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How to build a better relationship with Jesus Special Guest Nick L · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  So, I've been on the air now seven years, and we've had a lot of people come
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  in and out of our show to do personal testimonies. But that's what it's all about, right?
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  Have Faith, Let It Begin is a show for you, the daily commuter,
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  with personal testimony.
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  We have motivational topics and inspirational stories set out to change the world.
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  Within the last three years of this seven-year stretch, we've had people like
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  Dr. Ianelli join the show.
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  We've had Carol join the show. we've had many guests like Clinton Knapp who
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  we're praying for, but no one has touched us even more and quicker than a person
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  that I work hand in hand with.
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  And his name is Nick. I call him Professor Nick.
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  He has an opportunity today to give you probably one of the best personal testimonies.
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  So I'm asking you to strap on your seatbelts, make sure your tray tables are
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  not upright positions. We're about to fly air Nick.
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  Have faith. Let it begin. Special edition. Nick is here again.
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  Starts right now. Have faith. Let it begin. When it starts right now.
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  Music.
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  Here's your host, Angel Santana. Ariel, can you say, have faith?
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  Let it begin. Let it begin? Let it begin. Say, have faith.
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  Let it begin. Let it begin. No. No? No? Okay. Hi, Noah. Noah!
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  Happy birthday, Noah! Kidding. I feel amazing. That's your birthday, please.
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  Noah. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it say.
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  This little light of mine, I'm going to let it say.
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  This little light of mine, I'm going to let it say. Let it say. Let it say.
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  Let it say. Yeah.
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  Daddy, I'm so excited, but I have one question. What's your question?
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  Are you going to be a pastor or a minister?
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith Lab again, and it starts right now.
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  Hello, everyone. Welcome and happy Friday. It's Friday, Friday, Friday.
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  Nick is here. He's taking over the reins. Without further ado,
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  the show is all yours. Nick, take it away.
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  Thank you, Angel. So I felt I've been thinking about, you know,
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  coming on your show again for a while, but I wanted to come come in with something
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  that, you know, was very interesting,
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  hopefully for your audience and
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  something that, you know, I I try to accomplish myself on a daily basis.
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  And you've touched on it yourself. I think there was an episode that you had
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  probably within the last couple of weeks, I think that that's soon about building
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  a relationship with Christ. And how do you go about that?
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  Yes. So, you know I think that.
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  I think that we might be making too much of, you know, well, what do I do?
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  How do I go about building a relationship with Jesus?
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  It's, I see it as not being as hard as that.
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  You know, he, God sent his son to us in a form,
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  in the form of going through birth and up to 33 years old. And then he had his ministry.
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  So he did that so that he can experience the human nature, and he went through every day.
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  He went through from child to growing up to be an adolescent to an adult,
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  which is where basically his ministry took place.
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  So he's very accessible and it doesn't need to be any formal prayer,
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  although everything is kind of melded into the Lord's prayer,
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  but it doesn't have to be as formal as that.
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  My relationship with Jesus is in the morning when I'm walking my dog and I speak
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  to him, you know, thank you for the day.
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  This is what's going to be happening today.
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  I hope at the end, at the hope at the end of the day, you've pleased you're
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  pleased with the way I've handled myself.
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  And just speak to him like you're building a relationship with someone.
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  You know, there are nine elements to any healthy relationship.
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  Now, healthy relationship being with your friend or friends,
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  your significant other, your family. How do you go about building your relationship with them?
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  It's the same way with Jesus. You know, you have open communication,
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  trust, mutual respect, commitment, honesty.
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  Respect, personal space, affection, healthy conflict, and fun of being together.
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  I kind of want to emphasize healthy conflict.
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  There's nothing wrong about having a stronger relationship with Jesus.
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  He understands. He wants that open communication.
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  So if there's something that you feel that you don't quite understand or you
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  don't feel right about, you can talk to him about it. He wants to hear it.
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  He wants to hear how you feel. But as you've said almost every day on your podcast,
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  he will never leave your side.
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  He will always be there for you, no matter what.
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  But he wants you to be human. He understands that. He made you this way.
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  And that's the way to really communicate and develop your relationship with Jesus on a daily basis.
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  You might want to ask, how do you know when you've developed that relationship?
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  I'll tell you how I knew I got there.
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  In the weekly service, I had looked up at the cross and saw Jesus is there on the cross.
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  And I just stared at the cross and a tear came to my eye.
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  That's when I knew I had the relationship that I needed to have.
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  And, you know, in the Psalms It's really kind of laid out in the Psalms What
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  he's looking for and what you'll get In Psalm 34,
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  it says This poor man cried and the Lord heard him And saved him from all his
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  troubles That's in paragraph 6 In 17,
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  when the righteous cry for help The Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles,
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  And in 19, it says,
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  many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
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  So, you know, the thing is, one of the other things that we need to have in
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  that relationship is patience.
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  You know, we're not a society that has patience. We want instant gratification.
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  And it doesn't work that way. The Lord delivers without a doubt in perfect timing
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  on his time, not our time.
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  So you really, you know, the things in life just don't happen.
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  If you think about kind of the day-to-day ordinary things that happen,
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  some of them don't happen so quickly.
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  We, you know, there's, we have to wait for them. And, but the thing is,
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  is to always keep the faith,
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  always keep that communication open and that relationship with God,
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  and you will be heard and he will deliver.
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  Now, it may not be exactly what you asked for, but it will satisfy what you
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  need because he knows better than us what we need.
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  So, you know, that's the kind of the message I want to deliver to your audience today.
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  Develop that relationship with God. You know, in the downtime of your life,
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  just start a conversation.
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  And I kind of end my night by saying, I hope I pleased you today.
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  And that's kind of my evening prayer. And I said, you know, there's some things
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  that maybe I could have done a little better.
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  Tomorrow we'll be back at it again. But it really needs to be nothing informal.
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  It can be extremely informal, just as if you were talking to,
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  you know, a loved one or a friend.
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  So I just wanted to bring that across to everyone.
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  Uh, it's, you know, it's, it's amazing. I gave you a little pause there because
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  I didn't want to cut you off just in case you had a,
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  you know, you were in a, in a thought, but I think that what your message does
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  today for everyone and what a really good way to end the week with it,
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  because it gives us time to really think about it over the weekend.
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  So I want to thank you for that. And for the record, I didn't know what you
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  were going to talk about except for the title.
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  So it's nice. You know, I'm, I'm listening to it just like all of our half faith,
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  let it begin listener this morning, which is awesome.
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  And I want to just end with a quote that I did find, and that is,
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  a relationship with God is the most important relationship you can have.
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  Trust him and everything will always turn out fine.
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  And I think that is the greatest way that we can end today's episode.
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  So I want to thank you, Nick, for coming on. You're always welcome on the platform.
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  But I think we should definitely close out in a prayer and reach out to all
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  of our good friends and family.
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  We have praises across the board as well. I won't get detailed on it,
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  but let's start off with a praise.
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  Heavenly Father, we thank you for today's episode. We thank you for the whole week.
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  We thank you for individuals that are seeking new careers and have been given
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  the opportunity and was granted an opportunity for something new.
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  We pray for teachers and new ones.
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  We lift up in prayer, Nick and his family, from Diane to Cassandra.
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  We thank you, Lord, for bringing them into our lives.
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  And we thank each and every single person that is listening today.
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  As we continue to lift up in prayer, our other good colleague,
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  Clinton Knapp, who is still recovering over his second heart transplant.
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  We know that he's listening to our show. So Clinton, continue to heal, brother.
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  Nick and I are there for you. Maria, you know that we're here for you as well.
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  And the entire family. Nick, do you have any prayer requests that we would like to do as well?
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  Yeah, I'd like to pray for my God child. You know, he's been afflicted with
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  an addiction that's pretty terrible and just wanted to continue to send out
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  prayers and thoughts for him.
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  Absolutely. And there's others out there too, like Kenneth, Rose, Douglas.
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  These are people that have always reached out. We pray for Rob and we pray for
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  the entire half-eighth, let it begin family.
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  We close out today by praying the words that he taught us, our father who art in heaven.
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  Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
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  Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom,
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  the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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  Guys, it's a great way to close out
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  the week. And we are about to make an announcement right here, right now.
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  Something new is coming to our platform. And I definitely want to invite Nick to help us with it.
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  We are going to be doing once a month live communion.
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  That's right. I will let you know in advance. So you will have your juice and
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  you'll have your choice of bread.
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  Or of course, in my house, my kids love matzah.
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  So you can pick what you want and we will do a morning communion so that you
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  can start your day off with the Lord. What do you think, Nick?
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  Pretty good? That's fabulous.
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  It's a great idea. I think it's a good idea. And I think it would be cool that
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  maybe you come on and you'll do a communion for us. I'll do a communion.
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  We'll do one from every, you know, denomination. I know you can give us a Catholic version.
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  You know, they're all the same, but it's nice with the wording being a little
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  different. So maybe you can give us one and then I'll do one from the Christian's perspective.
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  And then anybody else that would like to come on and share their version,
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  we'd love to welcome you.
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  On behalf of all of us here, on behalf of Nick, co-host for this last two days, don't worry, Ianelli.
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  You still got Monday's episode We haven't got rid of you So listen to the Crock
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  Podcast It's this Sunday,
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  9am And then E will be back on Monday And then who knows, maybe we can get Nick
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  back on as quick as possible On behalf of all of us here, enjoy your weekend
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  And never forget Have faith,
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  let it begin Have a good one Thank you for listening to Have Faith,
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  Let It Begin We'll be back tomorrow.
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  Thank you for listening to another episode Of Have Faith, Let It Begin That's right, Ariel.
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  We're done with another show. And it's always great to have this show with you, my love.
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  You know, we're going to encourage each and every person to listen to our show
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  every single weekday. That's right. You and I are going to help change the world.
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  Do you think that you can do that for me? Huh? Yeah, you know you can.
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  She does. We want to let you know. And yes, we encourage you to listen to our
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  show each and every weekday. And it's going to be live at 730.
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  Make sure you're subscribed to our show. Make sure you get ready,
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  fasten those seatbelts, because Ariel and I and my family are going to bring
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  you a new topic, a new story, each and every day. Right? Isn't that right, Ariel?
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  Yeah. And we...
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  She's smiling at me. Guys, enjoy your day.
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  Thank you for listening to How Faithful Begin. We'll be back tomorrow.
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  Music.