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Speaker 4: I like to start with something.

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Speaker 5: Funny, and I heard about this husband and wife. They

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Speaker 5: had been arguing. Now they were giving each other the

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Speaker 5: silent treatment. The next morning, the man had to get

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Speaker 5: up early and catch a plane. He needed his wife

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Speaker 5: to wake him up. Not wanting to break the silence,

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Speaker 5: he left a note on her side of the bed

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Speaker 5: He was so upset he went in to find out

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Speaker 4: There was a note on his side of the bed.

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Speaker 4: It said, wake up. It's five.

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Speaker 5: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what

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Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says

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Speaker 5: I can do. Today I will be taught the word

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Speaker 5: heart is receptive. I will never be this. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 5: God bless you. I want to talk to you today

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Speaker 5: about the promise is coming.

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Speaker 4: We all have things we're believing for dreams.

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Speaker 5: God put in our heart, problems to turn around. But

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Speaker 5: when it's been so long, we've made mistakes. People have

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Speaker 5: come against us. All the circumstances say, if it was

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Speaker 5: easy to get discouraged and accept that it's never going

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Speaker 5: to work out. But what God promised you doesn't have

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Speaker 5: an expiration date. Just because you've given up on it

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Speaker 4: You may have done things that should keep your dream

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Speaker 5: But God is so merciful He's already taken your mistakes

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Speaker 5: God is saying, despite your mistakes, despite the failures, despite

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Speaker 5: That would be true if God was like us, if

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Speaker 5: But God is not like people. He is full of mercy.

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Speaker 5: He doesn't hold our mistakes against us. He doesn't cancel

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Speaker 5: Take, every mistake we would make, every failure, every weakness.

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Speaker 4: Nothing you've done is a surprise to God.

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Speaker 5: Nothing that's happened to you has caught him off guard.

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Speaker 5: And the good news is God has mercy for every mistake,

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Speaker 5: restoration for every failure, a new beginning for every loss,

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Speaker 5: a comeback for every setback. What He's promised you is

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Speaker 5: still on the way. You didn't miss your chance. You

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Speaker 5: He's still going to show you favor. May seem unlikely.

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Speaker 5: The medical report says, learn to live with the sickness.

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Speaker 4: Well, Joel, I'm the one that got me into this mess.

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Speaker 4: It's my own fault.

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Speaker 5: God is the one that's going to bring you out

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Speaker 5: The delay doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Your

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Speaker 5: And the circumstances may look impossible, but God hasn't run

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Speaker 5: next level. One good break, and what he promised you

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Speaker 5: Sometimes God will put promises in your heart that don't

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Speaker 5: You don't have to figure out how it's going to happen.

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Speaker 5: Sarah told Abraham to sleep with her maid, Hagar.

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Speaker 5: For thirteen years, God was silent. Abraham didn't hear anything.

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Speaker 4: You blew it.

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Speaker 4: God is still working.

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Speaker 5: What he promised you is still on the way. After

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Speaker 5: seventeen says God said to Abraham, I am the Lord

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Speaker 4: You will become a father of many nations.

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Speaker 5: After all his mistakes, all the failures, all the dysfunction,

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Speaker 4: He reminded him of the promise.

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Speaker 5: to do what I said. You would think the first

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Speaker 5: I'm going to find somebody else to accomplish your destiny.

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Speaker 5: But God never gives up on you. He never disqualifies you.

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Speaker 5: Now quit disqualifying yourself.

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Speaker 4: You blew it.

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Speaker 5: called the accuser of the brethren. He'll remind you of

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Speaker 5: everything you've done wrong, every mistake you'd made.

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Speaker 5: They named him Isaac. He was the promised child. The

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Speaker 4: Knew they would make those mistakes.

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Speaker 5: He already knew they would be impatient, have the first

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Speaker 5: right when God had it planned. Are you believing lies

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Speaker 5: that you missed your chance? You made too many poor

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Speaker 5: choices if you'd have been more disciplined, not hung around

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Speaker 5: those people that pulled you down. God already knew about that.

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Speaker 5: What he promised you is right on schedule. You didn't

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Speaker 5: miss it is still in your future. I talked to

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Speaker 5: an older gentleman. He had struggled most of his life

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Speaker 5: He'd gone to rehab again and again through the years,

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Speaker 5: always fall back. His own thoughts not only told him

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Speaker 5: Lord God Almighty. What I promised you is still on

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Speaker 5: The good news is God is going to make up

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Speaker 5: God supernaturally turned it around. We came out of it

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Speaker 4: When we don't deserve it. We got off course, we

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Speaker 5: God says, I'm still going to bless you. I'm still

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Speaker 5: to where you're supposed to be. Quit believing those lies

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Speaker 5: what you've given up on. I met a couple that

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Speaker 5: But against all odds, the young lady conceived. They came

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Speaker 5: what's impossible becomes possible. What He's destined for your life

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Speaker 5: will come to pass. The last time I saw her,

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Speaker 5: God has the final say. The Psalmist said, weeping may

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Speaker 5: Your mourning is coming, Your baby is coming, Your healing

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Speaker 5: is coming, your spouse is coming, Your breakthrough is coming.

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Speaker 4: When it happens, it's going to be more.

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Speaker 4: Here he had this calling on his life. He knew

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Speaker 4: It was his fault. I'm sure he lived in regrets.

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Speaker 5: There weren't many days went by that he didn't think

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Speaker 5: about that mistake. Why didn't I keep my cool? Why

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Speaker 5: Our mistakes may delay them, but even then God uses

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Speaker 4: Nothing is wasted. If you'll keep the right attitude, all

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Speaker 5: One morning, Moses was out in the desert. Everything seemed normal,

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Speaker 4: You are standing on holy ground. It had been forty years.

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Speaker 5: Since he had heard God's voice, a season of silence

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Speaker 5: Accepted that he couldn't accomplish his destiny. But after all

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Speaker 5: God showed up and say, all right, Moses, now I'm

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Speaker 5: ready for you to go deliver the Israelites. He went

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Speaker 5: out and did just that. Like Moses, you may have

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Speaker 5: made mistakes.

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Speaker 4: You got off course.

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Speaker 5: You don't see how you could ever accomplish your dreams.

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Speaker 4: It's been too long.

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Speaker 5: But that season of silence doesn't mean God has forgotten

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Speaker 5: about you.

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Speaker 4: In the forty years.

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Speaker 5: Moses was out in the desert, the scripture says, Moses

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Speaker 5: became the most humble man in all the land. God

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Speaker 5: is working on you in the silent years. You may

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Speaker 5: not realize it, but he's getting you prepared. Your time

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Speaker 5: is coming. Your burning bush is on the way. What

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Speaker 5: God started he's going to finish. Even though it may

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Speaker 5: have been your fault.

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Speaker 4: He's still going to bless you. He's still going to

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Speaker 4: favor you.

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Speaker 5: He's still going to open doors you never dreamed would open.

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Speaker 5: I talked to a gentleman. When he was seventeen years old.

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Speaker 5: Back in the nineteen sixties, his girlfriend became pregnant. Their

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Speaker 5: parents were not happy. They sent him off to the

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Speaker 5: Marine Corps. The young lady and her family moved to

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Speaker 5: a different state.

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Speaker 4: While in boot.

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Speaker 5: Camp, she informed him that she was giving the baby

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Speaker 5: up for adoption. He went over and served overseas and

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Speaker 5: the Special Forces. He was hoping when he came back

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Speaker 5: saying she was moving on. They went their separate ways.

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Speaker 5: Fast forward to the year two thousand and nine. The

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Speaker 5: to an illness.

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Speaker 4: He was very heartbroken.

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Speaker 5: Three months later, he received a sympathy card from his

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Speaker 5: former teenage girlfriend.

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Speaker 4: They had not.

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Speaker 5: Spoken in over forty two years. Her husband had just

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Speaker 5: died as well.

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Speaker 4: He was able to find her number and call her.

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Speaker 5: They couldn't believe they were talking to each other after

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Speaker 5: all that time. She told him how she had just

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Speaker 5: located their daughter that they had given up for adoption.

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Speaker 5: She lived a few minutes from her. He went to

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Speaker 5: see the lady. He met his daughter for the first

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Speaker 5: time and his ten year old grandson. A dream come true.

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Speaker 5: He and the lady started dating. A year later, they

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Speaker 5: were married, with their daughter, who they had given up

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Speaker 5: for adoption, as the maid of honor. God knows how

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Speaker 5: to take mistakes we've made and turn them into miracles.

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Speaker 5: It's not too late. You haven't missed your chance. You

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Speaker 5: don't know what God is up to.

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Speaker 4: He can make things happen.

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Speaker 5: You never dreamed what happened. I'm sure Moses never thought

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Speaker 5: he'd fulfill his destiny. Abraham never thought he'd become a

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Speaker 5: father at an old age. This man never thought he'd

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Speaker 5: ever meet his daughter, never see his family restored.

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Speaker 4: But God is full of mercy and full of surprises.

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Speaker 5: There are promises you may have given up on, but

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Speaker 5: God has not given up.

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Speaker 4: They're still in your future.

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Speaker 5: Don't drag through life thinking you've seen your best days.

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Speaker 4: Stir your faith up.

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Speaker 5: The Lord God Almighty is at work in your life

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Speaker 5: right now now. I believe and declare what He's promised

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Speaker 5: you is still on the way. Healing is on the way,

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Speaker 5: Freedom is on the way. The right people are on

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Speaker 5: the way. The fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name,

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Speaker 5: and if you receive it, can you say.

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Speaker 4: Him in Today.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus

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Speaker 5: the lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 4: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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Speaker 4: you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 5: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got

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Speaker 5: born again.

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Speaker 4: Get in a good Bible based church. Keep God first place.

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Speaker 4: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed.

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Speaker 3: Help us continue to share the message of hope with

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