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Speaker 1: be an amazing year for you and your family though

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Speaker 1: that we're praying for you, so get ready, keep your

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed today's message. Well, God bless you. Always a

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Speaker 1: But thanks for tuning in. Thanks again for coming out.

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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny each week, and

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Speaker 1: I heard about this ninety two year old man. He

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Speaker 1: hold it up. Say it like you mean it. This

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Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want

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Speaker 1: Everywhere we go there are people in need. They may

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Speaker 1: We all have a ministry. It may not be in

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Speaker 1: You didn't think much about it, but you became a healer.

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Speaker 1: God caused your smile to say to them you're important.

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Speaker 1: I care about you. All around us people are dealing

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Speaker 1: if my father had not been living life as a healer.

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Speaker 1: A one hundred years from now, if someone were to

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Speaker 1: want them to say that man was a healer. He

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Speaker 1: ended up dropping out a church, depressed and confused. Twelve

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Speaker 1: For the first time, she felt a freedom on the inside.

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Speaker 1: It was like God breathed new breath into her spirit.

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Speaker 1: She said Joels. Sometimes because you don't condemn people, other

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Speaker 1: But let me tell you, I live under Christianity Heavy.

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Speaker 1: For forty two years. I was broken, I was defeated,

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Speaker 1: I'm helping others. She went on to say, I will

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Speaker 1: Don't take this wrong, but religion likes to beat people down.

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Speaker 1: Religion will criticize you because you're not hard enough on others.

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Speaker 1: But I love what Jesus said. My yoke is easy,

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Speaker 1: my burden is life. I've learned this. People are already

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Speaker 1: beaten down enough by life. Let's be healers, Let's be restoreres.

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Speaker 1: Let's get up every day and say, where is a

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Speaker 1: need I can meet, where is someone where I can help?

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Speaker 1: Lighten alade. Friends, you are a container filled with God,

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Speaker 1: release his healing wherever you go. If you will live

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Speaker 1: your life as a healer as a restorer. I promise

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Speaker 1: you this God's face will always shine down on you

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Speaker 1: because you rub it out and don't rub it in.

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Speaker 1: God will be there for your children, for your grandchildren.

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Speaker 1: He won't just meet your needs. He will give you

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Speaker 1: your enemies. I believe and declare you'll see every dream,

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Speaker 1: every promise God put in your heart. It will come

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Speaker 1: to pass. Amen. Do you receive it today? Well? We

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Speaker 1: never like to close our broadcast without giving you an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would

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Speaker 1: you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent

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Speaker 1: my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer,

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Speaker 1: we believe you got born again. Get in a good

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Speaker 1: Bible based church. Keep God first place. He's going to

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Speaker 1: take your places you've never dreamed of. It's January. Time

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Speaker 1: to renew my faith. It's January. Time to start a

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Speaker 1: new season. It's January.

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Speaker 2: There is no better time than now to set the

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Speaker 1: The beginning of the year is a great time to

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Speaker 1: new things God has in store. Every January we create

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Speaker 1: a new devotional calendar that will help you throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: When you start the day off in faith, grateful for

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Speaker 1: what God's done, making positive declarations over your future, You're

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Speaker 1: setting the tone for a blessed day and a victorious year.

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Speaker 1: This devotional will help you get your mind going in

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Speaker 1: the right direction so you can go out each day

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Speaker 1: in faith knowing that God is in control that His

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Speaker 1: plans for you are for good. I'd love to send you.

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Speaker 2: A copy as our way of saying thank you for

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Speaker 2: your gift of any amount this first month of the year.

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Speaker 2: We would like to send you a copy of our

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Speaker 2: brand new twenty twenty four three hundred and sixty five

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Speaker 2: day devotional calendar. Do you want to set a faith

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Speaker 2: course for your life in twenty twenty four? Do you

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Speaker 2: want to see your life take off in new directions

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Speaker 2: of influence, favor, and provision in the year ahead? Using

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Speaker 2: this devotional calendar is as easy as one, two, three.

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Speaker 2: One wake up with an expectancy in your heart. Two,

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Speaker 2: reflect on the daily scripture Verse and devotional from Joel.

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Speaker 1: Three.

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Speaker 2: Capture God's Promises to you on journaling lines for writing

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Speaker 2: and reflection. Be sure to request your copy of the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four devotional calendar available this month by simply

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