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Speaker 5: out of the trouble, out of the fire, if you'll

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Speaker 5: start saying God, come in, let me feel your presence

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Speaker 5: in the fire, show me your greatness in this trouble,

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Speaker 5: then you'll have a piece that passes understanding, a joy

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Speaker 3: Hi. This is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 5: And I like to start with something funny, and I

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Speaker 5: heard about this man. He was the only Protestant in

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Speaker 5: this large Catholic neighborhood. Every Friday during Lent, while his

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Speaker 5: neighbors were eating cold fish, he was in his backyard

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Speaker 5: grilling a steak. They couldn't stand the temptation and decided

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Speaker 5: to try to convert him to Catholicism. He finally agreed.

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Speaker 5: A priest came over sprinkled water on him, said, you

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Speaker 5: were born a Baptist, you were raised a Baptist, but

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Speaker 5: now you're a Catholic. The next year, on the first

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Speaker 5: Friday of Lent, they smelled the same smell.

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Speaker 3: They rushed to his house.

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Speaker 5: He was in his backyard sprinkling water over his steak, saying,

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Speaker 5: It like you mean it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 3: Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 5: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is receptive.

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Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 5: inviting God into your difficulties. Most of the time we're

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Speaker 5: praying God, get me out of this challenge, get me

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Speaker 5: this financial setback. And there's nothing wrong with that, But

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Speaker 5: before you get out, you have to invite God in.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes the miracle is not in getting out, it's in

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Speaker 5: And instead of just praying God, get me out, why

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Speaker 5: don't you start praying God, come in to this hospital

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Speaker 5: Come into this anxiety that I'm dealing with. What's more

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Speaker 5: powerful than God bringing you out is when God comes.

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Speaker 5: He comes in and gives you fevor despite who's trying

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Speaker 5: to push you down. He comes in and gives you

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Speaker 5: If you're only focused on God bringing you out, then

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Speaker 5: you're going to be disappointed because God doesn't do things

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Speaker 5: But when you ask God to come in, you can

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Speaker 5: don't have to fight everything, live upset, can't sleep at night.

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Speaker 5: That happens when you're only focused on getting out.

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Speaker 3: God is waiting to come in.

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Speaker 5: When you ask him in, you're saying, God, don't just

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Speaker 3: Change me. Help me to not just go through this situation.

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Speaker 5: come up higher. If God delivered us out of everything instantly,

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Speaker 3: God works in the trouble.

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Speaker 5: He works in the uncomfortable situations, and sometimes God is

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Speaker 5: not bringing you out yet because He wants the odds

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Speaker 5: He brings you out. It will be a greater miracle. Now,

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Speaker 5: voices will whisper. God doesn't even hear your prayer. That's

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Speaker 5: why nothing's changing. The truth is God is setting you

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Speaker 5: up to show out in your life. When He brings

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Speaker 5: you out, no one will be able to deny that

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Speaker 5: His favor is on you. God said in Isaiah, when

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Speaker 5: you go through the waters, I will be with you.

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Speaker 5: When you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.

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Speaker 5: It's interesting that God didn't say I'll keep you out

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Speaker 5: he said the challenges will come. There will be adversities

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Speaker 3: The fire, in the flood, in the famine.

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Speaker 5: Are you trying to get out of something that God

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Speaker 5: It's not fair, God, I can't take it anymore. Everything

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Speaker 5: He's already promised he'll be with you. Maybe he's just

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Speaker 5: waiting for your invitation. The right attitude is God, I

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Speaker 5: know you're going to bring me out, But in the meantime,

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Speaker 5: I'm asking you to come in to this challenge in

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Speaker 5: you invite God into your difficulty, you'll feel him breathing

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Speaker 5: in your direction, empowering you, enabling you, favoring you. Is

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Speaker 5: it a greater testimony that God kept you out of

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Speaker 3: Why because you are with me.

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Speaker 5: When you know God is with you, when you've invited

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Speaker 5: middle of the difficulty. You'll have a song of praise

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Speaker 5: in the prison. Like Paul and Silas. You won't be

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Speaker 3: You'll be at peace in the midst of the storm.

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Speaker 5: The reason David didn't live afraid, even though he went

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Speaker 3: He wasn't just waiting to get out. He knew that

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Speaker 5: If you're only praying God, get me out, you'll be

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Speaker 5: discouraged until it changes. Joel, I can enjoy my life.

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Speaker 5: I have this child, this off course, I'm dealing with

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Speaker 5: When it turns around, they don't have a good attitude.

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Speaker 5: You're waiting for God to bring you out, while God

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Speaker 5: is waiting for you to invite him in. You have

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Speaker 5: to do like David, Father, thank you that you were

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Speaker 5: Furious he threatened to have them thrown into a fiery furnace.

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Speaker 3: He's God.

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Speaker 5: He parted red seas, he opened blind eyes. Would have

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Speaker 5: The good news is God knows how to make you

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Speaker 5: fire proof. People don't determine your destiny. Bad breaks cannot

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Speaker 5: God didn't keep you out of the fire. God doesn't

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Speaker 5: stop every negative situation. He uses adversities to move us

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Speaker 5: into our purpose. We would never know his power. If

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Speaker 5: you wouldn't know he was a healer. If you never

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Speaker 5: If we never face big obstacles. Now quick complaining about

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Speaker 5: The enemy may have turned up the fire seven times

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Speaker 5: God is in control, not just of your life. He's

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Speaker 5: in control of your enemies. Instead of complaining about the fire,

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Speaker 5: you cannot be defeated. You and God are a majority.

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Speaker 5: He is a supernatural god. He's not limited by the fire,

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Speaker 5: But they understood this principle that God doesn't keep us

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Speaker 5: That's showing God you're not just going to be happy

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Speaker 3: Verse twenty one says, but the Lord was with Joseph

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Speaker 3: there too, in the prison, in the betrayal in the injustice.

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Speaker 5: Significant that the scripture tells us three times, just a

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Speaker 5: We got it the first time, but God wanted us

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Speaker 5: to see this principle that when you invite him into

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Speaker 5: the fire, you're going to have a fever that pushes.

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Speaker 3: You up when life tries to push you down.

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Speaker 5: A strength to excel when you could be slacking off,

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Speaker 5: a power to overcome.

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Speaker 3: What should stop you?

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Speaker 5: After thirteen years of being in the fire, God brought

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Speaker 5: Joseph out made him second.

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Speaker 5: You may be in a situation now that you don't

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Speaker 5: think is ever going to change. But what God started

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Speaker 5: in your life, He's going to finish now. It may

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Speaker 5: not happen on your timetable. Instead of just praying God

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Speaker 5: get me out, being frustrated because it's taken longer than

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Speaker 5: your thought, why don't you start inviting God in.

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Speaker 3: Father, Thank you that you are with me in this

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Speaker 3: battle with cancer. You are with me in this struggle

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Speaker 5: When you invite God in, you will feel his presence

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Speaker 5: in a new way. March chapter four, Jesus said to

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Speaker 5: crashing over the boat. The wind so strong. The disciples

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Speaker 5: In the back of the boat. They ran as fast

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Speaker 5: as they could. Jesus, wake up, don't you care that

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Speaker 5: we're about to die. Jesus stood up and spoke to

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Speaker 5: the storm. Suddenly everything calmed down. Now these disciples had

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Speaker 5: seen Jesus perform great miracles, heal the lepers, raise a

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Speaker 5: little boy from the dead. When Jesus said, we're going

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Speaker 5: to the other side, you would think they would be confident.

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Speaker 5: Nothing for us to worry about. The Son of God

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Speaker 3: He just said, we're going across. But even though.

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Speaker 5: Jesus was with them, they still panicked. They didn't realize

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Speaker 5: the winds and waves couldn't stop the God who created

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Speaker 5: the winds and waves. The creation couldn't stop the creator.

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Speaker 5: They had no reason to be afraid. The Son of

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Speaker 5: God was in the storm with them. I wonder if

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Speaker 5: you're doing like them, worried about something. Even though God

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Speaker 5: is on your boat, He's already promised you that he

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Speaker 5: would restore health's back into you, that you would lend

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Speaker 5: and not borrow, that as for you and your house,

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Speaker 5: you would serve the Lord. Now the circumstances may look

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Speaker 5: the opposite. The medical report's not good, you love doing's

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Speaker 5: off course. It's easy to live worried, upset, But can

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Speaker 5: I encourage you? The Most High God is on your boat.

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Speaker 5: Those winds cannot stop you. The sickness, the injustice, the people,

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Speaker 5: they cannot keep you from your destiny. You might as

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Speaker 5: well relax. Everything is going to be fine for you.

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Speaker 5: Sure the waves may be big, but you have an advantage.

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Speaker 5: The God who controls the universe is right there with you.

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Speaker 5: Now do your part. Start thanking him that he's fighting

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Speaker 5: your battles. Start shining where you are, being your best

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Speaker 5: in spite of the difficulties. Don't wait till it changes.

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Speaker 5: You have to invite him in before he brings you out.

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Speaker 5: And if you'll do this, I believe and declare like

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Speaker 5: these teenagers, that fire is not going to burn you.

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Speaker 5: You're about to see the fourth man show up. Unusual

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Speaker 5: things are about to happen, Unusual favor, unusual healings, unusual breakthroughs,

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Speaker 5: unusual promotion, the fool of your destiny in Jesus's name,

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Speaker 5: and if you receive it, can you say amen?

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Speaker 3: Today? Well, I'd like to give you the opportunity to make.

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Speaker 5: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?

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

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Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my lord, and Savior.

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