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Speaker 5: Hello, and welcome to another edition of the GB America podcast.

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Speaker 5: I'm your host Stephen Gunn. With me today is a

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Speaker 5: special new friend, April, hosting Simon's and we met at

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Speaker 2: April.

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Speaker 6: I'm so delighted to be here. It was so great

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Speaker 6: meeting you guys, and y'all do an amazing job. Love

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. Awesome it was.

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Speaker 5: It was a very good lot of a lot of

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Speaker 5: It is. It has been very good, awesome, very good.

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Speaker 5: Well let's see here. So I obviously just meaning to

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Speaker 6: Exactly, this is so good. And I think we've got

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Speaker 5: Come on, amen, I was encouraging just yeah, I just

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Speaker 6: I prayed for her to have a baby. She couldn't

439
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 6: have babies, she'd had miscarriage except to miscarriage, and she

440
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 6: when she came this time, I didn't remember, just because

441
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 6: I you know, you kind of go a lot of places.

442
00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,960
Speaker 6: But she came up nine months pregnant. He prayed, and again,

443
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 6: it's not my prayer, it's just believing in faith and

444
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 6: standing in agreement. And you know, I can think of

445
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 6: one time me personally. In twenty nineteen, I had a

446
00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 6: severe pain in my left leg, and I mean it

447
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 6: was bad and I couldn't I got to the point

448
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 6: where I couldn't walk. I went to MRIs and couldn't

449
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 6: figure it out. And finally I just got hooked up,

450
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,640
Speaker 6: by the grace of God, with a doctor, a specialist,

451
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,679
Speaker 6: a neurosurgeon in town, one of the best. And he

452
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,919
Speaker 6: read something in my MRI that you know, other doctors

453
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 6: hadn't found, and he said I needed This was on

454
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 6: a Friday. He said, I need to get you surgery

455
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 6: first thing Monday morning. And he got he came earlier

456
00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 6: that day to get me in. First of all, that's

457
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 6: a miracle. That is a miracle. You know, some people say, well,

458
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Speaker 6: you didn't get healed by Jesus. You know, you didn't

459
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 6: get instantly healed. I'll take the heel and anyway I

460
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 6: can take it. This is this is the great thing.

461
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 6: I had to go on that Friday before surgery, and

462
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 6: I had to get these tests done to make sure

463
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Speaker 6: I was okay for surgery. And one of the tests

464
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,679
Speaker 6: was the doctor was a different doctor was testing how

465
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 6: if my nerve damage was too severely, you know, gone

466
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,240
Speaker 6: to where it was permanent. So it's laying on this

467
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 6: table and the doctor's right there next to me and

468
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,920
Speaker 6: she's poking needles all in me, and it hurts so bad.

469
00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,000
Speaker 6: I was already in pain. It hurts so bad. And

470
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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm tough. I've had five kids, and I

471
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Speaker 6: can do it.

472
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Speaker 2: That's really.

473
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Speaker 6: But I'm laying on the table she's poking me, and

474
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,640
Speaker 6: I have tears running down my face and I'm saying, God,

475
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 6: I don't I don't think I can take this pain.

476
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to surgery. And I saw her her profile,

477
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 6: she had her hair pull back in a scarf, and

478
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,600
Speaker 6: I saw her skin. I thought, I got to get

479
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 6: my mind off this pain. So I just said, your

480
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 6: skin is beautiful. You know, as ladies talking about skin.

481
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 6: I said your skin is beautiful. And she stopped what

482
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 6: she's doing and she looked at me and she said really.

483
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 6: I said, yeah, it's beautiful. What do you do? And

484
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 6: she just looked real startled, and she said, I guess

485
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 6: it's chemotherapy. I'm on my eighth round, stage four cancer.

486
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 2: WHOA.

487
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Speaker 6: I realized at that point that she didn't have her

488
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Speaker 6: scarf to hide her hair. She had her scarf on

489
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 6: to hide the fact that she had no hair, which

490
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Speaker 6: is irrelevant.

491
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Speaker 2: Wow.

492
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Speaker 6: You know, it was a kind of an awkward silence.

493
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,119
Speaker 6: I didn't really know what to say, and I said, well,

494
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 6: you look beautiful, and she said this. She said, thank you.

495
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Speaker 6: It's because of a lot of faith and prayers. And

496
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 6: I sat there for a minute because I'm in pain.

497
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 6: I'm playing on that thing, and I don't just go

498
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 6: around telling my mom's healing story unless I'm on a

499
00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 6: platform or a stage somewhere. He said, because of faith

500
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 6: and prayers. I just simply said this. I said, you know,

501
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,000
Speaker 6: many years ago. My mom was diagnosed with metastic cancer

502
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 6: of the liver, given a few weeks to live, and

503
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 6: because of faith and prayers, she's now. At the time

504
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,880
Speaker 6: she was eighty no, she was eighty eight years old.

505
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 6: She's totally cancer free. Now listen, this gives me chili's

506
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,479
Speaker 6: chili willies. Big old tears started running down her eyes. Here,

507
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,560
Speaker 6: I'm waiting for my miracle. I'm waiting for my surgery.

508
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 6: Tears got down her face and she said, you're one

509
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,360
Speaker 6: of two people who have ever given me hope. She said,

510
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 6: those people try to give me hope, but then they

511
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,880
Speaker 6: tell me about the person that died of the same disease.

512
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,640
Speaker 6: She said, but you and this other lady gave me hope.

513
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 6: And this other lady gave me a book by a

514
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 6: lady who was healed of cancer. She said, I read

515
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 6: it every chance I get. It's my lifeline. Now listen

516
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 6: to this, she said, it's a book by DODYO. Stein.

517
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 6: I am telling you what. I have chills when I

518
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 6: tell you that, and I I mean, oh lord, here's

519
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 6: still coming down my face. And I looked at her

520
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 6: and I said, that's my mom. We had a moment

521
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 6: in there, both crying. But this is a deal. This

522
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,359
Speaker 6: is how good God is. This is these divine appointments.

523
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:15,439
Speaker 6: Sometimes we pray this feeling a certain way. What are

524
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 6: the chances out of the billions of people in this

525
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 6: world that God would collide to people who were in pain,

526
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 6: suffering and needed hope and cause us to be that

527
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,040
Speaker 6: hope for one another. Yeah, all on the way to

528
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 6: my miracle, which happened on Monday morning. By the way,

529
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 6: I got surgery. I crawled in wheelchaired in and I

530
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 6: walked out been totally painfree.

531
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Speaker 4: Wow.

532
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 6: How God just ordains our steps if we can just

533
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 6: trust him and not try to give him the blueprint

534
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 6: for our miracle, for our life, but just say, God,

535
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 6: I surrender, because he can do so much more with

536
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 6: our surrender than he could ever do with our control.

537
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 6: He's a man.

538
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 2: Amen. Wow you know that?

539
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 6: Uh?

540
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Speaker 2: Wow, that is I love.

541
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Speaker 5: I love how goodness of God, right, the goodness of

542
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 5: God to bring that together, to bring something where she

543
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 5: would be so encouraged and so blessed and so reminded

544
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 5: of His faithfulness in that moment.

545
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:08,120
Speaker 2: Wow.

546
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 6: And you know what, had I had God held me

547
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 6: instantly what he does many times, heals people instantly that

548
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 6: I would have never had that with her, that divine appointment.

549
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 6: So you know, you just never know what God's up to.

550
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 2: That's good.

551
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 5: Yes, So quick story for me on that I this

552
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 5: has been probably would have been about two thousand and nine,

553
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 5: I guess, so a few years back, sixteen something whatever

554
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 5: years back.

555
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 2: So in two thousand and nine, and my knee.

556
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Speaker 5: I'm a I'm a former baseball catcher, so my knee

557
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,239
Speaker 5: is a little bit sore from playing ball. I played here,

558
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 5: played aird oru and so lots of practices, lots of

559
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,880
Speaker 5: hard work. And I get a call from my mom

560
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 5: and she says, hey, we've got a guest speaker at

561
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Speaker 5: our church. She goes to a church, small, little Native

562
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 5: American church out south of south of town here, and

563
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:56,719
Speaker 5: she said, we got a guest speaker coming. I think

564
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 5: you're going to want to come. And I said, oh,

565
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 5: well who's you know who's coming? And she's no, Steve.

566
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 5: When you're gonna want to come? I said, well who

567
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 5: is it? She said, Oral?

568
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: Oh, we'll be there.

569
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 4: You know.

570
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 5: We loaded up and had it out there and uh,

571
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 5: you know, my knees and so we the oral preached

572
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 5: amazing message and it was oral Roberts, and he preached

573
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 5: and the healing line just like he used to do, right,

574
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 5: And so he had everybody come up, and I had

575
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 5: my knee prayed for, and I there's times that the

576
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 5: other knee hurts and I go, okay, I should have

577
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 5: had both prayed for. But it's because it's one kept

578
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 5: me on the other. I remind me, remind myself and

579
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 5: remind the enemy.

580
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 2: Like, no, this was pray for us.

581
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 5: This is a done deal, not because of because God

582
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 5: just just that that touch point, you know, his He

583
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 5: was all about that touch point of contact of agreement, right,

584
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 5: and so you know, let this let somebody, let this

585
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 5: this story be a visual auditory point of contact to

586
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 5: encourage somebody listening today that God does love you, that

587
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 5: he is for you, and he can bring healing, He

588
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 5: can bring a miracle to your life. I have seen

589
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 5: you know, others, feet, legs, you know, uneven grow out

590
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 5: or they're even I mean, you know, missions, trips. You

591
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 5: just see all kinds of stuff. You get a chance,

592
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 5: and I think that's and I would I would just

593
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 5: encourage I think anybody. And I'm not you know, plugging

594
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 5: for any certain church or anything, but I just say,

595
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 5: reach out to your church and get plugged in if

596
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 5: you're if you're you know, in a church that has

597
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 5: missions programs, which everyone should get connected and go go

598
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 5: on a trip. You know, I wish every every student

599
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 5: here to or you would would go on any missions

600
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 5: trip because I think that's something that's crucial at that age.

601
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: I got to do it.

602
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 5: I got to do it as a as a leader,

603
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 5: which is an amazing opportunity to just grow that area too.

604
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 5: For me, I was the only non medical person on

605
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 5: a medical mission trip.

606
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 2: Hello.

607
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 5: You know, I was a communicator, could speak Spanish, and

608
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 5: so that was great. But I'm you know, I'm there.

609
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 5: I'm sitting at lunch with them and they're all talking

610
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 5: about cadavers and and I'm like this, this lunch is

611
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 5: no longer good, you know, I'm it's uh, it changed.

612
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 5: I go over it now like now I'm fine. Actually

613
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 5: is I see that as actually a changing port for

614
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 5: me because now in my family with my kids, I

615
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 5: got four kids also, and I'm I'm the parent that's

616
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 5: the default for any kind of medical stuff. It's like okay,

617
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 5: hey let me look at it, Let'll help me do this,

618
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 5: and you know, nothing grosses me out. You know, it's

619
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 5: like I was carrying me then for something now which

620
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 5: I love.

621
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's awesome. Things change your life, the build your

622
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 6: fly does.

623
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know, I think in the where

624
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 5: we're at now, and you know, in the States, sometimes

625
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 5: we get lulled into the normal, you know, and I

626
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 5: think putting ourselves in the place of going out outside

627
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 5: the walls of the United States is definitely something that

628
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 5: really can can you see the hunger right for faith?

629
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 5: You see the hunger for the Lord in just the

630
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 5: ways that just we just aren't the same. And so

631
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 5: I'm just great for those who maybe do the same

632
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 5: from other countries and come here, you know, and bring

633
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 5: the ministry of the United States to be us as well.

634
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 5: So okay, so let's talk about I'm gonna shift just

635
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 5: a little bit in a good note here. What are

636
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 5: you kind of just in a looking forward looking what

637
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 5: do you kind of see coming up in twenty twenty five?

638
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 5: You know, coming up ahead? Can what do you have

639
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 5: some expectations you have maybe things got just placed on

640
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 5: your heart. Obviously I know the book's coming, of course,

641
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 5: but just is there anything and just forthcoming? It would

642
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 5: be an encouragement yeah, you know, I.

643
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 6: Just really expect I expect. I'll just tell you what

644
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 6: I expect. I expect God to shift some things, and

645
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 6: been believing God for some things for a long time,

646
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 6: and I just believe that this is a year of

647
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 6: answered prayers. I believe this is the year that you know, I,

648
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 6: as always I've seen the goodness of God. This is

649
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 6: a year of God's faithfulness. This is what I declare

650
00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 6: over my life for every single day, I declared this

651
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 6: is my year, and I would encourage you to just

652
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 6: start declaring things over your life. So this is what

653
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 6: I'm expecting. I'm expecting, you know, just great things in

654
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 6: my family. I'm expecting great things in the ministry. I'm

655
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 6: expecting expansion. I'm dispecting I'm expecting new opportunities, new doors

656
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Speaker 6: to be open. So I have a lot of expectations

657
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Speaker 6: and a lot of excitement, and I'm just excited to

658
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Speaker 6: see what God's going to do. And I'm working hard

659
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Speaker 6: for it. And you know, it's just I believe it's

660
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Speaker 6: going to happen.

661
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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: One of the fun things I think and you as

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Speaker 5: as parents, is a lot of that. For me, I've

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Speaker 5: seen it. My expectations, I have things for me and

665
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Speaker 5: my wife and as a family as a whole. But

666
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Speaker 5: it's fun to see expectations go on the individual level

667
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Speaker 5: with your kids and to see them grow. And that's

668
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Speaker 5: just you know, and their sports or their dance, or

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Speaker 5: their writing or their you know, whatever is they're emplolved with,

670
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Speaker 5: you know, to see them grow in those areas and

671
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Speaker 5: of course hunger in the Lord and you know, just

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Speaker 5: that level of expectations.

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Speaker 6: Do. Yeah, that's so good. Here's something good that you're

674
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Speaker 6: saying that. Sometimes we get focused on what our kids

675
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Speaker 6: aren't doing.

676
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Speaker 2: Not just kidding, no, never, never.

677
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Speaker 6: Sometimes it's easy to get focused on that prodigal that

678
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Speaker 6: hadn't come home. You get focused on they're doing everything wrong.

679
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 6: You get focused on I don't think they're ever going

680
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Speaker 6: to come back to God. But I want to encourage

681
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Speaker 6: you with this, and I heard this from somebody. If

682
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Speaker 6: you speak to the fool and your children, the fool's

683
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Speaker 6: going to rise up. But if you speak to the

684
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Speaker 6: king or the queen and your children, that's what's going

685
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 6: to rise up. So you know, start speaking what you

686
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Speaker 6: want to see. Find that one good thing, Praise them

687
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Speaker 6: for one good thing. Man, you're such a great son,

688
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,479
Speaker 6: you're such a great student, you know whatever it can.

689
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Speaker 6: You may think I don't have anything good to say.

690
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 6: You have something good to say. Start calling out. That's

691
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Speaker 6: one thing that my dad was a master out. He'd

692
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Speaker 6: call stuff out in me. And I think, I can't

693
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Speaker 6: get up there and take an offering. I mean, that

694
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Speaker 6: sounds so good. Now I can't get up there and

695
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Speaker 6: do an announcement.

696
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Speaker 4: But I did it.

697
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Speaker 6: He called it out. But see what I think is

698
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 6: he saw me doing what I'm doing today and that

699
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Speaker 6: helped me. So you know, speak what you seek until

700
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Speaker 6: you see what you've said. And I say that one

701
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Speaker 6: ten times. Speak you seek until you see what you've said.

702
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Speaker 6: And let me say like that, change what you're saying

703
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 6: and you'll change what you're seeing. Daddy wrote a book,

704
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 6: there's a miracle in your mouth? What are you saying?

705
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Speaker 6: The scripture says in Proverbs, a wise woman or a

706
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 6: wise person builds their house. The other one tears it

707
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Speaker 6: down by their own efforts. So that shows this right there.

708
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Speaker 6: We can be a builder or we can be a destroyer.

709
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Speaker 6: So I'm gonna be a builder. Build. I'm not going

710
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Speaker 6: to magnify the negative. I'm going to magnify the positive.

711
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Speaker 2: That's good. I love that. Wow, that's great.

712
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Speaker 5: All right, Well we're getting towards the end here, so

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Speaker 5: let's let's shift to the kind of what I say,

714
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Speaker 5: I call it my popcorn or just kind of This

715
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Speaker 5: is just like quick probably more of a quick answer

716
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Speaker 5: is this is not to be a story.

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Speaker 2: It can be if you feel like a streak comes on.

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Speaker 5: No issues with that. But one of our favorite questions,

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Speaker 5: I don't know how it's come up. Maybe we like

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Speaker 5: food a lot, But one of my favorite questions is

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Speaker 5: what's your favorite like go to just enjoy some good food?

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Speaker 5: What is your just go to just to really have

723
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Speaker 5: like a maybe a good savory, you know, food for you.

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Speaker 6: You know, I live in Texas. I love me some

725
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Speaker 6: Mexican food.

726
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Speaker 2: There you go, there you go. I love that. I

727
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Speaker 2: love that anything Mexican food, right, any plate does it?

728
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Speaker 2: That's good?

729
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Speaker 6: Right?

730
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Speaker 5: So you have got to travel a lot. What is

731
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Speaker 5: one of your favorite doesn't have to be the favorite.

732
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Speaker 5: I'm not making your rank them or anything, but just

733
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Speaker 5: maybe be a favorite that jumps out to you places.

734
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Speaker 2: You've gotten to go to.

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Speaker 6: Well, this has nothing to do with speaking, although I

736
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Speaker 6: have spoken over there is Italy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so that's one of the leaders. You get to

738
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Speaker 2: go to. What area is?

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Speaker 6: I've been all over it and so just drop me

740
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Speaker 6: anywhere and I'm good.

741
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Speaker 5: My wife and I got we got to go to

742
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Speaker 5: the northern part and along that and then along the

743
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Speaker 5: coast as well, not all the way south in the boot,

744
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Speaker 5: but you know, along the other northern Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful area there.

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Speaker 6: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Let's see, Okay, what's summer? Flipping that?

748
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Speaker 2: What summer you haven't been that you'd like to go to?

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Speaker 6: You know, I would like to go to. Uh. I've

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00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 6: been to a little bit of Switzerland, but I really

751
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 6: want to go back. I want to go I've been

752
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 6: like from from the top of Italy. I went over

753
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 6: there just for a day, but I want to go

754
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Speaker 6: stay there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Awesome. What is a current book you're reading.

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Speaker 6: I just finished doctor Aman's book on uh uh, it's

757
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 6: on happy. I don't know the title, but happy something

758
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 6: about happy. It was great, great, great book, so good.

759
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: That's awesome. I love that.

760
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Speaker 5: And then let's see here, what about I was trying

761
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 5: to think anything else that just jumps out of me.

762
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Speaker 5: Usually have some fun questions here. Oh, I know and

763
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Speaker 5: I'm actually gonna I'm gonna pivot back for a second

764
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Speaker 5: here on something kind of and and we'll end with this.

765
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Speaker 5: I guess we'll end the popcorn time. But I just

766
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Speaker 5: wanted to kind of carry back to a conversation you

767
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 5: mentioned early about speaking the destiny, speaking the right things

768
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 5: over people with a quick whole story. So I grew

769
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Speaker 5: up at Victory Church Pastor Billy Joe, and I love

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Speaker 5: Pastor Paul's good friend of ours here he's across the

771
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Speaker 5: Corcross Street from us. Obviously he's doing a wonderful to

772
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Speaker 5: jout leading a church and doing great job over there

773
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Speaker 5: with a group there, the team. But I remember because

774
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 5: it was Maybe Center, which is fun because I work

775
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 5: close by here to Maybe Center now, and coming up

776
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Speaker 5: the escalator, a lot of times he'd be there at

777
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Speaker 5: the top, you know, or after service he'd be there.

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Speaker 2: At the end. Hey, mighty man, how are you?

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Speaker 6: You know?

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Speaker 5: I love that and every time, mighty man, mighty man.

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Speaker 5: And to the point that actually he and Sharon were

782
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 5: so gracious they actually did our wedding for us. And

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00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 5: you're busted encouraged by that greatly, am so so honored

784
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 5: and humbled that they were able to do that with

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00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 5: their time scheduled. But that's what It's something I have

786
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 5: carried that on and I speak that in my in

787
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 5: my kids. You know, hey, mighty man, you know, hey,

788
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Speaker 5: princess to my daughter. You know, and I even say

789
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Speaker 5: it with them. I'm coaching, you know, athletes. I do

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00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 5: some coach with my kids. And you know that speaking

791
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 5: that mighty man, you know that that kind of purpose,

792
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 5: that that whole concept is. You know, like you said,

793
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Speaker 5: you have a chance to share maybe what their identity is.

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00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 5: You know, speak that over them because a lot of

795
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 5: times I saw and think about it. Just recently in

796
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 5: a practice there as a boy, he was, you know,

797
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 5: we're they're they're six years old, right, SI seven years old.

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Speaker 5: They're tying hit. Swing them at the ball, not going

799
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 5: to go you know, wrong way away, but just that

800
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 5: little mind. I said, hey, look at me. He looked

801
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 5: at that. I said, you can do this. I know

802
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 5: you can do this, you know, and within two swings

803
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 5: he just crushed it.

804
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Speaker 2: I was like, let's go. You know, just.

805
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 5: That he's not my son, just a kid on the team.

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00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 5: I just really encourage and just speak that destiny like

807
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 5: that belief you end to end of people. So it's

808
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 5: so necessary. But well, this is I think this is

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Speaker 5: the theme of this has been hope. This has been

810
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Speaker 5: the Hope Hope podcast today.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 5: I love the Encourage, Hope and Healing podcast. You know,

813
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 5: honestly on that you know you mentioned earlier about medical

814
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 5: you know, you think back to here on campus of OORU,

815
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Speaker 5: they have the praying hands healing hands actually called a

816
00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 5: lot of people are friends with praying hands are actually

817
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Speaker 5: healing hands historical and what that is was the hand

818
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Speaker 5: of if you look at them, my hands are big

819
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Speaker 5: if you look at them once slightly a little bit more,

820
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Speaker 5: and that's the end of God. And the other one

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Speaker 5: is the hand of medicine coming together to bring healing

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Speaker 5: to the world. And so that was the original foundation

823
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 5: of that, a purpose of that, and I think that

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00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 5: that is a great story and a great reminder that

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Speaker 5: God can use the medical world in a good way

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Speaker 5: to bring healing like he did for you and the others,

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Speaker 5: as well as also the time of you know, you

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Speaker 5: get healed just because of prayer and God goes.

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Speaker 2: Let's change that timeline. You know, it's on my timeline,

830
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: you know, not man's timeline. And so.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if you're listening to seeing this podcast, this has

832
00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 5: been a blessing to you. If we want to encourage

833
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 5: you that God has great things in store for you,

834
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Speaker 5: that God has healing power for you today right here

835
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Speaker 5: and hope and you can be happy in Him, enjoy.

836
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Speaker 5: The Lord is everlasting and is new every morning. It's

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Speaker 5: probably every morning, So just encouraging that. April Simons, thank

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Speaker 5: you so much for your time today. Thank you for

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Speaker 5: coming to join us. Definitely been a pleasure and an

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Speaker 5: honor to have you.

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Speaker 2: With us today.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much. I enjoyed being with you.

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Speaker 2: And we'll stay in touch.

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Speaker 5: Maybe as you come out on the future rollout of

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Speaker 5: your book, we'll work with you on that and maybe

846
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Speaker 5: have another blip as well, kind of come a little

847
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Speaker 5: come back together on that and kind.

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Speaker 2: Of roll out.

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Speaker 5: And if you're interested in finding out how can somebody

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Speaker 5: find you on social media? How can they get a

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Speaker 5: hold of you?

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Speaker 6: What would your best context on social It's April O Simons,

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Speaker 6: s I M O and S and YouTube it's April

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Speaker 6: Ostein Simons. You can find me there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.

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Speaker 5: We'll post those links and those information in the comments here.

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Speaker 5: Below our post. We're so glad to have you with us,

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