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Speaker 1: Holly Lujah. We love you so much.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for being in the House of the Lord

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Speaker 2: this morning. You may be seated. You guys not only

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Speaker 2: sound good, but you look amazing. You look like champions.

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Speaker 2: My friend had foot surgery and the doctor told her

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Speaker 2: that she would have to stay off of her foot

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Speaker 2: for about a month. So after a month of recovery,

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Speaker 2: I saw her and immediately I wanted to know, how

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Speaker 2: is your foot. She said to me, I'm now going

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Speaker 2: to physical therapy, and then she began to tell me

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Speaker 2: a little bit about her physical therapy sessions, and she

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Speaker 2: said to me, when I first got to physical therapy,

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Speaker 2: my therapist said this, does your foot hurt right now?

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Speaker 2: And she stopped and said, no, I'm not in any

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Speaker 2: pain right now. And she said she looked right at

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Speaker 2: me and said, if you're not in pain, why are

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Speaker 2: you limping. It kind of took her aback for a minute,

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Speaker 2: and she said, well, I'm trying to protect my foot.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hurt it again.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to do anything that'll cause me any

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Speaker 2: more pain.

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Speaker 1: Can you understand that line of thinking today?

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Speaker 2: I certainly can you know when you're in pain, the

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Speaker 2: last thing you want to do is start acting like

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Speaker 2: you normally did. The last thing you want to do

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Speaker 2: is step out in boldness. The last thing you want

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Speaker 2: to do is go out on a limb, because you

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Speaker 2: certainly don't want to hurt yourself again. That physical therapist

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Speaker 2: looked at her and she said, I need you to

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Speaker 2: quit limping. She said, if you don't begin to do

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Speaker 2: and walk like you normally do, your foot will not strengthen,

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Speaker 2: those legs will not go back in place, and you

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Speaker 2: won't be able to do what you want to do.

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Speaker 2: You won't be able to walk like you did before.

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Speaker 2: You'll always walk with a limp. I just want to

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Speaker 2: encourage every one of us to not allow pain, hurts,

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Speaker 2: discouragement to cause us to walk with an emotional limp.

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Speaker 2: Pain comes to all of us, discouragement is a part

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Speaker 2: of life, but we have to understand that God is

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Speaker 2: bigger than all of those things combined.

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Speaker 1: You see, my friend didn't even recognize that she was

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Speaker 1: walking with a limp. She had to have her therapist

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Speaker 1: tell her.

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Speaker 2: You see, what she had done is she had formed

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Speaker 2: what the Bible calls a stronghold in her a wrong.

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Speaker 1: Way of thinking.

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Speaker 2: She was on the thinking pattern that she could never

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Speaker 2: walk on her foot the way she used to, that

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Speaker 2: it would always be less than that, this foot would

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Speaker 2: always be weaker than the other foot. She had to

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Speaker 2: understand that she could be strong again. Then she had

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Speaker 2: to work through the process. She had to begin to believe,

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Speaker 2: She had to begin to do the work. She had

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Speaker 2: to begin to step out and watch things change. You

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Speaker 2: see now she is well on her way to recovery

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Speaker 2: because she made the choice to walk through that process

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Speaker 2: and recognize she could be strong. And you know what,

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Speaker 2: we all have to break those barriers of the past.

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Speaker 2: We have to break those mindsets that says it'll never

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Speaker 2: be good again, You'll you'll never find another husband the

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Speaker 2: one you had left you.

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Speaker 1: Those wounds, they hurt, they're real, but they're a lie.

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Speaker 1: They're a lie. You gotta believe that you can be

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Speaker 2: If you feel yourself shrinking back in fear, shrinking back

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Speaker 2: because you've been hurt, afraid to try again, you can

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Speaker 2: pretty much realize that.

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Speaker 1: Is the enemy lying to you.

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Speaker 2: Because God never decreases, He always increases.

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Speaker 2: But it takes courage, it takes determination, and sometimes we

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Speaker 2: need to check ourself to make sure we're not walking

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Speaker 2: response wasn't out of pain, that response wasn't out of defense,

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Speaker 2: that that response without a strength, confidence and love, so

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Speaker 2: that we can keep walking this walk of faith. Listen,

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Speaker 2: don't allow your past to define your future. It doesn't

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Speaker 2: was pregnant. The whole family was so excited. Her son

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Speaker 1: You see, she was devastated.

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Speaker 2: Her celebration turned into hurt and pain. She began to

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Speaker 2: question God. She began to doubt herself. She began to think,

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Speaker 1: She said, I don't want to go there.

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid that I can't make it through another painful

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Speaker 2: she shrunk back. She didn't act like herself. She wasn't

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Speaker 2: the lively, vibrant woman that she once was. It began

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Speaker 2: because of a pain that she had felt. Wasn't long

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Speaker 2: after that she found serious xem one eight and she

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Speaker 2: began to listen to the.

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Speaker 1: Messages of hope, of a faithful God, of.

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Speaker 2: A loving God, a God of strength, a God of purpose.

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Speaker 2: Day after day she listened to these messages and it

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Speaker 2: began to build courage in her and determination. She began

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Speaker 2: defeat and the doubt turned into hope, faith and victory.

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Speaker 2: She told her husband, I want to try again to

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Speaker 1: I believe that God loves me. I believe that I

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Speaker 1: can do it again.

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Speaker 2: And do you know recently Christie and her husband Josh

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Speaker 2: just gave birth to a beautiful baby named Miah. She

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Speaker 2: fought through that barrier that would try to stop her,

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Speaker 2: and it hurts. But let me tell you, God is

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Speaker 2: the mender of broken hearts. He can heal what hurts.

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Speaker 2: He can make you stronger than you've ever been before.

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Speaker 2: You can't allow a bad experience to trick you into

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Speaker 1: You got to rise up.

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Speaker 2: In the strength of Almighty God and recognize, Hey, this

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Speaker 1: I wasn't designed to limp. I was designed to run.

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Speaker 1: I was designed to move.

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Speaker 2: I was designed to move forward in the things of God.

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Speaker 2: My little nephew, Christopher, he's a big old kid. I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you that boy is so big. He plays high

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Speaker 2: school football. And when he started he played the defense

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Speaker 2: and that's a really rough, tough spot to play.

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Speaker 1: And when he would come home.

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Speaker 2: The first couple of times, he realized the next day

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Speaker 2: he'd have bruises on.

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Speaker 1: Him and he thinks, a man, these bruises. But he

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Speaker 1: go back out there again. He come home.

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Speaker 2: He said, I got these these bruises, but I did

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Speaker 1: I did good.

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Speaker 2: The next say, he go back out there, He come

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Speaker 1: We won. We won.

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Speaker 2: You see, he realized from experience that those bruises didn't

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Speaker 2: have to stop him. Those bruises may be part of

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Speaker 1: There may be bumps, there may be bruises.

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Speaker 2: They come to all of us, but listen, you've got

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Speaker 2: one more powerful on your side. You are on the

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Speaker 2: right side of God, the winning side of God. You

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Speaker 2: because I am gonna win. I'm gonna come through. I

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Speaker 2: am going to break through the barrier that are trying

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Speaker 2: haven't given you a spirit of fear. Every setback releases fear,

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Speaker 2: Every past hurt promotes fear.

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Speaker 1: Fear is not of God.

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Speaker 2: Everything that you won't do comes from fear. Every excuse

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Speaker 2: of fear of being laughed at, fear and.

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Speaker 1: Being hurt again. It's a root of fear.

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Speaker 2: And God said, I haven't given you fear. So when

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Speaker 2: trying to make you limp. He's trying to make you

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Speaker 2: not reach the fullness of your destiny. God said, I've

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Speaker 2: Process because that I've given you love. Can I tell

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Speaker 2: you that his love broke the curse of sin and death,

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Speaker 2: that his love is the one that breaks the change.

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Speaker 1: He said, I've given you a.

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Speaker 2: to discern truth from a lie, truth from a lie,

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Speaker 2: fear from faith. Today you have the power to discern

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Speaker 2: fear and faith. And I believe that you're gonna walk

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Speaker 2: in faith. Sometimes we just need a reminder that we

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Speaker 2: can be strong again. Listen, don't limp through this life,

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Speaker 2: you've got the force of the Most High behind you.

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Speaker 2: You are on the women team.

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Speaker 1: Amen. Amen,