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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

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Speaker 2: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a

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Speaker 2: blessing and share it with a friend.

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Speaker 1: Reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in your.

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Speaker 2: Line, and we bless you in this place. I was

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Speaker 2: in a garden shop the other day and I came

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Speaker 2: across these really cute little lights, solar lights, and I

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Speaker 2: was looking at the different styles they had, and I thought,

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Speaker 2: these are so cute, and I have the perfect place

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Speaker 2: to put these lights. There's a place at our side

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Speaker 2: back door. When you walk out, you begin to walk

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Speaker 2: down this little path and you can't see anything. It's

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Speaker 2: so dark. I don't have any electricity out there. So

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Speaker 2: I thought these solar lights will be perfect to place

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Speaker 2: along that path so that we can see at night.

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Speaker 2: Because I'm always stumbling trying to stay on the little path.

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Speaker 2: So I took the lights put them in the ground.

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Speaker 2: It was a beautiful sunny day. I thought, these lights

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Speaker 2: are gonna power up. It's gonna be amazing. I can't

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Speaker 2: wait to take a walk tonight see how my lights

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Speaker 2: are working. So I didn't say anything to Joel about it.

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Speaker 2: But I said, hey, let's go take a walk. So

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Speaker 2: we went outside started to go down that little path.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to see if he noticed my new lights.

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Speaker 2: So as we started walking down the path, I realized

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Speaker 2: my lights weren't working. I didn't say anything to Joel

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Speaker 2: because I didn't want him to know that I had

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Speaker 2: put lights there and my plan had failed. So I

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Speaker 2: just kept walking down the path. But in my mind,

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Speaker 2: I was so discouraged. I thought, now, I thought those

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Speaker 2: lights were just gonna work beautifully.

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Speaker 3: There's solar lights.

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Speaker 2: I thought, you know what, Tomorrow, I'm taking those lights

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Speaker 2: up and I'm marching them straight back to the store,

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Speaker 2: and I'm gonna tell him they're cute, but they don't work.

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Speaker 3: They're no good to me if they don't work.

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Speaker 2: So the next morning, I got up and I took

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Speaker 2: the lights out, and I started looking at how it was,

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Speaker 2: and I began to kind of examine it, and I

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Speaker 2: noticed under the bottom in the corner was this little

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Speaker 3: I said, I've seen this before. You're supposed to pull

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Speaker 3: the tab so that.

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Speaker 2: What is inside the light can be illuminated by the sun.

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Speaker 2: That's what gives it the power. So I thought, oh wow, okay,

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Speaker 2: So I went and I pulled all the tabs, put

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Speaker 2: them back down, thought, tonight is the night God Joel

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Speaker 2: wanted him to come take a walk with me so

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Speaker 2: he would notice my lights. And sure enough, they were

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Speaker 2: shining brightly. They illuminated my path. Now Joel wasn't as

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Speaker 2: impressed with my lights as I was, but they were

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Speaker 2: working perfectly once I figured out to pull the tab

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Speaker 2: so that they could be powered by the sun. You see,

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Speaker 2: we're very much like those solar lights. We have to

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Speaker 2: pull our tab. That means remove anything in our life

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Speaker 2: that would block us from allowing the.

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Speaker 2: You see, we have something on the inside of us,

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Speaker 2: and it is the seed of God. And when we

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Speaker 2: allow his presence to shine on us, when we do

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Speaker 2: all we can do to bask in his presence get

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Speaker 2: more of him, we are also illuminated. See, we weren't

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Speaker 2: meant to stumble around in the darkness. We weren't meant

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Speaker 2: to not know the way to go. God says that

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Speaker 2: we were meant to shine like stars in the universe.

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Speaker 2: But we've got to allow the Son to shine in

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Speaker 3: See just like that tab.

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Speaker 2: We've got to remove anything that's stopping.

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Speaker 2: I have a tree in my backyard and it's about

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Speaker 2: ten inches wide. It's a pretty big tree. But it's

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Speaker 2: so strange because the tree grows at an angle. And

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Speaker 2: I look at that tree and I think that is

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Speaker 2: so weird. One day, I was out talking to my

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Speaker 2: yard man and I said, this tree grows so funny,

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Speaker 2: and he said, well, Victoria, the reason this tree is

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Speaker 2: its light. This tree is literally struggling to try to

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Speaker 2: grow towards the light. You see, the tree is doing

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Speaker 2: its best to survive. It knows that it grows in

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Speaker 2: Are some of you today struggling to get through the

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Speaker 2: light because you've allowed too many things to crowd your life.

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Speaker 2: Maybe busyness is crowding your life from the light. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it's not allowing the light to shine on it because

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Speaker 2: they don't have the same values that you have. They

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Speaker 2: don't understand the importance of being in the house of God,

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Speaker 2: of prayer, of worship.

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Speaker 3: But to keep going back to those friends because they've

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Speaker 2: You see that yard man said, if you'll prune away

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Speaker 2: some of these bushes, if you'll make some room for

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Speaker 2: the light to come in, this tree will literally quit

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Speaker 2: struggling and it'll it may it may just straighten up

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Speaker 3: It may grow properly.

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Speaker 1: See.

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Speaker 3: I want to encourage.

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Speaker 2: Us today to prune our lives, to look at what's

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Speaker 2: stopping us to be fully exposed to God, to be

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Speaker 2: fully walking in His presence at all times. Sometimes over commitment,

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Speaker 2: even of good things, can keep us from the time

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Speaker 2: spent with God. Busyness isn't always good.

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Speaker 3: We need to prune some.

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Speaker 2: Of the busyness out of our life. You know, some

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Speaker 2: people don't even realize this, that unforgiveness and anger can

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Speaker 2: cover our life from being totally exposed to the sun.

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Speaker 2: You see, if we allow anger and bitterness to stay

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Speaker 2: around too long, guess what, the sun may come up

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Speaker 2: in the morning. If we let the sun go down

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Speaker 2: because we've separated ourself through bitterness, through anger, through unforgiveness.

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Speaker 3: You see, when you can't.

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Speaker 2: Forgive, God says, how do you expect me to forgive you?

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Speaker 2: You can't even see me to allow forgiveness to flow.

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Speaker 3: You gotta let the sun break forth.

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Speaker 2: Take those weeds of unforgiveness out of your life. Root

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Speaker 2: up that anger, don't allow it to stop the flow

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Speaker 2: of God in your life.

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Speaker 3: Pull the tabs, so to speak, and say enough is enough.

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Speaker 2: You see, you may be struggling today, You may be

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Speaker 2: struggling to grow towards the light. You can make a

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Speaker 2: You know, there's a scripture in the Bible that said

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Speaker 2: the people of Israel they were so discouraged. They had

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Speaker 2: God in the midst of their challenge, because all they

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Speaker 3: You see, that discouragement was a cloud that was blocking

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Speaker 2: They couldn't even lift their eyes and look through the

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Speaker 3: And we have to realize discouragement.

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Speaker 2: inside of us. Discouragement is like a cloud that blocks

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Speaker 2: the light from our life. You see, we've got to

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Speaker 2: let go of discouragement and let God shine his.

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Speaker 3: Light on us.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever realized that maybe it had been raining

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Speaker 2: night and it's gloomy and it's rainy, and it just

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Speaker 2: It just kind of does something to our psyche. But

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Speaker 2: then the light bursts forth and it's like, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 2: get out in the sunshine. It's been cloudy and rainy

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Speaker 3: You see.

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Speaker 2: God wants his light to burst into your life that

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Speaker 2: very same way. The things that you are afraid to do,

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Speaker 2: the things that you are stuck in. He wants that

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Speaker 2: you've got to remove the fear the discouragement in your

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Speaker 2: and his life. Can you identify anything that's separating you

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Speaker 2: it's so important that we spend time by ourselves, with

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Speaker 2: ourselves in God's Word.

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Speaker 3: Time alone with God reading his word. You see, the

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Speaker 3: Bible is a life and powerful. The Scripture says it

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Speaker 3: is God breathed words. They're not any words.

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Speaker 2: They're not like the words in a regular book, a newspaper.

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Speaker 2: The Bible are God breathe words. And it is so

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Speaker 2: important that we spend time in the Word. Now some

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Speaker 2: people think, well, that's okay. You know what, I listen

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Speaker 3: That even richer. They say I don't really need the Bible.

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Speaker 3: don't need the Bible. I got Joel. Sorry, Joel, it's true.

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Speaker 3: I'll keep Joel.

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Speaker 2: But I was trying to explain to him the reason

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I read some scriptures, especially in the Old Testament,

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Speaker 2: close my Bible, I say, God, I thank you that

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Speaker 2: whether I understand it, that you have breathed on these

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Speaker 2: So these words are breathing back on me. They're causing

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Speaker 2: it is so important. The Bible says that the Word

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Speaker 2: in the right direction. Don't think, well, I didn't get

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Speaker 2: anything out of the word today, because let me tell you,

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Speaker 2: if you'll store that word up, God will bring it

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Speaker 2: to life in you. He'll bring it to life in you.

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Speaker 2: But you got to take time to sit and be

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Speaker 2: with God ten minutes a day, start right there.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we got to get out of the house. Whatever

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Speaker 2: a young girl, I remember me and my friends, we

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Speaker 2: like to worship the sun. We would we didn't realize.

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Speaker 2: You know, you're supposed to put sunscreen. We put oil

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Speaker 2: you five on the front and five on the back.

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Speaker 2: Let God's word bake evenly in your life.

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Speaker 3: Let it bake evenly. Listen. God is a good God.

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Speaker 3: He wants to shine his light on you.

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Speaker 2: There is nothing that he can't destroy. There's nothing that

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