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Speaker 5: like to start with something funny, and I heard about

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Speaker 5: this reporter. He was visiting churches all across the country.

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Speaker 5: While in New York, he noticed this golden telephone on

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Speaker 4: He asked the pastor what it meant.

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Speaker 5: The pastor explained that was a direct line to Heaven.

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Speaker 5: If you were willing to pay the price, you could

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Speaker 5: talk directly to God. He continued visiting different churches and

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Speaker 5: saw the same phone with the same sign. When he

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Speaker 5: finally made it to Texas, he saw the phone, but

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Speaker 5: the sign said calls twenty five cents per minute. Intrigued,

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Speaker 5: he asked the pastor why it was so much cheaper.

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Speaker 5: The pastor said, you're in Texas now, it's a local call.

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Speaker 5: All right, Hold up your Bible. Say it like you

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Speaker 5: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says,

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Speaker 5: can do what it says I can do. Today I

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Speaker 5: will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess

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Speaker 4: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God

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Speaker 5: I want to talk to you today about how God

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Speaker 5: is in control of the storm. Most of the time,

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Speaker 5: we believe God's in control when everything's going our way.

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Speaker 5: We're getting good breaks, business is up, the family is happy,

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Speaker 5: kids are making good grades. We know God's on the throne.

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Speaker 5: We know he's directing our steps. Life is good, but

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Speaker 5: having faith doesn't exempt us from difficulties.

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Speaker 4: The storms of life come to every person.

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Speaker 5: We get a bad medical report, a friend betrays us,

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Speaker 4: How could you let this happen to me?

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Speaker 5: No, the same God that's in control in the good

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Speaker 5: God will direct the winds of the storm to blow

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Speaker 5: those winds will blow you to a new level of

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Speaker 5: You backwards, he can cause them to blow you forward

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Speaker 5: God's disappointed them. They're not going to be happy until

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Speaker 5: The reason he did was to move you one step

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Speaker 5: closer to your divine destiny. And instead of using our

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Speaker 4: We should use our faith.

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Speaker 5: To believe that when the wind stop blowing, will be

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Speaker 5: the apostle Paul did. God promised that he would stand

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Speaker 5: Doesn't look like it's ever going to turn around. In

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Speaker 5: Storm Paul was facing. The crew finally said to Paul,

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Speaker 5: Effect, don't worry about it. The God I serve has

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Speaker 5: given me a promise. He said that I will stand

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Speaker 5: When you have as deep down in your heart, everything

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Speaker 4: The dream looks far away. But like Paul, you know

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Speaker 4: that setback is not permanent. It's only temporary.

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Speaker 5: It's not going to keep you from becoming who God's

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Speaker 5: to go. There comes a point when you've done everything

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Speaker 4: You've prayed, you believed, you stood in faith. Now you've

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Speaker 4: Let the storm take you where God want you to go.

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Speaker 5: It could have looked like that storm got the best

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Speaker 5: My own thoughts were telling me that it's never going

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Speaker 5: fact is God could have changed it. God had healed

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Speaker 5: Paul was planning on going. He could have thought, God,

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Speaker 5: you said I'd stand before Caesar.

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Speaker 4: What happened? God?

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Speaker 5: Your plan didn't work out? No, that storm didn't stop

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Speaker 5: God's plan. It was a part of God's plan. On

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Speaker 5: that small island, the chief's father was extremely sick. Paul

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Speaker 5: prayed for him and he was healed. One by one,

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Speaker 5: they brought other people to Paul. He prayed, and God healed.

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Speaker 5: Paul ended up sharing his faith, and the whole island came.

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Speaker 4: To know the Lord. What happened.

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Speaker 5: God used the winds of that storm to blow Paul

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Speaker 5: to people in need. Had it not been for the storm,

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Speaker 5: the Father would have never been well, the people would

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Speaker 5: have never heard the good news.

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Speaker 4: The storm may.

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Speaker 5: Have been meant for your harm, but God knows how

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Speaker 5: to direct the winds and not only protect you, but

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Speaker 5: to take you to a place where you can be

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Speaker 5: a blessing to somebody else in need. On the way

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Speaker 5: out of your storm. Don't be surprised if.

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Speaker 4: You have interruptions inconveniences.

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Speaker 5: Not what you had planned. God or dam that so

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Speaker 5: you can be a blessing. Don't just look for your miracle.

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Speaker 5: Become someone's miracle. As you reach out to others in need,

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Speaker 5: as you lift the fallen, as you encourage those that

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Speaker 5: are down, as you become a friend to the lonely.

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Speaker 5: That's when your breakthrough will come. The scripture says, pray

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Speaker 5: one for another so that you may be healed. One

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Speaker 5: of the tests you have to pass is being good

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Speaker 5: to somebody else in the midst of your storm. That's

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Speaker 5: what a friend of mine did. He's one of our

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Speaker 5: staff members. Craig and his wife, Samantha have a little

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Speaker 5: boy that has autism. Of course, that's not what they

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Speaker 5: had planned in life. They could have gotten bitter, angry, God,

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Speaker 5: why did we end up here?

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Speaker 4: We're good people? How come we're facing this storm?

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Speaker 7: Know?

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Speaker 5: Their attitude was, God, we know you're in control of

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Speaker 5: this storm. We believe your winds will blow us to

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Speaker 5: where you want us to go. Craig used to be

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Speaker 5: the head of our children's department. A few years ago,

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Speaker 5: he realized how many people couldn't come to services because

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Speaker 5: they have children with special needs. So he started the

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Speaker 5: Champion's Class. That's a class for special needs children. Today,

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Speaker 5: there are over three hundred kids in that class, plus

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Speaker 5: many more parents and family members can come and enjoy

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Speaker 5: the services. Not only that, other churches across the country

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Speaker 5: have copied our model and now there are Champions Classes

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Speaker 5: for children with special needs in churches all across the country.

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Speaker 4: What happened?

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Speaker 5: God used that storm to blow him to people in need.

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Speaker 5: He realized God was directing.

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Speaker 4: The winds of that storm. Here's the amazing thing.

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Speaker 5: Their little boy keeps getting better and better. The first

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Speaker 5: few years he couldn't speak in complete sentences, but now

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Speaker 5: he is able to talk. You've heard him say, this

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Speaker 5: is my Bible. I am what it says. I am

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Speaker 5: as Craig and Samantha help others.

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Speaker 4: God is meeting their own needs.

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Speaker 5: I've heard the saying when everything comes against you, remember

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Speaker 5: airplanes take off against the wind, not with the wind.

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Speaker 5: Those winds were never meant to push you down. They

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Speaker 5: were meant to lift you to a higher level of

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Speaker 5: your destiny. When an egle faces a storm, he doesn't

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Speaker 5: try to fight his way through the wind, through the rain, frustrated, struggling,

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Speaker 5: putting forth all this effort. No, he simply stretches out

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Speaker 5: his wings and he lets the strong winds lift.

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Speaker 4: Him higher and higher.

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Speaker 5: Finally he rises above the storm, where it's as calm

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Speaker 5: and peaceful as can be.

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Speaker 4: When the winds are blowing, things come against you.

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Speaker 5: It's easy to get frustrated, start fighting, trying to change

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Speaker 5: things that you were never meant to change. Worried about

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Speaker 5: the medical report, can't sleep at night, anxiety, fear, No,

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Speaker 5: be an eagle God, I've done it everything I can.

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Speaker 5: Now I'm going to quit struggling. I'm going to quit

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Speaker 5: trying to make it happen my way. God, I'm going

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Speaker 5: to trust you. When you come back to that place

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Speaker 5: of peace, knowing that God is in control of the storm,

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Speaker 5: then those winds that were meant to push you down

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Speaker 5: will end.

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Speaker 4: Up lifting you higher and higher.

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Speaker 5: Remember, God wouldn't have allowed the storm if it was

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Speaker 5: going to keep you from your destiny.

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Speaker 4: Since he allowed it, that means God's going to get glory.

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Speaker 5: He's going to show you his favor, his power, his

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Speaker 5: goodness in a greater way. Now, quit fighting it, Quit

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Speaker 5: living frustrated. Come to that point where you say, God,

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Speaker 5: I'm going to let.

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Speaker 4: These winds take me to where you want me to go.

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Speaker 5: When you relinquish control, those winds will blow you into

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Speaker 5: the fullness of your destiny. I know some of you

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Speaker 5: today you're in a storm like the Hebrew teenagers. God

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Speaker 5: didn't deliver you from the fire. But let me encourage you.

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Speaker 5: Let me speak faith into you. God has made you fireproof.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna come out of that fire promoted, increase better

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Speaker 5: without the smell of smoke.

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Speaker 4: What is your.

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Speaker 5: Tests now will soon become your testimony. Now shake off

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Speaker 5: the discouragement, shake off the self pity, and get ready

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Speaker 5: for God to do something new.

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Speaker 4: Those winds that are blowing.

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Speaker 5: Against you are about to shift directions, and they're going

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Speaker 5: to start thrusting you forward. Now. I believe and declare

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Speaker 5: you will overcome every obstacle.

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Speaker 4: You will rise above every storm. You will accomplish your dreams.

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Speaker 5: You will fulfill your God given destiny.

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Speaker 4: In Jesus's name.

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Speaker 5: If you receive it, give the Lord a shout of

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Speaker 5: praise to the amen. We never like to close our

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Speaker 5: broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the

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Speaker 5: Lord of your life.

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Speaker 4: Would you pray with me?

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Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come

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Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.

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