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Speaker 1: listening to today's daily prayer for more inspiration and an

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Speaker 2: I'm so thankful to have Miss Bunny Pounds here today

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Speaker 3: this land is amazing, but I mean this land would

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Speaker 3: not be able to contain the souls that would come

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Speaker 3: into the kingdom and the fruit of people that would

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Speaker 3: be affected by your life. Right, I'm not just talking

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Speaker 3: here are to leaders in the typical sense of you

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Speaker 3: run a business, you run a ministry, you run an organization,

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Speaker 3: you're in government, whatever. Yes, we need every single leader

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Speaker 3: to be devoted to Jesus and to go to prayer

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Speaker 3: and fasting and depend on God for wisdom. Absolutely, But

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Speaker 3: every single one of us are disciple makers, every single

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Speaker 3: one of us. Like as a simple campaign manager, I

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Speaker 3: got to disciple elected officials and members of Congress. Two

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Speaker 3: of my former clients, Sean Duffy and Lee's elder are

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Speaker 3: in the cabinet right now. I got to invest in

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Speaker 3: their life right. I got to invest in Vice President

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Speaker 3: Mike Pince's life for years. God allows us to have

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Speaker 3: these relationships that we get to invest into each other's

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Speaker 3: lives if we're willing to step out. Okay, every single

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Speaker 3: one of you has a voice, every single one of you.

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Speaker 3: I don't care if you've been born again for six months.

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Speaker 3: You're called to disciple somebody. Matthew twenty eight. The Great Commission.

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Speaker 3: Jesus is speaking to the group on the mountain, and

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Speaker 3: it says, I love this part of it, it says,

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Speaker 3: and some doubted. He's standing there, he's about to descend

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Speaker 3: into heaven and these things some doubted. I think that's

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Speaker 3: for me, because he didn't just put them on the

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Speaker 3: side corner and go, hey, guys, I'm not talking to

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Speaker 3: you now. As I deliver this message, all authority, all

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Speaker 3: power has been given to me in heaven and earth.

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Speaker 3: Right by the way, it's his power, it's not our power.

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Speaker 3: All authority and power has been given to me on

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Speaker 3: heaven and earth. Go ye therefore, and disciple the nation.

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Speaker 3: Disciple the nations, teaching them to observe all things that

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Speaker 3: I've commanded. You baptizing them. Right, you're supposed to baptize.

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Speaker 3: By the way, you can have professor and help you.

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Speaker 3: But we're all called to raise f disciples. And neil

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Speaker 3: Maiah knew that. So he mobilized the people as leaders,

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Speaker 3: as groups of leaders, and he was prophetic in a nission,

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Speaker 3: and he gathered them and out of that they did it.

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Speaker 3: Fifty two days. Can we give God a handc up

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Speaker 3: on that? Come on God, fifty two days? And how

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Speaker 3: did they celebrate? They celebrated by gathering Ezra and the priests,

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Speaker 3: and they read and Neemiah ate. They read the scriptures

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Speaker 3: again the whole thing. They proclaimed, this is a moment,

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Speaker 3: a revival and a great awakening. I believe the Lord

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Speaker 3: is doing something in this country. I have hope. Guys.

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Speaker 3: I don't know about y'all. I know it's dark. I

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Speaker 3: know we're going through personal struggles. I know your family

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Speaker 3: is not altogether. I know there's stuff going on. You know.

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Speaker 3: I know you've got some health problems. I know there's

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Speaker 3: money's tight, money cometh right, where's the money? I know

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Speaker 3: we're all in these places of suffering, pain, struggle. But

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Speaker 3: lift up your eyes. Jesus is on the throne. He's

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Speaker 3: doing something. And believe me. You know, I'm nothing special.

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Speaker 3: My kids and my husband will tell you. If God

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Speaker 3: can use a crazy woman named Bunny to usher in

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Speaker 3: what we believe will be the largest Bible reading event

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Speaker 3: in the United States history, God can use anybody. Okay,

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Speaker 3: you just have to say yes. I am trying to

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Speaker 3: buy the power of the Holy Spirit right now, trying

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Speaker 3: to convince you that you've got what it takes to

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Speaker 3: lead people. And Mia Maya said, we're gonna rejoice. We're

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Speaker 3: gonna be full of joy. The joy the Lord is

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Speaker 3: our strength, right, and we're gonna walk in revival at

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Speaker 3: a great awakening. Revival starts with me, and it starts

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Speaker 3: with you. It doesn't start out there with Congressman Nathaniel

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Speaker 3: Moran or Congressman Lance Guden or all of our members.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've got twenty members of Congress reading the Bible.

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Speaker 3: But it doesn't start with that. It starts with you.

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Speaker 3: And I set a fire and my soul, God right,

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Speaker 3: set a fire and my soul. And one prayer I

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Speaker 3: constantly prayer. I pray two prayers almost every day. One

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Speaker 3: is let me be childlike, let me be poor in spirit,

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Speaker 3: to know that I need Jesus every day that I

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Speaker 3: need this book every day, right, that I have to

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Speaker 3: hear from him, I have to cling to him every day.

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Speaker 3: And my second prayer is God set a fire in

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Speaker 3: my soul that everybody will watch it burn. God wants

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Speaker 3: to do something in our life. And one prayer I'm

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Speaker 3: praying over the American Church as we read the scriptures aloud,

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Speaker 3: is that God would break complacency and apathy off our souls.

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Speaker 3: Related to this because oh, by the way, he's a

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Speaker 3: real God who's been resurrected, who wants to talk to

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Speaker 3: you every day. This is not religion, This is not legalism.

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Speaker 3: This is not your quiet time that you grew up

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Speaker 3: in your Baptist Sunday school with. Right, this is I

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Speaker 3: get to go meet with Jesus every day. His eyes

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Speaker 3: of fire are burning from me. Jesus in John seventeen

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Speaker 3: twenty four says before he went to the cross, his

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Speaker 3: final prayer, Father, I desire that those who you given

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Speaker 3: me would be with me where I am. I want

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Speaker 3: you to think about that for a second. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: end with this. I'm gonna play a song, he said,

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Speaker 3: far my greatest desire. He's about to suffer. He's about

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Speaker 3: to go to the cross. Right, He's giving up his life

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Speaker 3: willingly for you and I and he's like, father, I

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Speaker 3: will do it. I will suffer, I will go to

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Speaker 3: that cross. I'll endure it. But I want one thing.

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Speaker 3: I want this beautiful woman in red right here. I

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Speaker 3: want her heart. I want her life. I want her

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Speaker 3: to know that she's loved by me. I want her

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Speaker 3: to know that I desire to be with her. I

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Speaker 3: want to know her. I want her as my possession.

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Speaker 3: I want her as my son and daughter and father,

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Speaker 3: I'll do it. I'll go to that cross if you

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Speaker 3: give me her. I think I'm God's favorite. I really

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Speaker 3: think like that. I think about like that when I

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Speaker 3: get up in the morning and I'm like, Jesus, you

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Speaker 3: love me. I'm going to go spend time with you

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Speaker 3: because I know you care and you want me with you. Right,

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Speaker 3: That's how he thinks about every single one of you.

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Speaker 3: He is after you. This is not about doing spiritual disciplines.

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Speaker 3: This is about going and running to a real God

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Speaker 3: who has a plan and a purpose for your life.

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Speaker 3: And he invites us into his beautiful story. And as

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Speaker 3: we read the whole Counsel of God, like all the

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Speaker 3: crazy parts that we don't want to touch. Ezekiel and

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Speaker 3: Jude and Job. You know, we got like gen z

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Speaker 3: influencers reading the Book of Job. I love that we're

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Speaker 3: gonna like have an encounter. I believe with the Lord

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Speaker 3: that God can speak through every single page of this

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Speaker 3: book because He's alive and He's after our souls and

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Speaker 3: our hearts. Right. So this is the call. It's time

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Speaker 3: for every single one of us to be Ezra's that

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Speaker 3: are willing to take ingest this book in our souls

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Speaker 3: every day and go share it with other people. And

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Speaker 3: believe me, if you read even three or four verses

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Speaker 3: a day and you meditate on it and you ask

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Speaker 3: God to speak through it, it's gonna come out that day.

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Speaker 3: Anybody y'all experience that somehow it comes out to somebody

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Speaker 3: around you, right, And then God's calling us to be

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Speaker 3: Neamyah's Ezra's that take on the word and Neamiyah's that lead.

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Speaker 3: This is our call. So this is I'm gonna do

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Speaker 3: like a two call thing here. Okay, this is gonna

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Speaker 3: be kind of different than your normal Sunday morning. First,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna play a video by my friend Phil King

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Speaker 3: with his amazing song heal ar Leanne, and we produce

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Speaker 3: this video. This will be the song that sang after

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Speaker 3: I preach in front of the nation on April eighteenth.

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Speaker 3: And it's from the worship leader at Trendy Fellowship, which

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Speaker 3: I know you guys are connected to. Phil Is such

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Speaker 3: a mighty man of God. And I heard this song

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Speaker 3: and he said, Bunny, are gonna love this song. And

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Speaker 3: I was like floored by the power of this song

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Speaker 3: for our nation. But as I play it, I want

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Speaker 3: you to grab your physical Bible if you have it, Okay,

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Speaker 3: if you don't, I want you to grab your phone

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Speaker 3: and just in your heart go I'm clinging to this phone,

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Speaker 3: meaning it's my Bible, not the other stuff on the phone. Okay.

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Speaker 3: But I want you to watch this video thinking about

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Speaker 3: the power of what God wants to do to heal

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Speaker 3: our land. But this is about me and you. This

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Speaker 3: is about we are the land, We are the nation.

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Speaker 3: It starts with us here in Athens, Texas today, right

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Speaker 3: and then I've got specific things I want to call

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Speaker 3: you to at the end, but I want you to

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Speaker 3: just sit with the Lord, grab your Bible and cling

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Speaker 3: to it and say God, I want to come back

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Speaker 3: to devotion to you like I never had before, because

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Speaker 3: I know what's in me and I'm not reaching the

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Speaker 3: potential that I need you. God, deliver me, set me

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Speaker 3: free as a nation. That's our prayer, and I do

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Speaker 3: pray with me. Guys. I mean this is not public,

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Speaker 3: but I'm gonna put it on the live stream anyway.

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Speaker 3: We're holding Second Chronicles, chapter seven for President Donald J. Trump.

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Speaker 3: If he reads that chapter, I will literally bawl my

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Speaker 3: eyes out because it will be real. Whatever God wants

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Speaker 3: to do with this for the nation is going to

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Speaker 3: impact our country for eternity, and we get to be

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Speaker 3: a part of it. So we're gonna play this song

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Speaker 3: and then we'll come back up. You said, of my people,

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Speaker 3: can many would humble themselves in prayer. That's you here

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Speaker 3: from heaven, and from there you would pulladine. So when

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Speaker 3: we call on your promise that you made so I since.

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Speaker 2: I so many so great, we confess them all turn

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Speaker 2: from them, weed it to take you at.

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Speaker 3: Sal He love that she loves cities. She are people.

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Speaker 3: Read your head, search this amasion, Send me Bible. We

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Speaker 3: still believe you more than evil. We still believe you're

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Speaker 3: not time. Weed us she'll love them. She'll listening. Sh

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Speaker 3: sh what time see.

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Speaker 2: King Usa is.

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Speaker 3: Nothing in now answering, so se shin see what a saber?

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Speaker 3: See what SI is asking?

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Speaker 2: Now so see.

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Speaker 3: Decide to see some troba s father to see what

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Speaker 3: cosa s Yes. Bracy now passicout deciding is flood see

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Speaker 3: says the s f as Jeans isn't lasting any more.

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Speaker 2: You you are.

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Speaker 3: He us care people, We're doing it, says listens you

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Speaker 3: you she love now listen she you are, she is

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Speaker 3: me she God he a she you listening? Gone here

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Speaker 3: you listen name.

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Speaker 1: I wrote heal our land because I feel America is

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Speaker 1: at a crossroads. And today I believe we have an opportunity.

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Speaker 3: To turn a coin. Which way are we going to go?

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Speaker 3: But in Joshua, he said for me and my house,

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Speaker 3: we will serve the Lord. Right. We can't make decisions

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Speaker 3: for people in Baltimore, in Chicago and New York and

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Speaker 3: California and different places in our country that seem to

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Speaker 3: go be going chaotic.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: We can't change that other than praying for God to move.

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Speaker 3: But we can change what's happening in our life, in

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Speaker 3: our community. And I feel like there's some people in

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Speaker 3: this room that when I was talking about being a

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Speaker 3: leader and stepping up and being obedient and taking on

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Speaker 3: a burden and moving forward in whatever sphere of influence

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Speaker 3: you're in, even if you're a homeschooling mom, you felt

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Speaker 3: that call in your heart. I want you to stand

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Speaker 3: up right now. Just take ownership of that. Say God,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go forward as a leader. I'm going

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Speaker 3: to step out in faith and do things that I

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Speaker 3: have not been willing to do. And I'm going to

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Speaker 3: pray for your wisdom and your favor in this God.

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Speaker 3: I'm willing to go all in. Thank you. Thank you, guys,

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Speaker 3: take ownership of it. I'm willing to disciple somebody. I'm

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Speaker 3: willing to do something I have just been uncomfortable doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to step out and say yes, Amen. Will

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Speaker 3: you put your hands out right now? Lord, I thank

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Speaker 3: you for these believers, these sons and daughters God that

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Speaker 3: say are saying yes right now. I will be a

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Speaker 3: spiritual father and mother. I will be I will step out.

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Speaker 3: I will be unafraid. God. I thank you for breaking

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Speaker 3: off every spirit of insecurity, every hindrance, God, everything that

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Speaker 3: says that we don't have enough. We can't do it.

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Speaker 3: There's no way. Lord, help us God to just obediently

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Speaker 3: step out, one step at a time. God, but I

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Speaker 3: thank you for your anointing. I thank you for using them.

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Speaker 3: I thank you that a year from now, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: look back at this moment and go look what the

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Speaker 3: Lord has done, Look at the vision he put in

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Speaker 3: my heart, and see where it is today. God, we

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Speaker 3: say yes to your call, just like Isaiah said, here

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Speaker 3: I am Lord. Send me. Lord, let that be a

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Speaker 3: testimony of our life. We pray in Jesus' name, Amen,