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Speaker 1: like to start with something funny and heard about this
Speaker 1: eighty five year old lady. She went on a blind
Speaker 1: date with a ninety year old man. She returned to
Speaker 1: her daughter's home later that evening and seemed upset. Daughter said, Mom,
Speaker 1: what's wrong? She said, I had to slap him three times.
Speaker 1: She said, you mean he tried to get fresh. She said, no,
Speaker 1: I thought he was dead. Hold up your Bible, say
Speaker 1: it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I
Speaker 1: am what it says I am. I have what it
Speaker 1: says I have. I can do what it says I
Speaker 1: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.
Speaker 1: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive.
Speaker 1: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God
Speaker 1: bless you. I want to talk to you today about
Speaker 1: how you're coming in to a shift. One touch of
Speaker 1: God's favor can put you fifty years down the road.
Speaker 1: You can be at a lower position at the office.
Speaker 1: You're going along being your best, honoring God, and suddenly
Speaker 1: things change. One good break, one idea, one person that
Speaker 1: likes you. You look up and find yourself at the top.
Speaker 1: You didn't see it coming. Things just fell into place.
Speaker 1: That's God shifting things in your favor. God can cause
Speaker 1: opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blame things to
Speaker 1: where suddenly you meet the right person. Suddenly your health improves,
Speaker 1: Suddenly you're able to pay your house off. What happened,
Speaker 1: You came into a shift. God breathed in your direction.
Speaker 1: What used to be a struggle is not a struggle anymore.
Speaker 1: What should have taken years happened in a fraction of
Speaker 1: the time. Now you may feel like you're stuck today.
Speaker 1: You could never accomplish a dream, never overcome a problem.
Speaker 1: It's been too long, You've missed too many opportunities. God
Speaker 1: has said, no, get ready, I'm about to shift. These
Speaker 1: doors are going to open for you that have not
Speaker 1: opened in the past. The people that were against you
Speaker 1: are going to suddenly change their mind. And before you,
Speaker 1: that problem that's dogged you for years, looked like it
Speaker 1: never changed, is going to suddenly turn around. This is
Speaker 1: the year of the shift. Because you've honored God, He's
Speaker 1: going to put you in a position that you could
Speaker 1: have never attained on your own. It's not just your education,
Speaker 1: not just your talent or the family you come from.
Speaker 1: It's the hand of God shifting you to a new
Speaker 1: level of your destiny. And I'm not just trying to
Speaker 1: make you feel good today. I'm prophesying a shift is coming,
Speaker 1: a shift in your health, a shift in your finances,
Speaker 1: a shift in a relationship. May not look like it
Speaker 1: in the natural, but we serve a supernatural God. He's
Speaker 1: about to breathe in your direction in a new way.
Speaker 1: The enemies you've seen in the past you will see
Speaker 1: no more. The addictions, bad habits that are holding you back,
Speaker 1: are being broken, and God's favor is being released in
Speaker 1: a new way. It's going to propel you forward. What
Speaker 1: should have taken you forty years to accomplish, God's going
Speaker 1: to do in a split second. The shift is acceleration.
Speaker 1: The shift is going beyond where you could go on
Speaker 1: your own. The shift is overcoming what a medical report
Speaker 1: says is impossible. The shift is seeing that wayward child
Speaker 1: changes mind and get back on the right course. The
Speaker 1: shift is having your best year when the circumstances say
Speaker 1: you should have a down year. The shift is seeing
Speaker 1: Jehovah Jihrah, the Lord, our provider, not only provide, but
Speaker 1: do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. Now our attitude should
Speaker 1: be God, I'm ready. I'm taking the limits off of you.
Speaker 1: I'm enlarging my vision. I may not see away, but
Speaker 1: I know you have a way. I declare I'm coming
Speaker 1: into a shift now. Those doors that were closed in
Speaker 1: the past, you need to go check again. Things have shifted.
Speaker 1: The dream you had to start a new business, go
Speaker 1: back to college to take that mission strip may not
Speaker 1: have happened the first time, but that's hey, It's prepared
Speaker 1: you for this time. Don't give up on it. It's
Speaker 1: a new day. Things have shifted. Pursue it again. When
Speaker 1: God breeds in your direction, people change their mind. Closed
Speaker 1: doors suddenly opened the nose, turn into yesa's the not
Speaker 1: now's into it's your time. I know a man that
Speaker 1: had been out of work for over three years. He's
Speaker 1: in construction management for twenty five years. He had a
Speaker 1: very good position at a successful company. A few years ago.
Speaker 1: When the economy went down and building tapered off, his
Speaker 1: company didn't have any business had to let him go.
Speaker 1: He went to interview after interview, month after month, no success.
Speaker 1: He ended up taking a much lower level position in
Speaker 1: a small city and had to travel a couple of
Speaker 1: hours every day to work. He's taking a toll on
Speaker 1: his health, his marriage, his savings looked like it had
Speaker 1: never changed. But about six months ago his former boss
Speaker 1: called and said, hey, are you ready to go back
Speaker 1: to work. That company landed the largest contract in their history.
Speaker 1: He not only got his job back, but all of
Speaker 1: his benefits were restored. He used to have to travel
Speaker 1: around the country. Now he gets to stay at home.
Speaker 1: Plus they increased his salary significantly. He said, this is
Speaker 1: exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. What happened he came into
Speaker 1: a shift. Suddenly things changed in his favor. One phone call,
Speaker 1: one contract, one good break. He went from barely getting
Speaker 1: by to heaven more than enough. Now you need to
Speaker 1: get ready. These shifts are in your future. The Israelites
Speaker 1: had been in slavery for many years. Mistreated by their captors.
Speaker 1: They were forced to work long hours, not giving the
Speaker 1: proper rest or food. When they didn't meet their quotas,
Speaker 1: they were beaten with rods. It was very unfair. But
Speaker 1: one day, through a series of events, God supernaturally brought
Speaker 1: them out. As they were leaving, the scripture says, God
Speaker 1: caused them to have favor with their enemies. Notice, God
Speaker 1: caused them to have favor. The same people that had
Speaker 1: oppressed them for years, the same ones that had pushed
Speaker 1: them down and mistreated them, suddenly changed their mind. They said,
Speaker 1: in a fact, we've decided that we like you. Now
Speaker 1: we want to be good to you. On their way out,
Speaker 1: they gave the Israelites their gold, silver, and jewels. What
Speaker 1: happened the Israelites came into a shift. God changed their
Speaker 1: enemy's mind. Proverb says that God can turn the heart
Speaker 1: of a king. We may not be able to change
Speaker 1: people's mind, but God can. He controls the whole universe. Now,
Speaker 1: you may have people in your life like this, people
Speaker 1: that don't like you. Boss that's hard to get along with,
Speaker 1: family member that's disrespectful. It's easy to get discouraged and
Speaker 1: think this is always going to be this way. They're
Speaker 1: always going to be against me. Now stay in faith.
Speaker 1: God has a shift coming. God knows how to cause
Speaker 1: them to like you. God can cause them to see
Speaker 1: you in a new light. They may have been against
Speaker 1: you year after year, but when God shifts things, they'll
Speaker 1: go out of their way to be good to you.
Speaker 1: Instead of hindering you, they'll help you. Bottom line, God
Speaker 1: will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny.
Speaker 1: They may be bigger, stronger, more powerful, but God knows
Speaker 1: how to shift things around and get you to where
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be. I have a friend that never
Speaker 1: really liked his supervisor. Nobody at the company did this.
Speaker 1: Supervisor was very hard to get along with and condescending.
Speaker 1: He'd been a source of frustration year after year. The
Speaker 1: supervisor was a young man, looked like he could be
Speaker 1: at the company twenty thirty years and my friend has
Speaker 1: a good attitude, but deep down he thought, this is
Speaker 1: going to be a pain to put up with this guy.
Speaker 1: One morning, he got to work and everything seemed like normal.
Speaker 1: But the management called a staff meeting and told how
Speaker 1: this supervisor's wife got transferred to another state and he
Speaker 1: had just resigned and was no longer with the company.
Speaker 1: Half the staff fell on their knees and began to
Speaker 1: thank God. What happened a divine shift. Suddenly God changed things. Now,
Speaker 1: quit worrying about the people that are trying to hold
Speaker 1: you back. God knows how to move the wrong people
Speaker 1: out of your life and bring the right people in.
Speaker 1: And even if God doesn't move, then, says in Psalms,
Speaker 1: you can run through a troop and leap over a wall.
Speaker 1: God can cause you to go over them, or around them,
Speaker 1: or even through them. But God is going to get
Speaker 1: you to where you're supposed to be. Now, some of
Speaker 1: you feel like you're too far back, the obstacles are
Speaker 1: too big, you could never really get ahead. All God
Speaker 1: has to do is breathe in your direction. One simple
Speaker 1: shift can take you from the back to the front.
Speaker 1: One good break, one idea one divine connection. Years ago,
Speaker 1: I was at an amusement park with our two children.
Speaker 1: We were in line for a very popular ride. At first,
Speaker 1: it was all single file, but when you got close
Speaker 1: to the front, you went into this little building about
Speaker 1: twenty feet by twenty feet and waited. We were the
Speaker 1: first ones in this new batch, first ones into the building,
Speaker 1: so we walked all the way to the front by
Speaker 1: these big double doors and waited. Other people began to
Speaker 1: come in. They were excited about getting on the ride,
Speaker 1: and they started maneuvering their way in front of us.
Speaker 1: Now I'm more laid back and easy going. I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to get in there and try to fight for
Speaker 1: our position. We ended up at the very back of
Speaker 1: the room, right where we came in. A few minutes,
Speaker 1: a young lady came out that worked at the park,
Speaker 1: and she gave instructions and told what was going to
Speaker 1: go on. Then she said, okay, we're ready to go,
Speaker 1: turn around and go back out the same doors you
Speaker 1: came in. I wanted to say, nanny, nanny, boom boom.
Speaker 1: But in the same way, all God has to do
Speaker 1: is shift the direction and you'll go from the back
Speaker 1: up to the front. The truth is you are one
Speaker 1: shift from seeing a dream come to pass, one shift
Speaker 1: from paying your house off, one shift from seeing your
Speaker 1: health improved, one shift from meeting the right person. Hey,
Speaker 1: you say, getting people's hopes of You're right. You can't
Speaker 1: have faith if you don't first have hope when you
Speaker 1: go out with the attitude God, I believe things are
Speaker 1: shifting in my favor this year. That's not just being positive,
Speaker 1: that's your faith being released. God says to the angels.
Speaker 1: Listen to what they're saying. They believe I'm all powerful.
Speaker 1: They believe I can do the impossible. Let me move
Speaker 1: this person out of the way. Let me open up
Speaker 1: this new door, let me line up this new relationship.
Speaker 1: Let me turn that negative situation around. Says in Isaiah
Speaker 1: that this is God's year to act, not next year,
Speaker 1: not five years, not in the sweep by and by.
Speaker 1: This is the year God's going to shift things in
Speaker 1: your favor. He's getting it all lined up. What you
Speaker 1: could not make happen on your own, God is going
Speaker 1: to cause you to accomplish. It's going to be bigger
Speaker 1: than you thought. It's going to happen quicker than you imagined,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be more rewarding than you ever
Speaker 1: dreamed of. Genesis, chapter forty eight. There's a story of
Speaker 1: when Jacob was a old man, very close to death,
Speaker 1: his son Joseph came to visit him and say his goodbyes.
Speaker 1: He and his father were very close. Joseph was Jacob's
Speaker 1: favorite child. He was the youngest son, the one that
Speaker 1: Jacob gave the coat of many colors to, if you remember,
Speaker 1: at one point Jacob thought Joseph was dead, lived very
Speaker 1: sadly until he found out indeed Joseph was alive and
Speaker 1: living in Egypt. They reunited, and now Jacob the father
Speaker 1: was about to pass. Joseph was standing before him with
Speaker 1: his two sons, Manassah and Ephrium, Jacob's grandsons. Jacob said, Joseph,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bless your sons as if they were my
Speaker 1: own children. The right hand in those days always gave
Speaker 1: the greatest blessing. It belonged to the firstborn son. That
Speaker 1: was the tradition. So Joseph put his oldest son, Manassa
Speaker 1: in front of Jacob's right hand, and his younger son Ephrium,
Speaker 1: in front of his left. Jacob was nearly blind. He
Speaker 1: couldn't see. When he went to give the blessing, Jacob
Speaker 1: crossed his hands and put his right hand on the
Speaker 1: younger son Ephrium and his left hand on Manassa. The
Speaker 1: older son. Joseph said, no, Dad, you can't see. I
Speaker 1: had him lined up. I put Manassa in front of
Speaker 1: your right hand. He deserves it. Give him the greater blessing.
Speaker 1: Jacob said something very interesting. It gives us insight into
Speaker 1: our God. He said, no, Joseph, I've crossed my hands
Speaker 1: on purpose. Iphrium may have come second. He may have
Speaker 1: been in the back. He doesn't deserve it, didn't qualify
Speaker 1: for it. He's not next in line. But I'm shifting
Speaker 1: him to a new position. I'm taking from the back
Speaker 1: up to the front. I'm gonna give him what he
Speaker 1: doesn't deserve. That's the way our God is. He has
Speaker 1: shifts in your future that will put you at a
Speaker 1: position that you didn't earn. You didn't qualify for, you
Speaker 1: weren't next in line, you didn't have seniority. But God,
Speaker 1: just like he did with Iphrium, is going to cross
Speaker 1: his hands and say I'm gonna move them up from
Speaker 1: the back to the front. From not being qualified to
Speaker 1: suddenly being qualified from being looked down on, disrespected to
Speaker 1: being honored and seen with influence and credibility. In fact,
Speaker 1: some people will be bothered by the think that's not fair.
Speaker 1: I work harder, I have more seniority. But the fact is,
Speaker 1: it's just the goodness of God. God said, because you
Speaker 1: honor him, he would give you houses that you didn't
Speaker 1: have to build. You would reap from vineyards that you
Speaker 1: did not plant. That's God crossing his hands, giving up
Speaker 1: what should have taken years to earn. God is saying
Speaker 1: to you what Jacob said to Ephrium. I'm gonna bless
Speaker 1: you on purpose. I'm gonna move you up. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: accelerate your dreams. I'm gonna give you what you didn't deserve.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shift you into a position that you could
Speaker 1: have never gotten to on your own. Now we can
Speaker 1: all make excuses, Joel, this is not for me today.
Speaker 1: I'm not qualified. I've made too many mistakes. I don't
Speaker 1: have the talent, the size, the personality, the confidence. God says,
Speaker 1: I know all that I created you, But I'm about
Speaker 1: to cross my hands and bless you in such a
Speaker 1: way that everyone will know it's me and not you now.
Speaker 1: Don't talk to yourself. Out of it. Moses said God,
Speaker 1: not me, I stutter. I can't go speak to Pharaoh.
Speaker 1: God said Moses, don't worry about it. I'm crossing my hands.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you what you need. Gideon said God. I
Speaker 1: come from the poorest family. I'm the least one around here.
Speaker 1: I can't lead this army. God said Gideon. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'm crossing my hands. You're coming into a shift. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna move you from the back to the front. David
Speaker 1: could have said, God, I'm too small, too young, too inexperience.
Speaker 1: There's a whole army of talented, successful, confident warriors that
Speaker 1: can go face Goliath. God said David. I know that
Speaker 1: I could have chosen them. But I'm crossing my hands.
Speaker 1: I'm moving you up from the background to the foreground,
Speaker 1: from the shepherd field to the battlefield, all the way
Speaker 1: to the throne. Esther could have said God, I can't
Speaker 1: go in there and speak to the king. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna listen to me. I'm an orphan. I don't have
Speaker 1: any influence. God said Esther. Don't worry. I got you covered.
Speaker 1: I'm crossing my hands I'm gonna give you a respect, credibility,
Speaker 1: honor that you didn't deserve. You didn't work for. What
Speaker 1: am I saying? A shift is coming. Whatever level you're at,
Speaker 1: God is about to cross his hands and put you
Speaker 1: at a position you could have never gotten to on
Speaker 1: your own. He's going to give you what you weren't
Speaker 1: in line to receive. Now, why don't you start expecting
Speaker 1: unprecedented favor, believe in for God to do something new
Speaker 1: in your life? And I know many of you can say,
Speaker 1: like me that God's been good to you. You're blessed
Speaker 1: and healthy and got a good family, a great job,
Speaker 1: and that's all perfect. But can I tell you you
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything yet. God has shifts in your future
Speaker 1: that if He showed you now, you wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's exceedingly abundantly above and beyond. You think you're hitting
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, But if you only knew what God
Speaker 1: has in store, It's like you're in second year. You're
Speaker 1: making progress, you're healthy, you're moving forward, but God is
Speaker 1: about to shift you out a second, past third, pass
Speaker 1: forth into overdrive to see the surpassing greatness of God's favor.
Speaker 1: Because you've honored God living a life of excellence and integrity.
Speaker 1: God's going to take you beyond your training, beyond your education,
Speaker 1: beyond your income, beyond where anyone in your family has gone.
Speaker 1: This shift is going to put you at a place
Speaker 1: where you look back and say, Wow, God, you have
Speaker 1: amazed me with your goodness. When the Israelites were in
Speaker 1: the desert, headed toward the Promised Land, they had manna
Speaker 1: to eat each day, with something like bread. After a while,
Speaker 1: they got tired of it. They complained to Moses that
Speaker 1: they didn't have any meat to eat. God told Moses
Speaker 1: what the people were saying. God said, Moses, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you meat, not for one day, or five
Speaker 1: days or twenty days, but for a whole month. Moses said, God,
Speaker 1: that's impossible. There are two million people out here. Even
Speaker 1: if we butchered all of our flocks, we wouldn't have
Speaker 1: that much meat. God answered back, Moses, is there any
Speaker 1: limit to my power? He was saying, just because you
Speaker 1: don't see away, Moses, doesn't mean that I don't have
Speaker 1: a way. All I have to do is shift a
Speaker 1: few things around, and I can bring it to pass.
Speaker 1: That's what God did. Numbers eleven thirty one. God shifted
Speaker 1: the wind and brought quail in from the sea and
Speaker 1: caused it to fall into their camp. Notice how good
Speaker 1: God is. They didn't even have to go out and
Speaker 1: hunt or fish. The quail came to them. They just
Speaker 1: went out of their tent picked up as many as
Speaker 1: they wanted. What am I saying? God knows how to
Speaker 1: shift things so that blessings come to you. The right
Speaker 1: people search you out, good breaks finds you. I have
Speaker 1: a friend. He works for a professional sports team. He
Speaker 1: wasn't raised in church and started watching our program. He
Speaker 1: gave his life to Christ. He decided to get into
Speaker 1: a good Bible based church. All he had were very
Speaker 1: casual clothes, T shirts and jeans, tennis shoes. He went
Speaker 1: to a church and they were very accepting, like ours
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you wear. But he had a desire
Speaker 1: to dress up to go to church. He had never
Speaker 1: owned a suit before. Went up to the mall and
Speaker 1: looked at some different suits, but they were more than
Speaker 1: he wanted to spend. He could certainly afford it. He
Speaker 1: was just very frugal. One day he was out running
Speaker 1: an errand and he randomly met this man. They struck
Speaker 1: up a conversation, this man found out how my friend
Speaker 1: worked for this professional sports team. The man told how
Speaker 1: he loved to go to the games whenever he could
Speaker 1: get a ticket, but most of the time they were
Speaker 1: sold out. My friend is very generous, he said, a
Speaker 1: lot of times I have extra tickets. I'll call you
Speaker 1: and you can come to a game. The man attended
Speaker 1: a game and afterwards he was thanking my friend. He said,
Speaker 1: you've been so good to me. I want to do
Speaker 1: something good for you. I own a clothing store. I
Speaker 1: want to make you a custom made suit. Last time
Speaker 1: I talked to my friend, he said, Joel, I have
Speaker 1: sixteen custom made suits that this man has given me,
Speaker 1: eight sports coats, a tuxedo. My whole closet is filled
Speaker 1: with dress clothes. Friends. When you honor God, when you're
Speaker 1: good to people, kind, compassionate, merciful, the blessings will come
Speaker 1: looking for you, like the quail. You don't have to
Speaker 1: go after them. God will shift things to cause the
Speaker 1: right people to come across your path. God will put
Speaker 1: you at the right place at the right time, So
Speaker 1: provision opportunity it comes to you. Zachariah said it this way.
Speaker 1: It's not by might, nor by power, but by the
Speaker 1: spirit of God. That word spirit in the Hebrew means breath.
Speaker 1: It's saying it's not going to happen just by our talent,
Speaker 1: just by our connection, just by who we know. It's
Speaker 1: going to happen because God breathes in our direction. God
Speaker 1: ships the winds and blows healing and promotion, restoration our way.
Speaker 1: How are you going to get well? The medical report
Speaker 1: says it's impossible. No, God is breathing healing your way. Hell, holness,
Speaker 1: restoration is headed towards you. How are you going to
Speaker 1: accomplish your dreams? You may not know the right people,
Speaker 1: or have the money, or feel like you have the talent.
Speaker 1: No God is breathing ideas resources the right people. If
Speaker 1: you will stay faithful and just keep honoring God like
Speaker 1: my friend, suddenly things will change. Suddenly you come into abundance,
Speaker 1: Suddenly your child straightens up, Suddenly you get well. A
Speaker 1: few years ago, one of our faithful members had a
Speaker 1: major stroke. He was only in his mid fifties, but
Speaker 1: he was paralyzed on the whole left hand side of
Speaker 1: his body, couldn't walk or talk. The prognosis wasn't good.
Speaker 1: He was told that with intense therapy, he might be
Speaker 1: able to regain his speech, but he would never be
Speaker 1: able to walk again. For two years, he had no
Speaker 1: feeling on the left side of his body. It's in
Speaker 1: a wheelchair, had to have constant care. It didn't look good.
Speaker 1: But this man had been coming to Lakewood. He knew
Speaker 1: God could breathe in his direction. He knew all God
Speaker 1: had to do was shift the winds and blow healing
Speaker 1: and restoration his way. One morning he woke up and
Speaker 1: suddenly he began to have feeling on the left side
Speaker 1: of his body. The doctors, the therapists, the nurses, they
Speaker 1: were amazed. They couldn't understand it. Long story short. Three
Speaker 1: weeks ago, he walked into Lakewood with no help for
Speaker 1: the first time since he had had that stroke. He
Speaker 1: spoke just as clearly as I'm speaking to you. He
Speaker 1: didn't stumble when he walked, he didn't limp. He walked
Speaker 1: like nothing had ever been wrong. What happened He came
Speaker 1: into a shift. God breathed in his direction. What he
Speaker 1: could not do in his own power, in his own strength,
Speaker 1: suddenly became possible. Some of you have struggled in an area,
Speaker 1: your health, your finances with the relationship for a long time,
Speaker 1: and you keep wondering, is it ever going to change?
Speaker 1: God is saying, Yes, a shift is coming. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: shift you out of sickness into health. I'm gonna shift
Speaker 1: you out of lack into abundance. I'm gonna shift you
Speaker 1: out of struggle into ease. I'm about to cross my
Speaker 1: hands and give you what you did not deserve. Now
Speaker 1: you need to get ready. This is the year of
Speaker 1: the shift. Because you have been faithful and honored God.
Speaker 1: I believe and declare, God is going to put you
Speaker 1: at a position you could have never gotten to on
Speaker 1: your own. Doors are going to open for you that
Speaker 1: have not opened before. What should have taken you forty
Speaker 1: years to accomplish, God's going to do in a split second.
Speaker 1: You're coming into acceleration. Suddenly a dream comes to pass,
Speaker 1: Suddenly a promise is fulfilled. Suddenly the negative turns around.
Speaker 1: Now you need to get ready for the surpassing greatness
Speaker 1: of God's favor. Twenty thirteen is going to be an
Speaker 1: exceptional year for you and your family. You're going to
Speaker 1: come into these shifts in Jesus' name. If you received
Speaker 1: that today, can you say amen. We never like to
Speaker 1: close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?
Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come
Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends,
Speaker 1: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got
Speaker 1: born again in a good Bible based church. Keep God
Speaker 1: first place. He's going to take your places that you've
Speaker 1: never dreamed of. It's amazing what happens when you take
Speaker 1: a few moments throughout the day to connect with God.
Speaker 1: A moment to thank him for his goodness, a moment
Speaker 1: to declare his promises, a moment to remember that he's working. Now,
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