I want to spend my life
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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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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 Family Worship.
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If you are watching
on a Friday evening,
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then we welcome you
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to the sacred
hours of the Sabbath.
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If it is a Saturday
evening then you are preparing
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for the new week and we
pray that God will be with you.
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Either way, thank
you for joining us.
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We got a great
family and a recent addition
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to the family, we'll
introduce in just a moment.
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My wife Irma is to my right
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and to her right are
Jorge and Lynette Jaque.
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We are very, very glad to
have them with us yet again.
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Glad to be here. They
are part of the family.
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And we got Joel
and Christine Baker,
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and Joel or Christine
who wants to introduce
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the recent
addition to the family.
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This is Annika Baker and
she is about 10 weeks old.
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All right.
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And we have no idea
how she is going to fare?
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No idea. During this time?
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So far so good.
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And this is her first
time on camera, I suspect?
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Yeah. She's
getting an early start.
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Yeah, praise the Lord.
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So if Joel makes a
quick disappearance
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or if Christine
makes a quick exit,
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we know that they
were summoned by Annika
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to do something else,
but I think so far so good.
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I'm excited
because when I was younger,
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I envied Adventists
who grew up in the church
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because I did not.
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And we did not have obviously
any kind of family worship.
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My parents were what we
call 'Holiday Methodists.'
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Easter, Christmas,
maybe Thanksgiving,
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and that was
about all that they did.
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And I joined the
church very, very early,
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and I envied Adventists
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who would sit
down on Friday evenings
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and sing and pray and
we didn't have a chance
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to do that.
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In my house and
before everybody was watching
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football on their own
TV, so I have to hibernate
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in my own bedroom.
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Just to try to keep
the Sabbath in my own way.
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So this is exciting for
me and we are going to talk
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a little about that
because we get a chance to bring
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the Sabbath in
together with friends.
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We have got some warm
tea here and a lovely tea pot
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to serve it in and we
actually have real tea
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and we are
praising the Lord for that.
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Maybe next time we'll
have some cookies Lynette
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with the tea.
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We're gonna start off
by doing some singing.
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And we want to
turn in our hymnals
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to try to change the
mood just a little bit to 340.
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So would you join us
please as we sing a song
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that I think we all
know, this is Jesus Saves.
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We have heard the joyful
sound, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
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We have four stanzas. We
are going to sing them all.
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Shall we sing together?
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We have heard the
joyful sound Jesus saves!
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Jesus saves!
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Spread the tidings
all around Jesus saves!
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Jesus saves!
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Bear the news to
every land Climb the steeps
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And cross the waves
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Onward 'tis our Lord's command
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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Waft it on the
rolling tide Jesus saves,
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Jesus saves
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Tell to sinners far
and wide Jesus saves!
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Jesus saves!
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Sing, ye islands of the sea
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Echo back, ye ocean caves
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Earth shall keep her jubilee
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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Sing above the battle's strife
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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By His death and endless life
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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Sing it softly thru the gloom
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When the heart for mercy craves
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Sing in triumph o'er the tomb
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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Give the winds a mighty voice
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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Let the nations now rejoice
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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Shout salvation full and free
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Highest hills and deepest caves
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This our song of victory
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Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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I think Annika is
going to be a singer.
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I think she was trying to sing,
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she came right in on
a 'Jesus saves' part.
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Praise the Lord. Tell
her to keep that up, Joel.
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Let's go to 311.
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311, Earthly
pleasures vainly call me,
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I would be like Jesus.
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Here we go.
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Earthly pleasures vainly call me
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I would be like Jesus;
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Nothing worldly
shall enthrall me
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I would be like Jesus
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Be like Jesus, this my song
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In the home and in the throng
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Be like Jesus, all day long!
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I would be like Jesus
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He has broken every fetter
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I would be like Jesus
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That my soul
may serve Him better
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I would be like Jesus
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Be like Jesus, this my song
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In the home and in the throng
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Be like Jesus, all day long
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I would be like Jesus
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All the way from earth to glory
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I would be like Jesus
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Telling o'er and o'er the story
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I would be like Jesus
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Be like Jesus, this my song
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In the home and in the throng
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Be like Jesus, all day long
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I would be like Jesus
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That in Heaven
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He may meet me I
would be like Jesus
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That His words
"Well done" may greet me
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I would be like Jesus
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Be like Jesus, this my song
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In the home and in the throng
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Be like Jesus, all day long
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I would be like Jesus
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I think we'll
hold that last song
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for just a few minutes
and take this opportunity
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to thank Jill Morikone,
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who is on the
piano for joining us
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and being part of
the extended family
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and playing for us.
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God is so very, very good.
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I want to give
you all just a moment
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because before we
go to our reading,
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I want you each to think
about your favorite text.
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I'll give you just a
second to find it in the Bible
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so that you can read from it.
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I'm going to go to
my newest favorite,
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which is so new that I have
not quite memorized it totally,
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so I'm going to go to it
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and it's in Hebrews Chapter
13 while you're all turning,
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I had to bring my own big Bible.
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My wife has this
little tiny Bible
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I can barely see the Bible,
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little on the
print but her eyes are
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still good enough to
be able to see that print.
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But I'm going to
Hebrews Chapter 13
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and you are each looking
and Joel's a little hands-down
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because he's got baby
in hand and we understand
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if you are little
slower than the rest of us.
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She is doing good.
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She is doing
really, really great.
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And we praise the Lord.
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Jorge, you want to
start there on the end?
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Yes, this is a very brief verse,
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Bible verse but it
has a lot of meaning.
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It helped me in
many, many circumstances,
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it's found in
Romans 8:31 and it says,
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"What shall we then
say to these things?
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If God before us,
who can be against us?"
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It's very... it's powerful in...
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Amen.
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Let me tell you it's
just something that in my life
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has played an important
role in many circumstances
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so I treasure this Bible verse.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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Lynette?
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Well, the verse
that I have chosen
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is actually verses
1 and 2 of Psalm 91.
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This is a sort of
our family favorite.
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We taught the kids
this when they were little
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and whenever we come
across it in our Bible readings,
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it's always the...
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just one of those fond
things that we just lean on.
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Psalm 91, "He who
dwells in the secret place
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of the most High shall abide
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under the
shadow of the Almighty.
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I will say of the
Lord, "He is my refuge
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and my fortress, my
God in him will I trust."
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Praise the Lord.
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That is beautiful.
It's been one of my special.
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Yes, this passage is
still very, very much.
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The one I chose because I have
used this many times in my life
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and it's one that
you'd find in Joshua 1:9
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and I will read it for
you because I get nervous
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and I forget the
Lord and he says,
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"Haven't, have
not I commanded thee
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be strong on of a good courage,
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be not afraid, never be thou
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this made for
the lord of thy God
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is with thee
withsoever that goest."
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And it's been really
special for me because
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there are many
times that I have been
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afraid to do or
for circumstances
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and this was given
to Joshua after Moses,
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when Moses died and then Joshua
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had to take the lead and
as you know about his life,
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he was not like Peter
that who has all, he's like,
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"I can do this
and I will do it."
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Joshua was not like that
so he needed encouragement
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from the Lord and
the Lord knew then,
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because it was a
big responsibility
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that he was given
Joshua to cross the Jordan
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with all these the
multitude of people.
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So at times when my
life is being needing
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of some encouragement,
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the Lord has many
times pointed me out to this,
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to this verse.
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Praise the Lord.
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Christine, can you manage? Yes.
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I chose one of my favorite texts
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in Philippians 1:6,
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and it says,
"Being confident of this
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very thing that He which
had done a good work in you,
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will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ."
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And yeah, that has been a
great encouragement for me
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and is still today
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because there's a
lot of things in my life
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I wish would
change faster than they do
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but the Lord is
saying I'm not done with you,
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I will continue to work with you
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and I'm not giving
up. I'm going to continue,
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you know, to work with me
and that is so encouraging.
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Well done. Joel?
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Can I read two? Okay. Okay.
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Our walk with the Lord
is a daily one so there is
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always things where you know,
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bringing to him and
asking him for guidance
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and direction, so
these verses have been
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an encouragement to me.
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Micah chapter, oh what
chapter? Last chapter 6.
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There's a 7. Yes, 7,
thank you, Christine.
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Verse 7, "Therefore I
will look into the Lord,
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I will wait for the
God of my salvation,
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my God will hear me."
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Sometimes He answers
our prayers immediately,
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sometimes it takes time.
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And then the next
verse is always been
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a favorite of mine,
"Rejoice not against me,
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O mine enemy, when I fall,
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I shall arise,
when I sit in darkness,
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the Lord shall
be alight unto me."
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What does that mean to you?
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The second verse, yeah.
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How many times have
I fallen but within,
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with Christ's
help and His strength,
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I have risen up again.
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You know, He takes us
through the same things
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over and over and we
learn from them and we can rise
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again with Christ
and when all around us
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sometimes seems dark,
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the Lord is
always alight unto us.
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Amen. Amen.
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I want to ask you
before I read mine.
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How has having the
baby changed your life?
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I knew you of course
before you got married,
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you sat on this
sat at this very table.
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That's true.
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Once you got married
pre-baby and also pre-marriage
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so now you are
post-marriage and baby in hand.
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How has that changed?
What you are seeking to do?
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How you live?
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How has the baby
impacted your walk with Christ,
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your Christianity, your life?
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Yeah, it definitely, it
makes you see everything
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and you know,
you are told all this
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before you have the baby.
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We have a lot of
friends here, you know,
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and they tell you, you know,
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this is going to
change your life forever
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and you know, it's
always like, "Yeah, you know,
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we know but we
don't know exactly
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how and of course we
are experiencing it now,
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but yeah, you
definitely see things,
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you see things differently
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because you know
now we are responsible
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with the Lord's help
for raising a young one
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for Him and that's something
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that I think Christine
and I both feel we are...
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we cannot do
without the Lord's help,
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so we're just...
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You lean on Him more
than you ever have before
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and we are just
at the beginning.
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She is going to grow
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and with her
growth, it's going to,
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you know, come all kinds
of new stages in her life
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that the Lord's
going to be us to help her.
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So yeah, it
definitely changes and we are
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right in the middle
of experiencing that now.
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You know, now we are
still in the young part,
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you know, getting
past the up all nights
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and all that stuff but...
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But yeah, you
definitely, you definitely,
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you are leaning on the
Lord in a whole new way,
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in a new way, yeah.
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Christine? Yeah,
that's my experience too.
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I was wondering how on
earth am I going to be a mother,
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how am I going to
care for a little child
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and I realized I cannot,
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but holding on
to the Lord's hand
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and yeah, He has
promised to be with me
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and as the family but
He has promised to be there
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through it all and
I'm holding onto Him
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because I know I can't
raise this child on my own.
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Praise the Lord.
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And so, one good thing
about when they are so little
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and you nurse, you
have a lot of time to spend
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reading and singing.
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So I spent a lot of time
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introducing her
to the road of God
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and to the songs
that has meant a lot to me
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through my life.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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Now, we give you little
behind the scenes thing here
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because during the break,
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the baby got little fussy
and so we passed her down,
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we airmailed her down
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to Lynette and Lynette used a...
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I don't want to say
any wise old maneuver
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but having, haven't
had years of experience
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at this thing,
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you used a maneuver
to get her to sleep.
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Now your children
are little bit older,
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but of course what at this point
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are you trying to do
in raising them for Christ
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and raise them
at Christian home.
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What are you or what
you trying to instill
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in Sebastian and William?
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I think the most important thing
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that we have tried to
do is to instill in them
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a reliance upon the Lord.
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If something's going wrong,
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if somebody is
treating you poorly,
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if you don't like
what's happening in your life,
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take it to the Lord.
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Don't sit there and
complain and moan and groan
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and just go
before the Lord and say,
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"Lord, this is
what's happening today.
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I need to know how
to do things with it."
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And with Jorge, one thing
that he tells them everyday
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and I think we
mentioned this the last time
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when we were here for
family worship is he tells them
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as they go out the
door, make someone happy
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and just trying to share
what they take in with others,
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bring in that
blessing and send it back out.
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Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
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Do you guys think the
Lord is concerned with these
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little things in our lives?
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Of course, having a
child is a big thing,
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but the little things
you try to teach everyday,
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is God concerned
about that kind of minutia.
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Do you think He's
really concerned about
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those little
things in your life?
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Absolutely.
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I think that's
the only way that I...
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me, personally
can understand God.
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If my God is not a God
that does not understand my,
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even my minutia like you
say or little things in my life,
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then He is not
totally interested in me.
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I understand...
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God as saviors in
Jesus Christ as entities
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that they are interested
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in everything
that happens to you.
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From the little
things to the big things,
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and that's the only
way to relate to God
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because you say,
"Where our God is going?"
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And it's interesting
that because when you teach
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to your little ones,
their problems in comparison
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to yours seems to be minutia.
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Yes.
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But you are
interested in the little things
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because that is what is
forming their characters,
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their
personalities, little things
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is significant things sometimes.
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They are big problems to them
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and so God sees us the same way.
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It's part of what
enables them to realize
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just how deeply we love Him.
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I mean, if you step your toe,
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I want to know about
it, you know and if you get
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an A in a test, you
know, things like that.
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They, you have to
have the whole package
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because that's
what makes you you.
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Lynette, that is
very powerful and I have
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experienced that in my life too,
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that there was a time
that I thought to bring God
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little silly things in our life,
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it was just not
important or your prayers
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I thought it would have
to be about big important,
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serious things in your life,
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but as I learned more
and more that God does care
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for little tiny
things, little problems,
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little things that you want.
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All of those things
that you think that it maybe
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that's just for us, God
has too much other things,
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more important
to think about it,
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to take care of us.
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My relationship
with Him has changed,
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has therefore it
had been stronger.
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And now, I am very
comfortable to ask Him
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about anything, just anything.
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Today I don't feel
really good Lord so,
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you know You guide
my day as you need to
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or I didn't like
this, I don't like this food
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but You say it's
really good for me,
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so I am going to eat it
and I'm going to try to learn
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how to eat it because
it's good for my health
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and it's wonderful to
be able to talk to the Lord
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and to say this
thing and know that
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He's listening to
these small things.
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Yeah, we had some
of that the other day
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when we made a shake.
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Did we call it a shake?
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Because that's a
nice name to give
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to something
that's green and brown
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and all those kind of stuff.
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You know it has
garlic and everything else
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and I was like, "Oh, Lord.
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I am just doing this
because I know it's good for me
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and I know You care, so
I'm going to drink this."
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And beside I like to
stay married but you know,
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the little things in
life which disturb you
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and I do believe that everything
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that touches you, touches God.
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Everything that
concerns you, disturbs God.
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And everything that makes
you happy or makes you sad,
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He feels all
those emotions with you,
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He doesn't leave you
out there by yourself.
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It's interesting CA because
when Jesus was here on earth,
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at some point He had
this multitude of people
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listening to His
preaching for so many hours
00:23:15.32\00:23:18.69
and there was a
time to dismiss everybody
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and He said to His disciples,
"We need to feed them."
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And the Bible says that
He felt bad for them to be
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sent home with empty
stomachs and He was...
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He could have
said, "Hey, I am here.
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They should have
bring their food.
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But I don't have...
I am preaching to them.
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I am giving them salvation."
They have to do something.
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But no He performed
00:23:47.29\00:23:49.26
one of the most
amazing miracles,
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in fact, so many
thousands of people because...
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You know not once
but twice. Exactly.
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Right from the point
and this is important.
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And you saw a little kid
with a little bit of food
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that He could get, so
it seems like a simple,
00:24:02.30\00:24:06.91
so many times
we go back to that.
00:24:06.94\00:24:08.91
And Jesus said also that
we need to love each other
00:24:08.94\00:24:15.08
in the same way even
he asks this question
00:24:15.12\00:24:18.99
how if our father comes...
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if our child comes to his father
00:24:21.86\00:24:24.59
for a piece of bread,
will the father give him
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a rock instead?
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So many more things that
trivial things sometimes,
00:24:29.53\00:24:33.54
He was very much in
tune with our needs.
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Over and over again you
see where the Bible says
00:24:37.41\00:24:39.44
that Christ was
touched with compassion,
00:24:39.47\00:24:41.51
He had compassion on them,
and being such a caring person,
00:24:41.54\00:24:45.01
imagine the ups and
downs of His emotions
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in dealing with people who
are coming to Him constantly,
00:24:48.45\00:24:51.22
healing, healing
people sick, people hungry,
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people lame, people
blind and your emotions are
00:24:54.39\00:24:56.93
tugged by all of these
kinds of things and He was
00:24:56.96\00:24:58.63
a compassionate person.
00:24:58.66\00:25:00.20
So I think He
feels that even in heaven
00:25:00.23\00:25:02.13
as He ministers before us.
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Now, Joel, you have something?
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No, I was just, you
know we were talking about
00:25:04.90\00:25:06.23
the little things
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and the little things that some,
00:25:07.64\00:25:09.40
you know, may seem little
but that's what's present.
00:25:09.44\00:25:12.37
The little things are
00:25:12.41\00:25:13.74
what we are going
through right now.
00:25:13.78\00:25:15.11
You know, so maybe
I can't find something
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that's dear to me,
00:25:16.75\00:25:18.08
that's the most
important thing of my life
00:25:18.11\00:25:19.45
at this moment
because that's what's present
00:25:19.48\00:25:21.02
and that's what
the Lord cares about
00:25:21.05\00:25:22.42
and that's what He
want us to take to Him
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and it's the
same as the child too.
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You know that's the most...
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you know whatever
they are going through
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at that moment if you
are there you know, so yeah,
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it's a good example.
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Yeah, if you are
building something
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and you bang your
finger with the hammer,
00:25:35.06\00:25:36.40
at that moment
00:25:36.43\00:25:37.77
there's nothing
else in the world
00:25:37.80\00:25:39.93
that's the most
important thing in here.
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You know that's the
most important thing
00:25:42.57\00:25:43.91
in your life.
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My text is before we get
is Romans, rather Hebrews 13,
00:25:45.31\00:25:49.98
5 and 6, "Let your
conduct be without covetousness,
00:25:50.01\00:25:53.58
be content with
such things as you have."
00:25:53.62\00:25:56.18
And I have really
locked down on that
00:25:56.22\00:25:59.25
that what God gives you
yours, God gives me mine,
00:25:59.29\00:26:04.63
why should I be
jaundiced looking at
00:26:04.66\00:26:06.36
what God has given you?
00:26:06.39\00:26:07.73
I should be thankful looking
at what God has given me.
00:26:07.76\00:26:10.27
So be content with
such things as you have.
00:26:10.30\00:26:12.47
It makes your life easier,
it make your life calmer,
00:26:12.50\00:26:15.50
keeps your hair
black and less grey
00:26:15.54\00:26:17.94
and less wrinkles in your face.
00:26:17.97\00:26:19.37
If you are concerned about
00:26:19.41\00:26:20.84
what you and God
are doing together,
00:26:20.88\00:26:22.81
I don't have to be
concerned about Jorge and God
00:26:22.84\00:26:25.78
or what God has given Jorge,
00:26:25.81\00:26:27.32
he has given him
gifts, Jorge is bilingual.
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I'm one and a half lingual,
you know and I would like
00:26:30.62\00:26:33.25
to speak Spanish as
good as you speaks English.
00:26:33.29\00:26:36.06
So why should I be jaundiced
00:26:36.09\00:26:37.43
because Jorge has two languages,
00:26:37.46\00:26:38.79
I only have one.
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.16
And Irma has, she has
like 3 and a half now,
00:26:40.20\00:26:41.76
she's studying
Italian every night,
00:26:41.80\00:26:43.97
she's doing
Italian kind of thing.
00:26:44.00\00:26:46.33
So she's got
hers, I've got mine.
00:26:46.37\00:26:49.00
And it keeps you from being
covetous because, you know,
00:26:49.04\00:26:51.24
God has given
you some things also,
00:26:51.27\00:26:53.38
for he has said,
for he himself has said,
00:26:53.41\00:26:55.88
here's that
backup for your text,
00:26:55.91\00:26:57.91
"I will never leave
you nor forsake you."
00:26:57.95\00:27:00.02
That's why you can be
confident and comfortable
00:27:00.05\00:27:03.05
in what you have,
because God has said,
00:27:03.08\00:27:06.55
"I'm not going to leave you,
I'm not going to forsake you.
00:27:06.59\00:27:08.69
He's got his,
but you got yours."
00:27:08.72\00:27:10.66
And it's part of
that relationship.
00:27:10.69\00:27:13.06
So "We may say boldly,
we may boldly say the Lord
00:27:13.09\00:27:17.27
is my helper."
00:27:17.30\00:27:18.63
Everybody can say that
once you walk with him.
00:27:18.67\00:27:20.74
"I will not fear
what can man do to me."
00:27:20.77\00:27:25.04
It's a powerful statement
00:27:25.07\00:27:26.41
that's being
made here on Hebrews.
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And of course
Hebrews was written to assure
00:27:27.81\00:27:30.71
the Hebrew community
that Jesus was the real deal
00:27:30.75\00:27:34.62
and you didn't need to
go back into the old ways,
00:27:34.65\00:27:36.99
Christ has it all for you.
00:27:37.02\00:27:38.35
He's got all power
and He can save you
00:27:38.39\00:27:40.26
if you just stay with Him,
00:27:40.29\00:27:41.62
He's going to take
you all the way home.
00:27:41.66\00:27:43.06
And so that text has
given me great, great courage,
00:27:43.09\00:27:45.69
Irma's text,
actually the first text
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I have ever memorized.
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Joshua 1:9 "Have
not I commanded thee?
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Be strong and of a good courage,
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be not afraid,
neither be thou dismayed,
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for the LORD thy God is
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with thee
whithersoever thou goest."
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And I did all my memory
from the Old King James,
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so I can't even memorize
the new King James stuff
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from just, I got
that old King James stuff
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got in my head, but
that was the one for me.
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Joel, we got to put
the spotlight on you
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because we are
talking about family worship.
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You grew up in a
mission field. Mm-hmm.
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Give us just...
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first of all tell us
what countries you were in
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and just some
sense of worship and life
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there as you came to know Lord,
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and then I'm going to
ask you this question.
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At what point in your mind,
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you kind of think about this now
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do you remember Christ
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becoming real to
you for the first time.
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At what point in your
life did you connect the dots,
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"Hey, Jesus loves me,
I love Him," So, Joel,
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little flavor of
being in Africa growing up.
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Mm-Hmm.
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Yeah, I was raised
in the church so my...
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from my earliest
memories, my parents in 19...
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around 1984, '85 my parents
got a call to the mission field
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so I was a four year
old and hopped on the plane,
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and we went over
to Ivory Coast first
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and then we were
there for a number of years
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and then '89 and '90
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we went to Rwanda and
that was the second country
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we were at, so I was
raised in a unique place.
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I guess for an
American and but there was
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other missionary
children there too
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and of course we interacted
a lot with the local people
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but I was taught
French at an early age
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and learned to go to
church and go to Sabbath school
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and sing songs in
French but back to worship,
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that was you know, I think long
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before I can
remember that family worship
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was something that was
very important to my parents
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and I am so thankful for
that because even when I was,
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you know, so young I didn't know
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what was happening,
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they were still instilling songs
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and different things in me
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and so from my
earliest memories in Africa
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and then even when we came back,
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we always had morning and
evening worships together.
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Dad would pick a different book,
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of course the
books got more serious
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as I got older,
but I'm very thankful
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for that
foundation that they laid
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and also for the
music part of it as well.
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Singing was
always something we did.
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And of course and in Africa,
you know, the missionaries,
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this was very customary
but on I remember growing up
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especially in Ivory
Coast, we would all get together
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every Sabbath
evening for vespers.
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It was just...
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it happened at
the division office
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or someone's house
and it happened every week
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and that really
left an impact on me.
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You know that and it
was a really special time
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to close the Sabbath, you know,
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I mean, I'm sure we
enjoy the activities after,
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but I remember really
enjoying that the songs service
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and as the sun was setting
and the hours was closing.
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So I'm very thankful
for what was instilled in me
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as a young child and you know,
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it almost
naturally carries over.
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You know we are carrying that on
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without very
instinctively with Annika
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and already doing
worships, you know,
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and singing to her and
so yeah, I'm very thankful.
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I see the importance
of what my parents did
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in raising me and so that once,
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you know, I want very
much want to carry that over
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because I want her
to benefit from that too
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and the peace that
will give her, you know.
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And I thank you, Joel.
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Great memories
of mission service
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and I see you are passing
it along to your daughter
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and we all think you
are doing a great job,
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by the way, you and Christine.
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Praise the Lord. You
are doing a good job.
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We asked you a question
and the question dealt with
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when you came to realize
that you had a love for Christ
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and Christ had love for you.
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At what point basically
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did you give your
heart to the Lord?
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Were you cognizant of the fact?
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Do you connect
the dots in effect
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that you got a
relationship with Jesus?
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There was a God who loved you
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and you had to love
Him back at that point.
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Let's start with Jorge.
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The keyword there is
a relationship for me
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because in my life has
been several instances in that
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I believe that I
realize at that point
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on those different occasions
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that I realize
that I had a savior,
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I have a God interested in me
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and I tend to have a
personal relationship
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but there's and I'm...
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I'm not really happy to
say that this was very late
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in my life and I wish
I could say, "Oh, yeah.
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When I was 12 years
old or when I was 18
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but it was not too long ago.
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By that time I was a
little bit in the wrong pathway
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after a divorce situation.
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My life went in
totally the wrong direction
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and it was
nothing against the God,
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nothing against my beliefs,
it was just I didn't care.
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And I kept going and going,
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and then year
after year after year,
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there was a point that I
felt this sense of emptiness
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and the sense of loneliness
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is so strong
being in that situation.
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I used to think about me
is sometimes I feel so lonely
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that I could
touch my loneliness.
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If I could describe it,
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that's the way
I can describe it.
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I could touch it.
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It was like
something that so real to me
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and I start
thinking, "What am I doing?"
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And at that point was
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when I start thinking about God.
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My nephew came to visit
from Argentina in one time,
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he said let's go to church.
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I wasn't even going to
church not because, again,
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it was just, it didn't care.
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So we went to church
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and somebody
was playing a violin
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and giving an awesome testimony.
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I said, "Wow, I'm missing
something big in my life."
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I may have had it all along,
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but at that time I realized
how much I had missed it.
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So in other words I
realized that before yes,
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I probably had some
encounters with God,
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but then now not having
God in my life made me feel
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that I needed the most
and that He was so real.
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I don't know if it makes sense,
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but for me it
made a lot of sense.
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Amen.
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And I started
little by little thinking
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that I should come back,
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God started
throwing things on me.
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And one day to the next,
and this is a long story,
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I met Lynette and that was like,
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it was literally
announcement to I won't pray.
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So God threw Lynette
at you. Right on him.
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Not one...
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Chase until he caught me. Right.
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It was not a big long prayer,
and I didn't see the skies
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open wide and
lights like some people
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give this nice testimonies.
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I wish I can have one
of those, but I don't.
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Mine are more simple,
more I guess, more me.
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I guess God taught you the way
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you can understand
better, so a simple prayer.
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And next thing I'm
dating this beautiful gal here,
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lady and didn't
rest, just get through.
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But that was probably the
time to answer your question,
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so I take kids along
but that when I realized
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that God was in the business
of saving me and taking me.
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Lyn, I'm going to jump
over you and go to Christine
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and then come back to you.
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Absolutely.
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There's a
methodology to where that is.
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Well, I think I
was about ten years old
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and music has always
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ministered to me
in a special way,
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and I was at a summer camp
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and those summer
camps are wonderful.
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They are a lot of
fun but also scary
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if you are a shy
person and but yeah,
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it was during one
of those summer camps
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and we were singing
and during that song
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I remember I connected
with the Lord and I like,
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and that's where I
gave my heart to Him,
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that I remember.
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I mean, that's one incident
that I remember to this day.
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Praise the Lord.
Praise God. Amen.
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Irma?
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Well, my life also took a turn.
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I got baptized when I was 12.
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Before that
about eight years so,
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that's when my mother
found the Adventist church.
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She has already
learned through the Bible
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that there was a Sabbath,
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but she never knew
anyone about Sabbath.
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So we found the church
that worship on Sabbath.
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So by 12 years
old, I got baptized
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because many of my
friends in the church
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they were all of my age,
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they were all
getting baptized and I said,
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it's you know, it's
time for me to baptize.
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Didn't think of that
too much of it was in my...
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is it the time or spiritually
I didn't really remember
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thinking that this is the time.
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I just felt that is
why, everyone is baptizing,
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so I'm going to be baptized.
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And as a result of
then, there it came a time
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when it's lonely, I
separated from the Lord
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because I have things in my life
00:38:03.01\00:38:06.82
that I felt that they
were temptations or things
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that I knew that
they were not really good
00:38:13.42\00:38:17.13
and but I have
these wanting to do
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and to do certain things.
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I was very child so
you know, growing up
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and that was
uncomfortable for me
00:38:25.67\00:38:29.04
that I wanted to
be able to get out
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so because of that I said,
"Well, you know the, Lord says,
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I'm supposed to do this
and that and I'm not doing it
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and I don't feel
really strong on doing it."
00:38:40.88\00:38:47.16
But I kept doing the
things because I believed
00:38:47.19\00:38:50.96
that there was God
00:38:50.99\00:38:52.33
and that He
wanted me to do then.
00:38:52.36\00:38:54.80
So that not having
that relationship with Him,
00:38:54.83\00:38:59.17
it just discouraged me
and when I have my children,
00:38:59.20\00:39:05.41
I definitely guide them to
be in church and to, you know,
00:39:05.44\00:39:12.08
raise them in the church
and learning about the Lord
00:39:12.11\00:39:15.28
but because I didn't
have that relationship,
00:39:15.32\00:39:18.85
things were more of mechanical.
00:39:18.89\00:39:22.66
Eventually we
didn't go to church anymore
00:39:22.69\00:39:25.63
but it was not until
00:39:25.66\00:39:28.70
something really
difficult in my life came
00:39:28.73\00:39:32.77
and I realized that
again, you know, I said,
00:39:32.80\00:39:38.47
"If I'm going to, you know,
00:39:38.51\00:39:43.31
I be victorious of these things,
00:39:43.35\00:39:46.08
I have to have a relationship
with the Lord so that's when,
00:39:46.11\00:39:49.75
then I asked the
Lord to, you know,
00:39:49.78\00:39:52.55
bring in my life what I need
00:39:52.59\00:39:55.12
and take away what I don't need
00:39:55.16\00:39:57.53
and that I found first time
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that I gained some
victories very, very quickly.
00:40:01.33\00:40:06.30
And that is
probably some 30 years ago.
00:40:06.33\00:40:10.91
Praise the Lord.
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So it has not
been like a long time,
00:40:12.31\00:40:13.88
it has not been for
a good 20 years or so,
00:40:13.91\00:40:19.15
I know about the Lord and I knew
00:40:19.18\00:40:22.12
what was supposed to be right,
00:40:22.15\00:40:24.79
but the enemy was
constantly sort of, you know,
00:40:24.82\00:40:28.92
take me one way, but the
Lord was also not letting me
00:40:28.96\00:40:32.43
be happy in anything and
I actually said to the Lord
00:40:32.46\00:40:36.46
when I fell, I said,
"Lord, why don't you just let me
00:40:36.50\00:40:40.94
enjoy myself,
just for a little bit,
00:40:40.97\00:40:43.71
just for a change."
00:40:43.74\00:40:45.74
And that's when this
difficult thing came in my life
00:40:45.77\00:40:48.91
that He never allowed me
to be happy in the world.
00:40:48.94\00:40:53.78
So then I came and
that's been a total
00:40:53.82\00:40:58.85
different understanding of
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what God wants
for me in my life.
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Praise the
Lord. And it was good.
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Yeah. Praise Him.
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We guess I'd have to
back up a little bit to
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when I was just a
little bit older than this one
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by a few years.
00:41:12.87\00:41:15.90
I always knew that God
existed and I don't know how,
00:41:15.94\00:41:18.71
I don't know who
introduced me to that concept
00:41:18.74\00:41:21.58
or if the Lord
just placed it there.
00:41:21.61\00:41:24.25
I always knew God existed
and when I would have trials
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as a young child,
be in my room crying
00:41:27.65\00:41:31.65
and feeling like
I was totally bereft
00:41:31.69\00:41:34.29
of comfort and understanding.
00:41:34.32\00:41:36.96
I would imagine that Jesus
was sitting next to me on my bed
00:41:36.99\00:41:41.36
and He wanted to put
His hand on my shoulder,
00:41:41.40\00:41:44.23
but there was
something in between.
00:41:44.27\00:41:46.57
That comfort was there for me
00:41:46.60\00:41:50.14
but I didn't
know how to get to it
00:41:50.17\00:41:52.51
and we
fast-forward until high school
00:41:52.54\00:41:56.48
and I met a gal in,
00:41:56.51\00:42:00.12
actually I guess
it was in junior high
00:42:00.15\00:42:01.78
when I first met my friend Lea.
00:42:01.82\00:42:04.55
Lea invited me to
youth activity at her church
00:42:04.59\00:42:07.86
which was a Baptist
church and so I went.
00:42:07.89\00:42:11.83
And I had at that point
was kind of, I don't know,
00:42:11.86\00:42:16.36
I still knew God
existed, but I just didn't know
00:42:16.40\00:42:18.70
how to get to Him
and I was getting tired
00:42:18.73\00:42:21.20
and so I was
little flakey, you know,
00:42:21.24\00:42:23.81
little bit odd at that point.
00:42:23.84\00:42:27.94
But they had a
little closing vesper
00:42:27.98\00:42:31.98
at the end of this activity
00:42:32.01\00:42:33.72
and the pastor
had us bow our heads
00:42:33.75\00:42:37.29
and he gave the first invitation
00:42:37.32\00:42:39.75
I'd ever heard,
00:42:39.79\00:42:41.82
and the way he gave it
in my mind and in my heart,
00:42:41.86\00:42:46.26
I could feel a
gate just tearing open
00:42:46.29\00:42:50.17
and heaven was right
there and God was here.
00:42:50.20\00:42:53.74
Here's my hand, now is the time.
00:42:53.77\00:42:56.27
And I grabbed it,
and I have hung on to it
00:42:56.30\00:42:59.77
through the ups and the
downs and all the trails
00:42:59.81\00:43:04.25
that I have gone on in
my life over the years.
00:43:04.28\00:43:07.28
Even been told by someone,
00:43:07.32\00:43:08.65
you are going to lose
your faith through this trial.
00:43:08.68\00:43:11.25
And it just made me
dig my heels and say,
00:43:11.29\00:43:13.05
"Watch me."
00:43:13.09\00:43:14.82
And that was, you know,
20 years ago at this point
00:43:14.86\00:43:18.33
and it's just that
my faith in the Lord
00:43:18.36\00:43:20.56
as imperfect as I am is
what I cling to the hardest.
00:43:20.60\00:43:23.57
Amen. Joel? Amen.
00:43:23.60\00:43:27.90
Yeah, we all learn
of the Lord somehow,
00:43:27.94\00:43:30.77
whether we are
raised in the church
00:43:30.81\00:43:32.27
and we go to you know,
00:43:32.31\00:43:33.64
church as a child
or someone you know,
00:43:33.68\00:43:36.81
makes us aware or
expresses to us some things
00:43:36.85\00:43:39.38
and we start to learn there.
00:43:39.41\00:43:42.45
You know, for me I remember
when I was younger, you know,
00:43:42.48\00:43:44.35
you go to church, you hear
the same things over and over,
00:43:44.39\00:43:47.52
you know, you have a
problem, take it to Jesus,
00:43:47.56\00:43:50.09
that's just words
until you start to do them
00:43:50.13\00:43:52.09
and I think it's a gradual thing
00:43:52.13\00:43:53.46
as a child starts to
practice that on their own,
00:43:53.50\00:43:56.20
not that they are
maybe not with their parents
00:43:56.23\00:43:58.43
right there coaching them,
00:43:58.47\00:44:00.14
but when they are
really going through a problem
00:44:00.17\00:44:02.00
and they are alone or you know,
00:44:02.04\00:44:04.11
they are by
themselves in their room
00:44:04.14\00:44:05.47
and they start that
process and it's like, "Lord,
00:44:05.51\00:44:08.04
I can't find this toy
or my friend really hurt
00:44:08.08\00:44:10.81
my feelings and they
start, you know, just you know,
00:44:10.85\00:44:14.12
very timidly reaching out
00:44:14.15\00:44:16.22
and starting this
relationship to God
00:44:16.25\00:44:18.15
and that's how I
remember mine starting
00:44:18.19\00:44:20.36
and as through
practical experiences
00:44:20.39\00:44:22.56
as a child, you know.
00:44:22.59\00:44:24.13
And I would look back a
little bit later and say,
00:44:24.16\00:44:26.53
"The Lord did
get me through that."
00:44:26.56\00:44:28.66
You know, he was there for
me and so you grow you know,
00:44:28.70\00:44:31.63
it's such a gradual
thing and but you are growing
00:44:31.67\00:44:34.80
and you are
growing and, you know,
00:44:34.84\00:44:36.17
you come up
through your schooling
00:44:36.20\00:44:38.97
and academy or high school
and I remember in my early 20s,
00:44:39.01\00:44:45.21
you know I developed a
relationship with Christ
00:44:45.25\00:44:48.78
and I knew how to
be a "good Christian"
00:44:48.82\00:44:52.22
and but then, you
know, I started to drift
00:44:52.25\00:44:55.06
and started to do things my way
00:44:55.09\00:44:57.76
and started leaving
God out of the picture.
00:44:57.79\00:44:59.13
I wasn't going to
Him anymore and saying,
00:44:59.16\00:45:00.90
"Lord, you
know, I'm hurt by this
00:45:00.93\00:45:02.43
or I need Your help in this."
00:45:02.46\00:45:03.80
I'm starting it.
00:45:03.83\00:45:05.17
I went through this period
00:45:05.20\00:45:06.53
and I'm picking
up a pattern here,
00:45:06.57\00:45:07.90
we often, you know,
as we look at our life
00:45:07.94\00:45:09.27
and we are looking
for this, you know,
00:45:09.30\00:45:10.64
the graph and we are
looking for this spike
00:45:10.67\00:45:12.31
when things change, it's
often connected to trial.
00:45:12.34\00:45:14.74
Yes.
00:45:14.78\00:45:16.11
And so I walked
right into my trail
00:45:16.14\00:45:17.68
because I started
walking away from God
00:45:17.71\00:45:19.78
and I started doing things,
00:45:19.81\00:45:21.32
you know, I wanted to do
things my way for a change.
00:45:21.35\00:45:24.22
I distinctly, we
kind of remember thinking
00:45:24.25\00:45:26.69
that like I'm tired of this way,
00:45:26.72\00:45:28.46
I want to do what
all these other people
00:45:28.49\00:45:30.13
are having so much fun.
00:45:30.16\00:45:31.79
And so I went through
this little time in my life
00:45:31.83\00:45:34.33
where I drifted and, you
know, after that I look back
00:45:34.36\00:45:39.80
and I saw that anything
00:45:39.83\00:45:41.30
I did without God was
taking my life downhill
00:45:41.34\00:45:44.87
and that was
where it became real.
00:45:44.91\00:45:48.54
It's like in a whole new way,
00:45:48.58\00:45:49.91
"God, I want to hang on
to You, because You know
00:45:49.94\00:45:52.15
what's best for my life
and I just saw what I did
00:45:52.18\00:45:54.95
and it's terrible, it's messy."
00:45:54.98\00:45:56.99
And from that moment on
and just asking the Lord
00:45:57.02\00:46:02.32
before everything Lord,
what would You have me do?
00:46:02.36\00:46:05.03
I don't want to do it my will.
00:46:05.06\00:46:06.39
You know, that's
when I met Christine,
00:46:06.43\00:46:07.86
I remember distinctly
Lord, if she is not the one,
00:46:07.90\00:46:10.97
break it up right now.
00:46:11.00\00:46:12.33
And I met her
like a week before,
00:46:12.37\00:46:13.74
I pray this prayer
00:46:13.77\00:46:15.10
but that's what I
learned through that experience,
00:46:15.14\00:46:17.31
you know, so that's
when it became real to me
00:46:17.34\00:46:20.01
and yeah, because the Lord...
00:46:20.04\00:46:22.64
I saw where I went on
my own and I needed God.
00:46:22.68\00:46:26.11
I needed God. Oh, yeah.
00:46:26.15\00:46:27.48
Yeah. See my experience I had.
00:46:27.52\00:46:30.92
I gave my heart to
the Lord at age 10,
00:46:30.95\00:46:32.99
I was baptized and I know
00:46:33.02\00:46:34.36
I had a
relationship with the Lord.
00:46:34.39\00:46:35.99
At age 10, I know, my
call into ministry came
00:46:36.02\00:46:39.19
at about 10 or 11,
but my experience was
00:46:39.23\00:46:44.90
that there's this
calling on your life,
00:46:44.93\00:46:48.60
that you can go
through the mechanics
00:46:48.64\00:46:50.91
and do the churchly
thing and not be in Christ.
00:46:50.94\00:46:54.84
Because I don't think I
did anything particularly bad,
00:46:54.88\00:46:57.95
nothing that I
could be arrested for.
00:46:57.98\00:47:00.12
I was in church
and, you know, I...
00:47:00.15\00:47:03.32
It's no secret.
00:47:03.35\00:47:04.69
I played basketball,
I was on scholarship,
00:47:04.72\00:47:06.99
broke my ankle twice
playing on Sabbath, you know.
00:47:07.02\00:47:10.09
But even when
we'd play on Sabbath
00:47:10.13\00:47:12.36
and go out and hang out in club,
00:47:12.39\00:47:15.56
I was always in
church, Saturday morning.
00:47:15.60\00:47:18.43
You know, I would come in
at 5 o'clock, sleep till 6,
00:47:18.47\00:47:22.04
studied my Sabbath
lesson and go to church.
00:47:22.07\00:47:24.01
You know and I would complain,
"I got to go to church."
00:47:24.04\00:47:27.51
And since I was the
only Adventist in my family,
00:47:27.54\00:47:29.58
my mother said, "What
are you complaining about?
00:47:29.61\00:47:31.91
You know, you don't
want to go church, don't go."
00:47:31.95\00:47:33.52
"Ugh, I got to go."
00:47:33.55\00:47:34.88
You know it never occurred to me
00:47:34.92\00:47:36.72
that I could just
stop going, you know.
00:47:36.75\00:47:38.35
Why are you... What are you...
00:47:38.39\00:47:40.76
You know I would hide
my Bible in a paper bag
00:47:40.79\00:47:42.32
'cause I don't
want my homies to see me
00:47:42.36\00:47:43.83
with my Bible on a bus.
00:47:43.86\00:47:45.39
But I would go.
00:47:45.43\00:47:46.80
And my mother
would say, "Stop whining.
00:47:46.83\00:47:48.86
Either stay home or go to church
00:47:48.90\00:47:50.83
and be happy about it."
00:47:50.87\00:47:52.20
Because she was, you know
00:47:52.23\00:47:53.57
they were holiday
Methodist, you know.
00:47:53.60\00:47:55.20
But no, I got to
go, so I would go.
00:47:55.24\00:47:57.24
And then I would sing in a choir
00:47:57.27\00:47:58.61
and try
rehearsal on Friday night
00:47:58.64\00:48:00.84
when we were in
town, the basketball team.
00:48:00.88\00:48:03.65
And so you develop this
jog, you know it's not a run,
00:48:03.68\00:48:07.12
it's not a walk,
you just kind of jog it
00:48:07.15\00:48:08.52
along with Jesus.
00:48:08.55\00:48:10.89
Through college
and I almost think,
00:48:10.92\00:48:14.62
I'm not sure, I almost think
00:48:14.66\00:48:17.56
that I entered the
ministry jogging like that.
00:48:17.59\00:48:20.76
I was doing, you know,
the Lord was kind to me,
00:48:20.80\00:48:24.67
my ministry progressed fast.
00:48:24.70\00:48:26.80
I didn't stay at any
church longer than three years.
00:48:26.84\00:48:29.70
I never made three
years at any church.
00:48:29.74\00:48:31.74
I got in church at...
00:48:31.77\00:48:34.14
I was the assistant pastor
and then became senior pastor
00:48:34.18\00:48:36.51
of the church of 1,200
before I went to seminary.
00:48:36.54\00:48:38.75
I came back,
started the church at 175.
00:48:38.78\00:48:42.28
By the time I left
two and half years later,
00:48:42.32\00:48:43.69
it was 250.
00:48:43.72\00:48:45.95
They would turn me to a 350,
00:48:45.99\00:48:47.32
when I left a
couple of years later,
00:48:47.36\00:48:48.76
it was in a 400.
00:48:48.79\00:48:50.33
They send me to a
400, I moved it up to 500
00:48:50.36\00:48:53.19
but never just moving,
moving, moving, moving.
00:48:53.23\00:48:55.76
Next thing I know,
I'm going to church
00:48:55.80\00:48:57.13
at 2,100 members, you know.
00:48:57.17\00:48:59.57
And I think it
was at that church
00:48:59.60\00:49:01.30
that I really realized
00:49:01.34\00:49:03.84
you are just, you
are jogging with Jesus,
00:49:03.87\00:49:06.24
you are not running.
00:49:06.27\00:49:07.74
And it was at that
church that I think I really...
00:49:09.24\00:49:13.45
and the Lord was
blessing my work,
00:49:13.48\00:49:15.15
as man counts blessing.
00:49:15.18\00:49:17.29
But I don't
think in me I was where
00:49:17.32\00:49:18.95
Christ wanted me to be.
00:49:18.99\00:49:21.19
And it was that
aphesis that I think
00:49:21.22\00:49:22.66
it really dawned upon me.
00:49:22.69\00:49:25.06
Then some other things
that I went through trail also.
00:49:25.09\00:49:27.80
And, then Irma and I
met and Irma will tell you,
00:49:27.83\00:49:31.70
I wasn't praying for any guy.
00:49:31.73\00:49:33.07
In fact I was praying
Lord, I don't want any guy,
00:49:33.10\00:49:34.47
I don't want to be
bothered by any guy.
00:49:34.50\00:49:35.90
And I was saying, "Lord,
00:49:35.94\00:49:37.61
if you got somebody
there, you going to have to..."
00:49:37.64\00:49:39.01
He had girlfriends.
00:49:39.04\00:49:40.38
Yeah, I was never
without someone who was,
00:49:40.41\00:49:44.05
you are a pastor,
you have front people
00:49:44.08\00:49:45.41
that are looking at you.
00:49:45.45\00:49:46.78
You know, so I was
not, it was not an issue
00:49:46.82\00:49:48.15
but sometimes you can
have too much on the plate,
00:49:48.18\00:49:50.95
you know, the smorgasbord
is too big and you don't know
00:49:50.99\00:49:53.56
how to make a decision.
00:49:53.59\00:49:55.76
And then Irma kind of snuck in.
00:49:55.79\00:49:58.13
But as I look back,
Irma was good for me
00:49:58.16\00:50:04.90
and is good for me.
00:50:04.93\00:50:07.47
She is loyal,
she is consecrated,
00:50:07.50\00:50:10.47
she has this linear
sense of right and wrong
00:50:10.51\00:50:13.31
and I'm first of
all, I'm proud of her,
00:50:13.34\00:50:19.31
I love her and she's...
00:50:19.35\00:50:22.05
You know God gives you
as you said what you need,
00:50:22.08\00:50:24.42
you know, and I tell
her because she says,
00:50:24.45\00:50:27.06
"I don't look so good today."
00:50:27.09\00:50:28.42
I said you know,
"You look good everyday."
00:50:28.46\00:50:30.23
You know, I think she
is a good looking person,
00:50:30.26\00:50:32.76
always have, always will.
00:50:32.79\00:50:34.90
But...
00:50:34.93\00:50:37.43
and I realized in her
eyes, I'm not the easiest person
00:50:37.47\00:50:41.57
in the world to live with, I
got some growing to do still,
00:50:41.60\00:50:45.17
but I thank God that
we are doing it together,
00:50:45.21\00:50:47.08
so I think sometime early
in the middle of my ministry,
00:50:47.11\00:50:50.41
God said your relationship
is not strong enough,
00:50:50.45\00:50:53.55
make it stronger.
00:50:53.58\00:50:54.92
And I like to ask
people because I think
00:50:54.95\00:50:57.29
it's that that makes
us stronger in the Lord.
00:50:57.32\00:51:00.36
And as we look
back at our lives,
00:51:00.39\00:51:02.52
sometimes it's
only in retrospect
00:51:02.56\00:51:04.13
that we see the different spots
00:51:04.16\00:51:06.03
that God had brought us
along the way in our lives.
00:51:06.06\00:51:09.10
Now before our time gets away,
we've got some prayer requests
00:51:09.13\00:51:12.23
that we want to pray
for and I want to read these
00:51:12.27\00:51:14.60
because we want you all
00:51:14.64\00:51:17.44
to just give a little
time of prayer as we go
00:51:17.47\00:51:20.74
and there is a fairly long list.
00:51:20.78\00:51:22.54
We got David
from Alberta, Canada.
00:51:22.58\00:51:26.18
Bound up by several
addictions, cigarettes,
00:51:26.21\00:51:29.38
marijuana and caffeine,
00:51:29.42\00:51:30.75
that's pretty
strong triumvirate,
00:51:30.79\00:51:34.22
cigarettes, marijuana
and all very addictive,
00:51:34.26\00:51:36.93
all extremely addictive.
00:51:36.96\00:51:40.56
And the cares of this
world are his only focus.
00:51:40.60\00:51:44.13
Please pray for a
salvation on deliverance.
00:51:44.17\00:51:46.57
Sarah is in Arizona
asking that we agree with her
00:51:46.60\00:51:49.47
in prayer as she
witnesses to her doctor.
00:51:49.50\00:51:53.71
He is interested in the Bible.
00:51:53.74\00:51:55.08
She says she wants to
witness to her doctor.
00:51:55.11\00:51:58.15
Florence in the Bahamas
has found a lump in her neck,
00:51:58.18\00:52:02.45
who said doctors will
be testing to determine
00:52:02.48\00:52:04.09
if its cancer and of
course she is requesting prayer.
00:52:04.12\00:52:07.36
Gene is in Arizona
praying for her daughter, Gale.
00:52:07.39\00:52:11.69
She was caught in a fire,
00:52:11.73\00:52:13.06
second to third degree
burns over 50% of the body.
00:52:13.09\00:52:17.90
She has to make frequent trips
back and forth to the hospital
00:52:17.93\00:52:22.20
and of course is
in need of prayer.
00:52:22.24\00:52:23.57
Anytime you get burns,
you know that they can be
00:52:23.61\00:52:25.37
very complex and a
lot of stuff can happens
00:52:25.41\00:52:28.04
when the skin is
opened up by burns.
00:52:28.08\00:52:30.78
Margery in Oklahoma is asking
for prayer for her family,
00:52:30.81\00:52:34.62
multiple issues
that she is combating.
00:52:34.65\00:52:38.65
Jennie in Mississippi
called and request us
00:52:38.69\00:52:41.42
a special prayer for the Lord
00:52:41.46\00:52:42.79
to help control
her blood pressure,
00:52:42.82\00:52:44.26
something that I had
been fighting for years.
00:52:44.29\00:52:46.19
I know how that
can be a challenge.
00:52:46.23\00:52:48.63
She is weak and has no energy.
00:52:48.66\00:52:50.23
Here's Jeanie in Nebraska
00:52:50.27\00:52:51.67
suffering from
multiple health issues also,
00:52:51.70\00:52:55.04
as is her husband.
00:52:55.07\00:52:56.40
She loves the Lord
with her whole heart
00:52:56.44\00:52:58.04
but because of health,
00:52:58.07\00:53:00.41
she sleeps only about one
hour, a night out of four.
00:53:00.44\00:53:05.45
So she is awake a lot.
00:53:05.48\00:53:07.32
She is becoming very
weak, losing her balance
00:53:07.35\00:53:10.02
and has to raise her
grandson is asking for prayers
00:53:10.05\00:53:12.92
that God will strengthen her
00:53:12.95\00:53:14.59
so that she can see her grandson
00:53:14.62\00:53:17.89
graduate from high school.
00:53:17.93\00:53:19.83
Clyde and Helen in Illinois
rejoicing and thanking God
00:53:19.86\00:53:23.97
for a good medical
report so we can rejoice
00:53:24.00\00:53:26.37
as Clyde and Helen
are here in Illinois.
00:53:26.40\00:53:29.34
All right, let's take a moment
and whoever feels impressed
00:53:29.37\00:53:31.87
to just a sentences
prayer, we put all this together
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in a lump and pray
for them, shall we pray?
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Dear Heavenly Father,
00:53:40.28\00:53:41.62
we leave this
request up to you Lord.
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Please be with everyone
of them and many others,
00:53:47.96\00:53:50.96
so many thousands,
many millions of people
00:53:50.99\00:53:53.06
that are
suffering, that's in need.
00:53:53.09\00:53:55.66
The world is coming to a
very convoluted situations
00:53:55.70\00:53:58.57
where people are
escaping their homelands
00:53:58.60\00:54:03.20
to find other horizons
00:54:03.24\00:54:05.64
and many, many bad
things are happening
00:54:05.67\00:54:11.25
and we want You
Lord to come soon
00:54:11.28\00:54:15.35
and many people who are not...
00:54:15.38\00:54:19.45
don't know You can be saved.
00:54:19.49\00:54:21.52
Heavenly Father,
I'd like to lift up
00:54:25.29\00:54:26.96
all of our brothers and sisters
00:54:27.00\00:54:28.66
who are struggling with
their health at this time,
00:54:28.70\00:54:31.23
especially those who
are trying to raise children
00:54:31.27\00:54:34.80
and just to live
their lives for You.
00:54:34.84\00:54:37.51
When our health fails us,
sometimes that's all we see
00:54:37.54\00:54:41.04
and we don't see
the bigger picture
00:54:41.08\00:54:42.71
because it's in the way.
00:54:42.74\00:54:44.61
Father God, I ask that You
would restore their health,
00:54:44.65\00:54:47.68
help them with the things
that are getting in the way,
00:54:47.72\00:54:50.89
and bring them unto a
place where they can serve You
00:54:50.92\00:54:53.79
with their whole heart,
00:54:53.82\00:54:55.16
their whole body
and their whole mind
00:54:55.19\00:54:57.56
in Your precious name.
00:54:57.59\00:55:00.76
Heavenly Father,
we are so thankful
00:55:00.80\00:55:03.53
for Your promises to us.
00:55:03.57\00:55:06.20
We thank You Lord that we
are able to reach out to You
00:55:06.23\00:55:10.57
and to know that You
are going to answer us.
00:55:10.61\00:55:13.48
Even other times when
we don't understand that,
00:55:13.51\00:55:16.91
You are there because You
have promised to answer us
00:55:16.95\00:55:19.68
and to aid us in everything
that we need assistance to.
00:55:19.71\00:55:25.52
We thank you
for all these people
00:55:25.55\00:55:27.96
that have written
and ask for a prayer.
00:55:27.99\00:55:30.76
We ask Father that in the name
of Jesus that You visit them,
00:55:30.79\00:55:35.16
with power from the Holy Spirit,
00:55:35.20\00:55:38.33
for healing, for victory over
00:55:38.37\00:55:42.04
all these
addictions and illnesses.
00:55:42.07\00:55:46.98
We thank You Lord
that we can trust You,
00:55:47.01\00:55:50.71
you know, for our
lives, for our healths,
00:55:50.75\00:55:55.52
whether be physical,
mental or especially spiritual.
00:55:55.55\00:56:01.79
So we thank You
Lord that in our humanity
00:56:01.82\00:56:05.96
and we are able
Lord to reach out to You
00:56:05.99\00:56:09.83
and to know that
You are there for us.
00:56:09.86\00:56:12.43
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:56:12.47\00:56:16.04
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord,
00:56:16.07\00:56:17.41
we thank You so much
for Your love for us.
00:56:17.44\00:56:19.54
Lord, we lift up
these brother and sisters,
00:56:19.57\00:56:22.68
Lord and the struggles
00:56:22.71\00:56:24.78
that they are
going through, Lord,
00:56:24.81\00:56:26.41
and we ask that
You be with them,
00:56:26.45\00:56:28.22
that You comfort
them during this time.
00:56:28.25\00:56:30.72
And, Lord, these different
situations can be replicated
00:56:30.75\00:56:34.49
all around the world,
in our own church families
00:56:34.52\00:56:37.76
and we just ask Lord
00:56:37.79\00:56:39.13
that we be a light
to those around us.
00:56:39.16\00:56:42.10
In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
00:56:42.13\00:56:45.20
Gracious Father, we
thank You for the promise
00:56:45.23\00:56:47.90
that when we bow our
heads and lift up our hearts,
00:56:47.94\00:56:50.91
there is a God in
heaven who hears and is ready,
00:56:50.94\00:56:54.31
willing and able to answer.
00:56:54.34\00:56:55.94
We pray Mighty
Father that You will bless
00:56:55.98\00:56:57.71
each of these requests,
and you know each name,
00:56:57.75\00:57:00.42
you know each person,
each mother, each father,
00:57:00.45\00:57:02.88
each child and we
pray to You Father
00:57:02.92\00:57:05.09
that You would
answer these requests
00:57:05.12\00:57:07.26
according to
Your riches and glory,
00:57:07.29\00:57:09.29
particularly those Lord
00:57:09.32\00:57:10.93
who feel far from
You, or who feel alone,
00:57:10.96\00:57:14.03
or whose
spiritual life is sagging.
00:57:14.06\00:57:16.33
Lord, would you please give them
00:57:16.36\00:57:18.60
a fresh outpouring
of Your Holy Spirit,
00:57:18.63\00:57:21.44
that their
spiritual lives may be strong,
00:57:21.47\00:57:24.04
and that their physical
lives may be healthy even
00:57:24.07\00:57:26.74
as their spiritual lives prosper
00:57:26.78\00:57:29.44
and bless those Lord who
need a healing touch from You.
00:57:29.48\00:57:32.78
We commend them to You,
the God of all faith and love
00:57:32.81\00:57:35.72
and we thank You dear Father.
00:57:35.75\00:57:37.09
In Jesus' name, amen.
00:57:37.12\00:57:39.09