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Speaker 5: We'll keep you encouraged and inspired. I like to start

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Speaker 5: with something funny, and I heard about these two men,

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Speaker 5: Archie and Jack. They had debated their whole life as

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Speaker 5: to whether Jesus was white or whether he was black.

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Speaker 5: Archie was certain he was white. Jack was just as

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Speaker 5: died on the same day. Rush to the pearly Gates,

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Speaker 5: said Saint Peter, please tell us we've been arguing our

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Speaker 5: About that time, Jesus stepped up and said, Buenos dias.

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Speaker 3: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.

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Speaker 3: 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: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind

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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 if you only knew.

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Speaker 5: We all go through disappointments in life and things we

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Speaker 5: don't understand. Sometimes we make mistakes and bring trouble on ourselves.

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Speaker 5: God won't allow anything to happen that will keep you

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Speaker 5: from your purpose. He's already taken into account every bad break,

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Speaker 5: every person that walked away, every mistake. What we can't

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Speaker 5: a disappointment is really the hand of God ordering your steps.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't make sense now, but down the road.

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Speaker 5: You'll see how if that door hadn't have closed, you

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Speaker 3: If you only knew what God was up to, you

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Speaker 5: If you only knew how He's going to connect the

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Speaker 5: work for your good. You get your passion back. Maybe

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Speaker 5: Looks like the end, but really it's a new beginning.

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Speaker 5: The best part of your life is still in front

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Speaker 5: you thought you'd be in life, and you've accepted that

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Speaker 5: you can't reach your dreams, you can't see God's favor.

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Speaker 5: Look what you've done that didn't stop your destiny. God

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Speaker 5: knew every mistake you would make, every failure. He's already

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Speaker 5: lined up restoration another chance. When God told Jonah to

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Speaker 5: Later, Jonah was thrown overboard in the middle of the

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Speaker 5: You would think God would say, see, Jonah, I told

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Speaker 5: thinking you've missed your destiny if you only knew what

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Speaker 5: But like Jonah, you can still become who you were

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Speaker 5: Back into purpose. His calling is still on your life.

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Speaker 5: The assignment he has for you didn't get canceled because

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Speaker 5: You're still going to see dreams come to pass. You're

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Speaker 5: only knew how he's working.

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Speaker 5: You wouldn't fight all the things you don't like. The disappointments,

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Speaker 3: John chapter four.

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Speaker 5: Jesus was traveling with his disciples from Judea to Galilee.

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Speaker 5: They stopped in Samaria. The disciples went into town to

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Speaker 5: This Samaritan woman came to the well to get water.

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Speaker 5: She said, but Sir, you have nothing to draw water with.

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Speaker 5: our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well. Jesus said,

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Speaker 5: But when you drink the water I give you, you will

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Speaker 5: Jesus began to tell her about her life and how

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Speaker 5: If you only knew how, You'll never miss this Robe

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Speaker 5: Who did you wrong? Why is it taking so long?

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Speaker 5: If you only knew.

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Speaker 5: If you only knew the doors he's about to open,

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Speaker 5: if you only knew how He's going to vindicate you,

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Speaker 5: not easily impressed, and she was nervous about it all.

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Speaker 5: And she made sure her outfit was perfect and she

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Speaker 5: looked the best that she possibly could. But on the

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Speaker 5: way out the door, she accidentally knocked a can of

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Speaker 5: coca cola over. It hit the floor and splashed up

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Speaker 5: on her shoes and pant legs. She couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 5: Of all times, she was trying to look good, and

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Speaker 5: this happened. She didn't have time to change, so she

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Speaker 5: just wiped it off the best she could and went

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Speaker 5: on her way. At her fiance's house, she met the

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Speaker 5: parents and they visited for a while. They have a

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Speaker 5: little dog that they've had for years. The whole time

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Speaker 5: that dog was at this young lady's feet, it followed

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Speaker 5: her through the house, would not leave her side. When

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Speaker 5: she's stop, the dog stock where she sat. The dog

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Speaker 5: sat for two hours. The dog was the girl's best friend.

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Speaker 5: When she was about to leave, the mother said, We've

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Speaker 5: had plenty of people over to our house, but this

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Speaker 5: dog has never taken to anyone like you.

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Speaker 3: There must be something very special about you.

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Speaker 5: She didn't realize the dog like to smell of coke

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Speaker 5: on her pants. Sometimes what we think is a disappointment

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Speaker 5: is really the hand of God.

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Speaker 3: His ways are not our ways.

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Speaker 5: Instead of being frustrated by what doesn't work out, try

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Speaker 5: a different approach.

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Speaker 3: And say, God, I trust you.

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Speaker 5: I may not understand it, it may be uncomfortable, but

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Speaker 5: I know you wouldn't have allowed it if it wasn't

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Speaker 5: going to work to my advantage. If you only knew

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Speaker 5: what God is going to do, you'd stay in peace.

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Speaker 5: If you only knew how he's going to connect the dots,

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Speaker 5: you wouldn't fight everything that doesn't go your way. If

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Speaker 5: you only knew how he's going to take your mistakes

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Speaker 5: and make Mira out of them, how your poor choices

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Speaker 5: are not going to stop your destiny, then you'd get

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Speaker 5: your passion back. You'd stir your faith up and start

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Speaker 5: dreaming again, start hoping again, start believing again. There's a

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Speaker 5: lady in the scripture named Rayhab.

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Speaker 3: She was a prostitute.

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Speaker 5: She didn't like who she had become. She never thought

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Speaker 5: she'd end up where she was. But life has a

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Speaker 5: way of taking turns, and we find ourselves disappointed, hurting

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Speaker 5: in dysfunction.

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Speaker 3: She felt stuck.

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Speaker 5: How could she get out? She was living in a

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Speaker 5: city that worshiped idols. I can imagine some nights she

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Speaker 5: would look up at the stars and say, God.

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Speaker 3: If you're real, help me to change.

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Speaker 5: God, show me a better path, thought said, are you crazy?

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Speaker 5: God would never have anything to do with you. Look

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Speaker 5: at how you're living. But when you take one step

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Speaker 5: toward God, he'll come running towards you. God doesn't judge

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Speaker 5: the way people judge. People will write you off discounts you.

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Speaker 5: You can't do anything great. You made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 5: You come from the wrong family. You're not talented enough.

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Speaker 5: If you only knew how God sees you, he calls

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Speaker 5: you a masterpiece. He put royal blood in your veins.

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Speaker 5: He's crowned you with favor. You have seeds of greatness.

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Speaker 3: Nothing you've done has lessened your value. Nothing you've done

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Speaker 3: has made him love you any less.

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Speaker 5: He's still going to make something significant out of your life.

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Speaker 5: Joshua was sent men in to spy out her city,

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Speaker 5: the city of Jericho. Word got out that they were there,

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Speaker 5: and Ray Have hid the spies in her house made

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Speaker 5: sure that they were safe. In return, the spies told

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Speaker 5: her that whoever was in her house when the Israelites

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Speaker 5: attacked the city, they would be spared, and her relatives

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Speaker 5: were the only ones that survived.

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Speaker 3: That was the turning point.

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Speaker 5: Ray Have married a man from the tribe of Judah,

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Speaker 5: the unnamed Boas. Boas had a son named Jesse. Jesse

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Speaker 5: had a son named David. That means Rahab is in

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Speaker 5: the family line of Jesus. If you only knew how,

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Speaker 5: God cannot only bring you out of a mess, but

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Speaker 5: still do something awesome with your lifehab is now listed

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Speaker 5: in Hebrews eleven as one of the heroes of faith.

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Speaker 5: Imagine someone telling her, while she was still in that

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Speaker 5: profession that one day you're going to make such an impact.

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Speaker 5: You're going to do something so significant that thousands of

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Speaker 5: years from now people are going to be talking about you.

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Speaker 5: She would have thought you have the wrong person. Do

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Speaker 5: you see what I do for a living, The mistakes

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Speaker 5: I've made, the culture I come out of. None of

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Speaker 5: that is going to stop what our God is about

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Speaker 5: to do. You may have plenty of reasons why you're limited.

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Speaker 5: You've seen your best stage, you made too many mistakes.

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Speaker 5: God is saying to you, if you only knew what

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Speaker 5: I'm about to do, if you only knew the I'm

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Speaker 5: about to show you, if you only knew the doors

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Speaker 5: I'm about to open, the healing, the restoration, If you

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Speaker 5: only knew the gifts God has for you, then you

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Speaker 5: would ask for living water. That means you would ask.

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Speaker 3: Big, you would believe big.

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Speaker 5: You'd get rid of the guilt, let go of the discouragement,

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Speaker 5: what didn't work out, mistakes you've made, and get ready

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Speaker 5: for something that you haven't seen This is a new day.

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Speaker 3: God is doing a new thing.

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Speaker 5: Chains that have held you back are being broken right now.

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Speaker 5: Strongholds in your mind are coming down.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you lost that coat of many colors. Don't worry.

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Speaker 5: You're about to see a robe of greater influence, greater authority.

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Speaker 5: God is about to connect the dots, the bad breaks,

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Speaker 5: the disappointments, the people that tried to stop you.

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Speaker 3: It's all working for your good.

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Speaker 5: I believe and declare you'll come in into promotion like

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Speaker 5: you've never seen, like ray, have favor that you didn't deserve.

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Speaker 2: The well.

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Speaker 5: You're not only going to be restored, healed and free,

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Speaker 5: but you're going to impact your family, your city, your

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Speaker 5: world for the glory of God. And if you receive it,

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Speaker 5: can you say amen? I'd like to give you an

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Speaker 5: opportunity to make 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'll repent of my sins.

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

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Speaker 3: save you.

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Speaker 5: I hope you'll get into a good Bible based church

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