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Speaker 5: I like to get started each week with something kind

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Speaker 5: He was taking his final exam and he was in

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Speaker 3: All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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

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

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Speaker 5: the in Jesus's name, God bless you. We've been talking

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Speaker 5: Always fighting against everything that doesn't go their way. They

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Speaker 5: But if we really believe that God is directing our steps.

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Speaker 5: this couldn't be God, my prayers are not being answered.

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Speaker 3: But no, God is still in control. He's got you

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Speaker 5: The fact is it's in the difficult times that we

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Speaker 5: If we're going around defeated, negative, frustrated, fighting against everything

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Speaker 5: God can fight your battles for you. Too many people

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Speaker 3: Now you've got to turn all that over to God

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Speaker 5: Every uncomfortable situation from your life. You cannot pray away

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Speaker 5: God would remove every difficulty. He didn't pray that God

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Speaker 5: we've got to change our approach. Our circumstances are not

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Speaker 3: You are more than a conquer a victor and not

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Speaker 5: He knows what's best for us. Why don't you trust him?

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Speaker 5: Even in those difficult times, even when things aren't going

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Speaker 5: And I'm asking you today to lighten up and take

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Speaker 3: If you're in a difficult time, won't fight it.

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Speaker 5: of it that God can begin to work. But as

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Speaker 5: long as we don't have any peace and we're frustrated

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Speaker 5: and upset because it's not happening sooner, we're just slowing

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Speaker 5: the process down.

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Speaker 3: My sister Lisa told how she.

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Speaker 5: And her husband Kevin really wanted to have a baby,

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Speaker 5: and they had tried and tried and tried for a

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Speaker 5: long time, but for some reason Lisa just couldn't conceive,

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Speaker 5: and so she went through all the fertility treatments.

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Speaker 3: They spent a lot of money.

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Speaker 5: Finally, after several years, the doctor said, Lisa, I'm sorry, there's.

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Speaker 3: Nothing we can do for you. You're not going to

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Speaker 3: be able to have any children. And Lisa was so disappointed,

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Speaker 3: so discouraged. Here she has spent all this time and.

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Speaker 5: Energy, always praying, believing, doing everything she could. Really she

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Speaker 5: was consumed by it, and now she was just emotionally

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Speaker 5: and physically drained. And she told how one day she

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Speaker 5: got tired of fighting, she got tired of struggling, and

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Speaker 5: she said, God, I'm not going to ask you another

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Speaker 5: time about having this baby. You already know what I want,

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Speaker 5: and I'm just turning it all over to you, she said.

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Speaker 5: From that day forward, she did her best not to

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Speaker 5: worry about it. She didn't beg God for anytime she

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Speaker 5: thought about it. She just thanked God that he was

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Speaker 5: still in control. Really, she was saying, God, not my will,

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Speaker 5: but yours. And do you know it wasn't a couple

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Speaker 5: of months after that that they got a call from

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Speaker 5: a friend of ours about adopting baby twin girls. Long

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Speaker 5: story short, they ended up doing exactly that, and today

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Speaker 5: they have three beautiful children.

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Speaker 3: But the point I want you to see is it

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Speaker 3: was when Lisa turned loose of it that things begin

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Speaker 3: to change.

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Speaker 5: And sometimes we can get so consumed with our dreams,

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Speaker 5: or even so consumed with overcoming an obstacle that that's

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Speaker 5: all we think about and talk about and pray about,

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Speaker 5: and we're not gonna be happy unless it comes to

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Speaker 5: pass exactly the way we want. But that's when we

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Speaker 5: end up being frustrated. We have to get back to

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Speaker 5: that place of rest. You got to get back to

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Speaker 5: that place of peace where you say, God, I trust you,

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Speaker 5: I believe that you know what's best for me. And God,

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Speaker 5: even if this doesn't work out the way I want,

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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna be unhappy. I'm not gonna let this

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Speaker 5: ruin the rest of my life. I'm making a decision

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Speaker 5: that I'm going to be content right where you have

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Speaker 5: me today. I'm going to embrace the place where I am.

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Speaker 5: I was reading a story about a man by the

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Speaker 5: name of Horatio Spafford. He was a wealthy businessman that

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Speaker 5: lived back in the eighteen hundreds, and he encountered.

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Speaker 3: A great tragedy in his life.

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Speaker 5: One day, his wife and four daughters were on a

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Speaker 5: ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean, and they had a collision

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Speaker 5: and all four of his daughters lost their lives. His

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Speaker 5: wife sent a telegram back informing him of the terrible news.

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Speaker 5: A few weeks later, mister Spafford got on a ship

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Speaker 5: was crossing the Atlantic Ocean. He was going to meet

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Speaker 5: up with his wife, and at one point the captain

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Speaker 5: came to him and notified him that they were at

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Speaker 5: the exact spot.

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Speaker 3: Where his daughters had been killed.

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Speaker 5: Mister Stafford got out of pen and he wrote down

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Speaker 5: these words, When peace like a river attendeth my soul,

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Speaker 5: when sorrows like sea billows raw, whatever my lot you

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Speaker 5: have taught.

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Speaker 3: Me to say, it is well. It is well with

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Speaker 3: my soul, and.

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Speaker 5: Really each one of us, no matter what comes our

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Speaker 5: way in life, we need to be able to say

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Speaker 5: with him, it is well with my soul. Life may

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Speaker 5: have thrown me some curves, but it is well with

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Speaker 5: my soul. All my dreams may not have come to

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Speaker 5: pass just yet, but that's okay.

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Speaker 3: I'm not in a hurry.

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Speaker 5: I know in God's timing day will it is well

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Speaker 5: with my soul. I didn't get my way, my plans

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Speaker 5: didn't work out, but you know what, it is well

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Speaker 5: with my soul. Or I got a bad report from

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Speaker 5: the doctor. Things don't look good, but I know God

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Speaker 5: has another report. I know he can do what men

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Speaker 5: can't do, and whatever happens to me, it is well.

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Speaker 3: It is well with my soul. That's the kind of

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Speaker 3: attitude we need to have in some of you today.

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Speaker 3: You need to get a new perspective.

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Speaker 5: You are too focused on what you don't have and

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Speaker 5: on what's wrong in your life, and you're telling God

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Speaker 5: every five minutes what to do and how to do it,

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Speaker 5: and you're not going to be happy unless it turns out.

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Speaker 3: Exactly like you want.

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Speaker 5: Now, you have got to make a decision to be

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Speaker 5: happy right now and I realize it may be a

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Speaker 5: little cloudy in your life.

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Speaker 3: In other words, you.

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Speaker 5: May not see too many good things happening. But know this,

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Speaker 5: the sun is always shining. You just have to get

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Speaker 5: above those dark clouds. You have to get a higher perspective.

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Speaker 5: I know the other day, we were flying out.

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Speaker 3: Of Houston and it was so overcast.

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Speaker 5: It was early in the morning, and driving to the

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Speaker 5: airport it looked very depressing, real gray and gloomy. But

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Speaker 5: we got on that plane. The first few minutes we

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Speaker 5: were in these thick, thick clouds. You couldn't see anything.

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Speaker 5: But finally when we hit about five thousand feet, we

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Speaker 5: broke out of the clouds and it was the most.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful sunrise you can imagine. It was spectacular, and.

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Speaker 5: I thought to myself, I bet nobody down there in

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Speaker 5: Houston would believe what's up here because it was so

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Speaker 5: dark and gloomy, But just right over their heads, separated

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Speaker 5: by a few clouds, it was as bright and beautiful

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Speaker 5: as can be. And really it's the same way in

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Speaker 5: our own lives. Sometimes it's kind of cloudy. We go

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Speaker 5: through difficulties and we wonder when it's ever gonna change,

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Speaker 5: when's it ever gonna get better.

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm so discouraged.

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Speaker 9: Joel.

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Speaker 3: No, you can be happy right now. You just gotta

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Speaker 3: go up higher.

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Speaker 5: The way you do it is found in Psalm fifty

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Speaker 5: five twenty two. Cast your burdens on the Lord, release

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Speaker 5: the weight of them, and God will sustain you, no

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Speaker 5: matter how dark and gloomy it.

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Speaker 3: Looks in your life right now.

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Speaker 5: If you can just release the weight of those burdens,

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Speaker 5: you know what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna go up higher.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna get a new perspective, and you're gonna see

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Speaker 5: the sun break forth in your own life. So let

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Speaker 5: me challenge again. This all starts by believing that God

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Speaker 5: is in control. Trust Him wherever you are.

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Speaker 3: Stay in peace. When you do that, the battle is

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Speaker 3: not yours. The battle is the Lord's.

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Speaker 5: And learn not to be upset when you don't get

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Speaker 5: your way or when your prayers aren't answered. Be willing

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Speaker 5: to go through some things with a good attitude. Ask

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Speaker 5: God to give you the strength to endure, and always

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Speaker 5: remember the.

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Speaker 3: Sun is shining. You just got to go up a

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Speaker 3: little higher. You got to get your peace back.

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Speaker 5: Quit fighting everything, turn it over to God and get

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Speaker 5: back into that place of rest. If you do that,

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Speaker 5: no matter what comes against you, you'll be able.

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Speaker 3: To say with a smile, it is well. It is

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Speaker 3: well with my soul. Do you receive it today? Well,

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Speaker 3: I know you do.

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Speaker 6: Well.

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Speaker 3: We never like to close our.

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Speaker 5: Broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the

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Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I

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Speaker 3: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make

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