I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people.
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Hello, and
welcome to Family Worship,
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and thank you for
joining us on this Sabbath day
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whether you have
begun the Sabbath,
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or about to begin the Sabbath,
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or the Sabbath is
yet to come in for you.
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We invite you to
our family worship.
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Now, you may be watching
this on a Saturday evening,
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in which case you are
beginning to start your week,
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but worship with us
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because together
we're gonna praise the Lord
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and have a good time together.
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I'm in the
company of Jason Bradley,
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who I've known
literally since birth.
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I baptized this guy
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when he was still
in his mother's womb.
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His mother was carrying
him when I baptized her.
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So I've known him
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before he made his
entrance into the world.
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Yeah, before I knew myself.
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And my wife Irma.
Irma, good to have you here.
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Good to be here, honey. Yeah.
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And Lynette sans her husband,
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she is without
her husband today,
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he is out off
doing work for the Lord.
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Lynette Jaque, good to
have you here, Lynette.
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It's lovely to be
here. Praise the Lord.
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And our buddy Luis.
This is, meet my, my...
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Sobrino. Sobrino, yeah.
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And we need to share that story
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because we found out once
that once he and Xenia came
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that they are
sort of related to you.
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Yes. Oh, wow.
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Yes. Yeah, you're
telling the story.
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Oh, I'm telling the story here.
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Okay, yes, Xenia
came to my office
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and we're talking
and she is telling me,
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she is from Canada, so I said,
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oh, did you know a
pastor named Sansa.
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Said, that's my father.
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And so we realized right
away that we were related
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because he is my cousin.
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Yes.
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And yes, so that
was a beautiful thing.
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So they're family?
Oh, we have family here.
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Yeah, that means you
can borrow money from them.
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And they are good people,
and his wife is a great cook.
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Oh, wonderful, yes.
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Yes, yes, and a great
person and a great family,
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and we praise the Lord for that.
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Very please to
know her because I...
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You know, I had a lot of...
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How you said I thought
very highly of her father,
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you know, all
that he was the one,
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and he is only
Adventist in his family.
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That's right. Yes.
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You know, it's interesting,
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we wonder about
miracles in lives.
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We look at, we always say,
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well, the Adventist
world is a small world,
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but when you really look at it,
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we had nobody here.
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You know, we
were coming to a place
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where all our
families were in Canada.
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Both her family
and my family there,
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but then God in
His infinite mercy
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send us to a place
where there is family.
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There is family.
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You know, even though we
all at 3ABN one big family,
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it's good to know that
we have blood relatives,
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you know, individuals that
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not only
believe like you believe
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but that have the
same moral patterns
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and have the
same thought process.
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I'm sure it's amazing to know
that God continually shows us
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that no matter where we go,
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He never is gonna
leave us nor forsake us.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You know, we talk
about family when we became,
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when my mom became Adventist,
I actually baptized her myself.
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Her family sort of stepped back.
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You know, our Adventist
family is truly our family.
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Her family is also in
Canada, all in Canada,
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and my dad's brother,
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one brother have
was in Nova Scotia,
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so also Canadian
roots, but when we became,
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we became
Adventists, they were Methodists
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and so they kind of
just eased away from us.
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And it is true that
sometimes your church family,
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your brothers
and sisters in Christ
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can be closer than
your biological family
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because you're
walking in the same direction.
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Your life view is
the same, you know,
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and you feel very comfortable
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in the presence of
your church family.
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Yeah, I find that
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there is
something interesting also
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is that when you
become Adventist,
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you have that, you
know, more likely that
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people and
families step away from you.
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You can become
any other denomination
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and they just find it,
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okay, so but Adventist
have a little bit of...
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That peculiarity. Yes,
that peculiarity that...
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Yeah, we have
family, they don't have,
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they don't like us very
much because of it, yes.
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And it's blood family,
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but it is beautiful when we go,
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anywhere you go and
you find the family of,
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you know,
Adventists that is so easy to,
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you know, you feel at home,
and they make you feel at home
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because you have that one belief
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and course for unity.
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That's what I found
everywhere we've gone.
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Yes.
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I remember when we
first got from Costa Rica
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that when we left
Cuba, went to Costa Rica,
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from Costa Rica we
came to Edmonton, Alberta.
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That is the first time
I ever saw my father cry.
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I remember vividly,
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he was at the
airport at a hotel in Houston
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and he said, "What have I done."
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You know, he looked at
a map where Canada was,
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he looked at a map
where Edmonton was,
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and he says, man,
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this is where
the polar bears are,
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you know, we're gonna
be shaking and shaking,
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I know, we're gonna be...
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You know, we're
gonna be meeting the bears
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in the morning and
we're going to a country
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where we don't
know the language.
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It was in the middle of winter.
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I mean that was
all of these things
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that our eyebrows
are gonna fall off,
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you know how they tell you.
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And it was in the
middle of the winter we got
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and it's amazing, I
remember vividly that,
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that first two days
my dad went frantically
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looking for church,
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and the moment
he found a church,
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that first Sabbath we
did not understand the thing
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but we were within,
we were among friends.
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Yes, yes.
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And that's what so amazing
that even when you go to a place
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where you don't even understand
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you know that the God
that you are accustomed to
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or the God that you
have fallen in love with
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is the messages going through
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because you see
the same quarterly.
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It might look
differently, the words may look
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but the cover
is exactly the same
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and you know
that they're studying.
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And it's so
amazing to feel that warmth
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in such a cold country,
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feel the warmth and
embrace of an Adventist friend.
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There is this and we have
not started our program, yeah,
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we're just sort
of reminiscing here.
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Couple of years ago we
were in the Philippines,
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we went to the Adventist
institute of higher education
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where you get
your doctorate degrees.
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And we were in the
library talking to some people
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and I looked down
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and there is a
fellow down there studying,
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his younger years,
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he is studying for
his PhD in education.
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And I don't know how
we, I got talking with him
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and he gave me his name,
and I said, you can't be.
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When I was his
pastor 30 years ago,
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he was a little child running
around terrorizing the church.
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It was just fun, I said,
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you know, when
I was your pastor,
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I wanted to throw
you through the window.
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He was a little
terror in the church,
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and here he is here
now in the Philippines
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studying for his
doctorate in education.
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You can never tell, you
know, and we laughed, I said,
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"How is your
mom, how is your dad?"
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They are quite a bit older now.
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In fact, I think
his father had passed
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but he had two older sisters
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and he was the
baby of the family,
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just running
around wreaking havoc
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and now he is serving the
Lord, studying for his PhD
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in Manila,
Philippines of all places,
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but it was really kind of great.
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So there is this family,
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you know, this worldwide family.
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And if you talk to an
Adventist long enough,
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you're gonna find somebody
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that know somebody that you know
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or that you know
somebody that they know
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or that you're related to
them, it just happens that way
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so we praise the Lord
for the family of God.
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We want to do some
singing before we go on
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to our subject matter for today.
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We're gonna be
talking about our subject is,
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"I know it was the Lord."
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And we're gonna
be recounting things
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in our lives that
we know were of God,
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that we know that
God had a hand in it.
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When I was pastoring,
we had every now and again,
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maybe once
every couple of months
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we had a prayer meeting.
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Luis, I had a, don't give
me no bad news prayer meetings.
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And that was, while I
was at Ephesus Church,
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we would have prayer
meeting where you know,
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you got aches, you
got pains, you have things
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but I said, tonight,
it's gonna be all praise,
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no bad news, we're
gonna praise the Lord.
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And I got that from an idea,
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Ellen White says that
there used to be a meeting
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that they had
after the church service
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called the social meeting.
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The social meeting was a
prayer praise testimony meeting,
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and she would talk
about how the Spirit of Lord
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would come down in
the social meeting.
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And she says there
should be no silence
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in the social meeting,
there should be no quiet times.
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People ought to
be praising the Lord.
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And she would say how
the Spirit of God felt
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as people testified to
the goodness of the Lord,
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and the social meeting
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was designed to
encourage these things,
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you know, positive testimonies,
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not oh, my head hurts
today and oh, my, my cow died,
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and none of that stuff.
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And we know that happens,
you know that happens too,
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but in the social meeting
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it's gonna be
good stuff, good news.
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We're gonna talk
about how good the Lord was,
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spirit and truth.
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And so I modeled my prayer,
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don't give me no
bad news prayer meeting
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after the social meeting,
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say we're gonna
talk about good things,
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so today we're
gonna talk about times
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when we knew
something happen in our lives,
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we knew it was the Lord.
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And so it's gonna be
a good time together.
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We have Miss Jill
Morikone over on the piano,
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and I'm gonna ask
you to turn with me
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if you will to leaning
on the everlasting arms
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which is 469,
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but I guess we
really need to pray.
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Jill, before we play let's pray.
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Let's do that, yeah.
You want to note down.
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Let's pray
before we play and sing.
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Father God, we just
praise You and thank You
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for this wonderful
opportunity that we have,
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to praise You
and to pray to You,
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and we ask Mighty Father
that You will be the centre
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and circumference
of our time together
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as we worship You, as
we bring in the Sabbath
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or prepare for
the upcoming week,
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may we be blessed to
walk in the paths of Jesus.
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Accept our
prayers, accept our praise
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in Jesus' name
we pray, amen, amen.
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What a
fellowship, what a joy divine
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as we lean on the
everlasting arms, 469.
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469. Okay, are you there?
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Here we go.
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What a
fellowship, what a joy divine
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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What a blessedness,
what a peace is mine
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning, leaning
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Oh, how sweet to walk...
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Oh, how sweet to
walk in this pilgrim way
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Oh, how bright the
path grows from day to day
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning, leaning
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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What have I to
dread, what have I to fear
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Leaning on the everlasting arms?
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I have blessed
peace with my Lord so near
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Leaning on the everlasting arms
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Leaning, leaning, leaning
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Safe and secure from all alarms
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Leaning, leaning, leaning
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Leaning on the everlasting arms.
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And just one more 388, 388.
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I like this song.
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Don't forget the Sabbath
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The Lord our God hath blest
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Of all the week the brightest
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Of all the week the best
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It brings repose from labor
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It tells of joy divine
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It beams of light descending
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With heavenly beauty shine
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Keep the Sabbath holy.
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Keep the Sabbath holy
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And worship him today
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Who said to His disciples
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"I am the living way"
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And if we meekly follow
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Our Savior here below
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He'll give us of the fountain
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Whose streams eternal flow
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Day of sacred pleasure!
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Its golden hours we'll spend
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In thankful hymns to Jesus
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The children's dearest Friend
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O gentle, loving Savior
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How good and kind Thou art
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How precious is Thy promise
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To dwell in every heart!
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day
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Welcome, welcome, ever welcome
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Blessed Sabbath day.
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Amen. Amen.
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I think that
needs to be brought back
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into the spirit of
regularly sung psalms.
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Yeah, that is not
one we sing too often.
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I remember singing as a child,
then it kind of went on hiatus,
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you know, you
don't sing that too much.
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We thank Jill so very
much for assisting us there.
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I want to read
something very quickly.
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Ellen White talks about a life
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that is wholly
dedicated to others
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in serving the Lord.
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You know, even when
you're serving the Lord
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and doing work for the
Lord as we do here at 3ABN,
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you need times when you
need to come aside, you know,
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and just spend
time with you in Jesus.
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The truth is, you
can get so caught up
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doing the things of God
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that you neglect
your time with God
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and they're not the same.
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You can do the things of
God, you can preach and pray,
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and work and edit, and
do all these kind of things,
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but you need
time for refreshing.
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And Ellen White says our
cries after a day of healing
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had to come aside himself
and meditate on and worship
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and spend some
time along with God.
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And I think one of
the best ways to do that,
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that is most refreshing
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is to recount the goodness
of the Lord in your life,
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you know, to look back
and see, yeah, God was there,
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and God was
there, and God was there,
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and God was there.
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And one of the things that does,
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ladies and gentlemen,
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is that it prepares
you and buttresses you
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for the times
when stuff gets rough
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and you may be tempted to think
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or Satan may be
whispering in your ear,
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God, you forgive my pejorative
of English ain't there,
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You know, so you
sort of fatten up
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during the good years and
remember what he has done,
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so that when the lean years come
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and we're all gonna
have some lean times.
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You can remember, oh,
yeah, God was with me then,
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He is with me now,
I don't feel like it.
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And Ellen White says, you know,
don't always go on feeling,
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unless you're gonna go
on fact that God loves you.
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God said I love you,
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I will never leave
you, nor forsake you.
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And though you don't feel
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that it's still true.
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I always give the example,
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there are
times, you are married,
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you are
married, you are married,
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when you feel very married...
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I want to get there.
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And yours is coming and
so maybe this is for you.
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You know, there are times
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when from the time
you work in the mornings
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it's gonna be good day,
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you know, you're
just having a good day,
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hormones are
right, everything is good,
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and you feel very married.
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You know, just we are
married, you feel so married.
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And then you have some days
when you don't feel so married.
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Amen. Amen.
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Yeah, some days, you
know, everyday isn't the same,
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you know, some days
you feel very married,
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and some days you
don't feel so married,
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you know, something happens or,
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you know, little things come in.
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On the days when
you feel married,
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you're married.
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Amen. Amen, yeah.
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And on the days
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when you don't feel
so married, guess what?
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You're still married.
Still married, that right.
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Nothing has changed,
you're still married, you know,
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and you'll find that.
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Right now you and Lady Tiffany,
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we see you tip
going through the tulips.
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He is flying to California,
she is flying to Illinois,
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you know, flying to California,
going back and forth,
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and we praise the Lord for that.
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But you gonna get up one morning
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and not feel so married.
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But guess what?
I'm still married.
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You're still
married, that's right.
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You still gonna be married, man.
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And it's that
way also with Christ.
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Some days you feel like you can
carry the weight of the world.
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You know, I can carry it all.
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And some days you feel like
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you are carrying the
weight of the world, you know.
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And on the days when
you feel very triumphant
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and very victorious, you are.
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And on the days
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when you don't
feel so triumphant,
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you still are
because you got Jesus.
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And you never know
that Jesus is all you need
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until Jesus is
all you got, you know.
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So it's at those times
you need to think about
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the goodness of the Lord,
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those times when you
know it was God in your life,
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when you know and
sometimes it means all the time.
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Got to turn off
the television set,
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turn off the
computer, turn off the internet,
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and just spend some
a lone time with God.
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And wait on the Lord.
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And wait on the Lord, well said,
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you got to spend
some lonely time with God.
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One quick thing and
then we'll go into our...
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I won't do all this
reading up, I'm not gonna go.
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Ellen White says this,
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"When every
other voice is hushed,
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and in quietness
we wait before Him,
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the silence of the soul
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makes more
distinct the voice of God.
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He bids us, "Be still,
and know that I am God."
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' So sometimes you
got to shut off the racket
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and just lock in with the Lord,
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and one of the
good ways to do that
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is to remember those times
when you know it was the Lord.
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Who wants to start on
and give me a testimony?
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I was telling you, I
don't know how many...
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You know, how
many do I have to say.
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I may be here for
the next two, three hours
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because they all
come into my mind.
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Psalms 143:9 says, "Deliver
me, oh Lord, from my enemies,
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in You I take shelter."
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And I remember
as I've always been
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in charge of the
youth in one way or another.
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And one day we were going
00:22:00.18\00:22:01.52
to a youth
conference in Shreveport.
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We packed all in into a,
00:22:03.52\00:22:06.39
you know, one of
those school buses,
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and we're traveling,
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everything's
going great while this,
00:22:09.96\00:22:12.33
the bus driver had
just gotten her license,
00:22:12.36\00:22:14.86
never driven a bus before.
00:22:14.90\00:22:17.20
This was the very first time
00:22:17.23\00:22:18.57
she'd been behind
the wheel of a bus.
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We are about 500 yards
away from getting there,
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we're in a country road
and I know that if, you know,
00:22:25.51\00:22:28.94
if you remember country road's
only enough room for two bus,
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for two vehicles.
00:22:32.85\00:22:34.78
This young lad
comes with his car
00:22:34.82\00:22:37.12
just zooming right by us.
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She gets nervous, loses control
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and the bus literally
is facing the other way.
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So she did a 180 in with the bus
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full of young people.
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When we got there
all the nurse were,
00:22:56.17\00:22:59.47
you know, racing,
00:22:59.51\00:23:01.11
I didn't
understand what happened
00:23:01.14\00:23:02.84
because I was
sitting normally in my chair,
00:23:02.88\00:23:05.31
all of a sudden I'm
flown over to the other side.
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There are
several kids that said,
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.09
I saw the hands of an angels
that literally took our bus
00:23:11.12\00:23:16.46
and kept it in line
00:23:16.49\00:23:17.83
because there is
embankment on either side.
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How you do on 180
on a small country road
00:23:20.90\00:23:24.90
with embankments on either side
00:23:24.93\00:23:26.33
and you don't
fall with the person
00:23:26.37\00:23:27.94
that just got her license,
the very first time driving.
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It's only God. Praise God.
00:23:31.91\00:23:33.58
It's only God and we were able
to use this particular verse
00:23:33.61\00:23:38.01
that says, God,
you will shelter us,
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You will deliver
us from the enemy
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because you know that the enemy
00:23:41.92\00:23:43.25
didn't want us to be
blessed on that weekend.
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And it's so amazing to
be able to testify today
00:23:46.15\00:23:51.29
about that fact,
00:23:51.33\00:23:53.19
and still to the day
the young people that went
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and we took a picture,
00:23:56.77\00:23:58.37
we actually were
on the World Magazine
00:23:58.40\00:24:02.84
that, you know...
00:24:02.87\00:24:04.71
Is that the World
Magazine that take, one that...
00:24:04.74\00:24:08.44
the General Conference puts out.
00:24:08.48\00:24:10.71
3ABN World. Not 3ABN World.
00:24:10.75\00:24:14.45
Adventist
World. Adventist World.
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Yes.
00:24:16.15\00:24:17.49
And we were
actually on that magazine,
00:24:17.52\00:24:18.92
the picture of us, how
miraculous that day was.
00:24:18.95\00:24:23.73
Praise God. Praise God.
00:24:23.76\00:24:26.03
And that was the Lord.
00:24:26.06\00:24:27.40
That definitely sounds
like the Lord and the angels
00:24:27.43\00:24:31.00
because we've
been in roads like that
00:24:31.03\00:24:33.60
and to turn a bus
around, even a car,
00:24:33.64\00:24:38.17
you have to do many
maneuvers before you,
00:24:38.21\00:24:41.41
so that you know, you
cannot say that it was man.
00:24:41.44\00:24:45.11
Amen. Amen.
00:24:45.15\00:24:47.42
And the fact that it didn't
flipped over or anything...
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.72
Yes, exactly. That is amazing.
00:24:49.75\00:24:51.89
And somebody with
first time driving.
00:24:51.92\00:24:55.06
I worked one
time in an institution
00:24:55.09\00:24:58.73
where you have to learn to
drive a small bus, you know,
00:24:58.76\00:25:04.53
but it's still pretty
big compared to any car.
00:25:04.57\00:25:09.90
And you had to,
that was strictly says
00:25:09.94\00:25:12.17
because at any time
you have to take somebody
00:25:12.21\00:25:16.75
to the doctor or
whatever, and you have to.
00:25:16.78\00:25:23.42
There are certain
things that you have to do
00:25:23.45\00:25:26.19
in order to even just
turn on to another road,
00:25:26.22\00:25:30.13
so I cannot
imagine and that was,
00:25:30.16\00:25:33.40
we did this for
weeks of training,
00:25:33.43\00:25:36.80
can't imagine someone
first time on a bus like that.
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You cannot say that it
was not God, His angels.
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Tell you a quick
story. When I was...
00:25:47.11\00:25:48.51
It was in my second church,
my first church on my own
00:25:48.54\00:25:52.15
and I just preached a sermon
about faith and my elders said,
00:25:52.18\00:25:55.78
you know, you need to
go and see Sister Jackson,
00:25:55.82\00:25:57.62
her daughter is pretty ill.
00:25:57.65\00:25:59.59
And so I went to the house,
00:25:59.62\00:26:00.96
this is right after
our worship service,
00:26:00.99\00:26:03.26
and the girl is laying in bed
00:26:03.29\00:26:05.06
and she has absolutely no color.
00:26:05.09\00:26:06.86
I mean she is
breathing very shallow
00:26:06.90\00:26:09.16
and she has no color.
00:26:09.20\00:26:10.87
And is said, Sister Jackson,
00:26:10.90\00:26:12.23
you need to take
her to the hospital.
00:26:12.27\00:26:14.40
And she said, no
pastor, I have faith,
00:26:14.44\00:26:16.67
you just pray for
her and she will be fine.
00:26:16.71\00:26:20.18
I said, no,
00:26:20.21\00:26:22.94
you need to take
her to the doctor
00:26:22.98\00:26:24.58
'cause that girl looks,
she doesn't look good at all.
00:26:24.61\00:26:26.92
She said, no, no just pray
and everything will be fine.
00:26:26.95\00:26:30.92
You know, you're
at the confluence
00:26:30.95\00:26:33.92
of a lot of different emotions.
00:26:33.96\00:26:35.29
One, if I wimp
out here, you know,
00:26:35.32\00:26:38.73
I just finished
preaching about faith,
00:26:38.76\00:26:41.16
and the second one is like,
if this child dies, you know,
00:26:41.20\00:26:45.60
and she said, no, you
just pray, it will fine.
00:26:45.63\00:26:48.40
She had more faith than I did.
00:26:48.44\00:26:50.07
I'm saying, please
take her to the doctor.
00:26:50.11\00:26:52.24
She said, no, I'm not going to
take her to doctor, just pray.
00:26:52.27\00:26:54.74
So after while you
praise, so we hold hands,
00:26:54.78\00:26:57.28
you know, Lord, please,
00:26:57.31\00:27:01.52
you know, so
you're begging to Lord,
00:27:01.55\00:27:02.88
please you got
to do something Lord
00:27:02.92\00:27:04.25
because you just have to.
00:27:04.29\00:27:06.45
And so we prayed
and prayed and prayed,
00:27:06.49\00:27:08.42
and then I went
back to the church,
00:27:08.46\00:27:09.79
I didn't even go home to eat.
00:27:09.82\00:27:11.99
This was before I was married.
00:27:12.03\00:27:13.70
I just kind of sat in my office
because I was just so worried,
00:27:13.73\00:27:16.20
I had no appetite, you know,
00:27:16.23\00:27:17.57
when you got something going on,
00:27:17.60\00:27:18.93
you don't have appetite.
00:27:18.97\00:27:20.30
And about two hours
later Sister Jackson comes
00:27:20.34\00:27:24.77
trotting in with her daughter.
00:27:24.81\00:27:27.71
They come bounding in,
00:27:27.74\00:27:29.08
she says, pastor,
look at her, she is fine.
00:27:29.11\00:27:31.65
Wow! Now, here's the funny part.
00:27:31.68\00:27:34.12
When, she says, after you left,
00:27:34.15\00:27:37.59
she threw up and she's fine.
00:27:37.62\00:27:43.59
And she said, I
have it in a bag,
00:27:43.63\00:27:46.59
and she just
brought it so you can see.
00:27:46.63\00:27:49.83
Why would you save
that? Yeah, she saved it.
00:27:49.86\00:27:52.50
And she said, she
threw up this black rope,
00:27:52.53\00:27:55.80
it was this black
thing and so opens the bag
00:27:55.84\00:27:58.07
and all of this black
stuff piles over my desk,
00:27:58.11\00:28:01.04
and it's, it's,
oh, it's horrible,
00:28:01.08\00:28:02.94
but she is so excited,
00:28:02.98\00:28:04.31
her nose has gone
nose-blind but it's killing me,
00:28:04.35\00:28:06.78
and she said, pastor, look,
00:28:06.82\00:28:08.78
and out comes
this black rope thing
00:28:08.82\00:28:11.02
and I was, oh, praise the Lord.
00:28:11.05\00:28:17.16
Thank you, Jesus. Whoa!
00:28:17.19\00:28:19.86
Kind of thing.
00:28:19.89\00:28:21.23
But I said, you know,
her faith was so strong,
00:28:21.26\00:28:26.23
and at that point she
had more faith than I do.
00:28:26.27\00:28:28.57
And you say,
now it was the Lord,
00:28:28.60\00:28:30.21
it had to be the Lord
00:28:30.24\00:28:31.57
because that girl looked
like she was at death door,
00:28:31.61\00:28:34.44
and she was totally fine
00:28:34.48\00:28:36.75
within two hours of that prayer.
00:28:36.78\00:28:38.78
So once we got
my desk cleaned up,
00:28:38.81\00:28:41.38
my appetite came back
and I went over and ate.
00:28:41.42\00:28:44.35
But I thought
that was it, you know,
00:28:44.39\00:28:46.05
the Lord does do
miracles to honor His name
00:28:46.09\00:28:49.26
and that one had stayed with me,
00:28:49.29\00:28:50.63
and that was over
40 plus years ago.
00:28:50.66\00:28:52.03
Wow.
00:28:52.06\00:28:53.40
You know, that's interesting
00:28:53.43\00:28:54.76
how a lot of times
when you do things,
00:28:54.80\00:28:56.13
I remember, I
went to visit my home
00:28:56.16\00:28:58.90
and I was distraught,
00:28:58.93\00:29:01.40
I mean, everything was
going wrong in my life,
00:29:01.44\00:29:03.20
so I went in, I wanted to
spend a little bit of time
00:29:03.24\00:29:06.34
with my family in solitude,
00:29:06.37\00:29:08.81
you know, not
worried about anything else.
00:29:08.84\00:29:11.05
My dad was having heart
issues, my mom was having cancer
00:29:11.08\00:29:14.48
and so I wanted
to kind of visit them
00:29:14.52\00:29:16.75
and all of these
thoughts in my mind
00:29:16.79\00:29:19.45
so they asked me
to teach the lesson,
00:29:19.49\00:29:21.19
so the lesson was about Moses
00:29:21.22\00:29:23.02
and how Moses
kept on telling God,
00:29:23.06\00:29:24.73
God, not me, I
don't know how to talk,
00:29:24.76\00:29:26.83
I don't know how to
deal with these things,
00:29:26.86\00:29:28.76
so I kept on
telling the young people,
00:29:28.80\00:29:31.67
you know, you've got to
just lend yourself to the Lord.
00:29:31.70\00:29:35.40
All the sudden, I go
and I sit at the front.
00:29:35.44\00:29:38.81
The pastor sends up and he says,
00:29:38.84\00:29:40.84
Luis, would you
like to preach today.
00:29:40.88\00:29:43.31
I'm like no.
00:29:43.35\00:29:48.42
He says, I'll tell
you what I'm going to do,
00:29:48.45\00:29:49.95
I'm going to sing and
then you make up your mind
00:29:49.98\00:29:53.96
whether you want
to preach or not.
00:29:53.99\00:29:55.72
All the sudden
he's starting to sing
00:29:55.76\00:29:58.19
and the Holy Spirit talks to
me and says you're hypocrite.
00:29:58.23\00:30:01.00
You just finished
telling the young people
00:30:01.03\00:30:04.07
that all you have to
do is lend your voice
00:30:04.10\00:30:06.33
to the Lord
00:30:06.37\00:30:07.97
and the then the
Lord will do the rest,
00:30:08.00\00:30:10.01
and now you're sitting
here and you're saying no.
00:30:10.04\00:30:12.71
I didn't say no to
him, in my mind I said no.
00:30:12.74\00:30:15.04
The moment he
finished preaching I stood up,
00:30:15.08\00:30:17.65
it was the most amazing
sermon that has ever been,
00:30:17.68\00:30:21.78
you know, that I
have ever preached.
00:30:21.82\00:30:23.92
I knew, know, it
couldn't have been of me
00:30:23.95\00:30:25.79
because I wasn't prepared of it,
00:30:25.82\00:30:27.86
but it's when God, when you are,
00:30:27.89\00:30:30.66
when you trust God,
00:30:30.69\00:30:32.39
you've got to
prove it with your lips,
00:30:32.43\00:30:36.40
you got to make sure that
00:30:36.43\00:30:37.77
if you're going
to tell young person
00:30:37.80\00:30:39.47
that you need to
stand up for Jesus
00:30:39.50\00:30:42.10
and you then do not do it,
what kind of example are you.
00:30:42.14\00:30:45.57
And it's amazing
how God will do amazing,
00:30:45.61\00:30:49.41
powerful things through you
if you are willing to commit,
00:30:49.44\00:30:53.31
and this reminds me of the movie
00:30:53.35\00:30:56.58
that Desmond Doss
that's just coming out,
00:30:56.62\00:30:58.29
the book, if you read
the book is because he was,
00:30:58.32\00:31:01.36
he committed to
what his beliefs were,
00:31:01.39\00:31:06.06
look what he was able to
do save 75 plus individuals,
00:31:06.09\00:31:10.33
and that gives me
joy to understand that
00:31:10.37\00:31:12.93
when we stay firm and
we understand God will do,
00:31:12.97\00:31:16.77
we don't have to do anything
00:31:16.81\00:31:18.14
but lend
ourselves to be a vessel,
00:31:18.17\00:31:20.98
to be used by God.
00:31:21.01\00:31:22.34
Amen, amen.
Very true, very true.
00:31:22.38\00:31:24.31
You know, I think that
many people talks about
00:31:24.35\00:31:27.85
journaling your
encounters with the Lord
00:31:27.88\00:31:31.82
and He is really,
really more important than
00:31:31.85\00:31:36.39
sometimes we realize
00:31:36.42\00:31:38.29
because there are
times in our lives that we,
00:31:38.33\00:31:42.13
our faith it falls,
00:31:42.16\00:31:45.73
and the situations that
come alive are so strong
00:31:45.77\00:31:51.21
that you can get so
involved in the situation,
00:31:51.24\00:31:56.04
and you don't see and you
ask, even forget that faith
00:31:56.08\00:32:00.18
that you're supposed to
have and trust in the Lord.
00:32:00.22\00:32:03.35
And I think it's
important also...
00:32:03.39\00:32:10.13
Having always a friend
00:32:10.16\00:32:12.56
that is sort of
ready to pray for you,
00:32:12.59\00:32:16.26
to pray, oh, let's
put this on prayer.
00:32:16.30\00:32:18.70
And I have a friend in my,
00:32:18.73\00:32:21.20
the first latter
church that I went to.
00:32:21.24\00:32:24.74
And my son Kevin
who is a pastor now
00:32:24.77\00:32:31.38
was getting in a little
bit of troubles in his life.
00:32:31.41\00:32:35.88
He had an experience
that where his best friend
00:32:35.92\00:32:39.89
got killed in a
motorcycle accident
00:32:39.92\00:32:42.72
and then he
blamed himself and then,
00:32:42.76\00:32:45.06
he just, his life is starting
to go on the wrong direction,
00:32:45.09\00:32:49.96
but my friend and I
was worried about it
00:32:50.00\00:32:52.53
and we prayed about it,
00:32:52.57\00:32:55.20
but my friend had so much faith,
00:32:55.24\00:32:58.21
and I was so worried
00:32:58.24\00:33:00.71
that he will go in
the wrong direction,
00:33:00.74\00:33:02.64
and sure enough, he was going
in the wrong direction of drugs
00:33:02.68\00:33:07.98
and other things
that, praise the Lord,
00:33:08.02\00:33:11.49
he never got too far into it
00:33:11.52\00:33:13.32
but still he was
leaning that way.
00:33:13.36\00:33:17.36
And she says, you know,
00:33:17.39\00:33:20.10
we have to take
Kevin out of this town.
00:33:20.13\00:33:23.30
He needs to go away from
this kind of friends he has now.
00:33:23.33\00:33:28.37
They were good kids
00:33:28.40\00:33:29.74
and they're
from wealthy families
00:33:29.77\00:33:33.44
but they were doing
things that were not right.
00:33:33.48\00:33:36.38
And so I says, but, you know,
00:33:36.41\00:33:39.41
he doesn't even want
to go to school anymore.
00:33:39.45\00:33:41.88
It doesn't matter she says,
00:33:41.92\00:33:43.82
we're just going
to pray about this.
00:33:43.85\00:33:46.42
And I said, okay,
we prayed about it,
00:33:46.45\00:33:49.66
and then Kevin totally
refused to go to college.
00:33:49.69\00:33:53.96
He says, no, I am
not college material.
00:33:54.00\00:33:56.97
His ideas are beautiful, I mean,
00:33:57.00\00:33:59.40
his drawings are so amazing.
00:33:59.43\00:34:04.24
No, I'm not going to but he
had a whole series of pictures
00:34:04.27\00:34:08.64
that they were all
very much into the dark,
00:34:08.68\00:34:11.85
you know, part of
the world, Satanic even.
00:34:11.88\00:34:15.88
And, but he says,
she kept telling me,
00:34:15.92\00:34:19.29
don't worry, if
he doesn't want to,
00:34:19.32\00:34:21.42
it still doesn't matter.
00:34:21.46\00:34:22.79
She says, we just
gonna trust the Lord.
00:34:22.82\00:34:26.26
And that was a real eye-opening
and growth and faith for me
00:34:26.29\00:34:32.53
because we did all the things,
00:34:32.57\00:34:36.77
you know, fill our
papers to go to the college,
00:34:36.81\00:34:39.74
I did everything,
00:34:39.77\00:34:41.34
he didn't do
anything other than, than...
00:34:41.38\00:34:47.72
When the papers
went to the college,
00:34:47.75\00:34:49.65
you know, it's a
four year college,
00:34:49.68\00:34:51.65
and we got a letter back
00:34:51.69\00:34:53.69
that he had been
accepted and then he was amazed,
00:34:53.72\00:34:58.43
so when he saw that
this could not happen
00:34:58.46\00:35:02.73
says my grades are not good,
00:35:02.76\00:35:04.37
I don't want to
go to the college.
00:35:04.40\00:35:06.84
And I says, yeah
but, you know, we did this
00:35:06.87\00:35:10.47
but they had accepted you.
00:35:10.51\00:35:13.41
So then one morning
he gets up and he says,
00:35:13.44\00:35:16.41
okay, mom, I'm
gonna go to college,
00:35:16.44\00:35:18.25
you know, just
because you say, but I'm sure,
00:35:18.28\00:35:20.28
I'm not gonna last in there
00:35:20.32\00:35:21.95
but just because,
you know, you are so firm
00:35:21.98\00:35:25.59
and that you believe
that I'm gonna do okay there.
00:35:25.62\00:35:28.79
So, okay, great, grade it.
00:35:28.82\00:35:30.66
So then it came the time,
the letter comes and he says,
00:35:30.69\00:35:34.23
you need $1500 to
matriculate, you know, the fee.
00:35:34.26\00:35:40.40
I was alone, I
was just, have a job.
00:35:40.44\00:35:43.84
I was losing my house,
all of these and I said,
00:35:43.87\00:35:48.81
I mean where does this
money going to come from.
00:35:48.84\00:35:51.25
And it sounds
like a long, long story
00:35:51.28\00:35:55.15
but it was just
the first amazing thing
00:35:55.18\00:35:59.29
that it happened to me
that I knew was from the Lord.
00:35:59.32\00:36:05.26
Kevin has never had allergies
other than the poison ivy
00:36:05.29\00:36:10.70
and we are one
Sunday just, you know,
00:36:10.73\00:36:14.30
visiting and having a good time,
00:36:14.34\00:36:17.04
and all of a
sudden he gets home,
00:36:17.07\00:36:22.01
and he is with
this allergic reaction.
00:36:22.04\00:36:27.12
He says
something bit me on my arm
00:36:27.15\00:36:28.98
and I don't know what it is and,
00:36:29.02\00:36:30.99
so we run with him
to the emergency room.
00:36:31.02\00:36:34.22
Everything was taken
care of and he was fine,
00:36:34.26\00:36:39.39
then it came the
time to go to, to the,
00:36:39.43\00:36:43.33
you know, to sign
the papers for insurance.
00:36:43.37\00:36:47.07
Oh, he says, your
son is not on insurance.
00:36:47.10\00:36:50.11
And I said, what
do you mean, you know?
00:36:50.14\00:36:52.71
They have been taking
money out of my paycheck
00:36:52.74\00:36:56.48
to have him in the insurance,
so this cannot be possible.
00:36:56.51\00:37:00.82
Well, you have to got to
work and find out what's wrong.
00:37:00.85\00:37:04.12
So I go on Monday to
the manager and I said,
00:37:04.15\00:37:08.56
Hal, his name was Hal, he says,
00:37:08.59\00:37:10.39
this is really
strange, I said it,
00:37:10.43\00:37:13.46
you've been taking
money out of my paycheck,
00:37:13.50\00:37:15.93
but the hospital tells me
00:37:15.96\00:37:17.53
that your son is
not in the insurance.
00:37:17.57\00:37:20.57
And he says, well,
that's not possible,
00:37:20.60\00:37:23.24
let me take care of
it, let me look for that.
00:37:23.27\00:37:26.27
Find out that for some
reason that policy never went in
00:37:26.31\00:37:33.25
but they had taken $1500
00:37:33.28\00:37:36.48
and for $1500
00:37:36.52\00:37:41.59
and there were like
$40 left besides that.
00:37:41.62\00:37:46.19
And so he says now,
00:37:46.23\00:37:50.20
we have to give
you back that money.
00:37:50.23\00:37:52.63
We have to put
them in insurance,
00:37:52.67\00:37:54.64
and we're going to
pay for the hospital fee.
00:37:54.67\00:37:59.24
So that was the first
miracle that I can remember,
00:37:59.27\00:38:06.11
it's powerful.
00:38:06.15\00:38:07.98
And that helped
Kevin into the school.
00:38:08.02\00:38:09.55
And Kevin needed
1500 and $45, $40
00:38:09.58\00:38:13.12
went for the couple
of things he need to take
00:38:13.15\00:38:17.43
and the gas to take him,
00:38:17.46\00:38:20.60
and then that
was a little struggle
00:38:20.63\00:38:23.83
the first year or two for Kevin
00:38:23.87\00:38:28.04
and but the Lord started
doing miracles in his life
00:38:28.07\00:38:31.54
right then and then, yes.
00:38:31.57\00:38:33.31
I'm gonna go ahead
and jump on in there.
00:38:33.34\00:38:34.91
Yes, do that.
00:38:34.94\00:38:36.78
Now, it seems like we've been
hearing a lot from everybody's
00:38:36.81\00:38:40.08
about faith basically,
so it boiled down to faith,
00:38:40.12\00:38:42.88
you know, with you experiencing
that nasty stuff on your desk
00:38:42.92\00:38:46.86
and everything like
that, and Kevin and Luis.
00:38:46.89\00:38:51.83
So let me think about
Hebrews 11:6 where it says,
00:38:51.86\00:38:56.53
'But without faith it is
impossible to please him:
00:38:56.56\00:38:59.27
for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is,
00:38:59.30\00:39:02.20
and that he is
a rewarder of them
00:39:02.24\00:39:03.81
that diligently seek him."
00:39:03.84\00:39:05.47
I had my moment
when I was in Atlanta.
00:39:05.51\00:39:07.91
I was in Atlanta Georgia,
00:39:07.94\00:39:09.28
I was, I think
around 19 years old,
00:39:09.31\00:39:11.81
and I remember my
stomach was hurting.
00:39:11.85\00:39:16.08
I had a pain in my stomach,
00:39:16.12\00:39:17.45
and I hated going
to the doctor, right,
00:39:17.49\00:39:19.15
I didn't want to
go to the doctor,
00:39:19.19\00:39:21.99
but I needed like my
stomach, I told my dad,
00:39:22.02\00:39:25.09
if my stomach gets any worse,
00:39:25.13\00:39:26.90
I will go tomorrow or
the next day or whatever.
00:39:26.93\00:39:29.63
So I waited, I tried everything,
00:39:29.66\00:39:32.27
I was curled up in
the fetal position,
00:39:32.30\00:39:34.37
I took hot
baths, and hot showers,
00:39:34.40\00:39:36.81
and stuff to try
and make it feel better.
00:39:36.84\00:39:38.84
My stomach was
growing and growing
00:39:38.87\00:39:41.41
and it was getting warm
00:39:41.44\00:39:42.78
and hard and
everything like that.
00:39:42.81\00:39:45.01
So I went to a doctor,
and he looked, he looked,
00:39:45.05\00:39:50.25
ran a few tests and
gave me some medicine
00:39:50.29\00:39:52.82
and sent me home.
00:39:52.85\00:39:54.66
I went home, my
stomach still just hurting,
00:39:54.69\00:39:58.29
I'm in so much pain,
00:39:58.33\00:39:59.66
I've never felt
this type of pain before.
00:39:59.69\00:40:02.13
And I remember saying,
00:40:02.16\00:40:04.03
man, I feel like I'm
going to dye or something,
00:40:04.07\00:40:06.27
and I went to bed,
00:40:06.30\00:40:08.20
and then went back to
the doctor the next day,
00:40:08.24\00:40:12.47
gave me some more
medicine, sent me home.
00:40:12.51\00:40:15.78
Now my doctor was supposed to be
00:40:15.81\00:40:17.21
on vacation this third time
00:40:17.25\00:40:19.15
'cause I still
wasn't getting any better,
00:40:19.18\00:40:20.78
I was only getting worse.
00:40:20.82\00:40:22.48
My doctor was
supposed to be on vacation.
00:40:22.52\00:40:24.29
I went into the
office with my dad,
00:40:24.32\00:40:26.42
and I saw the fill in doctor,
00:40:26.45\00:40:29.62
the temp doctor while
my doctor was on vacation.
00:40:29.66\00:40:33.36
And my doctor happened to
be in the office at that time
00:40:33.40\00:40:35.66
'cause the temp
was going to give me
00:40:35.70\00:40:37.03
some more
medicine and sent me home.
00:40:37.07\00:40:39.30
Well, he decided to come
in and he ran another test,
00:40:39.33\00:40:43.61
and he hold my dad, he said,
00:40:43.64\00:40:44.97
you need to take
him to the ER right now.
00:40:45.01\00:40:47.84
You see what happened was my
appendix ruptured inside of me.
00:40:47.88\00:40:51.61
And he didn't expect it
because of my age or whatever,
00:40:51.65\00:40:57.12
but when he ran the
test and he told my dad
00:40:57.15\00:40:58.82
to take me to the
doctor right away,
00:40:58.85\00:41:00.92
I ended up having
an emergency surgery
00:41:00.96\00:41:03.63
that same day or that night.
00:41:03.66\00:41:06.90
And the surgeon told my dad
00:41:06.93\00:41:08.26
that if you wouldn't have
brought him here when you did,
00:41:08.30\00:41:10.93
he'd be dead
00:41:10.97\00:41:12.30
because my large
intestine was blocked as well
00:41:12.33\00:41:16.50
and that was about to go next.
00:41:16.54\00:41:18.37
So that was truly a God
thing and even at a time
00:41:18.41\00:41:22.08
when I wasn't in the
church at that time, you know,
00:41:22.11\00:41:26.05
so even at a time were
I wasn't in the church,
00:41:26.08\00:41:28.42
God showed that
He love me so much
00:41:28.45\00:41:31.99
that He was going to deliver me
00:41:32.02\00:41:33.72
because he had a
purpose and a plan for my life.
00:41:33.76\00:41:35.89
Amen. Amen.
00:41:35.92\00:41:39.03
Lynette, I know
you got something.
00:41:39.06\00:41:41.33
You've been waiting patiently.
00:41:41.36\00:41:43.87
Well, actually I've just
been sitting here and feeling
00:41:43.90\00:41:45.63
remarkably unprepared,
00:41:45.67\00:41:47.44
it's been not to
whine and complain,
00:41:47.47\00:41:50.67
it's just been
really, really insanely busy
00:41:50.71\00:41:53.07
in the last two weeks of my life
00:41:53.11\00:41:54.78
being mother and
father on the go constantly
00:41:54.81\00:41:58.98
but, I guess what
is coming to my mind
00:41:59.01\00:42:03.99
isn't as dramatic.
00:42:04.02\00:42:07.56
I don't think, it's
just, I've been a Christian
00:42:07.59\00:42:10.96
since I was a teenager.
00:42:10.99\00:42:12.69
I came into the church
through the Baptist church.
00:42:12.73\00:42:16.80
Very dear girlfriend
Lea invited me to a camp,
00:42:16.83\00:42:20.97
and that's where I
really solidified my decision
00:42:21.00\00:42:25.31
for the Lord.
00:42:25.34\00:42:27.48
But over the years, I
had been in situations
00:42:27.51\00:42:30.88
where it just
starts slowly spiritually
00:42:30.91\00:42:34.28
starving to death in churches
00:42:34.32\00:42:37.12
where there was
wonderful people,
00:42:37.15\00:42:39.39
but the spirit wasn't there.
00:42:39.42\00:42:43.32
And you hang on
because, you know,
00:42:43.36\00:42:45.26
you're in a
traditional situation,
00:42:45.29\00:42:47.00
you need to keep
going traditionally
00:42:47.03\00:42:48.56
and went a lot
of years that way,
00:42:48.60\00:42:52.73
and just slowly dwindling inside
00:42:52.77\00:42:55.04
and yearning for more.
00:42:55.07\00:42:58.27
And the Lord just gave me
an ability to dig my heels
00:42:58.31\00:43:04.01
and I guess because
so many people said,
00:43:04.05\00:43:06.68
well, you're
gonna lose your faith
00:43:06.72\00:43:08.05
on this journey.
00:43:08.08\00:43:09.42
You know, why don't
you just forget about it,
00:43:09.45\00:43:10.79
you don't need to go to
church anymore, it's okay.
00:43:10.82\00:43:12.82
You know, you're
fine without that.
00:43:12.85\00:43:14.69
And deep in my
heart it's like no,
00:43:14.72\00:43:17.79
I know that I
believe in God, you know,
00:43:17.83\00:43:20.80
I believe Lord forgive,
tell me I believe, you know,
00:43:20.83\00:43:24.07
when I falter a bit, I've
just been clinging and clawing
00:43:24.10\00:43:27.27
trying to hang on
to my Christianity
00:43:27.30\00:43:29.00
and then through
varied and sundry things,
00:43:29.04\00:43:33.24
I ended up living with my
mom and my two then young sons
00:43:33.27\00:43:38.95
and came back to church
00:43:38.98\00:43:41.78
for the first
time in several years.
00:43:41.82\00:43:44.89
I knew that I was on my way home
00:43:44.92\00:43:47.39
but the church
was missing something.
00:43:47.42\00:43:52.79
It was just missing something
00:43:52.83\00:43:54.43
and I was clinging
and clinging and clinging
00:43:54.46\00:43:56.36
because that's
the only way I knew
00:43:56.40\00:43:57.73
I could make it back and...
00:43:57.77\00:44:00.47
Then the Lord brought
my husband into my life.
00:44:00.50\00:44:03.74
And as, I guess insignificant
as that might sound to some,
00:44:03.77\00:44:08.74
my husband is an Adventist,
I was not an Adventist.
00:44:08.78\00:44:12.41
But I always
believed as Adventists believe
00:44:12.45\00:44:15.45
which surprised him,
00:44:15.48\00:44:17.35
and being with him and
going to church with him,
00:44:17.39\00:44:22.22
and hearing the
Adventist message.
00:44:22.26\00:44:25.99
It filled in all
the little pieces
00:44:26.03\00:44:27.53
that were missing
00:44:27.56\00:44:28.90
and it put that
spiritual ivy into my arm
00:44:28.93\00:44:31.67
and was able to
resuscitate that Christianity
00:44:31.70\00:44:35.90
that I had been clinging
to in perfectly all that time
00:44:35.94\00:44:39.17
by the grace of God,
only by the grace of God.
00:44:39.21\00:44:42.51
That's powerful. I'll
tell you a quick story.
00:44:42.54\00:44:45.65
You say no, it's the Lord.
00:44:45.68\00:44:47.02
When we were
growing up and Irma as well,
00:44:47.05\00:44:48.65
she certainly tell it.
00:44:48.68\00:44:50.12
We lived next
door to some people,
00:44:50.15\00:44:52.19
one of my best times growing
up in while Brook Royals,
00:44:52.22\00:44:55.49
and they lived next
door but behind a fence.
00:44:55.52\00:44:59.39
And we noticed on
Saturday mornings,
00:44:59.43\00:45:01.16
they would all
get up, get in a car
00:45:01.20\00:45:02.83
and disappear for the day.
00:45:02.86\00:45:04.43
And we didn't know
00:45:04.47\00:45:05.80
where they went
and what they did,
00:45:05.83\00:45:07.17
we just knew on
Saturday morning,
00:45:07.20\00:45:08.54
about 8:30,
everybody got in the car,
00:45:08.57\00:45:09.90
everybody is
dressed, off they went,
00:45:09.94\00:45:11.27
we didn't see them until dark.
00:45:11.31\00:45:13.74
And we were six,
seven, eight, nine,
00:45:13.78\00:45:16.54
you know, just
kind of file it away,
00:45:16.58\00:45:17.95
so we moved to
another part of the city
00:45:17.98\00:45:20.78
and as fate would have that
00:45:20.82\00:45:22.48
we moved right across the street
00:45:22.52\00:45:23.85
from some people with
that some weird behavior.
00:45:23.89\00:45:26.59
Every Saturday
morning they get up,
00:45:26.62\00:45:28.36
everybody jumped in the
car and disappear, you know.
00:45:28.39\00:45:31.23
And the daughter
was my sister's age
00:45:31.26\00:45:32.96
and the one son was my age.
00:45:32.99\00:45:35.76
And so I asked, I
said, where do you go?
00:45:35.80\00:45:38.37
You know, when you
disappear on Saturday mornings,
00:45:38.40\00:45:39.93
what do you do?
00:45:39.97\00:45:41.30
They said, we go to church,
we got to Sabbath school.
00:45:41.34\00:45:44.21
Nothing to me, you know,
00:45:44.24\00:45:45.57
my parents were
holiday Methodists,
00:45:45.61\00:45:47.51
you know,
Christmas, New Year's Eve.
00:45:47.54\00:45:48.98
Whether you needed
it or not. Yeah, yeah.
00:45:49.01\00:45:51.91
They were holiday Methodists.
00:45:51.95\00:45:53.28
I asked, where do
you go, you disappeared.
00:45:53.31\00:45:54.65
They said, we go
to Sabbath school.
00:45:54.68\00:45:56.22
I said, well, I
want to go, so we go.
00:45:56.25\00:45:59.05
We went to Sabbath school
00:45:59.09\00:46:00.42
and there was
this beautiful teacher,
00:46:00.46\00:46:01.79
and I hope,
00:46:01.82\00:46:03.22
one day I could meet her again.
00:46:03.26\00:46:04.59
Her name was Mildred
Willis. She is now Mildred Gill.
00:46:04.63\00:46:08.46
Beautiful young lady,
maybe 17, no 18 or 19,
00:46:08.50\00:46:11.27
maybe 20, but gorgeous,
00:46:11.30\00:46:13.37
and they had this
thing called the treasurer,
00:46:13.40\00:46:16.40
the primary
treasurer, nice little book.
00:46:16.44\00:46:19.17
And they would study
and she would ask questions
00:46:19.21\00:46:21.41
and when you got
the answer right,
00:46:21.44\00:46:23.18
she would say very good,
and she'd stroke your cheek.
00:46:23.21\00:46:27.02
And I said, boy,
that is very cool.
00:46:27.05\00:46:30.59
And so she'd say
very good answer.
00:46:30.62\00:46:33.25
I said you know what,
00:46:33.29\00:46:34.62
I want to get my
cheeks touched like that,
00:46:34.66\00:46:35.99
you know, I want
that, so when we went home
00:46:36.02\00:46:39.09
and I said, I
want to have that...
00:46:39.13\00:46:40.70
I studied that
lesson all week long,
00:46:40.73\00:46:42.96
and next week we
went back to church again.
00:46:43.00\00:46:44.73
And so the very
first question she asked,
00:46:44.77\00:46:46.27
I don't remember
what the question was,
00:46:46.30\00:46:47.64
didn't matter I just
wanted to get the stroke.
00:46:47.67\00:46:49.50
So she asked the question...
00:46:49.54\00:46:51.17
She said all right, I
said, whatever answer was.
00:46:54.34\00:46:57.05
She said, she came to
me and said, oh, very good.
00:46:57.08\00:47:00.42
And I was like, ooh.
00:47:00.45\00:47:04.42
I like Sabbath school.
00:47:04.45\00:47:05.89
And that's why
you became a pastor.
00:47:05.92\00:47:07.82
That's why you became a
pastor all these years later.
00:47:07.86\00:47:10.23
Well, the thing was,
thing was about a year later
00:47:10.26\00:47:14.10
she got married to Conrad Gill,
00:47:14.13\00:47:16.36
he's a pastor in
the Adventist church
00:47:16.40\00:47:17.73
and he took her away.
00:47:17.77\00:47:19.10
And we all are young
people, all are young guys,
00:47:19.13\00:47:20.47
we hated Conrad, you know,
00:47:20.50\00:47:21.84
because he took
our teacher away.
00:47:21.87\00:47:24.87
And it was years later,
00:47:24.91\00:47:26.24
he was an associate
dean at the seminary.
00:47:26.27\00:47:28.88
He was on the campus
of Andrews University,
00:47:28.91\00:47:31.61
and I was there as
the seminary student.
00:47:31.65\00:47:33.45
And I said, Conrad,
man, we used to hate you.
00:47:33.48\00:47:37.05
We really hated
you, we didn't like you
00:47:37.09\00:47:38.49
because you took
our teacher away,
00:47:38.52\00:47:40.46
but the thing that I
know it was the Lord,
00:47:40.49\00:47:43.02
we lived next
to some Adventists,
00:47:43.06\00:47:45.49
moved right across the street
00:47:45.53\00:47:46.86
from another group of Adventists
00:47:46.90\00:47:48.23
and that's when I really
got into serving the Lord.
00:47:48.26\00:47:51.63
It started out with
want to get my check touched
00:47:51.67\00:47:54.40
but it ended up with me
giving my heart to the Lord,
00:47:54.44\00:47:56.37
with me baptizing my
sister, baptizing my mother,
00:47:56.40\00:47:59.11
baptizing my dad one
month before he died,
00:47:59.14\00:48:01.98
so a little thing like that.
00:48:02.01\00:48:03.61
So I know it was the
Lord and all those years,
00:48:03.65\00:48:05.88
there were times
00:48:05.91\00:48:07.25
when I was the only one
in my family going to church
00:48:07.28\00:48:08.62
but it never occurred
to me that I could not go.
00:48:08.65\00:48:10.75
I had to go because I gave
my heart to the Lord to go,
00:48:10.79\00:48:13.66
so I know it was the Lord
00:48:13.69\00:48:15.69
and I'm very,
very pleased, yeah.
00:48:15.72\00:48:18.59
I think that is
a wonderful thing
00:48:18.63\00:48:21.86
that we can look back, see,
00:48:21.90\00:48:24.33
because sometimes things
happen and we don't realize
00:48:24.37\00:48:28.20
that there was
such a powerful thing
00:48:28.24\00:48:30.77
but the Bible says
in the New Testament
00:48:30.81\00:48:35.41
and I can't remember exactly,
00:48:35.44\00:48:37.48
but it says that
00:48:37.51\00:48:40.55
nothing good comes
00:48:40.58\00:48:44.65
other than the Lord, and
that He arranges our lives
00:48:44.69\00:48:49.32
because He has the best
interest for us in our life.
00:48:49.36\00:48:54.30
He desires that we get
saved, that we can rejoice,
00:48:54.33\00:49:00.34
enjoy the life with Christ
00:49:00.37\00:49:02.74
because it's a life free of
00:49:02.77\00:49:07.64
the worries that you have
when you run out with the Lord
00:49:07.68\00:49:10.88
cannot compare with the worries
or the concerns that we have
00:49:10.91\00:49:15.42
when we are with the Lord.
00:49:15.45\00:49:17.39
And the Lord is
always leading us.
00:49:17.42\00:49:21.82
And I remember
when my first husband
00:49:21.86\00:49:27.13
that there were
some years that went by
00:49:27.16\00:49:32.97
and I could say
everyday, possibly not,
00:49:33.00\00:49:38.41
but to me it seems like
everyday was in my mind,
00:49:38.44\00:49:42.91
is my marriage going to last?
00:49:42.94\00:49:46.15
Is my marriage going to stay?
00:49:46.18\00:49:48.58
And I had that
worries and worries about it,
00:49:48.62\00:49:52.35
and I remember that sometimes
00:49:52.39\00:49:56.29
I was not in the
church at the time
00:49:56.32\00:49:58.83
because we have
been away from it
00:49:58.86\00:50:01.56
because of his belief
and my belief were different.
00:50:01.60\00:50:06.43
And so in my ways
00:50:06.47\00:50:11.07
of praying to him,
00:50:11.11\00:50:15.94
it was just like a
little church conversation,
00:50:15.98\00:50:18.75
just more like a
boring conversation with him.
00:50:18.78\00:50:23.42
I says Lord, but, you know,
00:50:23.45\00:50:26.22
what happens if my
marriage doesn't work.
00:50:26.25\00:50:29.26
How am I gonna do it
and worried about that.
00:50:29.29\00:50:34.30
And at the time I felt
that how the Lord is going to,
00:50:34.33\00:50:40.64
He is going to allow
that 'cause here am I,
00:50:40.67\00:50:43.67
I will not have anything,
00:50:43.71\00:50:45.67
I'm worried my children
would not have all the comforts
00:50:45.71\00:50:49.51
that we had at the time,
00:50:49.54\00:50:51.65
and so the things where I worry,
00:50:51.68\00:50:54.65
but the Lord just
kept and kept with me.
00:50:54.68\00:50:58.09
And finally, you know,
00:50:58.12\00:51:01.46
I started to be able to
really pray and ask Him,
00:51:01.49\00:51:04.59
what am I gonna
do if this happen
00:51:04.63\00:51:06.66
because things isn't good.
00:51:06.70\00:51:08.03
It got worse
and worse and worse.
00:51:08.06\00:51:10.67
And finally I got this very,
00:51:10.70\00:51:16.10
that strength that I know
00:51:16.14\00:51:18.77
that would only come
from the Lord, that I say,
00:51:18.81\00:51:21.28
whatever it happens,
I'll follow the Lord,
00:51:21.31\00:51:25.28
you know, I will trust the Lord,
00:51:25.31\00:51:27.78
and it just came to
me, just so powerful.
00:51:27.82\00:51:34.59
And I can't say that it was
not a very painful situation
00:51:34.62\00:51:39.53
when it actually
happened, it did happened
00:51:39.56\00:51:43.57
because he
didn't want to follow,
00:51:43.60\00:51:47.77
didn't want to follow the Lord,
00:51:47.80\00:51:49.14
he just was thoroughly
involved with somebody else
00:51:49.17\00:51:53.27
and the thing is
that when he left,
00:51:53.31\00:51:59.58
then about a
month later he came back
00:51:59.61\00:52:02.18
and he says, you
know, I'm coming back
00:52:02.22\00:52:05.19
because there
was this big force,
00:52:05.22\00:52:08.89
it was like somebody was
pushing me literally in my back
00:52:08.92\00:52:13.23
and say you need
to go to your family.
00:52:13.26\00:52:16.20
So he went to this lady's
son and he says, you know,
00:52:16.23\00:52:20.50
I need to be with my
family, and the son said,
00:52:20.54\00:52:23.51
I'm glad that's the
best decision you made.
00:52:23.54\00:52:27.28
He came and he was not,
00:52:27.31\00:52:29.11
was only there like about a week
00:52:29.14\00:52:31.55
and then he had to follow
his, you know, his lead of the,
00:52:31.58\00:52:37.22
the lady says, if you
don't come back to me,
00:52:37.25\00:52:39.35
I'm gonna kill myself
00:52:39.39\00:52:40.72
and he got very
weak in that situation.
00:52:40.76\00:52:42.99
The thing is
that it's just amazing
00:52:43.02\00:52:48.20
how strong I was
through that week with him
00:52:48.23\00:52:50.40
being in there,
00:52:50.43\00:52:51.77
and he wanted me to
throw him out of the house,
00:52:51.80\00:52:54.57
just tell me to go, just leave.
00:52:54.60\00:52:56.67
I said, no, I
said, this is your house,
00:52:56.71\00:52:59.41
I'm your wife, you
have your children,
00:52:59.44\00:53:01.54
you decide, it's your decision,
00:53:01.58\00:53:06.01
and I felt so strong.
00:53:06.05\00:53:08.72
When he decided to leave,
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then I found
myself in real weakness.
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You know, I thought
00:53:15.02\00:53:16.36
that the world was
going to end for me,
00:53:16.39\00:53:18.76
just so, so
painful that situation.
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And I was one day
in my job where I said,
00:53:21.66\00:53:25.87
I cannot go any longer
00:53:25.90\00:53:27.87
and I closed the
door of my apartment
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and I just was weeping,
and I said, Lord, this is,
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I just can't go forward,
00:53:36.21\00:53:38.58
and I literally felt
these arms that came around me.
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I felt the touch, and
it was just like peace,
00:53:45.29\00:53:50.59
total peace came to me.
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And I haven't had too many
00:53:52.86\00:53:55.93
those powerful
experiences like that,
00:53:55.96\00:53:58.20
that I can say wow, you know,
00:53:58.23\00:54:00.60
but unless I look back
and as I see many things
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but that was very
powerful, that was, you know,
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I just praise the Lord
00:54:07.88\00:54:09.44
because that was my
beginning of starting to,
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you know, adjust and be
able to continue functioning.
00:54:14.88\00:54:17.95
It's amazing when you
were talking about dueling,
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when you were
talking about checking,
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that's when you're
going to really find out
00:54:23.86\00:54:25.99
and you can look back
on all of the great things
00:54:26.03\00:54:29.16
that God has done for you.
00:54:29.20\00:54:31.50
I'm looking at 1
Corinthians 2:11 it says,
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"For what men knows
the things of a man,
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except the spirit of
the man, which is in him?
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Even so, no one
knows the things of God,
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except the Spirit of God."
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Amen.
00:54:47.08\00:54:48.42
And that really gives me a
joy because about a year ago,
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they've asked me to start
prison ministry and I thought,
00:54:51.25\00:54:55.12
I said, Lord,
no, there is no way.
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And there was a
sermon, I was listening to 3ABN
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and there was a
sermon about one of the kings
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that he was just
doing atrocious things
00:55:02.86\00:55:06.37
and even to the
prophets and all and God.
00:55:06.40\00:55:09.87
He went to jail, God forgive him
00:55:09.90\00:55:11.51
when he became a man of God.
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And God told me to do that,
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you know, you
have that mentality,
00:55:14.71\00:55:16.04
that thought process
of those people in jail
00:55:16.08\00:55:17.71
being the horrible things
that you cannot save, trust me,
00:55:17.75\00:55:22.95
and now when I go, when
you're talking about praises
00:55:22.98\00:55:26.15
that you don't bring
any of your troubles.
00:55:26.19\00:55:27.99
When I go and I ask
people for their prayer request,
00:55:28.02\00:55:30.93
it's all about how great God is,
00:55:30.96\00:55:32.93
how wonderful He is,
00:55:32.96\00:55:34.30
and they were
prison, they're in jail,
00:55:34.33\00:55:36.43
and they're saying, I thank
God because one day I prayed
00:55:36.46\00:55:39.87
God do whatever
it takes to save me,
00:55:39.90\00:55:42.60
and this is where I'm at.
00:55:42.64\00:55:44.04
This is where he sent me,
that's what happened this week.
00:55:44.07\00:55:46.88
And says, he sent me to jail
so I could be saved, you know,
00:55:46.91\00:55:50.48
and a lot of times
you need to realize
00:55:50.51\00:55:52.31
that when you look
back at all the miracles,
00:55:52.35\00:55:55.38
when you had asked
us, I said which one.
00:55:55.42\00:55:57.85
I mean, I've been in
four different countries,
00:55:57.89\00:55:59.49
I've had so miracles that
God has saved me literally,
00:55:59.52\00:56:04.53
and it's very
difficult to choose.
00:56:04.56\00:56:07.13
But when you write them
down and then you go back,
00:56:07.16\00:56:10.37
then you could acknowledge
what power God is your life,
00:56:10.40\00:56:15.74
you know, and our
sister saying that,
00:56:15.77\00:56:19.11
her understanding
and finally clicking,
00:56:19.14\00:56:21.31
oh, that's my
new, no, that is it.
00:56:21.34\00:56:23.28
Yeah, that is the big story.
00:56:23.31\00:56:25.01
You know, the buses
being saved, all this,
00:56:25.05\00:56:27.78
that's minute to
somebody finally getting it,
00:56:27.82\00:56:32.25
to finally
somebody understanding
00:56:32.29\00:56:34.52
that there is a loving
God that wants to spend,
00:56:34.56\00:56:38.06
that wants you to be
with Him for all eternity.
00:56:38.09\00:56:40.80
And these stories are the
ones that are going to remind us
00:56:40.83\00:56:43.93
that there is power in
prayer, there is power in God,
00:56:43.97\00:56:48.87
and the only way
we're going to find out
00:56:48.90\00:56:51.37
is through those recollections,
those recollections
00:56:51.41\00:56:57.18
and understanding that
He is yearning for our love.
00:56:57.21\00:57:01.72
Amen, amen. Well said.
00:57:01.75\00:57:04.09
You know, we're told basically
if you cannot see a head,
00:57:04.12\00:57:08.22
then look back
over your shoulder,
00:57:08.26\00:57:10.83
it will give you strength
to know that the same God
00:57:10.86\00:57:12.99
who got you to today
00:57:13.03\00:57:15.03
will get you
through to tomorrow.
00:57:15.06\00:57:17.50
Sometimes the
way ahead is foggy,
00:57:17.53\00:57:20.34
so you got to just
take hold of the hand of God
00:57:20.37\00:57:23.17
and together
walk out into the fog,
00:57:23.20\00:57:26.44
knowing that God
will lead you safely home.
00:57:26.47\00:57:30.01
Recount those miracles
because they are there.
00:57:30.05\00:57:32.48
They are for you and
they are to encourage you
00:57:32.51\00:57:34.45
as together we walk the
road that leads to glory.
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Hope this program has
been a blessing to you.
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God bless you, we'll
see you again real soon.
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