Speaker 1: What a joy to be with you today.
Speaker 2: If we're praying for you and your family, I know
Speaker 2: God has great things in store. You wouldn't be alive
Speaker 2: if there weren't more victories in front of you. So
Speaker 2: now that we love you, we're praying for you, and hey,
Speaker 2: I hope you'll stay tuned to the very end. We've
Speaker 2: got some special resources to help you stay encouraged and inspired. Well,
Speaker 2: God bless you. It's a joy to come into your homes.
Speaker 2: And if you're ever in our area, please stop by
Speaker 2: and be a part of one of our services. I
Speaker 2: promise you we'll make you feel right at home. I
Speaker 2: like to start with something funny, and I heard about
Speaker 2: this mother. She had two young boys that were known
Speaker 2: for their mischievous behavior. Anytime trouble occurred, they were certain
Speaker 2: to be a part. She decided to take them one
Speaker 2: at a time to see their pastor. The pastor said
Speaker 2: to the first young boy, son, where is God? He
Speaker 2: sat there silently. He asked again, where is God? Still
Speaker 2: no reply. The third time the pastor asked, the young
Speaker 2: boy bolted out the door, ran home and said to
Speaker 2: his brother, God is missing. And they think we did it.
Speaker 2: Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible.
Speaker 2: I am what it says I am. I have what
Speaker 2: it says I have. I can do what it says
Speaker 2: I can do. Today I will be taught the word
Speaker 2: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my
Speaker 2: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name,
Speaker 2: God bless you. I want to talk to you today
Speaker 2: about ease is coming. We all go through seasons of
Speaker 2: struggle when it feels like it's uphill. There's pressure raising children.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're believing for your health to improve, but it's
Speaker 2: not getting better. Too often we get discouraged and think
Speaker 2: that's just the way life is. In Matthew chapter eleven,
Speaker 2: Jesus talked about how the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence
Speaker 2: and you have to take it by force. He was
Speaker 2: telling us there will be seasons where you have to
Speaker 2: stand strong and really fight the good fight of faith.
Speaker 2: But a few verses later in the same chapter, he said,
Speaker 2: my yoke is easy and my burden is light. He
Speaker 2: was saying there will be times of struggle, pressure, difficulties,
Speaker 2: but don't get discouraged. That's not permanent. What I'm putting
Speaker 2: on you. My yoke it's easy, it's light. You may
Speaker 2: be struggling now, you feel pressured. You think that's the
Speaker 2: way it's always going to be. You'll always struggle with
Speaker 2: your health, struggle in a relationship, struggle in your finances. No,
Speaker 2: you're going to come in to an anointing of ease.
Speaker 2: And when you come into this ease, what once was
Speaker 2: a struggle won't be a struggle anymore. You're going to
Speaker 2: have a supernatural grace of favor that will lighten the
Speaker 2: load and take the pressure off. God is going to
Speaker 2: make your life easier. He said, he would go before
Speaker 2: you and make your crooked places straight. That means he's
Speaker 2: going to smooth things out. You're coming into a season
Speaker 2: where things are going to fall into place. You're going
Speaker 2: to get breaks that you didn't see coming. Problems that
Speaker 2: you thought were permanent are suddenly going to turn around.
Speaker 2: You are not going to go through life constantly struggling, pressured,
Speaker 2: weighted down by problems. This is a new day. Ease
Speaker 2: is coming, David said. God anoints my head with oil.
Speaker 2: Oil makes things flow. When there's friction, things that are stuck.
Speaker 2: Oil is used to lubricate it to make it more fluid.
Speaker 2: God is going to oil your life. This anointing is
Speaker 2: going to cause things to be easier. You're going to
Speaker 2: accomplish more with less effort. What stopped you in the past,
Speaker 2: what's caused friction, is not going to stop you anymore.
Speaker 2: You're going to flow right past that. You're english goals
Speaker 2: and think that was easier than I thought, never dreamed
Speaker 2: it happened that quickly. That's this anointing of ease. There's
Speaker 2: a large company that has a slogan that says that
Speaker 2: was easy. A few years ago, a friend of mine
Speaker 2: sent me their big red button. When you push it,
Speaker 2: it says that was easy. Now. I keep this by
Speaker 2: my bathroom sink there on the counter. Every so often
Speaker 2: I reach over and push this button. I like to
Speaker 2: get that phrase down in my spirit because it's easy
Speaker 2: to go through life looking at our problems, focus on
Speaker 2: our obstacles, thinking, oh man, this is going to be
Speaker 2: so hard. I dread dealing with this. It's never going
Speaker 2: to work out. That's mindset is not only stealing our joy,
Speaker 2: but it's keeping us from seeing God's favor. When my
Speaker 2: dad went to be with the Lord and I first
Speaker 2: started ministering, it took everything I had to write a
Speaker 2: message for that weekend, all my focus, my creativity, my energy.
Speaker 2: I was pressured, stressed. When I finally finished, I felt
Speaker 2: like that's the last one that I could ever do.
Speaker 2: And if I wasn't careful, I was tempted to dread
Speaker 2: it and think this is too hard. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to know what to say. I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 2: I had to turn it around. Father, Thank you that
Speaker 2: your yoke is easy. Thank you that I'm well able.
Speaker 2: Thank you that you've equipped me and empowered me. I
Speaker 2: got my mind going in the right direction. I went
Speaker 2: through seasons of struggle, strained, difficulty, but I didn't let
Speaker 2: it become permanent in my thinking. One day I came
Speaker 2: into this anointing of ease. What once was a struggle
Speaker 2: is not a struggle anymore. Every week when I finish
Speaker 2: a message, I hit this button just to remind me
Speaker 2: that it was easy. Quit telling yourself this is so hard.
Speaker 2: I'll never accomplish my dreams, I'll never get out of debt.
Speaker 2: This is a new day. You are going to have
Speaker 2: a strength that you did not have before. God did
Speaker 2: not create you to struggle your whole life. His yoke
Speaker 2: is easy. You may have had that addiction for a
Speaker 2: long time. It's going to be easier than you think.
Speaker 2: To break it. You're going to have a supernatural power.
Speaker 2: Maybe you're struggling in your finances, pressure to pay the bills,
Speaker 2: pressure to get ahead. I believe that pressure is coming
Speaker 2: to an end. God is going to cause good breaks
Speaker 2: to find you. New doors are going to open. Your
Speaker 2: gifts and talents are going to come out in a
Speaker 2: new way. It's going to be easier than you think.
Speaker 2: A couple of years after I wrote my first book,
Speaker 2: a man was walking by Madison Square Garden one evening
Speaker 2: there in New York. He was an executive at one
Speaker 2: of the largest publishing companies in the world. He saw
Speaker 2: my name on the marquee and people waiting in line
Speaker 2: to get in. He'd never heard of me, and he
Speaker 2: went home and did some re search. He called my
Speaker 2: literary agent and said that he wanted to publish my
Speaker 2: next book. She told him that we already had a
Speaker 2: publisher and we were happy. He asked if he could
Speaker 2: make an offer. She said, of course you can. He
Speaker 2: offered an amount more than I ever imagined. When she
Speaker 2: called and told me, I nearly passed out. I said, boy,
Speaker 2: you sure do great work. She said, actually, Joel, I
Speaker 2: didn't go to him, he came to me. I thought
Speaker 2: to myself, that was easy. That was God lining up
Speaker 2: the right people, having him at the right place at
Speaker 2: the right time. If he had not left work late
Speaker 2: that night, he wouldn't have seen those people in line.
Speaker 2: If he had not taken that train home, he wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been in that area. If he had have been preoccupied,
Speaker 2: he could have walked by the arena just thought it's
Speaker 2: another ballgame, another concert. All these things had to fall
Speaker 2: perfectly into place. Was the hand of God making my
Speaker 2: life easier. God has the right people lined up for you.
Speaker 2: He has the right breaks, the right opportunities. You may
Speaker 2: not have seen it, yet you keep honoring God being
Speaker 2: your best. He's going to take you into overflowd You
Speaker 2: are not going to go through life pressured by bills,
Speaker 2: pressured to make ends meet, pressure to send your children
Speaker 2: to college. God is going to do something unusual, something unexpected,
Speaker 2: something that you couldn't make happen. I know a single
Speaker 2: parent mother. She was working hard, raising her children, trying
Speaker 2: to make ends meet. Every month, she barely had enough
Speaker 2: to pay her bills. She told how she dreamed of
Speaker 2: taking a vacation, but every time she saved up extra funds,
Speaker 2: something would break that had to be repaired. She was
Speaker 2: being her best, but couldn't get ahead. It seemed like
Speaker 2: she would struggle her whole life. When you keep doing
Speaker 2: the right thing, you keep passing these tests, you're going
Speaker 2: to come in to this anointing of ease. God is
Speaker 2: going to make things happen that will lighten the load.
Speaker 2: He's going to take the pressure off. One day, her
Speaker 2: supervisor unexpectedly took an early retirement and she was given
Speaker 2: that position. With it came a significant increase in salary.
Speaker 2: She was very grateful. Several years later, her manager, one
Speaker 2: of the vice presidents of this large company, suddenly resigned
Speaker 2: and she was given that position. Today, she makes more
Speaker 2: than ten times what she made when she started. She
Speaker 2: doesn't live under constant pressure. She can take vacations whenever
Speaker 2: she wants. She supports other single parent families. She said, Joel,
Speaker 2: I don't really know how this happened. Everything just fell
Speaker 2: into place and here I am. What she is really
Speaker 2: saying was that was easy. That's what God is going
Speaker 2: to do for you. He's going to put you at
Speaker 2: the right place at the right time. He's going to
Speaker 2: open doors that no man can shut. He's going to
Speaker 2: cause people to want to be good to you. You
Speaker 2: may be struggling in some areas, but don't get discouraged.
Speaker 2: That is not permanent. Ease is coming. I talked to
Speaker 2: a young man. He was finishing up his Masters. He
Speaker 2: had one final exam left. It was the hardest class
Speaker 2: on his schedule, and he is very stressed out and
Speaker 2: concerned that he wasn't going to pass. And we prayed
Speaker 2: and asked God to give him wisdom to help him
Speaker 2: to excel. He came back last week so excited he
Speaker 2: had passed the test. Now I asked him, how was it.
Speaker 2: He said, it's funny because all of my classmates thought
Speaker 2: it was very difficult, but to me, it was easier
Speaker 2: than I expected. He did his part, he studied, he prepared.
Speaker 2: Then God stepped in and made it easier than he thought.
Speaker 2: Quit thinking I'll never pass, I'll never get out of debt.
Speaker 2: This is too hard. Sometimes we're expecting to fail, we're
Speaker 2: expecting to struggle, we're expecting it to be difficult. Turn
Speaker 2: it around. Father, Thank you for your anointing of ease.
Speaker 2: Thank you that you're causing me to excel. Thank you
Speaker 2: that you're breathing in my direction. Some of the things
Speaker 2: that you're worrying about. You don't see how it could
Speaker 2: ever work out. It's not going to be what you think.
Speaker 2: God is going before you right now, making those crooked
Speaker 2: places straight. You're going to look back like him and
Speaker 2: say it was easier than I thought. The Book of
Speaker 2: First Samuel, the Philistines had just defeated the Israelites in
Speaker 2: a battle. They captured the Ark of the Covenant. That's
Speaker 2: where the presence of God was back then. The Israelites
Speaker 2: were so distraught. When the prophet Eli heard this bad news,
Speaker 2: he passed out, fell backwards, and broke his neck. All
Speaker 2: of Israel was in mourning. They had not only lost
Speaker 2: the Ark of the Covenant, their most important possession, but
Speaker 2: thirty thousand men had been killed in that battle. It
Speaker 2: looked like the Ark was gone forever. The Philistines took
Speaker 2: the Ark to their temple and placed it next to
Speaker 2: their god, Dagone. He was a stone statue that they worshiped.
Speaker 2: In the middle of the night, Dagon fell over. They
Speaker 2: thought it was a coincidence, maybe the wind or something.
Speaker 2: They stood him back up. The next night, Dagon not
Speaker 2: only fell over, this time he broke into pieces. They
Speaker 2: realized their god couldn't stand in the presence of Israel's god.
Speaker 2: Plegues began to break out in the camp. People started
Speaker 2: getting boils and tumors. They finally realized, it's because we
Speaker 2: have the Ark of the c it. They decided to
Speaker 2: move it to another city just to make sure the
Speaker 2: same plegus and boils started afflicting those people. They panicked
Speaker 2: and said, we have to get rid of this arc.
Speaker 2: We can't mess with the God of Israel. Seven months
Speaker 2: after they captured it, they built this wood carp, placed
Speaker 2: the Ark of the Covenant on it, hooked it up
Speaker 2: to two young cows. They turned it loose and let
Speaker 2: those cows go wherever they wanted. They started heading straight
Speaker 2: toward the Israelites camp in a few days. When the
Speaker 2: Israelites saw the Arc coming, they couldn't believe their eyes.
Speaker 2: They started celebrating. They never dreamed they would see the
Speaker 2: Ark again. They not only got it back, but they
Speaker 2: didn't have to fight for it. The Arc came looking
Speaker 2: for them. If they would have had one of these
Speaker 2: red buttons. They would have pushed it. That was easy.
Speaker 2: But during those seven months, I'm sure the Israelites came
Speaker 2: up with plans and strategy how to get the art back.
Speaker 2: They had lost thousands of men. They knew they were
Speaker 2: going to lose more. Then they saw the cows come
Speaker 2: walking up. Suddenly their life got much easier. They were
Speaker 2: so relieved. Some of the things that you're worrying about,
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how it's going to work out,
Speaker 2: how you're going to get well, how you're going to
Speaker 2: get out of debt, how your family's going to be restored.
Speaker 2: God is going to do for you what he did
Speaker 2: for them. He's going to cause those things to find you.
Speaker 2: You're not going to have to fight those battles. Good
Speaker 2: breaks are going to come after you. The right people
Speaker 2: are going to search you out. What you're believing for
Speaker 2: is going to track you down. God is saying, get ready,
Speaker 2: the cows are coming. What belongs to you is headed
Speaker 2: your way, the health, the freedom, the abundance, the contracts,
Speaker 2: the spouse. God is going to make things happen that
Speaker 2: you could have never made happen. Those cows could have
Speaker 2: stayed there grazing. They could have wandered aimlessly month after month.
Speaker 2: But God controls the universe. That means God controls the cows.
Speaker 2: He knows how to get what's yours into your hands.
Speaker 2: People can't stop him. Bad breaks can't stop him. Cows
Speaker 2: can't stop him. Enemies can't stop him. The Philistines took
Speaker 2: the art, but I love the fact they couldn't keep it.
Speaker 2: It made them miserable. That tells me nobody can keep
Speaker 2: what belongs to you. The enemy may take your health
Speaker 2: for a little while, but he can't keep it doesn't
Speaker 2: belong to him. You are God's property. God will send
Speaker 2: it back. He may distract your child, get them off
Speaker 2: course for a season, but he can't keep them there.
Speaker 2: Quit worrying, quit losing sleep. They're coming back. He may
Speaker 2: have taken your dream temporarily, had bad breaks, disappointments, Stay encouraged.
Speaker 2: What has your name on it is going to find you.
Speaker 2: Some of you. Your cows are going to show up
Speaker 2: sooner than you think. What you thought was over and done,
Speaker 2: it would never work out. Suddenly things are going to
Speaker 2: fall into place. You don't have to fight, you don't
Speaker 2: have to struggle, Just get up every morning, father, think
Speaker 2: you that my cows are coming. Isaiah said to the Israelites,
Speaker 2: your swords will be turned into plowshares, your spears into
Speaker 2: pruning hooks. God was saying, you're coming into a season
Speaker 2: where you're not going to need your swords and your spears.
Speaker 2: You're not going to have to fight, not going to
Speaker 2: have to struggle, try to make things happen. Instead of
Speaker 2: a sword, you're going to need a plow together of
Speaker 2: the harvest. You can put down your spears. You're not
Speaker 2: going to have to go attack, try to get back
Speaker 2: what belongs to you. God is fighting your battles. He's
Speaker 2: putting pressure on those that have what's yours. You need
Speaker 2: to get ready, not for a fight, not for a battle,
Speaker 2: Get ready for a harvest, Get ready for a breakthrough,
Speaker 2: get ready for healing. You're coming in to this season
Speaker 2: of ease. Have a friend that I grew up with,
Speaker 2: that struggled with an addiction for a long time, got
Speaker 2: mixed up with the wrong students in high school, and
Speaker 2: twenty years later he was still addicted. He'd gone through
Speaker 2: rehab and all kinds of treatment, but it never worked.
Speaker 2: Like the Israelites, he looked defeated. That addiction looks so
Speaker 2: much bigger, like nothing he could ever do. I saw
Speaker 2: him a couple of years ago. He told how after
Speaker 2: twenty one years of being addicted, he is now totally free.
Speaker 2: He looks better than he looked in high school. Skin
Speaker 2: had cleared up, he gained some weight, had a smile
Speaker 2: on his face. I asked him how he did it.
Speaker 2: I thought he went through some type of special rehab,
Speaker 2: he said, Joel, I didn't do anything different. I can't
Speaker 2: really put my finger on it. It was just like
Speaker 2: something broke on the inside. Now I felt a shrimp
Speaker 2: that I'd never felt before. What was that God causing
Speaker 2: his cows to find him. God gave him the victory
Speaker 2: without him having to fight. Friends, Freedom belongs to you,
Speaker 2: Wholeness belongs to you. Quit believing those lies that you're
Speaker 2: stuck you'll never get well. It's been too long, it's
Speaker 2: too hard. This is a new day. That yoke of
Speaker 2: bondage is being broken. You're getting a new yoke, a
Speaker 2: yoke of ease, a yoke of freedom, a yoke of victory.
Speaker 2: You're going to break habits that looked permanent. It's not
Speaker 2: going to happen. Just by your might, by your power.
Speaker 2: It's going to happen because the Most High God is
Speaker 2: breathing in your direction. It may have been difficult in
Speaker 2: the past. You tried and it didn't work out. Try again.
Speaker 2: You're in a new season, You've come into harvest. You
Speaker 2: can put those swords down. You don't have to do
Speaker 2: it in your own strength. God is fighting your battles.
Speaker 2: Dare to declare, I am free, I am whole, I
Speaker 2: am victorious like this man. God is going to surprise you.
Speaker 2: What you thought would never turn around. Suddenly you're going
Speaker 2: to see it happen. Several years before my father went
Speaker 2: to be with the Lord, we came across a construction
Speaker 2: permit for the last full power television station in Houston.
Speaker 2: The transmitter was going to be out north. We needed
Speaker 2: a place to put the station here in the city.
Speaker 2: A few months earlier, a man had called me out
Speaker 2: of the blue, left a message saying that he was
Speaker 2: in commercial real estate that if we ever needed anything,
Speaker 2: he would love to help. Normally I would have erased that.
Speaker 2: I thought much about it, just another sales call. But
Speaker 2: for some reason I wrote his name and number down
Speaker 2: put it in my desk drawer. Never realizing in a
Speaker 2: few months we were going to need a place to
Speaker 2: put the station. I called him. It was like we
Speaker 2: were old friends. He was so likable. He took us
Speaker 2: to different office buildings. They were nice, but our challenge
Speaker 2: was we needed a cell phone tower close by so
Speaker 2: we could microwave our signal down to the transmitter site.
Speaker 2: We looked for several weeks and couldn't find anything. One
Speaker 2: day he took us to this big office complex about
Speaker 2: fifty acres, very beautiful trees and lakes. There were new
Speaker 2: owners and they were very excited about the possibility of
Speaker 2: having a television station there. They told us we would
Speaker 2: be their main tenants. They would give us the signage
Speaker 2: out front. They showed us offices overlooking this lake. They
Speaker 2: wanted us so badly. Their price was about half of
Speaker 2: anything we'd seen. We loved it. We wanted to be there.
Speaker 2: The only problem was we had to see if there
Speaker 2: was a cell phone tower close. We went on top
Speaker 2: of the building and looked around, and we didn't see anything.
Speaker 2: I was disappointed. I thought that would have been a
Speaker 2: perfect location. Everyone left, but Victoria and I stayed and
Speaker 2: we walked around the property for about thirty minutes. As
Speaker 2: we were coming up the parking lot. On the side
Speaker 2: of the building, about forty yards from the place they
Speaker 2: showed us, I could hear construction behind this wooden fence.
Speaker 2: I climbed up on the fence and looked over. They
Speaker 2: were pouring a foundation. I asked one of the men
Speaker 2: what they were building. He said, a cell phone tower.
Speaker 2: I nearly fell off that fence. I said, is there
Speaker 2: room for other clients? He said, yeah, it's brand new.
Speaker 2: I called the company the next day. We had a
Speaker 2: contract to microwave ar signal. What was that? God calls
Speaker 2: and things to fall into place, going before us, making
Speaker 2: crooked places straight. Well, Joel, that is just a lucky break.
Speaker 2: Can I tell you the lucky breaks you've been having.
Speaker 2: That's the hand of God. That's the yoke of ease.
Speaker 2: When you recognize God's favor, when you take time to
Speaker 2: say Lord, thank you for making my life easier, thank
Speaker 2: you for your goodness, then you will see more of
Speaker 2: God's favor. And what's interesting is this man. I met
Speaker 2: this realtor when we learned that the Compact center was
Speaker 2: coming available. He was one of the first people I called.
Speaker 2: He worked hand in hand on our behalf with the city.
Speaker 2: He was very instrumental in us getting this place. What
Speaker 2: are the chances of him calling me out of the blue,
Speaker 2: me keeping his number, him taking us to an office
Speaker 2: building where they were building a self power. That wasn't random,
Speaker 2: That wasn't a coincidence. That was God causing our cows
Speaker 2: to find us. God is in control of your life.
Speaker 2: He knows what you need and he knows how to
Speaker 2: get it to you. Yes, we all go through seasons
Speaker 2: of struggle, seasons of pressure and difficulty, but that is
Speaker 2: not your permanent home. You are coming in to this
Speaker 2: anointing of ease, like with me. You're going to see
Speaker 2: things fall into place. You're going to know it's the
Speaker 2: goodness of God. A friend of mine grew up very poor.
Speaker 2: His family lived in public housing. There was crime and drugs.
Speaker 2: His parents were migrant farmers and had no education. Didn't
Speaker 2: look like this young man would ever amount to too much.
Speaker 2: His mother saw that he had a love for music
Speaker 2: and encouraged him to join the band in school. He
Speaker 2: became one of their top tuba players. In the sixth grade,
Speaker 2: he already stood six foot six inches tall. He was
Speaker 2: the star player on the basketball team When he graduated
Speaker 2: from high school, he received thirty these scholarship offers to
Speaker 2: play in college. He was headed to the Portland Trailblazers
Speaker 2: to play professionally when he suffered a career ending injury.
Speaker 2: He ended up back at home in the projects, no money,
Speaker 2: no education, working for the city as a dog catcher,
Speaker 2: making a little more than minimum wage. During his lunch hour,
Speaker 2: he would go up to the local music store and
Speaker 2: play the keyboards that were out on demo. Wearing his
Speaker 2: dog catcher uniform. Customers would gather around to listen to
Speaker 2: him play. They were mesburized at his ability. One day,
Speaker 2: a customer told the owner she wanted to buy the
Speaker 2: keyboard that the dog catcher was playing. This happened again
Speaker 2: and again. The owner said to this young man, people
Speaker 2: aren't buying my pianos, They're buying the dog catcher sound.
Speaker 2: They love what you do. He offered him a full
Speaker 2: time job to come in and the piano all day.
Speaker 2: That was the first step in his musical career. Today,
Speaker 2: my friend been Tankered has become known as the godfather
Speaker 2: of gospel jazz. He sold millions of albums pastors. A
Speaker 2: great chirt goes around the world cheering his music like
Speaker 2: with then, God is working behind the scenes, lining up
Speaker 2: what you need. You're coming into a season where you're
Speaker 2: not going to have to struggle. You're not going to
Speaker 2: have to fight. You can put those swords down. You
Speaker 2: are coming into a harvest season. You're going to see
Speaker 2: the goodness of God making your life easier. You may
Speaker 2: be in a difficult time. God is about to take
Speaker 2: the pressure off. You're going to have a strength that
Speaker 2: you didn't have before. People are going to go out
Speaker 2: of their way to be good to you. That yoke
Speaker 2: of bondage is coming off. The yoke of ease is
Speaker 2: coming on. What's hindered you in the past is not
Speaker 2: going to hinder you in the future. I believe and
Speaker 2: declare You're going to overcome obstacles easier than you think.
Speaker 2: You're going to accomplish dreams easier than you think. Like
Speaker 2: the Israelites, those cows are going to find you. Ease
Speaker 2: is coming your way in Jesus' name, if you receive it,
Speaker 2: Can you say amen? Today? I'd like to give you
Speaker 2: an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life.
Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? Just say Lord Jesus, I'll
Speaker 2: repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make
Speaker 2: you my Lord and savior. If you prayed that simple prayer,
Speaker 2: we believe you got born again. Get in a good
Speaker 2: Bible based church, Keep God first place. It's amazing what
Speaker 2: happens when you take a few moments throughout the day
Speaker 2: to connect with God, to thank him for his goodness,
Speaker 2: a moment to declare his promises, a moment to remember
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Speaker 2: As you make time for Him, you'll have greater peace
Speaker 2: and strength, and you'll step into the favor that belongs
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