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Living Your Faith Out Loud · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Hello, hello, and welcome to a new
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  Speaker 1: edition of Have a Little Faith with Delilah. What a
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  Speaker 1: crazy time we live in. What a crazy time we
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  Speaker 1: live in, and I think it's going to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot rougher.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Why do I say that? Because I've read the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: and God tells us all the things that are about
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  Speaker 1: to unfold. And we can be terrified, and we can
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  Speaker 1: be paralyzed in fear, or we can read His Word
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  Speaker 1: and remember that He says that He has us in
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  Speaker 1: the palm of His hand. I know that it's been
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  Speaker 1: difficult for so long now to be a person of faith,
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  Speaker 1: but really, we enjoy a lot of religious freedoms here
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  Speaker 1: that other people in other parts of the world don't
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  Speaker 1: get to enjoy. Right now, it's so important to me
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  Speaker 1: to cling to my faith, to celebrate my faith, my Lord.
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  Speaker 1: My faith is a construct, but my Lord, my God
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  Speaker 1: is everything. I'm not talking about clinging to a religion.
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  Speaker 1: or a building, or a theology, or a set of rules.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about clinging to the Almighty, the great I am,
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  Speaker 1: the beginning and the end, the one who created all
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  Speaker 1: that is and all that ever will be. You have
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  Speaker 1: every right to reason and speak out no matter who
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  Speaker 1: you are. There are probably a lot of good reasons
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  Speaker 1: for us to be fearful. I choose to be bold.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to choose to be fearful. I am
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  Speaker 1: not going to live in fear. I absolutely refuse to
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  Speaker 1: live in fear. I'm going to live my faith out loud.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to live it every single day, not by
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  Speaker 1: shouting at people or arguing at people or even debating
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  Speaker 1: with people. I'm not interested in debating my faith with you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not. You get to believe however you want to believe,
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  Speaker 1: but If you see in me and my family and
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  Speaker 1: my kids and my life and my farm, if you
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  Speaker 1: see in me something that looks good, something that looks healing,
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  Speaker 1: if you hear in my voice something that is healing,
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  Speaker 1: something that brings peace, know that that something is God.
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  Speaker 1: Know that Jesus is the only peace we can have
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  Speaker 1: in this world. The only peace we will ever have
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of the storms of life is if
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  Speaker 1: we cling to the rock, the rock that is the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Your words matter, especially if you call yourself a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: The word Christian means to emulate Christ, to live as
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  Speaker 1: Christ lived. He always spoke the truth. He never lied.
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  Speaker 1: He never minced words, but he always spoke the truth
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  Speaker 1: in love, and he was never hurtful or hateful. So remember,
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  Speaker 1: choose your words wisely. Do not speak words that will
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  Speaker 1: break the heart of God or the heart of other people.
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  Speaker 1: And remember this, God tells us to love those who
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  Speaker 1: oppose us. He says, love your enemies, bless those who
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  Speaker 1: persecute you. Love them, do not hate them. And in
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  Speaker 1: doing so, you will be heaping coals upon their lap.
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  Speaker 1: When somebody hates you and somebody despises you, love them.
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  Speaker 2: Love them.
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  Speaker 1: Love them and bless them. He calls us to love
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  Speaker 1: and pray for our enemies. He calls us always to love.
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  Speaker 1: Show people your faith by your actions, by your love.
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  Speaker 1: Show your faith by your love. There's a wonderful verse
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  Speaker 1: that says, trust in the Lord with all your heart
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  Speaker 1: and lean not on your own understanding, but in all ways,
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge God and he will make your path straight. Today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to share two stories with you, two conversations
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  Speaker 1: with two young women who are struggling with with their faith,
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  Speaker 1: mostly because of pain and hurt from the past. I
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  Speaker 1: have Hannah up first. She is struggling with loss and depression,
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  Speaker 1: but mostly she's struggling with her faith, and she knows it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's listen to Hannah right now.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs. Hannah, I was just calling to tell you what
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  Speaker 2: you've meant to me all my life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I know you.
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  Speaker 2: Hear this from everybody, but sitting in the backseat with
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  Speaker 2: my mom on our way home from Vicksburg, Mississippi, we
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  Speaker 2: would go there every weekend. It was where she grew up.
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  Speaker 2: And on our way home, she would have you on.
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  Speaker 2: And I would just lean my head against the window.
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  Speaker 2: And just like everyone else talks about it, it's a
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  Speaker 2: passage in life that we've all had with the U.
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  Speaker 2: You mean the world to me. And my mom passed
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  Speaker 2: away when I was 17. And when I listen to you,
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  Speaker 2: I think of her. And it was just something me
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  Speaker 2: and her did along with a lot of other things.
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  Speaker 2: And I just wanted to tell you how much you
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  Speaker 2: mean to me. And thank you so much for everything
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  Speaker 2: you've done for me and everyone else that loves you
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  Speaker 2: the way we all do. And you're a light in
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  Speaker 2: this world. And God bless you so much. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to make me cry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about your mama.
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  Speaker 2: I can't believe I'm actually talking to you. And I
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  Speaker 2: never thought I'd get through. But you're wonderful. You're an angel.
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  Speaker 2: You really are. And you mean so much to so
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  Speaker 2: many people in this world. And like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: know you hear it by everybody. But you deserve to
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  Speaker 2: hear it too. And I hope you continue to hear
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  Speaker 2: it all your life. And just thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: wonderful feelings that you give. All of us, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: And then wonderful memories that you give us because I
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  Speaker 2: can get really down sometimes, but I listen to you
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  Speaker 2: and I hear your voice and you make it so
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  Speaker 2: much better. You help me remember that we're all loved
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  Speaker 2: by God and things are going to get better. So
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to say thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Hannah, I'm not an angel, trust me when I tell you,
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  Speaker 1: but I do my best to To be a voice
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  Speaker 1: of calm in a world that's gone mad, gone absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And Delilah, I know you know this, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: just tell you, anything that you have done, God's forgiven
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  Speaker 2: you for already.
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  Speaker 1: Well, He forgives us when we turn around and walk
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  Speaker 1: the other direction, when we say, okay, I'm done with that,
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  Speaker 1: and we decide to make good choices. And sometimes... Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I do that. And then other times stuff comes out
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  Speaker 1: of my mouth that I don't even believe. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: where did that toxic nonsense come from? Like, I thought
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  Speaker 1: I dealt with this temper thing 20 years ago, God.
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  Speaker 1: And here I am once again, asking your forgiveness for.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're human just like all of this. And just
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  Speaker 2: hearing you say that makes me feel better because I
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  Speaker 2: have all those problems too. And I'm sure along with
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  Speaker 2: everyone else that looks up to you the way I do,
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  Speaker 2: we're all just human.
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  Speaker 1: But I know that God loves me. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that when I truly do repent and I turn from
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  Speaker 1: the things He's asked me not to do, I know
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  Speaker 1: He's quick to forgive me. But man, I just... Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I look in the mirror, I go, are you ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever going to let go of that thing that you
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  Speaker 1: know is not good for you? I get why people
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  Speaker 1: are addicted to drugs or to alcohol because the things
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  Speaker 1: I struggle with. It's hard. It's so hard.
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  Speaker 2: I've lost two friends to addiction and my dad was
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  Speaker 2: an alcoholic and it must be a monster to To
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  Speaker 2: struggle with things like drugs and alcohol, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Was it Paul that said, I don't do the things
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  Speaker 1: that I know I want to do. I do do
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  Speaker 1: the things I hate.
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  Speaker 2: Why? And it's in everything.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so when God calls me home and I get
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  Speaker 1: to heaven... And after I hugged my boys and my
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  Speaker 1: mom and my dad and everybody that went before me,
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  Speaker 1: if I start looking around for your mom, how am
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  Speaker 1: I going to recognize her? Tell me a quality or
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  Speaker 1: a characteristic that you know she got to keep in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about just one, but she was short.
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  Speaker 2: I got her short qualities. We were both very short women.
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  Speaker 2: We're both only four foot eight. She had the most
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  Speaker 2: beautiful hair. Ice blue eyes you've ever seen. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of deflected from her for a bit, but I am
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  Speaker 2: trying to be more like her. Everyone says this about
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  Speaker 2: their moms, and I do believe that everyone's mom is
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  Speaker 2: the best person in the world, but she was just
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  Speaker 2: an angel in the shape of my mom, the way
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  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran put it in a song. I've heard that
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  Speaker 2: so many times in a song of his. and that's
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  Speaker 2: the best way to describe anyone's mom. She was an angel.
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  Speaker 1: I think you need to cut yourself a break, honey.
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  Speaker 2: I am hard on myself. I'll admit it. I am.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not nearly as hard on myself as I should be.
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  Speaker 1: When I listen, like I have a Bible on tape,
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  Speaker 1: when I listen to Proverbs and talking about wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: foolishness and wisdom and how you should seek wisdom. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting there going, oh, oh, I want to be wise, God,
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  Speaker 1: but why am I such a foolish knucklehead so often?
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  Speaker 1: When I don't read his word, I think I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. But when I get into God's word and
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  Speaker 1: realize how much he loves me, and how He wants
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  Speaker 1: me to have a pure heart, and I compare the
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  Speaker 1: nonsense that I have in my heart and my mind
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  Speaker 1: to His standard, then I'm like, okay, I need to
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  Speaker 1: pray a little bit more and show a lot more grace.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're doing the thing that I am trying to
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  Speaker 2: do in my life. I've strayed from God, but in
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  Speaker 2: the past, since I had my daughter, which was Seven
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  Speaker 2: years ago, I've tried to do a lot better. I'm
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  Speaker 2: still working, and I know it's always going to be
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  Speaker 2: something to work on, but I'm trying to get my
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  Speaker 2: relationship with him back the way it used to be.
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  Speaker 2: She has grown so much in the church that I've
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  Speaker 2: put her in, and She's showing me the person that
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  Speaker 2: I need to be, and I know it's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be the other way around, but she's the one that.
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  Speaker 1: That's leading Mama back home.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what I want you to remember, Hannah. It is
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  Speaker 1: far better to be a thousand miles from the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and walking towards Him than standing next to the cross
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  Speaker 1: and walking away.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, because I do feel like I'm a thousand
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  Speaker 2: miles away from Him.
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  Speaker 1: If you're walking towards Him, He's right there to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: He's running to meet you. So long as you're walking
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  Speaker 1: towards him, he is running to meet you, to embrace you,
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  Speaker 1: to hold you, to restore you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I needed to hear that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say a quick prayer for you before
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  Speaker 1: I hang up. Father God, I thank you, Lord, for
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  Speaker 1: allowing this young woman to get through on the phone lines.
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  Speaker 1: I thank you for her gentle and tender heart. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for her baby girl. And I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the sweet memories of her mama. I pray, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: that you would let her see herself as you see her.
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  Speaker 1: You say we are fearfully and wonderfully made. You say
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  Speaker 1: that you rejoice over us with singing. You say that
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  Speaker 1: we are beautiful in your eyes. I pray that she
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  Speaker 1: would get a glimpse of how much you love her
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  Speaker 1: and how precious she is to you, and that she
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  Speaker 1: would go to sleep wrapped in that assurance that you
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  Speaker 1: are hers and she is yours. Let tonight be the
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  Speaker 1: night that she knows that she is home, safe in
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  Speaker 1: your arms, and that, Lord, you are restoring her and
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  Speaker 1: washing her as pure as the morning sun. I ask
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  Speaker 1: this in your precious and holy name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Amen. Thank you, Delilah. I did not expect this tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Good night, honey.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Delilah.
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  Speaker 1: Sophia's call is the one I'm going to share next.
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  Speaker 1: Sophia's story is kind of heartbreaking, but I think it's
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  Speaker 1: good to hear it. Sophia has been sifted. She has
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  Speaker 1: lost a lot. She's been through a lot of grief,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of loss, and in the process, she's lost
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  Speaker 1: her faith. She's focusing on tangible possessions, things. I know
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  Speaker 1: that she has all that matters. Let's talk to Sophia
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  Speaker 1: right now. Hi, Sophia. I love your name. What can
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  Speaker 1: I do for you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. I'd like... I've always wanted to call you.
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  Speaker 2: I've listened to you since I was a little girl,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember, like, being in my mom's car. It
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  Speaker 2: is so great to actually talk to you. So I actually,
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  Speaker 2: when I was a little girl, I would listen to
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  Speaker 2: you with my mom. And I lost my mom whenever
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  Speaker 2: I was 20 and I was pregnant with my son.
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  Speaker 2: So my mom never got to meet my kids or anything.
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  Speaker 2: And I had gotten married as an adult and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I have three amazing kids and we ended up getting divorced. Well,
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  Speaker 2: for the longest time, I never wanted to get married again.
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  Speaker 2: And I worked at a doctor's office. And this man
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  Speaker 2: kept coming in and asking me out and asking me out.
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  Speaker 2: And I would never go out with him. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: the nurse was like, you know, just give him a
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  Speaker 2: chance because I just wanted to be a mom. And
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  Speaker 2: I ended up losing my dad right after I met
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  Speaker 2: this man. And I was very vulnerable. And he said
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  Speaker 2: all the right things. And we got married after that.
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  Speaker 2: two months. But he ended up finding out that I
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  Speaker 2: was getting life insurance from my dad. And once we
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  Speaker 2: got married, it was a 180. I was verbally abused,
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  Speaker 2: physically abused. Over the last almost two years, I have
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  Speaker 2: been through hell. I lost a daughter at six months
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  Speaker 2: pregnant with this man and dealt with it alone. And
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  Speaker 2: I finally... got saved out of this marriage um he
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  Speaker 2: put his hands on me for the last time and
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  Speaker 2: because i kept calling the cops and they wouldn't do
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  Speaker 2: anything because there was never a witness and it was
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  Speaker 2: just hearsay and a teacher ended up seeing him because
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  Speaker 2: it was outside of my house and he finally got
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  Speaker 2: put in jail.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being quiet not because i'm not paying attention but
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  Speaker 1: because i'm trying to honor your heart and take in
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  Speaker 1: everything you're saying and that's a lot to take in honey.
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  Speaker 2: I had to talk to you for hours. This is
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  Speaker 2: stuff that I've been through, me and my kids, stuff
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  Speaker 2: that I dealt with behind closed doors. And he drained
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  Speaker 2: my bank account, the $ 100, 000 I got from my dad,
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  Speaker 2: from me and my kids. And it just drained me.
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  Speaker 2: And the lower the money got, the worse the verbal
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  Speaker 2: and the physical abuse got. And they finally, she got
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  Speaker 2: caught this time, because like I said, a teacher, I
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  Speaker 2: was going outside to take my son to school, and
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  Speaker 2: he came out there And she ended up seeing it
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  Speaker 2: and she called the cops. And because there was a witness,
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  Speaker 2: he finally he bonded out now. But they are actually
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  Speaker 2: going to take it to trial and try to get
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  Speaker 2: this man in prison. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So it sounds to me like it has been a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of heartache and trauma for your whole adult life.
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  Speaker 2: It has. And that was part of the thing, because
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  Speaker 2: he knew, like, I didn't have any, I don't have
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  Speaker 2: any family. My mom was my whole world. And when
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  Speaker 2: I lost her when I was pregnant, it really crushed me.
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  Speaker 2: And so my dad was like my last rock, you know,
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  Speaker 2: besides my kids. And when I lost him two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I was at my lowest. And this man knew what
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  Speaker 2: he was doing and said all the right things. And
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  Speaker 2: once we got married, like I said, it was a 180.
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  Speaker 2: when I met this man I had a house of
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  Speaker 2: five acres I had a great job at a doctor's
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  Speaker 2: office I had my whole life I was going to
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  Speaker 2: church me and my kids volunteered at places and I
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  Speaker 2: look at pictures of myself and how full of life
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  Speaker 2: I was before I met him and I have lost
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  Speaker 2: so much weight down to 90 pounds and I was
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  Speaker 2: at 130 and Just seeing how much he sucked the
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  Speaker 2: life out of me and my kids.
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  Speaker 1: And now are you away from all of that? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: There's a no contact order. There is a protective order.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, they are trying to take it
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  Speaker 2: to trial.
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  Speaker 1: What matters is your heart.
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  Speaker 2: I hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Right now you're so busy beating yourself up. You can't
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  Speaker 1: see what a strong and competent and capable mama you are.
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  Speaker 1: But you will. You're going to get through this. And
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  Speaker 1: your kids are going to get through this. And you're
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  Speaker 1: going to come out the other side healed and stronger
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  Speaker 1: than before. You can do this. You can do this, honey.
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  Speaker 1: You can do this.
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  Speaker 2: I can do this.
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  Speaker 1: God's got you. When was the last time you spent
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  Speaker 1: time praying?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we... An actual good prayer. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: long time. I was going to church and everything, but
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I not so much lost my faith.
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  Speaker 2: My mom was a Sunday school teacher. We were raised
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  Speaker 2: in church, but I was angry after I lost my dad.
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  Speaker 2: And then after everything that I've been through with this man,
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  Speaker 2: I was angry. And I kind of stopped going to church.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't ask when was the last time you went
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  Speaker 1: to a building. I ask, when was the last time
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  Speaker 1: you talked to the Lord? Going to church is a
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  Speaker 1: great place to spend time with other Lord, I pray
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  Speaker 1: you would reach down from on high right now, right
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  Speaker 1: now as she's in the car with her child. Reach
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  Speaker 1: down from heaven and touch her, Lord. Touch her. Send
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  Speaker 1: your Holy Spirit to cover her. Shower her with your
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  Speaker 1: grace and your love. Let her feel your presence in
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  Speaker 1: a new and powerful way. I pray that tonight would
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  Speaker 1: begin the healing process, the process of letting go, letting
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  Speaker 1: go of the abuse, letting go of the lies, letting
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  Speaker 1: go of the conversations she has over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over in her brain when she's trying to
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  Speaker 1: reason things out with an unreasonable person. She thinks if
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  Speaker 1: I just say it different, if I just present the truth,
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  Speaker 1: he'll finally see what he's doing. Father, I pray you
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  Speaker 1: would bring those conversations to a halt. And every time
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  Speaker 1: her brain starts to go back in that pattern, that
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  Speaker 1: instead she would speak with you. Lord, your Bible says
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  Speaker 1: that you will restore the years the locusts have eaten.
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  Speaker 1: Locusts are horrible bugs that don't leave anything living when
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  Speaker 1: they come through. They take everything and everything has been
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  Speaker 1: taken from Sophia. Lord, her dignity, her faith, Her mother,
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  Speaker 1: her father, her money, her peace of mind, it's all
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  Speaker 1: been stripped bare. And Father, I know she feels very
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  Speaker 1: alone right now. I pray, God, that you would bring
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  Speaker 1: good people, godly people to surround her, to protect her,
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  Speaker 1: to encircle her. Send somebody who will be a mother
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  Speaker 1: figure to her. Send somebody who will be a father
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  Speaker 1: figure to her. Send somebody who will be a sister
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  Speaker 1: and a brother to her, a family, Lord, that you
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  Speaker 1: create to help her and her children to grow stronger. Father,
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  Speaker 1: I pray that tonight she would finally, finally be able
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  Speaker 1: to sleep peacefully, that the cortisol levels that are through
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  Speaker 1: the roof, the anxiety that's through the roof, the peace
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  Speaker 1: that she desperately tries to find, Lord, that you would
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  Speaker 1: take away the stress. Take away the noise and bring
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  Speaker 1: her peace. I ask this in your precious and your
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  Speaker 1: holy name.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Thank you. It really means a lot to me.
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  Speaker 1: God loves you. He doesn't want you to be anxious.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want your mind racing and your heart racing.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want any of that for you. He wants
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  Speaker 1: you to have peace and have it in abundance. He
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  Speaker 1: wants you to know that you know that you know
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  Speaker 1: that you are safe in his arms.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for answering.
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  Speaker 1: You're welcome. God bless you, honey. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: hear me carefully when I say this. If you've listened
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  Speaker 1: to this podcast up to this point, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to listen very carefully what I'm going to share with you.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to hang on to it for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your life. God will never leave you
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  Speaker 1: nor forsake you. Let me say that again. God will never, never, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever leave you, nor will he ever forsake you. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it feels like it. I can remember all too clearly
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  Speaker 1: learning that my son had passed. But even in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: when I was screaming from the depths of my soul,
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  Speaker 1: I felt God holding me. I know He was with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I know He has never left me. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: find ourselves in difficult situations. Sometimes we have to realize
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  Speaker 1: that we put ourselves there. It's a hard thing to admit. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: I have had to admit that I have put myself
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  Speaker 1: some really bad situations, and I have hurt people along
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  Speaker 1: the way. God's asking you to turn it all over
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  Speaker 1: to Him. He is watching over you. He is waiting
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  Speaker 1: for you. He is waiting for you right now to
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  Speaker 1: reach up and say, Lord Jesus, I need you. I
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  Speaker 1: need help. I need you to help me sort through this.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it on my own. Ask God for
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  Speaker 1: the guidance. Ask Him for the help. Ask him for
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  Speaker 1: the love that you are missing. Ask him into your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Ask him to be your Lord and Savior. Ask him
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  Speaker 1: to write your name in the book of life. Ask
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  Speaker 1: him to be with you, to join with you, to
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  Speaker 1: never leave you nor forsake you.
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  Speaker 2: Ask him.
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  Speaker 1: I promise he will respond. He's already responding. He's been
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  Speaker 1: waiting for this moment. He's been waiting for your heart,
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  Speaker 1: patiently waiting. God bless you. Until next time.