, he was pushing for an,
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maybe if I did this
I would be you know,
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up there with him, I guess.
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And then I got pregnant.
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When I found
that I was pregnant,
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I was devastated.
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You know, 16, didn't
want to be pregnant at 16.
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My mom was just mad, you know.
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She just was ready to,
ready to get, you know,
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get rid of the
problem, that's what she said.
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"Get rid of the problem,"
that's how she worded it.
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You know, she wanted me
to just go get an abortion
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and be done with it.
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And at 16, I wasn't, you know,
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able to deal with it,
the way that I should have.
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You know, you don't
think about the responsibility
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that you take
whenever you agreed
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to you know have sex,
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you don't think
about the responsibility
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and what that my mean.
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And at 16, I still
not thought about that.
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So I did what I
thought that I had to do.
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But I mean, I was
ashamed of it, I was ashamed.
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And then that's,
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when I really
started thinking about God,
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I was like, well, I
might as well given it up now,
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you know, God's not
gonna forgive me for that.
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Innocent, you know,
when innocent life...
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God isn't gonna
forgive me for that.
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So I was just,
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that was probably the
lowest point of my life,
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whenever I did that.
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After I had the abortion
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that we got
into just huge fight.
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She just got, she got mean,
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you know, like,
she normally did.
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And she you know,
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decided she wanted to hit on me.
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I wasn't gonna let her you know,
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physically hurt me
anymore, I was through.
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So you know, I hit her back
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and I've never done that before.
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And you know she fell
down and she looked at me
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and just said,
you know, "Get out."
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So, I left and I
lived with my dad.
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And I was, I was
a lot happier there,
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you know, I started over and,
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you know, nobody
knew about the abortion,
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which is a big thing.
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So I was a lot happier.
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And then I was in class one day
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and my father,
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I guess had called the
school and they called me
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and told me I need to go outside
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that my dad was
gonna pick me up.
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So I went, and I got in the car,
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and he told me that my
mother had been in an accident.
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She took some medicine
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and you know,
had a car accident.
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And she didn't make it.
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And then I got angry with
God because you know, I said,
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why are you allowing
all this to happen to me?
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You know, I just
felt he wasn't there,
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he wasn't paying
any attention to me,
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everybody else was, you
know, happy and I was just,
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you know, miserable.
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And just when
everything started to get good
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it's like he just
took it away from me.
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And that's how I
felt, I felt like you know,
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God just have forgot about me.
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Lord, I waited for you today
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But you didn't show
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No, no, no
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Lord, I needed you today
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So where did you go?
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You told me to call
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Said, you'd be there
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And, though I haven't seen you
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Are you still there?
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I cried out with no reply
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And I can't feel you by my side
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So I'll hold
tight to what I know
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You're here
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And I'm never alone
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And, though I can not see you
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And I can't explain why
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Such a deep, deep reassurance
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You've placed in my life
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We cannot separate
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'Cause you're part of me
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And, though you're invisible
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I'll trust the unseen
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I cried out with no reply
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And I can't feel you by my side
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So I'll hold
tight to what I know
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You're here
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And I'm never alone
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We cannot separate
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'Cause you're part of me
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And, though you're invisible
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I'll trust the unseen
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I cried out with no reply, Lord
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I can't feel you by my side
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So I'll hold
tight to what I know
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You're here
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And I'm never
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Alone
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Lord, I'm never alone
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Never alone.
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If you want to
ask me about the night
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that I actually found Christ,
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it was when the
night that I was afraid
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and you know, paranoid,
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and just I felt
just alone and scared.
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And I prayed you know,
to God and I read my Bible,
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and he just
lifted that off of me.
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He just made me feel just
so much relief that night,
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just relief.
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I always knew you
know, that there was a God
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but I never knew that
God actually talk back
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until that night.
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You know, I opened
my bible and you know,
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the first thing read was
just like he was speaking to me,
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just comfort.
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I'd never felt that before,
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I never thought that he
would actually listen to me
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and help me on that
kind of personal level.
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And you know, I
don't feel abandon anymore
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and I don't feel
forgotten any more.
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And I know that, I
know that even if I stray
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and you know, I
do some thing wrong,
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which I still do, I still do.
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I struggle everyday to do
the right thing but you know,
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you don't
always, you don't always.
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It's a process and you
really have to work hard at it.
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You know, its not
an easy thing to do.
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But it is in the
sense that you know,
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no matter what you
do, you can't you know,
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you can't mess up that
much to where you know,
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God doesn't love you.
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He will always,
always loves you.
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I know that God is with me
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and he's not forgotten me.
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Wow, that was
really powerful, Kacey.
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Thanks much for sharing that.
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Guys, it's time to get serious,
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it's time to be
honest with ourselves.
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You know, may be you're
going to some thing similar
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to what Kacey went through,
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perhaps you're
rock bottom right now.
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May be you've been caring around
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so many secrets for so long
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that you got no idea
what to do with them.
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You think your
problem and your decisions
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that you've made so dirty
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that you couldn't possibly
bring them to a Holy God?
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I'm glad you're
watching because I'm telling you
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that there is no
problem that God can't handle.
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I mean, there is nothing
that you can possibly have done
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that will turn
God's face from you.
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How do I know?
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Well to be honest with you,
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I've made a lot of
dumb decisions in my life.
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But then I read in the
Bible, in Isaiah 1:18, it says,
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"Come now, and let
us reason together,"
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says the Lord,
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"Though your
sins are like scarlet,
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they shall be as white as snow.
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And though they
are red like crimson,
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they shall be as wool."
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You see, God does not
care how far you fallen
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or how dirty you've become.
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All he says is
take my hand and live,
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I will give you a
new life as clean as snow
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and as white as wool.
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I know that a lot of
you are thinking right now,
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yeah, that sounds good for
so and so or such and such.
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But you know what,
what you are going through,
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a lot of other people
have gone through, you know.
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And that's why God did
not put a name in the verse
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because he meant it for you.
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King David said in Psalm 94:17,
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"Unless the Lord
had been my help,
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my soul would soon
have settled in silence."
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So how long are we
gonna stay in our condition?
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I mean, how long are we gonna
avoid the God that loves us,
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the only one that
can really help us?
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So, hey, why not a challenge,
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how about starting right now,
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we stop avoiding the
issues by going to the movies,
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we're going to the internet,
we're getting involve with sex,
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or picking up the
drugs, or the alcohol.
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I mean, lets get
real with ourselves
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and lets get real
with the God that we serve.
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Why put it off? Why
sweep it under the rug?
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What does he say, again?
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He says, "Come now, and
let us reason together."
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Jesus also said, "I
stand on the door and knock."
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You see, Jesus has already
taken the walk to your house
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and He's knocking right now.
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All you got to do is
get up and open the door.
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So there you have it.
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I mean, what are
you gonna do with it?
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You're gonna hold on to it
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or you gonna give it
to the God that loves you,
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the only God that can
really do anything about it?
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Don't let it fester,
don't let it get bigger,
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give it to God.
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He can handle it
and he loves you.
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Give it to him.
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