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LIVE ON DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 4 1ST & 3RD WEDNESDAY 8PM EST | INSPIRATIONAL MOMENTS WITH PROPHETESS T | STOP BY AND BE INSPIRED. · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 2: You're tuned in to The Crew, podcast and media network
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  Speaker 2: where voices rise, stories shine, and purpose meets the world.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to The Crew. Come on in. This is where
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  Speaker 2: it starts. We are the change.
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  Speaker 3: We are the change. Right here in our heart.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome home, welcome through. There's a place for you.
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  Speaker 4: The crew around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Lifting every voice too. We make space for the voiceless.
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  Speaker 1: Hope for the undeserved. Real talk, real stories. Every voice deserves.
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  Speaker 2: To be heard.
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  Speaker 1: Streaming live, we on the move.
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  Speaker 2: Facebook, Twitch, kick YouTube. From the mic to the nations,
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  Speaker 2: we build transformation.
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  Speaker 4: Change begins with us.
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  Speaker 2: Faith, purpose, power, trust. Seen around the world tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Dye crew shining bright. Come on, put your hands together.
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  Speaker 3: This one is for Minister Alma Thomas, a voice of hope, a.
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  Speaker 2: Woman of God, four years strong on the.
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  Speaker 5: Crew Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 3: A true warrior and survivor.
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  Speaker 5: Still standing and giving God glory.
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  Speaker 2: She's been through the valley, but didn't stay. God gave
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  Speaker 2: her strength to rise each day. Tears may have fallen,
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  Speaker 2: but joy came through. Now she tells the world what
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  Speaker 2: faith can do. She's got a word for the weary soul.
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  Speaker 2: A prayer for hearts that need may hold.
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  Speaker 4: Through grief and pain, she found her song. Now she
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  Speaker 4: helps somebody keep holding on. Walking in purpose, covered by grace.
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  Speaker 2: God's like shining.
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  Speaker 3: On her face.
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  Speaker 2: Every trial, test and mountain climb.
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  Speaker 4: God turned it.
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  Speaker 5: Around right on time.
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  Speaker 1: She's a warrior.
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  Speaker 4: She's a survivor. Still got joy down in her soul.
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  Speaker 4: She's a speaker. She's an author. Letting everybody know God
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  Speaker 4: is able, God is faithful He will never let you
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  Speaker 4: go Minister Alma, keep on shining Let that Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 4: power flow I'm a Thomas's fleece, standing strong Giving hope
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  Speaker 4: when nights feel long A safe.
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  Speaker 5: Harbor when storms roll in.
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  Speaker 1: Reminding God's people they can live again On the mic
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  Speaker 1: she brings inspiration.
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  Speaker 4: Faith, healing, and motivation.
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  Speaker 1: Four years on the crew, still pressing through, sharing God's
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  Speaker 1: love in all she do.
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  Speaker 4: Clap your hands if you made it.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to those divas of the airwaves.
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  Speaker 5: Season 4, and this is your host, Prophetess Alma Thomas.
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  Speaker 5: I am so excited that you have joined me for
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  Speaker 5: another powerful, purpose-driven conversation. Today we are talking about something
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  Speaker 5: that many people experience, but few people understand. Amen. And
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  Speaker 5: we're going to start like we always do, giving thanks
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  Speaker 5: to the Almighty. In his word, it says, in everything
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  Speaker 5: that you do, give God thanks. Dear Heavenly Father, in
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  Speaker 5: the precious name of your son Jesus, we thank you
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  Speaker 5: for this platform. We thank you for the visionary Queen Angela. God,
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  Speaker 5: continue to bless her, God. Continue. to give her the
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  Speaker 5: desires of her heart. Remember every member of the crew podcast, God.
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  Speaker 5: You know the things that they have need of. Grant
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  Speaker 5: it to them in Jesus' name. And now, God, we
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  Speaker 5: dedicate this service to you. Have your way in the
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  Speaker 5: name of Jesus. Anything that might come to hinder this episode, God,
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  Speaker 5: We ask that you bind it up and send it
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  Speaker 5: back to the pits of hell from whence it came.
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  Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, we do pray. Our quote of the
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  Speaker 5: week is, God will sometimes allow your life to be shaken,
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  Speaker 5: not to destroy who you are, but to remove everything
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  Speaker 5: that is preventing you from becoming God. who he created
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  Speaker 5: you to be. This purge might be painful, but the
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  Speaker 5: power that will follow will reveal why the process was necessary.
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  Speaker 5: So once again, welcome, welcome, welcome. Tonight we are talking
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  Speaker 5: about Purge to Power. Somebody listening right now needs to
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  Speaker 5: hear these words. You are not being destroyed. You are
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  Speaker 5: being developed. You are not being forgotten. You are being prepared.
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  Speaker 5: You are not necessarily losing everything. You may be making
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  Speaker 5: room for something greater. And sometimes, before God can take
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  Speaker 5: you into your next season, there are things he must
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  Speaker 5: remove from your life. Sometimes it's a relationship. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 5: a mindset. Sometimes it's an attitude. Sometimes it's unforgiveness. Sometimes
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  Speaker 5: it is plain fear. And sometimes it is diverging yourself
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  Speaker 5: that you learned how to survive, but that have not
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  Speaker 5: yet learned how to live. Let me say that once
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  Speaker 5: again a little louder for the ones in the back.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes the greatest thing God must purge from your life
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  Speaker 5: is the version of you that has become so comfortable
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  Speaker 5: living beneath your purpose. My God, my God, my God.
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever experienced a season where everything around you
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  Speaker 5: seems to be changing? People you thought would always be
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  Speaker 5: there suddenly disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Have a serious illness and see how many people stay around.
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  Speaker 5: Doors you expected to open remain closed. Things you worked
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  Speaker 5: so hard to build begin falling apart. And you found
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  Speaker 5: yourself asking, God, why is this happening to my life?
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  Speaker 5: Why am I losing so much? Why am I experiencing
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  Speaker 5: so much pain? Like the songwriter says, and I won't complain,
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  Speaker 5: why so much pain? But then it goes on to say,
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  Speaker 5: God knows what's good for us. He knows what's best
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  Speaker 5: for us. Why does it still seem as though everything
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  Speaker 5: is being taken away? But what if I told you
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  Speaker 5: on tonight, that not every loss means defeat. What if
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  Speaker 5: some of the things you are grieving were never meant
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  Speaker 5: to accomplish you into your next season? Everybody can't go
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  Speaker 5: where God is bringing you. What if the discomfort you
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  Speaker 5: are experiencing is an invitation to transformation? Now I want
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  Speaker 5: to make something very clear on tonight. Not every painful
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  Speaker 5: experience is something God deliberately caused. We live in a
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  Speaker 5: world where tragedy, injustice, illness, and loss are real. But
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  Speaker 5: even when God did not cause the pain, He can
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  Speaker 5: meet us in it. He can strengthen us through it.
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  Speaker 5: He can bring purpose out of circumstances. we never would
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  Speaker 5: have chosen. Jesus said in John 15 and 2, Every
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  Speaker 5: branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away.
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  Speaker 5: And every branch That bearing fruit, he purges it, that
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  Speaker 5: it may bring forth more fruit. Notice something powerful. Jesus
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  Speaker 5: did not say that only unfruitful branches receive attention. He
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  Speaker 5: said that even fruitful branches are purged so they can
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  Speaker 5: produce more fruit. That means you can be productive and
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  Speaker 5: still need pruning. You can be gifted and still need growth.
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  Speaker 5: You can be anointed and still need alignment. You can
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  Speaker 5: love God and still have things in your life that
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  Speaker 5: need to change. And here is the revelation. The pruning
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  Speaker 5: is not proof that God has rejected you. It could
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  Speaker 5: be evidence that he is preparing you for greater fruitfulness. Tonight,
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  Speaker 5: I want to walk you through the journey from purging
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  Speaker 5: to power. Because I believe somebody listening is standing between
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  Speaker 5: what was and what is next. And you need to
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  Speaker 5: understand that your story is not over. Your purpose has
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  Speaker 5: not been canceled. Your future is not You are still becoming.
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  Speaker 5: What does it mean to be purged? Let's begin with
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  Speaker 5: a question. What does it really mean to be purged?
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  Speaker 5: To purge means to remove, to cleanse, to eliminate, or
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  Speaker 5: clear away something unwanted, or harmful. Spiritually speaking, purge can
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  Speaker 5: describe the process of allowing God to cleanse our hearts,
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  Speaker 5: renew our minds, correct our priorities, and remove patterns that
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  Speaker 5: interfere with spiritual growth. But here is what we must understand.
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  Speaker 5: Purging is is not always about removing something obviously bad.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes it involves surrendering something that was good for a
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  Speaker 5: previous season but is no longer healthy or appropriate for
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  Speaker 5: the season ahead. There are some people in your life
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  Speaker 5: that have been placed in your life for a season
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  Speaker 5: and a reason, and when that season is over, when
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  Speaker 5: that reason has been accomplished, amen, they can't go with
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  Speaker 5: you to the next level. Let's consider a tree. A
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  Speaker 5: gardener prunes branches to improve the tree's health and encourage
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  Speaker 5: fruitful growth. The gardener does not prune the tree because
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  Speaker 5: the tree is worthless. The gardener prunes the tree because
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  Speaker 5: the tree has potential. And that is what I want
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  Speaker 5: you to understand on tonight. Your potential is worth the process.
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  Speaker 5: Some of us want the promise without the preparation. We
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  Speaker 5: want the platform without the process. We want the promotion
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  Speaker 5: without the pruning. We want the power without the surrender.
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  Speaker 5: But spiritual maturity requires us to allow God to deal
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  Speaker 5: with what is happening inside of us. David understood this.
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  Speaker 5: In Psalms 51 and 10, he prayed, Amen. So he
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  Speaker 5: understood the power of transformation. Allowing God to transform you.
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  Speaker 5: Allowing God to prune you. And those things that you
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  Speaker 5: don't need for the next level, allow him, amen, to
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  Speaker 5: destroy those things. Notice that David did not begin By
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  Speaker 5: asking God to change everybody around him. He asked God
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  Speaker 5: to change him. And that is where transformation begins. Sometimes
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  Speaker 5: we spend so much time asking God to remove difficult
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  Speaker 5: people from our lives. Amen. We don't want to go
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  Speaker 5: through anything. We want God to deliver us before the fire,
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  Speaker 5: before the lion's den. Amen? Sometimes we spend so much
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  Speaker 5: time asking God to remove difficult people that we fail
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  Speaker 5: to ask him to address our own destructive patterns. We
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  Speaker 5: want God to change our circumstances, but we resist when
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  Speaker 5: he begins changing our character. We ask for peace while
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  Speaker 5: still holding on to bitterness. We ask for healthy relationships
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  Speaker 5: while refusing to establish boundaries. We ask for new opportunities
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  Speaker 5: while allowing fear to make every decision. We ask for
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  Speaker 5: spiritual power while neglecting spiritual discipline. but the journey from
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  Speaker 5: purge to power begins with honesty. We must be willing
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  Speaker 5: to say, Lord, search my heart. Show me where I
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  Speaker 5: need to grow. Reveal the habits that are hurting me.
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  Speaker 5: Help me release what is no longer healthy. Teach me
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  Speaker 5: how to walk in freedom. Three areas that God may
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  Speaker 5: be calling you to surrender. One, toxic thinking. Some people
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  Speaker 5: are not being held back by their circumstances as much
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  Speaker 5: as they are being held back by what they believe
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  Speaker 5: about themselves. They constantly say, I am not good enough.
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  Speaker 5: I am too old. I have made too many mistakes.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody will support me. Is it too late for me?
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  Speaker 5: But those thoughts do not have to determine your future.
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  Speaker 5: Romans 12 and 2 teaches us about being transformed through
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  Speaker 5: the renewing of our mind. You cannot consensually walk in
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  Speaker 5: a new direction while allowing yesterday's limited beliefs to control
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  Speaker 5: today's decisions. Two, unhealthy attachments. Sometimes we hold on to people, positions,
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  Speaker 5: or situations because we are afraid of what life would
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  Speaker 5: look like without them. We confuse familiarity with security. We
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  Speaker 5: confuse history with destiny. We confuse being needed with being
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  Speaker 5: valued But not everything familiar is healthy, and not every
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  Speaker 5: connection is meant to last forever. Letting go does not
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  Speaker 5: always mean someone is a bad person. Sometimes it simply
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  Speaker 5: means that a relationship or a situation must change. 3.
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  Speaker 5: Unhealed Emotional Wounds Some of us have learned how to
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  Speaker 5: function while carrying pain we never fully address. We smile
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  Speaker 5: publicly while suffering privately. We encourage everybody else while neglecting ourselves.
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  Speaker 5: We appear strong because we are afraid of what would
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  Speaker 5: happen if we admit that we are hurting. But healing
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  Speaker 5: requires honesty. you cannot heal what you do not address.
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  Speaker 5: Declare on tonight, I will no longer allow fear to
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  Speaker 5: make decisions that belong to faith, wisdom, and purpose. Purge
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  Speaker 5: the bitterness that poisons your peace. Bitterness can grow when
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  Speaker 5: pain remains unresolved. Someone betrayed you. Someone disappointed you. Someone
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  Speaker 5: abandoned you. Someone failed to recognize your value. And now
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  Speaker 5: you find yourself replaying the offense. You revisit conversations. You
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  Speaker 5: imagine what you should have said. You carry anger into
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  Speaker 5: a relationship with people who never caused the original wound.
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  Speaker 5: Hebrews 12 and 15 warns about a root of bitterness
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  Speaker 5: springing up and causing trouble. Bitterness can interfere with peace, relationships,
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  Speaker 5: and emotional well-being, but forgiveness is not the same as
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  Speaker 5: pretending that the offense never happened. Forgiveness does not require
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  Speaker 5: you to return to an abusive relationship or unsafe relationship.
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  Speaker 5: Forgiveness does not eliminate accountability. And forgiveness is often a
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  Speaker 5: process rather than a single emotional decision. Sometimes releasing bitterness
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  Speaker 5: begins with refusing to let the person who hurt you
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  Speaker 5: control the direction of your future. You may need boundaries.
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  Speaker 5: You may need distance. You may need counseling. You may
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  Speaker 5: need time. But you deserve the opportunity to heal. Forgiveness
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  Speaker 5: does not rewrite what happened yesterday, but it can help
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  Speaker 5: release tomorrow from the grip of yesterday's pains. Comparison is
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  Speaker 5: one of the greatest distractions from purpose. You look at
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  Speaker 5: someone else's ministry, someone else's business, someone else's marriage, somebody
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  Speaker 5: else's success, somebody else's platform, and suddenly what God has
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  Speaker 5: placed in your hands no longer seems valuable. You begin
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  Speaker 5: measuring your beginning against somebody else's Years of preparation. You
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  Speaker 5: begin questioning your gifts because someone else's gifts look different.
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  Speaker 5: But hear me on tonight, beloved. You were not created
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  Speaker 5: to be a duplicate of somebody else's assignment. Your journey
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  Speaker 5: is different. Your preparation is different. Your gifts are different.
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  Speaker 5: Your experiences are different. And your calling deserves your attention.
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  Speaker 5: Galatians 6 and 4 encourages believers to examine their own work.
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  Speaker 5: Instead of asking why someone else is ahead of you, ask,
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  Speaker 5: am I growing? Am I being faithful? Am I using
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  Speaker 5: what God has given me? Am I making progress? Am
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  Speaker 5: I becoming more Christ-like? Stop allowing someone else's accomplishments to
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  Speaker 5: make you despise your own journey. Celebrate others without abandoning yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Declare on tonight, I will not compare my assignment to
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  Speaker 5: someone else's journey. I will develop what God has placed
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  Speaker 5: inside of me. Purge the guilt. that keeps you trapped
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  Speaker 5: in the past. Some people are not living in the
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  Speaker 5: present because they have still punished themselves for the past.
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  Speaker 5: You remember the wrong decision, the missed opportunity, the relationships
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  Speaker 5: that failed, all the mistakes you made. And every time
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  Speaker 5: you attempt to move forward, guilt whispers, you do not
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  Speaker 5: deserve another chance. But Romans 8 and 1 declares there
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  Speaker 5: is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in
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  Speaker 5: Christ Jesus. God's grace does not mean our choices have
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  Speaker 5: no consequences. It means failure does not have to become
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  Speaker 5: our permanent identity. Repentance invites change. Grace invites restoration. Wisdom
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  Speaker 5: invites us to learn, and faith invites us to keep walking.
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  Speaker 5: You cannot go back and rewrite every decision, but you
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  Speaker 5: can take responsibility for what happened, make amends where appropriate,
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  Speaker 5: and choose differently moving forward. Your past may explain part
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  Speaker 5: of your journey. It does not have to dictate your destination.
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  Speaker 5: Stop sentencing yourself to a lifetime of regret for a
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  Speaker 5: chapter God is inviting you to learn from and move beyond.
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  Speaker 5: Purge the need for everybody's approval. This one is important.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody will not understand your callings. When God called you,
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  Speaker 5: it was not a conference call. Everybody will not celebrate
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  Speaker 5: your growth. You have people that simply tolerate you, but
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  Speaker 5: they'll never celebrate you. Everybody will not agree with your decision.
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  Speaker 5: And everybody will not be comfortable with the boundaries you establish.
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  Speaker 5: But you cannot build a purpose-driven life while requiring... universal approval.
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  Speaker 5: You constantly need people to validate your decisions. You may
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  Speaker 5: find yourself living according to their expectations instead of your convictions.
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  Speaker 5: Galatians 1 and 10 challenges believers to examine whether they
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  Speaker 5: are seeking to please people rather than serve God. There's
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  Speaker 5: a difference between receiving wise counsel and becoming controlled by
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  Speaker 5: the opinions of others. Listen to wisdom. Remain accountable. Be
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  Speaker 5: teachable and coachable. But do not surrender your identity to
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  Speaker 5: the crowd. Sometimes spiritual maturity means being willing to disappoint
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  Speaker 5: people without being disrespectful. Sometimes it means saying no Sometimes
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  Speaker 5: it means walking away from unhealthy expectations. Sometimes it means
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  Speaker 5: making a decision that others do not understand. And sometimes
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  Speaker 5: it means learning that your worth does not increase or
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  Speaker 5: decrease according to the applause. If we look at the
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  Speaker 5: life of Jesus, we see that on one week, the
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  Speaker 5: people were screaming, Hosanna, Hosanna. Amen. And the next week,
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  Speaker 5: they were screaming, crucify him, crucify him. Declare on tonight
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  Speaker 5: that I will seek God's direction, welcome wise counsel, and
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  Speaker 5: refuse to make public approval life the foundation of my identity.
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  Speaker 5: From purge to power. What happens after the cleansing? Now
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  Speaker 5: that we have discussed the purge, let's talk about the power.
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  Speaker 5: Because the title of this episode is not simply about
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  Speaker 5: the purge. It is purge to power. The process is
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  Speaker 5: not the destination. Spiritual cleansing is meant to lead us
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  Speaker 5: into deeper fellowship with God and more fruit for living.
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  Speaker 5: 2 Timothy 2 and 21 says, If a man therefore
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  Speaker 5: purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified,
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  Speaker 5: and met for the master's use, and prepared unto every
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  Speaker 5: good work. Notice the words, prepared unto every good work.
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  Speaker 5: The gold is not simply removal. The gold is readiness.
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  Speaker 5: God desires to shape us into vessels that can serve him. faithfully.
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  Speaker 5: But what does power look like? Many people associate power
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  Speaker 5: with visibility. They think power means having a microphone, a
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  Speaker 5: large platform, a successful business, a major ministry, a recognizable name.
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  Speaker 5: But spiritual power is not measured only by public accomplishment.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes power looks like peace. Sometimes it might look like self-control.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes power looks like the courage to begin again. Sometimes
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  Speaker 5: power looks like setting a healthy boundary. Sometimes power looks
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  Speaker 5: like refusing to retaliate. Sometimes power looks like getting out
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  Speaker 5: of bed after a season of grief. Sometimes power looks
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  Speaker 5: like asking for help. And sometimes power looks like loving
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  Speaker 5: again after your heart has been broken. Do not underestimate
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  Speaker 5: the power of quiet transformation. The power of a renewed
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  Speaker 5: identity when you begin releasing unhealthy beliefs You make room
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  Speaker 5: to understand who you are in Christ. You stop defining
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  Speaker 5: yourself solely by what happened to you. You stop allowing
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  Speaker 5: rejection to determine your worth. You stop identifying yourself only
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  Speaker 5: through your failures. And you begin understanding that your identity
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  Speaker 5: is rooted in God's love and grace. You are more
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  Speaker 5: than what you lost. You are more than what you survive.
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  Speaker 5: You are more than what people say about you. And
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  Speaker 5: you are more than your worst mistakes. Your experiences have
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  Speaker 5: shaped your journey, but they do not possess the authority
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  Speaker 5: to erase your God-given worth. The power Resilience is not
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  Speaker 5: the absence of pain. It's the ability to adapt, recover,
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  Speaker 5: seek support, and continue moving forward despite adversity. In 2
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  Speaker 5: Corinthians 12 and 5, the Lord tells Paul, My grace
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  Speaker 5: is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect
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  Speaker 5: in weakness. What a powerful reminder. You do not have
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  Speaker 5: to possess unlimited personal strength. You can depend on God's grace.
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  Speaker 5: You can recognize your limitations. You can receive support and
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  Speaker 5: you continue growing. Somebody listening has experienced a setback that
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  Speaker 5: made you question whether you would ever recover. But I
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  Speaker 5: want to encourage you on tonight. Recovery may look different
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  Speaker 5: from what you expected. Your future may require adjustments. Your
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  Speaker 5: pace may change. Your priorities may shift. But a changed
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  Speaker 5: life can still be a meaningful life. Your purpose can
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  Speaker 5: evolve without disappearing. The power of purpose. One of the
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  Speaker 5: most beautiful things that can emerge from adversity is a
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  Speaker 5: deeper understanding of how we can serve others. Sometimes the
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  Speaker 5: compassion you develop through suffering enables you to recognize pain
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  Speaker 5: that others overlook. Sometimes your experience teaches you how to
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  Speaker 5: encourage someone who's facing a similar struggle. Sometimes your journey
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  Speaker 5: becomes a foundation for a ministry, a book, a support group,
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  Speaker 5: a coaching program, or a message of hope. But remember this,
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  Speaker 5: you are not obligated to turn every wound into public testimony.
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  Speaker 5: Some experiences are sacred and private. Some stories require time
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  Speaker 5: before they can be shared. And some parts of your
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  Speaker 5: journey may never need to be disclosed publicly. Purpose does
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  Speaker 5: not require you you to expose every painful detail of
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  Speaker 5: your life. It requires faithfulness, which God has entrusted in you.
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  Speaker 5: The greatest evidence of power is not how loudly you
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  Speaker 5: announce your transformation, but how faithful you live differently because
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  Speaker 5: of it. The Persian is preparing you for a new season.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you something. Have you ever tried to
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  Speaker 5: put something new into a space that was already full?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you purchased new clothes but your closet was overflowing.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe you bought new furniture but the room was already crowded.
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  Speaker 5: Before you can enjoy what is new, you have to
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  Speaker 5: make space. This is a perfect picture of what spiritual
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  Speaker 5: renewal can look like. Sometimes we pray for new opportunities
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  Speaker 5: while refusing to release old habits. We pray for healthy
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  Speaker 5: relationships by holding on to destructive patterns. We pray for
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  Speaker 5: peace while maintaining schedules that leave no room for rest.
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  Speaker 5: We pray for growth while resisting correction. But making room
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  Speaker 5: for what is next requires attentional Isaiah 43, 18-19 says,
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  Speaker 5: God spoke these words to his people in a context
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  Speaker 5: of restoration and hope. They remind us that our understanding
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  Speaker 5: of God's work must not be limited to what he
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  Speaker 5: has done in the past. He is able to make
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  Speaker 5: a way where we cannot see one. And sometimes recognizing
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  Speaker 5: new possibilities require us to loosen our grips on old expectations.
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  Speaker 5: You cannot enter every new season carrying old burdens. Some
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  Speaker 5: things must be addressed. Some things must be grieved. Some
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  Speaker 5: things must be surrendered. Some things must be forgiven. And
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  Speaker 5: some things must simply be accepted as a part of
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  Speaker 5: a chapter that has ended. But acceptance does not mean approval.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes the greatest challenge is not walking away. is resisting
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  Speaker 5: the temptation to return. When change becomes uncomfortable, familiarity begins
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  Speaker 5: looking attractive. You still remember only the good parts of
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  Speaker 5: a situation. You forget the anxiety. You forget the disrespect.
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  Speaker 5: You forget the emotional exhaustion. You forget why you needed
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  Speaker 5: change in the first place. And suddenly you begin considering
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  Speaker 5: returning something to something that was harming you. That's why
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  Speaker 5: spiritual growth must be supported by practical wisdom. Write down
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  Speaker 5: what you are learning. Establish healthy boundaries. Surround yourself with
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  Speaker 5: people who support your growth. Seek wise counsel. Develop new routines.
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  Speaker 5: And remember... why you made the decision to move forward.
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  Speaker 5: Philippians 13 and 14 reminds us of Paul's determination to
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  Speaker 5: reach towards what was ahead. He writes about forgetting what
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  Speaker 5: is behind us and pressing towards the mark. This does
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  Speaker 5: not mean erasing our memories. It means refusing to allow
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  Speaker 5: the past to become the controlling force of your life.
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  Speaker 5: Speak this over your life. I am not going backwards
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  Speaker 5: simply because for it feels unfamiliar. I am not abandoning
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  Speaker 5: my healing to maintain someone else's comfort. I am not
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  Speaker 5: allowing fear to cancel my obedience. I am not allowing
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  Speaker 5: disappointment to destroy my expectation. I am not allowing rejection
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  Speaker 5: to determine my worth. I am not allowing yesterday's mistakes
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  Speaker 5: to become tomorrow's identity. I am growing. I am learning.
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  Speaker 5: I am healing. I am becoming. And by the grace
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  Speaker 5: of God, I am moving forward. Do not become so
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  Speaker 5: attached to the life that you survive that you refuse
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  Speaker 5: to embrace the life you are being called to build. Amen, amen.
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  Speaker 5: So remember, your voice still matters. Your gifts still matter.
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  Speaker 5: Your presence still matters. And your purpose does not disappear
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  Speaker 5: simply because your circumstances have changed. You may not be
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  Speaker 5: able to recover everything you lost. You may not receive
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  Speaker 5: answers to every question. And your journey may look different
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  Speaker 5: from the one you originally imagined. But different does not
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  Speaker 5: mean meaningless. Change does not mean worthless. He's able to
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  Speaker 5: comfort you in your grief. Remember, our opening scripture, John
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  Speaker 5: 15 and 2, teaches us that a fruitful branch is
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  Speaker 5: pruned so it can bear more fruit. And as you
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  Speaker 5: allow God to examine your heart, And God your growth,
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  Speaker 5: remember that his grace is sufficient for every step of
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  Speaker 5: the journey. Final decorations. I want you to repeat these
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  Speaker 5: decorations wherever you are if you feel comfortable doing so.
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  Speaker 5: I am not defined by what I have lost. I
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  Speaker 5: am not imprisoned by what I have experienced. I refuse
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  Speaker 5: the fear that has restricted my growth. I release the
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  Speaker 5: bitterness that has disturbed my peace. I release the comparison
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  Speaker 5: that has weakened my confidence. I release the guilt that
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  Speaker 5: has kept me trapped in yesterday. I release the need
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  Speaker 5: to be approved by everyone. I welcome God's wisdom. I
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  Speaker 5: welcome spiritual growth. I welcome healing. I welcome a renewed purpose.
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  Speaker 5: I will not rush my process. I will not disperse
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  Speaker 5: my progress. I will not surrender my future to my past.
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  Speaker 5: By God's grace, I am moving from fear to faith,
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  Speaker 5: from bitterness to freedom, from confusion to clarity. From surviving
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  Speaker 5: to additional living. From purge to power. And we're going
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  Speaker 5: to end like we always do with a closing prayer.
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  Speaker 5: Heavenly Father, in the precious name of your son Jesus,
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  Speaker 5: we come before you today with grateful hearts. Thank you
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  Speaker 5: for loving us through every season of our life. Thank
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  Speaker 5: you for being present when life is difficult, when our
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  Speaker 5: hearts are broken and when we do not understand what
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  Speaker 5: is happening around us. Father, we invite you on tonight
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  Speaker 5: to search our hearts. Reveal anything that is within us
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  Speaker 5: that is interfering with our spiritual growth. Where there is fear,
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  Speaker 5: give us courage. Where there is bitterness, help us move
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  Speaker 5: towards forgiveness and freedom. Where there is guilt, remind us
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  Speaker 5: of your grace. Where there is confusion, grant us wisdom.
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  Speaker 5: Where there is emotional pain, surround us with comfort, compassion,
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  Speaker 5: and the support we need. Lord, teach us how to
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  Speaker 5: release what is unhealthy, what is being hardened towards others.
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  Speaker 5: Teach us how to establish boundaries. Teach us to move forward,
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  Speaker 5: without denying our grief, and teach us how to trust
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  Speaker 5: you even when the chapter is uncertain. Encourage the person
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  Speaker 5: who is ready to give up on the dream. Comfort
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  Speaker 5: the person who is grieving. Guide the person who is
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  Speaker 5: beginning again. And remind every listener that their value is
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  Speaker 5: not determined by their circumstances. Help us become vessels of honor.
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  Speaker 5: We surrender unto you on tonight. Amen and amen. Remember, amen.
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  Speaker 5: Every member of the crew cast, give them hallelujah, the
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  Speaker 5: desires of their heart. Let everyone listening on tonight know
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  Speaker 5: that they still have purpose, that their life still has meaning.
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  Speaker 5: That it's a process, it's a journey. And don't stop
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  Speaker 5: on the way, on the journey. Don't stop on your
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  Speaker 5: way to your next. Before I go, I want to
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  Speaker 5: leave you with one final thought. The purge is not
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  Speaker 5: the end of your story. Sometimes the process of becoming
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  Speaker 5: requires releasing what no longer belongs in your life. I
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  Speaker 5: want you to carry these words with you this week.
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  Speaker 5: I survived the shaking. I'm surrendering to the shaping. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going from purge to power. If this message encouraged you,
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  Speaker 5: share it with someone who is navigating a season of change.
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  Speaker 5: You never know who may need to hear that this
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  Speaker 5: season does not mean this story is over. Until next time,
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  Speaker 5: keep believing, keep growing, and keep walking in purpose. Because
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  Speaker 5: what you've been through does not have to stop. What
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  Speaker 5: God can still do through you. Thank you once again
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  Speaker 5: for tuning in to this week's episode. Once again, if
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  Speaker 5: it encouraged you, share it with somebody that needs encouragement.
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  Speaker 5: There's somebody that needs to go from the purge to
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  Speaker 5: the power. Amen. And for only $ 27 for my initial
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  Speaker 5: coaching program from purge to power, it's only $ 27 until
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  Speaker 5: October 31st. After October 31st, the price will increase to $ 47.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to be a part of this initial cohort, amen.
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  Speaker 5: Reach out to me. Amen. My email address is Y,
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  Speaker 5: as in yellow, H-O-M-A-S, the number four, at gmail.com. I
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  Speaker 5: will see you again, if God says the same, in
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  Speaker 5: two weeks. God bless and good night.
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  Speaker 4: She's still.
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  Speaker 1: Standing.
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  Speaker 4: She's still praying. She's still speaking. She's still believing.