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Speaker 5: coming out today. And I'd like to start with something funny,

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Speaker 5: and I heard about this college professor. He was going

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Speaker 5: to prove to his class that there is no God.

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Speaker 5: He said, God, if you're real, then knock me off

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Speaker 3: I'm giving you fifteen minutes to do it. Every minute that.

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Speaker 5: Went by, he taunted God, I'm still here, God, I'm

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Speaker 3: Three hundred pound football.

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Speaker 5: Player walking down the hallway overheard him. Came running toward

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Speaker 5: him full force, put his shoulder down, knocked the professor

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Speaker 3: Flying off the platform.

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Speaker 5: Professor got up in the day said what in the

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Speaker 5: world do you do that for? The football player replied,

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Speaker 5: God said he was busy, so he sent me.

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Speaker 3: Hold your Bible up, say it like you mean it.

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Speaker 3: This is my Bible. I am what it says. I am.

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

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Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be

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Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind

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Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be

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Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 5: to talk to you today about moving forward. It's easy

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Speaker 5: on the mistakes we made. If only I would have

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Speaker 5: But as long as you're living in regrets, focused on

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Speaker 5: the negative things of the past, it's going to keep

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Speaker 5: got to let go of what didn't work out, Let

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Speaker 5: diss appointments, your failures. You can't do anything about the past,

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Speaker 3: Ago, let it go and move forward.

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Speaker 5: If you keep bringing negative baggage from yesterday into the day,

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Speaker 5: Don't let what somebody did or didn't do for you

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Speaker 5: settle where you are. Move forward and God will pay

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Speaker 5: you back. Move forward and God will indicate you. Move

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Speaker 5: forward and you'll come into a new beginning. Nothing that's

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Speaker 5: happened to you is a surprise to God. The loss

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Speaker 5: the real question is are you going to get stuck,

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Speaker 5: up ahead. In your automobile, there's a big wind shield

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Speaker 5: The reason the windshield is so large and the rear

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Speaker 5: your past is not nearly as important as what's in

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Speaker 5: your future. Where you're going is much more significant than

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Speaker 5: reason a lot of people don't have joy, no enthusiasm

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Speaker 5: for life. They're dragging round all this negative baggage from

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Speaker 5: they would have done differently. They've got their divorce in

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Speaker 5: a specific bag. Been mad at their spouse for years.

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Speaker 5: If they went to take an airline flight, they couldn't

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Speaker 5: afford it. They've got twenty seven bags they drag around

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Speaker 3: Friends, Life is too short to live that way. Learn

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Speaker 5: Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people

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Speaker 3: The start of the day.

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Speaker 5: Let go of the disappointments the setbacks from yesterday. Start

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Speaker 5: every morning afresh and anew. God did not create you

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Speaker 5: to carry around all that baggage, and some of you

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Speaker 5: It's not going to change unless you do something about it.

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Speaker 5: You got to put your foot down and say that's it.

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Speaker 5: I'm not living in regress anymore. I'm not focusing on

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Speaker 5: forward with my life. See, we should focus on what

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Speaker 3: What's done is done.

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Speaker 5: If somebody offended you, mistreated you, disappointed you, you can't

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Speaker 5: undo that. You can either get bitter, pack it in

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Speaker 5: receive God's mercy, and do better today. If you didn't

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Speaker 5: If you will learn to let it go and move forward,

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Speaker 5: then your past doesn't have to poison your future. I

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Speaker 5: met a lady after the service a few years ago

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Speaker 5: who had been through a divorce. We prayed several times

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Speaker 5: that God would bring somebody new into her life. One

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Speaker 5: day she met this man, fine godly man, very successful.

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Speaker 5: She was so happy about it, but she made the

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Speaker 5: He couldn't handle it. He moved on. That's what happens

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Speaker 5: Quit living life looking in that rear view mirror, start

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Speaker 5: looking out the great big windshield. You may have had

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Speaker 5: God will always open up another door when one dream dies.

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Speaker 5: Your life is not over because you lost a loved one,

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Speaker 5: Quit thinking about it, Quit talking about it. Quit reliving

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Speaker 5: have to watch everything that comes up. If you keep

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Speaker 5: reliving negative memories, thinking about how unfair it was, How

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Speaker 3: The mind is very powerful.

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Speaker 5: When you replay negative experiences, you will feel the same

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Speaker 5: Instead of quickly changing the channel, they go, pull up

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Speaker 5: to keep moving forward, you've got to be disciplined in

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Speaker 3: The negative memories.

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Speaker 5: Hour after hour he chipped away at that boulder to

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Speaker 5: had no blood going to it. For days, it was cold, hard, stiff.

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Speaker 5: It looked like he was going to die with it.

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Speaker 5: Didn't seem like there was any way out, but On

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Speaker 3: He knew he had to cut off his arm if

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Speaker 5: Somehow, some way, he amputated his own arm. He then

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Speaker 5: walked for two miles. Somebody ran into him. Miraculously his

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Speaker 5: life was saved. And in a sense, we all come

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Speaker 5: to places like this in life, where something is over

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Speaker 5: and done.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing more we can do about it.

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Speaker 5: We may not understand it, it may not have been fair,

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Speaker 5: but none of that changed the fact that it's no

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Speaker 5: longer alive. We can either hold on to it and

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Speaker 5: let it drag us down and defeat us with it, or,

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Speaker 5: like this young man, as difficult as it may be.

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Speaker 3: We can choose to break free move forward so we

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Speaker 3: can experience a new beginning.

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Speaker 5: If something is dead in your life, don't die with it.

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Speaker 5: If something is over and done, don't hold on to it.

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Speaker 3: Let it go. Say God, they hurt me, it wasn't right.

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Speaker 5: But I'm not going to dwell on it. I'm not

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Speaker 5: going to relive that memory. I'm going to cut it

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Speaker 5: off and move forward. Sometimes you have to take bold

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Speaker 5: measures to keep making progress. If a dream died, don't

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Speaker 5: die with it. Cut off the broken dream, cut off

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Speaker 5: the relationship that didn't work out, cut off the self pity,

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Speaker 5: the unforgiveness, the negative attitude. Where you're unwilling to walk away,

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Speaker 5: is where you're going to become stuck. In the scripture,

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Speaker 5: Job went through a nine month period where everything that

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Speaker 3: He lost his health, his business, his family.

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Speaker 5: And at one point, it says he sat down among

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Speaker 5: the ashes. He was so overwhelmed, so distraught. He thought,

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Speaker 5: this is it. I'll never be happy again. When you

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Speaker 5: go through a loss, a disappointment, there's nothing the enemy

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Speaker 5: would love to see you do any more than to

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Speaker 5: sit down among the ashes, get bitter, hold on to

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Speaker 5: something that's dead, lose your enthusiasm for life. That's what

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Speaker 5: Job did for a period of time. He sat down.

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Speaker 5: But here's the whole catch. Job didn't stay down. He

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Speaker 5: got his fireback, got his passion back. He rose up

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Speaker 5: out of those ashes.

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Speaker 3: He said, this.

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Speaker 5: May be difficult, but I know my Redeemer lives. I

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Speaker 5: know my God is still on the throne. I know

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't be alive unless there was something greater in

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Speaker 5: my future.

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Speaker 3: The scripture says Job came out with twice what he

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Speaker 3: had before.

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Speaker 5: Some of you today, life hasn't turned out the way

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Speaker 5: you had hoped.

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Speaker 3: Gone through some unfair situations.

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Speaker 5: Now, like Job, you're sitting in the ashes, holding on

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Speaker 5: to something that didn't work out, bitter discouraged. God is saying,

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Speaker 5: if you'll let go of the ashes, if you'll put

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Speaker 5: on a new attitude, I'll do for you what I

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Speaker 5: did for Job. I'll not only bring you out, but

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Speaker 5: I'll bring you out with twice what you had before.

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Speaker 5: Isaiah said, because you've got a double dose of trouble,

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Speaker 5: your inheritance in the land will be double and your

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Speaker 5: joy will go on forever. Friends, your future starts today.

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Speaker 5: Don't you dare go through life looking in that rear

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Speaker 5: view mirror. Look out the great big windshield in front

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Speaker 5: of you. Your life is filled with possibility. There are

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Speaker 5: incredible opportunities in front of you. You may have had

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Speaker 5: some bad breaks, but always remember God has promised beauty

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Speaker 5: for those ashes.

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Speaker 3: Now do your part. Let go of the ashes. Quit

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Speaker 3: reliving negative memories.

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Speaker 5: Don't let us season of mourning turn into a lifetime

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Speaker 5: of morning. Be bold to cut off whatever didn't work out,

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Speaker 5: whether it was thirty minutes ago thirty years ago, let

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Speaker 5: it go and move forward. If you'll do this, you

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Speaker 5: will feel a heaviness lift off of you.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: I believe and declare the.

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Speaker 5: Rest of your life will be the best of your life.

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Speaker 5: God will take what's meant for harm and use it

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Speaker 5: to your advantage.

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Speaker 3: You will overcome.

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Speaker 5: Every obstacle, defeat every enemy, and become everything God's created

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Speaker 5: you to be.

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Speaker 3: In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say

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Speaker 5: Close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make

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Speaker 5: Jesus the lord of your life.

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins.

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Speaker 3: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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Speaker 5: Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you

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Speaker 5: Keep God first place. He's going to take your places

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Speaker 5: that you've never dreamed of.

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