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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting

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Speaker 2: the ministry. If you enjoy today's message, why don't you

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Speaker 2: be a blessing and share it with a friend, reappreciate

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Speaker 2: you and pray for God's very best in your life. Well,

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Speaker 2: God bless you and great to be with you today,

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Speaker 2: and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the

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Speaker 2: week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media,

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Speaker 2: and you can come visit us in person. We'd love

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Speaker 2: to have you be a part of one of our

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Speaker 2: services'd I like to start with something funny and I

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Speaker 2: heard about this lady that was out shopping with her

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Speaker 2: husband and he asked.

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Speaker 1: Her to not buy any more new clothes.

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Speaker 2: She saw this outfit in the store window and decided

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Speaker 2: to try it on, and she liked it so much

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Speaker 2: she secretly bought it. A couple of days later, the

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Speaker 2: husband discovered it, said, honey, I asked you to not

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Speaker 1: She said, what, I didn't mean to.

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Speaker 2: But when I tried it on, it looks so good.

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Speaker 2: Satan tempted me and I just couldn't resist it. But

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Speaker 2: he said, wri, didn't you use the scripture and say

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Speaker 2: get behind me, Satan.

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Speaker 1: She said I did, but he told me it looked

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Speaker 1: even better from a distance.

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Speaker 2: Say like you made it. This is my Bible. I

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Speaker 2: am what it says I am. I have what it

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Speaker 2: can do. Today I will be taught the word of God.

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Speaker 2: I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is recepted.

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Speaker 2: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 2: bless you. I want to talk to you today about

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Speaker 2: freedom from your past. We've all had negative experiences that

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Speaker 2: could hold us back. Mistakes we've made, times we've compromised

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Speaker 2: and done things we shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: We can end up living in regrets, guilty, down on ourselves.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's what other people have done to us, hurts, betrayals,

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Speaker 2: what they said, they've left, scars and wounds that contain

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Speaker 2: our future, cause us to feel inferior, not worthy.

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Speaker 1: Some people have got on through trauma, dysfunction, a.

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Speaker 2: Rough childhood, a toxic relationship. They can take on this

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Speaker 2: false sense of responsibility, thinking they're to blame and hey,

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Speaker 2: I must not be good enough or they wouldn't have

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Speaker 2: treated me that way. It's easy to become imprisoned by

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Speaker 1: Well, we don't move forward.

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Speaker 2: We have these skeletons in our closet and we live

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Speaker 2: to be shame and embarrassment.

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Speaker 1: Here's the good news.

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Speaker 2: Nothing in your past has to stop your future. No

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Speaker 2: mistake you've made is too much for the mercy of God.

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Speaker 2: No hurts you've been through, no injustice, no trauma has

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Speaker 1: He has beauty for those ashes, but you have to

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Speaker 2: You can't live looking in the rear view mirror and

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Speaker 2: reach your destiny. How much power are you giving to

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Speaker 1: Hurts, mistakes, the threats.

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Speaker 2: When we've been through negative things, it's easy to develop

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Speaker 2: in that new relationship. You may get hurt another time.

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Speaker 2: You can't be in leadership. You can't accomplish your dreams.

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Speaker 2: You made too many mistakes. That's the enemy doing what

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Speaker 2: he does best, trying to convince you to use your

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Speaker 2: past to shrink back so you won't become.

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Speaker 1: Who you were created to be.

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Speaker 2: Don't believe those lies you know who wrote almost half

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Speaker 2: of the books in the New Testament. A man named Paul.

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Speaker 2: He used to be called Saul. He was the biggest

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Speaker 2: enemy of the church. He hated believers, even had them killed.

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Speaker 2: He was constantly making threats, telling them they're going to

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Speaker 2: He went from Saul to the apostle Paul. But Paul

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Speaker 2: If you let the past keep you from sharing your gifts?

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Speaker 2: But Joel, I've got too many skeletons in my closet. Now,

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Speaker 2: the enemy trying to keep your paralyzed by the past.

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Speaker 2: Break out of that box and step into the greatness

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Speaker 2: that God has for you. In the Scripture, Nimrod was

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Speaker 2: the great grandson of Noah. He'd heard all about the

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Speaker 2: can be passed down, things that your ancestors dealt with.

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Speaker 2: Just traumatized, but they found their children, their grandchildren down

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like they're just being weak. Come on, get

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Speaker 2: These were real issues, not just mental but biological. Their

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Speaker 2: DNA was affected. You may wonder why you have to

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Speaker 2: deal with certain tendencies low self esteem, can't trust people

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Speaker 2: thinking anything good will ever happen, like a spirit of

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Speaker 1: Those can be traits that have been passed down. Here's

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Speaker 2: God has raised you up to break them. You're the

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Speaker 2: one to put a stop to generational limitations and to

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Speaker 2: start generational blessings. Justice, trauma, dysfunctions, wounds can be passed down.

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Speaker 1: So can blessings. Favor, confidence, victory.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to let the past dictate your future.

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Speaker 2: You can break free instead of a new standard. Genus

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Speaker 1: The Tower of Babel.

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Speaker 2: It's believed that Nimrod is the one who built it.

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Speaker 2: Says huge skyscraper that reached up to the heavens. Many

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Speaker 2: Jewish scholars believe the reason Nimrod built this tower was

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Speaker 2: We all go through breakups or I can't take this

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Speaker 1: Joh nobody in my family successful. We're doing like Nimrod,

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that God brought the Tower of Babbel down.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't finish it. It is enough being destroyed.

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Speaker 2: We've all been through floods, have hurts, made mistakes. There

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Speaker 2: may be negative things that have been passed down, but

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Speaker 1: In the past, paralyzed by what might happen.

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Speaker 2: You can't step into your future if you're building towers

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Speaker 1: Look up in the sky by faith. See that rainbow.

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Speaker 1: God is saying it's.

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Speaker 2: I've cleaned your closets. I've forgiven your mistakes. I've planned

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Speaker 1: Build a tower of hope, a tower of faith.

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Speaker 2: Believe that your past is forgiven, that the threats are gone.

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Speaker 2: As they were leaving, I can see them rejoicing, giving

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Speaker 2: past will always come chasing you. The Israelites were trying

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Speaker 2: Pharaoh's men were catching up, and they could hear the

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Speaker 1: You can't expect anything good, you don't deserve it.

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Speaker 1: Those are the hoof prints.

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Speaker 2: The enemy whispering lies, trying to get you paralyzed by

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Speaker 2: The chariots just a few miles away, looked like they'd

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Speaker 1: He will always make a way of escape.

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Speaker 2: You may hear the hoofprints of your past chasing you now.

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Speaker 1: You try to move forward.

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Speaker 2: But there's always that guilt, the fear, that nagging feeling

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Speaker 2: Then suddenly the Red Sea parted. God made a way

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Speaker 1: Don't fall into that trap. Nothing in your past has

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Speaker 2: Nothing anyone is said, nothing they've done, no mistake you've made.

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Speaker 2: When you tune out negative voices from the past, and

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Speaker 2: I kept reprogramming my thinking. I never did play baseball

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Speaker 2: But if you're rehearsing negative voices, that's going to create

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Speaker 2: Moses was telling God all the reasons he couldn't do it.

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Speaker 1: God showed up and said, Moses, I've already.

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Speaker 1: God is saying to you what he said to him.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to live feeling guilty, unworthy, afraid of

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Speaker 2: There's not a mistake you've made that has stopped your purpose.

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Speaker 2: You may hear some hoof prints a Faaru's army past

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Speaker 2: Go back to loving the people God's given you, go

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Speaker 2: back to believing that you're worthy, go back to living

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Speaker 2: with passion, with faith, with expectancy. You don't have time

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Speaker 1: You have a destiny to fulfill. There's a calling on

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Speaker 2: If Moses had gotten stuck in the past, he would

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Speaker 2: have never delibered the Israelites. It had never parted the

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Speaker 2: the best part of his life happened after a failure,

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Speaker 2: After he'd spent years running from his past.

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Speaker 1: Who knows where God will take.

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Speaker 2: You if you'll go back to Egypt, if you'll quit

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Speaker 2: running from your past, dwelling on the herbs, reliving the trauma,

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Speaker 2: hiding your gifts, fringe. Your past is cleared, not in

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Speaker 2: the Red Sea, but on the.

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Speaker 1: Cross two thousand years ago.

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Speaker 2: All those things that were trying to harm you, that's done.

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Speaker 1: There's a rainbow in the sky. Now gonna be another flood.

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Speaker 2: No use building a tower, building walls, building defenses, planning

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Speaker 1: Why don't you receive the mercies, receive the forgiveness.

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Speaker 2: You may have some ashes, but God has some beauty coming.

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Speaker 1: Pharaoh may have chased you through the Red Sea, but

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Speaker 2: And I know the trauma was real, the injustice, the betrayals.

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Speaker 1: I'm not making light of that. But you have to

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Speaker 1: be aware of the enemy's schemes. He would love to.

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Speaker 2: Convey you to shrink back like Moses, spend years hiding

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Speaker 1: No, it's time to come out of hiding. The best

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Speaker 1: part of your life is still in front of you.

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Speaker 2: You would not be alive if God did not have

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Speaker 2: greater victories in your future. I believe and declare every

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Speaker 2: bondage of your past is being broken off of you

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Speaker 2: right now. Guilt, shame, fear, trauma has to go. Strongholds

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Speaker 2: of what people have spoken over. You are coming down

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Speaker 2: be empowered by your past to reach the fullness of

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Speaker 2: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come

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Speaker 1: I make you my Lord and Savior. If you've prayed

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Speaker 1: That's what moves the hands of God.

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