I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, and
welcome to 3ABN Today.
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It's always a joy to welcome
our 3ABN viewers and listeners.
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We appreciate you so much.
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You allow us
everyday to bring our guests
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right into your
living room, or you know,
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some people are writing
down the inner state right now.
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And they're
listening to us in their cars,
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and so you're
allowing us to bring our guests
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right into your cars.
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So thank you so much.
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We love and appreciate
all of you, it's your prayers,
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your love, your
support that encourages us
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and keeps us going everyday.
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So we love you and we thank you,
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and we welcome you.
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And today you're not
going to be disappointed,
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we have got some
incredible guests,
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don't we Jill?
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We do.
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And, Jill, tell our audience
what our subject matter is.
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Our subject today
is 'Victory in Jesus'.
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Victory in Jesus.
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I'm excited about
this program, Mollie,
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because we all need victory.
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We all deal with
stuff, with junk in our lives.
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There is habits,
there is temptations,
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there is
strongholds, any of that stuff.
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And no matter what
you're dealing with today,
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God says, "I
came to set you free."
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I came to bring
deliverance to your life,
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so we're gonna talk today,
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we're gonna share some
of our own testimonies.
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We're gonna look
into the word of God,
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and just see
what God has for us.
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The steps, the things we
can do to achieve victory
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in our walk with Jesus.
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So I'm excited
about this program.
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And we hope that, if
you're in a dark place,
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so you are in a
discourage place,
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that this program
will encourage you
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that the Lord Jesus
wants to give you victory.
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We have a
scripture, Mollie. Yes.
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It's 1 Corinthians
15:57, the Bible says,
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"But thanks be to God,
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who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Victory is a gift,
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God wants to
give us, His victory.
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And you know
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that's what we are going
to be talking about today.
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And I hope you get your Bible,
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because I know
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we're going to be taking
you to a lot of scriptures.
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But now, I would
like to introduce you
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to our guests.
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We have Yvonne Lewis,
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she's the general manager
of our Dare to Dream Network.
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Yvonne, it is such a
joy to have you here.
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Oh, Mollie, I'm
so happy to be here,
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you guys, this is a blessing.
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You know, in introducing
you as the general manager,
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that's what you do, but
you're a precious friend.
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And, Chris Shelton,
you're precious friend as well.
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Oh, thank you.
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We thank you so
much for being here.
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Chris, you're a pastor's wife.
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Now I remember, I was a
pastor's wife for years.
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And I would be
introduced as a pastor's wife,
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and that always...
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that was just something
that encouraged me so much.
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It was a joy to me to
stand beside my husband
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and support him, and
to minister to people.
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I know that's
how you feel as well.
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Oh, absolutely.
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It's such a blessing
to even have a small part
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in the Lord's work,
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and of course we stay
pretty busy these days.
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But we're blessed,
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and I'm blessed
to be here today.
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Thank you. Amen.
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And we have to say, it's
a joy to have all of you.
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Jill Morikone, who is
hosting with me today,
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You are the
administrative assisted
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to the president of 3ABN.
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Tell us a little about
what you do in that capacity?
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I was gonna
say, I just try to do
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whatever needs to be done.
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So you know, to me, my role
or you can say I'm a secretary,
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but to me my role is
just to lift up the hands
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of our president Danny Shelton.
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And to do anything I
can to make his life easier,
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whether it's
phone calls or letters
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or anything in that
capacity, scheduling,
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whatever needs to be done,
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I just do my best to do
it with the Lord's help, so.
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That I know that you also stand
by your husband, Greg Morikone.
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Yes.
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She's quite an asset
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to that production
department as well.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen...
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Did we introduce you?
Oh, I'm Mollie Steenson.
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This is Mollie Steenson,
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our vice president
and general manager,
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and a woman of God.
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Amen. Amen.
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And a wife, and a
mother, and a grandmother,
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and I've got a granddaughter
that's turning 18 next week.
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Wow.
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And that is...
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she is just such a joy to me.
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So we're all multifaceted,
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but what I
wanted you to know was,
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we're just people,
we're mothers, we work hard,
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and our hearts...
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the aim of our heart
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is to lift up the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And to share with you today,
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the victory that
we have in Jesus.
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But before we
go to that victory,
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we have got with us,
Veronica Boyd-Gillis,
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and she's going to sing
the most beautiful song,
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"My Peace," receive her now.
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My peace
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I give unto you
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It's a peace
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that the world cannot give
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It's a peace
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That the world
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Cannot understand
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Peace to know,
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Peace to live
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My peace
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I give unto you
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My love
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I give unto you
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It's a love
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That the world
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Cannot give
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It's a love
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That the world
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Cannot understand
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Love to know,
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Love to live
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My love
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I give
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Unto you
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It's a love
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That the world
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Cannot understand
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My love
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I give
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Unto you
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Thank you
Veronica, that is beautiful.
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Amen.
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Brought peace
into our very presence.
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Thank you so much.
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Well, I want to now
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just bring us to the point of
where our victory would begin,
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and where would
victory began in Jesus?
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Would began when you come
out of darkness and into light.
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When you make Jesus
Christ the Lord of your life,
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that is where
your victory begins.
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And so, I don't know about
you, but when I think about,
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when I met Jesus my Lord.
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The joy of my salvation,
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oh, what an exciting
time in my life that was
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when the burdens
of my sin rode away.
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Do you ladies relate with that?
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Do you remember that time?
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Sometimes I think,
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the most blessed
thing we can do for people
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is to put them in
remembrance of that time
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when thy first met their
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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So what I want to do today
is ask each one of these ladies,
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just to tell you about
that time in their life,
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when they came out of
darkness and into light.
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And, Yvonne, I
want to start with you.
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Okay, okay great.
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Oh, well, I hope I can
deal without starting to cry,
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because even
though it was so long ago.
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Crying is okay.
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It's still fresh
for me in the sense
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that God has brought
me a mighty long way.
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Amen. And
continues to work with me.
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I'm not where I need
to be, but I feel like,
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the Lord has
never ever let me down.
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Amen.
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I've been raised as
an Adventist Christian,
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and had gotten
into the music business,
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and had left the
church for several years.
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And while I was gone, I felt
like I was still an Adventist.
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I mean, if somebody had said,
you know, what church do you,
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what denomination are you,
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I would've said
Seventh-day Adventist
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without batting an eye.
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But I wasn't going to church,
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I started
working on the Sabbath,
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I had just really...
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I lost my first love really.
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And I remember my grandmother,
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and my mom had
died, when I was 19,
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and my grandmother
just stepped in to that role
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so beautifully.
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And she was a missionary,
and a Bible instructor,
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and she would pray for me.
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And I would send my
son to church with her,
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but I wasn't going.
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So when...
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but I began to feel
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like I needed
something different.
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I needed to
start reading the word,
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and I began studying
with my friend Yolanda.
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Yolanda, who is
now Yolanda Palmer
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and we began studying.
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And then my
grandmother told me that
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this new preacher was
coming to the church C.A Murray,
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and I went to
church, and from that day on,
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that marked the
change in my life,
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because I knew I was home.
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I knew that this
is where I should be.
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While I was in
the world, I wasn't...
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You can get
deceived into thinking.
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Oh, I see.
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I don't do drugs, I'm
not out there partying,
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I'm not out there
doing this and the other.
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So you think, you're okay.
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But if you don't have
that relationship with Jesus,
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you're not okay.
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That's it. That's right.
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So you can kind of
deceive yourself into thinking
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that works are the key,
but works were not the key.
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It was the
relationship with Jesus Christ
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that was really suffering,
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and He was so
faithful and so merciful,
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we just kept on wooing
me like that, like that...
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for a woman, like that guy
that just keeps calling you,
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and wanting to know you're okay.
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The Lord just kept
wooing me, and before I knew it,
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I was back with him.
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And I have never
ever regret it...
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Praise God. Amen.
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Ever.
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So from then on,
from 1985 until now,
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there've been
different struggles,
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there've been different things,
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when I first
came back to the Lord,
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I was, you know, I
was hooked on soap operas,
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I was in real bondage to things.
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Yeah.
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And the Lord, one by one
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just began to
change my appetite,
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and we will talk
more about those things
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as we continue to
talk about victory.
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But He changes your
appetite as you connect to Him.
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Amen.
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But He makes
Himself responsible for us,
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for our victory,
if we abide in Him.
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You know, something you said,
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and I know I can
relate with that,
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and when I share
in a few minutes,
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I'll tell you that too.
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But we didn't go
looking for God...
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Yeah.
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What happened, honey,
He went looking for you...
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Come on now... Yes, yes.
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He came to seek and to
save, that which was lost.
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He's not just the
savior, He's a seeker.
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Yes. Right.
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He's a seeker.
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Oh, I'm giving it
shout up in here now.
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I'm getting ready to
shout, 'cause He's sought me,
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He sought each of
us, He's seeking you.
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Yes. He's no
respecter of person.
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He wants you.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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He wants you. He wants you.
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And once you give
your heart to Jesus,
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I'm done, now I'm
preaching to the choir.
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Once you give
your heart to Jesus,
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nothing compares to that.
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You cant...
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there is nothing
better than that.
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So I'm grateful. Amen.
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Can I ask you, Yvonne,
was there emptiness inside
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even though you had all
this trappings of success?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Is that what kind of
drove you to the Bible into,
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was there emptiness or?
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There was emptiness,
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the first impetus
was a girlfriend of mine
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came to visit me.
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And I had been dating a guy,
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and we'd broken up
and I was brokenhearted.
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And she came with her
Bible, and she said...
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I said to her, "Oh, you
travel with your Bible."
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And she said, "Yeah."
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And so, she sent me...
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when she went back
home, she sent me a card
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with Philippians
4:6 I think it is,
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and from the
Living Bible, and it said,
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"Don't worry about anything,
instead pray about everything.
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Tell God, your needs...
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this is the Living Bible.
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And don't forget to
thank Him for His answers.
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And if you do this,
you'll experience God's peace,
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which is more wonderful
than the mind can understand.
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Amen. Amen.
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And I thought,
"Wow, this is what I need,
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I'm gonna get
myself a Living Bible,
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and read from there."
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And that's...
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that was a turning point.
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The witness is someone
who didn't come to preach me,
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who didn't come to
just beat me over the head.
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She quietly had her Bible. Amen.
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And she sent me back a
text, and from that text,
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that's what started.
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So I needed the peace of God,
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I knew that all
of the trappings,
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all of the things that
I had weren't getting it,
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because once you have that,
it's off to the next thing.
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Oh, I got this for a co...
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Now, what I'm gonna
do for, I'm serious.
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What about the next one,
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and I've ridden
in this limousine,
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and it's like what,
what, because it means nothing.
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That's right.
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Because it's
based on nothing real.
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So God reached right
down in the middle of that,
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and started drawing you to him.
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You know, as we're sharing,
as each one of us shares,
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the joy of their salvation,
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I hope that the Lord
by the power of His spirit
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is taking you back to that time,
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when God saved you
with His amazing grace.
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Amen.
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Chris?
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You know, Sister Mollie,
mine is a little different.
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But in some ways it's the same.
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And I love what she
said, that the Lord came down
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and He was the one
that was drawing us.
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And I've always said that
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mine was a
progress of revelation,
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because even as a young child,
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I had experiences that
could only come from God.
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And I knew that
His hand was on me,
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and I think I may
have told this to you folks
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at home before.
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But my home was not really,
it was never a Christian home.
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My dad was an alcoholic.
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I love my dad,
don't get me wrong,
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but he was an alcoholic.
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And if you were to
even say, he had his hose
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wound in a
certain little circle.
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If you touched it,
moved it just a little bit,
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you could end up black
and blue when he got home.
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Oh, wow. Oh, wow.
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So it was an
interesting situation,
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and I can remember one day...
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I don't remember
what the problem was,
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but my mother
was in her bedroom,
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and she was just crying,
and I was on the couch crying.
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And I remember somehow
maybe talking to the Lord,
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and reaching out not knowing
what to do, I felt hopeless,
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just absolutely hopeless.
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And at that moment, I
felt a big hand reached down,
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and it's like it
covered my whole body.
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But that peace
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that passes all
understanding came upon me.
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Amen.
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And my mother came out
and she was in the back room
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and we she shared our...
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I don't even know how old I was,
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I may be eight
or nine years old.
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Wow.
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And we shared...
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it happened to
her at the same time.
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Praise God.
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And we weren't always
in church all the time,
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but I believed
I had grandparents
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that were praying for me.
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And it was progressive
as a relation, you know,
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each time I would be
going to different meetings,
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and eventually
because of my health,
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I ended up living
with my grandparents.
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And they took me to church.
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And so when I was...
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I can remember
being in meetings,
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and you felt the Holy Spirit,
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and when you get these
Holy Spirit goosebumps.
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And I started asking
people, "Did you feel that?"
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I didn't know what it was.
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Did you experience that?
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And a lot of
people did not. Yeah.
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And it wasn't until later,
and, you know, we stumbled,
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I stumbled and
fell a lot of times.
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But, wow, thank God,
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He doesn't treat us the
way we treat each other.
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That's right.
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When we see a lost soul,
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somebody that maybe has been
in the church for a long time
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and they stumble and fall.
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We're so easy to
just cut them out.
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That's right.
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Have nothing to do with them,
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or we don't let
their stain on us.
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We've got a
little pious and good.
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And rather than going
and seeking and saving a soul
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and winning back a brother.
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Because I look back
in the things I wore,
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the things I did, you know,
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I think how could I
even call myself a Christian
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like you mentioned.
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I still always thought of myself
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as I was going up,
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after going to
church with my grandparents
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as a Seventh-day Adventist.
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But, you know, as I look back,
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I don't know that we
were actually living the life
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that we
shouldn't have been living.
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But He was so
merciful and so gracious to me.
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His grace was all sufficient.
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And it's just been
one thing after another,
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one experience after another,
and it's sill alive today.
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Amen. It is still alive today.
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When we were
talking before the program,
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you said, "As we get
old, it gets kind of boring."
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I'm thinking, wow, boy,
it's getting exciting to me.
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More exciting days to go.
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And some of the
most exciting times
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are when we were
out doing evangelism.
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Amen.
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I have seen God's spirit
work, miracles take place.
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Yes.
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Even one in Georgia,
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we were at a
little church in Georgia,
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and we were just about to start,
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may be three
weeks of evangelism.
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And we decided to have
a meeting with the church.
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And all of a
sudden, we didn't realize
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that there had been
some internal struggles
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in the church.
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And afterwards the Holy
Spirit just came down upon us,
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and as Pastor Kenny,
myself we were upfront.
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All of us...
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you know, these
thoughts came to my mind,
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and I had to
express them and he did too.
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And what we were expressing
were issues in the church
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that they needed healing on,
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and they needed to deal with
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before we could go
out and evangelize.
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That's right.
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And it was just, you
know, because of that,
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because the
church made it right,
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then God really blesses.
00:21:00.02\00:21:01.36
But we've seen
miracles healings,
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all kinds of things,
00:21:03.93\00:21:05.29
because God want
His people saved,
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He want you saved. Yes.
00:21:07.43\00:21:09.00
And there is no greater power
00:21:09.03\00:21:10.83
than the power
of our experience.
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And so we can test the Bible,
we can take those promises,
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we can claim those promises
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and when we begin to
live them Sister Yvonne,
00:21:19.07\00:21:21.94
that's when we have
this experience to know,
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this is not a
fable, this is real.
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Yes.
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And you're
plugged into the source.
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That's right.
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So I just thank
God for not giving up.
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I don't have just like a
one time thing, but it was...
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But as a child,
you've committed yourself.
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As a child, I
felt that drawing...
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And never pulled a button.
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You know, even
not going to church.
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My grandmother would teach me
about clean and unclean meats.
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Wow.
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And I can remember
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sitting in the back
of my mom's restaurant,
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and my daddy, he
would just be furious,
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'cause every
Sabbath he wanted to take us
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to little market in St.
Louis called Soulard Market,
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I love this, like
a big flea market,
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and I love stuff like that.
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And just as a little
child, and they were...
00:22:01.82\00:22:05.05
over there arguing and he
said, "Now she will need pork."
00:22:05.09\00:22:09.66
And I was eating...
00:22:09.69\00:22:11.43
my favorite sandwich
which was ham sandwich.
00:22:11.46\00:22:15.06
So I was eating ham sandwich
and he looked at me and says,
00:22:15.10\00:22:17.73
"What do you think that is?"
00:22:17.77\00:22:20.04
And I say, "Well, it's ham."
00:22:20.07\00:22:21.77
So it didn't
connect in your mind
00:22:21.80\00:22:23.30
that ham and pork
are the same thing.
00:22:23.34\00:22:24.94
I was too young, I didn't know,
00:22:24.97\00:22:26.94
and my mom was like, "I
can't believe you told her."
00:22:26.98\00:22:29.68
But as a child, not
even going to church
00:22:29.71\00:22:32.75
on a regular basis.
00:22:32.78\00:22:34.68
Once I found out
that, that was pork,
00:22:34.72\00:22:36.95
and I knew the
Bibles, I put it away.
00:22:36.99\00:22:39.42
Yeah.
00:22:39.45\00:22:40.79
So I know that God,
you know, as I look back,
00:22:40.82\00:22:44.63
how can that be
except God had His hand,
00:22:44.66\00:22:47.46
and he was teaching, 'cause...
00:22:47.50\00:22:48.83
I mean most
children today you think,
00:22:48.86\00:22:50.20
"Oh, please have
some conviction."
00:22:50.23\00:22:52.33
You know what I'm saying.
00:22:52.37\00:22:53.70
But it only could
have come from God.
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Praise God.
00:22:57.37\00:22:58.71
That's like with
Sister Yvonne's testimony,
00:22:58.74\00:23:00.28
God drawing you too. Yes.
00:23:00.31\00:23:01.68
You know, God draws us
00:23:01.71\00:23:03.51
with his course
of loving kindness.
00:23:03.55\00:23:05.38
You know, and He knows,
00:23:05.41\00:23:06.75
just what we
need in our own heart
00:23:06.78\00:23:08.55
and experience
to make that choice.
00:23:08.58\00:23:10.69
You each made a decision,
00:23:10.72\00:23:12.05
to make that
decision to follow Jesus.
00:23:12.09\00:23:13.76
Yes. Amen.
00:23:13.79\00:23:15.12
And that's where victory
begins is with the decision.
00:23:15.16\00:23:16.49
With the decision.
00:23:16.52\00:23:17.86
Making the choice
for Jesus. That's right.
00:23:17.89\00:23:19.23
Jill, tell us about
your choice for Jesus?
00:23:19.26\00:23:21.60
Oh, my...
00:23:21.63\00:23:23.77
We will condense this.
00:23:23.80\00:23:26.33
Right.
00:23:26.37\00:23:27.87
You know, I think I relate
especially to Sister Chris',
00:23:27.90\00:23:31.24
not in the sense of background,
00:23:31.27\00:23:33.07
because I had
incredibly godly parents.
00:23:33.11\00:23:37.41
Mom and Dad, home, we
had worship, we just...
00:23:37.45\00:23:40.58
they saw God and saw His face,
00:23:40.62\00:23:42.38
and that was a
beautiful experience.
00:23:42.42\00:23:44.92
But I think my choices,
00:23:44.95\00:23:46.96
my experience
would be gradual as well.
00:23:46.99\00:23:51.06
I can think of one experience
even as a little child,
00:23:51.09\00:23:54.53
wanting God,
wanting to follow Him.
00:23:54.56\00:23:57.57
Not really understanding
what victory was about,
00:23:57.60\00:24:00.14
not understanding
what the gospel was about,
00:24:00.17\00:24:03.04
but just wanting it, in
my heart and in my spirit.
00:24:03.07\00:24:06.34
And I know God was drawing me,
00:24:06.37\00:24:07.91
even from as far
back as I can remember
00:24:07.94\00:24:10.11
from a little child.
00:24:10.15\00:24:11.48
I...
00:24:11.51\00:24:12.85
one experience, and I
have shared this before,
00:24:12.88\00:24:14.42
but when I was a teenager,
00:24:14.45\00:24:16.48
my mom and I went
through a time of...
00:24:16.52\00:24:19.19
I went through a
time of rebellion.
00:24:19.22\00:24:20.72
It was not
rebellion on her part,
00:24:20.76\00:24:22.29
it was rebellion on my part.
00:24:22.32\00:24:24.93
Talking back, acting
out, just junk, you know.
00:24:24.96\00:24:30.63
And I remember
the beautiful thing
00:24:30.67\00:24:33.50
in the midst of that.
00:24:33.54\00:24:34.87
I was kind of at this point,
00:24:34.90\00:24:36.67
I had looked around and thought
I saw a lot of hypocrites.
00:24:36.71\00:24:40.34
Not saying that
people were hypocritical,
00:24:40.38\00:24:42.24
just in my judgmental mind
00:24:42.28\00:24:44.11
or maybe I was
looking for an excuse
00:24:44.15\00:24:46.21
not to walk with
God, I don't know.
00:24:46.25\00:24:47.75
But I just felt,
well, Christianity...
00:24:47.78\00:24:49.65
what I read in the Bible,
00:24:49.68\00:24:51.02
I don't see walked out
in another people's lives,
00:24:51.05\00:24:53.15
and so God must be fake
and I just don't want that.
00:24:53.19\00:24:56.22
And so, I made this choice,
00:24:56.26\00:24:58.39
God, I'm just
walking away from you,
00:24:58.43\00:25:00.00
and I remember the
incredible things is,
00:25:00.03\00:25:02.16
God changed my mom.
00:25:02.20\00:25:03.53
All right.
00:25:03.57\00:25:04.90
You know, the things
that she used to battle with
00:25:04.93\00:25:07.70
and struggle
with, God changed her.
00:25:07.74\00:25:09.94
Wow.
00:25:09.97\00:25:11.31
And I would lay awake at night,
00:25:11.34\00:25:13.24
and think now what happened
in her life, what's different.
00:25:13.27\00:25:15.98
You know, she used to
like, when I would get mad,
00:25:16.01\00:25:18.05
she'd snap back, right?
00:25:18.08\00:25:19.41
That's the
natural human response.
00:25:19.45\00:25:21.98
And all of a sudden
she quit doing that.
00:25:22.02\00:25:24.22
And so finally I
went to her and I said,
00:25:24.25\00:25:26.09
"Mom, what's different?
00:25:26.12\00:25:27.46
You know, what's
different in your life?"
00:25:27.49\00:25:29.02
And she said, "Am I
really that different?"
00:25:29.06\00:25:31.49
And I said, "It's
like night and day."
00:25:31.53\00:25:33.70
And she said, "It's
Jesus, I met Jesus."
00:25:33.73\00:25:36.06
Praise God.
00:25:36.10\00:25:37.43
And He changed my life.
00:25:37.47\00:25:38.80
Amen.
00:25:38.83\00:25:40.17
And that's when I
made I think that choice,
00:25:40.20\00:25:43.74
official choice.
00:25:43.77\00:25:45.11
God had been drawing
me since a little kid,
00:25:45.14\00:25:46.78
but that's when
I made that choice.
00:25:46.81\00:25:48.88
If God can do that,
00:25:48.91\00:25:50.95
if He can
transform someone's life,
00:25:50.98\00:25:53.68
if the Bible can actually,
the principles of the Bible
00:25:53.72\00:25:57.09
can be walked out in real
life, I want that in my life.
00:25:57.12\00:26:00.79
And so it was a
journey since that point.
00:26:00.82\00:26:03.19
There's been times
where God called for my heart,
00:26:03.22\00:26:06.39
and I said, "No, I
don't want to do that."
00:26:06.43\00:26:08.46
You know, I want
to do my own thing,
00:26:08.50\00:26:11.03
but then God just
gently calls me back.
00:26:11.07\00:26:13.64
And every time I
make a choice for Jesus,
00:26:13.67\00:26:16.14
every time I
choose to follow Him.
00:26:16.17\00:26:19.07
What you said
Sister Yvonne, the joy,
00:26:19.11\00:26:21.01
the peace that comes
from following Jesus.
00:26:21.04\00:26:24.45
There's nothing like
that in the whole world.
00:26:24.48\00:26:26.35
That's right...
00:26:26.38\00:26:27.72
Praise God. Yeah. Amen.
00:26:27.75\00:26:29.08
So what we've seen is,
all three of you at some point
00:26:29.12\00:26:33.62
made a conscious
decision to yield to God.
00:26:33.66\00:26:37.36
And from that point forward,
then it was a growing process.
00:26:37.39\00:26:42.10
You continue to grow in Him...
00:26:42.13\00:26:44.97
Amen.
00:26:45.00\00:26:46.33
Now my testimony is much a same.
00:26:46.37\00:26:48.47
I was raised in
a Christian home,
00:26:48.50\00:26:50.97
and always had
an awareness of God,
00:26:51.01\00:26:53.41
but there's
something that I didn't do
00:26:53.44\00:26:56.11
was make that decision.
00:26:56.14\00:26:57.48
I was 26 years old
before I made the decision.
00:26:57.51\00:27:01.02
And see...
00:27:01.05\00:27:04.65
you three were young, and raised
00:27:04.69\00:27:07.19
and make the
decision at a young age.
00:27:07.22\00:27:09.96
But at 26, I didn't
smoke, drink, and curse,
00:27:09.99\00:27:13.46
and run with wild men.
00:27:13.50\00:27:15.66
I tell people at 26,
00:27:15.70\00:27:17.47
the only wild man I
ever ran with I married.
00:27:17.50\00:27:22.27
That would be Pastor Hal.
00:27:22.30\00:27:23.67
Pastor Hal, yes.
00:27:23.71\00:27:25.21
But at 26 years old, we were...
00:27:25.24\00:27:31.05
I was a second grade
Sunday school teacher
00:27:31.08\00:27:33.21
in a Baptist church.
00:27:33.25\00:27:35.18
But...
00:27:35.22\00:27:36.55
and so I thought I
was pretty good person,
00:27:36.58\00:27:39.69
but I, you know,
Yvonne, like you were saying,
00:27:39.72\00:27:42.86
it didn't matter
how good you are,
00:27:42.89\00:27:44.36
if you don't make Jesus
Christ the Lord of your life.
00:27:44.39\00:27:46.70
Yeah. Then you have no hope.
00:27:46.73\00:27:48.83
Your hope is only in
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:27:48.86\00:27:51.93
Now I worked at a
place called Wolverine Tube,
00:27:51.97\00:27:54.74
I was the secretary.
00:27:54.77\00:27:56.10
You know, I've been secretary
as long as I can remember.
00:27:56.14\00:27:59.27
I've worked as
long as I can remember.
00:27:59.31\00:28:01.48
And one day, on
a Monday morning,
00:28:01.51\00:28:05.25
a friend of mine
that I worked with
00:28:05.28\00:28:07.38
came into the office,
and she came by my office,
00:28:07.42\00:28:09.78
and she said, "Mollie,
I got saved this weekend."
00:28:09.82\00:28:12.99
Well, she was
Baptist, and I said,
00:28:13.02\00:28:15.72
"Oh, Diane, you get
saved every summer,"
00:28:15.76\00:28:17.43
because the Baptists have
this big revivals every summer.
00:28:17.46\00:28:20.73
And every summer
she would go down,
00:28:20.76\00:28:22.96
and she would
rededicate her life to the Lord.
00:28:23.00\00:28:25.43
She said, "No,
Mollie, you don't understand,
00:28:25.47\00:28:28.04
I made Jesus Christ
the Lord of my life."
00:28:28.07\00:28:30.01
Praise the Lord.
00:28:30.04\00:28:31.37
And that caught my attention.
00:28:31.41\00:28:33.48
Now, what caught
my attention was,
00:28:33.51\00:28:34.84
as I was about to start crying,
00:28:34.88\00:28:37.18
and so I went
into the ladies lounge
00:28:37.21\00:28:42.62
there at Wolverine
Tube in Decatur, Alabama.
00:28:42.65\00:28:45.25
And Diane explained to me,
00:28:45.29\00:28:49.29
what making Jesus Christ
the Lord in your life is.
00:28:49.32\00:28:51.99
You say, "I want
him to be my savior,
00:28:52.03\00:28:55.23
I want to give my life to Him."
00:28:55.26\00:28:57.43
And during this time,
00:28:57.47\00:29:00.40
Hal and I would
be listening to...
00:29:00.44\00:29:03.07
It was the first...
00:29:03.10\00:29:04.44
It was praise
gathering of the believers.
00:29:04.47\00:29:06.57
That was the first Gaither,
00:29:06.61\00:29:08.64
the first one that
I ever did, I believe.
00:29:08.68\00:29:10.98
And a friend of
ours had given it to us.
00:29:11.01\00:29:12.88
And he and I would sit
in our living room floor,
00:29:12.91\00:29:15.42
and we would play, you
know, those big black things,
00:29:15.45\00:29:20.12
we play on this stereo.
00:29:20.16\00:29:22.69
And the convicting
power of Almighty God
00:29:22.72\00:29:25.56
was reaching out to us.
00:29:25.59\00:29:27.20
We didn't know what it was.
00:29:27.23\00:29:28.56
Today, we know what it was.
00:29:28.60\00:29:30.30
And He was drawing us,
00:29:30.33\00:29:31.67
and He was convicting
us, and we would just grind,
00:29:31.70\00:29:33.94
we would just
think we were nuts,
00:29:33.97\00:29:35.64
but it was God by
the power of His spirit
00:29:35.67\00:29:37.77
chasing us down.
00:29:37.81\00:29:39.21
And then that Monday morning
in that, in a ladies lounge
00:29:39.24\00:29:43.51
at Wolverine Tube
in Decatur, Alabama,
00:29:43.55\00:29:45.61
I asked Jesus Christ
to be the Lord of my life,
00:29:45.65\00:29:47.85
and my life's
never been the same.
00:29:47.88\00:29:49.22
Amen.
00:29:49.25\00:29:50.59
Oh, honey, He
wants you to come to Him
00:29:50.62\00:29:52.85
more than you
want to come to Him.
00:29:52.89\00:29:54.36
Amen.
00:29:54.39\00:29:55.72
He's drawing you nailed
by the power of his spirit,
00:29:55.76\00:29:58.36
and He wants you to come
out of darkness and into light.
00:29:58.39\00:30:01.03
Today can be
your day of salvation
00:30:01.06\00:30:03.90
where your life changes.
00:30:03.93\00:30:05.27
Yes. Amen.
00:30:05.30\00:30:06.63
So how many of
your life has changed?
00:30:06.67\00:30:08.00
Our lives changed. Everyday.
00:30:08.04\00:30:09.40
Lives changed, and now
we got victory in Jesus.
00:30:09.44\00:30:11.91
Amen.
00:30:11.94\00:30:13.27
Now we're out of
darkness, all three of us,
00:30:13.31\00:30:15.41
we've come to that
place. Oh, we are four of us.
00:30:15.44\00:30:17.68
Leave me out.
We're all four of us.
00:30:17.71\00:30:20.55
We're in light.
00:30:20.58\00:30:22.72
We've made Jesus
the Lord of our life.
00:30:22.75\00:30:25.02
Our life has changed. Yes.
00:30:25.05\00:30:27.39
So now what happens next?
00:30:27.42\00:30:30.19
Chris what happens next?
00:30:30.23\00:30:31.63
It's a daily walking, you know,
00:30:31.66\00:30:33.76
as I was studying about
victory in Jesus, it goes back.
00:30:33.80\00:30:37.27
The Bible talks
about "Thy way, O God,
00:30:37.30\00:30:39.27
is through the sanctuary."
00:30:39.30\00:30:40.87
And you know that
first compartment,
00:30:40.90\00:30:42.40
it teaches us to
pray, teaches us to study,
00:30:42.44\00:30:44.71
and teaches us to witness.
00:30:44.74\00:30:46.07
That's right.
00:30:46.11\00:30:47.44
And as we do those three things,
00:30:47.48\00:30:48.81
those three things,
everyday we make a commitment,
00:30:48.84\00:30:52.65
we're making decisions
for God every single day.
00:30:52.68\00:30:55.28
Yes.
00:30:55.32\00:30:56.65
You know, are you guys
have it at certain point
00:30:56.69\00:30:59.55
where you remember just one
00:30:59.59\00:31:01.79
that really made
a big, big change.
00:31:01.82\00:31:04.06
Where for me, it's
like there's been several.
00:31:04.09\00:31:07.03
And, you know,
there's some though,
00:31:07.06\00:31:08.63
He convicted me and
I did okay for a while,
00:31:08.66\00:31:11.77
and then got off the bandwagon,
and then came back later
00:31:11.80\00:31:14.37
and thought, "Oh, yes,
00:31:14.40\00:31:15.74
Lord, you tried to
tell me that years ago."
00:31:15.77\00:31:17.34
Yeah, that's right.
00:31:17.37\00:31:18.71
But as we put God
first, and we begin to study,
00:31:18.74\00:31:24.51
and we pray before...
00:31:24.55\00:31:25.88
take that spiritual food
00:31:25.91\00:31:27.42
before you ever take
a bite of physical food.
00:31:27.45\00:31:29.35
That's right.
00:31:29.38\00:31:30.72
Always make them
first in the morning
00:31:30.75\00:31:33.32
and throughout the day,
00:31:33.36\00:31:35.59
and your life
will begin to change.
00:31:35.62\00:31:37.56
As you eat on that word,
your mind begins to change.
00:31:37.59\00:31:41.40
Your thought
patterns begin to change.
00:31:41.43\00:31:43.90
Your ambitions toward
anger begin to change.
00:31:43.93\00:31:48.14
Our dress begins to
change, Sister Yvonne.
00:31:48.17\00:31:51.17
Everything. Yeah.
00:31:51.21\00:31:52.54
You know, God says,
"Come to me as you are."
00:31:52.57\00:31:54.31
Yes. That's right.
00:31:54.34\00:31:55.68
You know, so often we think,
00:31:55.71\00:31:57.05
we've got to clean everybody up,
00:31:57.08\00:31:58.41
before we can
take them to the altar.
00:31:58.45\00:31:59.91
Jesus says, "Come as you are."
00:31:59.95\00:32:02.38
That's right.
00:32:02.42\00:32:03.75
He won't let...
00:32:03.79\00:32:05.12
He won't leave you that way.
00:32:05.15\00:32:06.49
As you begin to
study and pray and witness,
00:32:06.52\00:32:09.29
He begins to mould in fashion
00:32:09.32\00:32:11.69
that fits you for the
kingdom, for salvation.
00:32:11.73\00:32:14.66
Amen.
00:32:14.70\00:32:16.03
Okay, so you're saying
for once you come to the Lord,
00:32:16.06\00:32:20.64
you know what,
we have to grow...
00:32:20.67\00:32:22.80
That's right.
00:32:22.84\00:32:24.17
Because when you're born babies,
00:32:24.21\00:32:25.54
we're lying to baby group.
00:32:25.57\00:32:26.91
That's right.
00:32:26.94\00:32:28.28
That little baby
Christians, that's what we are.
00:32:28.31\00:32:29.64
And we have become out
of darkness and into light,
00:32:29.68\00:32:33.48
we've become a
peculiar people. Yes.
00:32:33.52\00:32:36.48
You know what
that world peculiar is?
00:32:36.52\00:32:38.25
That means a species of
being that never existed before,
00:32:38.29\00:32:41.59
and I think about that,
we are Christians, we are...
00:32:41.62\00:32:44.89
we have become baby Christians.
00:32:44.93\00:32:46.76
Now what does a
baby have to do is,
00:32:46.80\00:32:49.76
what you were
saying, they have to eat.
00:32:49.80\00:32:52.27
And the best time of your
day is early in the morning.
00:32:52.30\00:32:56.91
That's right.
00:32:56.94\00:32:58.27
You, that's when
your mind is clear.
00:32:58.31\00:33:00.28
You take that
nutrition into you,
00:33:00.31\00:33:01.98
and what you take into you
00:33:02.01\00:33:04.11
is will set the
course for your day.
00:33:04.15\00:33:06.61
Early morning,
spend time with the Lord,
00:33:06.65\00:33:09.05
those early morning devotions.
00:33:09.08\00:33:10.89
And then, do you know
the last thing, Yvonne?
00:33:10.92\00:33:13.39
That you put in your mind
before you go to sleep at nigh
00:33:13.42\00:33:16.89
is what will stay with
you, the rest of the night.
00:33:16.93\00:33:19.59
So pray spending
time with the God,
00:33:19.63\00:33:23.13
and spending time in His word.
00:33:23.16\00:33:24.70
Jill? Amen.
00:33:24.73\00:33:26.47
Romans 12, I was just
thinking of that scripture,
00:33:26.50\00:33:28.77
when you were talking Chris,
00:33:28.80\00:33:30.41
because it reminds me of that
how you said it's the process,
00:33:30.44\00:33:33.78
the process of transformation.
00:33:33.81\00:33:35.48
In Romans 12:1,
we know that it says,
00:33:35.51\00:33:38.41
I beseech you
therefore, brethren,
00:33:38.45\00:33:39.98
by the mercies of God,
00:33:40.02\00:33:41.38
that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice,
00:33:41.42\00:33:44.62
holy, acceptable to God,
00:33:44.65\00:33:46.05
which is your
reasonable service."
00:33:46.09\00:33:47.49
I think that is the choice,
00:33:47.52\00:33:48.86
we've been
talking about decision.
00:33:48.89\00:33:50.66
To me that's making a choice.
00:33:50.69\00:33:52.03
God, I give You myself.
00:33:52.06\00:33:54.06
Then verse 2,
00:33:54.10\00:33:55.43
"Do not be
conformed to this world,
00:33:55.46\00:33:57.63
but be transformed."
00:33:57.67\00:33:59.10
Amen.
00:33:59.13\00:34:00.47
In Greek, that
means metamorphist.
00:34:00.50\00:34:02.34
Yes.
00:34:02.37\00:34:03.71
Like the
caterpillar to the butterfly,
00:34:03.74\00:34:06.27
be transformed by the
renewing of your minds.
00:34:06.31\00:34:08.74
Yes, it's real.
00:34:08.78\00:34:10.65
That you would prove
what is good and acceptable
00:34:10.68\00:34:12.58
in perfect will of God.
00:34:12.61\00:34:14.25
And so, God
wants to transform us
00:34:14.28\00:34:16.18
to metamorphist us,
to make that change.
00:34:16.22\00:34:19.82
Sister Yvonne looks
like she's ready to jump in.
00:34:19.85\00:34:22.66
Yeah. I can see
her ready though.
00:34:22.69\00:34:24.39
I was thinking, one day I
was just, I just felt like,
00:34:24.43\00:34:29.93
"Lord, you just
don't want to hear from me,
00:34:29.96\00:34:31.70
I know you don't
want to hear from me,
00:34:31.73\00:34:33.74
and I just don't feel
right coming before you,
00:34:33.77\00:34:36.20
I just don't feel right."
00:34:36.24\00:34:37.84
And the Lord put
this text in my mind
00:34:37.87\00:34:41.28
that made me want to shout.
00:34:41.31\00:34:42.64
Yes.
00:34:42.68\00:34:44.01
But God has
commended His love toward us
00:34:44.05\00:34:46.41
in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.
00:34:46.45\00:34:50.39
And I'm thinking all this
time, I've read that verse,
00:34:50.42\00:34:53.46
oh, I'm getting a
chill, all this time
00:34:53.49\00:34:55.69
I've read that
verse over and over again,
00:34:55.72\00:34:58.69
but the Lord had to show me,
00:34:58.73\00:35:00.06
when you're in
the throes of sin,
00:35:00.10\00:35:03.50
that's when Christ
blood atones for us.
00:35:03.53\00:35:06.70
When you're in the throes of it,
00:35:06.74\00:35:08.27
never feel like,
you can't come to God.
00:35:08.30\00:35:10.64
Never feel like
your life is just nothing
00:35:10.67\00:35:13.64
where you are too sinful,
00:35:13.68\00:35:15.84
or you've done wrong,
or you can't come to God.
00:35:15.88\00:35:18.61
No, He says, "Come,
whosoever will, let him come."
00:35:18.65\00:35:22.05
Amen.
00:35:22.08\00:35:23.42
He will in no wise cast you out.
00:35:23.45\00:35:25.65
That's right. That's right.
00:35:25.69\00:35:27.02
Oh, we serve a mighty God.
00:35:27.06\00:35:28.86
There's no sin you can commit
00:35:28.89\00:35:30.63
that is more powerful
than the blood of Jesus.
00:35:30.66\00:35:33.70
That's right.
00:35:33.73\00:35:35.06
The blood of Jesus
covers, cleanses, protects,
00:35:35.10\00:35:37.67
picks you up, and cleanses
you from all unrighteousness.
00:35:37.70\00:35:42.04
Yes, yes.
00:35:42.07\00:35:43.41
I want to throw
this plug in here,
00:35:43.44\00:35:45.44
because one thing
that is such a blessing,
00:35:45.47\00:35:47.81
many of you know that I've just
recently moved into this area
00:35:47.84\00:35:51.58
and down where I lived,
00:35:51.61\00:35:53.45
I didn't turn the
radio on for years,
00:35:53.48\00:35:55.18
because there was
nothing to listen to.
00:35:55.22\00:35:56.79
I would lose 3ABN
radio before I get home.
00:35:56.82\00:36:00.09
What a blessing...
00:36:00.12\00:36:01.46
Yes.
00:36:01.49\00:36:02.82
You're talking about feeding,
we need that spiritual food,
00:36:02.86\00:36:05.16
our own personal
time in the morning.
00:36:05.19\00:36:06.80
But to have the
TV turned on to 3ABN,
00:36:06.83\00:36:09.46
to have the radio
turned on to 3ABN,
00:36:09.50\00:36:11.93
to have your phone
turned on, or did Dare to Dream,
00:36:11.97\00:36:14.27
excuse me, sister,
you better believe it.
00:36:14.30\00:36:16.44
You better believe it.
00:36:16.47\00:36:17.81
We hear a lot of Dare to
Dream people call the ministry,
00:36:17.84\00:36:21.08
we praise God for Dare to
Dream and all the 3ABN networks.
00:36:21.11\00:36:25.31
But see, as we do that,
we're feeding constantly
00:36:25.35\00:36:28.32
on the Word of God.
00:36:28.35\00:36:29.82
And I must say,
00:36:29.85\00:36:31.42
that some of the
more spiritual people
00:36:31.45\00:36:33.52
that I have
spoken to over the years,
00:36:33.56\00:36:35.49
are those that
would come up and tell me,
00:36:35.52\00:36:37.53
I never turn it off.
00:36:37.56\00:36:39.66
It's on in my
house all the time.
00:36:39.69\00:36:41.20
In fact some will
say, I sleep with it.
00:36:41.23\00:36:43.47
You know, this is
probably a trite little saying,
00:36:43.50\00:36:46.43
watch your feed grow.
00:36:46.47\00:36:47.80
That's exactly right.
00:36:47.84\00:36:49.17
That's very true. That's big.
00:36:49.20\00:36:50.54
Do you know
what your feed grows?
00:36:50.57\00:36:52.04
What you starve, what
happens to what you starve?
00:36:52.07\00:36:54.21
Die. What starve dies?
00:36:54.24\00:36:56.08
So you feed yourself
on spiritual nutrition,
00:36:56.11\00:36:59.05
day in and day out.
00:36:59.08\00:37:00.42
You're gonna grow spiritually.
00:37:00.45\00:37:01.95
Your starve
yourself of those things
00:37:01.98\00:37:04.39
that bring you down,
those things of the world.
00:37:04.42\00:37:06.52
We have been
predestined to be conformed
00:37:06.55\00:37:08.69
to the image of
the Lord, Jesus Christ.
00:37:08.72\00:37:10.69
And that is not on the exterior.
00:37:10.73\00:37:12.73
I don't know about you ladies,
00:37:12.76\00:37:14.23
but I'm never gonna
look like a Jewish man.
00:37:14.26\00:37:16.53
It's just not gonna happen,
00:37:16.56\00:37:18.03
but we've been predestined
to be conformed to His image.
00:37:18.07\00:37:20.80
Where is that image?
00:37:20.84\00:37:22.17
It's got to be on the inside...
00:37:22.20\00:37:23.54
That's right.
00:37:23.57\00:37:24.91
Where we take on His
presence and His character.
00:37:24.94\00:37:26.81
That's exactly right.
00:37:26.84\00:37:28.18
So we're talking
here about steps,
00:37:28.21\00:37:30.98
steps in victory,
making that decision.
00:37:31.01\00:37:33.95
We're talking about
not having condemnation,
00:37:33.98\00:37:36.52
not taking Satan's shame,
00:37:36.55\00:37:38.15
if we do slip or if we
all feel like we are in sin.
00:37:38.19\00:37:40.96
We're talking
about starving the flesh,
00:37:40.99\00:37:43.53
making choices to
listen to Godly music,
00:37:43.56\00:37:46.90
to listen to 3ABN, to
get in the Word of God.
00:37:46.93\00:37:51.73
What other steps
have been in your life
00:37:51.77\00:37:54.27
as far as that have
helped you in this growth?
00:37:54.30\00:37:57.41
I think one of the
things we first have to do
00:37:57.44\00:37:59.51
to is acknowledge sin.
00:37:59.54\00:38:01.14
Good.
00:38:01.18\00:38:02.51
Because so often, you know,
we don't want to think, well,
00:38:02.54\00:38:05.68
this is not, this isn't
a sin, or this isn't sin.
00:38:05.71\00:38:09.12
We need to
acknowledge sin. That's right.
00:38:09.15\00:38:11.12
In Psalm 51, where
Nathan had come to David
00:38:11.15\00:38:14.72
about his
relationship with Bathsheba,
00:38:14.76\00:38:18.23
David acknowledged his sin.
00:38:18.26\00:38:21.10
And he repented before God.
00:38:21.13\00:38:23.43
We have to repent.
00:38:23.47\00:38:25.53
We have to say we are
sorry, and if we are not sorry,
00:38:25.57\00:38:28.90
we need to ask
God to make us sorry.
00:38:28.94\00:38:30.54
Yes, that's right.
00:38:30.57\00:38:31.91
You know, the
power is not within us.
00:38:31.94\00:38:33.94
That's right.
00:38:33.98\00:38:35.31
And I think that's something
we need to emphasize as well,
00:38:35.34\00:38:39.25
that we don't have the
power to change ourselves.
00:38:39.28\00:38:41.58
No.
00:38:41.62\00:38:42.95
You know, can a
leopard change its spot,
00:38:42.98\00:38:44.59
so the Ethiopians can.
00:38:44.62\00:38:45.95
We cannot change ourselves.
00:38:45.99\00:38:48.22
Only God has the
power to change us.
00:38:48.26\00:38:50.83
So how can we do that,
if we can't do it ourselves,
00:38:50.86\00:38:56.46
what do we do?
00:38:56.50\00:38:57.83
We have to spend
time with him. Amen.
00:38:57.87\00:38:59.57
'Cause that's
the power to change.
00:38:59.60\00:39:01.57
Amen. Absolutely.
00:39:01.60\00:39:02.94
And ask Him to give us the...
00:39:02.97\00:39:06.61
a spirit...
00:39:06.64\00:39:07.98
Shelley Quinn taught me this.
00:39:08.01\00:39:09.44
It's called
spirit of repentance.
00:39:09.48\00:39:11.98
And you know, there are
times, when we do something,
00:39:12.01\00:39:14.65
we're not sorry about it,
00:39:14.68\00:39:16.15
but we know we should
be and so we ask God...
00:39:16.18\00:39:18.89
I remember a time when I...
00:39:18.92\00:39:21.19
There were some people
that I really didn't think
00:39:21.22\00:39:23.63
I could forgive and
didn't want to forgive them.
00:39:23.66\00:39:24.99
Yeah.
00:39:25.03\00:39:26.36
And I thought that God
already just smack them,
00:39:26.39\00:39:27.96
that's what it felt.
00:39:28.00\00:39:29.36
But I knew that was
wrong, and I knew that,
00:39:29.40\00:39:31.77
if I didn't forgive
them, God couldn't forgive me.
00:39:31.80\00:39:34.10
See, I knew enough
of the word to know
00:39:34.14\00:39:36.40
that I had to bring myself
in alignment with the word.
00:39:36.44\00:39:38.94
So that God
could forgive me. Yes.
00:39:38.97\00:39:41.11
And so, I wouldn't be
for the Lord, and I ask him,
00:39:41.14\00:39:43.51
"Oh, God, put Your
forgiveness into my heart,
00:39:43.55\00:39:46.85
I forgive them, but it's
only with your forgiveness,
00:39:46.88\00:39:49.48
because there's
none in my heart.
00:39:49.52\00:39:51.29
And you know, the Lord did that,
00:39:51.32\00:39:52.99
and He will do
that with repentances.
00:39:53.02\00:39:55.19
Well, you know, when
you go before the Lord,
00:39:55.22\00:39:57.39
and you ask Him to give
you that spirit of repentance,
00:39:57.43\00:40:01.23
because you want, well,
00:40:01.26\00:40:02.60
we all want to have
clean hands and a pure heart.
00:40:02.63\00:40:04.63
Don't we all want to stand
before the Lord pure and holy,
00:40:04.67\00:40:07.87
and so we ask the Lord,
00:40:07.90\00:40:09.74
"Oh, give me that
spirit of repentance.
00:40:09.77\00:40:11.97
Lord that I can
repent before You,
00:40:12.01\00:40:16.38
and that Your
cleansing power will touch me,
00:40:16.41\00:40:18.75
and purify and perfect me.
00:40:18.78\00:40:20.45
And you know what?
00:40:20.48\00:40:21.82
We'll do it, God wants
us clean and in pure form.
00:40:21.85\00:40:24.95
But we have to come before Him,
00:40:24.99\00:40:26.82
and when you
come before Him, Jill,
00:40:26.86\00:40:28.96
you come before the
Lord, just be honest with Him.
00:40:28.99\00:40:31.13
Amen. That's good.
00:40:31.16\00:40:32.49
There is no need to beat
around the bush while watching.
00:40:32.53\00:40:34.10
He knows everything.
00:40:34.13\00:40:35.46
He already knows my junk.
00:40:35.50\00:40:36.83
That's exactly right.
00:40:36.87\00:40:38.20
Just lay it out there.
00:40:38.23\00:40:39.57
Now, I would suggest you,
00:40:39.60\00:40:40.94
just getting a
little run by you say of,
00:40:40.97\00:40:42.74
you know, 'cause you don't...
00:40:42.77\00:40:44.11
the whole world just
don't have to know everything.
00:40:44.14\00:40:45.51
That's right.
00:40:45.54\00:40:46.88
If you hadn't
sinned against somebody,
00:40:46.91\00:40:48.24
it's just
between you and the Lord,
00:40:48.28\00:40:50.08
then you take it
between you and the Lord,
00:40:50.11\00:40:52.21
and He'll purify
you, He'll clean you,
00:40:52.25\00:40:54.52
and all when you come
out of that prayer time.
00:40:54.55\00:40:57.55
When you come and you got...
00:40:57.59\00:40:59.25
you feel so deep,
don't you feel clean?
00:40:59.29\00:41:01.62
Oh, yes. Feel clean.
00:41:01.66\00:41:03.29
And then you
want to stay that way.
00:41:03.32\00:41:05.89
And so, Jill, I know, I just...
00:41:05.93\00:41:08.63
see I know you so well,
00:41:08.66\00:41:10.27
and it just amazes me
00:41:10.30\00:41:12.47
when she tells you
that she has wrong thoughts,
00:41:12.50\00:41:15.60
because I think she is
just such an amazing lady.
00:41:15.64\00:41:19.54
But, Jill,
you've told me sometimes
00:41:19.57\00:41:21.08
when the Lord has
really convicted you,
00:41:21.11\00:41:23.04
and drawn you closer to Him.
00:41:23.08\00:41:24.41
Absolutely.
00:41:24.45\00:41:25.78
You know, praise God
00:41:25.81\00:41:27.15
for the convicting
work of the Holy Spirit.
00:41:27.18\00:41:28.52
That's right. Amen.
00:41:28.55\00:41:29.88
You know, because it's
the Holy Spirit who draws us
00:41:29.92\00:41:31.25
and convicts us of sin.
00:41:31.29\00:41:32.62
It's the Holy
Spirit who says, "Jill,
00:41:32.65\00:41:34.39
you need to go
apologize to so and so."
00:41:34.42\00:41:36.69
You know, it's the Holy
Spirit who says this habit.
00:41:36.73\00:41:39.96
When Sister Yvonne
shared about the addiction,
00:41:40.00\00:41:42.06
I don't know if
it was addiction,
00:41:42.10\00:41:43.43
but the soap
operas you like to watch.
00:41:43.47\00:41:44.80
Yeah. Yes.
00:41:44.83\00:41:46.17
I was addicted,
00:41:46.20\00:41:47.54
you know the soap
operas, romance novels,
00:41:47.57\00:41:49.20
and God said,
00:41:49.24\00:41:50.57
"I want to break
this off your life."
00:41:50.61\00:41:52.57
So, God is the
one who convicts us,
00:41:52.61\00:41:54.74
and I think also,
00:41:54.78\00:41:56.11
I don't know if you have
found this in your experience,
00:41:56.14\00:41:57.75
but God uses other
people to speak into our lives.
00:41:57.78\00:42:03.32
'Cause I know God has
used people in my life to say,
00:42:03.35\00:42:06.05
"There is something
here Jill," you know,
00:42:06.09\00:42:07.69
so has that been
in your experience?
00:42:07.72\00:42:09.16
Oh, absolutely.
00:42:09.19\00:42:10.53
Time and time, and time again.
00:42:10.56\00:42:12.69
And you know,
talking about TV, years ago,
00:42:12.73\00:42:15.96
when our babies
were just babies,
00:42:16.00\00:42:18.33
we got rid of the TV.
00:42:18.37\00:42:19.70
But being a teacher,
00:42:19.73\00:42:21.07
eventually I
bought it in as a monitor
00:42:21.10\00:42:23.07
to do things, and
then came the news.
00:42:23.10\00:42:25.17
And then slowly but
surely, the TV came by,
00:42:25.21\00:42:28.14
and I was the same way.
00:42:28.18\00:42:29.88
And you would
write it off thinking,
00:42:29.91\00:42:31.61
well, that's not real.
00:42:31.65\00:42:32.98
You know, I don't have to
worry about, it's not real.
00:42:33.01\00:42:34.88
But you know, years later,
00:42:34.92\00:42:37.02
the Lord has had us
studying some things
00:42:37.05\00:42:39.82
and we find out that,
if it's not based on fact,
00:42:39.85\00:42:43.93
if it's not real, God
doesn't care for that drama.
00:42:43.96\00:42:47.06
And what we put in
our mind, we become...
00:42:47.10\00:42:49.86
You were talking about praying
for the spirit of repentance,
00:42:49.90\00:42:53.17
I learned a similar
lesson early in my 20s.
00:42:53.20\00:42:56.17
I had a neighbor,
00:42:56.20\00:42:57.54
and she was not
very nice to any of us
00:42:57.57\00:43:00.34
in the neighborhood.
00:43:00.38\00:43:01.71
And she had a young boy,
and I can remember saying,
00:43:01.74\00:43:05.75
"Lord, give me your Love,"
00:43:05.78\00:43:08.78
you see.
00:43:08.82\00:43:10.15
Because what's
gonna be the fruits?
00:43:10.19\00:43:12.39
A victory is gonna be
the fruits of the spirit.
00:43:12.42\00:43:15.02
That's right.
00:43:15.06\00:43:16.39
Love, joy, peace,
and all suffering.
00:43:16.42\00:43:17.96
I didn't have it for her,
00:43:17.99\00:43:20.30
and you know, the
flesh wanted to do
00:43:20.33\00:43:22.86
and say a lot of
things different.
00:43:22.90\00:43:24.23
So I had to say,
"Lord, put Your love...
00:43:24.27\00:43:27.34
I don't have it,
00:43:27.37\00:43:28.70
put Your love in
my heart for her.
00:43:28.74\00:43:30.07
Amen.
00:43:30.11\00:43:31.44
And God changed that
whole situation right around,
00:43:31.47\00:43:35.71
just like with the television
and all these other things,
00:43:35.74\00:43:38.61
God take away
the desire for that.
00:43:38.65\00:43:42.05
God give me the motivation,
00:43:42.08\00:43:44.09
all He's waiting for
any of us is for us to ask.
00:43:44.12\00:43:48.32
He says, "Ask, and it
shall be given into thee.
00:43:48.36\00:43:51.26
Knock, and the
door shall be opened."
00:43:51.29\00:43:53.56
He is just waiting,
00:43:53.60\00:43:54.93
He's wanting to pluck
His children out of the fire.
00:43:54.96\00:43:57.17
He knows the end of the story.
00:43:57.20\00:43:59.10
And He's doing
everything and anything
00:43:59.13\00:44:01.10
that He can to save
each and everyone of us.
00:44:01.14\00:44:03.54
You know, I'm thinking of you
00:44:03.57\00:44:07.48
that are listening to us,
00:44:07.51\00:44:09.64
that are watching us on 3ABN,
00:44:09.68\00:44:12.05
there may be things in your life
00:44:12.08\00:44:14.48
that you're having
difficulty turning loose off.
00:44:14.52\00:44:17.72
And to have
complete victory in Jesus.
00:44:17.75\00:44:20.46
And, you know, I'll
have to be honest with you,
00:44:20.49\00:44:22.79
there is times when
I've got victory in Jesus,
00:44:22.82\00:44:25.79
there's times when I don't.
00:44:25.83\00:44:27.16
Me too.
00:44:27.20\00:44:28.53
And God never
backs away from me.
00:44:28.56\00:44:30.17
It's always me
backing away from Him.
00:44:30.20\00:44:31.53
Yes.
00:44:31.57\00:44:32.90
I'm holding on to something.
00:44:32.93\00:44:34.27
If there is
something in your life,
00:44:34.30\00:44:36.04
that you're holding on to,
00:44:36.07\00:44:38.07
something that is keeping you
00:44:38.11\00:44:40.41
from having that
complete victory in Jesus,
00:44:40.44\00:44:43.11
something in you, I
think that my Sister Jill
00:44:43.14\00:44:46.78
has got one of the most
incredible illustrations
00:44:46.82\00:44:49.78
that will show you,
00:44:49.82\00:44:51.52
what you need to
do to become free
00:44:51.55\00:44:56.09
and filled with Jesus.
00:44:56.12\00:44:58.89
I had almost
forgotten about that.
00:44:58.93\00:45:01.93
I have here a glass
00:45:01.96\00:45:03.63
and a pitcher of
water next to me,
00:45:03.67\00:45:05.03
and I kind of forgotten,
it's sitting down there.
00:45:05.07\00:45:06.80
Thank you.
00:45:06.84\00:45:08.17
So if I were to ask you ladies,
or you at home, this glass,
00:45:08.20\00:45:11.64
there's air in here, right?
00:45:11.67\00:45:13.07
Right. How do I get the air out?
00:45:13.11\00:45:15.11
Any thoughts?
00:45:15.14\00:45:17.08
Boil the water.
00:45:17.11\00:45:18.51
Vacuum it out.
00:45:18.55\00:45:19.88
Fill it with
something else. You got it.
00:45:19.91\00:45:22.02
Now you could say,
okay, I'm gonna suck it out,
00:45:22.05\00:45:24.15
I'm gonna vacuum,
no that doesn't work.
00:45:24.19\00:45:26.12
You cannot pull
physically, right?
00:45:26.15\00:45:28.22
Pull the air out of this
glass, but if I bend down here,
00:45:28.26\00:45:31.89
and I have a pitcher of water,
00:45:31.93\00:45:35.33
and if I pour
water in, what happens?
00:45:35.36\00:45:38.83
All the air commits.
00:45:38.87\00:45:40.20
Air is coming out in the water.
It's being displaced, yes.
00:45:40.24\00:45:41.94
You got it. The
air is displaced.
00:45:41.97\00:45:44.34
And I think that's an example
of how God works in our hearts,
00:45:44.37\00:45:49.38
we can try to
achieve victory on our own.
00:45:49.41\00:45:52.48
You know, we can say,
00:45:52.51\00:45:53.85
"I'm gonna pull
myself up by my bootstraps.
00:45:53.88\00:45:55.85
I'm gonna try harder,
I'm gonna grip my teeth.
00:45:55.88\00:45:59.45
I'm gonna do...
00:45:59.49\00:46:01.79
even you know,
00:46:01.82\00:46:03.16
you could even do that
with reading the Word of God
00:46:03.19\00:46:05.46
and say, "Okay, if I
only spend half an hour
00:46:05.49\00:46:08.26
everyday reading the Bible.
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I'm going to get victory."
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Now God's word changes us,
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but I think if we come
to it with the have to,
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that's not the right motive.
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No. Absolutely.
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We do it because we love Jesus.
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So when God fills us,
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when we just fall
in love with Jesus.
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When we experience
who He is, He woos us,
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like you mentioned
before, He woos us, He draws us,
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then what happens?
00:46:30.62\00:46:32.02
He fills us, and
automatically the air comes out,
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automatically the
junk is displaced,
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is removed from our lives.
00:46:39.36\00:46:41.46
Anything that we will repent of,
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if we lift it up
to God, if we'd say,
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"Here Lord, you take,
00:46:46.97\00:46:48.30
you take these soap
operas out of my life.
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You take this unholy
relationship out of my life.
00:46:51.14\00:46:55.38
You take this thing that
is separating me from you,
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you take it out of my life."
00:46:58.25\00:46:59.91
You know, that leaves a vacancy,
00:46:59.95\00:47:02.05
a void in your
life, and he will fill it,
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just like Jill filled
that glass with water,
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He will fill it
with his Holy Spirit.
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He'll fill it with himself.
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And then you will be freed
and you will have that victory
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that we've been talking about.
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And you know sometimes,
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it doesn't
happen instantaneously,
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it's a process,
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sometimes it does
happen instantaneously.
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But what we
need to know is that,
00:47:24.74\00:47:27.18
it will happen
because God is faithful,
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and He that has
begun a good work in us
00:47:30.01\00:47:32.41
will continue to perform it
until the day of Christ Jesus.
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So He is faithful in
our lives, that's one thing.
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The other thing is
some things are so strong,
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they are strong
hold in our lives.
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If you have a
strong hold in your life,
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Jesus said, when the
disciples couldn't cast out
00:47:47.60\00:47:50.23
those demons themselves,
00:47:50.27\00:47:51.60
he said, "Howbeit
something is goeth not out
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but by prayer and fasting."
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Fast over that thing. Amen.
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I've had some things in
my life, that, I've said,
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"Lord, I just
cannot get past this,
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I need you to help
me, and I'll fast over it,
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and pray over it,"
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and the Lord will deliver.
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So you can get
deliverance, victory is yours.
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Yes, it is.
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We already have it. Amen.
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This morning, I'll
tell you this real quick,
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this morning in
my devotions right,
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what was in this devotion,
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but victory is
yours, it is yours already.
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That's in my devotion for
today to share it with you.
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And I was so
excited, we already own it.
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Yes.
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Now we go and then possess it,
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possess the land like
Joshua was told with Canaan,
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"Go and possess that land.
Well, the victory is yours."
00:48:37.05\00:48:40.65
Justification, forgiveness,
all these things, authority,
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all these things
have been given to us.
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Now possess it.
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It is ours to have and to use.
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It is at our
disposal, if we just use it.
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Amen. Let me
share this with you.
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This is from Ellen White,
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it's in Desire
of Ages Chapter 1,
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and I mean ever
since I've read this,
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I go back over...
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I teach at Sabbath school,
and I keep my Desire of Ages
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right along with my book,
00:49:05.57\00:49:06.91
because I'm always
pulling things out of that book
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to share with my
Sabbath school class.
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This speaks so strongly to us,
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"Christ was
treated as we deserved,
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that we might be
treated as He deserves..."
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That's part of our victory.
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"He was condemned for our
sins in which He had no share
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that we might be
justified by His righteousness
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in which we have no share."
00:49:32.67\00:49:34.07
Do you know that
the word declares,
00:49:34.10\00:49:35.80
that you're the
righteousness of God
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and Christ Jesus, it does.
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Amen.
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If we confess our
sins, He is faithful
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and just to
forgives us of our sins
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and cleans us from what?
00:49:44.21\00:49:45.95
Cleans us from
all unrighteousness.
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If you're cleansed
from all unrighteousness,
00:49:47.95\00:49:49.98
what does that make you?
00:49:50.02\00:49:51.35
Some people, Yvonne,
00:49:51.39\00:49:52.85
they just can't
say they're righteous.
00:49:52.89\00:49:54.92
But when you're cleansed
from all unrighteousness,
00:49:54.96\00:49:57.13
you're the righteousness of God.
00:49:57.16\00:49:59.73
"He suffered the
death which was ours,
00:49:59.76\00:50:02.83
that we might receive
the life which was his,
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that's part of your victory."
00:50:05.53\00:50:07.34
That's where we're
headed in Christ Jesus.
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I'm gonna share
one more scripture,
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Isaiah 64:6, and
the word declares,
00:50:12.57\00:50:16.44
"But we're all
as unclean things,
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and all our righteousness
as filthy robes, filthy rags."
00:50:19.38\00:50:23.59
Our
righteousness is filthy rags,
00:50:23.62\00:50:25.55
but do you know
that somebody has taken
00:50:25.59\00:50:28.09
his righteous robes
and place them on you.
00:50:28.12\00:50:31.59
And then as you
stand before Him,
00:50:31.63\00:50:34.46
you stand before Him
with his righteousness,
00:50:34.50\00:50:37.37
pure and clean.
00:50:37.40\00:50:38.77
When God looks at
you, He looks at you
00:50:38.80\00:50:41.57
through the blood of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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and what He sees
is the righteousness
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of God in him.
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That's your victory
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Amen. Amen.
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That's what God wants to do
00:50:52.55\00:50:54.08
in each one of
our hearts and lives.
00:50:54.12\00:50:55.45
We just have a
couple of moments left.
00:50:55.48\00:50:57.72
To short, could you share,
00:50:57.75\00:51:00.42
how do we share this
victory with someone else?
00:51:00.46\00:51:03.06
I mean God doesn't give us
victory just for ourselves,
00:51:03.09\00:51:05.69
so how do we
share with someone else?
00:51:05.73\00:51:07.36
Just tell somebody
what he's has done.
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That's the key.
00:51:09.16\00:51:10.50
Tell somebody what
he has done for you.
00:51:10.53\00:51:12.50
We overcome by
the blood of the lamb,
00:51:12.53\00:51:15.17
and the word of our testimony.
00:51:15.20\00:51:16.81
Give your testimony.
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And guess what?
00:51:18.21\00:51:19.54
If you think
about what He's done,
00:51:19.57\00:51:21.94
think about how good He's been,
00:51:21.98\00:51:23.31
think about how He's brought
you through every situation,
00:51:23.35\00:51:26.45
and then share it with someone.
00:51:26.48\00:51:28.08
What would you do, if
there is this great sale?
00:51:28.12\00:51:30.85
You gonna tell
somebody, right? That's right.
00:51:30.89\00:51:32.59
What will you do if you
found a new love in your life?
00:51:32.62\00:51:34.92
You tell somebody.
Tell somebody about Jesus.
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Absolutely.
00:51:37.56\00:51:38.89
Sister Chris?
Pray for open doors.
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Yes. And love, love, love.
00:51:41.16\00:51:43.53
Ask God to make your blessing.
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You know the Bible has
so much instruction in it.
00:51:46.23\00:51:49.20
But we need to live
out the words of God.
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Sometimes like you mentioned,
00:51:52.67\00:51:54.04
she didn't hit me
over the head with it,
00:51:54.08\00:51:55.78
she lived out the love of God.
00:51:55.81\00:51:58.65
That's what we need to be doing,
00:51:58.68\00:52:00.02
loving one and another.
00:52:00.05\00:52:01.38
Amen. That's your
beautiful thoughts.
00:52:01.42\00:52:03.08
We're going to go
to a newsbreak now.
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We'll be back in
just a few minutes
00:52:05.49\00:52:07.16
with some closing thoughts.
00:52:07.19\00:52:08.52
In the mean
time, you think about
00:52:08.56\00:52:11.46
what these ladies
have shared with you,
00:52:11.49\00:52:13.13
and what God
wants to do for you.
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